Download File

TOMMASO SALVINI
Every phase of the man's nature was pre-
sented by the actor with fine discrimina-
tion and full potency. But as the fiery
soul was brought to its great trial, and
prepared itself for the renunciation of its
one hope and joy, the player's art took on
an entrancing loveliness. From scene to
scene Conrad's face was gradually trans-
formed, its grim severity being replaced
by a sober earnestness. The passage with
his wife, in which they were united in
their spirit of self-abnegation, where dis-
appointment, desire, and grief swelled his
heart almost to bursting, was deeply im-
pressive, but served principally to lead
the mind of the spectator to the last scene
of all. What words can do justice to
that, — to the exquisite pathos of his final
interview with his daughter, when, strug-
gling with the agony of imminent death,
he endeavored, by caressing tones and
timid gestures of tenderness, to excite an
answering throb in the young breast, which