The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-16

so anomalous and unsatisfactory a
character as Mr. WildlDg and carried
out the understandable imprudence OF
the playwright in posing for two acts IN
dubious comedy responsibility, raising
Elusive hopes that he would prove to be
worthy of esteem, only to relapse into
q bank thief at last and try to blow his
brains out
AS everything in this scheme depends
upon the sang trOid of man who IS as
Stunning the gentleman without trying
to be, cool impudence, easy-going bra
yado and an Unconditional bravery are
the elements to be portrayed. Mr..
BARRYMORE exhibited them all, looked
very handsome, and gave Captain Swift
the full benefit of thorough test OF
portrayal.
his fault.
There are several bits of excellent
acting in the performance. Mr.. Henry
Woodruff's portrait of an impulslVe,
loye-sick boy should not be overlooked.
1t was fresh, true and Enthusiastically
five, Mr.. Stoddart, who has the small
part of malignant and sordld servant,
manages to make it curiously vivid,
and Mrs. Agnes Booth plays the mother.
With such a cast almost any play
with a measure of merit would be hon
ored. 1t is not difficult, therefore, to
see that the performance was an excel
lent one, whatever may have been the
shortcomings of the dramatist.
NYM CRINKLE.
NOTES.
BoorH occasionally thinks of playing
Shylock with an accent.
CooUELIN and Hadiug appear IN 5 y
Francisco tomorrow night.
THE Christmas Mirror is out and, like
TIE CHRISTMAS HERALD, its 10 dandy.
Mrs. LANGTRY is going to try Lady
Macbeth; the murder of Duncan VIII
be an innocent frolic, compared with 1t.
LEWIS MORRISON writes THE HERALD
from South Carolina that his business
with Faust is greater than ever before.
JAMES and Wainwright's week in
Denver went over Sill 900. The School
for Scandal was voted the hit OF the
repertoire.
AND now Maude Harrison is with
Palmer again, and still unmarried.
She goes out with Partners during the
run of Captain Swift.
IKE TRUMBo's theatre, the Bijou, is
closed up on account of row between
Billy Emerson, the lessee, and the
owner, which will end in lawsuit.
WILL CLAwsoN, the artist, who lately
returned from New York, says that
ic nvnniSitQ and that
our Gunter's Barnes OF New YORK
would fit the Home Dramatic Club to a
T. Y.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT,
having tasted of the sweets Of dramatic
authorship, is now at work on another
play. the leading character in which
will, as in Little Lord Fauntleroy, be
child.
SINCE her attendance at the Herbert
wilson marriage recently Miss Mary
Anderson has been beset with invita-
tions to be present at social gatherings
of varied nature. Miss Anderson has,
however, declined to snter the social
swim and declares that dinner parties
should be avoided by hard worked
actresses or actors.
TIE Yeomen of the Guard, having
weathered the fftieth night cape at the
Casino. New York, is making rapid
and merry run for its Tooth representa-
tion. The opera is now being played in
six different cities. Mr.. Aronson states
that up to the present Messrs. Gilbert
g. Sullivan have been paid $40, 800 for
ROYALTIES on the presentations IN this
country.
IT vas startling to hear that since
Mr.. Palmer founded his school last
summer he has had over 1000 ap-
applications for admission. A thou
sand stage struck souls in one city
And we saw the pick of them on We'd
nesday at that matinee! Only eighty
of the thousand 'matriculated," and Of
these hardly half dozen-nay. scarcely
three-give promise. Pray heaven thu
rest will take Dion's advice, go home
make pies or dig."-New York Herald
PROFESSOR RADCLIFFE went off t.
Denver in a hurry on the owl trail
last night, in answer to a dispatcl
summoning him to take part IN tn
opening of the great organ at tn
Trinity NJ. E. church. Two, concert
will be given, the first on T1ursda.
and the second on Friday evening
Mr.. Radcliffe is billed alongside OF Clar
ence Eddy, of Chicago, and Walter L
Hall. and is Justly styled as IAN organ
list of highest rank" This invitation
fiattering compliment to himself an
to Salt Lake. and we do not fear nu
that he will stand up alongside OF 81
disfinUuisho6 associates,