The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-08


rel between Henry and the Papal
court to annul his union with Cath
crime, and his declaration to Anne
to marry her despite the opposition
of the pope. On the conclusion of
this act Scotch ballet is danced.
Five years are supposed to elapse
before the third act, where the
king breaks with legate, convokes
a synod, which ratifies his marriage
with Anne and proelaims him head
OF the English Church. The con-
GLIDING scenes introduce the king,
sombre and suspicious of his new
queens fidelity and of her renewed
lntrigueS with Don Gomez. He re-
grets Catherine who is now dying;
an anonymous letter acquaints him
with Anne's past, he flies to demand
pardon Of the expiring Catherine,
and the curtain falls as he apostro-
phises Anne =" You, madame. to
the block"
The third act is the most seusa-
tional, and the last scenes sealed the
success of the piece. But not giving
the execution Of the Queen is viewed
as regretable lapsus. A drama of
Henry VIII. without the exc
cution of at least one wife, is mis-
take.
Camille Saint-Saens is in the
prime of life: he is organist at the
Madeleine and is celebrated as
pianist. His Monday "at homes"
are the rendezvous for all musical
celebrities to the manner born or
from foreign parts. Auber was his
great enemy, as lie refused to con-
slider that composer as the first of
his age. The libretto of Henri VIII.
was presented both to Verdi and to
Gounod to write the score. They
declined. Saint-Saens has already
produced 'EUienne Marcel" s'Sam-
son and Dalila." He does not, as is
commonly supposed, belong to the
music of the future school; yet his
score IS not the less scientific. His
tragic music is after the manner of
Gluck rather than Wagner, and
while admiring the latter never
initiates him. In delicate harmony
and Orchestration, Saint-Saens be-
trays his love for Mozart, and in
melodies his sympathy with Lully.
The music is so closely inter
woven that it is difficult to detach
any n1orce0uU. In the first act there
is Queen GATHERINGS supplication
for Buckingham, and the de pro-
funds of the march to the scaffold
recalling the miserere IN TrOOGtoTe.
A duet IN the second act between
Anne and Gomez was redemanded.
The dialogue between the king and
the legate was WEAKNESS itself: this
and the ballet are the weak points
Of the representation. The chorus
of the synod, "Thou who watches
over Englandw is very effective, and
recalls the bishops chorus in the
d frjc0i7le. GATHERINGS dying scene
is exquisitely tender, as she divides
her Jewels among her friends. But
the pearl of the score is the QUARTET;
half Paris already huns it, and it
will out-rival the famou; qpotuOr of
Rigolleto.
Lassalle was magnificent as Henry
VIII, alike in bearing, costume and
voice. Mile. Krauss as Catherine,
was simply perfect. To praise her
would be to gid refined gold. Mile.
Richard secured laurels as Anne
Boleyn. The scenery is superb and
historically true. Richmond and its
gardens are readily recognized. Eng
lish spectators will feel at home at
this opera. Respecting the costumes,
they have been copied from paint
ingS at Hampton Court; they are
dazzling in purple and gold.
So numerous have been the Ger
man cabinet makers in Paris, that
IN consequence of the recent strike
in that trade, they went home, set
up on their own account, and now
cut out French houses proper.
The police are still baffied in their
attempts to find Mile. Monasterio,
the Chilean hoireSs. A policeman
has been transported for attempt
ing to force an admirer of his wife
to sign promissory notes as balance
for his wounded honor. A barris-
ter short of pocket-money, way-laid |
his own mother near Versailles, and |
took both her purse and life. A |
young woman aged %, disappointed |
in love, threw herself out of win
dow at midnight and was killed; |
when brought to the hospital, the |
doctors told the police to return and |
pick up the brains, and which were
found seven yards from the spot |
where the unfortunate fell.
During mid-lent-day a Yankee
opened a booth on the Boulevards,
invited the public to enter and see
The fashions OF the time for three
sous, and not to speak about them.
Inside was large mirror for per-
sons to admire themselves.
The soft goods shops now have
savings banks, and allow per cent.
IN deposits, from one franc up
wards.
ministers still in office p" Clearly
hey are aiming at power" A Paris
an gives orders to be called pune
;ually at Z o'clock in the morn
ng, but if he be asleep, he is not to
De awakened till noon. Mistress
kitchen and finding a
soldier kissing the cook: adele,
,ou must leave at oncel' $50 in.
ended, l dislike mistresses who en-
or the kitchen without knocking"