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Show Salvini in "The Gladiator." Of this great artist in his famous char-acterof char-acterof Niger, one of Herculean strength, colossal rage and natural savagery, the Chicago Times of January 12th "says One cannot feel quite the same interest m what is called ixilyglot acting as :f the parts were all given in English, but there is no other actor on the Btage who can come so near to making his auditors understand un-derstand an unknown tongue as Salvini and one watches all his impersonations with an absorbed and ever-increasing interest, in-terest, though all the time mentally saying: say-ing: 'If he could speak English." There is, to begin with, a striking and imiKsin personality about the man, the bounty of nature, scarcely less noticeable off than I on the stage, and when to this is added the rare gift of utterly losing in appearancehis appear-ancehis own consciousness in his as: sumptions, and the most superb finish in every detail of art, what can one add lo the force of merely saying these words? ihe personality meant is not merely that of face and figure. It is in gait, in manner, man-ner, and pre-eminentlvif anv one feature is. at all pre-eminent in the voice. The latter is wonderfully rich and musical, and so perfectly under the actor s control that every shade of feeling or of meaning is unerringly reflected reflect-ed in its varying tone. The grim disgust at finding he was to ha merely an exicu-tioner exicu-tioner instead of a lion-slaver, the flash of surprise when he recognized th mrl he once saved from the malice of the empress, and the terrible mingling of grief and rage and astonishment upon discovering in her his long-sought daughter, daugh-ter, all this and more were delineated with a fullness and finish that left noth-ingrnore noth-ingrnore to be asked for, and with a vivid power that must have sent a thrill tingling up the spine of the most blase playgoer. But the play has been seen at his hands before, and time lias had no effect unless to still further ripen the actor's powers, and what more might be said other than to add that the conspicuous conspic-uous feature of his acting is its utter for-getfulness for-getfulness of self and its almost tierce intensitywould in-tensitywould be but repetition of oft-j oft-j repeated praise. The company supporting support-ing him is reasonably strong. " |