The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-07

ing a prodigious quantity of it and
never having any. With q memory
like Macauley's and an inventive
faculty like Munchausen, he knew all
facts but seldom used them, ex-
ceps to convict somebody OF ig-
norance. Trained for the church,
he probably violated every ecclesiasti-
cal canon. but preserved through all
a curious stolidity of theistic belief, and
m AIDE the cafe often ring with polemics
IN the heights of a revel.
The FIR time ever saw him was years
age on the World when it was under
Manton Marbles control. He was en-
ployed by Mr.. CrOly to do some report
ing work. He was smouched with
black lead, for he had been sharpening
pencils for hours. He looked like a
stoker. He was shabbily dressed and
had slouching manner. l should have
passed him BY had he not come to me
to make an inquiry, and [ found he was
| employed on review of some ecclesias-
teal discussion then going on. Rehad
not talked to me five minutes before /
found that he knew the whole subject
backwards, as we say. Barely out of
the turmoil of the war, wrecked by its
fortunes, he sat down there and wrote
series of articles that touched with clear
/ historic acumen the whole orbit of the
discussion.
When Mr.. A. N. Palmer made him
his adjutant then commenced the
: Theatre career. He must have done
prodigious amount of work in the
Union Square Theatre. We heard of
him making The Bankers Daughter
and double score of other plays whose
literary fathers consigned them to him
as to founding asylum. We heard
of him rehearsing and managing COM
parties in the west, receiving royalties,
getting salary. and now and then
writing play himself, but always de
claring to everybody but the person who
wanted it written that he was only an
adapter, not maker.
But nobody ever heard of him
becoming provident or independent.
In all his vicissitudes and triumphs
he was the ingrained Bohemian
living for to-day; willing to empty
his pockets at any moment for friend
or dinner; retaining just enough in
tellectuel vanity to triumph in dis
pute or to get retainer; never know
| ing or caring what the morrow would
bring forth until the morrow came.
Never known to be intoxicated. he
consumed reservoirs of wine. With a
| singular contempt for the elegancies of
language he held deeper thinkers than
himself with his stock of kuoWle dge.
Coarse in his expression, he was crit
cal to severity in his thought. He
knew the historic drama by heart, and
he had the wits OF the Restoration and
the poets of the Renaissance at his
tongues end. Jibed andSsneered at by
actors and managers, he was courted
and fiattered when they wanted place
or a play. Linguist and Latinist, he
wrote Saxon with an old school terse-
ness aud force.
This remarkable man, so long ia
miliar and unmistakabie figure on the
Rialto-who is known to the dramatic
profession and to newspaperdom from
Marblehead to Matanzss-sits there in
his chair in the Hotel Dam resting. let
US kindly say after an unexampled life
of vicissitudes. Not faculty is dis
turbed. Physically a wreck, ne is in,
tellectually puzzle to his doctors and
call to see him.
} don't think ever saw such dom
nation of mind over. matter. as he pre-
sents His own words to me were in
substance these: My liver is COM
pletely indurated and the action of my
heart is 50 uncertain that l cannot lie
Gown. l have had paralytic stroke
and nv kidneys are gons."
But he discussed the political situa-
ton; canvassed the effect of the yellow
, fever on the theatrical business In the
: south; knew all the plays that had been
recently produced IN London and Paris
had read Robert Elsmere" and The
Story of an African Farm" and watched
his own varying physical symptoms
with grim equability.
:. Here, let me observe. is one OF the
advantages of not having any nerves.
l never saw this King of Bohemia
exhibit any, ami don't think he felt
any. He deies them yet.
You would naturally pardon ma n
: like me for admiring this condition. II
} we could all shake ourselves clear OF
our emotions we'd stay longer. Know
+ ing never killed anybody. 1t is feeling.
!, -Nym Crinkie.
. THE New York Mirror prints hall
: column letter from lts Salt Lake cor
:. respondent on Sampson OF Omaha.
THEY were doing the Lights O. Lon
: don at the Alcazar, san Francisco, last
: week with Morrison SIS Seth Preene.
}, The great Coquelin and Jane Hsdine
: commence an engagement at .Palmer's
Theatre (Wallack's) tomorrow night.
GREAT numbers of theatrical attrsc-
I tions are cancelling their dates il
? southern towns on account of the yellow
:. fever scare,
: FRANK MoRDAUNT, frankie Kembl'
t ano Emily Rigl have been engaged fol
n the New York production OF Mr.. Barnes
q of 2 ew York.
!. LOUIS JAMES and Marie Wainwright
v will make THEFT bow before San Fran
= cisco audience on October Sth. SO grea
0 has been theIt success with Ingomar
4 that this will PROBABLY be their piece d
IS resistance for the future.
The friends of O;mond Tearle will b.
!, pleased to hear of the successful launch
- ing of his craft OF legitimate plays ant
prayers. Liverpudlians spsak In higl
praise of his individual performance
. OF the leading roles more especially O
q Vlrginius, for which mis- splendid
method and good appearance, are s
, q lmlrably suited.
v VAN BIENE was once asked by a De'
Il composer to listen to his original {!