The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-31
DRAMATIC AND
The Daughter Of the Regiment
Performance.
CONFERENCE AT BOTH HOUSES.
Yesterdays Production World and PiQ-C-
Real Hinstrels and Their imi
tatOrS Notes.

>, The sul stant.al recognition which Salt
Lake always lends to Ter amateurs, long
ago passed nto tradition, and yesterday
she maintain her old stan lard by laying
a tribute OF 1925 coin Of the realm at the
feet Of Mr.. Evan Stephens and his com
pang, as the It suit of their two per-
formances of the ''Dau inter of the Regi-
merit" What was st Il more valuable
in u refrain Of laudatiOn for the young
c0mpany's latest effort
Stephens is entitled to unstinted praise
for the new achievement; it is a big flight
from Balfe to Don Zetti, and no one
but a conductor of plays would have
thought of working it. The teaching of
the music to the prime pals too, some of
whom had to learn entirely by ear - was
an Onerous task. But the most stupendu-
Gus undertaking of all was the work Of or
chesurating Tor twelve instruments: the
manual work Of copying one hundred and
sixty pages of music was in itself enough
to give an ordinary man brain fever at
tack and when to this is added the work Of
ass guing each instrument its part giving
utli yatOs running fugue movements, coun-
terpoint. etc, one can imagine what the
task really meant. 1t was too, all done in
aWeck and well done it was too.
The hour at which the opera closed last
night renders it impossible to enter into
any critical account for this issue. 1t may
be said at once that while the opera
will hardly rank alongside of the "BOhe-
miau Girl as popular success-a result
due largely to the fact that all the airs OF
that work were familiar TO the public
and particularly suited to the singers
il will be counted a hit and easily run
longer than the one or two nights more
assigned to it. Here let us say, in passing,
that one of the lost regrettable things CON
nected with the painstaEing and labOriOus
work of our amateurs, is the fact that the
number of productions must be limited.
The work and expense put on IL e
Daughter Of the Regiment would
not be more than compensated
bv twenty nights run. but
there is no chance at present Of giving more
than three or four performances at the out
side. Let US hope that the new Ogden
Oucra house may mean partial alienation,
nj least of this complaint. To refer at
once to the features of last nights work
which stand out with most prOmin-
ence, we must mention Edith Cav
son and the ChOruSeS. The lady,
who had Ethe title role, started out
by singing a little as if she were weary
and here let us regret that the banner
nights of Stephens operas, the ones that
usually weary the best audiences, and the
ones from which press notices have TO be
written. are given after matinees when tie
However. before the second act, the
lady had got o. her mettle, and
in that act and the third
She die some of her brightest and most
nioUant work. both as to music and action,
Ind the audience rewarded her by some
hearty applause Her duo with Mr.
Eastou in act two, Il e trio with NJ
Snencer and Miss Pratt in act three, ana
ber rendering of the Ask Me Not Why solo,
was her best work. and her cOnneve ElaE-
cement of her train evoked a good deal of
laupbter. She has managed to acquire
some accomplishments as a drummer, too
INIT the accident to the bridge in act one
cut her drum solo and injured her entran"e
Mr.. Kelly sang and actedin an intelligent
fashion. The dressing of the principals
particularly of Miss ClawsOn, was
fne The beautiful quartettc, intro
duced at the end of act one, l.
sbould be known. was written by Ste1hcr
himself The orchestra did good w0 k
under Stephens baton. There were a few
breaks ON the stage, such as the bridge
collapse. the non-appearance OF cups Tor the
drinking scene. and one or two bitches III
the music. all of which will be obviatet
Monday night an excellent and smooth
performance may be looked for on that oc-
casiOn. ......s--1 f,,71
the choruses were immense, tunetuJ, iul,
sonorous strong and well balanced; the
finale to act two. and the victorious chorus
in act three were finely done, and tne
marching OF vivandieres and soIdlerS-Wno
were handsomely costumed throughout
brought a decided encore. MIR. spencer, as
She grizzled sergeant, had an eXcelenG IN
perial guard makeup, and though ne ala nVt