The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-03
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SAT- Lake, May ..
Dear Old Darling-This is the first
batch of Leaves from My Diary
which you wanted me to tear from nv
book every Sunday morning and mail
TO you by earliest post; the next best
thing to talking over the theatre with
me, you were kind enough to say, would
be to get MY impressions set down by
my own hand. warm from the press.
as il ere. Well, here goes: But don't
blame me if the pages read little dull,
sometimes; it was your idea, you know,
: not mine; and it's not my fault if Char
lie Burton doesn't trot out Mansfields
every week, and ne John Rogers viii
J persist in his REVEALS, ard if the little
band box Of a Lyceum viii deal in
warmed over theatricals.
Monday midnight
A trying day; nothing whatever at
the theatre; two old bills at the Grand,
and Caste-where have I heard that
name? At the other place. what dye
call it? Lyceum Gould there be two
worse misnomers than Grand" and
"Lyceum" applied to these petite re-
Sorts john Rogers, my Joe, rechristen
ut Bl1cG, next seasOn-please2 (Will
there be next season for the other
mouse, ] Worder?) The Picture. we had
1t before, with Blanche Bates. Frawley
and King, I think. Now it is Truax
the new woman, Edwards and King.
It's pretty much Of standoff as Hal
would say, though perhaps the other
trio got rather more poetry out of it
than the present one. But Edwards is
excellent; not so dainty and lace hand
kerchlefy, don't you know, as Frawley,
but more convincing. I haven't made
up my mind yet about TruaX. Wait.
That laughable, silly thing THE Three
Hats I'm mad at myself for laughing
over il. but who could help it? Ken
mark is the boy again, but the seams
and buttons are reaching the danger
point. Jenny. Better cling to petticoats,
or join Maud May Babcocl1s exercise
class.
Tuesday, midnight
Took in the Lyceum: expected to be
taken in but wasn't. Really a very pre-
,;eEtable presentation. But why
Caste Mr.. Gleason? That drunken
sot may be one of your prize parts
but due regard for the box office
ought to have suggested to you that
Robertson's comedy is known by heart
to any theatre goer in Salt Lake. and
that half the population from the gov
ernor down has played in it. By the
way. there is a different smell around
the Lyceum. This has no reference to
the places once having been a livery
stable; but some of the people who used
to do leading business there-Faughi
Bring out the patchouli.
Friday. midnight.
Went early 10 the theatre and hun
grily waited for the coming of George
Wilson, the star of Primrose & Vests
show When he came it was a disap
pointment. used to think Wilson was
the coming minstrel; he must have
come-and gone-since he was last in
SAT- Lake. He's nowhere near as funny
as in the old days; where. oh where is /
DockstaGer! The rest of the show was
mammoth. but it was not film; =
more of a combination variety and edu- /
cational aggregation than the thing We
sighed for. But my, the money it
made, MARGE.
p. Sour singers are back from Cal /
ifornia with laurels to burn; some of /
them were mildly roasted, but it will do +
them no harm. and may serve for some
I could name as cold cloth to reduce
possible head swellings. 1 don't know
what SALARY that little man Stephens
is getting. but it ought to oe great (
one.
To a light matinee and a heavy night |
house Eddie Foy made his reappear-
ance in Salt Lake yesterday in ''The |
Strange Adventures of Miss Brown"
He is we'll on his way to the coast by |
This time and has gotten out of Salt (
Lake all he can for this year, so pro-
baby he viii not mind our saying that /
he is as much out of place out of
rhall1ed faced. pantalooned clown !
h np 4 n
4he shore Given burleque-like Ali
Raba" or "Sinbad" with no cues to
observe. no limits to bind, no sweet
will but his own, and Foy is the prince
of laugh makers. Put him into
comedy where anything straight is
TO be done. where he is bound by
dramatic roles. and he founders and is
lost. This was the case last night in
large part at least Of the comedy; after
he got into female habiliments and
gave his hunlor play, he made a good
many side-splitting breaks and pro-
bahlv the general vote of the audience
was that it got its full dollars worth.
THE company is a bright and capable
one. and while the play as a play is
not so great as the advance advertis-
ing had depicted. it is very funny on
the broad "Charley's Aunt lines and
viii doubtless be good for a consider
able run.
PLAYS may come and plays may go,
F,1,t Hoyts creations seem to go on
forever. Here we have again his-never
airing musical trifle, "a Trip to Chi
natown." This popular vehicle has +
made its author a world wide reputa-
Hioa and has proved itself one of the
greatest money making ventures the
Theatrical profession has ever known
After playing at Hoyt's home theater
FOR an unprecedented run of over 500
nights it was sent on q tour to the
principal cities of America, and now
zir. Hoyt intends sending it to Aus
Hrafia- Some few months ago William
son and Musgrove, the well known
Australian managers, were in America
with a view to selecting half dozen
good American plays to treat their pat
rons with, and "a Trip to Chinatown
will accomplish that end, and that is
nc mistake. The company which Hoyt
entends to send to the 'land OK the
kangaroo" includes some of the high
est salaried artists to be had in the
field. Notable are Harry
Conor the original well and strong
Geraldine McCann, George Beane, Pa
trice. Sadie Mcdonald, Frank Lawton,
Amelia Stone, j. Aldrich Libby, Arthur
Pacie, Madeline Lack. They are now
playing a few principal cities of the
and on May % will embark on
one of the steamers on the Ocean
company, due to arrive in
sydney June 23, at which city they
s,tart on a sixteen weeks tour in the
interior under the stage direction of
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