BROCHURE - TOMMASO SALVINI - ITALIAN TRAGEDIAN - FAREWELL AMERICAN TOUR - 1882

Description

Globe Theatre (Boston, Mass.) [Signor Tommaso Salvini; John Stetson].
Farewell American tour of the eminent Italian tragedian Salvini: under the sole management of Mr. John Stetson of the Globe Theatre, Boston [Pamphlet; brochure; playbill].
Boston Job Print, [1882-23?]. Single sheet 32 1/2 inches long, folded to measure 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Twelve-page folding pamphlet or brochure with cover illustration of the Italian actor. General Introduction; Sketch of Tomaso Salvini's life; Interview with John Stetson and various review performance from the London Times and other publications; Salvini Repertoire and advertisement; Daniel Rochat advertisement. Some short tears, discoloration to cover, light wear, o/w clean and unmarked with no major faults. Scans/photographs made; questions welcome. Good. Scarce. [Tommaso Salvini: 1829-1915]
FROM THE INTERNET:
During his American tour of 1882-1883, Salvini played in Boston. One of his auditors, Henry James, the distinguished novelist, in the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1883, gave a detailed criticism of the performances. Of Salvini’s Othello he said:
... “What an immense impression–simply as an impression–the actor makes on the spectator who sees him for the first time as the turbaned and deep-voiced Moor! He gives us his measure as a man: he acquaints us with that luxury of perfect confidence in the physical resources of the actor which is not the most frequent satisfaction of the modern play-goer. His powerful, active, manly frame, his noble, serious, vividly expressive face, his splendid smile, his Italian eye, his superb, voluminous voice, his carriage, his ease, the assurance he instantly gives that he holds the whole part in his hands and can make of it exactly what he chooses,–all this descends upon the spectator’s mind with a richness which immediately converts attention into faith, and expectation into sympathy. He is a magnificent creature, and you are already on his ride. His generous temperament is contagious; you find yourself looking at him, not so much as an actor, but as a hero.... The admirable thing in this nature of Salvini’s is that his intelligence is equal to his material powers, so that if the exhibition is, as it were, personal, it is not simply physical. He has a great imagination: there is a noble intention in all he does.”