The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-24
DRAMATICANDLYRIC.
Couldock viii Play '.Hazel
Kirlle" With the Home Club.
1.-THE OLD HOMESTEAD" COMING.
Close of the Palmer Season Yesterdays
Matinee - Amt Jack" = Late
Amusement Notes.

>rhe negotiations between the Home
Dramatic club and Couldock, referred to
some time ago by The HERALD. have come
to successful finish, aud the famous old
actor will come across the continentto play
"Hazel Kirken with the club, five nights
and matinee during fair and conference
week.
This piece of enterprise, over which the
amateur organization justly feels some
pride, was brought about by a desire 10
swell the list of attractions offered in Salt
Lake during the week of conference, the
fair and the inter mountain exposition, and
in providing Couldock in Hazel Kirke,"
with the popular home club in the support
ing cast, no one can say that the theatre is
not contributing its share towards making
up big bill for the entertainment of visit
ors and townsfolk alike. Probably
nothing in the whole range of
tue drama could have been Sc
lected that is so widely advertised
ao 'Hagei Kirke," and Coulduck is name
known from one end of America to the
other, almost as much from the unparal-
leled run of the play in which he was so
prominent a figure, as from any other
cause.
Since the celebrated benefit to Couldock,
rendered by the dramatic profession in New
York, whea Booth, Barrett, Mary Ander-
son and other notable lights united in COM
memorating the tiftieth anniversary of the
veteran on the stage, he has resided rather
sietly at Buzzard's Bay, Mass, only play
portions of each season. He happened
TO ve disengaged for the first week in Octo-
Der, and placed the matter of arranging
IN, ha do Of fha 6~or ia,
agency of Kaw and Erlanger; what figure
was agreed on is not for publication, but
though it was an undeniably stiff one for
an amateur organization to pay, it is GER
tain Mr.. Couldock's strength will justify
the expenditure.
BY the terms of the contract he arrives in
Salt Lake September 26, aud spends week
with the club in rehearsing. The engage
ment opens October 3 and runs to the Sth.
1t is more than probable that no induce
ment strong enough to tempt MIR. Couldock
TO make the trip could have been Of
fered. but for the fact that he
has always looked upon Salt
daughter once starred here for long time
in The old stock days, and Miss Couldock
died and was buried in the cemetery here.
The cast has not yet been resolved upon
except in the case of the two leading ladies,
Edith Clawson falling naturally into the
sympathetic role of Hazel kirke and
Birdie Cummings into that of dear, de-
liRhtful. delicious, Dolly Dutton."
Denman Thompson's famous New Eng.
land play, "Tho Old Homestead" comes &c
the theatre tomorrow.
The company comprise twenty eight PEG
pie, selected by Denman Thompson, and is
under his management. Every effort has
been used to make this organization perfect
artistically and in appointments, and the yer
dict of the press of the country seem to en-
dorse it as a production equal to that of the
original, which has now been two years in
New York city. OF the piece it has beer
said that all the temperance lectures ano
evangelists have not accomplished as much
good during the past two years, and hardly
patron leaves the theatre without just
about that sort of a conviction. 1t abounds
in quaint humor, rugged honesty Of
character and IS a feast of mirth and
wholesome enjoyment.
1t teaches grand moral SESSION, says a
critic, introduces US to the noblest and
simplest of characters, carries one away
from city life and its incidental cares ant
worries, and sheds its auditors back Il
their homes with better thoughts of the
stage la particular and of man kind in gen
Old Homestead this production can be
heartily commended with the assurance tina
scarcely any of its flavor is lost in its pre-
sentation by the travelling company, the
only one playing it outside of New York
City.
The plot of the piece is familiar to al
lovers of pure drama, and a play SO purel,
American must Away be of interest +
Americans. Mr.. Thompson's long contrac
in New York prevents his trayelin
through the country again: and in viey
of this fact has endeavored to make hi:
travelling organization a standard one il
every respect
@ -
Jim, the Penman,n drew only fai
gathering 10 the theatre yesterday after
noon, whereas Saints and Sinners y would
have filled the house. With the exception
of Mr.. Robinson aud Mr.. Holland the cast
was almost wholly new to Salt Lake, ant
compared with previous renditions, it wa
almost wholly unsatisfactory. We say al
most, for Barrymole's Percival was al
exception. OF course no performance O
TINS magnificent drama-the strongest ant
altogether most successful since the day:
of the "Two Orphans be uninter
esting unless the players were absolutel
hopeless, and but for the memory OF Caro-
iine Hill and Lemoyne, the rendition b,
the company yesterday would peraap!
have been voted as enjoyable as ever. Th
Nina of Miss Dyas is good, it does not ris.
to greatness, and the baron OF Mr.. Otto
meyer was more like a hairdresser or
dancing master than the ideal fairfield
Mr.. Bell was manly and handsome as tn
young lord; MIR. Robinson did hi
tremendous work in his own peculiar wa.
way not at all times perfect, but on
conscientious, while Mr.. Holland simpl.
dwarfed everything else, as he always di
in that particular pant.
The Palmer engagement closed last even
ing before a second large audience. TIL
little oDeact piece by the author of ''Th
Burglar" "a Man of the World,' is vel
liable gem, and in it Maurice Barrymor
shone as we never saw him shine before
"Aunt jack the three-act piece whic
finished the bill, is a bowling burlesque
the first two acts of which open out in tn
nature of comedy, but the third of whic
degenerates into pure opera bouffe withou
the music. it almost took ones breath t
contemplate the descent from ssJim, tn
Penman," and captain Swift to sue
hodge podging Imagine the lines, .'Wher
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