Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-03

sFIERE is n touch 81 pathos In be-
holding "a former Idol u the stage
gradually approaching that time
when she has TO step with the grim
reaper from tho boards she has ttod for
20 many years over the faded rose one
cannot resist noniimonializing. That
bright eyed actress who years and years
ago danced and tar1icd 20 the dcllght
of our fIprnnt young Tfandfnthcra and
tired her plump little legs and her round
little throat Tor iho dedication ~ our
once frivolous gmndmuthera brings NJ
n a1rrowiui smile ns We Gee her Ia old
nga. wrInklcd aud gray and stopped.
pofhnua. with her thousand memories u
the days " long aro and the gnyely and
applause ma ndlintinn % audiences
that have long since passed over 20 the
great beyond.
one % these lights or past genera
ti0n which have been lcft 1till Simmer
inr IN our busy days % ever changing
thtatricnl stars o. Lydia ThomrH0n. Tor
whom one OF tho most memorable and
most successful benefits ever known
was recently givon az the London f.y-
cnum. sir Horny irylng'a thcntur. Many
an Old beau there D. who Htlli nurses a
snsnkinr aud not untondar regard for
this idoi u bis younrcr days. Many an
old grown man of the world atiil has a
picture or two of her hidden away, FOR
numerous were tho cnnqusHtn that long
years ago. this once HIGHT footed and
sweet voiced actress achieved among
the thcater gocrs u London and New
York.
Now Lydia Thompson-and one con.
foaaoa u with rciuctance-ia an old wo-
man. fast approaching the allotted
thrccncore years and ten. Her voice
ia gone. and she has grown stout and
ungainly. Yet LYDIA Thompson was
once "a synonym Tor bcwildcring loycli-
ness and enhancing grace. Che II was
who liftcd the blond style o. stage
beauty from ohiouuy into that Of the
roignInE type of fashion from which
dark trcHfod beauties have not been
able 10 rvlct u Co ihia day She it was.
too. n we are 20 stand by tradition. who
nra, bcwlldorcd thcntcr Focra by APP
uonHuF IN those myHtcrloua THINGS
known na tlghu many many years aFo
just how long u would b. unFallant to
specify The riorloa Z the hurlcsquo
uH u was some 90 or 90 or 90 years
EARLIER IN this century are now merely
mome lou u the STAGE. when Miss
Thomraun hrHt came 60 America With
that burlcHquo company with which ahe
was 90 achieve fame and fortune. she
was accompanied by such once we'll
known stage beauties ~ Pauline Mark
ham, Ada linrinnd ana Liza weber.
Tho success 81 this company was pho
nomonni. Such a sober az 4 ncdhte ron-
tiuman and scholar aa Richard Grant
white, phlloiogist ana expert To-
shnkcsponrcan drama. wrote az tho
time IN highly ouoglHtic strain about
this company and tho charms of the
yuuthfui Lydia. one 81 the fnyorito
verses OF the day was 20 this Effects
Ana way down In front where tho foot
lnntn glow
The hlidheaded mon tat IN the front row.
They had hig riaHaes 10 see nll the sights.
Including the blonda who dance IN allk
ilfhin.
For IN those days tho "fican colorcda'
were novelties on the stage. The fair
Lydia Il was, saith history. who thus
moved the early poet 60 song. That
same haidhoadrd contingent ~ utill 10
be found AT our thcatcrH, though new
charmtra have como 10 dance their wuy
into tho hearts % the pleasure loving
public,
iiufl0Hque Tor a lonr time has been
RELOCATED 90 a wen morltcd oblivion. but
Il, too, u undergoing revival
Il Il also Interesting 10 note In this