The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06

berday, and when the doors opened tn,
sign, Standing Room Only'' was hung GU
at the box Office. Held by the Enemy
went with a boom, the performance as ;
whole, and the scenic bombardment ac
especially showing great Improvement
the applause and appreciation were of thu
most tumultuous order throughout TIL,
sale for tomorrow night is very large and ;
large party of military people from the pos
will be present.
u have been sitting in state of aston
ishment all the evening"" said H. c. Bar
nabee, the noted comedian and one of the
proprietors of the Bostonians, at 5he the
atre Friday evening Mrs. Barnabee
Miss Stone, MIR. Karl and l dropped in tc
Whlie away an hour prior TO the departure
Of our special train, not being in the bill OF
the 'Musketeers.' We expected or at least
expected to be pleasantly bored; but, to
slightly change the old saying. 4 came To
soon and / remained to pray Never
could have imagined1that in far-off Salt
Lake should see company so talented as
this one. Why, those two girls are to the
manor born and this young officer reads
beautifully. l shall always remember the
Salt Lake Home club, assure you Don't
whole company"
These words, coming from an old stager
like Mr.. Barnabee, who trained and devel
oped IN aesthetic Boston, form an additional
testimonial to the oft-repeated statement
that Salt Lakes home talent need not be
afraid TO hold up It's head with that of any
other city Ill the land
There was probably no feature in last
years dramatic season in New York that
attracted mere surprise from the critics,
both professional and amateur, than the
change introduced into Mr. N. c.. Good
wins method and form of acting. Up to
last spring, Mr.: Goodwin had been popu-
larly known as an unrivalled mimic; a
master OF bUfleSque without peer-the
laughter maker par excellence of the stage
81 today. People had laughed so loud. so
long and so continuously over Mr.. Good
wins droll representations that the name
Goodwin seemed inseparably associated
with boisterous laughter and loudly
praised iollity.
When, shortly before the opening of
spring, rumor was waited about that
Mr. Goodwin was arranging for the pro-
auction OF a certain play in which the
comedy element would be subordinated to
the romantic and the pathetic, the critics
shook their heads incredulously and were
sore perpiexed. Goodwin, the famous
comedian, in a species of emotional drama
No, no; the idea was preposterous A
canard, evidently probably little Good
win Joke!
But, 1t was no canard; there was no
Joke. For years Mr.. Goodwin had cher
lshed well-defined ambition A comedian
In the old-tlme meaning of the word was
one VINO depicted all the varying phases of
human emotion; a comedian in the modern
sense is simply one who delineates merry
parts. In real life, Joy and sadness are for
ever treadlng on each others heels: the
tear and the sigh are forever blending:
the ringing laugh only too often dies away
In the quivering sob. Goodwin could not
overcome the conviction that the artist who
portrays only the laughing side of life is
after all but half master of his craft: that
ne depicts only one phase and subordin-
ate phase at that of character which should
really be presented as consistent whole
He proceeded toward the carrying out of
his intent with slow and careful stems
Inc peoples taste had seemed in the past
TO demand from him mimicry and the
boisterous joys of burlesque, and under the
memorable laws OF demand and supply he
had given 1t them. II remained to be seen
how they would accept from him something
OF more artistic, broader higher order
In The pursuance of his plans in this direc-
ton, he first essayed Modus, in '"rhe
%AALNAOoNA. anu dNaul6k6u a most prdtlTV-
ing success. Next he tried the part of
GoIlghtly in Lend Me Five Shillingsn
and his treatment of the part won most
hatterlng words of praise from the veteran
Jefferson himself. He next entered unon
The portrayal OF Gringoire, a part full of
subtle delineation and delicate shading
which was originally created by the emit
uent NJ. Coquelin and played for the first
Time IN this country by Lawrence Barrett
HIS daring, original and almost weirdlv
realistic presentation OF the character of
me starving poet was absolutely startling
and fairly took his audience by storm.
The latest surprise offered by Mr.. Good
WIN was Jhat OF last spring when he as
sumed the character of Silas K Woolcott in
"a Gold Mine. y When. on the opening nirhr
Rs the play progressed, the actor passed
quick as a lightning flash, from humor IN
pathos, and that deep hush which comes
over an audience profoundly moved fell
upon the house, the metropolitan critics
were fairly astounded. What! Could this
pc Inc GOODWIN OF Hobbies" and ''Skat-
ing Rink' famel sit is more than Yer.
satlllty," declared one eminent critic of
more than quarter Of a centurv's ex
perlence as theatre goer, sit is geniusl,,
AL this is from New Yorks best known
cities. We confess ourselves that we had
associated Goodwin so long with the idea of
burlesque, gags and mimicry from his
1ellneatlon OF Hobbies that it seems inn
possible TO think OF him in connection with
straight out and on t comedy with a Mot
and defined story. So we shall feel a
more than ordinary interest in his ssGold
mine" 1t IS by two clever men, Brander
Matthew's ana George Jessup, and Bronson
Howard and Dion Boucicault have hotb
given 1t high words of praise 1t will he
seen Wednesday and Thursday evenings of
the theatre.
A town winch has been visited and de-
serted by real estate COON is one of the
the most cherries spectacles going. and by
40 one Is It's cheerlessness more acutelv
felt than the man who has to DEPEND on
theatrlcals for his means of subsistence.
The Dramatic NelOs has the following pic.
sure OF the Los angeles of today:
narrowing reports of very bad business
continue TO come from that pulmonary
metropolis, Los Angeles. 1t appears likely
indeed, that the once fiourishing town will
soon be deserted altogether Even now
she hoarse bark of the invalid with decaved
lungs is about all one may hear in the
streets of this phthisical centre, where the
inhabitants stagger about the thorough
tBres, making the pavements glacial with
heir approximations. There is no original
nhabltant Everybody who went there
iozen years ago is dead, and his grave is
marked consumption. Nobody in Ios
Angeles ever thinks of visiting a theatre,
But at night the populace goes out into the
streets and stares ecstatcally into the win
lows of the undertakers' establishments
picking out collins for the early future
Los Angeles is the place where dissolution
smayor and common council, and where !
theatrical combination can't get out alive
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