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

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| and he speaks of him feelingly as fol-
| lows: Poor old Sandro His name
! and pictures and printing, etc. etc.
! are all over our Office, and his name
is still on the door: we walk IN ano
out and haggle, bargain and plan, III
a most shocking way, quite as tnouSn
tomorrow some one else may not put
his name over ours, and so on, ana SO
on, down to the last syllable OF re-
corded time This feverish struggle
/ to succeed: how silly, how hopeless it
seems, Poor old Sandro! l never
knew a man who hungered so for sue
cess who worked so strenuouSly for II,
who so thoroughly believed 1t in his
grasp, and the ladder was kicked from
under him just as he seemed to be on
the climb. Poor old Sandro, 1t has
made us all very sad. New York is
a sad place. 1t depresses me horribly,
and 1 admit it"
There does not seem to be much room
for doubt that the mantle of Patti
has fallen upon the shoulders of Melba.
Reginald De Koven, writing in last
Tuesdays New York World, says:
The principal-if, indeed, not the
only-interest in the performance of
''Traviata,' at the Metropolitan, last
night, was centered in Nine. Melba,
who sang the role of Violetta for the
first time in America, and, it may be
said at once and without demur, scored
a distinct success.
OF course all the operate veterans
whose criticism is governed by their
memory rather than by what they ac-
tually see. and hear, came primed with
recollections of Mime. Patti, in what
was undoubtedly her greatest role; but
even they had to admit that Nine.
Media was most excellent N1oletta,
even if she We're not Patti. l have, for
my part, always maintained that Nine.
Melba was the legitimate and only sue
cessor of Nine. Patti, and l was never
more convinced of the business of my
opinion that l was last night. Nine.
Patti undoubtedly sang some of the
music better for there was a some
thing about the quality of her voice
which never has been, and probably
never will be, equalled; but is there,
ask, any singer now before the public
who could be compared with Mime.
Melba in the part? In all truth and
justice, certainly not.
q 9 @
Speaking of Patti, it hardly seems
credible that the new soprano, Ellen
Beach YaW. can reach a note five
tones higher than Patti was ever able
to touch. Such, however is undoubt-
F, the same note, we believe that was
the lamented Mrs. Canless' upper limit;
Patti has been heard to render G.
one note higher, but very rarely. Yaw
sings with ease, it is said, high E, just
five notes above that dizzy height. This
note is represented in music by the
dot over the seventh leger line above
the staff, full octave above the high
T. that the average soprano seldom
if nh0S and q n n
third above the familiar high CO that.
many sopranos are proud to attain to.
YaW will be heard here one night only,
in the tabernacle. January 49, In her
company is Macmillan Dick, the noted
violinist, said to be a second Musin. 1t
is likely that the programme Mr..
Stephens will arrange will include one
or two concerted numbers for Miss Yaw
and the choir.
New York letter from a Herald
correspondent of recent date says: Il
see the Grand of your city has been in
financial trouble, and that there is
general wall going up all over the west
about hard times in theatrical circles.
Let me tell you you people out there
don't know what hard times means.
There IS more money lost every night
here that the various theaterS are
opened, than ever the town dreamed of.
There are not three that are making any
money, and half of them have weeks of
vacant time between now and April
l that the5Z can't find attractions to
fill. The road mortality is frightful.
Mapleson's big company has gone to
the dogs. A. NJ. Palmer, the man who
brought out The Two Orphans The
Lights o. London Daniel Rockat and
half a hundred other notable produc-
lions, has thrown up the sponge. The !
truth is. the masses have no money
and it's the masses that the theaters
of this great city must rely on.
The matinee girls are all in mournin- /
because Sothern has gone and married |
himself off. The Sothern- Harmed story |
is years old. So old that all believed it |
dead. When Virginia was Eddie's lead |
ing woman their love affair was very |
pretty and much talked about. That |
they never married was a pity but |
there were ver-- good reasons, for in |
those days matrimony of any kind |
would have settled Sothern in the pub
lies estimation and he would never
have lived to make his great hit as
Ressendyll in THE Prisoner of Zenda"
The management prohibited marriage,
and so the months passed and the gen
eral public was in ignorance as to the
warmth of the Sothern- Harmed story.
And since then the years have passed
and Virginia has lost the freshness of
her beauty and has become too stout
or symmetry and too luStreless for
stellar adventures. And Sothern is
steadily, rapidly, surely to-
ward the dignity and honors of an
lctor who can stand upon his merits,
alents and genius. That the DID, fierce
ire of first love has died to ashes and
smoke no one doubts. That the illu-
ions of youth and decisions of love
Tanished long ago every one believes.
When Virginia succeeded Grace Kim
)all there was scarcely a whisper.
These were the conditions when the
liyorce courts labored and brought
orth a Virginia Harmed scandal. She
vas named as correspondent in the
rhurlow Weed Barnes divorce case. No
me wondered, few were surprised. This
ort of thing is like ones wine supper
II 36-hour poker seance-a bit trying
nd hard to get over, but quite or
linary.
And then came Sothern, the forgotten
'othern, mayhap the neglected Sothern
at any rate the older. wiser, worldlier
;othern-and with calm dignity and
avor of honesty which made his king
nenaora Bile, he pronounces the story an
noossible lie, a vicious libel, a cruel .
low at 2 defenseless woman. He
nows the insinuation is false, for he is
o make her his wife! 1t was the spon-
aneous outburst of hero, and though |
is managers may carp and though the
ublic NAV dash their idol, those who
ove honor will know romance still
YES.
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