The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-17

Beginning with tomorrow night we are
to have two nights of that delightful
comedy-farce if you choose-"Jane' at
the Salt Lake theatre with Jennie Yea
mans in the title role.
'.Jane'' is an adaptation from the
French. Roland Reed, it will be
remembered, had a version OF
the same play which ne called,
tsLend Me Your Wife, and while
it was success IL didn't approach "Jane"
in the public esteem. And SO different
were the plays that only the theme of the
story was the same.
In s'Jane,'' it will be remembered. a
prohigate young fellow gets heavy ad-
vances from a rich uncle on the strength
of being married, and increases his drafts
on the plea of an eXtravagant wife and
new born babe. Suddenly the uncle ap-
pears IN the young bachelors quarters,
and in the dilemma, he persuades Jane,
his domestic, to pose as his wife. The
matter is more complicated by Jane being
secretly the wife of the young bachelors
valet, who is insanely jealous. The thread
becomes entangled and ensna rled by the
presence of hired baby, whose mother
turns up at the wrong moment and de-
mands her offspring. From the numerous
Imaginable complications the hero finally
escapes, coniesses, is forgiven, and all is
When we laughed at "Jane" before,
tombstone Bennett had the leading role.
This year Jennie Yeamans, clever
comedienne, has it, and to judge from the
press comments, the com parison has been
very favorable to Miss Yeamans. The
San Francisco Examiner, whose critic
dips his pen in the gall bottle oftener
than in the ink, was especially kind.
The week is to be busy one.
The Salt Lake Stock company
viii produce that famous play, 1.-THE
Two Orphans, - Thursday, Friday
and Saturday evenings. a friend who
visited a rehearsal told me that very ex-
cellent production might be confidently
expected. Though there are some anna
tours in the cast, the majority of the peo-
pie are professionals, in the light OF hay
ing in the past been on the professional
stage. The three performances are given
for q charity that is notwithstanding
a coal fund IN the mayors hands with
which to warm the poor this winter. For
this season the prices have been cut in
two, and for the first time the best seat in
the Salt Lake theatre can be had for 90
cents.
The Mirror in commenting on Henry
Irving sings the warmest praise because
he honors hiseart. He enforces respect
and it is always his aim to ennoble his
calling. The Mirror says:
''In paper in the English Illustrated
for September, upon -Four Favorite
Parts, Irving by inference insists again
upon the nobility of the stage. He never
loses an opportunity to emphasize this
grand idea, and his influence upon con-
temporary thou bit is such that it is i'm
possible for this generation to appreciate
the force he brings to the destruction of
theories and con Ventions that have for
ages made the actor seem ignoble.p
The point is well taken.
Fay Templeton is back again in Amer
ica, and being interviewed states that the
public always liked her in comic opera.
Regarding her tendencies to run away
after some manager has spent lots of
money getting her started. she says: eff
anyone thinks shall not play my entire
season OUT 1 shall disappoint him.