The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-27
ADJUSTMENTS.

jim IdE ENMA1s.-1t Is JUSG tWO y chl .
since the Madison Square people paid
their last visit to this city and presented
Jim the Penman. which had not then
been seen in New York. The profound
impression the play left behind it and
the fame which it has attained IN the
metropolis and all over the land
since, added to the personal popularity
of many of the players, all made up a
great combination to draw fine house
to the Theater last evening. The drama
| is familiar to most theatre goers here,
and was spoken of at length by THE
HERALD on its first presentation, so that
little needs to be added at this
time; it remains as it was when
it left the hands of the gifted au-
thor, Sir Charles Young-in whose
| death the stage has recently suffered a
| heavy Ioss-the strongest, most vivid
and most absorbing English drama of
the present generation. To the peo-
pie presenting the LlaV, more attention
is due, for, though none Of them are
strangers to US, most of them appear in
new roles. Our old friends Mr.. Robin
SOD, Mr.. Massen, Mr.. Holland, and Mr..
Phillips were warmly greeted on their
appearance, and young Salvini, success
sor 10 Lemoyne as Baron fairfield, re-
ceived an ovation; Miss Brooklyn, who
played minor part before, but who
now appears as Nina. the wife, the
character portrayed by Caroline Hill
before, also received a round of ap-
plause. With the principals in such
hands, and with such figures as
the well-known Flockton. Messrs.
Ramsay, Millward, Woodruff. Holli-
| day. Clara Lipmsn and Kate Maloney,
in the support there could be nothing
but magnificent, finished and well
rounded erformance-such perform
ance. IN a word, as only company
like A. M. Palmer's knows how to fur
nish. Of course. the night was full of
comparisons, aud though we know they
are sometimes odious, who could help
making them and marking the various
points of delineation in the fine pre-
sentation last night and the fine pre-
sentation of two years ago? If cons d.
cred as whole, the original cast was
doubtless the stronger. We say it
at the risk of seeming hypercritlcal for
imputing any shortcomings to the
more recent performance. Mr.. Rob-
| lnson is just the same as before, care
full, palnstaking, but not magnetic
actor. To our own notion James
Ralston should be handsomer and more
dasniDg man, but Mr.. Robingon was first
selected from among hundred to suit
his managers idea OF the part, and hav-
ing filled it so long and SO successfully,
| perhaps no fault should be found. Mr.
| Holland was long ago conceded to have
made the hit of his life in Captain Red
wood, and the part ha! lost none of thc
exquisite favor be origiL ly impaired
TO 1t. He won the only scene recall of
the night. Mr.. Massen, who was the
| Drel1ncourt before, now had kelsey's
| part of Percival, which he did very
finely, but still not so finely as he does
more rugged line Of heroes, such as
| he portrays in Saints and Sinners. Miss
| Brooklyn did some admirable acting,
! though she was at g disadvantage in
appearing before an audience which
had seen Caroline Hill do the same
part, and good as she was she could not
cut suffer by it. For her acting in the
test scene of the part, the letter episode,
| she received a warm burst of applause
and was recalled at the end of the act.
! The great emphatic impression of the
night. it was res erVed for Mr.. A!exanCe:
Salvini, the true son of his father, to
make. While we can not concede that
Mr.. Sslvini a. all outshlnes his prede
cessor, Mr.. Lemoyne, in the great char.
aCter of Bartfeld, anL while we think
that in the maturity of his methods he
falls short of the older actor-yet his
genius is so und0ubted, his magnetism
is so supreme, and his whole delinea :
ton is so great, that he is constant
source OF surprise and the most decided
satisfaction. That be, a handsome
stripping, who, his audience will be sur
| prised to learn, is dark youth with q
faint Italian accent, should be able so
| perfectly to portray the middle aged
blonde German baron, with the German
accent so admirably cultivated, is one
of the Elarvels of professional trans
mogrihcation. and shows that young
Salvini is well able to bear up the
honor of his name. The support was
all excellent.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
HERE'S to Maud Harrison, whom we
n ISIS.
SToDDART, FlocktoD, and eight or ten
| VI LhO o1O az LA0 u,
SALvINI has made wonderful strides
since his appearance here with his
father in the Gladiator.
Mr.. Mansfeld's great opportunity oo-
ours in Partners. Mr.. Stoddart also
has fine character in that play.
PARTNERS is an English play by
Buchanan, author of Claire and the
tGrgemsster. 1t was the latest Madison
Square hit.
Mr.. Robinson who has a monomania
on the subject of fishing, will be the
guest of some prominent railroad men
who will take him up the Weber to-
morrow.
Poor old Davidge He is often referred
to feelingly by his brother and sister
associates 1t will be lonk before we see
his delineation of the old tramp in
Saints and Sinners equalled.
TONIGHT the well-remembered Saints
and Sinners. with Mr.. Stoddart, that
grand old man" of the stage, in the
part of the minister, and with his
| ohorpoipo opd foInntpd Maria Rur