Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1910 — ART OF ACTING. [ARTICLE]

ART OF ACTING.

■ease Oplaiou from the Greet Italtee Aetor, Tgnnuo Salvini. Just how far the stage is universal and, on the other hand, how far the expression of human emotion and passion is conditioned by race training and national life, is discussed by the famous Italian actor, Tommaso Salvini, in a long, analytical article •which appears in a recent number of the Suddeutsche Monatschrifte of Munich, the New York Times says. No matter how highly educated an audience may be, says Sig. Salvini, It will “only with difficulty be seised in its innermost heart by a passion foreign to its mode of living.” ' In general, according to Sig. Salvini, French actors are true in the art of acting “only within a certain sphere; if that sphere is overstepped—i. e., if a certain passion becomes dramatic, serious and violent—they assume a declamatory manner which we Italians consider as being in bad taste. “Of course, I concede exceptions. As far as we are concerned, we are, while in general not especially clever and effective in comedy, more true in drama and tragedy. The Germans are much more diligent than the actors of the Latin people. They penetrate much more deeply into the parts they play, and execute them exactly, but they lack the fire and grace of representation.’* English men and women also, we are told, have the same excellent points and same faults. “With them everything is form and accurateness in the representation of diameters, They am extremely con- ' scious and exact in their delivery, well versed in everything that concerns decorations and costumeq, but there is hardly found among them a vivid impulse, Are 'off spontaneity of artistic feeling. They have had great actors as, for ekample, Garrick, Macready, Kemble, Edmund Kean and, finally, Irving. Such artists, however, have been satisfied to obtain the applause of a public that spoke the same language and had the same tendency of as themselves.’’ The proper Investigators and pioneers%f dramatic art, the Italian star maintains, are the Italians and the Frenchmen. To them has been given the honor to have been appreciated and to have gained applause in the whole civilised world, and, while using

tholr own language, to have appeared together with actors that spoke another Idiom. _L