The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01
DRAMATIC ANDLYRIC
The Ellsler- Couldock Season Not
a Success.
THE OLD ACTOR LIoNIzED
The Bostonians' BllI-Wiu Carleton-Jane-
Couldock's neutrality-suspicious.
Plans-Notes.


The engagement of Effie Ellsler blinked
OFT rather lHmely at the theatreslast even
ing. II was thought that with a change of
Dill, business would look up, and it might
nave done so had there been second piece
In which Couldock could be doomed as well
as Miss Ellsler But everyone knew Coul-
dock was not in the cast of Egypt" and
many people had seen Miss Ellsler in the
play on previous occasion. so there was
no novelty and the house was rather light
In consequence. The play is an interesting
one but not great one and the main rec
concentrations are that it gives the Ellsler
chance to do some varied acting and to
wear some striking gowns, both of which
requirements she fills to the letter.
The matinee Of Hazel Kirke' drew q
fair turn out and Mr.. Couldock and Miss
Elsler's fine acting was received with a
regular flood OF tears.
At the Union club pRrlors last evening,
Mr.. Couldock was rendered an informal re-
ceptlon by the Home dramatic club and a
few immediate friends, mostly made up of
those who appeared with the old actor in
Hazel Kirke'' eighteen months ago. Phil
Margetts and Mrs. NJ. @. Clawson, of the
old time players with whom Couldock con-
sorted in 1867 were also present. and David
Nick enzle sent regrets at being unable to
attend. The affair lasted an hour and Z
hail, and was lntersperSed with music,
punch and water ices. The main attraction,
however. was found in the little knot of
people who sat in a corner, and with whom
the veteran actor exchanged remin-
iscences Of twenty years ago. Coul-
dock recalled how he had entered
the Salt Lake valley in 1867 with
Jack Langrishe's mule train from Denver,
and be told how ike a paradise the city
looked as they caught their first glimpse of
II. de told of his early appearances here
with his daughter Eliza. of the wide range
OF characters be played from Miles Nc
henna TO Jack Ealstatf, and related how be
and his daughter went by overland stage
from here 10 California q trip whose sever
ity proved great hardship TO the frsil con-
sJituuou Of his daughter, who died on a
later visit to the Salt Lake valley. Bishop
Whitney recalled the time when from the
top most gallery he went into raptures over
Couldock's Falstaff, which he still thought
the finest delineation of the character he
had ever seen. Henry Siegel dropped i'll to
shake hands with the old actor and TO
remind him that twenty years ago he had
been present at an entertainment IN Vir-
ginia City, Mont, where Mr.. Couldock
read and his daughter recited; or rather
they were TO have done, there being no
one IN the audience except Mr.. Siegel and
q gentleman friend. Couldock came out,
apologiZed and asked them to get their
money back at the door, Mr.. Margetts
and Mrs. Clawson exchanged recollections
OF the old days, and altogether the evening
was thoroughly delightful one, especially
to the old-timerS.
Mr.. Couldock is seventy-seven years OF
and 10 l,rnbn hl Y tho CiipGr @
stage, being twelve years older than Jeffer-
son and fifteen years older than Stoddard.
he came TO America in 1S49, and has been
before the footlights just fifty six years.
There will be two crowded houses at the
Salt Lake theatre this week TO hear those
popular favorltes, the Bostonians, in the
equally popular opera robin Hood This
opera has been heard in Salt Lake before
aud it created profound impression. But
at that time it was hardly completed anC
cannot in justice be compared to the
Robin Hood" of to-day, the ''Robiu
Hood which set all New Y ork talking last
fall, and which vas only Withdrawn from
New York because OF its dates on the road
nor is it TO be compared with the robin
HOOD which the Bcstonians take back to
New York and open with at the GardeI
theatre there on May l6 for an indefinite
run. IA fact ''Robin Hood has been very
materially changed since it was here, and
il the criticisms all over the country can
be taken % any creterlon, 1t Is, as presented
by the Bostonians, the greatest success o.
many years.
Not great deal need 10 be said about tht
Bostonians. They are known and loved
here, they always receive very hearty
welcome when they come, and their worl
is always known to have stamped on it thu
of
changes have been made in the company
and for the better, for Karl, Macdonald an(
Barnabee, the proprietors, always advance
never retrograde. Both the chorus and TIT
orchestra have been increased, new
scenery especially adapted to the operi
has been painted by the most famous
scenic artists in America, and two new
sopranos have been added 10 the list of ole
artists. These two newcomers are Camille
D'Arville ard Caroline Hamilton, and n
little interest has been aroused to heal
them Madame D'Arvllle is said to havt
had European experience, and is Spoken
of as an especially talented artist. Caro-
line Hamilton is a Cali ornia girl, and this
is her first season on the stage, but the re-
ports speak in the highest praise of bel
beautiful voice and refined acting. Tn,
old members Of the company do not need Il
be introduced. They are Tom Karl ant
Edwin w. Hoff, tenors; II. 9. Barnabet
H Macdonald, baritone; Eugene Cowles
basso; Jessie Bartlett Davis, the queer
of contraltos; Flora Finlayson and Jose
phlne Bartlett.
The advance sale indicates great open
ing Tuesday night.
The man who wrote lover the Hill t
the Poor House, and Gone with Hand
somer Man" ought to need no Introduction
to a Salt Lake audience, but we say frank,
that his advance work has been verl
poorly executed, and unless there is some
quick booming done, Mr.. Carleton is ap
TO talk to benches. Every lover of poetrI
ought to remem Dor that MIR. Carleton read
from his own WORKS 81 the theatre to- NOR
row night, and give him handsome recep
ton: al the same time he has stolen upol
us unawares, after sort OF thief-in-the
night fashion-not to be thought uncompli
mentary-and we fear-not for the warmth
of his welcome-but for the box-office par
OF it,
VINO is MIR. Carleton's manager, anyway
"Au the Comforto of Home'' is to b
done at the theatre this week with tn
same cast as before, except that Mr., Mile
Kent assumes the part formerly played b
Henry Miller. Among the other member
of the company are Mr.. Frank Lamb, MI
Samuel Edwards, Mr.. Herbert Aging, MI
]. b. Hollis, MIR. II. Il. Morey, Mr.. Jacque
Martin, Mr.. Arthur Hobson, Mr. James Z
Richard, MIR. d. J. Sherwood, Mr.. Georg
T.. Lask, Miss Maude Haslsm, Mrs. Kat
Depin-Wilson, Miss Pearl Means Mis-
Goldie Andrews and Miss Trella Foltz Il
the play you see depicted, in striking AM
amusing way, the weaknesses and eccen
tricities of mankind, and, without doubt
each one could name a counterpart of ever