The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

PARTNERS There is no diminution Of
public interest over the Madison Square
Company, and the third night of the
engagement So the theatre az in filed
with a brilliant and discerning audi
ence. Partners is not play of the alb
sorbing interest and ingenuity of Jim
the Penman, nor of the homely, true
and pathetic virtue of Saints and Sin
ners. It's theme is woman s frailty, and
our audiences never find an entire
around a motif somewhat RISKY. All
the trouble that the woman's foolish
ness brings upon her we feel serves her
right, and it is impossible to feel much
sympathy for her woes. Perhaps it is
this absence of motif that strikes
the popular heart, which accounts
for the fact that the play has not been
so strong a success away from home
as some of the others. Then too, it
is more of a one part piece than we
are accustomed to behold in the Mad,-
son Square repertoire and magniic emily
as that one part is portrayed. we do
not like TO see such excellent material
as Stoddart, Annie Russell and the
Others brought so little into Elay. 1t
was Salvini's night to act last night,
and how he did improve his oppor-
tunity! He drew character almost
new to the stage in great. warm
hearted, rough but generous German,
a clerk wlo has become a partner III
the firm, and to whom the honor of
The "house" stands before wife, home
and everything. That young Italian
of 26 could so sink bis identity, throw
aside the accent of his native tongue,
aud take upon him a dialect so truth
full as that of the German Borgfeldt is
a most a marvel and the truth and
ndellty of every detail in dress
and action showed how con-
summate an artist he is. His
great opportunity occurs in the fourth
act where he casts off his wife. believing
her faithless, and here it is doubtful
whether his great parent himself could
have acted with more tremendous
power. He was thunderously recalled
for this scene, and in his more pathetic
ones, he was accorded praise as hearty,
if less pronounced, in the tears which
his stimulation of grief and tenderness
over his child caust d to flow from the
eyes of half his audience. It was
great delineation, and verified amply
the words uttered by fellow profess
sional of the Lyceum Company and
quoted in THE HERALD not long ago
That Salvini has wonderful career be-
fore him. Stoddart had only a small
part. but his reception lasted half
minute, and he made the utmost of his
character. Miss Burroughs never looked
lovelier, dressed more exluisitely or
acted better. MIR. Holland was host
In himself, and complete disguise In
the part of crushed actor of the old
school. Miss Brooklyn, Mrs. Philips
Mr.. Ramsay and Mr.. Flockton did
their accustomed good work.
There was decided interest in the
che rming Annie Russell. small as her
part was; she was warmly received. and
Tor the one scene in which she had
char ce to portray something of her
power, she was vastly applauded. There
is general regret that an actress so &C
complished, the ideal Hazel Kirke and
Esmeralda of our stage, could not have
been seen in something that afforded
her talents an opportunity. This AFTER
neon Heart of Hearts, in which Mr..
Stoddart, Mrs. Phillips, Marie Bur-
roughs, Mr.. Massen and Mr.. Robinson
appear. To night the season closes
with Jim the Penman.