The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-26
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The English Horror Of limo
vatiOnS
DESCRIBED BY NYM CRINKLE
Our Period of Rest-Ouc Societies
Black Eiinstrels Without the
Cork-NOtes.

COrk-NOteg.
Things theatrical will now indulge in
heightened slumber, as far as Salt
Lake is concerned, and until the middle
of next month there will be no one to
take advantage of the boom of prosper
ity now bowling around us. The period
of rest will be broken in notable man
ner ry Booth and Barrett, whose brief
season at the end of March will shas e
our society to its center. There is talk
of Emma Abbott's descending upon
US, but there is hitch in the ar
rangements, which may or may not,
stand in the way of the engagement.
With April comes the Conference boom,
and there are already indications that
ve country folk will have deIectable
spread to choose from. The Home Club
have the Theatre and will pre-
sent something new, either Youth
or the Shaughrsun, along with some
thing else like Storm Beaten or Confu-
lion. Phil. Margetts and ]. E. Evans
gave the Opera House, and are casting
about for play to suit themselves and
their company, so that there will be
40 lack of entertainment for the rural
ojourner.
Zicn's choral is running at full blast
again with its immense chorus; the
Philharmonic has upward of seventy
| live names on its roster; Professor
kent's military band is hard at work,
and stephens chorus class or society of
| 3eventy-five is doing some excellent
| practice on Traviata and other operas
! CHS organization will. in the near
iutu,e, make day OF II" at the Thea
re, by giving grand juvenile matinee
cont ert and ball, and an evening ball
and concert, at which the opera selec-
lions on which they have been wor king
| will be given in concert form. The
society has some excellent voices, Nellie
bruce Pugsley being he,soprano.
The craze for every thing English you
know" extended to Mr.. Abbey who i'm
ported as stage manager for his new
theatre, Mr.. Robertson, son of the
author of Caste, Mr.. Robertson has re-
tired after brief tcareer, and Nym
Urinkle gives him this parting welcome
wandering off, as usual, into all the
bye offshoots and topics suggested by
the subject:
| see that the Sun in paying a compli-
IN ho or
Mr.. Robertson, says that his old Eccles
in Caste will long be remembered by rs
as piece OF very artistic WORK.
Do you know that believe there are
two opinions about this My impression
is that his absolute and utter failure as
d stage manager will live in our mem
ories long after his impersonation OF q
part that he never played will be for
e item.
How we are going to remember him
in part that We never had chance to
recognize him in beats me.
Mr.. Robertson was fine type of the
inc orrigible and insular Englishman,
who came to this country as a pionee
to teach US how TO suck eggs. The
biggest thing about him was his father S
name, but even that wasn't large
enough to cover his affiuent inadeouacy
even in his fathers plays.
believe it was Mr.. Robertson who
selected Mr.. Lowell to play the hero in
The Able Constantine, and insisted
that the New Workers couldn't tell an
acror when they saw one after Mr..
Lcyell bad shown how inadequate he
vas.
There has been quite a number of
70 glishmen sent over here to teach us
stage manag ment, and nearly every
one of them has proved incorrigibly
slow and narrow. i---"+
An Englishman fights against every
in proved method and appliance with
the stolid desperation of a Brahmin.
He looks at Days Innovations upon
Shakespeare with the same horror with
which he would regard tnan who
revived the Magma Charta, or proposed
to pat fre-escape on Westminster
Abbey. He holds to some of his out
wOrn stage fummery just as he holds
70 the Lord Mayors show and his port
atle bathing tub. His sense of rever-
ance for what is useless makes him use
candles instead of gas in his hotels; his
suspicion of everybody who hasn't
brought letter of intro .uction, makes
him larry his own luggage instead of
WIS ing an express company, and lock
himself up in railway coach.
L was very much amused at Joe
rthur's account of the London fire
brigade. Joe went ove- there to ar
range for the production of his piece.
The Still Alarm, and knowing that
Chief Shaw of that brigade had been in
America and seen the improved work
ing of our appliances, he called en-
him. He says he found the function
airy bowling swell in cushioned
chair in luxurious Office, surrounded
By immemofisl elegance and red tape,
Whenever there was an alarm OF FIRE
the Victorian statutes were consulted
for precedents, and when the Queens
counsel decided that there was no i'm
propriety the engines moved. Joe
wanted to call the chiefs attention to
the American appliances for hitcbing
up the horses. The chief listened to
him for awhile stolidly, and then said:
why do vouuse such extraordinary
language? Why do you refer to us
hitching up2 Ny dear sir. do you mean
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