The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-29


Dolaro seemed to think it was tbs
Theatre that killed it. Well, the
mephitic atmosphere will not kill more
robust plays, Will il? When we talk
about pes Liltntlal rot" we must re-
member that bile the people who live
la the fourth story of the brown-stone
hou:e get the zymotic disease, the fel
lows who are digging in the sewer it
self escape. There may be something
in the atmosphere, but there is also
something in the susceptibility of the
patient.
You remember oWper's lines:
o, why are yokels made so CO arse.
Or clergy made so incl
A kick that scarce will hurt horse
May kill sound divine.
When you move into a house you &C
cept it, sewers, rats and all. At least
you ought to know all about it before
you trust your baby in it. l-1taJ
But Dolaro's baby would have died q
lingering death in any house, whatever.
Some babies die, not bect use the en-
vironment is bad, but because the ba-
bles are too delicate to live.
wish Doiaro wer5 q man; then she
would rise up and write another play.
But, being woman, suppose she Will
go into mourning and insist on the
worlds going every day to the grave
yard with her. s' .ts
By the way, did you ever 60 10 d
graveyard of dead plays? t'N
Heavens, what funny epitaphs All
the departed died of crit.cs and bad
casts and poor management [ don't
think L ever saw in the play wright's
Perela-C haise one tombstone which
honestly said: This drama was cut
off Ia the flower of its youth because it
hadn't strength to'surviye."
By the way, Mr.. Mackaye's endeavors
to find new Diane for his play Miss
Anne Robe being compelled to throw it
up by a prior life engagement s. ow
how Difficult il is at Tbs moment to Sc
cure women who are up in the heroic
and romantic business. We have
brigades of Marie Burroughs, but we
have no tragic graduates. All our
young women can MARBLE VIolette, but
they cannot sweep on in Norma or
LucrezIa. r-
MIR. Mackaye has had his agent out
all over the country trying TO lasso a
Diane. They were brought in by the
score. But they wouldn't do. Their
sense of analysis was acute, but they
couldn't declaim. They could write
plays themselves. suStle psycologic
heart burners, but they had no arm
sweep superb.
| don't think there is a promint Mt
actress in the countrys that Mackaye
hasn't had his strenuous eye on. Non
Dieu" he exclaimed, .'f | could only
revive Rachel and Charlotte Fushnlan
for one season and mould them"
1t never occurs to his fine imperial
will tina. to revive them might re
miraculous, but to mould them would
be impossiole.-Nyn, Crinklc.
CHARLES CoeHLAN essayed the role OF
Jim the Penman in New York the ther
night.
PROF. KESr's new military band in
cludes several members of the Held
organization now defunct of the pro-
lessor is as good conductor as he is 8
performer, there can De no question OF
success.
HEART OF HEARTS, the new English
melodrama at the Madison Square. is
only moderate success. Marie Bar
roVghs, E. N. Holland and sStoddsr,
seem to have made the hits of the pro-
duction.
THE HOWARD Specially Company
drew another good house last evening
aud the laughter and appreciation gen
orally was greater even than that on the
first presentatic n. The company Leaves
this morning - aesr1 .i..yllIiJS. Et9iG
A HOST of kind invitations from
Proyoites has induced the Home club
to think of rundown to the Garden
City aud gives one-night performance
i'll the cosy opera house at that place
tits all in embryo as yet however. .
THOSE INTERESTED in the Philhar-
monte say there is every indication Of a
rush for membership. May the new
society avoid the shoals and quieksandE
that beset the feet OF the old one after
which it is named.
FL. RIDER HAGaARD, the author OF
She" is not coming to America to
lecture, and incidentally to boom the
dramatization of the novel. BE asks
cleo night TO lecture. 80 we are not
going ito be overpoweresd with his
oratory. ro1s hIro dlE 90
MISS GRACE Hawthore is said by her
manager, Mr.. w. w. Kelley, who is
now in New York on business, to have
made success of hee vehtare in Ieas-
ing the Princess Iheatrt, in London.
She is playing Siberia nightly, and as
a matinee treat gives Uncle Tom g
Cabin, with a hundred and Fifty negroes
and a pack OF bloodhounis. Is
BuFFALo BILL writes home from Enc
land to NYtn Cflnktt: 81 went to
come home We are Dong animmense
business here. but the country cramps
me and the climate chokes me. There
is not air enough. . Ii I stsrtout to take
rideon my horse just aB soon as /
get warm in my saddle I've coma to
She end of the island. It51l geti9com4
fortabiy fixed in their d railway
coaches5 the guard announces shat
we've, arrived. There isn't territory
enough for the people. They tread OF
eisch other, and their biggest county
wants VentiiaGing. You forget hoseitE
breathe hers in ak moathss You're
afraid of robbipg somebody else at at
mosphere.ia IL RI i5 SIT s9ne
Z iERoM PREsEET appearances the en-
gasameae OF tina Lysenm Theatre coEli
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