The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-23

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hatred ending in reconciliation, only
the route to arrive at the denou-
ment is so different as to impart
originality to the present work.
The Rantzean are two brothers, Iiv-
ing IN village in Alsace; they
have been mortal enemies since
thirty years, in consequence Of the
injustice OF the pan entail will; Jean,
the elder brother, has inherited the
lions share Of the patrimony; JAG
queS, the younger, has been cut off
with something like an angry shil-
ing. Their sole aim in life is to
ruin one another, and make that
hate hereditary. But they have
counted without Louise, daughter
OF Jean, and Georges, son of JAG
cues. The young people secretly
love, but though their parents
houses are cheek by jowl, the better
TO feed the luminosity, they never
speak. Louise is intended to be
married to forest guard, whose
only qualification consists in the
Official annoyance he can give her
uncle. Florence, a schoOlmaster and
secretary to the mayor ian admira-
bic character, impeTsonated to per
fectlen by COquelin, senior, is en-
ployed to break the news to her;
she refuses, and decides to
go to a nunRery; her father
sends for her; detieS her
to say '.no'' to the match in his
presence: She repeats firmly mo"
Both brothers suspect the loves of
their children; he then dashes her
on the floor and decamps. 1t is
splendid scene, and Got surpasses
himself in the part of the angry
father. But the latter not the less
d0tes on his daughter, who lies dy-
ing. Florence proclaimed in the
village the cause to be th4t she has
resolved to die of hunger rather
than marry the forest guard. An
admirable and sentimental scene
follows, where Jean comes to his
brothers door. that he never dark
ened since thirty years; demands
that their children be united: but
Jacques insists primarily ON all the
iniqrities of the will being first re-
dressed, and arrears paid. 1t is here
that Georges (M. Worms, the lovers
role splendidly filled) interferes, de-
mands the tearing up of all con-
tracts as tending only to preserve
the embers Of hate. He 6isposes of
the forest guard in a duel.
The play will have what it merits,
a very long run. 1t affords plenty
of employment for pockethandker-
chiefs. When the piece was writ
ten, some time ago, it was offered to
the OdeOn The atre and refused, that
which made Chatrian write to his
friend Erckmann, at TouI, "Stick to
novels, relinquish plays
Messrs. Erckmann ard Chatrian
were two employees in the Chemin
de fer de I Est, up to the period
when they wrote their 'conscript
of 1873" the Marseilaise in prose.
They passed their lives over their
pipe, their newspaper and their pot
of beer. Erckmann is as stout and
as round as q Dutch cheese: Chat
rian as lean as CaSsiuS. 1t is a Mede
and Persian law between them that
in their plays as their novels, their
collaboration must be carried on BY
correspondence.
The only musical novelty is a
symphonic legend by Mile. Holmes
"Ireland," composed in the home |
rule key; a Richard oh! my Kingp
serenade that might be executed |
under the walls of Kilmainham
prison. A pastor is presumed to be |
on a hill side: he asks Erin |
to remember the days of old, when |
she was free, and Malachi wore the |
bright collar of gold; now all is
houghing cattle, slavery,
no rent, and Captain Moonlight. |
But knights spring from the earth |
with Cadmus fecundity, libeIate |
the country, and execute a triumphal
The gay is the best part of |
the composition the mourning is
overdone, though Erin has ever a
tear as well as a smile in her eye.
The final march is good. Altogether,
the score is meritOriOuS.
a few nights ago the police found
a little boy, aged five, dead on the
fiagway and in his night dress. The
child's father had some friends to
dinner, and descended to see them d
little way home; the boy being alone
became frightened, went to the
window to call his papa, and fell
out. An amnestied communist,
threatened to shoot half the mem
bers of the cabinet, for having put
him on bread and water diet, during
twenty months, in New Caledonia;
the same regimen was ordered to be |
continued for a year.
Bertall, the caricaturist is dead: |
his true name was Vicomte OAR !
noux; he illustrated BalZac's novels |
and may be said to have been IN
spired by the spirit Of the Human
Comedy" lie maintained there were |
three kinds of funerals: those where
the bier was followed by friends. or
by dog, and lastly by cat. He
also observed finely and truly, that
in the case of civil intermentS, the
orators conclude by an AT TeUOjr to
the defunct-a bull that Pat himself
would blush to make.
Mile. de Canrobert, daughter Of
the marshal, is at present passing
baT examination for SchOOlmiStreSS.