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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1896)
THE COURIER. MBMHmMMMHMMHHMHHMMHMMpHMMMMMM .ISM it B5afo f H THEATRICAL NOTES John Gritlith's "Richard III." at tho Lansing on Friday night was the first presentation of the most melodramatic of Shakspere's plays. Mr. Griffith played it with the same delight in dev iltry that he shows in"Mephisto.'' Em as culated by a puny organization from love o' women and in consequence at war with his ancestors and contempo raries, "Richard III." is as isolated from humanity as any devil. It is orly in the last scene, when he is frightened by a dream, that "Richard" betrays any softness or consciousness of wrong. Mr. Griffith has played "Mephisto" so long his "Richard'' is a little two bloodless. It was a first night, and one of the peers of the realm, "Lord Stanley," I think, forgot his lines, the scenery stuck at times.and the evening was warm, but barring these accidents the presentation was smooth. The scenery is very good and there in a great deal of it. So far as we knew, it reproduced the furniture, arch itecture and landscape of Richard's time exactly. On the whole, Mr. Griffith is more satisfactory in "Faust." "Mephisto is extra human. Mr. Griffith's grimaces are like one's imagination of a soul in torment. On the contrary, "Richard" is poised in evil. He despises every body, even himself. His cynicism is so habitual that it should be impossible for an actor taking the part to rant ex cept in the dream scene, where he los8 control of himself. Mr. Griffith's con trol of the muscles of his face tempt him tc express emotions by this means aiono. It is a contortionist's talent, and an audience is apt to lose interest in an actor who does not use a more subtle means of expression. Eugene Moore.as the "Duke of Buckingham," had mo ments of inspiration. He has a robust personality like that of the younger Salvini's. Tho company needs to study. Mr. Edward Wonn, as "Valentine"' in "Faust," and as "Lord Stanley" in "Richard," was pitiably weak in his lines. At times the whole company drifted abovt the stage in a desperate uncertainty that portended worse than actually happened. Heniy Guy Carleton had two parrots sent him. He calls one of them Bub Bryan, because he talks too much, and the other one Mum McKinley, because he does not know anything to say. The friends of Owen Ferree, of the American Exchango, have noted a strik ing facial resemblance between that popular personage and the Hon. William Jennings Bryan. The likeness bttween the two is indeed remarkable, and on several occasions last week Mr. Ferree was stared at on the street in a manner that left no doubt as to his being mis taken for the young democratic candi date. Mr. Ferree, however, has a geni ality that the other lacks. When asked yesterday by a Mirror man how he in tended to cast his vote, the manager said that he was at heart a McKinleyite, but perhaps, out of compliment to the man he 60 ptrongly resembles, his vote might go to the free silver advocate. Dramatic Mirror. Bingley Fales, who has abandoned the stage to adopt the legal profession, gives the following reasons for so doing. He asks that they be accepted as com ing from one who has not loved and lost: "I was on the road five years, and during that time never passed five con 0 I SXt ra..wt 7iy w tinuous weeks in one place. The actor leads a nomadic life; he is cimstuntiy with 6elf and for self; he ixro.vs away from family associations and becomes estranged from old companionships; he never fornw new ties to tako the place of theol.i; ho cjnnot chuose his business associations; and when by chance he meets a congenial companion, they must part after a few weeks or a season at most. The demands of his business tend to make him live his whole life on the surface. He makes a pleasant ac quaintance today and tomorrow bids him farewell. Jt is a tinsel, shallow existence, utterly devoid of the deeper sentiments and nobler ambitions that give solid value to life. "But does not the actor live for his art? you will ask. Theoretically yes; practically no. Every actor every cap able actor has his artistic ideals, but. oh, how few attain them. The actor with an income can indulge his art im pulses. He can afford to p!ay such parts as he is attracted to and in such companies as he chooses. But alas! few actors are so blessed. Necessity com pels them to play the parts they can get at the best going salary. They fall from the exalted plane of the artist to the common highway of the artisan." Dra matic Mirror. SUMMER TRIPS AT REDUCED RATES. 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