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Show Antony and Cleopatra " 'Of all Shakespeare's historical plays' says Coleridge, 'Antony and Cleopatra Is by far the rant wonder-fui.' wonder-fui.' ' Ho again says, assigning It a place even higher than that of being the most wonderful of the historical plays, 'the highest praise, or rather, form of praise, of this play, which I can oiler in my own mind, is the doubt which the perusal always occasions in mo whether the Antony and Cleopatra Cleopat-ra Js not, In all exhibitions of a giant power In Its strength and vigor of maturity, a formidable rival of Macbeth, Mac-beth, Lear, Hamlet and Othello"' The epithet 'wonderful' Is unquestionably unques-tionably the right one to apply to this drama. It Is loo vast, too gorgeous, to be approached without somo prostration pros-tration of the understanding. It pours such a Hood of noonday splendour upon our senses, that we cannot gaze upon It steadily. We have read' It again and again'; and the Impression which It leaves again and again Is' that of wonder " CHARLES B. HANFORD comes to Logan Monday, March :to, and will present "Antony and Cleopatra." Cleo-patra." F. Lawrence Walker, advance ad-vance man, was In Logan Monday and while here showed the writer large photographs of the various scenes and people In the play. From these we cannot but Judge that as a scepic production. pro-duction. "Antony and Cleopatra" will surpass anything seen in Logan this season, or any other season, and the evidence is that the presentation will meet with popular favor. Mario Drof-nah, Drof-nah, who heretofore has support) d Mr. Ilanford, Is replaced by Miss Alice Wilson, an actress of ability and of remarkably pleasing features. The femine -dancers and singers are the loveliest aggregation we have seen on or oft the stage since coming to Login Lo-gin The company as a whole Is reputed re-puted to be unusually strong, the cos-, turning and stage settings accurate, and the Marc Antony of ilanford and the Cleopatra or Miss Wilson all that could be desired. |