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box 11/2
Acted In Some of Its Roles—-But lts
Final Act Has Such Great Emotional
Possibilities That Only an Actress of the
Highest Rank Could Do It Full Justiee.
The charming work of the two principal
women—Miss Katherine Grey and Miss
Phyllis Rankin—is the principal attrac¬
tion in the production of Arthur Schnitzler’s
drama, The Reckoning,“ which is now
on view at the Berkeley Lyceum. In the
first two acts of this play Miss Grey does
the most sympathetic and heartfelt work
that she has ever done. Her conception of
admirable
Weining
18
Christine
to
from first
butthe
last,
last act of the play assumes such vast
emotional proportions tha## ber voice and
physical strength and technique are not
equal to the strain. As a matter of fact,
there is only one actress on the English¬
speaking stage who could fully and fittingly
portray the anguish and heartbreak of this
final scene, and that woman is Mrs. Leslie
Carter.
But at the same time Miss Gray accom¬
plishes so much in the earlier scenes and
her assumption of the girlish side of this
young woman’s character is so charming
stio
that she has scored a distin
achievement. Miss Ran
he
comec
ighi
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6
bid¬
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to bef
in a
later, after the
Frits has met his
’sapart-
the g
grieft
01
ing to
or tells her
to
she seizes her 1
in the yeung
ewarning that she will
man praying by his grave
as we said before, calls for
tremel
lous acting. As it is played at the
Berkeley now with all the best intentions
in the world, it becomes only harassing,
rather than harrowing.
The play is so desperately pessimistio
in all its tendencies that it will never stand
a chance of popularity here, but it is for
all that a play of remarkable power, one of
those plays which no real lover of the
theatre can afford to miss. It is
unusual as it is depressing, and yet its
theme has been handled with such splendid
skill and all its characters are so admirably
drawn that it cannot fail to prove interest¬
ing to those theatregoers who care for
dramas which are quite out of the general
run.
3. Mnnnnnnnn
box 11/2
Acted In Some of Its Roles—-But lts
Final Act Has Such Great Emotional
Possibilities That Only an Actress of the
Highest Rank Could Do It Full Justiee.
The charming work of the two principal
women—Miss Katherine Grey and Miss
Phyllis Rankin—is the principal attrac¬
tion in the production of Arthur Schnitzler’s
drama, The Reckoning,“ which is now
on view at the Berkeley Lyceum. In the
first two acts of this play Miss Grey does
the most sympathetic and heartfelt work
that she has ever done. Her conception of
admirable
Weining
18
Christine
to
from first
butthe
last,
last act of the play assumes such vast
emotional proportions tha## ber voice and
physical strength and technique are not
equal to the strain. As a matter of fact,
there is only one actress on the English¬
speaking stage who could fully and fittingly
portray the anguish and heartbreak of this
final scene, and that woman is Mrs. Leslie
Carter.
But at the same time Miss Gray accom¬
plishes so much in the earlier scenes and
her assumption of the girlish side of this
young woman’s character is so charming
stio
that she has scored a distin
achievement. Miss Ran
he
comec
ighi
1#
6
bid¬
grea
ost
##
to bef
in a
later, after the
Frits has met his
’sapart-
the g
grieft
01
ing to
or tells her
to
she seizes her 1
in the yeung
ewarning that she will
man praying by his grave
as we said before, calls for
tremel
lous acting. As it is played at the
Berkeley now with all the best intentions
in the world, it becomes only harassing,
rather than harrowing.
The play is so desperately pessimistio
in all its tendencies that it will never stand
a chance of popularity here, but it is for
all that a play of remarkable power, one of
those plays which no real lover of the
theatre can afford to miss. It is
unusual as it is depressing, and yet its
theme has been handled with such splendid
skill and all its characters are so admirably
drawn that it cannot fail to prove interest¬
ing to those theatregoers who care for
dramas which are quite out of the general
run.