Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-08
IIUSIC AND DRAMA.
Good Week of Attractions the TheatersThe Scalch
Engagement Big Event-South Before War a
d. asvns Card-comns Attractions FootIieht Flashes.

Carrie Francis, Marion Brighton and
May Duryea.
a convincing argument in favor of
Courted Into Court is the numerous
songs and. specialties which are SAID
to punctuate its presentation. or tne
musical features, negro songs OF an up
to-date character Will take precedence.
Many Of these coon melodies bear most
expressive captions. Here are rev oi
them: Iiafn-aJam / Want Dat Man,
II That Amt Winning a Home !
Don't Know; Ma Lulu; Susie, Dis
Coon ,Hab Got De Blues; and ! AIN
Bliged to Stand No Niger Foolln
Other songs III Courted Into Court are
Bon Jour Monsieur: Whoop De Dooden
Do, contributed by the Dresslei' IhK-
ing Chance, n characteristic song.
with dance accompaniment, cuntrlput-
ed by Miss Dressler and John c. ltlee'
Mamie Reilly, us rendered by Shliy
Cohen and entire company; why j
Became a Sailor, a character song ny
John C. Rice; I'm the Daughter of the
Leader of the Band, by Miss Dressler
and company; O'Dooley's First FIVE
O'clock Tea, by John $. Sparks and
company; and The SWEETEST Thing In
Town, by Oscar l.. Figman and com
pany.
For Friday and Saturday evenings,
January 2l-22, Manager Burton of the
Salt Lake Theater announces the great
big musical comedy The Girl From
Paris, with cast of eighty people.
Long runs have been made with this
play in the big cities, and big road
business has marked the tour the com
pany is making over the country.
Next Friday evening and Saturday
matinee The High School MINISTRIES
will appear at the Grand. The COM
bination is made up of thirty students
from the public high school and At
good deal of talent is said to exist
idea of giving the entertainment.
Seats are being sold by subscription
and inquiries at the Grand box office
show that the chart for the dates mem
toned Is already pretty well penciled
up as result of advance bookings.
Another sensational play comes to
the Grand for the week of January
18th. This time it Is The Pulse of
New York and in addition to every
thing else. the piece is said to be
punctuated with many high class
that are generally appreci-
ated.
Marie Wainwright, who is playing
the leading role in Jacob Lifts produc-
ton of Shall We Forgive Her? profess
tb W Dt utllSHttu Will ntG
into melodrama. In a recent interview
she said that she liked the outspoken
approval of melodramatic audiences
much better than the decorous APP
plause of the people who patronize the
higher comedy in which Miss Vain
wright so long appeared. She has cer-
tainly made "a great hit as the melo-
dramatic heroine of Manager Lifts
fine production.
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Peter Robertson, dramatic critic for
the San Francisco Chronicle, apparent
ly did not take kindly to Stuart Rob-
sons new play. The Jucklins, and de-
livers himself of the following in last
issue:
Stuart Robson had great chance to-
night when he opened at the Baldwin.
He had Just such an audience as would
have reveled in him-if he had had a
They were-a large majority
buds, and beautiful buds. dressed in
their best, with their beaux beside
them. and how they would have
laughed If Robson had given them
How I Love My Ada!" But he didn't
A Gus Thomas potboiler, THE Juck-
lins!" How actors and managers will
tempt fate sometimes. The Juncklins!"
1t seems to me n name to drive people
away from the theater. A play so dull
so uncheerful, and here we are all
each other n Merry Christmas
and n Happy New Year. Some actors
and playwriters don't understand that
what a serious play must draw is SYM
pathy, not pity Pity never comforted
yet, and l never saw a half
witted or crazy man introduced into
n play who did not distress the audi
ence, unless he was funny. l suppose
Stuart Robson is like all comedians.
he wants to bring tears with serious
roles. He is. maybe. not satisfied with
drawing them with laughter. 1t is