The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-03
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Wind-up of the Week
at Both Houses.
NYM CRINKLE ON UNCLE JOSH
Tho Bohemian GirI-Barrett's Luck
and Booths Generosity
Last Night.

last evening-they were perhaps large
considering the heavy amusement
week we have had. but doubtless
smaller than the managers had hoped for
in view of the throngs of people seen on
the streets during the day. The throngs,
however had pressing business at the
tabernacle, and the places OF amuse
ment were forgotten.
At the Theatre Evans & Hoey con-
valsed the audience with the first two
acts of their skit, and rather bore
A Parlor Match would be decidedly
benefited if it were rearranged so that
the second and best act wound up the
performance.
THE Soap Bubble Company closed
their engagement at the Opera House
last evening, after displaying more
nerve than the average troupe receives
credit for. Two nights they an
tagonized Deckstader and did good
business; two nights they bucked
against The Parlor Match, with fair
success. A Soap Bubble will be re
membered as being among the good
things in the show line with which we
have been favored this season.
tits like inhaling good deep Whit OF
mountain air after a summer in
baked town-to read that Denman
Thompson is on his way here again.
The great success this actor made in
Uncle Josh Whitcomb is now piece of
stage history, and every one who has
ever seen the Cd Homestead, which is
another glimpse of Uncle Josh s life, say
that the new piece will have as long
run and as phenomenal a success as the
old. A pure, sweet, breezy, truthful
picture of New England home life is
afforded in The Old Homestead, and the
rural scenery, the farm yard sketches
and the pictures of country life pre-
scented are said to be the most accurate
ever seen on the stage. Of Thompson
and mis- production, Nym Crinkle SAYS:
whenever Joshua Whitcomb's name is
mentioned now there is strain awak
ened like the far of bells of New Eng
land.
He brought the smell of the sweet
clover into our native drama and setup
there the New England home with all
its precious memories.
He might have rausacked the world
and ne could not have got theme that
would touch so many American hearts
as the Old Homestead.
RAnd if New England is the land of
homesteads, the cradle of common
Heaiths, the schoolhouse of patriots, the
academy CT statesmen, it was after all
in the Homestead that our Webster, our
Adams, our EVeretts, our Longfellows
got their earliest inspiration and i'm
bibed the principles that made them
known TO the world.
That old homestead stands there vet
lon the stony hills and in the shady val
leys lust as it stood when Bunker Hill
was tit" 1t has sent out generation
after generation Of brave men and
women who have made the valleys of
the Ohio an the Mississippi to blossom
like the rose. They fought the battle
of life with a hymn-book in one hand
and a musket in the other. They drove
the savage before them, aud wherever
they swung The axe they set up the
meeting house and the district school.
They oYerrun Ohio, they corGerted the
prairies of Illinois into measureless
gardens that fed the world, and their
sons and daughters to-day are types of
the hardihood and indomitable pluck
that snatched states from barbarians
all along the great domain of the west.
These men and women came from the
New England homestead. They had
sterling piety. simple honesty and I'M
uerable thrift, With them shift
lessness was a crime.
They were made ofgranite and sun
shine, and they went over this continent
with the keenness of the winters blast,
and something of the nourishing gentle
ness OF the summers rain.
Of course it is the home that makes
men and women. Somebody has said
that the hand that rocks the cradle is the
hand that rocks ths World. And the New
England home with its rugged sim
plicity, its quaiutness and sternness, is
the home that Joshua Whitcomb puts
before our eyes with its living, breath
ing New England people"
The statement that the Booth and
Barrett profits this season amounted to
$500, 600 is considerably within the
bounds OF truth. The veracious Joseph
Levy informs me that the takings of the
thirty-siX weeks tour amounted to
S6l1 900. Lawrence Barrett remarked
to a friend of mine the other day, This
JASON has made me rich man. I was
ina bad way when Edwin Booth came
to my rescue. can never be sufficiently
grateful to him"
We understand that Miss Ada Dwyer,
or, as she is known in private life, Mrs.
Grover, will visit Salt Lake this sum-
mer with her husband to spend a short
vacation at her old home. The young
lady has achieved a very strong
success, and made for herself an
important position in the dramatic
world mainly through her delineation
of the part of the Wait In Alone in
London. This drama, by the way, is
about the only one of the big eastern
successes which has not been seen in
Salt Lake, and it would be very pleasant
if an opportunity presented itself, and
performance could be arranged to see
her enact the character in this city.
Stephens class is working like Tro-
Z Jams on the music and action of The
Bohemian Girl, and a full dress re-
hearsal with sealed doors) will be held
at the Theatre tomorrow evening. A
final rehearsal will be held Friday even
ing and on Saturday afternoon and
evening the first two public perform
ances will occur. Despite The great ex-
pense the company is involved in, and