The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-13

occasion, or, probably, his revised
Under One Flag.
l suppose actors belong to their seas
ons like fruits and flowers and ought to
be picked while they are ripe.
When you undertake to preserve then
and keep them over they have the
quality of canned goods.
Music and drama have their grave
yards. Antiquaries will wander among
them and copy the old epltaphs. Blu
at the be It it is a melancholy pursuit.
believe that the songs of a leoLie
belong only to their era, Yor can't gel
anybody to hum Ben B ut" or "Sally
in our Alley" now Stel hen Fos' er :
melodies and Howard Glover's madri-
gals blossomed along the springtime OF
their epoch and then died.
| suppose Lester Waliack was in his
time the handsomest man on he Ameri-
can stage. What an Apollo head he had
when he was thirty! MIND you he is q
handsome man YETI But the theatrical
world is going to pay him an unique
tribute for some other reason. 1t is i
recognition of his record.
It isn't possible to call him popular
actor, as that word goes.
If you want popular actors comme I'D
me to men like John Mccullough. Les
ter Waliack had too much stuff IN him
to be popular pet. He was never more
than the pet of his own set. When
ever he went out of New York he
seemed to get away from his clientele.
Most of the Boston people wondered
what We saw in him. But those same
people wondered what there was in the
Sistine Madonna, when they went to
Rome. and one of them has just placed
himself on record as saying, after q
cursory glance at Raphael: "As for
me. give me Prang's chickens"
One generation had grown up with
Wallack. All that was best in the
stock company Of our past was asso-
ciated with him. They never forgot
his splendid romanticism in The Cap
tain of the Watch or his super b loss of
identity in Rosedale.
Another generation arrived to find his
name a record in itself. For years it
was the swell thing to go to Waliack's.
There one was sure to see only the best
people and the best acting. No other
theatre could at that time quite create
the same atmosphere in itself. A long
line of clever people had given their ira
ditions to the house, and by and by when
Wallack was the only one left, he
somehow seemed to be lndissolubly
associated with them.
He became in tine as completely
feature Of New York, as the Seventh
Regiment or she original Jacobs or the
ailanthus trees. Our western friends
always went to see him when thew came
to town, because he was the one fixture
that never came to see them. And
when in his later career he fell into the
star tour they resented it somewhat.
The honest and impartial historian
must acknowledge that Mr.. Wallack now
belongs to the past. All that is clever
and unique. and bright and romantic,
to the psriod that is closed
Eliot Grey is done. No one can revive
Rosedale except as curiosity, and no
one can run theatre now as Wallack
ran it, because the methods have
changed. as we'll as the tastes.
Wallack belonged to particular Pc
riod of cur theatrical development.
And if we could revive him as he was
twenty-five years ago. we might recog-
niZe his ability and admire his skill, but
we could not revive the conditions that
made him sui generis.-Nym CrinkIe.
Notes.
EEMINIE is in its last week again.
HAGeARD's Dawn is TO lie done in
Boston next week.
LAST Friday saw the two hundredth
of The Wife at the
Lyceum, New York.
Mr.. SYDNEY RosENFELD's adaptation
of the Lady and the Tiger has proved
very frosty success in New York.
CLARA MORRIS has disappointed her
audience but once this season. She is
getting stouter and is in good health.
Her season. which closes at NIblo's
next week. has been profitable.
THE lady whom Americans have
heard sing as Blanche Roosevelt is now
known in Paris as Nine. Machetta
D'Allegri, the author of The Copper
Queen, and she is being patronized bv
the Countess of Lytton. wife of the son
of the great Bulwer.
Miss DORA WILEY, who will be re-
as the former prlms donna
of the Carleton Company, is living in
Portland. Maine, where she has nearly
200 pupils. As she receives So for q
lesson of thirty minutes. it will be seen
that her income is larger than if she
joined company. Her voice is said to
be better than ever.
MR. JAMES A. HERNE's Drifting Apart,
which is to be produced at the Peoples
Theatre on Monday. has been rehearsed
during the week and looks as
If it might be success. The story is q
pretty one. and, rs its name implies.
tells of the drifting apsrt of couple
who are reunited in the last act. The
scenes are near the pretty village of
Massachusetts,, and gives
an excellent picture OF life among the
hardy fishermen of that locality. The
character of Mary Miller, the heroine.
was expressly written by Mr.. Herne for
his wife. Kasha rine G. Rerne, who will
be supported during the two weeks at
the Peoples bv an excellent cast, which
includes Mr.. II. NJ. Pitt.
Miss GRACE HAWTHORNE has good
reason to be grateful to her Eewfound-
land dog, Othello. She was pacing the
parlor of SANDY HOOK" her pretty
villa at st. Johns Wood, London,
studying her part in Leopold Lewis 4
Co.'S. adaptation of La Grands Marinere,
which is TO follow The Mystery of the
Hanson Cab at the Princess' Theatre