Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-07

100. ,,v medicine without grumb-
s..,5 Mr. Grau. proprietor Of the
has orera company phllosophlcally
U'.. ,,,rr with a News interviewer
% ~ 80 mat we have had everything
', .rn way on past visits, no opposl-
~. .ttbs Theater no Lent no politics
v'5 ao warm spring days to put people
' !, ne thoughts Of going to the
y.' ,.rs at night We have had all these
,s1,. 10 contend with this time Then
1 aware that Miss Mortimer has
- under the weather during most OF
,,ay here. She has had bad touch
,..,arrh which has affected her sing
and In other ways we have been
,as,lpappej. But we must take the
s..,sw with the ups, and hope for better
luck next time
rank and philosophical though he is.
At, Gnu hardly goes far enough IN his
.,,rvpment Of reasons for the frosts
,,Iss his company has encountered on
.s rresent visit Counter attractions,
len, The weather and politics, all may
~. been contributory causes, but the
N, oyershadovlng reason was found In
,,s company itself, The Grau company
o,o5 and the Grau company Of today
.,s as widely apart as though they
vs-s different organizations. on its
,,srlous visit the company had tenor
M Davies who was a tower Of
,,r.nrth. Miss Mortimer, too, was bet
erin all ways than now; Miss Earring.
IAN was a popular number and Stanley
rsleb was either given more opportuni.
tlss or ne made more Of what he had
az. hard to say which Then. too. the
ladies' chorus. while never up to the
esntlemens. laid some pretension to
10Th looks and lungs This year. the
adherence ls almost startling Davies
ls zone. snapped up by the Castle
SQUARE company In New York. In his
Mace we have Mr.. Pache, who Is but a
feeble substitute. and whose voice is
f1s, running down at the heel; then,
TOO II is not agreeable to hear the
broken English ID which he expresses
himself especially as the lovers roles
fall TO bis hands. Miss Mortlmer's
voice has faded and whatever It Is that
has taken ID. seems 10 have robbed her
Of al spirit and animation as we'll Mr..
Fslfh has not held up his end as he
might have done. with one or two eX-
captions. an his work this year has
been done ia a semi-mechanical way, as
n be we're tempted 10 yawn over his
own part. n not 10 fan asleep al playing
H. Certainly be has not dared TO be
d funny as he could.
Toe ladies' chorus-lf we except Miss
Galari whose terrible mounting habit
slos whatever voice she has-is
rather the crowning enormlty. Only In
one opera, Said Pasha" have they
tsel t0erable az all. In the others
thsr tWaRgy notes We're enough 10 set
ones teeth on edge as for their looks
we'll lest said the soonest nended. The
gAtlemens chorus has covered up
some Of their shortcomings, but II
would take a bigger body OF males
han Mt, Grau's six or seven to do so
entirely. Miss Emmett has been the
one member who has worked hard, dene
well and who goes away leaving
Pleasant impression; but even she. has
faults Of forcing her voice of the key
and Of artculating badly, and both
these shortcomings affect her work.
They cannot be too speedily mended.
i Is not pleasant to have 10 talk In
hb plain fashion 10 old friends like
iAe Grau people, 20 whom we are in
csbted for many pleasant occasions In
past seasons. But the critic often has 10
D cruel IN order to be kind" and
w Grau viii come back next year,
viii his organization rebuilt up 10 It's
I'D standard. he win find his friends
and admirers Just as ready and willing
a. ever 90 flock TO the Grand and 20
show him that neither politics Lent nor
counter attractions can weaken the
i'aly salt Lake has always manifested
i'r popular comic opera.
The Theater will be closed after to-
hight an next Thursday evening, when
those two tay0rtes, Warde and Vokes,
make their return in their new and up
l9'dale farce comedy "The Floor
walkers A feature Of the company
lals year Is the Chicago ladies quartet,
.s,hieh has been touring the country for
.ne past ten years as a concert attrac-
uon The members Of the quartet
ssN Bertha Hollenbeck, sCprano; Sadie
= Fafley. mezz0 soprano; NJ. Josephine
Somstock, contralto; and Alice Merrill
raymond, alto. VIII West. the
i''sa tramp dellneator will do