The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-24
Jan. %.
Dear Hal:

Dear Hal:
a From Monday morning till this mo-
sment of writing, the week has been
damned full of events that your soul
would have delighted to jostle in. First
came the girl with the sky rocket notes
-Yaw; then the thunderbolt at the
Grand in the dismissal of dear old Eide
son; then the Bateman-Kyle allega-
lions and counter allegations; then the
bitter shafts from the Nalleau culver,
and the news that she, too, would JOIN
the long procession of leading ladies
who have been weighed at the Grand
and found wanting; then the phenOme-
nal engagement of the Brownies;
while as a side show the senatorial
contest has been striking sparks OF
fire all the week, and shedding an
uncanny phOSphorescence over all.
The Xaw lady is the sort of attrac-
ton that succeeds by being "circused;f
that is, pushed and doomed in the style
adopted by MesSrs. FoTepaugh and
Sells; no one ever saw a circus that
came up to its advance printing, even
the great Mckinley hippodrome did
not do that; and when Miss YaW man
ayers flooded the town and the papers
With illustrations of the range their
singer. commanded. they had no inten-
ton whatever of having her demon
strate to the public that she could do
what they claimed. AS a matter OF
fact, fatty deny that she or any other
human being can sing an Z in altlsi-
mo. Her A fiat up in that zone was
wOnderfu-that l admit; but it was
sufficiently near to a musical scream
to convince one that if she tried to
climb up four notes higher the voice
simply wouldn't respond. We all en-
joyed the concert, and bat for the ad-
vertising promises there would have
been no disappointment; when the
manager was asked after the show
why Yaw had not taken Z, he answered
with all pOliteness that she didn't hap
pen to have a song that night that took
her up there-there was no manner of
doubt that she could take the note,
but il wasn't always advisable to do
it. For the rest, it can be said that the
Yaw is a personable, unaffected, genial
little woman, and that her ViOlinist
with the impossible name twas there
ever a more striking blending of the
sublime and the ridiculous than Max
imilian Dick?) is an artist from tip to
toe. We have dozen pianists in Salt
Lake who wouldn't fear to enter the
lists with Miss Law.
Blossoms dismissal is one of those
things that no one appears able to
find a reason for. 1t is conceded that
he is a perfect stage manager, an eX-
perienced actor, most cOnpaniOnable
man, and if the managers ever had a
doubt of his pull with the public, the
events of the past few nights must
have scattered it. Good luck attend
you. George, wherever you go.
The cloud of little arrows Miss Val
leau let fly at Miss Bateman would,
perhaps, have had more effect had they
not been discharged by a going lady
al a coming lady. The surprise the
charges created was only equalled by
the surprise that any paper could be /
found which would print them. If our
columns are to be opened for actors to I
voice the delightful sentiments they
entertain towards other actors who su- |
persede them, why, then, as a former
official Of Salt Lake used to say on GER |
tain regular occasions, Stop my papah, !
sah!'
The Brownies have danced and |
sung their way into our hearts, and |
exercised a magic so potent that they |
have made US all forget the fact that |
there is not a single overtowering per !
son of artistic eminence in their whole |
merry crowd. Salt Lake has literally |
tumbled over herself pouring dollars
into their Golfers. What magic could be |
more potent than that,
Next week it is to see the rising of
the luminous star-NOrdica. The feast
she viii present viii be a solid thanks
giving repast, compared to which the
Yaw event was only little KensingtOn
Tea. MARGE.