The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-01

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| The Philistines had picked on the jews
| till patience ceased to be virtuous. Sam
son had been regarded as a sort of middle
weight champion. He had failed
somehow TO DO what they mad expected Of
HIM. He had talked a good deal down al
the store about what he could do and how
he had run his hand down the hot anC
| feverish throat of an irriJated lion anC
turned him wrong side out so quickly thal
before he could recover from the surprise
Ike had caught such cold in his exposed
digestive economy that he died from his
| injuries.
Samson had therefore shaken the conf
deuce of those VINO were aUouL NM, e.IL
people were beginning to clamor for new
giant III the first act we see Zorah, high
table land which gives upon the plain be-
| low. Many IsraeliLes are discovered as
sembled around a blazing pyre, furnished
| by the Boston Gaslight & Coke company
Manoah, remarkable man with white
lam Oskin ey ebrOws, opened the play with
PRAYER The odor of incense arises from
time to time, varied by t." If of carda
mon seeds from the fro tro Z.
rne people are drcso.,. oriental bath
robes al d rich smoking gowns from Askelon
and over agaiis. Twenty-third street..
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failure 10 S.gu articles for d Setto with the
Pnilistnes, Samson app ars suddenly
among them, dressed in hectic smoking
jacket and carrying over his arm the
tanned pelU of hon. He addresses them
briefly IN Italian, to which they reply in
English.
olg Salvini takes the part of Samson in
this play and is said to be as good TRACE
uian as ever acted out on the stage. l can
not give his exact language here but it was
very good indeed thought. did not find
the place in my libretCo however till The
next to the last act and then the lights
were all turned off so that l could not get
at the drift OF his remarks exactly.
Sig Salvini is q large, powerful looking
man with deep voice and large sub chest.
II wears long, black wig wherein his
muscle is supposed to reside.
In au evil he meets a Phllistlne girl
named Deliah, who has been great deal
talked about and ia, in love wi ii her. He
STEAKS TO her in Italian, to winch she re-
piled in good English. All their courtship
Is conducted in this way without the aid OF
dn interpl eter. Finally to quiet the tongue
of the gossip he marrieS Delllal and they
take a little bridal tour by canal.
In the meantime ha proposes riddle to
the Philistines which they are about to
give up when the idea of securing the CO
operation of d -lIlah occurs to them. They
give her a new tea gown and she, while
samson is sleeping off a large jag, goes to
uis trunk, finds the joke book from which
1t is taken and tells the Philistines the an
SWer.
This naturally provokes SignOr Samson,
VINO starts out and kills quite quantity of
pmlistines with the jaw bone of a man
named Veritas. They do not mind being
killed, of course, SO much as they do the
humiliation of having their brains knocked
out by the jaw bone of a man who had none
himself
One of the saddest scenes is the one
where Delilah, in order to secure some val
liable silverware and clothing, seeks out
the secret of Samson's great strength. She
speaks very pleasantly to him aud gives
aim Manhattan cocktail, which he ought
10 know would go to his head, for there is
about quart of it.
Gradually Samson gets more tllkative
and finally he becomes sleepy. Before he
goes TO sleep, however, he manages to tell
Waat he knows, which does not take him
Ont little while. She sends out for pair
of shears and while the orchestra softly
plays ''Chippy Get Your Hair Gu" Deli
lab decks him. Z nally he awakes and
feels real mise able. He calls Drlilah a
"huckster of filthy kisses VenditIice de
LOzzi bdci QitestO CdyO miO''-are his e. It
words at this time.
To make a long story short, he next
appears as the blind and humiliated
champion of Israel. His hands are mana
cled together with trick chain which
he breaks when he remembers that his hair
IS grown. He now sees way to fulfil the
prophecy made at his birth, for while the
Philistines are banquetting in the temple
ne can hear their laughter and the stories
of the after dinner 81 elkers as they take
advantage of the drunkenness of the pee
pie, to tell them some feeble anecdotes OF
the prehistoric variety. He knows that
thousands of these people are there and as
the Jaw bone eff Old Pro Bono Publicois not
at hand, he lays hold of the papicr mache
pillars of the temple, and by deXtrous
movement. brings down the house.
The story is thrilling one though fear
1 have uUt b, en- able to make it seem SO,
and Signor Salvipi makes deep impress
sion on the audience, even on those who do
not understand his language.
To show his wonderful recuperative
powers, though now ov, sixty, will add
that after his death he came before the
curtain and bowed twice in the Italian
tongue. BILL NYE.