Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-12-01

enormous audience; the play was May
lloss9mi anu while 10 cannot be said
luat " rauks uH "a SUGGEST with the
tlmauy ltyo ans the rwI Orphans, it
can Uc alii mat 10 formed an excellent
entertainment al the prices OF udmis.
SION charged. The main trouble with
May blossom 10 not with the players,
ior nero were several iuataucgs " very
good acting, but with the play, which
~ written on lines that have rather
gene out OF Gate "a hero who does
nothing but weep from lfst to last,
who falls 70 tho ground In au excess VI
emotion at the end ut the nfFt act; a
heroine whose Iaft IL one prolonged
WALL ami a plot which Kills oil the
mnu the heroine UulI nave welded,
an. keeps her tied 60 u mau who shame
iully betrayed his ffluhd-ihese cou.
dilipns uru not calculated 20 make "a
play that eau be CalIud satisfactory To-
tue average audience. The last act IL
Hue one nnd handled with the
ualnly dclicaCy that mouths OF rchear.
sails aud = fluc troop Of children could
give IT, II would atone Tor all the other
shortcomings and maEo Of almost any
hni Of "a play "a go," but tho present
company had TO use great haste la
Ev,uug w their production, AMI the
frsult was seen Ia the embarrassment
% the little tote, who, cute Hnd laugh.
apir n8 they were, dl' not succeed On
Bringing out the plthOs In tho burial
0ithr bird scene that was intended.
The beet uCtiug was d1nU by Mt. DJu,
n new man, ns Tan Blossom; by Sic.
o'mnllryi o. the inffOu, albeit he was
eumoiimus iuuiBtIuCG aud by Mrs
Laviuo aH the heroine. ahu looked very
pretty and cOnsiIUrlug her experience
got through with the difficulties
OF her character very wei; Mr..
Collins ~ the hero WA not 40 his beet
-WeiC we Ia his place We would cut
some 0f that weeping aud waiting And
guashing OF teeth, even 10 the work
does call Tor o. 10 grows irightmlly
mcuUionous, after the iifst two huuTs,
hnl We sre VI the opinion that the sit.
uauJL nj the emu OF tho fret act, when
ho repeats 'Should he never come
JACK" 90 many times, calls rather Tor
les weeping aud more OF a kind VI
unzeu, spuliuouud kind Of demeauor ~
tue hero Euzps INTO the future and
thiuks ui oil tho Uouiuiillius Oi his
iurnd nevcr coming back opens up 10
MIN. Alr Jcnnings, Aif Taylor, Mr.
HOillty, Sit Barlow, Mlls Duty anu
ihc speaking childfou-Uxcupt TOT tho
evident lack % tohtarfals-nil diI we'll.
May Blossom g0ea twice moro before
being rclcgniou ~ the shelves.
At THE TABERNACLE.
Probably 1900 10 1900 people, mostly
The parents Oh the cohorts OF children
who were banked up TO tho cell.
lug la the choir suatH-aalembltd
at tho lnburnaclu last cvOnlug ~ wit.
nras mo musical contests arranged by
FmlgslOr stephens, aud 10 decide Ne
10 winch OF tue tingop were eutilled
10 thu prizes. The program was Of
enormous length, even With tho Gttest
OF all the original entries Hiited out,
and there was singing that was excel
lent good and indifferent, though the
gOOd largely pTUdOmiuated. some OF
the weB Whites who sang alto In some oi
the dueih were n positive marvel. Tbs
hprien : lal-lnAaaisd- -aa.-ls, -larsis, -e.s.l
sseifia4.' 30 tho ponfaaf from hfs
% last Ut the coDcluuiOn the cards
giv,n TIP audience on which they
were aflsd 10 express their preferences
were gathered ~, aud the result Of the
opinions VIII be announced at u meet
ing 90 bo held Ia the Tabernacle on
Sunday evening.