The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
The " Crystal Slipper" the Com
ing Attraction.
sIGNoR CAMPoBELLo's soIREE.
Henry Miller on His Earl oyt and His Mon
key-Lilian Russell 1.-the andoy
Al Hayman on the Wild West.
Theatricals the past week have mot; So,

AAoouIiCdlS tue past week nave not sent
she town into a consuming fever of
ecstacy. There have been no outward evil
cences OF rapture in the faces of the audi
ences as they passed out of the Salt Lake
theatre and those gentle harbingers of JOY
and ducats, The district messenger boys
nave not thronged the corridors in mad en-
Jhuslasm to be first at the box Office win
dow. A Brass Monkey, seen for the first
Time, is amusing If 1t is done by clever
people and IL 1t is well stuffed with good
singing and dancing; but the rat catching
OF the melancholy Jonas and the bear bust
ness of the tall inebriate are not the sort of
dramatic incidents that endureth forever.
MIR. Hoyt was present at one of the per
tormances and was heard to say that some
OF the people were sticks and that changes
were, necessary. We agree him, changes
are necessary-a change in the play.
All of the productions of Mr.. Hoyt
though they have met with much favor and
have drawn barrels of money are of that
hght-waiSted composition as 10 warrant
the criticism which has been made on
them that ''they dance on the brink of
ldiocy." Still the greater part of them are
so full OF new business, clever thoughts
popular music and are surrounded by such
able artists that the utter inanity of the
pieces themselves is forgotten. With the
Brass Monkey it is different 1t is not in
trinsically funny and the woes of Jonah
and the auction house keeper are so over
done as to grow extremely wearisome. 1t
is also time the razzle dazzle song was laid
gently but permanently on the upper shelf
along with Silver Threads and Champagne
Charley.
Anumber of years ago Mr.. David Hen
derson, manager of the Chicago opera
h0nGP became mnph NV
all eastern managers are, 10 know what to
do with the theatre during the summer
months. He set to thinking, full, realiz-
ing that something of an ex extraordinary
nature wonld be necessary to counteract
the thousand other attractions of summer.
Finally he conceived the idea of producing
spectacular eXtraVaganZas on very large
scale and to consummate his plans called
TO his aid Mr.. Alfred Thompson, the well
known theatrical designer Harry B.
Smith, the burleSque writer, CLAW M.
Greene, the dramatist, and all the available
talent IN the way OF scenic artists The
novel scheme was an instantaneous sue
cess. The Chicago opera house was not
only thronged all summer but the summer
extravaganzas superseded all other winter
attractions and more than realized Mr.
Henderson's widest dreams The first
piece was 1.-The Arabian Nights" which
tells the story of Aladdin and the Wonder
1ul lamp. IL ran long time at home and
played on the road for over two years. The
second year the Crystal Slipper'' was
produced under the same auspices and in
the same brilliant manner. Then came
"Bluebeard, Jr." with an equally triumph.
ant career. This season ''Crystaf Siipper,
has been revived with many additions and
improvements and the whole country
knows of its phenomenal run. Such is the
origin of the Crystal Slippers or s.Princs
Prettiwitz and Little Cinderella uhe
magnificent extravaganza that will be seer
at the theatre next Wednesday night on it.
five hundred and fifty fifth per5o nance.
In view of the widespread interes
attaching TO this great production brief
description of the scenery, the play anC
the players will be entertaining Sunday
reading. The first act shows the Crane
Spare in Pretzlestadt, the scene boing one
by William Voegtlin, one of the most abb,
scenic artists in the country. The secon,
act opens with the artistcally painted anC
ingeniously constructed kitchen scenery
IN which many mechanical devices ar
employed to obtain startling and amusint
effects At the close of the act the goo
fairy Graclosa appears to Cinderella il
the fireplace, and after some dialogue re
veals to her vision of fairyland, repre-
senting an idyllic wood on the shores of
sunlit sea; the trees are weighted dow
by MASSES of clinglng moss. formin
arches over fern grown sward, through
which view of the distant ocean and
stretch of yellow sano beach is seen