The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-04
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
The Close of James O'Neill's
Season.
A BUSY WEEK COMING ON
The st. Felix Sisters-Dr. Harrisons Lecture
--.Later On''-"Said Pasha" and 1.-The
Brigands'-COl. Morrow as Critic.


The experiment of running an attraction
whole week in Salt Lake came to an end |
last evening with the seventh performance
of ''Monte Cristo." The result has been
that, while star and manager have made
some money, it is not enough to make |
either of them satisfied that the expert
ment should be tried again. We believe |
that the outcome would have been entirely |
satisfactory had Mr.. O'Neill brought with /
him a company somewhere nearer to his /
own merits, but the plain truth is that all
his men were SO bad that his own excel
| lence couldn't overcome the Others short |
comings. Of course he has only himself
to blame; he is amply able to surround
| himself with body of players who would
be a credit to him. We should think that at
the end of this season he would be con-
WINGED that aside from any question of ar
! tistic pride, it would be good money in
vestment to increase his salary list about
/, fifty per cent.
The coming week promises to be busy
and a prosperous one. Opening out to-mor-
come to the Grand in ga Royal Hand,'' a
piece which we believe is by Stanley Wood,
somewhat known as one OF the literary
writers of the Denver s. Rio Grande rail-
road. The following opinion is from the
ST. Louis Post Dispatch:
There is not much new in the musical farce
comedy line, and can't very well be, but the ST
Felix sisters. at the Peoples this week, in "A
Royal Hand give very enjoyable and fresh
entertainment of this class. Their opening
houses yesterday were fair, and the perform
ance entirely satisfactory. There is q great
deal Of life about the ST. Felix sisters Clemen-
tina, Henrietta and Charlotte, and nothing can
drag that they have anything 10 90 with. Their
singing and dancing especially is good, and the
success OF farce comedy depending largely on
the extent and quality of this, they make it
leading feature The play Itself is a farce com
edy pure and simple, and depends upon the
people presenting it and the specialties intro
! duced. These are adequate. Miss Clementina
ST. Felix, as Master Wood Babble, makes o
very good boy, while the other sisters do well as
two young ladies. Ihowas ConDors has an
amusing character and handles it very well.
n
. DR.. j. c. Harrison, who is to lecture to
5 men at the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow
evening, relates many humorous anecdotes
:. incident to his tour of the world. He is,
probably, the only American who met
Stanley, the explorer, in Africa DR.. Har-
the dark continent pat in there for coal.
He relates in an amusing manner his meet
y ing with Tippoo Tio, the Arab chieftain,
. who had thirty-five wives with him, and
who was so savagely jealous that no man
dared speak to one ofsthem. The doctor is
as full of African "reminiscences as he is OF
physiological knowledge.
;, The fun makers, Hallen g. Hart, will
| ai H.
" Later On'' at the Salt Lake theatre Fri
day and Saturday, May 9 and TO-
p" No two comedians are more widely
known or more highly thought of for their
artistic ability and clever work in farce
comedy than Fred Hallen and Joe Hart,
;, who are starring in Later On" This
clever work, since its last production hero
i. has been entirely rewritten and recon
:, structed, and is now regarded as one of
brightest and most sparkling skits, and is
one of the seasons successes and money
:, makers.
Later On,o like most pieces of it's kind,
>. is, to use the expression, constructed for
laughing purposes, and the adventures of
;, jack Plunger, Mr. Hallen and jolly Todd,
Mr.. Hart, keep the audience in constant
p laughter while they are on the stage.
The musical introductions are said to be
superior and the costumes are pronounced
u revelations in the mantuamaker's art.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday the Cal
ifornia Opera company present at the
Grand two new operas, ''Said Pasha' an6
L. 1.-THE Brigands,h both of which are wei
= known by repute in Salt Lake.
said Pasha" deals in harems. lovers
m lost daughters, etc, and has the typica,
o. oriental flavor about it. 1t is said to be
from beginning to end a bewildering sue
cession Of gorgeous colors, wonderful pic
lures, merry marches, brilliant costumes
lie bright, tripping music, good burlesque anc
1t an unlimited amount of good natured fun
IS Scott Marble, one of the best-known auth
to ors in America, wrote the hbretto, and i,
IN has proven distinct success.
i'd The story tells the fortunes of Sale
st Pasha, Turkish dignitary, whose
S, daughter loves Hassen, his chief officer
u He does not favor the union and declines
De to take her with him on trip around the
re world. Two adventurers, seeking tn,
is daughter of one of them stolen from hin
d. in infancy are &c emitted to join the party tt
r go to that country, and persuade the
a. Pasha's daughter to don the disguise of /;
y sailor and go with the party also. This il
in the first act. The second is in India
where, after a variety of complications
the long-lost daughter is found, and thu
" Pasha's daughter finally gets her Hassel
L by trucking her father.
a The last number of the New Yorl
sr Dramatic Mirror contains the following:
Charles S. Burton, the manager of tn,
Salt Lake theatre, and his associate man
ager, Heber NJ. Wells, paid visit to THU
4, city yesterday.
10 sYes, it is true that we intend to max,
rs an almost entirely new theatre out of tn,
l. Salt Lake. said Mr.. Burton to Mirror re
x porter, 'but it is not our intention to do s,
Y, to the detriment of any of the theatrica
companies that have booked with US. w,