The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-16
DRAMATIC AND Lyric
Mary AnderSOn's Dilemma
SOME REFLECTIONS ON BENZ
FITS.
I0lanthe at LaSt-Pinaf0rt Once
MOre-Life Of An Actress "A New
Concert HalI-Etc.

ayers adopt to advertise their at
fractions; the kilograms which have
lately come over the the wires regarding
the note sent Minnie Palmer by,
several German dudes IN London
and the subsequent pummelliDg of
those dudes by Mr.. John Rogers
the grave announcement OF Mrs
Langtry's agent that there exists a
strong attachment between the Lily
and MI. Gebhart (Which induces a
Chicago paper to remark that this
probably accounts for their fond
ness for each other)-are bo-h nau>
seating instances CT how lightly
private reputation is esteemed when
public nctOriety is the point aimed
for. Mary Anderson's attempt at
this sort of advertising-perhaps it
would be more just to say her man
ayers attempt-recently brought
the Young American Icicle into an
embarrassment which few Will say
was not merited. On the first week
of Miss Anderson's appearance in
London, it was telegraphed to this
country that the Prince of Wales had
intimated a desire to meet the
American actress, and that il view
of the reputation enjoyed by "the
first gentleman in Europe" the
acquaintance had been declined /;
this report, being sedulously circu-
lated on both sides of the water, had
the effect of making Miss Anderson
the craze of the hour; her prudence,
wisdom and modeSty were lauded
ON all sides, and the result was that
vastly increased flow Of pounds,
shlllings and pence poured into the
Lyceum ffers. But the end wa
not yet; scme time after this gossip
had been discussed in every circle
in London, the Prince and Princess
of Wales came to the theatre to see
Psrthenia. and during the evening
Miss Anderson was sent for to at
tend the royal couple in their pri
vate bCx. Blushingly and trem-
blingly the actress oteyed. The
Prince complimented her in the
kindeSt terms on her impersonatiOn,
presented her to the Princess, and
then put the point blank question as
to whether she had really said she
would decline making his acquaint-
ance? Poor Mary Imagine her
embarrassment! No thought of
such moment as this had ever
entered her calculations, so she was
utterly without any answer She
Stammered, Redeemed, said it was
all wrOng-bad never meant it-had
hardly ever dreamed OF the honor
could explain fully at another time,
but now the prOmpter's bell was
ringing-was sure they were watt
ing for her, etc.. etc., and ended by
hurrying back to the stage too con
fused to notice the twinkle in the
Princes eye as he turned to his
smiling wife. Thus ended Mary
AnderSon's first interview with roy
atty, and it is to be hoped that the
experience taught her fruitful
lesson in her methods CT advertis-
ing.
WHOM DO THEY BENE-
FIT?
Benefits were originally ordained
for two important purposes-to test
the extreme limit of endurance on
the part of an audience, and to all
low various gentlemen who were
never fitted for the pursuit an hour Of
recreation on the public stage; there
is an impression prevailing in some
quarters that benefits are intended
as complimentary to benefciares,
and that the design is to acquire a
fund for their behoof but that such
an opinion is a mistaken one must
be evident to every rejecting mind |
if such were the case, it must be
seen that it would be the endeavor
of the beneficiare to present snch an
attraction as would draw the public |
into the theatre, rather than to drive
them to the skating Kinks and des-
pair; if such We're the case, the
young gentleman on Wednesday
evening who came in and i'm
mediately confused the audience as
to whether he was a wandering
umbrella or the Leaning Tower of |
Pisa would have been scattered to |
the four winds; the barbarians
would not have worn the Comanche
costumes rendered immortal in Nick
of the Woods; the mother of Par
thenia wonld not have looked so |
bewilderingly near the age of her
daughter; her father would have
thought it necessary to know three
speeches out of a possible
hundred; the Timarch Of Massilia
would have insisted on more than
one attendant In his train, and sew
eral other particulars we could men
tion, would have been either sup
piled or omitted had the aim OF the
performance been to draw any con-
siderable patronage. AS all these
particulars, however, were not sup
piled and not omitted, 1t is clear that
the benefit was instituted for the
two important purposes we named
at the head of this article, and in
these respects it achieved a signal
success.
AWEEK OF OPERA-HoLIDAY BILLS
The coming week will be a nota-
BILE one to music lovers in Salt Lake,
if all that is said of the Chicago
Church ChoirECompany be taxed as