The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-08
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
The Closing up of the Confer
ence Seasons.
MRS. JAMES BROWN POTTER
Last Nights PeIformances-Contu
Royce LaustRg-Our Gen.
eve Again.


Club weuId have been bewlldered at the
throng which poured into the Theatre
last evening to see the last performance
of the Shaughraun. Every seat in the
house was occupied from the top to the
bottom of the house, and standing room
was everywhere in demard. The piece
went with all the smOOthness in the
werld, and the benefits of
one representation were very evident.
Excellent az the rendition was on the
opening night, there was everywhere
improvement, and not The Bankers
Daughter, Diplomacy or Confusion ever
went with more ease ana effect. Mr..
Wells carried the house by storm, and
the action at tunes had literally 10 be
given over, to allow the applause to boil
itself away. MIR. Spencer's Harvey Duff
was an excellent character creation. and
MS closing scene was very effectively
worked up. Mr.. Whites Captain Noli-
neux is one of the best things he
has ever done, and to Mr.. White,
by the way, falls much of the
credit of the whole representation
his experience with the piece
making him &ot 6dit with all the
business; Mr.. Young was stately
priest, and Mr.. Taylor gave a careful
rendition OF Kinchela-the villain of
the piece; ME. Clawson, too, syincc
improvement and the management of
JheaSup,r -, the wake Sc ne etc.. wereof
the first class. The lauies were all
excellent, Edith CIawson being tender
and pathetic, Birdie Cummings bright
and winning, Lottie Clsridge whole
host as Cons mother and Ivy Clawson
and Mabel Young equally good in their
parts. The whole was an immense go,
and the audience fairly appeared to
revel IN it from beginning to end.
The Home Club wind up their season
and step down from the boards for
which will probably be a long, long rest,
tomorrow night with Confusion.
Everyone knows the fame of this ele-
CANT comedy who knows the fame of
the elegant Dixey. He played for
whole season at the Fifth Avenue The
atre in the part of Christopher Blizzard
and Mr.. ]. L. White being in the com
pany all that time got the whole thing
at his fingers ends, so that when the
Home Club secured the play on a
royalty, he was ena led to give them
SOlQ6 GAC61lSub IL Is SdSllV
the most polished and highly finished
of all the Home Club comedy achieV-
ments, and will from a notable close to
what has been notable season. The
cast will be found in another column.
1t is expected that party from Fort
Douglas comprising all the officers, will
come down tomorrow night to see Con-
fusion.
The fine old drama the Willow Copse,
was played at the Walker Opera House
again last evening" by tbs MaIgatt3-
Evans combination and to consider
ably larger house than on its first pres
entation. There . was marked and
decided improvement, in every
particular.
The very charming face of Mrs. James
Brown Potter beams from every fence,
dead wall and show window in the city.
1t is as calmly smiling and ingenious
as that of girl of II, and as confident
of conquering the world as that of
Cleopatra herself. Three or four wears
ago, Mrs. Potter was only the wife of
q millionaire, and the leading lady in
swell Brooklyn amateur club. Her
talents attracted so much attention that
she was invited to Washington as the
guest of ssme cabinet officers wife,
where she bounded up to the pinnacle
of local fame by reading the risky Ostler
Joe before blue-blooded, blue-teaed,
blue-stockinged Washington society.
Since then her star has kept in the
ascendant, and her late appearance in
London and New York, where the seats
auctioned off at the highest premium
ever known, are matters fresh il every-
ones memory. Mrs. Potter appears
here Wednesday and Thursday in Loyal
Love and The Lady of Lyons, at ad-
vanced prices. The fascinating Kyrle
Bellew. the loved of New York ladies.
supports her, and whether her abilities
as an actress equal her beauty of face
and form, we shall be better able to state
on Thursday morning.
Some one has sent US copy Of the
New York amusement Gazette, which
contains very pretty picture of Gene
We've Lytton (our Geneve PRICE, with a
very fattering sketch of her career
that is since 1883. Since the sketch was
written, Miss Lytton has appeared in A
Possible Case, and the critics have had
LD6lT COA pt4AAOuIdIy HudCh dG A6I as
follows:
Nynt CrinkIe--Miss Genevieve Lytten,
although accepted on the first night in
the farcical comedy scenes by the audi
ence-probably on account of her per-
sonal appearance-was not really 81
good in those scenes as she was in the
bits Ct sentiment with Lawrence Gould.
If this woman should pay Galatea she
would realize Gilbert's ideal. In farce
she is incapable of the 68petglerie that
alone makes farce enjoyable, Her
sumptuous beauty and her magnificent
dresses helped very much to overcome
the difficulties of part that makes
woman marry three men and then try
to bs serious over her own predicament.
The Giddy CASHIER en- the MirrOr:-The
= ossible Case will live in my memory as
the spring opening of fine clothes for
1888, as pictorialIy an artistic triumph,
as introducing me to pocket edition of
the armament 1 can't forget, and as
presenting evidence of what can be done
Y it'll very little.
am not abiding to the play entirely
in that sentence. look at Genevieve
Iytton and then so and get piece of
smoked glass and view her creator.
For about three years young lady