The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-25
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Old Man COuldOck as Lake
Fielding.
! RUsY WEEK OF ATTRACTIONS
and his Daughter-ho-
Nights CO0cert-The Minstreis
The TrOubadOurs -Mikado'
Couldoek and his Daughter.

when Nine. Celeste came to TINS
country in 1851 and produced the play
of THE Willow Copse," that had Deeh
designed by Mr.. Boucicault especially
for her. a comparatively unknown
ootor Of the name of Couldock was cast
IN nIav Luke Fielding in the piece as 1t
was presented at the old Walnut street
Theatre in Philadelphia. With the name
of Couldock we are ell now acquainted
and we ali feel that we know MI
CouIdock, too, and God bless him, We
cav. For he has touched our hearts
many and many a time, and many ana
MANY time, too, has he demanded the
tribute of our tears, and we-yes, we
have learned to reverence and love the
mso and so we all say "God bless him"
r If away back in 1854 he was unknown
/ to fame. and IL was then that he nrst
DIaved Luke Fielding in the willow
! Eopse." with the celebrated Nine. Ce-
! Leslie as the star. AT the conclusion OF her
PHILADELPHIA engagement this lady, who
seems TO have been as wise and magma
nin0us as she was brilliant, went 10
Couldock and handed him her copy OF
the play. with these words: This
plav Is yours-I give it to You; 1t Is
YOURS by right, for your genius and art
have made star part OF Luke REID
ing. AS for me, play The WILLOW
COpse' no mOre!"
after lapse of more than a third OF a
century. we find in Couldock'S Luke
Fielding the same strength, the same
beauty and the same ineffable pathoS
the critics and public of those distant
DAYS admired and applauded. Or, per
hans. not the same srength, but q
greater for CouIdock is an old man now
and with the years there has crept into
his art q sweetness which only age and
SORROW can giYe-a tenderness which
looming from q human heart, appeals
to all other hearts most beautifully and
powerfully. And this we know: IDal
upon no stage is there truer, CENTER
sgeeter picture of father-loye than We
find in Couldock'S masterpiece OF SIM
plicity.
tor it is full of human nature, and inert
can be nothing better than that. WIN
what OmmiSeration and sympathy
ay. and with what tearS-we follow poor
! old whlte-halred Luke from his humble
cottage at Willow Farm to the inhospjt
able manor house and to the London
ken. and through all his sufferings to
the end, when his reason is restored
and he finds hts name untouched by
dishonor. What tragedy 1t ali Is
how full Of tue grandeur OF stInPlIclt ' 4
this disturbed and Gistraught old faith
err: how pitiless is the sorrow tina
crashes his honest heart. And there L
an infinite pathos in his Just rage, 10
there is nothing that can drive from IN
widowed heart that all-abSOrblng low
of has child. So there is love and for
bearance and genIieness through 1t al
and the tragedy g very pltlful.
Not many years ago fair. splrltueli
girl pIayed the part of Rose Fielding [
Mr.. GOuldock's daughter-hls only CHIC
a creature of rare promise and the ldc
! of her fathers heart. But she dled L
her girlhood, and ever since that hou
the fathers heart has been filed wit
sorrOWing sense ofloneline5s which Onl
such z bereavement can bring. Just a
between lines that are writ We some
times think we can defect a meaning d
other eye can see, 90 in the simpl
, pathOs of old Luke Fielding's grief, Z
we see and hear ii now, We seem to hea
the echo of fathers heart thrObbin
with a sorrow that shall never be full
told. So it is beautiful-al beautiful
from the honest farmers first cheer
greeting TO the last moment when reaSO
comes TO him again and he holds h
> darling in his arms. Let Us not call
Z art. Tor II j. something purer al
sweeter and better than art II
Human nature, and that is the best
all things, for human nature, you kno'
is fashioned by Gods own hands and
His own image.-Chicago Ae'os-