The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-12
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Notable Event of the
Coming Week.
THEHOME CLUB AFTER DARK
On Actors and ActirR-sealed Instruc-
tions-PiDafOre RehearsaIs-
General News.

1t is pleasure to give welcome to
oh q company of artists as that which
will arrive among US tomorrow, and
pleasant to be able to assure them in
advance that their visit to us will not go
unappreciated. The indicator at the
box Office points to fashionable crowds
below with substantial gatherings up
stairs on each night of the engagement,
and Mr., Hayman, who takes first
chances in bringing so costly a com
pany to this city, and Mr.. Palmer who
mas halt Of any profit the other NAV
make, are both apt to feel satisfied with
the results of the Salt Lake trip. Stod-
| dardt, Maud Harrison, Ramsey and
| Mrs. Phillips have not been seen here
for several seasons; Les Rantzans and
| the Pirisian Ron an, We beliey q,
brought them TO us last; the gI1teu
Annie Ru sell is as yet a stranger to us.
as are also Herbert Kelley, Mr. Dav-
| idge, Caroline Hill. MIR. Massen, etc:
Marie Bl rOughs we remember in Tie
Rajah: LIE Mo, me- made n inefaceable
iinpres sion in the same piece, and liz
Young Mrs. Winthrop
An editorial in the Chicago Nel0S paws
| handsome tribute TO this coterfe of
artists, and their scholarly delineations
have moved that paper to the fol owing
trutniul rehectio S on actors and acting:
The remarkably successful series of
performances by the Madison Square
Company at McVicker sTheatre during
tue last six weeks, is a matter for hearty
cOngratulation all the way round. Mr..
McNiCker, Mr.. Palmer and every mem-
| Der OF the company, as wella as the lovers
of the drama in Chicago are to be con-
graduated. 1t is no easy task for any
company, however accomplished, to
| gather large audiences together night
alter night in the very heart of the
summer time. But this, the ladies and
gentlemen of Mr.. Palmer's company
have done, and the audiences have been
well repaid for coming. The expert
ences OF the last six weeks will form an
exceedingly pleasant set OF memories.
aud If the taste leftin the mental palate
by these refined and cultured actors
ould make less able acting unpalaIa-
BILE for long time to come, so much the
netter. Cakes and ale are well enough
II their way, but We have been ban
quoted on nectar and ambrosia The
M Olson Square Company will bear
away with them the grateful apprecia-
on and good wishes of thousands; and
among other things they have helped TO
purge the public taste and develop a
love for cultured, scholarly acting. Tie
close OF This engagement-WhIch has
been delightful as it has been success
ful-ls htLlng opportunity to empha-
size the conviction that the secret of the
stages strength is simply in benz
rong. The talk about the decline of
the sage and the ueCaGenCy OF the
drama, Is just so much idle nonsense.
II Is emnenuy necessary to cultivate
the taste. Even "Katisha on her own
testimony, was IAN acquired taste"
The only way to cultivate q pure and
elevated tast- in literature, is 10 put
good books III the hands of the people.
The ulme novel has come to a timely
end, because the Seaside Library and
Franklin Square Library have put q
higher order OF literature before the
world. Give the ptOplegood PLAYS, we'll
played and they will soon acquire the
taste necessary for their due appreci.-
ton. A study of the exquisite work of
this company during The last six weeks !
has strengthened another con-
victiOu, and raised rather difficult |
question. The conviction is this. !
that II acting Is worth doing at all, it /,
worth Ooing well, and the question is, !
where are our actors toEcome from? |
The old fallacy about the fool in the |
family being suitable for the church. |
has been exploded long ago. and the |
idea that any fOOi with a good voice and |
4 retentive memery is good en-, ugh for
the stage, belongs to the same order of
decisions. The true painter has to mix
bfains in with his color5 or be will never
get the world TO care much about his
canvas; and the actor must have brains
as we'll as memory. or he will never
make an actor. The easy flow of tie
performances of the last six weeks has
not been the suit of luck. but of un
Iring devotion 10 tasks full of mani
old difficulties. The stage calls for
for ladies and gentlemen who
have a passion for their profe sion:
With whom-npart from the monetary
'esults-the privilege of personating
md revealing great truths and charac-
srs is positive luxury. No sctor will
'ver make anything out who is not an
enthusiast. Where the actors of the
le1t ten years are to come from IS diff
lcult to tell. Stage carpenters and
Gene shutters will hardly serve the de-
land any more than Yergers and sex
ons will serve to supply the pulpit.
Students for the stage are as necessary
IS students for medicine, theory or law. {
The stage has always worked at great
in this respect. We must
lave more theatrical colleges, for if the
tage of 1901 is to be all the next gener-
tion could reasonably desire, If the
tage is to keep time with the march of
rogress, it must be peopled by high
minded, accomplished, Studious ladies
ndgentlemen.