The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09

borne both artistic and financial fruit
/ The advance sale for Monday and
Tuesday are both large, the house for
Monday being nearly all sold out. The
company will go to Logan on Oct. y,
Provo, 18th, and Ogden. 18th. Special
rates will be made to friends wishing
to accompany the opera company, and
already large number have signafied
their intention of going.
This has been a revelation to me-"
said DR.. Parry, at the close of yester-
days matinee performance. DR.. Par
ry occupied a stall in connection with
J Mr.. Edwards, of Scranton, Pa, Mrs.
Woodward, the gifted soprano, and sew
eral lady friends of this city. He sat
through the entire three acts and took
a prominent part in leading the ap
/ plause. i have written several OPP
eras," said the doctor, and am now
engaged on my fifth work, which 1 hope
/ 70 produce in New York in the near
/ future with a Welsh company of 40,
with II in the orchestra. 1 can truth
| fully say that in all my experience /
! have never seen a company Of anna
teurs, if these may be called amateurs,
who have given such a first perform
ance. 1t is in all ways up to. city
production. I can only say that 1 have
been aStounded at the talent in Salt
/ Lake ever since I set foot here, and
listening to this magnificent produc-
ton of The Queens Lace Handker-
chief has more than ever impressed
me with the genius you have in your
beautiful valley"
Mr. Edwards, who was with the doc
tor, said he had been in wonderment
from beginning to end. He had seen
New York productions, he said, and
this certainly came up to many of
them. He could not have believed that
the artists and especially the chorus
were amateurs if he had not been so
assured
The capture OF the first prize at the
great Eisteddfod just ended, by the Salt
Lake Ladies' chorus under the leader
ship of Nine. Amanda Swenson recalls
the pleasing fact that this is the third
time this organization has won dis
tinction in this line. The chorus took
the prize at the 1895 Eisteddfod and
again at the Denver meeting a year
ago.
While much of the success may be
due to the individual singers who con-
stitute the chorus, none of them are
reluctant in ,praising their leader under
whose able direction they. have been
enabled to acquit themselves with such
credit.
member of the Swedish Ladies' quar-
tette, Which toured Europe and Amer
lea with the famous violiniSt Ole Bull.
She is a woman of rare musical talent
and has a thorough knowledge of the
best classic music. For a time she
drilled the lady members of the great
tabernacle choir with excellent results,
and is generally recognized as posses
;sing unusually aptitude in the training
of cnoruses.
The Grand has had very prosperous
week during the conference and Els
'teddfod sessions, and ended up very
satisfactorily yesterday afternoon and
evening. Commencing Monday night
they have another farce comedy attrac-
ton on the speciality order in the Clara
Thropp company, being what is called
"a merry operate comedy" and enti-
tied Where's Matilda" For the week
commencing Monday. the 18th, the
well-known comedy 'Hogan's Alley"
the Yellow Kid, will be the
bill.
Clara Thropp is an American girl,
who was educated in Paris.
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Local Scotsmen are very much inter
ested in the announcement that Dur
ward Lely, the tenor who accompanied
Patti in her first visit to this city, will
be here at the Congregational church
on the evening of the 2Sth. Mr.. Lely
will be under the management of Mr..
David Smellie of Calder's musical es-
adjustment Mrs. Lely accompanies
him, and the two are said to give a
rare evenings entertainment.
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Miss Ramsey of Provo, the young
lady who won the contralto solo prize
at the Eisteddfod, was a pupil of
Madame De Loery. Miss Ramsey is the
possessor of a rich voice of exquisite
sweetness and the adjudicator in
awarding the prize ascribed much Of !
her success to careful training.