The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-23

We are on the verge of busy week of
amusements, and everyone will have some
thing provided for his taste by scanning
the bills of fare shown below
Herr Bandmann opens at the Salt Lake
theatre for one night only to- morrow
night, rendering Shakespeare great
drama, 1.-THE Merchant of Venice" instead
of "Narcissi," which he had at first decided
on. Bandmann is well known in Salt
Lake, and will be best recoliected from his
impersonation of DR.. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde, in which he made quite hit, two or
three seasons ago.
''Lost Evangeline'' will be found again
on any one of four nights at the Grand this
week. She comes to US about once per
season, and though her features are very
familiar to US, we never saw the time when
she played before an empty bench The
company this year is stronger than ever
George X. Fortescue, Yolande Wallace,
James Maffit (the lone fisherman), Peter
Daily, Bessie Tannehill. W. H. Molk, Gus
Frankel Ella Roc Harry Kelly and numer-
Gus others well known to burlesque are
with the company. The costumes are of
the nneSt ana most gorgeous.
After an absence of year Frederick
Warde comes back to the theatre for three
nights this week, appearing in three old
time roles which ought to pack the house
''The Mountepank,n damon and Pythias''
and Richard Ill" OF the production on
the opening night the following interesting
details will not be out of place: Judges
of good dramatic work are interested, these
days, when the clamor for new plays of
merit is loud and persistent, to note the re-
vival of an old drama that has all the at
| tributes of success demanded at the pre-
sent day. "Belphegor'' was one of the
favorite stock pieces twenty five years ago,
and there were few theatres that did not
number it in its repertoire. Forrest, Mac
ready, Phelps, CreSWick, Davenport and
many other well known famous actors have
played "Belphegor," and the story was
| familiar TO every play goer In due course
it dropped out of sight, and no one thought
it worth while to dig it up until Frederick
! Warde saw that 1t could be made to please
the present generation of play-goers So he
had it moderated, dropped the first part
of the original title, and called it simply
! ''The Mountebank,n and produced it last
season with considerable satisfaction to his
audiences.
1t is needless to say that oh aracter
calling for the display of true manly vir.
tues finds splendid exponent in MIR.
Warde. The story of 'The Mountebank''
can be told in a few words. Belphegor, a
strol1ing gymnast, has wife and children
whom he dearly loves. His wife is the
daughter of noble house, although he
does not know it when he marries her. In
the course of the play her rich relatives
persuade her to leave her husband for
the sake of her sick child, whose life
she considers it impossible to save IN
less she is provided with luxuries beyond
the means of her husband. The
rest of the action of the pieca shows the
endeavor of Belphegor to recover his wife
and child, which he does eventually There
is much dramatic humor and pathos at the
beginning of the piece, which is resolved
into tragic action of the most sombre ma
ture subsequently.
Mr.. Warde is rs powerful as of yore
His part III ''The Mountcbank" fits hin
very well, and he looks and acts like the
natures nobleman he is supposed to be
There is no doubt that, in 1.-THE Mounte