Booth And Barrett

The announcement of Booth and Barrett for Ann Arbor is the most important in the dramatic line the city has ever had. Of Booth and Barrett's presentation of Julius Caesar, the New York World says: Mr. Booth's Brutus is a dignified impergonation and a thoughful interpretaron, Diarred bv no glaring blemishesof personsliiy and'disfigured by no whimsical views of the text. Mr. Barrett has lone; been acceptea as the best Cassius on our stage, and he quite realized popular expectation last night. It is true the scène is one of oraiory and not of acting, but it affords the speaker every opportunity to exhibit al) the natural graces and acquired skill of utierance. Mr. Booth was never happier in hig dignity and fervor. To make a companson oí the acting of Mr. Booth and Mr. Barrett would be uncalled for. Their dissimilarity is familiar, and what is now better, their unity of purpose in a good work, is also becoming ■well known. In notbing was this more apparent than in the general spirit of the performance, which was heroic, maje&tic and earnest. The principáis appeared to be animated by the desire to exhibit the inient of the drama rather that the individual excellence of the actors, and this worthy spirit gave to all the scènes an elevation and a relation not lways seen in onr repreaentations of Shakespeare's dramas. -