Show LE RET hawthorner Haw greatest story by hatton Ht ton all j AS REV orly eats the the he 1 maus nelds conception of I 1 lie character or of the n and sool soul V hacked ulster 1 in it ital anta liing bili ties and diso bisop pr pointing nj a actualities e duall nathaniel Ilaw masterwork master ter work the scarlet letter has las cajoled oled many playa playwrights rights into attempting to e a drana dran a out of what is essentially it of til thought ought aul and not of accio L the reader lin who will w ill shut himself out froni from the influences of the tile present and awl permit himself to be transported ill through agh tho tile medium melum of ti the I 1 i lct let lc I 1 it t ter toa that old pun nn where tho tile iri r i of 0 ga n fiction has laid the beof giot De of touching ins Ilis toi ani i sti d of erring hu ninn nall rl tuio aa as it it existed SOO years ago still till AI t tolia and always will exist exit 1 be im im presed sed with the caillot cai 11 fi to meta nieta pl 1 ril 1111 strength of hawthorner Haw Ilaw work he ile still 1 ill pere if fie ile it student or cose vr of thed rania its woeful luck lick of in aident cult rt and alid its RK di dependence pen dence for strength up on oil tin the artful albut albeit masterful manner anner tri in win mill h j tin tile author compels the readers im nui mon to aid hini in my the in colors in lit hia his most of W ile I 1 e I 1 ill is p ined in ill neutral tints thim in ili a book I 1 ali lic nond mi id of the person to bo be plem pleased sed malt IA ik catered to in in a pla play the oye eye and eari practically tile only agents for il in terii the writ ti tra luen ni enning ii r tins this m on if for fur no other alie tile fallt letter J etter will never bo be IN A play pi iv is not it literary chuji igent a as ciany stein stent to ima gille net I 1 I 1 ler is it a aries of descriptive tableaux s t all together fly 1 jerky rk analytical sp eicho ch i in bratu 1 I for r the purpose of leading u r lo 10 the opportunity which N aich the stair must ba e to bring alio t ile cumin curtain down upon a it flint e ea of I 1 is declamatory ability lt tile subject in matter itter of the reflections of a miti as lie h n amo and in a it chail inight lai Klit wida nii e very interesting readi 1 1 if it veil niell di but it would scarcely scirce in ly 1 le considered consi coni derl dered exciting land entertaining or r etin in if attempted on oil tl the e salue iho tile character which thinks has no lie alae lu IQ in theatricals it is the figure arts that ii Is necessary necea aary tile d arunia is is nil lit illy the realm of action for liv in ju moving figures ire are furnished ai fis aill stil cat for tile lie novelists descriptions and if it the embodiments fail to fuist niu tin OW laie 4 illar ked out tor for them thein they fall short abort of their mission and belong not upon the tile mr joseph cattou is the last person to it dramatization of tile scarlet t ftuer and it would be misleading mislead ii to ST sa that thithi he hid had accomplished d ins ilia task either well or ill for or ha lie has simply nv ersul boim 0 L lucidi uis much to their detriment and 1 1 1 clipped the authors dialogue almost ver ei lanm it is true tuat that mr clatton hits also alo written w in it horl sort of 01 fellow aeilt who w ho la Is the waster of the tile smuggling te I 1 on w aich hester nester and arthur have planned to t escape bat flat a boy inight liae have done the same tiling dually well 11 the elevation of alary mary wil vil minto a robust super vivacious soubrette ole iole i alfio lao tends to mir mar m ir the delicacy and re pluement flu ement an nt of treatment which i cin ons features fia tures of the scarlet letter shoals six aid una this tir dramatization as recently prevented preen ted by richard mansfield at dalys theatre new w york city prove successful bucce it twill N ill not bo be on oil account of mr work but in spite of it It ichard mansfield Is frequently kirkon of by those critics who are never willing to admit that any one la is wholly artistic as one of the best of the younger actors on oil the american me stake stage mr mans is iu in chevery the try best general herfor er ti T i R MAI mer iner old or young in Amer Am crici but ment may lo 10 disputed but I 1 belies believe 0 that I 1 ahall be alle to completely nonplus those who ft ho affer from me ine by asking them to name a it in mint inin in who ho is his big superior in a luu bority of the linca lines of work which dra raude citurs usually wy it certainly cannot be le sa i d that any actor of the present day has bas done so much for tho the elevation of the stage tn america all of ins ilia plas plays except the scarlet letter lefter were written by ay americans and that is taken front an american source in beau Brum niell i baron Ch cherrin evrin 11 prince karl nero dr jekyll and mr hyde don juan and the scarlet letter latter mr mansfield Man haa has depicted tc seven en distinct character types and it is no exaggeration to say that he lie has as done them all particularly well some of them have responded more fully than others to his ilia artistic touch but in no case has his ills work ronk sunk to the level of mediocrity mansfields conception con certion of the character of rev arthur Dimmes Dimm esdale dalo in the tile scar let letter ii Is remarkable from the fact that it is 14 from front sheer force of circum stances necessarily rt a creation he ife was Alling of 0 r a disappointment in the flit first act ct and the word which bring down tin the curtain ur tain let him that is without sin among you cart the first stone atone were delivered in a rather hysterical manner that detracted detract al greatly from tile sublime aub liine strength of tho the situation mr mansfield requires a protracted skillfully von on strutted ted cumulative camul ithe and sustained ot emotion u gathering foice force slowly its h it KOCS goes along to bring out to tho the full ills powers in denunciatory or self accusatory declamation two such tunit les are afforded bf him m in the scat let letter and that he be too took advantage of 0 thero is best evI evidenced deuced by the statement that lie received four curtain calls after tach each on the opening night n perhaps the greatest objection to to mr mansfields work ili the first act is to re a found in the fact that he causes himself to 1 loek look as a abject bj aa it is for to appa r act 1 herc h fore when L le enn suffers ers wl d 9 inter later on oil through the Henu flen dilill ih malignity y of Ch illingworth the outraged husband who w ho deliberately dell brately vivisects vivi sects lila ills 4 soul ul it is impossible for him to adequately portray the extra torture which w alch his ills atio mentality is made to undergo in other 1 words mr Mans mansfield neld too deep a it type rf L she abc arst ars act jie jig a lr IM a ali clea blui V the body to be in in fact on the v verge of total collapse col lipse As a his appe arance of macry cannot bo be added t to 0 as Is i manifestly intended anil and indeed required by tho novel which esthe is the ripest work of hawthorner Haw genius barring this defect which may be ile easily corrected and a disagreeable and newly newl acquired falsetto ish tono tone of loice voice air mr mansfields enacting of the character 0 the soul racked and mind tortured minister is an artistic triumph of the first mag his soliloquy on tho the scaffold and his ills lapse into unconsciousness is as fine a piece of acting as lias has ever been done by mr mansfield while ills his confession just before the final curtain is a marvel of intensely culminating dramatic effect of air mr Mui mansfields compardy com co parly so anuell cannot be mud said ho lie will not have h lie sticks about abou him in any circumstances but the members of his support have ery very pro properly erly been selected with reference to ability to mr mansfields repertory it cannot bo be expected that a star will carry a company of creators and therefore most of mr mansfields people while excellent in ill their own lines of work failed sign illy to grasp the full significance of Ilaw hawthorne thor a 4 characters and words por I 1 or instance mr r W J ferguson 1 erguson an excellent come comedian diall was cat as roger lleo he outrageously iut inis dressed the pait part making it a veritable erl table shylock lock and while w lailo be was fairly good it is but lint natural to expect more than fairly good work from an mi actor of mr Fergus fergusons ons reputation and ability I 1 ll 11 M THE confession miss Pen bentrice trice cameron Car neron mide made a sweet frail hester ilester Pry tine incapable of depict kl i emotion without exaggerating it aitu i ili angui anguish ish ibus thus while lier her performance perform ince was conscientious and evea acceptable to those who lave bave not read the scarlet letter she was in in appearance appear nee and in ever eairy y other important essential the very antilli I 1 eis of the chancier character which w inch hawthorne ne so graphically drew miss cameron is a ai 1 act actress i ea of undoubted ability but limited powers of the rest ot of the cast nothing need be said for no one else had bad anything of im to say or do and the introduction 0 of f the minor characters ly by mr hatton to enable him to supply atmosphere to tile ate pictures was not attended wih with successful results the scarlet carlet fa letter stands as the tile protoplast of Arne american rican fiction uhe tile lesku it teaches is in a grand one its introspection of the tile human heart in art it may tie be almost said of the immortal soul goul approaches the sublime but there it stops it thin thiner kF teaches dissects it does not move more 1 therefore here toro it is unsuitable for dra m purposes the play as presented by b It ilich ichard w mansfield suggests tle the story it never puts the audience in thorough sympathy avit with it it asan As an exhibition of fine actins of a almost difficult character and the correct staging of a play which w aich deals with tho the most aque period ind and people lo 10 of A american merican history the scarlet iatter IA is a success As a dramatic production pi from the tile critt cal cat and I 1 believe also from the popular standpoint 6 tand point it is ft a qualified fled faiet failure re kat and 1 cl yet so popular is hawthorner Haw Ilaw d di ve story that curiosity is rea bonal iv certain to inake the scarlet carlet fo letter H pecuniary success for mr mansfield at least during ono one season OCT aus coilet |