The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-14
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
Close Of the Private Secretary
Engagement.
ADA DIVERS UNDoUBTED HIT.
Last Night at the Theatre-Mr Roy.as Hand
some Tribute to Salt Lake Girl
Coming Events-General.


some Tribute to Salt Lake Girl
Coming Events-General.
The theater last evening held within a
very few dollars of the amount the .Private
Secretary drew on the opening night. The
matinee was a fair one, and the three per-
formances must be set down as among the
most successful of any in which the Home
club has taken part-barring aloae the con
ference dates. The audience last eveniLe
was even more aproarious than on the
opening and tho performance moved with
greater smoothness and ease than before,
though the first night was decidedly free
from hit hes. The Growers made i'm
mensc hits, Len, Jr., being a host in
himself, and Leonard, ST., surprising even
those who thought they knew him best.
or the Home CLUB Miss Claridge deserves
first mention, and Mr.. Spencer and Mr..
Wells next, Mr.. Spencer's character afford.
ing rather more opportunities than Mr..
Wells which was not So well drawn by the
author as the others. The two Kittenish
girls were admirably played, and Mr..
Young and Mrs. Smell did smaller parts in
great style. The Growers feel naturally
graIifed both at the artistic and financial
outcome. and are warm in their praises of
Salt Lakes crack amateur organization.
Under date of the Sd, Mr. Edwin NJ
Royle sends the following very pleasant
letter to one of THE HERALD staff:
You have doubtless ere this, seen news
70 Of no II,
New York, at the Fifth Avenue theatre, of
Miss Ada Dwyer, in Cora Tanners produc-
ton OF "One Error" But being news
paper man yourself, you would of course
be pardoned if you accepted the report
with few pounds of salt. If such is the
case, let me assure your readers, many of
whom will be glad to hear of 1t, that the
success is as genuine as if it hadn't the
sanction of the New York critics. |
| night, and was not long in discovering that
Miss Dryer was the feature of the per-
| Torrance. She was playing French ad-
ventures OF the conventional, and time
honored type, but infusing into it an inten-
sity very unconventional and striking. The
audience was quick to respond to Miss
| Dwyer's power and rewarded her with the
most generous applause OF the evening and
d very tlattering scene call in the last act
/
with the exception in point Of appea rance,
of course in favor OF the younger woman
Her many friends in Salt Lake may as
suredly look upon her career with much
pride and well founded hopes Of great ar
tistic achievement.
The Salt Lake correspondent of the
Music and Drama sends this chatty letter II
| his paper of the musical and dramati,
status of our city: Whatever may be sa1t
of the Mormous, politically or religiousl,
| land the Mornons. are not much differen
from other people when you come to know
them, they deserve world of credit fol
the impetus they have given to music ant
drama in their desert home. No town O.
Germany, where music is compulsory
study, could show greater development
in the sacred art than in Salt Lake. Ii
drama, the Utah capital has also beer
famed from the earliest days. Salt Lake
city is one of the cities of the Unitej
States, whose number can be counted OIL
one hand, thatlha maintained stockholm
pany intact from the old times This com
pany is beyond the designation of amateurs
for, while not on continuous duty tn
season through, 1T appears regularly OF
the most important occasions OF the yea
with the same membership and exhibiting
the ability of the best metropolitan com
panies. AT the head of the Home Dramati
club is Horace G. Whitney, tn
dramatic editor of THE DAILY HERALD
Mapager Burton and his assistant, Hebe
M. Wells of the theatre, are also leadin
members, The stars for the presentation
given by the club arc frequently imported
as in old stock days. In "Held by tn
Enemy recently produced, Leonar
Grover, ST., and his son assumed the leadin
parts. Announcements have now been mao
for the next ngagement which will be a
the time of the territorial fair and Mormo
conference, October 8 to G. with matinee
"Hazel Kirken will be reduced, and N
less parsonage than the veteran Cou
dock, himself, will head the cast. MI
Couldock has been engaged through Kla,
and Erlaner's agency, and will spend pre-
paratory week in rehearsing the company
Edith Clawson, of the dramatic club, as
sumes the part of Hazel Kirke. and Bird
Cummings of Dolly Dutton. The eutir
membership of the dramatic club, az froI
its inception, is Mormon. Couldock playe
many engagements with the stock compan
here in early days, and his daughter
buried in the cemetery here. That one {
; Couldock's age aud reputation should eros
the continent 10 appear on this occasion
nosmall compliment to the home club.
Manager Burton says that of all tn
things he saw unfold at the opening of II
dramatic season in San Francisco, Scanla
was making most money at the California
and Nellie McHenry least at the Gran
opera house. Dixey was doing fairly
: the b lldwin. At the 1ivoli, which alwa,
booms they were running "Genevieve
Brabant,n and one of the most brilliant q
fects imaginable was produced by havin
elec,ric lights blaze out in the pink ROPE
l which the ballet used in doing the jumpil
= rope business. Itbad the effect of dancir
amid Rarlanda of fire. Mr.. Burton had
long conference with AL Haymau ovt
things theatrical, and had the satisfac
Of hearing that managerial magnate regr,
: that the Palmer season here had bee
. shortened TO give Stockton and Sacrament
a chance. Mr.. Hayman is engineering
monster production of s'Tne Cryst
Slipper" for the Grand opera house in y
l near future and be will close up the B,l
!. win for two weeks in order that nothir
may interfere with it's run. After i
: Sen Francisco production it comes here
its entirety.
All Cache county is reported to he in
fever of expectancy over the opening
bai, ho Of ~