The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-22
My dear Hal:

Ny dear Hal:
You always called me a crank on the
subject of home productions, and L
alwa. gracefully accepted the cog
nomen. am crank of cranks in favor
of everything under the sun that comes
into the world with a Utah trade mark
on it whether it be bar of soap,
sac.s of sugar, or a genius like Maude
Adams 2r Ned Royle. I glory in them
all and as long as it is in my power to
do it, III sing their praises spread
their fame. and lend them such free
and willing aid as my feeble pen pos
sesses, to herald their success.
Young MI Royle has quite captured
the town this week. more effectively,
! think, than he did before with other
of his achievements. / DOUBT II
Friends or Mexico could have
crowded the Grand for seven per
formances and then overfiowed into the
next week The new play is in truth
absorhingly interesting, and it grows
Oh one; liked it better the second time
! saw ii than the first. It's chief charm
is its originaiity--there' not a conven-
tionsl moment in it but one; that is
when the nero says, GUS VIII never
go to she Denitentiary; he may go to
ROyle that thats hOary from usage,
and the only commonplace thing il a
dialogue that sparkles and scintillates
from beginning 70 end. / have never
seen an audience more breathlessly
fixed and riveted than that at today's
matinee, when the very clever ending
to the third act. involving the throw
ing of that fateful Letter in the waste
basket and its finding by pere Ed
wards, was going on. That whole end
ing is an excellent episode, Mr.. Royle,
almost Sardouesque III conception.
Somehow il brought to my mind the
missing packet episode in Diplomacy
traced by the scent of musk on the
gloves of the thief. OF course the two
are not at all alike, except in the ma
turalness and delicacy of treatment
The whole cast Was superb-the best !
We have had on Mr. Rogers stage |
since the days of Ingersoll, Edwards, /
Edeson, Clark, Warren. Cooke Warde |
and Blakey-all did admirable work; |
even dear old EdeSon, who had a gentle |
tender part. bur who is handicapped /
in such roles from the fact that his
audiences have grown so accustomed
to laugh at him that they can hardly
be induced to take him seriously, made
a hit in his part. Mrs. Royle, Miss
Dwyer, Mr.. Royle and Mr.. Edwards
have been d their best, while young
MI w yESdle mas Tor the nrSt time
shown Us what his best is Eis is
the hi- that viii be longest remem-
bered- Long life and success to One
Plus One say I, and may it equal
dozen long and prosperous seasons.
most dainty and pretty little
mountain flower doomed DIT the theater
part of the week in ''Tennessee's Pard-
ner," but it was accorded poor nourish-
ment and II faded away in a melaa-
choly manner 1t brought us back
Harry Malnhall, who, the last time
he was here, got his name in bigger
type than he will ever see it in as an
actor, because of the three regular
rows per day which he and Jeffrevs
Lewis used to have on the stairway of
their hotels. They were married. / be-
lieVe, the usual preliminary NOWADAYS,
10 a seodration, and since then have
been padding their canoes in different
directions, uD or down, the stream of
life - u
Next week we shall see what MI.
Rogers has done for us in the two new
people he has brought on to fill the va
cared shoes Of Miss Belgrade and Mr.
Butter. MARGE.