The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-15
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
The Warde-BOwerS Season and
Macbeth.
PATTI ROSA AND WAINWRIGHT.
Last Night-To-morrow Night-Twelfth Night
The Home Clubs Tour-Latest
Amusement Notes.

The engagement of Frederick Warde and
Mrs. Bowers closed with a matinee of
"Virginius' and night performance of
Macbeth yesterday. The matinee was
very sparsely attended, the reason being
that afternoon performances at a dollar
were never popular here, and that "Vir-
ginius," beautiful as the play Is, and still
more beautiful as Mr.. Warde makes it, is
fast taking on the odor of the chestnut.
Aside from Mr.. Warde's mastery imper-
sonation, which is always vivid and mag
netic, whether played before a handful OF
people or thousand dollar audience. there
was not much in the rendition to excite en-
thusiasm. The cast was respectable, moth
ing more. Miss Coggswell is an ideal Vir-
ginia in face but not i'll voice, and the fash
ion of the Roman period which calls for
bare arms and low necks for male and
female alike, caused a display of some
rather melancholy physiques, not by any
means confined to the supers alone.
Macbeth closed the season to a fair
audience in the evening. 1t was a most
distinguished success for Warde and Mrs
Bowers, and Mr.. Herrman's Macduff came
in for a share of the honors. Our most
recent Macbeths have been Min, Chaplin
and James but not one OF them can be
mentioned in the same evening with Warde.
The dagger scene the scenes with the
witches, and the beautiful speech when he
learns of Lady Macoeths death, are in
comparable, and denoted the student as
well as the actor. As for Mrs. Bowers, we
have had no Lady Macbeth like her since
Janauschek. She had a call after the
sleep-walking scene. The presentation
throughout was most complete and careful
and formed fitting conclusion to a most
notable scene. The combat alone electrified
the audience and has seldom or never been
done better on our stage than as Mr.. Warde
and Mr.. Herman executed it.
A popular and pleasing star comes to the
theater next Monday and Tuesday even
ings. Patti Rosa is universally favorite,
and is widely known as one of the bright
est and most charming actresses of whom
the stage can boast. She has an excellent
supporting company and is better equipped
in the matter of suitable plays than ever
before:
Patti Rosa:
In the case of such soubrettes as Lolita
and Patti Rosa it makes little difference
whether they appear in limp" Zip
Roxy" or any similar play, their popu-
larity, wlnsomeness, peculiarities and
specialties carry them through For in
stance, Patti Rosa is filling an engage
ment at the Haymarket theater this week
and presenting her new play ''Imp.n The
story is built on familiar lines, the char
acters are the sane we have seen in other
places of the kind, yet ''Imp'' is one of the
best vehicles Miss Rosa has had for the
introduction of her peculiar abilities She
is very popular with West Siders, and her
admirers have filled the theater at each
performance so far. Miss Rosa is still the
same droll little woman, and new songs
dances, and other incidental specialties are
given with old time cleverness that wins
hearty encores.
All lovers of what is best and purest in
dramatic art will have chances to CRAFTY
their tastes at the Salt Lake Theatre or
Wednesday and Thursday next, when tn,
favorite actress, Marie Wainwright. vii
be seen in her sumptuous and beautiful
presentation of Twelfth Night.n Of al
the great poets comedies, none appeals Il
wider general audience than does the
history of the heart-trials of the tender
and gentle Viola, for in no other is there
assembled such a wonderful quintet O.
comic characters as that composed of ST
Toby, Sir Andrew, Malvolio, the Clown
and Maria. Each has complete individu.
atty of fun as of character and the pecu
harities of each are brought into strong re
lief by contrast with those of others Whe1
all, or, in fact, any of these people are OF
the stage, humor rules triumphant, yet w,
are never permitted to lose sight of tn,
main story, and all their merrymakin.
tends in one way or another to help for
ward the action of the comedy The due
scene is alone well worth going to see. TO
there is nothing funnier, and certainl,
nothing SO artistic in the whole range O
modern farce. Marie Wainwright as Vol
has received warm, almost
loving welcome from the public ant
the press In New York, Boston
and all the large cities, Miss Wainwright
her company and production received
more unanimous praise than has eyer beer
accorded in recent years to any Legitimate
female star. Not one dissentient voice wa
heard, and even the unusually hypercritica
writer of the New York Herald said: "Th
performance is symphony of delight.
Miss Wainwright had always done goo,
work in a wide range of trying parts. bu
never before had she attained such success
as in Viola. For form, figure, voice, &C
ton and spirit the Maid of Messalin
seems to live for US. More perfect elocu
ton has rarely been heard, and it must be
stony heart that can listen unmoved to he
delivery of the lines beginning, '.She neye
told her love-" An excellent company sun
ports Miss Wainwright. To say that Bar
ton Hill and William F. Owen are tn