The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-20
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Dear Hal:

Dear Hal: March 10.
Looking upon the blithe form of dear
old Barnabee, who is to comic opera
what 10 jefferson is to the drama;
listening to the rolling thunder of
Cowles' lower E, and drinking in-with
closed eyes-the sound of Bartlett Da-
Wis luscious tones-wilo could be per-
sraded that it's five years to a month
since the Bostonians were last with us?
But it's the truth. Sixty months have
actually blown by, and whatever
changes they have brought to you or
me or to our town, they have made
but few with this sterling old organ
iZation. Barnabee is 70, and bids fair to
go on for another ten years to come:
Cowles is even deeper, bigger, fuller
chested, more diapason-toned than
ever; the tell-tale gray is at his tenn
ples@the marks, perhaps, of the di-'
vorce court more than of age-but the
gray has never penetrated his voice.
Macdonald has gone off a shade, it is
true and the day is Fastening when
he viii confine himself to the front of
the house. rockingham has not
changed a peg, an iota. Josephine
Bartlett is just as she was, plump
and pleasing person, with no especial
voice to worry over. But her sister
Jessiel Sit still, my heart; and thou,
my pulses, grow not instant cold Jes-
sic is all she was, and good deal more
that is, in avordupois. Has little
of the velvet gone off her voice as that
new weight has come on?' 1t may be
sacrilege to say it, but l fancied it in
1.-The Serenade" last night. 1t may
have been the role, which is highly
pitched for a contralto. Pray heaven
it was I shall know better after Rob
l,.,,. - rVerl1N
that Jessie. the divine, the western
opera queen OF the past decade and
half, has reached the top of the hill and
even started down the other side by so
much as half a pace. is enough to give
one the heartache. But, Jessie, an an
cient adorer implores thee-diet; take
to the bicycle; become a physical Gull
turest; anything; but don't shatter
the poetic memory of your sylph-like
past.
"Our Jennie" as the papers are al
ready lovingly clubbing her. has filled
the public eye for three days more
completely than anyone else in the
company. Her welcome at the matinee
was all anyone could have wished or
sighed for except an actress. She
had hoped for night opportunity. in
stead of an afternoon one, but some
body's blunder disarranged it, and she
was disconsolate. 1t was unfortunate
that llGI nblilt-COlliifiS SHpulQ nave
been marred by such an incident, but
hard to see how it could have been
avoided without depriving the public
of a chance to hear Jessie Bartlett Da-
Wis in Robin Hood" and that is what
a great portion of the public paid their
money to hear But better things are
ahead for Jennie. Next year she will
indulge in the luxury of an understudy
herself, and when she next visits her
home the welcome she will receive viii
wipe out all recollections of her pres
ent disappointment. A very trim and
natty figure she looked in her boys
fitout, reminiscent of the faded days
when the Davis herself first dawned
on our vision, a petite figure in the
regimentals of THE Drum Majors
Daughter" parading with Carleton and
Drew. Jennie has everything in her
favor. We shall all bend anxious eyes
in her direction next year, and hope
that she is making no mistake in so soon
trying her wings out in the inhospit-
able world. MARGE.