The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-26
ADJUSTMENTS.
CLARA MORRIS.


lThe distinguished actress Clara Morris
made her second appearance il Salt Lake
last evening before a tremendous audience
one that filed overy nook and GRANNY of
| the building up stairs and down-and that
at prices 90 per cent above the regular. In
the decade and half that has passed since
MISS Morris graduated from the school
Wnere so many great actresses have been
turned out-Daly's theatre-probably no
American artist has more filled the public
eye than she. First by the force of her
peculiar talent, second by the volumes of
| advertising she obtained from the circula-
! ton of all sorts of stories regarding the
! lnroads her efforts at realism made on her
health, the waits between the acts neces-
sary to allow her to recuperate, the phials.
bottles and pills she had posted at con-
venlent places about the stage, and other
stories with more or less foundation.
1t can be said at one, truthfully, that the
lapse OF time since she was last here
nearly i've yearS-has made no change in
her talents, and that IL has made decided
changein her personal appearance. She is
much stouter than before, and she looks as
she Is, IN perfect health. There are no
waits and no phials, and the old stock
stories concerning Morris are no more to
be heard. She remains one of the strong
est and strangest actresses of the times.
With no personal attractiveness, with no
great beauty of voice and with manner of
pronunciation that suggests a good deal
farther north than Boston-she vet chains
the attention, rivets the eye, holds US spell
pound and wakes our applause whether we
VIII or no. In the street Vernacular, she
simply gets there, and that means every
thing. Her realism at times is painful to
behold. The gushing forth Of those real
tears IN her emotional moments
is one of the stage tricks.
or more properly accomplishments, in
which she stands almost alone but her
other peculiar gifts of magnetism and real
ism are not less remarkable.
The play of "Odette' was one in all wavs
suited to her abilities. No one but the
author of Diplomacy" Fedora % 'sDivor
cons" "a Scrap of Paper'' and sra Tosca''
could envolve such plot, handle it in such
manner, or adorn it with such touches of
wit and Characterization. Modjeska first
brought 1t .out in English, but she was
nothing to Morris in the role. The plav is
essentially F'renchy, and borders near for
hidden ground, but it has been so we'll
Angllcized that it succeeds in not offending
and the strong interest we feel in the
mothers struggles, in the presence of
her daughter, makes US lose sight
of her shame. Besides Miss Morris
the play is interpreted by a strong com
pany, headed by a very excellent actor, MIR,
Colville, who has played leads to Miss
Morris since De Belleville quit the com
pany so unceremoniously, and whose re-
serve force and school throughout are Sem
t!rely legitimate. Miss Mitten's Willett.
last here as lead TO frederick Warde some
years ago-and Miss harrison, sweet lit
tie Dane with faint accent, do very good
work. Mr.. Kelly was a good friend
and Mr. CoVenV did quite Well-not 60 we'll
as the part deserves, with the cynical
brilliant, who has family resemblance to
types in others of Sardou's plays. Mr.
Jepson's doctor was an excellent bit of
makeup.
Tonight "Camille.n