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Show (GREETED BY CAPACITY ' HOUSE LES MISERABLES HOLDS AUDF-ENCE AUDF-ENCE IN. CHARMED ATTENTION. Most Enjoyable Rendition of Its Kind Ever Presented Before Weber 'Academy Gathering. An audience, which tested the- capacity ca-pacity of the houso. greeted Professor Profes-sor S. H. Clark at tho Weber Academy Aca-demy auditorium last evening and followed tho masterful interpretation of Victor Hugo's entrancing story, Lea Miserables. with charmed attention. atten-tion. Thla was tho third appearauco of Professor Clark upon the program of. tho Wobor Academy lecture course, he having given a reading or Kennedy's Ken-nedy's "Servant In tho House," Monday Mon-day evening, and Eliot's "Silas Mar-nor" Mar-nor" yesterday afternoon. . Without doubt, the reading of last evening was one of tho most enjoyable enjoy-able renditions of this character over presented before a local lecture course audience, not only owing to the popularity popu-larity of the novel, but to the comprehensive com-prehensive and dignified Interpretation Interpreta-tion a well, with which the talented entertainer- clothed his characters in flesh and blood, to whom their hearers listened rather than to himself. Les Miserables is Included among the vrorld's greatest novels and is probably prob-ably more read than any of the great French romances. Professor Clark reads rather than acta. His aim Is a high one. It Is not merely to entertain, to amuse, to act; but rather to up-lift and educate, by presenting the spiritual content of great literature to the masses and awakening a desire and fondness for the better things which have been banded down to us by the world's great masters, He uses no facial contortions con-tortions nor gestures, nor does he endeavor en-deavor to thrill his hearers with ranting rant-ing passages In heroic declamation. His remarkable voice, over which his control is at all times perfect, is strong, flexibler beautifully modulated, modulat-ed, and possesses rare quality or expression. ex-pression. In listening to Professor Clark, one forgets the man and h-ars only the storysimple, direct, satisiy-Ing. satisiy-Ing. This evening, he closes his local engagement en-gagement with Ibsen's greatest play, "Brand," noted for Us clearness ot 'style, profoundness of spirit and its wealth of human passions of love, hate, jealousy and despair. None should fall to hear him. |