The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-28
DRAMATICAND LYRIC
Mr.. Couldoek and Our Club in
Hazel Kirke.
BILLY TAYLOR MONDAY NIGHT.
opening OF Notable week-Scanlan Last
Evening-A Trip to Chinatown
Notes.

Inc biggest week in all the ten years
and a hall that the local Home Dramatic
club have been associated together opens
out In the next ten days. The club is in
deoted to the public for the heartiest kind
OF recognition, and the public is indebted to
the club for long list of high class enter
tainments-but we believe the mutual debt
VIII be increased after the production of
"Hazel hirke" this week. In bringing an
actor oil MIR. Couldock's standing from
New York the club have shown that they
are July up to and abreast with the spirit
OF enterprise that seems to peameate all
departments of life in our city. We com
mend the wldeawake members of the club,
and congratulate them that they were sue
cess1ul. When it was first meoted that
negotiations We're being conducted with
Mr.. Couldock, people generally viewed
the announcement with incredulity Now
That Mr. Couldock is actually here and
ready Tor the fray, the town we think is
preparing to show him and the club to-
gether, tnat 1t knows how to appreciate the
honor of his visit.
In many respects Mr.. Couldocly is one of
the most remarkable figures in the dramatic
world to-day. When Wallack, Gilbert and
Warren passed away, he was left almost
the only living representative of the famous
old school: Think what history of the
stage Will be comprised in bis life,
When II comes to be written
He made his first appearance
In 1856, when he was twenty-one years of
age, and since that time, there is hardly a
great name in either England or America
10 nat hoo,
side. In 1876, ween he celebrated his
hftleth year on the stage, he was given
such a testimonial from the dramatic pro-
1esslon as rarely falls to the lot of any
actor to receive. That benefit perform
ance OF Hamlet will remain an oft-auoted
episode in the history of the American
stage. This was the programme, as rem
Gered, and nearly every prominent actor in
New ork at that time, who was not cast
for speaking part, went on as a sune., to
show his respect for the beneficiare
ONE ACT OF "HAMLEr'
Hamlet : Mr.. Edwin Booth
ONE ACT OF THE RIvAIs.''
S SOP ACRES 5sr.;cao. 10 seph Jefferson
MIS-. Maiaprop------------- John Drew
and others.
ONE ACT OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Sir Peter Mr. Johu Gilbert
LADY Ut Iea sl1,,,c. Miss Fanny payenpOrt
and others
ONE ACT OF JULIUS CESAR"
Supported by the Booth and Barrett company
Mr.. Couldock passes his time quietly at
his room in the Continental when he is not
rehearsing, reading, writing letters, and
taking regularly with each afternoons
bit of snooze." Yesterday he ventured
out to try and locate some old remembered
landmarks of former times. The first
place he went in quest of was the Salt
Lake house, where he put up on arriving
in Salt Lake twenty-five years ago When
ne saw the Progress building, which now
stands OF part of the old Salt Lake house
site, he muttered "Bless me-" and turned
back to his hotel. Under the guiding wing
of Phil Margetts he went through
Savages bazaar, and while there the
pioneer photographer insisted on taking
his head off, as MIR. Couldock expressed
1t, and some large pictures of the actor
will be issued this week. Today he viii
visit the cemetery and begin active work
at the theatre to morrow. His present
plans are to return to New York immedi-
atelv after the close of the season with the
Home club, though he says if there were
any desirable places ION the road'' to visit,
he wouldn't mind going while he ''has his
hand in" This however, the business en-
gagements of the club will probably render
impossible.
One of the most truthful and thoughtful
critiques on Mr.. Couldocl1's Dunstan is
contained in the following from one of the
great New York dailies:
Hazel Kirke'' is one of the standard
plays which rarely fail to attract large and
sppreciative audiences, and when Mr.
Couldock is to impersonate the character
of Dunstan Kirke no ordinary circum-
stances should deter the lovers of the
higher art of the stage from witnessing it. |
Mr.. Couldock is not only without peer in
this role, but there are only two or three
characterizations to be seen on the stage
to- day which can justly be compared with
it IN realistic power and perfection in every
detail. 1t is one of those pre- eminentiy
truthful stage pictures which accomplish
more than passing qualification of !
the senses: (which are not merely |
good for pastime, giving eph- |
emeral entertainment, but which |
strike the key notes of our natures, and be-
come a matter of enduring remembrance. |
No one can witness the varying episodes |
of Dunstan's life, portrayed with the power |
which Mr.. Couldock brings to the work,
without having the finer feelings stirred to |
their depths as by calamity which touches |
the common heart of humanity, and they |
will not ariop from the Oerfnrmupca with
made upon them which Is likely to be in
eradicable. It is by such influence that we |
may safely measure the genius of an actor,
and, thus tested, the Dnnstan Kirke Of Mr.. |
Couldock must ever hold an eminent posi- |
ton among the most impressive of stage
creations
Tomorrow night the merry and tuneful /
opera of Billee Taylor, presented with so