The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02

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US. having been first presented here by
katherine Rogers, March %, 1874, but
l that is no reason Why it should not
be acceptable, for some plays like
wine, grow better with age. The en-
tertainments are under the patronage
of many of our leading citizens, who
have subscribed to written invita-
ton TO the public to attend. but they
are under the immediate auspices of
tine Ladies' Literary club. and under
the coed favor of the public at large,
VINO feel a warm interest in sustain
ing the Pioneer Library and will show
il by liberal attendance at the per-
formdnceS.
The cast is as fellows:
Hoaoipn Chandoce. -. Mr.. Gee. Westervelt
LORD Mount Gosline-.---- DIR. Ives Cobb
Hector Placidc.. Mr.. Dewitt Jennings
Major O'Hara.. Mr.. Robert Glendinning
isafcnfalne Mr.. Robert Stevenson
ATmande Chandoce. Miss Jennie Long
Countess :-.---..-.-... Miss Ruby Clawson
susansle o'Hara.. Miss Geneva Jennings
53aroness- Mrs Florence Bradley
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On Friday and Saturday, December
IA and Is, the attaches at the theatre
will give two grand balls. one in the
afternoon for the children. rosebuds
and very young dudes not barred, and
in the evening to, adults. The people
connected with Ifs theatre are very
good lot an. have n great many
friends who like 10 m Sc together once
year at thase parties. They I5now
how to make things pleasant. and for
several years mast their parties have
been occasions Of considerable good
feeling and. enjoyment. They ara al
ways popular and we'll attended by the
incest people. To tie many who are
directly and indirectly connected with
the theatre it is the social event of the
wear.
There was a complete rehearsal of
"A Dress Rehearsal att the Lyceum
yesterday morning and it proved that
the performances will be well worth
seeing next Saturday afternoon, and
the following Monday and Tuesday
nights. The members of the cast are
all ladies', among them being Mes
DANES Woodrow and McNally, Misses
Kimball, Royle, Young, Levy, Fisher,
Cotton, Phillips, Alff, Hoge, Roundy.
Madsen, Pratt, Stopper. The musical
direction is under Professor Krouse,
the dramatic instruction under Profess
sor H G. Wllitney, while Mrs. Furner
ject of these entertainments is to BEN
fit the Young Ladies Aid Society, and
for this purpose Mr.. O'Malley has
kindly given free use Of the Lyceum
for the purpose.
The next company that comes to the
theatre is one of Charles Frohman's,
in THE New Boy" This is a COM
panion piece to "Charley's Aunt and
is said to be just as funny. At any
rate, it draws well wherever it goes
and is likely to bring big audiences in
this city, where it will be performed
on Christmas afternoon and night. The
humor of the piece, and its similarity
to the recent one that pleased so will,
viii be understood when we state that
the misadventures Of a dignif1ed little
man in the guise of a schoolboy consti-
tute the effectual comicality of Mr..
Laws play. The plot is that the old
bachelor head Of an academy, knowing
that the husband of his cousin and
former sweetheart has died, invites her
to become the matron Of his esta blish-
ment, with a view to ultimately making
her his wife. But she has welded
again. He is loath to lose the advan-
tages of the situation. Her husband is
younger than she and of small stature
He puts him into the clothes of a boy
and introduces him as her son. He is
but consents, and the boys
Of the school haze him numerically,
the master subjects him to corporal
he is taken to court for
stealing apples from an adjacent or
chard (his tormentors having COM
peeled him to do it,, and is sentenced
by the magistrate to six stripes, but
he thereupon confesses his identity, and
is restored to his sedate, seemly, adult |
of tranquil life. His suffer- |
ings have lasted long enough, however |
to yield all the merriment that could |
well be derived by any playwright |
from them. 1t is a very funny farce. |
built on a fresh conceit, and it is |
played, undoubtedly, quite as we'll as it |
has been in London.
The company, formed for the pur-
poses of THE New Boy" is entirely !
w. ]. Lemoyne, lent from the |
Lyceum, may be depended on to make |
the best of his role, which is that of a |
voluble and humorous hypocrite. Fred |
eric Robinson imparts desirable dig
nifty and authority to the schoolmaster |
Willis Searle, a sufficiently droll and |
comedian, imported from
England. plays the deceptive husband, !
and Helen Kinnaird is contrastingly
stately as the surreptitious wife The |
girl who HlrtS at the school with the |
husband, believing him boy, is acted |
with charming naturalness by Jessie |
Busley, and the French tutor eXasper-
ated by her conduct is performed by
George Backus.
One of the notable engagements to |
happen early in the coming year is
that of Alexander SaIvini, who will |
appear in several performances, of |
which the chief will be ''Ruy Bias" He |
is receiving unstinted praise from the /
eastern press for his portrayal of this |
An exchange says: Ger !
tain it is that in Rue Bias Salvini gives |
I vivid picture of a nlagnificently hon |
orable but weak character. No actor |
could desire a more picturesque and |
appealing role in which to touch the |
hearts of his veriest detractors. 1t is |
4 character which, little by little, gath |
ers about itself or becomes entangled |
among the threads of an elusive but |
web of circumstances.
which offer but one solution, and that |
IN uncertain one-death; death to the |
1lotter and death to the tool. In 'Ruy |
Bias is seen the true timber of which |
nobility is made. 1t is expressed in |
line I wear the lackey's
acket; you have the lacley's SOUL"
IF plebian position but knightly soul,
he man is thrust into a hateful game
f subterfuge against which his entire
icing revolts and from which, if dis
covered, only exile or death can result.
rs Ruy Bias, the lackey, Salvini is