The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-19
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Our Boarding House and A
Hole i'm the Ground.
EYM CRINKLE'S POSTSCRIPT j..
Carleton's Two Bills of Fare-Zion's
Choral Resumes its Meetings
General Notes.

Farce comedy, thrilling situation,
speculation, the boom, extravaganza,
burlesoue and emotion, are all combined
and churned up together in the play on
which The Home Club try their hands
Wednesday afternoon aid evening.
Robson and Crane were the actors
whose delightful comedy talents gave
fame to Growers peculiar play of Our
Boarding Ho Use, and the success they
nave lately achieved in The Henrietta,
mas brought that form of dramatic
farce into popularity again. Their
characters Will be essayed by Wells and
Spencer, whose first hits used to be i'll
the capacity of twin comedy men, and
aided by Mr.. Young as Fioretti, the
Italian, by Edith Clawson, Birdie Cum
mings, Lottie -laridge and others,
whose names appear in TEE HERALDs
announcement. They will, beyond
doubt. be able to make up an evening
of strong and hilarious interest.
Hoyt's Hole in the Ground Company
is we'll represented throughout the town
bv some attractive pictures, and the
probabilities are that it will do July as
well as the usual musical absurdiCy
and satire of that sort always does III
salt lake. A letter from Mr.. Hoyt to
The HERALD, states that owing to the
illness of his wife, he will be unable 10
be present to see his piece done Tor the
nrst time in Salt Lake. 1t follows
Our Boarding House.
lions Choral, a body of singers
which has achieved the most distinctive
success of any similar organization
which has attempted sacred music of
late years-resumes its sessions to-mor-
low evening, after an extended Vaca-
uon. Ii would be matter OF consider
able regret, if the organization, after
starting ut with such promising pros
poets, should fail to accomplish the work
of which it is so thoroughly capable;
all that is required IS that the meln-
bers will continue to take the interest
they exhislted in the commencement.
We hope the society will turn out in
lull force on Monday evening, and that
VIII uullcu III u OStcI ~
move along to permanent success.
Nine. Modjsska it is, says the Herald
who claims the honor of having discov-
cred Josef Holman. 1t is three years
ago she first get to know the wonderful
boy. She spoke OF him TO NJ. Gross
mann, the Steinway of Russia and
Poland. That gentleman made wry
and cynical face when the actress IN
sisted upon his meeting the DhenOm-
euon. With a Sigh OF boredom, Gross
mann consented, and eventually Hot
mana pere, lie Grand Caslmir, put IN an
appearance with sort OF parcel under
his arm. The wrappings being taken
off, q wee bit of humanity emerged. This
was the phenomenon.
And Is this the misfortune?" Gross
mann grimly queried.
1T is" responded Modjeska.
"Do you like chocolaue?" inquired
the piano maker.
II do" emphatically said the phe-
nomenon, who forthwith began to
MUNICH.
Then Grossmann sat himself down to
the piano and struck some chords, the
notes of which the chocolate eating
mite picked out ithout looking at the
keyboard.
EGood remarsed Grossman. NOW
sit you down and play"
What! on that thing?" braveiy an
swered the tot. Never Give me a
concert grand and will play"
The instrument was small Blu Inner
upright. Nine. Modjeska lmplored
Hofmann's parents not 10 produce him
IN public. She was quite ready TO fur
nish the wherewithal for his musical
education. But then Rubinstein got
hold of him and the damage was done.
1t is general talk among theatre
goers that Fanny Rice is all that saved
Carleton's Salt Lake engagement this
year. This is little extreme, perhaps,
when we think OF that excellent come
dian, Drew and the occasional good
work that Carleton did himself. We
say occasional, because We do not think
he was up to his own standard al all
times on this visit. However, there is
no denying that Rice Is a young tower
of strength, and that her hit as Elsa
will long remain in the memory of
theatre goers. The only trouble with
Carleton is that, like a good many new
hotels, be gave us bill of fare on the
start that he could not Keep up, and his
guests, conceding that the present
menu is one that is not by any means
to be sneered at, still keep
up the growl that it is not
like the one he set before us
when Jessie Bartlett-Davis and Dora
Wiley were his two leading women.
his was his misfortune. Had be
started out with Alice Vincent, Louise
Paailin, or Te4lula Evans, and then led
up to Bartlett-Davis. there could have
never been the sound of a complaint.
He promises next season a strong
woman to mate with Rice, and with
such q pair, with Drew, with his own
voice taken little better care of, and
with no better tenor than Mr.. Taylor
who is never bad, and sometimes ex-
cellent-he will have company that
will sweep criticism before it.
Nym Crinkle, writing in his usual
breezy way of the great revival of Mid
summer Nights Dream, at Days, and
current theatrical chat in the metropo-