The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-13
THROUGH .EsTHETIC sPECTACLEs.

THROUGH ESTHETIC sPECTACLES.
Oscar Wilde has been lecturing IL
Scotland on his Impressions OF
America. A report says: "He re-
marked at the outset that one Of the
characteristics of the Americans
was that they were always in q
hurry. AS regarded the landscape
In America, it was extremely diff
cult to describe in a country which
was so varied and in which they
had at one and the same time the
orange groves of Florida and the
chill, bitter winter of New York.
The atmosphere was 50 abnormalIy
clear that there was absolutely no
distance, so that an American land
seape was one gigantic foreground {.
One never knew how to value bad
weather artistically unless one went
to America. There one saw that
bad weather-such as fogs, rain,
smoke and the like-although they
might be very unbearable in sense,
still artisticalIy were quite invalu-
able. # they looked into the his
| tory of art they would find that all
great landscape painters had come
from countries where the weather
was more or less unbearable-such
as Holland, France, England and
Scotland. Fine, clear weather
might be very pleasant to walk
about in, but it did not give so much
idea to the artist. America had never
produced great painter, ana he was
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unless it altered its weather. Mr..
Wilde afterwards gave an account
of his visit to California and pointed
out the artistic tendencies of the
Chinese portion of the population
there. After giving an Interesting
sketch of life in the Rocky Noun
talns he said the American children
were rather pale and precocious,
and they had not the fine, healthy
physique of our boys and girls. That
arose, he thought from the indiffer-
ence of the people to outdoor sports
of all kinds. The American young
lady was one Of the most fascinating
little despOts in the world. In con-
cluslon, he said that although one
learned very little of art and litera-
ture in America, still, when one
visited that country he had a better
knowledge of the word freedom and |
the value of the thing liberty.
PROFESSIONAL ITEMS.
Katharine Rogers is playing Led |
AStray and East Lynne.
Kate Claxton has acquired an
interest in New York theatre.
Mr.. Coghlan ascribes his failure
at the Fifth Avenue to insufficient
rehearsals.
There are strange rumorS in the
air affecting a well-known musician
of this city.
Mckee Rankin has been displaced
as leading man at the Union Square,
and Charles Coghlan has been en-
gagged to succeed him at the same
salary, $500 per week.
Frohman, of the Madison Square,
says there are tough times ahead
'or the actor; business is generally
bad all over the country.
A unsuccessful vocalist went to
he almshouse and delighted the in
mates with his singing. He said it
vas natural thing for him to do,
Is he had been singing to poor
houses ever since he began his ca
eer.
A young lady, on leaving a con-
ert recently, expressed her delight
With the excellent music, and said
he was particularly pleased with
that piece from the Twelfth Mas
achusetts," meaning Mozart's
Twelfth Mass" IL
Mr.. L. l.. Van Praag, whose cello I
performances so delighted his audi l
nee last Monday evening, has come :
o remain in Salt Lake, at least for
time. He will be heard again to-
morrow night, in the second con-
ert of the subscription series.
Daynes & Coalter continue to turn :
ut some very fine music printing. =
'he latest we have seen is copy of n
Ir. Cham berlain's composition, 8
The Marvin Waltz" the appear b
nee of which equals anything i'm
'orted. Of the merits of the piece
tSelt we cannot speak, having not
et heard il rendered.
Skipped by the Light of the Moon G
urned away crowds on its third !
week in San Francisco; DIR. Nc C
Zenzie claims that Harrison and b
iourlay are booked with nina. The
,altLake Theatre management look Z
wise and hold their peace. a very .
hort time will determine the mat
er one way or another.
Clara Louise kellogg has been e
inging "Home, Sweet Home" q
0 the convicts in the Auburn, N. t
z, State prison. This takes the v
axe away from its recent possessor,
be organist in church who played c
I am a Pirate King" while the Z
eacon was taking up a collection. :