The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-02

nerves gave way ClU6r IlS SLicSb VI
her sentimental sorrow. A physician
gave her doses Of morphine to make
her sleep. and those dangerous potions
gradually became q necessity. Her
| sad plight is no longer a secret or a
subject for denial, and she has reached
such condition that hardly a glim-
mer of hope remains that she will re-
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This week and the next will give US a
taste of the variety comedy and farcial
sketch. At the Theatre on Friday and
Saturday next our old acquaintance
HaIlen & Hart come back in their new
I ski5, Later On, the printing for which
was attracting as much attention about
town lest evening as if it had been a
second Evangelipe.
At the Grand Opera House on Mon
day, the 10th. Dan Sully, the very
clever and popular delineatar OF Irish
| Character, appears in Dady Nolan. We
| see by the western press that Mr.. Sully
! has a new piece, which be has all ready
| for production, and which h9 may de-
eide on doing for the first time in Salt
| Lake.
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A sharp letter came to me the other
! day through the Mirror complaining of
me for always criticising Mary Ander-
son and Joe Jefferson and Barrett and
| Irving, and always saving kind things
of the Marlowes and Vanes and Gales.
1t waJ jolly good letter because it
was so true. If there is anythiDgi in this
small world of criticism that [ am
proud of and would like to have some :
body say of me when | am dead 1t is
that never fell into the mob of adula-
tors who fasten on to the skirts of
| celebrity. My conviction Is that the
more eminent an actor is, the more
worthy is he of that kind Of un biased
/ examination that takes no heed Of his
eminence. l confess to a kline ~
leaning toward all struggling talehG
| that glints in obscure corners. That Is
where the helping hand is needed; that
is where the word Of encouragement
falls on soil moistened with msby tears.
What do you suppose care for Our
Mary" or your Mary, or their Mary
What difference does 1t make what clan
she belongs to, Or which country she
likes best at any particular point in her
voyage? The only question is: Does
her performance come up to her pub
lie claim? The larger her claim the
larger and more accurate the scales to
weigh it on.
The great iniquity of our stage art is
unthinkipg popular favoritism. II
broke out in riot when Ned Forrest
was alive and fell with a war whoop
upon one Of the most exemplary artists
the English stage ever produced. 1t
mingled It's thunders with Niagara
whenever Clara Louise Kellogg made
her annual landing On P4ymou h Rock
and dowl to the present Velp of Oar
Mary" 1t contains the gusto and the
fumes of the origina Ned Bantline.
The moment clever woman Uses
above the crowd, The crowd wants to
fall down and worship her. without
Knowing or caring for anything except
that she has been hoisted up above their
| heads. II nee al the managerial petards
| for hosting.
II "uur Mary" why not Our Mrs
Potter, or Our Margaret or Oar Julia
Who is it that makes aDy one of them
ours. as If she we're a regiment with
| banners? .---. --..
Just st this moment Miss Mario We is
one of thu most promising of cur young
actresses. She has the magnetic gilt.
But see how the fapdoodle exuders
are beginning to spoil hsr! Already
she is divine, she is a geuius, she is
the bright particular, "the stellar orb. )"
1.-The paragon" Her beauty intoxir
Gates, her talents benumb all reason.
She is superIatively the greatest, the
| best, the supremesJ, the one of all the
earth that time has waited for to
launch all the boarded riches OF its
Ger turtles upon.
If Miss Marlowe believes any or all
of this rhodomontsde she will De hurt
the moment she comes up against
serious and just criticism.-Nynl GrinkLe.
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So poor George Knight has gone the
way that BARLEY Campbell went, and
will be seen upon the stage no more.
There is a grave doubt whether it was
Mr.. Knight a. ali who appeared uader
his name here with the Evangeline
Company. The HERALD noted at the
time that his acUing was very wooden
and mechanical, and the chances are
that it was some one of the choristers
who made up as Uncle / en-. Butler.
At any rate the New York Herald of
November 23d, says Mr.. Knight was
brought home direct from California
t. days before that by his wife (Sophy
Norrel) and that he was supposed to
be suffering from paresis.
Mrs. Knight, it is said, remarked the
Oh n &c in her husband 8 mental condi-
ton about two months ago. she at.
UrIbuted it to the failure of his plav
Baron Rudolph. He was so infatu ted
with 1t that he had picture painted at
cost of $4,000, representing himself
in one of the scenes and in
the principal role. Mrs. Knight
often found him admiring the picture
and declsiming his lines before it. o.
several occasions when they were billed
to play Over tie Garden Wall, which
always drew well, he would insist upon
substituting Baron RUDOLPH for it, and
thus would sink all OF the money which
they had made on the other piece. Mr..
Knight ascribed his losses to a change
which was made in the plot of the play.
Mr.. Bronson Howard, who had written
it, made the heroine leave her husband
and go to live with former lover. This
situation he thought did not please the
public, and he bad David Belasco