The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
How London Appreciation
Manifests Itself.
AsKEFCH OFMADAME MATERNA
Mary AndersOR's British Farewell
Mr.. B. b Young's Concert-A
Mystery-GeneraI,

We have frequently thought that no
where else in the world do such cold,
staid audiences assemble at the theatre
as IN Salt Lake; the justice of this re-
fiection will become more than ever APP
parent after one has read the following
selection from London letter recently
published, and reflects how impossible
it would be for such scenes as it depicts
to occur in one of our home theatres:
Never but once in my life had before
seen such enthusiasm displayed by an
audience as that which 1 witnessed Sa-
turday night at the Lyceum Theatre on
the last night of Mary Anderson's sea-
son. During the evening it was mani
fest from the feryor of the applause
with which she was favored during the
performance of Pygmalion and Galatea
and Comedy and Tragedy that the au-
dience was exceptionally sympathetic.
but no idea of the scenes which followed
the descent of the curtain ever entered
the widest dreams of any one present
1t was one of those spontaneous and
wholly Hnaccountable outbursts which
is similar to the effect caused upon a
mass of infammable matter to which a
lighted torch is applied. The audience
had been all the evening quivering with
emotion, and Miss Anderson's speech
was the torch which ended in an
explosion of wild excitement and
an enthusiasm of the most intense
description. As the curtain fell Miss An
derson was loudly called tor, and after
the storm of applause which greeted her
presence had subsidized to some extent,
the lady, who was TRANSPORTED with the
excitement of the moment, said
Ladies and conference.-the dreaded
last night has come, dreaded at least by
me. l have to part with you who have |
been so kind to me. The delight l |
feel at the prospect of return
ing to my native country is tempered
with great regret, saddened by the |
5hought that | must leave you. little |
imagined when | came before you for |
the first time, a stranger feeling very |
helpless, wondering what your verdict |
on my poor efforts would be, how soon l |
should find friends among you or what |
pain it would cost me to say, as must |
say tonight, goodbye" to you. You
have been very, very good. l have tried
hard 70 deserve your goodness. Please
20 not quite forget me. can never
iorget you or your goodness to me. 1
aope | am not saying goodbye to you
oreveT. want to come back to you.
TumultuouS applause and cries of
Dot Dol" why leave us at all?''l
Dare 1 hope you will be a little glad to
zee nae? Loud cries, 1--WE will. " ayes,
stc.J shall be very glad to see you.
Immense cheers Until l do, good
BYE. l thank you again and again"
At the conclusion of the speech the
cheering and applause continuedwithout
Interruption until Miss Anderson-down
whose cheeks hot burning tears were
again come eight times
'efOre the curtain, manager Abbey,
vho was called out, coming out several :
lines with her. The audience. which !
y this time was on its feet in every
art OF the house. and wildly waving
and hats, seemed struck {
y one thought, and the first strain of
luld Lang Syne seemed to burst stimuli
aneously alike from stall to gallery. !,
'eople who had never met before seized !
ach others hands and wrung them.
ladies' wept and fiourished their hand
erchiefs Historically. is impossible
o describe the scene, When I tell Won
hat it lasted for fully half !
n hour, you viii get an idea of what
he Englishman, whom you Yankees
all phlegmatic, can do in the way of
nthusasm when you touch his heart.
n Italy they would have shouted as =
1udly for five minutes, in France for =
en-, in America for three. Mary Ander- :
on may live to be as old as Methusaleh,
T Sam Tilden or Susan B. Anthony, i
ut she will never receive such an oya- {
on while she does live. 1t was an ova-
ion which might have affected a mon
reh, and was a heartfelt and well
eftting and justly merited tribute to
onest, sterling worth. And no mon
reh who Las yet lived has ever had s
hat. a
Nobody has more fully earned success Z
nan Miss Anderson, and America
nonld be proud, as am sure she is, of i,
mis- most talented of the worlds Z
aughters. have frequently had =
ecasion in the exercise of my calling ,
D differ with Miss Anderson, but /
ave never doubted her honesty of \
uTpose, her purity of soul, her love for o
eT art, or the unwaveTing and unfal- a
ring courage with which she has
'ught her way to fame and fortune,
nd am only too glad to lay one leaf /
nongst others in the laurel wreath T
hich has England bound upon her
row.