The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-31
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC
Frank Daniels as Seen at a Re-
hearsal.
THE CHOIR AND THE FAIR
Death of Franz vetta- carleton in the Ranks
Again-Lillian Russell
Late Notes.

Salt Lake theatre yesterday morning IN
the hope Of securing five minutes OF the
attention of Mr.. Frank Daniels that we
might present something of his bright per-
sopality for the dedication of Sunday
readers. But Mr.. Daniels was where he
could not be disturbed-in the center Of the
stage surrounded by merry iabber and
confused Babel of ordinations such as
only professional ear could know was
rehearsal in full progress. The difference
between rehearsal and performance
that is of PROFESSIONALISM simply stupefy-
ing 10 behoder The music is about the
only thing that can be recognized, every
thing else is an inaudible tumble and now
the actors derive any benefit from 1t only
the initiated know.
1t was easy to see that "Old Sport got
his comic talents from mother nature
When he convulses audiences IN IA Tag
Baby or Little Puck,n he Is simply act
ing Frank Daniels. Fun oozes out from
his pores IS perspiration does from those
of an ordinary man. His face is funny;
his shape is funny; his walk is funny; he
can make laugh with the knuckies on his
hands; his voice he can render excruciat-
ing by the merest infection. He says fun
ny things on the stage, at rehearsais. at
dinner, and we verify believe he solilo-
bed chamber. Yesterday. even while in
STRUGGLING some one in a new and particular
piece OF business, he would utter some odd
expression that put the stage into giggles.
j When he attempted to restore order IL was
funnier than ever, and when he tried to
expostulate with Miss Sansome over her
pronunciation of lie Marquis de Mares,
she burst out laughing in his face.
But withall, the work was pushed &C
lively and intelligently. Several new mu-
steal selections, which will be tried Tues
day night for the first time with some
charming dances and marches, were gone
over and over again. Harrigan's knights
of the Mystic Start is going to make
special hit Daniels himself, for the frat
time in his life will essay two serious
songs, one of them Lulu Glasir's gem,
Tell Me With Your Eyes," we can prom
ise him they will bring down the house
that is If he really tries to make them Sc
rious.
Daniels has rehearsed his people two
hours every day while they have been in
Salt Lake The reason Is that there are
two new characters to get up in the bust
ness, aud every season he opens with Lit
tie Puck' land Tuesday night will open
the sixth), he adds new songs dances,
specialties and gags. The Clipper quartette
seen here with Dixie 10 one of the fes-
lures, and number of fresh faces among
the leaders will be introduced 30 Salt Lake.
Daniels has always been strong success
here and though he knows from daily ex-
perience for q week past how strong an
opposition he has in the lake, he counts on
Dig opening Tuesday night. He plays
right on through the political excitement
this fall, only giving his company vaca-
tion two weeks prior to the election.
The tabernacle choir are earnestly and
actively at work on the music for the great
Worlds fair competition, aud If you were
to express doubt TO one OF the members
as to Professor Stephens being able TO get
that body OF singers-300 strong-to Chi
cago and back again, you would be regard
ed with stare of mingled pity and con-
| tempt. stephens has said they will be
there competing for the prize of
IS, 900 and for every other lesser
prize in the long list, and that is
enough for the choir. They regard
the thing IS heinga as good as done. The
choir, by the way, are doing some prodig
iously fine singing just now. At their re-
hearsal Friday night they rendered
Gounod's difficult, tender md majestic "By
Babylon's Wave' in style that was al
most awe inspiring. After a little more
practice it win be rendered some Sunday
afternoon when, we predict, it will create
8 sensation. Mr.. Stephens idea Is to have
the words Of the great ode read in advance
means.
1t is not often that New York manager
selects San Francisco for the first night of
grand opening, but that is what T. Henry
French has done in the case of the Lillian
Russell Opera company. The fair Lillian
/ ia IN
her arrival she will spend some time re-
hearsing, and then cross the continent to
open In the new opera, "Tbe Mounte-
bauka,' in San Francisco, Sept. 5. In the
cast will be Hayden Coffin nd w. T..
Carleton; LA Cigale'' will also be
produced. Both operas will probably be
done in Salt Lake later in the season.
We infer that Mr.. Carleton's name in
the csst of "The Moutebanksn means that
the well known baritone has wearied of
starring and gone back to more humble
but probably more lucrative position in
the ranks. For some years 1t has been
evident that Carleton's drawing powers
were on the wane, and the support he hes
surrounded himself with has never been ur
to what it was when his company made
It's first hit here with Dora Wiley, Duck
Golden and Jessie Bartlett Davis as NOM
bers. He has always been weak in tenors
aud sopranos, and his own voice on recent
visits showed the wear and tear of long
and arduous work. Freed from the worry
and vexation of managing company and
Mr.. Carleton ought to be good for long
time to come.
A movement has been started in London
and New York to raise fund for the ben.
eft of the did song writer, Frederick
Nichols Crouch, author OF the beautiful
and world famous kathleen Mavour-
neen.n He is now in very INDECENT circum-
stances IN Baltimore and is eighty-six
years of age, and from all accounts he
will soon I'LL pauper's grave unless the
public comes to his relief. kathleen
Mavourneen,n his best known compost
ton, was written in 1895, and its popular
ity has withstood "the gnawing tooth OF
time" for over half century and has
been sung by every celebrated vocalist
from that time to this. In 1S49 be
came to America and has experienced the
ups and dows of life. He fought on the
confederate side all through the war, and
during that trouolous time lost all he had.
His musical library and valuable manu-
scripts, which were packed away in forty
large piano boxes, were destroyed, and
their loss was irreparable. Since his resi-
dence in this country he has had the degree
of Doctor Of Music conferred on him by the
London Royal Academy and the DruidiC
University Of America.
1t will be pleasant reading to many PEG.
pie to know that Miss Josephine Spencer
and Miss Geneviene Browne two Of oul
most promising poets, are at work on the
libretto of an operetta and that Evar
Stephens will set it TO music when 1t Is
completed. This trio ought to be capable
of turning out something more than ordi-
narily bright, and the progress of theil
work will be followed with keen interest
We understand that the plot is laid in an