The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-16
THE WAR OF THE RosAL1NDs.

Julia Ma-iowe and Ada Rehan have
both been playing Rosalind in New
York the past week, and there has been
much rivalry between the houses where
they have been performing. Some of
the dramatic critics have preferred
Miss Marlowe's impersonation, while
others have preferred that of Miss Re
han. Among these who preferred that
of Miss Marlowe was the critic of the
Commercial Advertiser, and Mr.. DAILY
has undertaken 20 punish it for daring
to prefer anyone's Rosalind to Miss Re
hans. The Commercially Advertiser
says: "Augustin Days manager gives
US notice that this newspaper is to be
excluded from the Daily reading room,
and denied the Daily advertisement, be-
cause we preferred the Marlowe AS
You Like It. whereas the consensus
of newspaper opinion showed that the
Daily performance was better. Mr.. Dor
ney added that the dramatic editor of
this paper was an amateur The only
public interest in this act is in the light
it throws on some aspects of New York
art and criticism. Mr.. Daily. in our opin-
ion, deserves high praise for his ambi-
tion to have the most intellectual the
atre in the world. We believe, however,
that he makes a mistake when he tries
to punish or suppress frank criticism. :"
Is it possible that history is to repeat
itself in the persons of these two
charming actresses? Can it be that the
rivalry between them is to become so
intense as that between Forrest and
Macready half century ago? That
was 4 rivalry that viii be historic for
all time.
All theatrical people are jealous of
each other. yet who but a Forrest
would ever have let his jealousy become
SO consuming that he would hiss the
greatest English actor of his time? And
this is what Forrest did at the Theatre
Royal in Edinburgh. Then, how intense
became the hatred of the two men for
each other when they were both playing
in New York in that memorable spring
of 40. Forrest was at the Broadway
theatre, and Macready at the Astor
Place theatre. 1t had been announced
that the great English actor would ap-
pear on May Z. When he appeared on
the stage he was greeted with a shower
of stale eggs and rotten potatoes. The
performance was discontinued. The
night following there was no attempt
to give a performance, but on the 10th
the attempt was renewed. A repetition
of the disgraceful scenes of the Eth was
begun. The police charged and dis
persed the rioters on the inside, while
the mob on the outside attacked the
building with the fury of demons. Be
fore things had arrived at this pass the
militia had been ordered to be ready to
move CT a moments notice The Sew
enth regiment was upon the ground
The city recorder addressed the mob,
telling It how unlawful its action was,
and urging it to dispense. His urgings
were greeted with yells of derision. The
mob had got beyond control. and was
deaf to the appeals of reason. Finally
the order to fire was given. 1t was
promptly obeyed. The result was % per
sons killed outright, and S6 more or
less badly wounded. The mob fed and
never gathered again.
And ali this was the result of theatre
cal jealousy. The rivalry between the
Marlowe and the Rehan will scarcely
proceed to such extremes.