The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-03
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
A Departure in the Way of Local
Amusement.
CHAT ABOUT FROHMANS COMPANY
The Royal Opera cOmpany-The Lost Paradise
and Men and Whsre
Frohman Erred-Noies.

and Men and Women WhSre
Frohman Erred-Noies
Garfield Beach adds one more to the list
OF its many attractions tomorrow. Open
ing on July Fourth, the Royal Opera com
pany inaugurate season Of summer opera
beginning with "Erminen instead Of
"Giroie- Girofla, !" as hitherto announced
The Casino which has been built specially
for the season, holds between 500 and ], 200
people. The company numbers forty mem
bers, and has been selected in Chicago Tor
the summer season. OF course, no one will
expect a 50 opera for Is and 50c., but the
management claim that nowhere in Amer
lea win the public get more for its money
than at the Garfield casino. There will
doubtless be a big throng at both perform
ances tomorrow
Tue theatre will be Theoretically sealed
until after the 14th, when George Thatch-
er's famed Tuxedo" will enter the lists
against the thermometer. Tuxedo is q
bic attraction, and to Manager Burton S
1ervent prayers for cool snap the theat-
rical pubic will breathe fervent amen.
One more of Charley Frohman's innu-
merable companies has come and gone and
left an ever increasing respect for the all
pervadlng vsstness of that managers
achievements. Despite the opinion of so
distinguished a commentator as Mr.. Dicky
Mansfield, the public and the profession
know that out Of ali that is best in the line
OF theatrical entertainments in America
today-a generous share Of it is due 10 this
same little jew" so contemptuously
spoken OF by that cad of cads, Mr. Mans
field. II there Is anything good going, Mr..
F'rohman is very apt to have it, The
cleverest plsywrights of America are re-
tanned in his army OF employees. The
brightest talent in the professional ranks
is enrolled under his banners. and the best
proof that he is not the sordid, grasping
creature Mr. Mansfield would have US i'm
agine is found in the fact that the loudest
singers of his praises are that same army
Of people whom Mr. Mansfield says he
''uses'' only to make money out of.
An instance of the way Mr.. Frohman
''uses'' his people is found in the Lost
Paradise company. 1t islthe unvarying
rule with travelling theatrical troupes that
the members are hired for so much per
week and their railroad tickets furnished
and every other expense, meals, seepers.
hotels. etc, are paid oy the members them
selves, and the inroads sleeping and dining
car charges make in the salary of the
average actor can be imagined. MIR.
Frohman sent the Lost Pacadise'' COM
pany from New York to san Francisco
and all the way back again in private
car, fitted up with sleeping apartments,
accompanied by hIst-class larder, a cook
I -.
thing with his compliments. When Mr..
Mansfield is found furnishing sleepers and
diners to bis company, without presenting
each member with a bill for board and
lodging. we would be glad to be favored
with lew marked copies of the time and
place.
The sole trouble with the Lost Para
dise' engagement was that it occupied in
the public mind the nature of companion
engagement to ''Men and Women Hav-
ing so many of the same people, the two
plays were constantly compared and con-
trasted, and beautiful play as it is, 1.-THE
Lost Paradise could not help but suffer.
With the name of "Frohman's stock COM
pany'' Morris. Tyler, Johnson, Hawkins
ct al. were linked. it is true, but even more
so were De Belleville, Kennedy. Nor
daunt and Armstrong. Ii was not suffi-
Gent to say that there were no parts in
paradise LOST for the first two named
the pubic did not consider that. It
merely saw that that notable 0uartette
was missing, and said to itself the
company was not SO strong as 1t used TO be.
1t ought to be known, however, that Arm
strong and Mordaunt would have been
here and assumed their roles, those taken
by Miss TYLER and Mr.. Compton, but for
their inability TO travel. Miss Armstrong
is seriously i'll, and MIR. Mordaunt scarcely
less So It is even said that Mordaunt's
troubie-a disorder Of the stomach-is so
serious that be may never play again,
which we seriously hope is not the truth.
The Frohman company now have under
way anew comedy called THE Counselor's
Wife," in which Miss Tyler VIII have the
leading role. 1t will be in pure comedy
vein, so she ought to shine. Nature never
intended Odette Tyler to be serious, her
piauaDte eyes and saucy nose are not the
symbols of sentimentalism. Hence it is
not her fault that she did not make an ideal
Margery. Give her a rollicking comedy
role and she will leave but little to be
asked for The male part in the new play
will fail to that excellent comedian Bar
rows, who scarcely has his deserts in the
Lost Paradise We learn from Mr..
Morrissey, by the way, that there is a
tried on the dog here before it is produced
in Chicago.
William Morris is undoubtedly coming
man in the profession il he has not al
ready arrived. He scored a tremendous
impression in "Men and Women and now
his great hit in the Lost Paradise'' has
brought him into the front rank of our very
few good leading men. Let Morris get
over his one fault Of talking too fast in his
excited passages and he will be almost
fiawless. His reading of the love lines in
Reuben Warmers part was perfection, and
the utterance OF the one speech,
Il do, God knows do where
Mareery asks him 10 forgive her was
enough 10 have brought down the house.
Mrs. Morris, Eta Hawkins. has also made
distinct impression, in this play Her
Cinders, and Perkins unique Billy made
pair Of clean cut canoes that will long be
remembe 4 bit of acting too that
has not received the attention it should
have done. was that OF Mr. Emmett Car
rigan, as the white headed old workman
Few people VINO saw his strong aud
pathetic delineation would imagine that he
is one Of the youngest members Of the com
pany; in MEN and Women" he took the
part Of the broker who suicides in act first.
Mandie Adams and her rnofhar Of vrbov,,