The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-25
salt Lake. April "a.

pany is their advance agent; he out
Hannaed Hanna in the glowing tales
he heralded abroad concerning the
wonders of his stars, and now that his
show has come and gone, the rublic,
like the country. is wondering whether
it has been fooled. The Ward & Vokes
concern has some bright moments, it
is true, but there is such an abyssmal
hiatus between the promise and the full
f1llment that one forgets all it's bright
ness in her WEAKNESS over it's preten-
sions. Such an homogeneous blending
of the very good, the very bad and the
very Indifferent has seldom been seen
on the stage Ward has some natural
streaks Of humor; Vokes about as
much as a wooden saw-horse Both
plainly copied their ideas from the
odd Hoss'' of inir.4itable George Hoey.
and both ought to blush a deeper red
even than the lurid hue their faces
wore that they allowed that callow
youth to address the audience from the
orchestra, blazoning forth the alleged
worldwide fame of their work in the
following acts. Nothing more ilI-ad-
vised could have happened. The au-
dience worked itself up into a fever of
hilarious expectation and got all ready
to be carried out in paroxysms by the
ushers. The truth was that the last
act was nowhere nearly so good as the
first
The Grand people just now are en-
gagged in the double pursuit of making
money and reviving some pleasant old
memories. Pleasant, that is, for the
public. scarcely so pleasant for Gov
ernor Wells and his erstwhile boon
companions of the Home Dramatic
club, who must heave a sigh to be told
that they are now ranked under the
head of "reminiscences" 1t is four
teen or fifteen years ago this spring
since the home club leaped to the pin
nacle of its fame by bringing out
"Pique;" it had just scored heavily with
1.-The Bankers Daughter" but "Pique"
showed off its capabilities a great deal
more fully. The governor and John
Spencer admirably PLAYED the college
moths, olympic and Gill, who fiuttered
about the society fame, Nellie Cole
brook. These three roles should be ad-
mirably portrayed by Miss Bateman
and Messrs. Blakemore and Ross: that
is. assuming that Mr. Blakemore will
go through the formality of learning
his lines. What a treat it would be to
hear that clever comedian rattle off a
part without suffering, Bishop Whit
ney made one of his best hits of those
days in the role of the stern old
father. and Laron Cummings made
a handsome son. Edwards and KYLE
are paired off again in these roles,
with the fat" on the side of the for
mer. Bid Young was not born in those
days-or. at least, the stage had not
discovered him-but his clever wife. !
then Lottie Claridge, was strictly in (
evidence and made one of her big hits
as Raitch. which now falls to one of !
the new people, Miss Mifiin-who. by
the way, gave a very good account of /
herself in the Case" If memory
serves, Mrs. Wells who was then tax (
ing her first histrionic steps, was the
original Mary: Mrs. s. H Clawson the I
original Lucille. A very tart actor. one /
was the Raymond: Mark VIII /
ton. the doctor; Harry Taylor, Rag (
money Jim, his best achievement be-
fore or since: A. A. Hovey, the Padder,
and Airs. Professor Stewart. the Aunt
Dorothy. Who does not remember the /
famous ejaculation. What whoppers"'
Ardelle Cummings was the infant The
play drew tremendously in those days
and was repeated again and again by
the home club, always making hand
some money for them. Mr. Rogers.
with the cast he gives it. should find
it { powerful magnet. too.
Though "a Celebrated Case" has
been uneven all the week. that unfail-
Ing barometer, the Saturday matinee,
has shown that the town voted it
go" In the scene where the child
restifies against its father the whole
audience was sobbing SO audibly that
i was more like a shifting contest
han anything else. There was. too, a
vast Improvement over the opening
1isht. when there was really great
Zeal to find fault with. The ladies all
seemed strange in Goldstein's gowns
20 strange that Miss Bateman quite ;
lnwarrantably got out of them into
me of her own in the last act. the style
# which was, by the way, two CEN ,
uries later than the date of the play.
several white pettcoats hung below
he skirts in the prologue. Mr. Blake
more made a funny break when he in
tied the child 10 come closter" in {
tead of nearer" (That child. by the !
way. was daintily pretty. and we'll
worth the money Mr.. Hatch paid her ,
q let the other Cinderella waits go
Without herr Mr. Hatch ought to put
IL. people through a course OF French. !
he changes that he. Ford. Kyle and !
theirs rung on "D'Aubterre" were Z
nough TO make one giddy- A bone !
ught also to be picked with Mr.. I
,ehnter. whose music is always good.
ut whose judgment in his selections I
or this play was al fault. I submit S
hat The Heart Bowed Down" which
as written 200 years or more after |
he time of the play and whose origin g.
so universally known. is hardly the i
hing for dramatic music in this piece, c
ny more than Schubert's serenade is
ppropriate for an accompaniment ?
lille the child is telling about
5 mothers assassination. Hypercrit- I
al. you will say. Perhaps. but it all
attention from the stage. a
nd that Mr.. Hatch would not for a
loment condone. MARGE.
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