The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-11

IS an actor, Mr.. Mantell stands at the
led of his profession and in romantic roles
he has no superior. His first great success
in this country, was as Louis Ipanoff in
Miss Fanny Davenport's play of Fedora. -
A gentleman who attended the first per-
Torrance of this play in New York city,
said: His acting was a revelation, and
although have witnessed many great sue
cesses in that city, l know of none that can
compare with the success Mantell
achieved that night. To New York
theatre goers he was a stranger
to think that Miss Davenport would en-
trust such a great part to an unknown
actor. But her judgment was correct as
everyone admitted long before the curtain
had fallen upon the first act. He came
upon the stage surrounded by number of
supernumeraries, but instantly he attracted
the attention of the whole house by his
gentlemanly carriage and from the time
the first word was spoken until the end of
the play, Mantell held that vast audience
in a firm grasp, and New York theater
goers knew the next morning that Charley
Thorne had a successor and society had an
other actor upon whom it could lavish its
applause 1t was great performance and
it will never be surpassed. You will under
stand this when you see him in Monbars
or in anything else that he plays, for Mir.
Mantell is an actor of more than ordinary
intelligence and endowed by nature with
all the gifts that an actor needs to achieve
success"
1t was like breath Of the dim past to
see Jean Clara Walters stepping the boards
once more on Friday night Hosts of the
present generation of Salt Lakers recall
the time when she was reigning favorite
among actresses here, and when no cast of
e 1. !.
plete without her name. She was always
gifted, but her most wondrous gift was her
versatility One night she would appear
as Lady Macbeth, and the next she would
wave a wand in the,burlesque of the "Seven
Sisters she st pped with equal grace from
the wife in Lady ThOrnhursts Daughter
to a roaring Irish Judy in some afterpiece,
aud in each of the widely dissimilar parts
she filled the whole fancy of her auditors.
In all the years that have passed since she
lived in Salt Lake, Miss Walters has ever
had tender place in her heart for the city
of the MOrmOns-in our cemetery is the re-
mains of her little girl frankie Walters, to
whom she was passionately attached, and
whose death almost broke her heart. That
Salt Lake was the resting place of her little
one has often caused her to think of coming
here to settle down, and she has many
times been on the verge of retiring from |
the profession with this aim in view.
The musicians concert rendered to their
brother musician, o. N. Wetzel, whose
recent terrible af1iction will be well re-
membered, occurs Tuesday evening at the |
Grand. The following excellent pro |
rramme has been prepared:
I. Overture, "a Night in Granada - Krentzer
Orchestra
. Quartette, selected Messrs. Easton
Whitney, Goddard and Spencer |
3. Fantasia for clarionet, OPP % - Weber |
Z. w. Kent.
4 Baritone
5. instrumental Quintette- Reisiger
Messrs Weihe, Youngdale, Petersen,
Olsen and Mcintyre.
6 Recitation S. Lindsay
:. Ballad, visions Of the Old Folks at Home''
Miss Crissie Lawson.
& Violin solo, Souvenir de Hayden Leonard |
w z. Weihe.
g Selection from Faust--------------Arr. Moses
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