The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-20
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Bandmann Ends His Salt
Lake Season.
THE COMING PHILHARMONIC
Natures Burnt COrkers - Adelaide
Nelson's Orr in-The Wailack
Benef1t-NOtes.

another $3.50 audience last evening at
the Theatre. The play has made a
decided impression in Salt Lake. but it
did not draw the crowds which flock to
see it in other towns-a fact which tells
that our public is either behind the
times in not having read Stephenson's
marvellous story, or that it is ahead of
them in not caring to see its horrors
materializsd upon the stage.
We prefer to take the latter
view, and we are not prepared to say
that the public is at all wrong. JekYll
and Hyde was the fancy of brainy
author, who wanted to emphasize how
the good and theevil alternately possess
every soul and how the evil propensity,
if frequently indulged, can overthrow
and wreck the good. We doubt if Mr..
Stevenson ever had an idea that his
fancy would be dramstized, and it
must have rather aWed him when he
heard that a clever Yankee had set
about the task and made a success of
it. AS a novel. Jekyll and Hyde Is a
hiueous nightmare, and the greater the
ability of the artist who presents it, the
ore hlGeous the nightmare becomes.
BandmaDn is beyond question ad-
mirable in the part; that he will make
money cut of is as undeniable as that
he needs it. But in it all he serves no
purpose, illustrates no aim, and the
audience which assemblies to shudder
at him is benefited about as much as
the crowd which gapes at the writ hings
of a man who has been run over, or a
bow taken with fit. But it has struck
the varying fancy of the eVer.varying
public at theright moment, and moral
or no moral, it is the play of the hour
q I'D will run its day.
Mr.. Banumann now proceeds to San
Francisco where Mr.. Wood jumped
with the intention of forestalling him
with the reigning nOvelty-just as he
himself jumped west with the design of
covering this rich field before Mans
field should work it.
McKanlass and his all star specially
company, drew a couple of very attenu-
ated audiences at the Opera House,
yesterday. Barring McKanlass him
self, and bright little boy and girl,
the show is dreary waste.
From all indications, it will be great
concert with which the new Philhar-
monte Society makes it's first bow to the
public on "Wednesday evening. The
orchestra will be sWelled to twenty-five,
and seventy i've voices will sing IN the
choruses, while the soloists include
many of the best vOcalists and per-
formers in the city. The programme, a
very choice one, is as follows:
l. OVerture-Merry Wives OF Windsor
Orchestra.
q ChoruS-Damascus (ftom Naaman)
Philharmonic Society.
8. Clarionett solo. $500. Mr.. E. W. Kent
4 Baritone 5Olo-Weep no More. .Kucken
Mr.. L. Gorlinskl.
S. Valse Ell Turia epanish) ....-.. Granada
Orchestra.
&. Aria and FREDERICKSBURG Weber
Mrs DIuce-Pugsley.
7. Piano Concerto 81 Roman Romanze Chopin
Miss Justlna Anderson, with Orchestra
Obligato.
s. Chorus Nadies' Yoices)-STars the
Night Adjoining ....:.-... Wekertln
9. Violin Solo-FAntasia, Faust. ..SaraSate
Mr.. Wi lard E. Weine.
10. Basso Aria-HyDres the Creton. Eliot
Mr. w s. Blake.
IL Grand Selection La Traviats. Verdi
Orchestra and Chorus.
Mr.. H. s. KROUsE, Conductor.
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Many conflicting stories have been
published concerning Adelaide Nelson s
origin, and ell of them on investigation
have failed to hold together. The fair
actress herself was averse to speaking
on this subject, and when she did 1t was
usually to give play TO her Imagination.
While sitting at my disk the otheraday,
l was told the true version by ruddy-
faced, hearty Englishman, who knew
Nelson from the time of her birth. 10
supply missing fragment of theatrl-
cal history, l give the short narrauVe
In my visitors own words:
"Her name was not Nelson. She
was born about eight miles from where
nv boyhood was spent. Her mother
was a handsome woman; her father
well, the child was love begot, but the
father was generally believed
to be SpaniaTd of good
family. A rowing Gypsy pro-
fessed to be the enid s parent; he mar
ried her mother, anyway. On Lilys
becoming famous actress he and the
OlQ lazy, EOO, L U6IICNCi hCAO pShotSnNA -
on her generous bounty. When the
girl grew to be 10: years old she was
sent out as a factory-girl in an estab-
lishment between Leeds and Rawdon
Her pay was threeand-sixpence a
week, But she made very little pro-
gress. While she was throwing. the
Shuttle over the cloth weaving loom
her mind was otherw Sc occu pied. The
proprietor of the factory was finally
Obliged to dispense with her services,
because she insisted on spouting Shake
speare and causing the other hands to
neglect their WORK. There have been
many accounts of Nelson's childhood,
but this is the true one. | knew her
personally and can vouch for the cir
cumstances L have stated. Mirror.
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The great WALLACE testimonial benefit
probably the rarest dramatic event
which has occurred in America during
che present generation. comes off at the
Metropolitan Opera House, New YORK
tomorrow night. There is some cues
ROOih aan m Ike him.