The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26
deal Hal

Deal Hal
Dizziness and apathy supreme and all
pervading hang over the town like a
pan this week. Only one theater go
ing, and that in a half hearted desui-
tory fashion Everything and every
body gravitating away from the city.
On the oath, our forty-ninth natal day.
the town was like Goldsmith's Desert
ed Village" Even politicians are life
less; that Salt Lake and all Utah will
be for Bryan is as much of a fat ac-
compli' as anything mundane can be
in advance. The one surprise of the
week has been the announcement from
10 RawIns that he will not run for the
senate this year. With the present tenn
per of Utah voters, and with US wo-
men coming up to cast our first bal
lot, that amounts to little short of re-
fusing the election. It's self-sacrif1c-
ing, but L could swear.
Monday-Midnigh
Went with lunch baskets in a big
crowd out to Garfield; sat at a table,
munched veal loaf and slipped lemon
ade while The Mikado" was going on
from a miniature stage. Vastly peas
ant, ministering to two senses at once
in that "al fresco'' fashion. The dear
old opera carried me back with a leap
TO the days of Nettie Thatcher. the
original Yum Yum: to john Spencer.
the first ko ko; to George Pyper, the
first Nanki Poo Of whom a lady, since
married, said his voice was a, dream
and his legs d symphony; to John
White, the Staid Pooh Bah, and to b.
IS. Young. the unctuously funny Mika-
edo. Three Of that splendid cast, one
of the very best 1 think that the gifted
amateurs of those days gave to US.
are here no more. Lou McEwan. LOUIS
Wells and Charlie Whitney-an are
gone where carols and singing. nope,
form the most serious business of Ffe.
Professor Careless was on hand still,
looking as natural as when he hrSt
brought the opera out, but working
great deal harder to keep Blabemore's
music going.
A big protest ought to be made by
someone against the manner of put
ting these operas on Neither Pima
fore" nor 1.-The Mikado' was more than
two-thirds ready when the public was
invited to pass judgment on it Next
to that is the glaring evidence of in
competency on some ones part in do
ing the casting of the parts. Were 1
Mr. Barrett or Mr.. BuTley or the re
ceivers of the road, I would object TO
the stage manager employing singers
who cannot sing. The ladies could not
Ne DeIIGIR0. ZhloS L dc-AT MIS- ANfN eAA -
.sAIiss Dean, all admirable, all charm
ing: but why Mr. Richards ard Mr.
James? The woods are full on sing
ers: why employ reciters? Perhaps it
was a fellow feeling on the part OF Mr.
Blakemore if he did the casting. Re
Oily. his singing tonight was a study
They talk of fright turning mems hair
gray in a single night; from where
sat. ] could see Professor Careless few
remaining hairs perceptibly bleaching
Thursday.
Saw 1.-The Mikado'' again. A vast
change: Mr.. Ashworth 'perked up
wonderfully, and the little cooper doing
some excellent singing. The whole
performance shows what it might have
been on the opening night with proper
care. The vocal shortcomings are st1h
there-they are chronic; but the I'M
provement is immense, especially IN
Rlakie, and the thing is a positive
..go.o Miss Howard makes hit each
night .
Ten minutes only at ''The Police Pa
troll" burglaries, murders, police, an
archv. suicides galore. The murders IN
the play. not the only numbering done;
I should have taken hand myself had
/ remained longer. MAhGh.