The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09

admiration. Yet after making such a
resolution we cannot refrain from put
ting in a word of praise for little
Emily Craig as La Petite and tiny
Scott Lynn as the page.
The dramatic writer's had a difficult
task last week in dealing with the anna
teur performances of Monday and Tues
DAY nights, and whether they spoke well
or III of them, or if they managed so as
not 10 speak at all, 1T came to the same
thing; they were more criticised than
the performances themselves. There is
put one point that amateurs as we'll as
professionals may as well get satisfied
upon and that is that dramatic critics,
as a rule, are not prejudiced. They are
usually impartial, and in writing they.
they may have had. A good newspaper
critic need not be. specially original or
anxious to air his own sentiments. If he
has a great reputation, like Nym Crfnlkle,
people may want to know what his in
dividua1 opinion is, but 1t is safer TO
suppose That the general reader of the
general newspaper is more DESTROYS of
knowing what the general concenSuS OF
public opinion is regarding a perform
ance. If the newspaper critic makes 1t
a rule to fly in the face of general pub
lie opinion, he may attract considerable
attention for a time, but he is a quack.
and soon meets with the fate of quacks
his quackingS go unnoticed. If ne gets
to Sugaring up all the time for fear of
weak, and if ne grows spiteful he ought
to be laid off. The good and valued crit
ic is one who asks himself. What would
the great majority of intelligent persons
think of this performance" This is
what the reader of the paper wants to
krow nearly every time. He only wants
the special personal oisinion of the re-
porter once in a great while.
II the dramatic critic works according
tn 7-1t1n 1na and 1Na i+af1l
than the audience is, nor more generous
nor more censorious. But after he has
closely reflected popular opinion, ne may
be accused of personal spleen, and be
he has criticised adversely. He shouldn't
be. He doesn't give the performances,
and the portion of the public that didn't
see them should have a chance to learn
what the other portion thought of them
So far as this paper is concerned, at
any rate, 1t is mistake for any person
that any personal feeling enters into QUA
judgment We will give a good or baC
report as promptly to a stranger as TO
friend. The question is, are they worthy
use our best judgment, after all, but we
try to do the best we know how.
A very bad man is to be in town in a
looking villain. dangerous to have in
family. He is anxious to marry a bux-
ON young widow a large, handsome
woman, the matron of a. boys school
The doctor at the head of the school al
so wants to marry the young woman. He
is kicked and cuffed and forced 10 do the
drudgery of the school by the big boys.
They make him steal apples, black their
boots and do their Quarreling, smuggle
in whisky and 90 other mental things.
In return, the boy makes things lively
all around. He pants the school red, and
talks TO the doctor defiantly. The point
of the story is that the boy IS the hus-
band of the big. handsome matron. whom
the doctor and the villain are trying TO
marry. Both the doctor and the matron
have invested their money in a cham
payne company. The stock, which
dropped to nothing. has suddenly. gone
up to high figures, and the villain Is try
ing to buy 1T of his friends for a song.
The New Boy" who in reality is
sharp business man, so years old, gives
the doctor the tip and later reveals his
identity as the husband of the nlatron.
The stock makes them ell rich and there
is a grand scene at the close OF the piece
which delights the audience that has
been applaudipg and laughing for two
hours This play will be on for two
nights and Christmas matinee. 1t is run
ming in New York and London to inn
mense houses. 1t is the sensation of the
year.
The theatrical season of 1S6s-7o. in this