The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

ternaturally high and wide range and
the exquisite phrasing deserve all the
unstinted praise that they have re-
ceived. The wonderful tones pour
forthsfrom the slender throat without
the slightest effort on the part of the
singer, whose utterly unaffected and
simple manner adds greatly to the
charm of her songs. She improVlses
nearly all of her cadenZas, rising
from the full, powerful soprano tone,
rich like beautiful alto. timbre, up
where the caprices of her own fancy
carry her soaring like a lark to the
wonderful notes which have never been
written for human voice and have
been reached only by herself.
&, &, {:
Next to Nordica and Scalchi the big
star of their company is Mr.. Barron
Berthald, the tenor, who is one of the
foremost singers of the day. He sings
ali the Wagner roles and has created a
big impression both in England and
America. Nordica and her company
appear three nights in San Francisco
and jump to Salt Lake for one concert
on the 2Sth.
Following are extracts from three
leading New York papers on Ned
Royle's play, produced last Monday
night:
Post: A romantic melodrama, with
Mexican background. called Captain
Irhpudence," was produced in the
American theater last evening. E. NJ.
Royle, the author of the piece, and Mr..
Mckee Rankin played the principal
characters, and the representation met
with a favorable reception.
Commercial Advertiser: At the
American theater last night comedy
drama, Captain Impudence," by Ed
win Milton Royle, was produced with
much success. The scene is laid dur
ing the Mexican war, in a Spanish
mission held b. the United States
troops, and in the third act, on the
heights of Chepultepec, after its cap
MI. ROyle has conceived a play. full of
dramatic situations. relieved bv
much lighter vein of humor. While
the piece supplies abundant excitement,
II is IN the lighter passages that per-
haps its chief excellence lies. A very
pretty scene is furnished between the
major of the American command and
his daughter. The character of the
major is taken by Mckee Rankin, who
gives fine characterization of the
rough-mannered but good hearted
army officer The author of the play,
Mr.. Royle, as Willard Shields of the
American army, has a part which fits
him well.
Another admirable sketch in the play
is Captain Shields slave, South Caro-
lima JIM we'll played by Samuel Ed
wards. Selena Fetter RoYle as the
Mexican woman who causes so much
trouble, plays admirably "a difficult
parti Miss Amelia Bingham as a sort
of regiment widow, and Miss Ellen
Burg Edeson, as a vivacious young
woman, contributed to the undoubted
success OF the production.
Mail and Express: Military
dramas, good, bad and indiffer-
ent have been thrust upon the
public so thick and fast during the last
ten or dozen years that it is refresh
ing 10 find one that makes a depar-
ture from the old beaten ground of
such undertakings. Mr.. Edwin Milton
Royle has constructed a play which
contains that saving quality. 1t is en-
titled Captain Impudence." and the
author and his associate players pre-
scented it for the first time in this city
at the American theatre last evening
before an audience that filed the house
and applauded the performance so
heartily that Mr.. Royle was compelled
to make a speech of acknowledgment
at the close of the second act.
Mr.. Royle gives clever and force
full portrayal of Captain Shields The
pa 1 - q tSAAS Cll9d4 OitGs anu udNlAlS
everything his own way the author !
certainly makes it interesting and pic !
turesque. Mrs. Selena Fetter Royle /
finds. in the character OF Jovita the /
largest and most dramatic role she has /
ever undertaken, and her impersona- |
ton is one of astonishing strength, in |
telligence and vividness. 1t is both !
vigorous and delicate. It is tragic yet
impassiOned yet pathetic,
and is altogether an artistic and con-
ScientiOus rendering of an exceedingly (
difficult character.
As Lucretia Bugg. the capricious,
willful daughter of the regiment. Ellen
Burg Edeson is vivacious. dainty and
wholly irresistible. Her acting is
Diquant, graceful and delightfully."- origi-
lal Mckee Rankin makes a jolly and
ovable Major Bugg, Amelia Bingham
s equally clever and charming as Mrs.
Hrigg, and Mr.. Gibbs as Mendoza gives
/ portrayal which is one of the finest
and most thoroughly artistic things in
he whole performance.
s. . 9
The New York Sun SAYS that the
passage of the bill to punish play pi-
'ates seems to have caused consterna-
ion among the thieves. Charles Bar
lard. secretary of the American ORA
natists club, said yesterday that he
lad received several letters from no
OrlOuS pirates asserting a willingness |
o pay royalties and make inquiries as
o rates. He will tell them that the
Tub has nothing to do with adjusting
erms between authors and managers.
Jnder the new law any person who
vilfully and for profit causes the per-
ormance of a play in Disregard of
he owners rights must be fined and
upon conviction. It has
'een impracticable hitherto to protect
property in plays. The Frohmans once
undertook to do it, but they found
hat it would be necessary to follow
ach piratical company separately, and
btain new injunction in each United
states court district visited The num-
'er of the pirates is large. They travel
n the smaller cities usually, and use
II the successful plays under disguis-
ng titles. Chicago is the headquarters
or the thieves, and the news from
hat city is that they are panic stricken
hey will not dare to continue their
racticeS after the bill becomes a law.
nd Mr.. Barnard says that most of
hem will try to buy licenses to use
he plays which they have hitherto
tolen with impunity.
.. % $
Lend Me Your Wife, Roland
teeds play. is To form the bill at the
irand during the coming week with