The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-30
DRAMATIC ANDLYRIC.
M9dieska's Engagement at the
Grand Opera House.
A BIG WEEK ON THE COAST,
HOdieskas Five PIays-Bertha BayliSs Makes
q New Embarrassment Notes
From All Quarters.

son with Mr.. Booth, and the hVe plays she
has chosen for her appearance here are
such as will give the widest display of her
grand talents Modjeska created furOre
in Salt Lake on her last visit particularly
by her rendering of Adrienne, the actress.
We are glad to see that that play is to be
given on the present visit Those who saw
Rhea do it recently will perceive wonder
full difference, though the fair Belgian gave
a fair performance. The support is formed
from the company lately seen here with
Booth and Barrett, John A. Lane and the
handsome Hanley assuming the leading
mems parts.
The engagement opens tomorrow night
with LAS You Like IT. one of Modieska's
best parts.
That tuncful. homemade opera, "Samp-
son of Omaha" has been hitting them hard
again in Omaha, this time with Bertha
Bayliss in the part assumed here by Bessie
Dean, and with Mr.. Deuel. in Mr.. Spen-
GERS character OF the prime minister. Miss
Bayliss gets some extremely fiattering
press notices, from which we take the fol
lowing: Miss Bertha Bayliss was more
charming last night than ever before. Her
advancement has been very rapid. She is
a
voice is clear, sweet and remarkably sym
pathetic, one of the kind that thrills an au-
dience, and it is only u qeustlOn of time
when she viii win place among the great
singers of the world. She was applauded
to the echo and flowers were Showered
upon her from all sides.
miss BaylisS had so small chance last
year to display her talents, that people
feared she would fall below Mrs. Esta-
brook in the difficult character of Teresa.
But they We're agreeably disappointed.
Miss Bavliss did admirably, both as to act
tng and singing"
They had rare week of theatricals in
San Francisco from Monday up to last
night. At the Baldwin, those rare friends
of ours, the Lyceum people, gave the coast
ers their first smell OF sweet Lavender"
and the hit the piece made was hardly sec
Ond to that of 1.-The Wife" Lemoyne, |
asDeciaIlv is credited with an immense Gre |
alton. At Jack Whites Bijou-we see him |
announced as manager and proprietor" at |
the head OF the newspaper advertisements |
Lewis Morrison has done good |
weeks business in 1.-THE Celebrated |
brought with him. At the Alcazar, Folks |
new play of the ''Silent Partner" in which |
Edis0n's monograph plays a part, has |
caught on well with the audiences. |
Thatcher, Primrose IL West were iamming /
the California; the Twelve Temptations" |
mas held forth at the Opera house, and |
Neil Warner was grinding out some kind of !
tragedy at the Bush.
The New York Herald has a column of |
the late Joe Gilbert's "reminiscences; Gil |
bert was very familiar with Macready and |
he relates the following:
ssMr. Gilbert used frequently to tell me |
Of the impressions which he received of |
great actors abroad Macready was to his
mind the greatest actor who ever walked |
the stage He used to say that Macready
became the character he unprecedented the
moment he stepped out Of his dressing room
TO go upon the stage he would looK
neither to right nor left, nor would he speak
toany one until addressed by the actor or
actress who gave him his cue:
Mr.. Gilbert said that he had seen Mac
ready PLAYING at the Princess theatre IN
London in Hamlet with drunken woman
for queen, who sat with her crown tilted
over her nose and swaying backward and
forward in maudlin weakness on the
throne While the play was going on Mac
raadv was swearing at her in fierce un-
dertone. which could be heard by nearly
all in the pit and cursing her for having
gotten in such condition before coming
on the stage. I'll not mention the name of
this actress, as it might wound somebody's
feelings.
.Again, when Macready played
.T2ichelieu.' and she took the part of
Marion Delorme, coming on to seat herself
beside him, she was so drunk that she
t,1mhled heels over head and fell fat be-
tween Macready and the footlights. Gil
bert seemed to take hearty delight in re-
counting how Macready could swear upon
these occasions