The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-13
ADJUSTMENTS.
PEACEFUL VALLEY -

hidder has found for Sol Smith Russell or
the later has found for Kidder. q new char
acter His name is Hosea Howe. He works
farm IN the mountains of New Ham, slire and
III order to find the means to go through college
waits on table during he season at a summer
resort few feet above his mothers home He
reads Hugo, Shakespeare, Virgil Tacitus,
hume, Carlyle, Bacon and Sophocles, knows
ms natural history as well as his classics digs
POTATOES, wears a white apron, behaves like
soHIelnan always and WINS the respect of
everyone who meets him. The character is
1ew, out we have all got an idea Of having
ol s OF something like 1t. Put Bill Nye
q Iat II, Eugene Field behind white apron, or
boo Burdette In the middle OF Broadway with q
carpet sack This hand and alfalfa seed in his
a SsH ana you would have som thing like Rus
sen as Hosea Howe II you like pathos
20 ana see Peaceful Valley" Rare as the
arlci Is there is plentiful of it in this charm
ing play. When Sol Smith Russell told how
uosea sought his sister in New York dive
ana told her story to the awful creatures tn re,
anu now, when he had finished, the women
we're all on their knees and the men had skunk
oGI' Chere were many fearful eyes in the Bald
WIN theatre last night. and their ners were
not ali women and not all saints.
This, from the Examiner, fitly describes
DOL Smith Russell and his new play Of
Peaceful Valley" which he produced at
the theater last evening. The audience
considering tho drain made on the public
purse last week, WAS surprisingly large.
hussell, himself, seemed TO find it so, for
IN fellcitous speech which he delivered
on one OF his several calls before the audi
ence, he said he had hardly expected that
after lnhaling the glorious atmosphere of
the Nile last week. Salt Lake would De
content to come down to the Mohawk
Inc audience was Aept in a constant ripple
OF merriment ali the evening As char
acter delineator Russell stands without an
equal; II he could only find play with a
story as strong as his own character, it
would mean fortune to him, but Mr.. kidder
anu the others who write for Russell seem
to exhaust themselves on his particular
character, and to leave nothing else and nc
one else worth caring for. Thus Russeli's
Character is inimitable, but the pIay anG
most OF the other charact RS in it are
weak. The players in the main were fair
ana Mr.. Arthur yron, son, we believe, Of
Oliver Doud G. Byron, was specially good
1he LADIES can be greatly improved. Tee
play goes again tonight, and RUSSELL.
strength alone is great enough To I'll
another good house.
THE CHORAL.
The choral society had host of new
members last evening, under the impetu
OF TaE HERALD'S announcement abuu
Gilmore, aud Mr.. Stephens had 10 announc
that he didn't want any more trebes unles
tuey were OF an uneXceptionable quality
Altos, trebles and BASES will be mad
welcome up till next Monday evening, bu
then the new membership door will b
closed until after the Gilmore concerts
The choral will join the choir one nigh
, and the choir will Join the choral on
night. The matinee will be furnished wit
q Juvenile chorus. Mr.. Stephens said tn
terms Of the Gilmore engagement wer
that the house, the choruses an
, the conductor together got % per cent. c
l the gross receipts; the h use taking TIVE
tiiths and paying the lights, heating, ett
: He taking one-sizth for conducting and tn
two societies dividing the remaInde
3 equally between them, all of which we
9 warmly ratified. Gilmore pays ell othe
= expenses including ticket sales and advel
8 Using. The choruses to be rendered by Ii
{ 60O or 700 voices Will include "The Hail,
luiah" Tanhauser march, chorus rol
Gounod's Redemption, Wales If Desere,
and several others. The first full meetin
< occurs Thursday night.