The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-16
ADJUSTMENTS.

One Of the most brilliant audiences
ever sesn at the salt Lake theatre as
sembled last evening to pass judgment
upon the new opera Of the Boston
fans, and the rev singers which were
introduced TO US for the first time. The
opera, of The Smugglers" was origin
ally written as a romantic opera IN
the sans class as "CavalleTia-" but,
yielding TO the demands Of the times,
the composer consented TO make it over
into a comic opera and compete Ter
laurels with Reginald &c koven and
Victor Herbert That he IS worthy
place in this competition was unani-
mously decided.
The music of The Smugglers' .
sprightly. tuneful. catchy and yet suf-
ficieotly original in treatment to be
thoroughly charming. At times, too. II
takes a higher plane and becomes in
spired and beautiful The trouble with
the opera, as an opera, is that too much
time is given over to dialogue; as
comedy, this would be no fault, but the
Bostcnians have never been known to
explicit buffoonery. The choTuses were
very sprightly. and pleased the eye as
well as the ear. The opera was beau
tifuily staged and costumed through
out A novel and much appreciated
feature was the bOlerO dancing Of Miss
Edith Hendee.
As to the company. the members who
made up the cast of the original BOs-
tonians are hut few. Barnabee, the
dean, humorous and quaint as ever,
still holds first place Next is W. H.
Macdonald. still OF magnificent appear
ance. but a trdfie worn in voice. George
! 3. rockingham, with a Frank Daniels
expression Of face, was. as always. a
successful funny man, and ". II. FitZ-
/ gerald filed a cOlorless role with good
/ grace. Josephine Bartlett the faithful,
/ was seen in a small part. and with
these. the famous originals" are ex-
] hausted. Miss Bertram, who was with
! the company last year. Is not q great
prima donra- but she sang swestly and
/ acted Wsth feFVor. The hardest task
of all was that Of Marcia Van Dresser,
who is in the place of Jessie Bartlett
! Davis-she who has been one of the
/ greatest favorites on the lyric stage.
/ Miss Van Dresser lacks the inimitable
/ magnetism, the warm fuiendiiness, of
, her predecessor. but she has several
: valuable gifss of her own, and we viii
doubtless hear more in the future from
/ this young conJralto. Firstly, she Is
more than ordinarily beautiful. She is
! 1.-THE. slender and graceful, and pos
! asssss a charming voice. whose quail
itv IS best described by Rudyard Kip
ling-"creamy 1t is a voice without
an Objectionable seature-rich, mellow
1 even and sympathetic She won a de-
served recall, the heaTtiest Of the even
/ ing. fer hes- renCntiOn of the solo IN
/ the last act Furthermore, Miss Van
Dresser is an aotress-she fairly Vi
brsltes with that attribute known as
a'tempeTanent. The great test Of hsi
success in Davis shoes win be to heH
A l.a4 doll -fraH
that may be, she hns her own shoes sc
neatly that comparison IS useless.
The other new members Of the cast
are John DunsmOTe. a capable bassO q
good range. and small opportunity in
this particular opera. and Frank Rush.
worth. who makes a good appearance
and is possessed Of a sweet voice. II
is to be regretted that The Smugglers'
! cannot be repeated during this too lin
tied engagement.
This afternoon a special matinee o.
Robin Hood at reduced prices, vii
Zoe given, and the engagement closes
tonight with the popular "Serenads. 50
A strong counter attraction told r8fh.
er heavily at the Grand last night
where a light audience assembled % ses
tho old favorite. 'Unc1e Toms Cabin.
The star Of the company is Miiton G
Barlow. who unprecedented Uncle Ton
with success. The other members O.
the company found favor with the au
7ience in the Old familiar characters
The piece VIII run tOnisht and tomor
row night. with a matinee Wednesday,
Nance O'NeiH and her company ar
rived in Sast Lake yesterday mornin;
and viii rest at the Kenyon until tn.
oDening of their engagement on Wed
nesdav Mr.. and Mrs. Clay Clemens
occupied a box al the salt Lake the
/ atre last evening
A Timid Player.
.(New York Sournal)
; / Jack-Tha You called him when y0
| had four aces Ia your haud2
Cholly-YeS: 1 was afraid he'd blu1 M
: out IL 1 didn :