The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08
DRAMATIC And LYRIC
The Close of the Great "Shenan-
d0ah" Season.
A BIG WEEK AT BOTH HOUSES.
Gaiety Company-"A Long Lane"-Soth-
ern-The Choral-Notes.

The last two performances of "Shenan-
doahn yesterday afternoon and evening
drew remarkably good audiences, when it
Is considered that the play was on its sew
enth and eighth rendition. But it is the
sort of drama-rare enough in stage repre-
sentations-that one can sit through more
than once and enioy,-and many whSsaw
|Uerdey beheld it for the Sec
third or fourth time. We
aow of stall full of young
indies who have never missed perform
ancc IN this engagement, and who would
probably be in their places this morning.
afternoon and evening if the piece were on
again and Miller were the hero. As many
tunes as we have seen SHENANDOAH in
Salt Lake, oddly enough, we have vet to
see the full possibilities of the female
lently last evening in the part of
Gertrude, considering that Mrs. Haverill
is her own character, but the Gertrude and
the Mr.. Haveril of Bronson Howard we
nave not yet beheid. Nanette Comstock is the
only one of the ladies who seemed s'to the
manorborn," and she is whole host. Miss
Tyler remains III and probably will have TO
remain behind.
The gentlemen did as well as ever last
evening; the Captain Heartsease was in
new hands, for the reason that Mr. Roberts,
who is stage manager as well as the regular
Heartsease, had to go on to Denver to ar
range for the production.
We like Henry Miller immensely as an
actor and gentleman; we like him speci-
ally in Held by the Enemy and THE
Wife"-where his work is of the more
quiet and gentle order. In ''Shenandoah''
we think he is not at his best; there he has
TO do some heavy work, and his voice
sounds strained when he is shouting
against the din of the battle. His work
throughout is more of the studied char
acter than we ever saw him do before.
Evidently some one does not agree with
US. Last evenings mail brought the fol-
lowing:
"oDE TO HENRY MILLERn
Henry Miller, thou art lovelyl Henry
Miller, thou art sweet
Meath thy moustache, Henry Miller, turks
ecstatic Joy complete.
Henry, on thy brow is writ the genius of
Booth;
And thy pompadour o, Henry, is less
greasy, yet more smooth.
The richness of thy English, the irnpedi-
ment in thy speech,
The curling Of thy nostril, Henry Miller,
none can reach,
And the le-dazzleing beauty of the back
Of thy sweet neck,
o, rapturous Henry Miller, makes nv heart
a mournful wreck.
In thy stride there is poem, in thv smile
an angels look.
In thy shirt-sleeves, Henry Miller. thou
art q babbling brook
o, give me telescope to see with, give me
Calling gun 10 speak.
For lorgnette, thou 'rt impotent, and
Webster, thou art weak.
Tomorrow night the parquette gods win
be OFT IN force to give the London Gaicty
company wclccrie. Florence ST. John
SSln jim, pleased viii be there, and she will
have special welcome II she is as good as
fame makes here. The Philadelphia En-
qairer says OF the company:
Miss Florence st. John, Mr.. Z. ]. Lon
men and all the pretty girls are back again
and Faust is being pitched up to the
very latest date by the London Gaiety
company at the Chestnut Street opera
house The welcome last night was every
thing thai. could possibly be desired, for
the weather had no OBJECT upon the size or
spirits OF the audience. The two E'ansts
were there, Valentine was there, Siebel
was there and all the dancing and singing
girls were there, with the same music
frightened up bit and some new stage
business.
Miss st. John was, as usual, the centre of
attraction, and the more so because she has
dotted her fiaxen wig and appeared within
her own chestnut
The new features of the performance
were little added stage business, some
new verses in the topical songs, and two
songs by MIR. Lonnen, "All the Worlds a
Stage, and ''Mullingar." The latter
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