The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27

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ERIN3H oNfoSA
E8 mann has made a life
EZV long study. In this
E2 interest he has visited
10y the far-famed eastern
e. lands of mystery, and
49, has won from the willy
Indian coniurers' Sc
rets of their black enchantment with
which to charm away for awhile our
practical common sense. His entertain
ment is an agreeable diversion from the
usual dramatic representation of the play
houses. Behind the ~footlights the mystic
forces are Embossed and natural laws
defed. The skillful wizard pleases with
the dizziness he employees in his magic art,
with his huency of speech, that requisite
to a magician's success. and his anxiety to
satisfy by giving to doubters the oppor-
tunity to detect him in 'his ways that are
dark and tricks that are" not vain. He Is
versatile to the verge of unbelief. Before
the eye apparently impossibilities occur,
transformations are effected until one
wonders if ones own self remains IN
changed. At a wave of the coniurer's
land the bare, brown earth blossoms like
the rose, my lady's Jewels are destroyed,
then restored to perfection.
Besides his skill in legerdemain, Herr
mann will introduce his new illusion
'SErobeika,n Abdul Khan, the oriental
fakir, New Black Art" "A Slave Grips
Dream "Florine, Child of the Air. and
other mysterious sensations. Hermann
will be aided by Nine. Hermann. They
are announced to appear at the
The famed '-'Clemencean Case'' which has
been lauded, slated, prohibited, disputed,
about and wraugled over as much as any
play that ever held the boards. holds ours
tomorrow evening. The one scene ia the
artists studio where a model is exhibited,
is that which has brought the play into
such notoriety, and just how broad that
scene is we can't tell till we have seen it.
MIR. Brady, the manager, who owns the
play and a responsible man tells US the
thing has been very much modified since
the start, and there is now really nothing
more Objectionable in the "Clemeucean
Case, P" than there is in ''CamilIe,' or a
dozen other French plays that could be
named. Miss Sibyl tombstone does the
posing, and the well-known actor, Gustavus
Levreck is the leading man.
1t was a pity that MIR. Stevens charm
ing concert on Christmas night should have
struck two such formidable counter ele-
ments as the weather and Fatinitza. There
was very little money in the affair for any
one, but there was a good deal of credit.
Some OF the numbers provided-notably
the Rigolette quartette by Mrs. Pugsley,
Mrs. Alison, Mr.. Easton and Mr.. Lamo-
reauX-weret the choicest kind of gems and
those who heard these four fine voices in
conjunction say the grand quartette has
rarely, if ever, been heard to liner advant-
age in this city. The spectacle of the 500
children was a beautiful one, but it was a
treat for the eye rather than for the ear,
and as children, however proficient, cannot
sing all the musical parts, their singing
should hardly be considered from the music
al, but from the spectacular standpoint.
As q spectacle they were superb.
Mr.. Stephens next venture will be a
more notable one one still and
we anticipate the financial result
will be vastly different. The
celebrated Boston Mendelsohu uuintette
and the tabernacle choir of 400 voices in one
programme, will make up an evening such
Cs is rarely to be heard in any center-no
matter Of what size. The noted auintette
club play with such exquisite taste and
finish, that it will be simply enhancing to
listen to them in the great building. Then
their soloists will each be Of an excellence
that nothing since Gilmore's visit viii
hav equalled them. Their priraa donna.
who will on this occasion sing TWO charm
ing numbers "Loi Hear the Gentle Lark,
(BishOpl-with flute obligato-and dir di
Concert tArdit), is highly praised wher-
ever she appears.
The whole will be rounded of grandly
by our powerful chorus of 400 voices in
Two fine anthems by Stephens and a male
chorus of nearly $50 voices w il render
Comrades" The entire programme is
now arranged, and will soon appear in our
columns
This concert will be an suspicious open
ing to the coming musical achievements of
the new year.
"Fatinitza'' closed its season as far as
Salt Lake is concerned, last evening, before
a very fair audience. The receipts of the
engagement were a trife over 81. 6OO-and
after rent, advertising and 500 charged for
rent oil the costumes are paid, very little
money, If anything, will be left as a
residue for the company. This is
almost always the result with local operas.
The costuming is so expensive a feature
that even with great business, the net re-
suit Is always slight, and the company has
TO obtain Its reward out of the pleasure
and excitement of getting up the show.
and there is q good deal of both
even though the work is hard.
Last evenings presentation was fully as
smooth and enjoyable as that of the preyi-
Gus night and the best features we're as en-
Enthusiastically applauded and encored. Miss
Hawley never really came out before. and
"Fatinitzap may be looked upon as her
starting point in opera; all the others come
in for even praise. The company goes to
Ogden on New Years night when, if it does
nothing else, it win delight the Ogdenites
and have a season Of enjoyment at the
same time.
Little Lord Fauntleroy,o with George
Cooper, the clever child actress. in the
leading role, holds the boards one night
only this week.
The probability of PATHS coming in
March, announced yesterday by The HER
ALI, opens up a big field OF musical posi-
bilities. LA diva" of course, has her own
tenor, her own contralto, her own basso.
and probably her own leader, but there
are none of them that Salt Lake
cares a fig for so long as we get Patti.
Couldn't Mr.. Burton arrange to have ali
PATHS support dropped of at Grand juno
ton, the Royal Gorge or somewhere. and
let US have Patti alone in her peerless mai
esty-backed up with a combination merely
of our choral society and choir? The taste
Salt Lake has had of big choruses of late
puts anything ordinary somewhat at a dis
advantage, and renders dishes whose flavor
used to be regarded as of the highest now
somewhat tasteless. Put your heads to-
gether, Messrs. Burton and Stephens. and
see if you can't evolve out of La diva,s
coming a musical event that shall throw
into the shade even last springs great fes-
tival or Gllmore's band concerts.
Hard times'' in theatrical circles lot
seem to be confined to this side O,
water. a London letter to the Drdmat