The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-23
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Interesting Record of rheat-
ricalS.
REVIEW OF THE OPERA.
Holiday Attractions. Lanca.
shire Lass.-The Life Of an
letrtSs.-Aiscellane.
GUS News.
THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS.
There is set of damaged vol
umes in the Green Room of the
Theatre. the pages of which we are
never weary of turning. and the
contents of which we never tire of
poring over. While seated in that
histrionic retreat. and waiting on
the most unpunctual of all his
species-the Salt Lake professional
we have oftimes been lost in
reverie over the forgotten, achieve
mentS recorded within those lie ayes,
and hardness has been allowed to
go unchided because we ourselves
had taken no heed of time; the vol
umes referred to are the "Pro-
grammes of the House," or as they
have been variously named, the
Curtain. the FoOtlightS, and the
Times, all bound and preserved from
the opening night of the Theatre
down to the present time.
1t is like breath from the region
of the past to look down those old
performances. to note the ancient
dramas, the once familiar stars, the
old names in the casts, the unend-
ing round of farces, the ANTICIPATED
advertisements, and the grave re-
views of the "editor and publisher" !;
the prOgramm now before us bears
the date of November Is, 1866, and
at its head is emblaz3ned the legend
"Last Night of the Twins" Follow.
ing this, the public learn that HI. B.
Clawson is manager, John T. Caine
stage manager, Thomas Williams
treasurer, Henry McEwan
prompter, G. NJ Ottinger scenic
artist, ann Professor Careless d.
rector of music. The bill for the
the evening is Kate Kearney and
The Foil es of Night. and support
ing the stars are seen tie names of
Miss Alexander, Miss Adams. w.
G. Dunbar, Mckenzie, Lindsay,
Graham, Kelly and Mathews; turn
ing over one leaf we come to per-
Torrance at the conclusion Of which
a farce is announced as being writ
ten expressly for the Twins Gy E.
L. Sloan, OF this city. and entitled
advertising for Wife," On the
departure of the Twins, the regular
company seem to have taken the
boards and On the Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays OF each week
presented such a round Of plays as
the Gunmaker Of Moscow, The
Deal Boatman, The Courier of Ly-
ons, The Illustrious Stranger, The
Old Chateau, Ten Nights in a Bar
Room (the great success of that
age, The Willow Copse, Gilderoy,
The Avenger, Flowers of the For
est, Scion Shingle, The Wife, Temp
tation, Extremes, Uncle Tom s
Cabin, Victorine, Green Bushes,
Jessie Brown. ETC.. etc, in al these
plays Mckenzie, or J. M. Hardie
usually took the lead; Lindsay was
the villain; Dunbar, Margetts,
and Graham divided the comedies
Miss Adams, Miss Alexander, Mrs.
De Witt Waugh, Mrs. NJ. G. Claw
son, and Mrs. Bowring were mem
bers of the company; Little Dellie
ClaWson" was always the child
Mrs. L. Careless occasionally aps
peared Sin beautiful ballad ;" and
such names as Jno. L. Game. A. G.
Merrill, Geo. Teasdale, ]. r. Claw
lson, J. A. Thompson, r. G. Camp
Id. J. Mcintosh, Miss Colebrook
Miss Platt and Miss Parks appear
to have formed reserve on which
the manager sometimes drew.
There is one name among all these
familiar to Our public to-day, and
Iequally familiar to the public OF
THAT time. which is never omitte d
from the bills. invariably once, and
sometimes twice or three times in
an evening; the name of Mr.. III
iHorsley" confronts your gaze; nc
performance seems to have been
complete without it; the first cast
IN 1866, and the last decade and a
halt later, still found him indis-
Ipensable; the service of the veteran
iDerr, and the gray hairs of the cur
Itain man seem to sink into COM
Iparative insignifcance compared to
this mans experience; the different
Titles he has borne would make ar
!endless christening dictionary fol
mothers: the number of times he
must have said "The carriage waits
my lord," or did your ,ladyshiI
ring2" is a task the mind recoils
from calculating; one night we fad
him enrolled as Sepoy Traitor; the
next as a plain officer; again as
merely s'Joseph;" he has filed the
lrole of Sentinel, Leader Of the
IShouts and Mprmars, Peasant
lCourtier, Robber, Indian. Attendant
Page, Secretary, Messenger, Banner
Bearer, Witch, Sexton. sailor,
IGamekeeper, Constable, Bar-man
and every other employment and
lcalling known to civilization
Tor barbarity; the wealth OF
lstage tales stored up in his
.lxuind is "a never failing
'6lnd OF instruction blended with
EM{arity, and at some future period
4 we may be enabled to present oul
Ireaders with some specimens of
these reminis eences for the present
we have only space TO state tnst the
Iother departments of the Curtain
lafford equally great opportunities
flor the deliver in forgotten lore.