The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24
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Warde appears in his favorite old role
of Virginius. 1t hardly needs to be
said that Mr.. Warde is the best de-
iineator of this tragic character now
before the public. Tuesday evening
Mr.. Warde presents 'Ingomar" In both
plays he will be supported by a cap
able company, with Miss Sarah Truax.
favorite actress in Salt Lake, as lead
ing lady.
This will probably be Mr.. Warde's
last season alone; next year he will be
a member of the James Warde-Rhea
combination.
Saturday nights are always the
poorest of the week for theatricals,
and last night with the public en-
crossed by the arrival of the Sixteenth
and the general war excitement, it was
a little worse than usual. The Salt
Lake Dramatic society gave the
comedy of Our Regiment" at the
theatre, and the proceeds were sup
posed to go to help the local baseball
league; 1t is to be hoped that the
league has some other sources of
revenue for if there was enough in
last night to square with Mr.. Burton
for the rent, there was but little more.
Our Regiment" was. not a happy
selection for the amateurs, clever as
they are 1t is too talky, too devoid of
incident for any except the most ac-
complished professionals to cope with
successfully. and though it was we'll
staged, prettily costUmed and played
with commendable rapidity the in
dividual characterizations were not
score what could be called a hit. The
principal work was done by Mr..
Rogers, Mr.. Young, Mr.. Dunn, Mr..
SwenSon, Miss Ferguson and Miss
Calder.
The only Corbett appears here in his
new play next Saturday afternoon and
evening. It is called "A Naval Cadet
and in it Pompador Jim has been max
ing as much money as he did while
he was still the worlds champion. In
"A Naval Cadet" Mr.. Corbett por-
trays the role of a cadet at Annapolis.
The character and surroundings are
new to the stage. One of the most
interesting scenes of the piece is the
commencement ball at the Annapolis
Naval academy. This scene shifts
from the drill room with the char
acteristic decorations and filled with
the brilliantly uniformed cadets, to
the academy gymnasium, where sports
and athletic exercises are being in
dulged in. Mr.. Corbett in this scene
gives a spirited exhibition of bag
punching. The third act presents an
other varied scene; the promenade
deck of the steamship st. Louis at
sea; the Gotham Comedy quartette
introduce a number of up-to-date
songs in this act; and the fourth and
last shifts to Paris and shows that
noted rendezvous, the Jardin de Paris,
with its lively types of Partisan life.
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Mr.. Mulvey hopes for better things
the coming week than he received in
the one just past. He has booked an
other of Charles E. Blaney's attrac-
tons called "A Hired Girl which
will open tomorrow night. 1t is said to
be the best thing that this versatile
author has yet given to the public. 1t
is brim full of music, written by Harry
James, ard in addition, all the latest
topical songs and popular operate
airs are introduced. The hired girl
in the piece is a type of her class, and
as a result there are no end of funny
situations. The company is a large
one and includes such well known
artists as Thomas j. Ryan, E. S.
Morey, Waldo WhipDle, John R.