The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-11
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,"Yoft can hare that check" said Inigo
mile. Mariana recalls no other singer;
she is herself! and to say this is (as those
who have heard her will testify to pay
her the highest compliment. She does
not accentuate an epoch-she makes one.
OF her dramatic capacities we have yet
to judge, but simple and unassuming as
is her bearing in private society it is easy
for the initiated TO discern in the grace.
effectiveness and precision of her gestures
and carriage the results Of that long
training upon the stage and command of
its resources which alone can make the
poetry of movement a second nature.
Our only misgiving is" added the writer,
''that the ordinary repertoire OF operas
may fail to afford Mile. Mariana an ade-
quate opportunity for the manifestation
of her powers. While yielding to none
in our reverence and admiration for the
operate productions of the great COM
posers, from Mozart to Wagner, we may
be permitted to wish that some new work
might be forthcoming, essentially mod
ern in its scope and quality, and thereby
answering more completely to the re-
quirements of modern culture. 1t would
indeed be matter of congratulation
were such work to claim an American
origin"
Those who knew the authorship of
this article made merry over the perora-
ton, and inquired archly whether Bar
| clyffe had at last found somebody capa-
} BILE of approaching his musical accom-
} plishments. But by the majority it was
accepted with becoming docility; and
the impresario, it is needless to say,
was enchanted with it. The illusions
to the Marana's familiarity with the
stage were especially grateful to him.
I'll just tell you how it is, he said to
/ Jocelyn; ''you play off a little game on
| the public. and you feel nervous because
: there's one or two weak points in it,
7 Well, sir, by Jupiter! those weak points
are just the very ones the public swal-
lows the quickest. Now, here's this girl
she can sing; we all know that; but
she's born American, and she's never
been on the stage. Well, sir, there was
old Lucretia March at the dinner, who
said she could hardly understand her on
account of her Russian accent; and now
Barclyffe comes out and swears she must
have been born behind the footlightsl
The next thing'n be we shall have some
woman turning up and vowing the
Mariana has run off with her husband
and a hundred thousand dollars.''
care you aware, Noses" inquired his
friend, ''that Wallie Dinsmore has seen
the real woman in Vienna, and knows
this one to be a fraud?"
The general set down the cocktail with
which he was about toscelebrate his good
fortune care you lying, or what's the
matter" he demanded brusquely.
81 had it from the man himself, you
! old blackguard," rejoined the other com
posedly.
docs he know who this one is:''
1 eff ne doesn't he probably will before
Y long"
= The general reflected. AT last he said;
e "Well, l amt scared. What should he
7 make Il row for? 1t amt going to hurt
/, him, and what's more, he's taken up the
s girl himself. It may tickle him to fine
i out the facts, but he amt fellow tt
r talk. If it was you, now, l might wan
q to buy you off; but he's another sort.
r And Gen. lingo tossed off his cocktail
q with renewed serenity.
@ ''I'll bet you you're mistaken" saic
/ Jocelyn.
: Il don't bet with you, my gooc
o friend" replied the impresario, shak
ing his head and chuckling sardonically
n ''Tll tell you what will do, though,
h he added, after moment He too
|, from his pockets a check book and
Mackinnon pen, and wrote check
which he showed to Jocelyn. 1t wa
L $4,000, and was drawn to Jocelyn's OF
der
''You can have that check" sal
9 lingo, ''and be lingering the bank note
q in half an hour from now, ON one condi
a ton"
Il $50 on" said Jocelyn.
''On condition that you take yoursel
out of the whole business, and leave m
to deal with the girl direct. It's
r damned shame, by Jupiter, that 20
should be putting 80 per cent. of he
V money into your pocket every time sh
g sings, and making her think pay he
e that much less than do. I'll buy yo
out for $4,000, cash down, today, an
10 take the risk of her bursting up, an
q everything else. I'm talking money
E that's what I'm doing; and there it il
70 Will you do it?'
d ''You may go to the devil!'' said joe
y Ign, pushing back the check book, thong
y not without an effort. ''Ill have you
u know that moneys not the only thin
y I'm after. I've got my own views abor
>. the girl, and I'll manage the business m
~ own way" d
e : The impresario detached the chez
u from the book, and having rolled it I'M
;, an allumette lit his cigar with i
u =, "That's all right" said he, crushing Il
~ hnrnt rerorant under his foot. som