Show The Successor to John McCullough On Thursday night says the San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle of a late date Mr Free erick Warde played Virginius It wa a breath of air from the mountaintop It drove before it the close and unwholesome unwhole-some atmosphere of the modern drama It was refreshing The tragedy of Yir ginius is not a great work but it give scope for a great actor and Warde carried I car-ried it far above Sheridan Knowles carried car-ried it into the realms of Shakespeare John McCullough has always claimed to bethe finest Virginius on the stage We have not seen him for several years but it is to us unquestionable that with all his reputation and experience there are some scenes in which Warde is distinctly superior if he is not in all In time Standard he labored against many disadvantages disad-vantages Still Warde rose above all his surroundings and compelled as enthusiastic enthu-siastic an acknowledgment as any actor ever received in this city Mr Ward can not only take John McCulloughs place lie can take a greater |