The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-09

.Td { TX twenty minutes were
~ = S4 NJ saved III the repre-
Vk I" sentation over the
previous performance, and this was de
cided benefit to the play. But 1t IS sui too
long, especially IN the last act Inc main
situation occurs at the end OF the third act,
and after that everything ought 10 DC
wound up with a rush. We offer sug-
gestion, too, that some OF the profanity DC
eliminated from the play. An occasional
damn in the mouth of q choleric person
Ike Psien. senior, is well enough, but the
frequency OF the damns ard other expires
sIons of a kindred nature are altogether
TOO great.
At the matinee yesterday there was
great deal of applause and several cslls-a
rare thing 1T a performance in which the
audience is made up almost entirely OF
ladies. Everyone in the cast was better
than before, and the strong situation at
the end of the third act went with much
inner effect. The receipts of the two per-
forIuances were about $500.
We understand that both Mr.. Royle and
MIR Henderson 20 out with Salvini next
east as early as possible with a view TO
having his play read by New York man
ayers. Now that il has passed through the
crucial Test Of production, there should
be less difficulty in obtaining hearing for
II ;han before, and all Mir. Royle's friends
wiz watch with interest the result of his
labors. There are few more difficult tasks
than that of inducing the average manager
to take up an untried play-there are too
many English and French productions
whose strength has been proven-but with
The notices ''OGt OF Darkness" has Sc
cured il will be strange if Mr.. Royle does
not find his way very greatly cleared.
Evan Stephens has returned from his
trip 10 the coast greatly improved in
health and looking as brown as an Apache.
He says he fought shy of music in San
Francisco and saw nothing of moment in
any place of amusement except the Lyceum
company in 1.-The Idler" 1t is only a few
weeks before the choral society will resume
its sessions and Mr.. Stephens is busily at
work mapping out plan of campaign.
John S. Lindsay has booked two dates,
Sept. and 9, at the theatre, and will
render a new play called "The Wage
Workers" 1t is by Il. n. Traver, ST. Joe
newspaper man, and was written specially
for Mr.. Lindsay, VINO will give it produc-
ton aided by his own company. He starts
his road tour Aug. Il.
The question OF how to entertain our
visitors at the irrigation convention is com
ing up IN the public mind, and various
schemes are suggested. The one that looks
most feasible is the plan proposed by Secre-
tary Gillespie to have the Choral society
give a concert in the tabernacle one night,
and the Home Dramatic club perform
in the theatre the neXt-the irrigation con-
vention being made the guests of each &C.
casion. 1t is calculated that there will be
several hundred visitors, and this plan
would probably entertain them and at the
same time give them as good an idea of the
talent Salt Lake boasts as any other that
could be proposed.
the theatre will not be open again until
the 18th, when the long expected Lyceum
company open a season of five perform
ances. rendering "The Charity Ball'' We'd
nesday, THE Idler' Thursday, The Wife,
Friday, ''Old Heads and Young Hearts,
Saturday, and 1.-The Charity Balr' for a
Saturday matinee. The opportunity Of
seeing the great players of this company In
ana viii be eagerly welcomed. Lemoyne,
who we think always deserves first men
ton in this company, as StodGart does in
Palmer's, will have the same sort of part
N THE Charity Ball'' as in 1.-THE Wife:i
IN The Io1er'' he has something widely
different, and in the comedy "OId Heads
and Young Hearts he does the famous
part of Jesse Rural. Music and Drama says
wv. j. LeMoyne has made an exception
ally strong hit at the Baldwin as Jesse
Rural in "Old Heads and Young Hearts -
which Is one of the cleverest and most de-
lightful performances that has ever been
seen in this city. 1t is perfect, even to the
smallest detail, and thoroughly enlisted the
sympathies of the audiences, who listened
with the greatest attention, even TO the
final syllable of the tag, and then insisted
on second view OF the final tableau-a
mark of appreciation rarely shown by an
audience now days"
George Cayvan's parts in "The Wife"
and the CHARITY Ball'' are somewhat sim
liar: she has strong emotional character
in, the 1dler,n and in the comedy she
plays Lady Alice-in the costumes of half
century ggo. Kelley in this piece does a
blue coated beau-Littleton Coke, Esq. in
the ''Charity Ball' he does a clergyman
and in the ''Idler'' he plays a semi-heroic
villain, of the Captain Swift stripe-only a
little rougher. All in all, the season will
be one that Salt Lakers will look forward
TO with the keenest pleasure.
In his letters to The HERALD Bill Nye
hiss touched upon almost every known
topic under the sun, except his own play of
"The Csdi." We see by the eastern pa
pers that its rehearsals begin August Il at
the fremont theatre in Boston and that
the play viii be produced September 81
In or no nj
theatre, with Thomas @ Seabrooke as the
star. The new enterprise is to be managed
by George w. Lloyd. MIR. Stuart Robson
is financially interested, and with Mr.
Lloyd came 10 New York last week TO start
Voegtlin on the new scenery. The music
10 being composed by Braham. Mr. Nye is
TO superintend the rehearsals, and see to it
that the actors speak the words written by
him
We are glad 10 see that Mr.. Thomas, th e
author of Alabama" is TO dramatic
Colonel Carter, OF Gainesville" and
equally glad TO Eote that En-. Holland is
named as the man best able to portray the
character Of the courtly old colonel. The
Mirror says:
Augustus Thomas will very likely make
m excellent dramatization of Colonel Car
ter. Of Cartersville.' He is in sympathy
with southern feeling and character, and
he will doubtless preserve the spirit of
Hopkinson Smiths extremely clever and
truthful sketch, while giving 1t a dramatic
element to which the little book makes no
pretensions.
Colonel Carter, il skilfully dramatized
and well played, will be new type to the
stage, and one that will win the public
heart and fancy.
'sBut do you think that W. j. Ferguson
10 likely to interpre: the colonel with such
. degree of excellence as the character de-