The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-27
Dear Hal.

feel like one VINO treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted;
Whose lights are fed whose garlands
dead.
And all but he departed.
I think have quoted you these lines
-Moore's aren't they-before; but Moth
ing more forceful comes TO my mind
10 express the chilly sense of desola-
ton that ran up my spine when /
looked in at the theatre on Christmas
night. The times are out of joint, in
deed, when the Christmas season
passes and leaves the Salt Lake the
atre in the dumps. But there was no
dramatic attraction in sight. and the
ball floor still being laid from the
Kirmess, the attaches of the theatre,
in an ill-starred moment, took the
house for their annual benefit Poor
fellows. 1t resulted like many other
benefits of recent years-in an assess
ment. Terpsichore seems to have TAX
en- her harp or her Tyre, whatever she
carried about with her, and flown from
the scenes she once dearly loved to
haunt. ] couldn't help sadly musing
on the balls have seen in the theatre
in bygone days, when tickets sold at
So each, when jim Curry reigned Su-
prer1e, and when Mayor Jennings
mac speeches to the assembled hun
dreCs, always ending up by asking the
gents" in his hearty fashion to escort
their partners TO the groaning supper
table II the rear.
An old friend of yours, Little Lord
Fauntleroy," has been resurrected
down at the Grand. Do you remember
sweet Isabel EVeSSOn as Dearest and
that prodigy Waffle Edinger as Ceddie
and Picken as the crusty old earl, and
Russell Bassett as Hobbs, when they
first introduced us to Mrs. Burnetts
nIa hat
made in Salt Lake in those days, but it
was far enough back to have been
forgotten, SO it almost seemed fresh
and new when Messrs. Rogers and
Wyngate trotted it out last Monday
night The poor little Burton infant
(think of learning part like that; it
WIS almost a case for the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
was terribly overtaxed on the first
night, and an over anxious mamma
stood in the wings and quite took the
whole audience into her confidence as
the prompter. But after that night
the child went il alone, and with the
support she got from Edwards. Eide
son, Wyngate, Ross, Miss Valleau and
Miss Izett, she went through the ire
mendous role quite respectfully. Miss
Valleau as Dearest is what she always
was to me-sweet and pretty, but unable
to do the stronger parts few as they
dIG, III q I6dl4N SNIIDdlutliC IidIllcE
The little izett was the hit of the piece
as the adventures, and Edeson and
Edwards both improved on acquain-
lance later during the week
The widely advertised Yaw. with her
four octave register and her literally
''out of sight" upper altissimo, is down
on the boards as coming" Mr. Steph- (
ems is in a fiutter of expectancy, and
all musical society is as. much on the
qui vive as il was when Nordica was
announced. That song bird, by the way, /
is out $1,000 or $4,000 by exercising her /
prima donna assoluta prerogative and /
cancelling her Christmas date in Salt |
Lake. The town was simply hungering |
Friday night for something on the /
mammoth order. and NOrdica at the /
tabernacle would have drawn a mag |
nificent turnout MARGE.