The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-16
January 10. from 10 to Y a. m. and

TO b p. M
The New York Dramatic Mirror is q
valuable exchange all the year round,
but when Christmas is approaching It
usually excels itself in mastery pro-
duction. This year it has eclipsed all
previous efforts and has turned out a
superb number that a good many peo-;
pie will sit up all night TO read. Nearly
all the stage celebrities OF the day are
seen in excellent portraiture, and there
are good many tales told of theatre
cal effects of the past a. we'll as those
that are happening every day The
Mirror is one OF the Journalistic sue
cesses Of the time. We missed our
Maud's picture among the collection,
but we found this, which is about as
good:
To Maud Adams.
You have not Rehan's queenly height,
3 You have not Russelfs fat,
You have not Marlowes shipper sweet,
( But what care We for that?
You have not Bernhdrt.s supple twists,
Nor fdorris nasal twang
You have not buses midnight eyes,
But we don't care hang
You have not Nethersole's deft knack
of kicking up a. fuss; ~
You have not Mrs. Kendals touch, "
but Wldl > ill iilell u Us
For, oh. the things you haven't got
Are nothing to the fact
Which, let him dare deny who can,
That you know how to act
Concerning two prominent actors
shortly to appear here, the Washing
ton Star says: THE production Of
Henry w by Frederick Warde and
Louis james was heraided as a. scenic
and dramatic representation of far
more than ordinary magnitude and inn
nortance. 1t fully realized the expec-
tation. The rise of the curtain on the
first act gives evidence of conscientious
attention in making the mounting of
the play correct as to historical detail
and gratifying to the eye, and through
out the performance there is no falling
off in this respect. A stage full of peo-
pie suggesting in their numbers and
completeness of costuming, the COM
prehensive ideas Of Henry Irving, as
to stage anagement. greets the
auditor and even the minor parts are
taken with a degree of ability that
gives a performance seldom excelled
for smoothness."
s. B. Valentine in the Christmas Mir
ror thus takes off the modern method
of booming forthcoming attraction
and how the dramatic editor is not to
be taken in:
Dramatic Editor, Daily Dynamite:
Dear Sir-The enclosed is not dupli-
Gated, and / shall be pleased to see it
in tomorrow's Dynamite. Very truly
yours, JBMISON JOWLER,
Press Agent, Miss Mamie Skimpey.
THE first appearance of the cele-
brated emotional actress, Miss Mamie
Skimpey, marks an era in our dramatic
history. No more refined and progress
sive artist has been seen on our Ameri-
can stage. In the character of Lulu
Cowboys, as maiden, wife and widow,
she perfectly thrilled her audience.
Her movements are marvels of grace
and dignity and her locks of Titan red
fall about her shapely shoulders with
ravishing profusion. Miss Skimpey is a
most beautiful woman. Her gloriously
brilliant eyes and her elear-cut features
helped to make the scene with the carv-
ing knife as tragic and intense as the
climax in Romeo and Juliet Miss
Skimpey at a bound takes her place as
an actress of even higher rank than
Mrs. Siddons, Rachael, Charlotte Cush-
man. and Sarah Bernhardt.''
And this is what the critic did say
the following morning:
1T has always been the desire of the
Daily Dynamite to encourage aspirants
for histronic fame. 1t is sad, but none
the less true. that the line must be
drawn somewhere, and when this is
done, Miss Mamie Skimpey will be out
side of it. OF course it is impossible to
say whether the lady has any qualifi-
cations for the stage. The management
having omitted to provide microscopes
last night, the qualificatio if any,
could not be discovered. The poet tells
us that all women are beautiful, and
certainly Miss Skimpey was announced
as an actress, ergo, a woman; but it is
doubtful if any man in full possession
of his faculties would pine away with
love and admiration for her Flippant
arose from the audience as to
the lady's ability to stop clock with
tender glance. From the manner in
which Miss Skimpey flourished a cary
ing knife, it was apparent that she is