The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-24

Distinct, unique, stands the Hopkins
Speciality company before America to-
day. A variety performance eminently
respectable; not a word is spoken that
would cause the purest maiden to
blush, not an act that would harm the
most innocent. And every member Of
the organization a star. One doesn't
usually realize what this means, or
what salary list it entails An
ordinary company has a star, a lead
ing man or leading lady, and the
balance of the cast may be artists, but
of no especial note, or may be very
ordinary. Of course there are excep-
tons, but the least is generally three,
four or five noted people with average
good support. But here is a company
composed of sixteen people, all stars.
Each one or group, with an act of his
own, or her own, not depending at all
on lines or situations or on each other
No use at all. for small or insignificant
parts or people. One can easily see it
costs money to carry such an organiza-
ton. The attendance Friday night was
very good. Last night, which closed
the engagement, a good house wit
messed the performance. though not as
large as on the first night.
A little stir is caused among society
people by the proposal, now being con-
sidered, to give an apen-air perform
ance of ''As You Like It." the company
to be composed entirely of amateurs
Open-air performances of Shake
speare'S sylvan comedy have been i'm
mensely popular in the great centres
of the east. and some famous perform
ances of the play have been given
under the trees on the green grass.
We have an abundance of talent in our
midst, and surely no place was ever
better suited for outdoor play-acting
than Salt Lake city. 1, for one, sin
cerely hope the idea may soon mature
into definite plan.
Work goes steadily on at the Grand,
and its projectors plan to open at the
beginning of the regular theatrical
season. A stock company is being en-
gagged, and the opening play will doubt
less be one of the popular successes of
the day.
Stuart Robson stands today as one
of Americas best known and best liked
comedians. His productions are of the
highest order of excellence. He spares
not expense in selecting his companies
which are always of a high order of
costumipg and mounting, especially in
his reviValS of old comedies in which
he delights and which he has scored
some of his greatest hits. We all re-
member, and with pleasure, his elabO-
rate revival of Goldsmith's ''She Stops
to Conquer" What a. delightful even
ing Goldsmith and Robson gave US to
be sure! And with what correctness
Of costuming and richness OF mounting!
Ingratitude should be a crime, and he
who saw Stuart Robson's ''She Stops
TO Conquer" and who does not now
remember it with keenest pleasure, and
warmest gratitude for such splendid.
such refining entertainment, is an in
CRATE indeed. And so does it promise
for Shakespeare Comedy of Errors, -
which is booked for Wednesday night
Mr.. Robson has played this comedy for
many years. 1t was a famous produc-
ton when Crane and Robson were
playing together. Mr.. Robson has
scored new successes in mis- most re-
cent revival of this famous old comedy.
He has in his company Mr.. John L.
WOoderSon. who plays one of the two
dromios, and whose personal resemb-
lance to Mr.. Robson is said to have
caused many misunderstanding and
amusing mistakes.
Not a word OF comment is needed for
'sThe Henrietta" Bronson Howard.
the playwright, made one of the great
est successes of his successful career,
and it stands before the amusement
loving public today, as one of the
greatest comedies ever produced from
the pen of an American author. Mr..
Robson scored one of the greatest sue
cesses of his artistic and eventful ca
reer when he produced it in New York
city. And he has played it off and on
ever since. On two different occasions
he has given it at the Salt Lake the
atre, and will alay it again tomorrow
evening, and again Tuesday evening.
"Bertie, the Lamb viii never be for
gotten.
Friday and Saturday evenings of this
week the curiosity aroused by the pa
pers of the east regarding Oscar
Wiides play, Lady Windermere' s
Fan win have ample opportunity to
be satisfied at the Salt Lake thea tire.
This play has aroused a peculiar inter-
est. The social evil is somewhat dealt
with. And then the play is filled with
paradox and epigram. In fact many
of the critics think it is chiefly dia-
logue play Such expressions as these
abound: "A cynic is a man who knows
The price of everything, and the value
of nothing" 81 can resist everything.
except temptation my own business
always bores me to death, 1 prefer