The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-07
DRAMATIC And LYRIC
The Fairy WelT' at the Theatre
Last Night.
THE GRAND BILL AT THE GRAND
Last Evening-Duncan Harrison Said to be in
Hard Luck-The Firemen's Benefit
at the Grand Wednesday.

"A fair summer audience assembled at the
theatre last evening to SEQ "The Fairy
Well" the new play of Mr.. Powers, Of
'Ivy Leaf fame. The Fairy Well, -
while it will never set the world afire, is a
good deal better than the 'Ivy Leaf" and
with Carroll johnson and some other clever
people, it may make something of a
90, though it will first have to
be cut and shorn of good
deal of silly and aimless stuff with
which it is now filled. With the crowd of
people who presented it last evening it
would stand about as much show of enjoy
ing long life as a chick Matched in January.
Mr.. Fremont, the villain, absolutely
alarms US by the lung splitting intensity
with which he plots and destroys; we
recommend life insurance to him at
once Why the hero, Mr.. Baker, should
cling TO the stage when there are so many
honorable vacancies in the ranks of the hod
carriers, perhaps his friends can explain;
we can not The others are mediocre.
We don't know any woman on the Ameri-
can stage-at least any coincidence, who
has greater following of adorers in Salt
Lake than Ada Rehan; she is the one ac-
tress on our stage who can defy high prices
and lake attractions combined, and when
she comes-as she always came, sur
rounded by clever John Drew, uproariOus
James Lewis inimitable Mrs. Gilbert,
sprightly Billy Gilbert, neat and natty
Fred Bond, versatile LeClerq, and the
many others that make up Days represen-
Jative company-we don't know of any
thing more calculated to occasion a box
Office riot. Since the organization was
here summer before last, and gave the
Tanning of the ShreW'' and NANCY and
Company" it has been alls over Europe, |
playing in Paris and Berlin, as well as in |
London and Edinburgh, and Mr.. DAILY has |
produced several new comedies at his New |
York theatre as well. The bills for the two |
nights at the Grand will include three of |
these new pieces, and the rush ought to be |
Immense; we only wish the engagement |
could last another night or two, and that |
we might have those inimitable prOduc-
tions, "A Night OFF, and love on
Crutches,'' but MOdjeska'S light engage
ment has convinced Manager White that
Salt Lake in summer cannot be, counted on
as Salt Lake in spring, fall or winter, and |
his decision to limit the engagement is |
doubtless wise one. 1.-The Railroad of |
Love- will be the bill for tomorrow
night.
The Vest End Critic has the following
paragraph in relation to Duncan B. Harri-
son, which will be read with surprise in
this city:
Duncan Harrison, an exclusion house
employee who has been entertaining the
public during the past season with his per
Torrance of the Paymaster,n has gone to
San Francisco. Mr.. Harrison, l am told,
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salaries. 1t is stated by one Of his company
that at the close of profitable weeks
business at the Grand Opera house, Harri
son arranged to settle with his company
at Randalls Office on the Tuesday follow
ing, but instead of living up to his agree
ment he left the town on Monday, owing
from three to five weeks salary to the fol
lowing people: Frazer Coulter, Stephen
Wright, Harry Morgan, Fred Monroe, Irene
Percelle, Gertie Granville CTony Harris
wife) and several others. Previous to this
affair, Clay Clement, l hear, sued Mr..
Harrison Tor back salary in the Seventh
District court and obtained a Judgment
but was unable to satisfy it owing to MIR.
Harrisons disposition Of his effects.
The big firemen's play, Zone of the
Bravest," holds the boards at the Grand
Wednesday and Thursday nights, and as
an additional attraction the local fremen
will have a hand in the disposal of the
tickets and solid share in the receipts.
The New York Herald says: Zone Of the |
Bravest'' was produced here lastnight. An t
area of fun at high pressure dominated the 7
stage. The gallery gods and for that .
natter mostly all in the house, became in .
rected with the hilarious and strongly To- !
allied spirit of the play and laughed and a
lpplauded in the good "Old Bowery'' way. \
h., ~
rood in its line as 1.-The Still Alarm and a
le is specially well qualified to emphasize !
is salient features. He IS typical mem
Ter of the New York fire department. and -
s surrounded by characters familiar to
very New Yorker Mr. Mccarthy kept 4
he procession moving in lively style in the
econd act, giving an exhibition of the uses h
If all the latest inventions for saving hui 7
nan life during the lurid fire scene. The .
Widow GrOgan's tenement has been fired :
md burns furiously, while life lines, life h
,elts, the jumping netting and scaling lad +
lers come into use to rescue the inmates. 7
This scene is one of merit, but the opium I
Gene il the third act is an anti-climax and
ould well be omitted. Mr. Mccarthy sang I
couple of lively fire songs, and he, the
Widow and Miss BloodgoOd came in for F
cveral merited recalls.
How small the world is, after all The b
actress and glorious woman a
7ho has just left US is native of the far
istant and unfamiliar Poland There are F
ew, perhaps, in America who have any c
cry defined understanding of the char
cteristics of that country or its people.
Certainly the ideas of the majority of US in S
egard to their customs and manners are.
0 say the least, rather vague; we would j;
carcely expect to find them akin to those IL
{ the United States, still less to the orig
nality and daring uncOnventionality m
the far west, and yet the Z
reat artist who gave US the
lasterly portrayal of the various tenn e
eraments and dispositions of five different
7Omen, displayed the same little tricks of
tanner that we find in the women we CT
leet every day in this uncivilized'' re-
ion beyond the Rockies She was mistress
f all their wiles and coquetries-she
lughed as they laugh, pouted as they do,
sed the very endearments and caresses
'hich, perhaps, every woman in her au- ar
fence considered peculiarly her own. As
,osalind she rushes in past her friend, an
fter waiting an hour at the trysting
lace for her tardy lover, in search of
Dme quiet spot where she may "cry it out'' B,
nth meanings and complainings She A.
lrows herself on a couch of tree boughs,
ace downward, and weeps with reckless
adherence to the euphony of her wall and w
what woman from Asia to the Pacific
ope will not recognize her own ''individ-
al peculiaritv!'O beat her toes on the
ouch, keeping time to her lamentations o.
erily, "a touch of nature makes the whole an
orld kim EC.Y. W,
SALT LAKE CITY, July 5, 1889 of