The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-06
cARLoTTA GILMAN.

Dear Hal: Feb. 5.
The week has been a scintillating
one, with entertainments galore, of a
quality both fine and suDerfine. You
know what the Frawleys are, and l
need only add that more than ever
they have established their right to
be known as the Days of the west. Mr..
F'rawley is a most artistic producer,
and one of the most artistic things
about him is the unObtrusive way he
has of keeping himself in the back
ground. Your average actOr-manager
will take all the fat roles there are
ir sight, regardless of whether the pub
lie wants him or not bat Mr. Frawley's
intuitive sense of what he is fitted for
and what not, amounts TO an inspira-
ton; he knows that nature has said:
Thus Gar and no farther shalt thou
CO. and with commendable discretion
he stays within the border line, de-
voting himself to gathering a coterie
of the brightest players obtainable, and
to bringing their work up TO the high
est point of polish. He may well feel
grave at the thought of replacing Miss
Bates. He has developed that young
lady as completely as DAILY has Ada
Rehan, and just where he can lay his
manu- OL d ulAllAS SLClGSSOA ~
perhaps he kAows-I don't. As for
Mr.. Worthing, while he has a follow
ing, he has too many faults to make
the finding OF a successor very much
of q problem. Barring his heavy dra-
goon, catarrhal accent, his acting in
The Wife was full OF correct tone and
proper feeling. But imagine a United
States senator saying, I awsked you
here tonight" and L fawncy your re-
sponse," etc. The best remembered
episode of The Wife to me has al
ways been that scene between Kelley
Miller and Wheatcroft, where young
Grey says between his teeth: III kill
you and Culver airily answers, Then
you'll hang" Worthing, Frawley and
Enos did it eXcellently well today, but
entire frankness compels the admission
that there was a considerable gap be-
tween their work and that of the IA
nous originals.
Mr. McGarvie's house has had an
other great week, and the crush at
eight consecutive renditiOns of Amor
tia shows how strong that form of
entertainment is with a big part of our
population. That so much can be given
for half a dollar is a marvel, and
though 'AmOrita," as done by the Cal
houns, IS entitled more TO the name
of a spectacle than an opera, it draws
just the same, so, doubtless, the pro-
prietOr figures, Where's the difference?
i truly operate instinct would take
some of the money used for the big dis
play and the spectacular and build up
the chorus, abOlishing. by the way. the
blatant tenor who makes the ensembles
a constant irritant to the flesh. The
orchestra is excellent and the general
display such as Salt Lake has often
paid dollar to see. But opera with |
out = good chorus is like an oyster |
patty with the oyster inadvertently
omitted.
Many Salt Lake friends of Jennie
Hawley have been charmed to receive +
pictures Of her from San Francisco.
showing her in the pretty boys cos /
tune she wears in The Serenade,'
with the BOstOnians. The cut of the
sad-faced. middle-aged lady printed in
Fridays Tribune and labeled with Miss
Hawley's name wss probably the mis-
take of the foreman in getting one of /
Mrs Pinkhams advertisements mixed .
up with the dramatic column. That /
"Our Jenny" is the same fresh-faced, (
thrush-throated girl of yore, we shall /