The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1922, Page 14

‘Vided, or, rather let us say, doubled Great preparations had been made for the event, even to drawing on the Mighes of Venice for the settings. The result was a magnificent spectacle set forth in a large yet unostentatious way. We had Shakespeare with beauty and without fads, opulent and #ane, sumptuous and clear. It was he ver sepulchral nor glaring. When night crept into tho street before Shy- Jock’s door it was lighted only by the Pitching lanterns of the merrymakers A sense of desolation came with o gitmpee into the house from which Jessica had flown. Stately magnifi gence marked the court scene. Portia’s garden at Belmont was a vision 0! Moonlit loveliness, Belasco fulfilled every expectation of perfection. Meanwhile, evety eye in the house measured Warfield for the great rol hhe had undertaken. It didn't matter that he lacked the stature of famouy Predecessors. After all, Shylock rep- Tesents « race in which tall men are the exception rather than the rule ‘This much, and more, could readily be granted Warfield, for he proved at once that he had added greatly to his artistic stature. He was no halting, feeble Shylock, nor was he by any means mild and gentle. Any tempta- tion he may have felt to play for sym- pathy was thrust aside, He went eturdily and directly about the busi- Bess in hand. Here we had both the strength and wurprise of a wholly individual per- formance. Warfield was a true Shy- Jock, utterly unlike any we fad ever ween. He betrayed none of the sigus of the familiar tragedian. Fis gves- tures were racially expressive, whether clapping his hands above his head and thanking God, or running wildly from his empty house and crying out upun dessica and the law. Even his break- ing volce carried conviction as he out wrath mixed with grief. it was not so much his outward how as that he seemed to be Shy- Jock under the skin. In the trial scene Warfield pu'sed ‘and throbbed with eagerness for the pound of flesh. His gleaming eyes peemed to see it, and his face glowed ‘with the insanity of vengeance. Mrke no mistake about it, he was a vengeful Jew in evéry look and move. No one knows the gentle art of pathos better than he, yet for once he didn’t seem to let it matter. Apparently, he telt ft too small a thing to consider, in- significant beside a determined pur- pose, even when that purpose failed. Whether this be true or not, he took such a short cut from the cnurt that there wasn't much room for « final Gisplay of gentler emotion, Irving made a lot of this, but then ho made lot of other things that weren't nec- essarily true, Warfield played Shy- Jock without compromise and so made you believe in him. Instead of striv- Ing Gesperately to be ‘great’ he con- cerned himself with being real If this happened to be his ambition, he assuredly realized it. Mary Servoss was a bright, ani- mated Portia, occasionally a bit studied, though always reading her Mines clearly and intelligently gnd bringing off her part of the trial scene excellently. We learned from Mr. Be- Ianco that she labored under the diffi- culties of quinsy sore throat and a temperature of 102, so we must admit THE NEW PLAYS Warfield a True Shylock in Superb Belasco Production By CIIARLES DARNTON. AVID BELASCO and David Warfield won new glory at the Lyceum Theatre inst night, Mr. Belasco with the most beautiful Shakes- pearian production in the history of our stage and Mr. Warfield with « thoroughly human embodiment of Shylock. These are the out- standing facts of a memorable performance of “ that ended shortly before midnight. Naturally enough, interest was di- @————————————————————————— THE | EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMRER. 22, 1992 NEWSBOY, 13, FINDS NUMBER IS REAL JINX —FOR HIS FATHER = An overwhelming repetition of the number 18 {8 blamed by Joseph Rothman, a news- boy, for his troubles. He was summoned to court for violat- ing the newspaper vender’s law ‘Dec. 13, on 118th Street, when he had 13 papers under his arm and $1.18 tn hig Pocket. His badge number is 2313 and he {s 13 years old. He had left his badge at home, and Magistrate Simpson in Municipal Court yesterday fined his father $5 for his son's offense, ROME, Dee. to stop drunkenness. They did it in @ couple of nights. Bands of stalwart Fascist! armed with the stoutest of sticks paraded the streets, and every person found even moderately under the influence of liquor was seized, very stiffly dosed with castor oil and warned that the next time they would be very thoroughly cudgelled, Then the Fascist! ordered. that a supply of castor oll had to be kept in every establishment where drink A, It was to be prominently ed as a warning that every “xcess would be quickly followed by "The Merchant of Venice” she did exceedingly well. Philip Merrivale was an earnest, sincere Bassanio, though inclined tc make rather awkward work of the graces of his fole. The Gratiano of W I. Percival had at least lightness and something strangely akin to a lyric quality. ‘There was a charming erissa in the pretty pe —=== HE FALLS SIX STORIES TO DEATH IN ELEVATOR ‘The carelessness of a friend caused the Ellis, and Julia Adler e: death early this morning of Harry|4 long pull of that nauseous Nquid to be in character as J Demis, thir ur, of No, 180 West 8ist| Eyery half hour patrols of Fasgist! Anson carried the splendor of the] Street, a chief pharmacist mate in the | Would visit cafes, wineshops and res Duke of Venice with dignity. Percival] U. 8. Navy, attuched to the recruiting |taurants to see if any one needed Vivian was an uncommonly lively thelr attention. Launcelot, and Fuller Mellish played | fell six atorien down an elevator shaft at] On the third day it was reported Old Gobbo with discretion, As the| the 234 Street ada that during the twenty-four bours no Prince of Morocco, Herbert Grimwood | ,, Demis and some friends called son! castor oi! had Leen administered and Harry Cunningham, superintendent of the 28d Street bullding, at his apart ments on the sixth floor. One of the friends left early, running the elevator to the ground floor, but leaving the elevator door on the sixth floor open, Demis, starting home about 6 A. M. saw the open door and thought the e! vator was there, Cunningham heard h body strike six floors below. there has not been a single case of drunkenness in Alessandria, Tho Black Shirts then opened the second stage of their campaign, the abolition of crime of all sorts. thieves’ congress was sternly worded warning The gathering was bluntly informed that the sternest possible measures went in for a good deal of high and mighty acting, but perhaps he felt it only proper to live up to his magnifi- cent entourage. Belasco made {t all #0 superb that the Lyceum “Merchant of Venice’’ may fairly be said to be the greatest production of our greatest producer, Merry Christmas an Dew Year ton THE GREAT ATLANTIC®PACIFIC TEA COMPANY At Home Tonight If you had a two million dollar kitchen and famous chefs—using the choicest of tomatoes and select spices—you couldn't serve better tomato soup for your dinner than Van Camp's. 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As a first step the Faacisti set out? -|Faseisti Enforce Prohibition By the Lavish Use of Castor Oil Old Soaks Are Dosed and Drunkenness Is Banished— Thieves When Found Are Cudgelled in the Street. 22.—Drunkennese und crime have been banished by the Castor ol] and the cudgel vig- titude all thos ere was not going to be another, anybody, chance for mildly persuasive be resorted to, The next day opened. There was a day and a night when the cudgel were going to be taken to bring back to the straight and narrow path of r STEAL 500 PAI store of the Adler Mra, No. 1510 Third Avenue and carried off their loot after emptying the footwear from boxes and neatly piling up the boxes in a rear room Johh Bloomauist, IRS SHOES BUT LEAVE THE BOXES Five hundred pairs of shoes valued at about §7 a pair were stolen last night by burglars who broke into the branch Shoe Company at wife of the Janitor of the building in which the re is located, discovered the robbery at 7.30 this morning. 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