The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-19
DRAMATIC And LYRIC
Close Of the "Little Tycoon"
Engagement.
MR. LINDSAY's RE-ApPEARANCE
The Festival all the Talk-Rome Club Visit
to the Park-The Younger
Exhibition-Notes

Choral society In engaging Emma Thursby |
and Myron w. Whitney to head the June
festival. The board of directors are at
work on statement or appeal to the pub
tic, setting forth the immensely of the pro-
ject and asking for support commensurate
with the Importance of the enterprise The
expenses of the festival will be at least
81, 900 before the Choral receives nickel
for its labors in working the thing up.
Two thousand dollars of this goes to secure
the two stars and their travelling and hotel
expenses, and the remainder is for orches
ira, soloists, advertising and the expenses
of the building. The railroads will all run
cheap trains to and from the city during
the two days the festival is in progress, and
it is not too much to expect that the event
will take on an interest that will make 1t an
inter-m ountain affair, instead of merely
local one. Subscription lists are to be is
sued at once; all subscribers paying s.. %
can secure a reserved seat to the series of
three concerts, and day will be set apart
in advance for the reserVing OF subscrl
bers seats exclusively. A section of the
house will also be held for sale in Park
City, Ogden, Provo and Logan.
The charm and rhythmical swing in Mr..
Sponsors music seem to offer an ample
Rtonement for the stark Stiffness of his
hbretto, at least his audiences yesterday
afternoon and evening kept up surpris-
ingly well both in size and appreciation.
The matinee WAS well attended and the
might house was large A second witness
ing Of the opera induces no change in the
estimate previously placed on the work; it
is a wedding between very charming music
, and very rubbishy words, but the balance
is heavily on the side of the
music, and the audience overlooks the i'm
projections in the story For ourselves,
we confess we are Just enough lmbued with
the Wagnerian conJagion TO feel ike in
sIsting on brains in our libretto as well as
in our music, and we incline to the belief
that the success of ''FatinitZan and robin
Hood" would have been very materially
lessened without the story to which the
music is set 1.-THE Little Tycoon is sue
cessful, of course-irf the face of box Office
receipts like those to which IL has played
for 1000 nights it would be useless 10 say
anything else-but Mr.. Spenser is discern
ing enough to know that the sort of sue
cess which attends his work is not the
most elevated that is to be sought for; it
is not the,clientile of intellect that he plays
TO, and even the unconsidering masses-the
clan that fills his houses swallow the
asefetida of his plot only because double
portion of the sugar coat of his music
goes along with it. But perhaps man
who can grind out songs like Love Comes
Like Summer Sigh" ought not to be toe
severely judged. We wish you well, Mr.
Spenser, and may the public ducats long
continue to flow in your direction.
The only dramatic event at the theatre
this week is the re- appearance of the well
1y,,N oil tina iO6Sor
who viii render "Ingomar'' Tuesday and
sDaman and Pythias'' Wednesday, the latter
event being under the auspices of the local
knights of Pythias. To all old timers Mr..
Lindsay is too well known TO need word
OF introduction; to the many new theatre
eoers who have come into our midst during
Mr. Lindsay'S absence from our boards,
it may be said that he is one of the fore
most among that coterie of actors who
made the Salk Lake stock company famous
twenty years ago. Nearly all the other
members have retired from the stage, but
MIR. Lindsay has held constantly TO his
chosen profession. OF late years he has
been touring with good success in the east
and he brings the company which has sup
ported HIM to Salt Lake this week We
wish his ventures success.
The Home Dramatic club go to Park City
Tuesday morning by Utah Central, play
"Young Mrs. Winthrop" that evening auC
return Wednesday morning. The clut
will be rendered an informal reception aftel
the performance by Mrs. A. B. Richardson
and Mrs. w. W. Macintosh, who are ole
friends of several of the members. Thu
next appearance of the club IN Salt LAX,
will be on Decoration Day, but the pla,
has not yet be en- decided on.
Next Friday evening and Saturday after
noon, the theatre viii be turned into ball
room again, one of Prof. Younger's brigh
exhibitions of the art terpsichorean beini
the event The professor states that thi
exhibition viii be the most important an
comprehensive that he has yet given, an
one of the features to be introduced vii
pe the production Of some new dances no
vet seen here, which are to be taught b.
the professor during the next bail season
The list of the young people and childre
who will delineate the new steps include
the names Of many prominent society pee
ple of the city and there is no doubt tina
both events will be greeted by large an
fashionable turnouts. The prices rang
from 25c to 75c. and reserved seats will b
yold.
The profession at large reioices in th
decision of ]. M. Hill to close his theatr
against further performances of Tho
Shalt N ot," the obscene play that Willial
A. Brady succeeded in getting into MI
Hills theatre while Mr.. Hill was away
Mr. Brady takes curious but character
istic view of the matter. He said to
friend the other day that if he didn't sue
coed in getting the mayor 20 interfere witt
the entertainment on the ground of its i'm
morality he would Ego broke" H
added
of it then Thou Shalt Not will be Walt
able property throughout the country. Tn
people will come to see 1t because il wa
too immoral to be seen in New York"
That is one way Of looking at it, but it i.
more than likely that Mr.. Brady's schem
iI getting this advertisement will fail I
work for il is not to be supposed that ID
cent city like Philadelphia will permit tn
production of a play that the authorities G
New York practically forbade. AT an
rate. the decent citizens of PHILADELPHIA
had better look into it at once and TAX
measures TO prevent the production of tn
piece.
MIR. John Stetson, of Boston, came owe
TO see it and at once declined to have any
thing to do with it. He remembered tn
loss of license by another theater TO
producing 1.-The Clemenceau Case,n al
other of Mr.. Brady's ventures.
Nv and by it will happen that when M
BRADY appears on the horizon managers
other cities will run for their lives. At an
rate. other communities cannot do bette
than follow the example of New York an
frown down obscenity on the stage.-Jou
nal
The fame that American actors car,