The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-14
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.

The theater viii be open two nights
only during the coming week. Thursday
evening the renowned violinist. Mad
anne Camilla Urso and her company
give = concert, and on Friday the
Young Ladies Aid society introduces
the trio ot Webbing sisters. Besides
Urso herself, who is now en- tour in
America for the first time in six years,
the company includes Miss Minnie
Method, a soprano who is a grand neice
of the famous tenor Wachtel; Edwin
H. Douglass q, tenor of excellent repu-
tation in the east, and George H. Wes-
lev, pianist.
The New York Advertiser recently
gave Urso this notice: The programme
at Carnegie hail last night was much
more interesting than at the concert a
week ago. For the first time a really
great violin artist made her appear
ance. Nine. Camilla UrsO and her
playing was a deliberate gage, pacifi-
cally thrown down, yet a genuine criti-
cal challenge to any of the visiting
Ifolinists this season. Nine. Urso
played the ''Otello Fantasy" by Ernst.
1t is conventional, unsteady, YET be-
loved of violinsts, because of its nu-
merouS opportunities for technical dis
play But Nine. Urso made more of
it than you can imagine. One cantabile
variation was eXquisitely played. She
siXths and double thirds are sInrivalled
IN purity Her skIps were given with
absolute certainty, and then the musi-
cal quality dominating all She is at
her prime. Her tone is rich, mellow
and powerful.
The Young Ladies' Aid society may
always be relied on to give the public its
moneys worth in any entertainment
it offers. which is the reason the public
has always responded so generously to
the societys efforts. Friday evening
the Webbing sisters. direct from Lon
don, give an entertainment which COM
bines the poetical. the musical and the
terpsichorean. The younger Webbing
IS known as one Of the cleverest Faunt-
leroys that have ever essayed the part,
and her two elder sisters are said to be
10 less clever. They are assisted by
Miss F. NJ. Kennick pianist, graduate
of the Royal Academy of London.
Prices have been reduced for this at
traction, and the public knows that a
worthy cause will be benefited by its |
patronage.
The Salt Lake Opera company held !
its first rehearsal of Patience" at Cal
der's hall on Friday evening, the books |
and orchestral parts having been re- /
ceived from the Tivoi, San Francisco, !
through the courtesy of George Z. !
J.ask, stage manager of that house. |
The announcement that the popular |
tenor. r. c. Easton, would appear. as
the duke in Patience" the part origi-
nally sustained by George D. Pyper,
was received with surprise and pleas
ure by the members. The full cast will
be as follows:
Patience $50. .......... Miss Savage |
Lady Jane -. 49,. Miss Edna Dwyer
Lady Angela ........ Miss Lottie Levy
Lady Ella 49,. Miss Della Daynes
Lady Saphir $3.50. miss Ruby Pike
BunthOrne ..-..... .....--.Mr. spencer
The Colonel ..............M Mr.. Goddard
The Duke -.---..-...- -...A MT tsaSton
Grosvenor -.......-.. ....Mr. Shearman
The Major Mr.. Graham
The Solicitor $500. -. Mr.. Campbell
pShe costumes for both Patience
and the Mascot" which will be re-
vived two nights during conference,
will be brought from San Francisco.
The same reduced scale of prices as
before will prevail, which will be a
welcome innovation to the conference
people.
The Grand will take its first real
plunge into the sensational. scenic
melodrama tomorrow night, when the
City will be put or, with special at
tention paid to the necessary big
scenic effects. This play was first
done here with /. r. Stockwell in his
famous part of the thief, and later it
was revived in a half amateur, half
professional way, with OMalley in
that role. 1t now falls to Mr.. Blake
Saore. Miss Bateman will do the strong
heroine Mr. Kyle will have the hero,
Mr. Edwards the villain, Mr.. Hatch ;
the Jene last done here by IS. S. Young. ;
and Jean Clara Walters well-known