The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-30
DRAMATIC AMI. LYRIC.
The Close Of a Brilliant En-.
gagement.
PRAISE FOR MAUDIE ADAMS.
His MettIe"-The Fair and Con-
ference Season.

The Madison Square Company closed
their engagement with matinee of
Heart of Hearts yesterday afternoon,
and with Jim the Penman as a night
performance. The matinee house was
fair, the night house good, though
probably neither was what it would
have been had Saints and sinners been
the bill. Heart of Hearts is very wishy
washy, and the fine body OF players
seemed about as we'll fitted in it as they
would have been in the Green Lanes OF
England or The Ivy Leaf. Jim the
Penman is far and away better play
than anything in the repertory, bat 1t
does not appeal to the popular
heart as Saints aud Sinners does,
and it has Tot Stoddart in
the cast. 1t went last ri bit IS
well as ever, with the same decisive hi
by Salvlni and Holland, and the sam,
even excellence of acting al arol q
1t was watched with the most a5sol.-
ing interest throughout.
The company left for Denver | st
night. where they open a weeks En-
gagement to-morrow night.
Are you conscious, Mr.. Stodiart,
, inquired reporter of the favorite old
actor in his dressing room the other
night, that on gave finer perform
ance of Jacob Fletcher this time than
ever before?" well, my boy" re
piled the old gentleman ID his kindl,
way, Il believe l was on my mettle-I
get there oace in while. you know.
love Salt Lakers, and wante to pieate
them, l assure you. There's great
differ ence in the way you feel, and
there's great difference in your audi
ences. l felt we'll, and felt that my
audience was friendly, I'm very glad
pleased them-but it g hard work. my
boy, it's hard work. and I'm not sorry
We don't have it to do over again"
-
Mr.. G. w. Presbrey-who enjoys the
double distinction of being manager o.
this model company and husband o.
Annie Russell-was asked what he
thought of Captain Swift, the new
play IN which the company open il
Chicago. Sits a very strong play.
something after the order of Jim the
Penman. It hasn't been read to tbs
company as yet, and there is no know
ing how the parts will be distributed"
MIR. Presbrsy was asked whether Miss
Russell would not some day try her
wings abroad from the parent nest,
and with some hesitancy he sad
that she might some day be
out with company of her own
and 8 play of her own. Mr.
hirocolf
pay specially suited to his wife's
talents, called Phyllis Deane, and it is
being held for the time when she i.
reaoV to undertake her starring ven
lure.
Mr.. Presbrey and his wife are b 'th
warmly attached to Salt Lake anf It's
people. The gentleman, whose infia-
euce obtained the Home Dramatic Clus
[ the manuscript of Storm Beaten, takes
a great interest in that Organization.
ana says nothing would be more pleas
ant to him and Miss Russell than va
cation of fortnight in Salt Lake, and
a production with the amateurs OF
H eel Kirke and Esmeralda characters,
which Miss Russell has made distinct
lively her own.
IS
| Ihey gave US the Paymastar before
they gave it to New York, just as they
did Jim the Penman; New Yo-k sus-
tanned our verdict on the latter work,
| but it appears the ruling on the Pay
master has gone against US. That
is, the critics coincide with US that it is
pretty Indifferent play-but it appears
20 be making money right along-and
that's the sort of verdict Mr.. Duncan
B. Harrison is apt to care most for.
However. it's not the Paymaster. but
the people concerned in it, that we
started out to make mention of. Nym
| Crinkle-who seems to have a sort of
weakness for Salt Lake talent-nandles
the play in this manner, and Incl
dentally pays compliment to our Miss
i Maud,e Adams:
The Paymsster is play that reminds