The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-25
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
Private Secretary and Little
Lord Fauntler0y."
NED R0YLE ON j. H. STODDARD.
Last Night at the THEATRE Busy Week
Abead-ROme Dramatic Plans-The
Choral Society.

The Scandinavian dramatic club held the
boards last evening and delighted four or
five hundred dollar houseful CT their
friends. The organization has a good deal
of talent scattered throughout, though it
has no one comedian up to Alfred Nelson
and no lady quite so bright as Miss Johan-
son-members of the other Scandinavian
club-which is to have its innings later on.
In last nights company the lady talent was
good deal the stronger Miss Jorgenson
singing quite sweetly and receiving one
big encore, besides looking quite pretty IN
her peasants cap and gown. Miss Olsen
and Mrs. Larsen also showed talent. Il is
or course impossible to criticise fully when
not word Of all that is said or sung could
be understood by the critic, but il would
seem that the club is strong enough to at
tempt something a little more ambitious,
muslcally; pieces like those last night,
mace up of an endless succession of simple
melodies. with never suggestion of SO
much as harmony in two parts, grow very
wearisome in short space of time,
''The Private Secretary" has been done in
Salt Lake by two companies, once with
Gillette as the tutor, ana once with Len
Grover in the ludicrous title role. 1t al.
ways went with roar, and it would be a
welcorne visitor if it came several times q
season. Who can forget the timid, much
ab"sed secretary, the irascible Cattermole
~ collicking nephew, the spirit invoking
lster, the mischievous girls ana the
Is. Spaulding with her numerous family
Painting for husband Our fair readers
viii be interested IL the costumes of the
ladies. Miss Maude GirouX in her first act
wears combination gown of cashmere anC
crepe, light blue in color, made wit drapeo
skirt, shirren waist, over which is dinner
jacket of Spanish fly. The trimming is gold
passementeries Miss Nettie Ferral an.
pears in combination suit of deep pink
cashmere and pistache green silk. In the
third act Miss GirouX has a cashmere the
ground OF salmon pink. covered with clus-
tiers of oX-heart cherries, made with skirt
and bodice, under which is a gimp and full
sleeves OF cardinal silk Miss Ferrell's
gown is canary-colored grenadine In 6i
rect contrast TO the modern dresses of the
Young ladies are the old style fabrics worn
by Miss Wilson, Miss Burlingame and Mrs
Clarke. These ladies are using heirlooms
The materials are barege, old fashioned
silk and India pineapple in vogue
seventy-fve years ago. but not even manu-
featured now-laces and iewelry of ANTIQUE
designs make ap their eccentric toilets.
The company which opens at the theatre
Wednesday and Thursday is one of Mr.
Charles Frohman's, which is equivalent Il
saying that its members belong to the first
class in the profession.
A performance of Mrs. Frances Hodgsor
Burnett's charming and delicately coloret
little dramatic prose poem, Little LORI
Fauntieroy," will be given at the Sal
Lake theatre for three performances only
on Friday and Saturday evenings and at ;
special ladies' and children's matinee OIL
Saturday.
Mrs. 5urnett's pretty story is familiar
70 almost every little lad and lass VIII,
reads the English language, and on boil
sides of the Atlantic.