The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-07

the public. which is depending upon
MN Tor opinions as we'll as facts II
the dramatic editor goes "a little
further and adds a few laudations to
his statement of facts, he secures a
little more praise and good deal
more cigars and soda-water He
can continue this course for an in
definite period and his pathway will
run smmoth, while he will be the pet
of the dramatic fraternity from the
leading man down to the call boy,
and from the manager in chief down
to the bill-poster, for these will be
close and regular readers of every
| thing he writes and will look upon
him as one of the incest gentlemen
that ever breathed. In the mean
time, all the rest of the readers of
| the paper will skip the dramatic
column to avoid boredom. and the
dramatic editor will find that he has
lost all interest, power or influence
About this time he is usually asked
to resign. But the dramatic
critic who is imbued with the spirit Ct
his calling is not content with such a
brief and proftless career. When he
sees performance he is keen and
sharp to note whatever is worthy of
praise or blame. When the curtain
rises he will have put himself into
passionless condition, forgotten all his
friends or foes, his loves and his hates
and stands prepared to deal strict JUS
tice to all without partiality. AS
nearly every entertainment contains
something to praise and scarcely any is
ABOVE criticism, he is able to applaud
the good and decry the bad that he
hnds in each separate performance.
This he does without fear or favor.
ana then the thorns commence to ap-
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pucketful of praise to a thimbleful of
censure and reap maledictions for his
reward. Those who receive his praise
Will take it as their honest due. and
those whom he ventures to censure will
accuse him of ignorance and malice
For instance, critic may say of an
actress that she is superlatiYely
beautiful, has dark and lustrous eyes
that she is the soul of grace, per-
feet reader, a lady of winning per
sonality but she has fits What
would be the result? She would en-
tirely ignore the critics praises and
resent the little word referring to her
infirmity This will illustrate our
meaning. Take Professor Waman's
case as another instance. Last Sun
day we said a dozen or so of per
tectly lovely things about him such |
as his agreeable presence, fine intelli- /
purtenances, with additional state
ments of praise scarcely borne out
by the facts, but because we Ventured
the opinion that his pronunciation
was open to criticism he could hardly
wait till prayers were over to have
whack at The Herald critic.
T. F. OMalley's presentation of
'-The Streets of New York at the
theatre last night met with fair
sized audience which was chiefly
confined to the galleries. The play
old and somewhat weather
beaten seemed to find some ardent
admirers in the audience, as was
.estified by the bursts of applause on
several occasions. Mr.. O'Malley's
was composed Of local tai
mt entirely, most of whom had ap-
'eared on the previous evenings in
Reunited" The usual first night
litches and forgetfulness of lines
we're all threre but in somewhat
everer form than usual. M. w. S.
1oore in particular, appearing in
'lissful ignorance of his cue on sew
raj occasions. The small part of
Dan Puffy was made the most of by
Or. T. F. O Malley, while next to this
he Tom Badger of B. S. Young was
he best sustained character in the
Fhole performance. The uncertainty !
7hich seemed to pervade most of the :
will probably have disap- !
cared by Monday when 1.-The Streets ;
New York. will be presented =
gain.
The Grand Opera house stock COM y
any will present next week the farci- s
Al comedv in three acts. adapted from e
lie French Of Alfred Hennquin, and !.
ltitled Pink Dominoes' The merry y
lit was originally produced by Mad h
ne Rejane. who is now playing
adame Sans Gene, Sardou's Napole-
tic play, in New York, at the Vaude- 81
lie in Paris. Charles Wyndham had a
adapted into English and produced it e