The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-28
,r.rv Anderson, Her Talents
N and Defects.
bishops SALT LAKE TRIALS.
,.rv-Heury E. Abbey-Grover's
ou FAMILY observation-disclosures
Bishop-General,

I.le Theatre. We can call to mind no
10 not even Booth or Bernhardt, who
sonId excite the same furore of public
interest which has been aroused ever
since it became known that Miss An
derson would alight for a short space in
Salt Lake in her fight across the con-
fnent. She has been idealized and
etherealized to such an extent by all the.
writer's of English Christendom that it
seems difficult to invest her with flesh
and blood attributes, and to realize
that she visits US, not as some
benign goddess in a triumphal car,
but simply as the inmate of a
Pullman passenger coach, whose
TRANSFORMATION is provided for by
the regulation cardboard eoupon-se-
cured, no doubt. ON the prevailing cut
rate. MISS Anderson comes as the en-
bodimeIit OF youth and lovely woman
hood, Just from haYing laid England at
her feet, to assert her sway over the
West, to receive our homage and to
garner in the floating maravedis.
which we fight az the box Office window
to throw in her lap.
How many will find in Miss Ander-
SON the portrait their fancy painted, or
how many Will find their idol below
their ideal, it is yet too soon to say.
There have been critics who had the
temeritv TO write that this lovely young
American possessed every requisite of
the actress but the one requiste-soul;
that she was a beautiful piece of mech
anism, and was to be admired as we
admire a statue or work of art;
she plays Galatea so well, they
say. because she is Galatea, and
she PLAYS Juliet, Rosalind and Pauline
much as GaIatea herself would have
PLAYED them had she been required
presenting exquisite pictures of beauty,
but lacking in the one respect of feeling.
Modit ska proclaims it boldlyenough that
Anderson lacks what she will always
lack till she has known what it IS to love
and be loved-tlll that lovely fortress,
her heart, has been stormed and taken
captive The icy purity of Mary's life
and manners have already become pro-
verbal; it is one of the most respected
of all newspaper jokes to announce that
her APPROACH disturbs the Signal Ser
vice man and runs the thermometer
down towards zero. Only last week, in
its criticism of her acting, the New York
Sun, in speaking Of the kiss she be-
slowed on Romeo, said the man playing
the bass viol got up looked over the
footlights and sat down again, pulling
his coat collar up around his neck; the
usher started to find the crack in the
door through which so heavy draught
was blowing, and dozen dudes hurried
out to get something warm.
Miss ANDERSON played Pygmalion
and Galatea in London under the eyes
of Gilbert, the author. We have no
record of how he viewed the perfor-
nance, but from the fact that he went
home and wrote for her the ,one act
piece. Comedy and Tragedy which she
does Tuesday night, we may
infer that he thought the American girl
would do. OF her Rosalind, Marcus
Mayer discourses thus to. Call
reporter:
You will be pleased to see her in that
character. She is the only RosalInd
that makes a true boyish Ganymede.
By the way. her first appearance in AS
You Like Il was one sof the prettiest
bits Of romance and sentiment in the
history of the stage. Miss Anderson
had been down at the little town where
Shakespeare was born-Strstford-on
Avon, you know Marcus is getting
touch of English mannerism in his
specify for a few days rest, when
it suddenly occurred to her that
it would be memorable event
own town in one of the bard's
own plays. She decided on AS You
Like tt and Mt Abbey went to work
to perfect the arrangements. Invita-
tons were issued only to those who
applied for them, and the London
press did the extraordinary thing
of sending representatives to the per
Torrance. On the opening night, Mrs.
Ellington, Vino played Audrey, brought
on the stage a tu"nip which she had
pulled from the garden of Ann Hatha-
ways house. now kept by descendant
some IS years of age. Mr.. James G..
Taylor-the same who was here some
years ago with Alice Oates, you know,
was the Touchs tone, and he was not to
be outdone in realism, so before the per-
Torrance he walked down to the Avon,
which flows Just back of Memorial Hall,
and dipped his shoes in the mud and
water of that classic stream. There
we're twenty-four London. newspaper
representatives in the audience, and
their description of the first perform
ance occupied forty-two columns in the
metropolitan journals on the following
morning. What do you think of that
for newspaper Work? From that time
forward Miss Anderson was a special
success. Happy thought; was 1t not 2''
With Miss Anderson comes Mr..
Henry E. Abbey, her manager, who
now pays his first visit. TO Salt Lake.
and who almost deserves as much news
paper attention as his star. He has
otten been called the Napoleon
managers. and the title is a
qting one. He brought Patti, Nilsson.
irving and Bernhardt to this country
When other managers stood aghast at
.1e terms they demanded; he opened
ffas big Metropolitan Opera House, and
a1S. $3.50, 600 N one season-the remark
que part of which is that he paid every
uoilar of 1t without wincing or asking a
5We!anction from single artist. He took
MS Mss Anderson to England and made
tS Draw more money IN Irving's
ZIG sniIsa'fe than that actor draws with him
sci sci and Terry together. He handles
O VI lew attractions, but they are all
6 W Ine highest rank. He has only such