Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-29
ADJUSTMENTS.

II was stated in Saturdays News
that Friday nights mammoth audience
at the Theater, probably represented
the high water mark in the Nance
O'Neil engagement. This statement
must be corrected. The gathering
which poured into the Theatre Saturday
night to see oliver Twist" wiped out
the other water mark and supplied a
new one that has few equals in the his
tory OF the house. The receipts could
not have fallen below $1,000, and at pop
ular prices this means every inch Of
space above and below, Of both stand
ing and seating room, occupied. II
would have been a wonderful turnout
even fer he opening Of the most notaT
Die kind OF an engagement, and that 1t
marked the thirteenth consecutive per-
Torrance of Miss O'Neil is the rarest
tribute this town could have laid at
her feet.
1t would have been difficult to find a
play better advertised or one on which
the public had been better worked up,"
than "Oliver Twist" The horrible i'm
pressions which Il left here years ago,
when rendered by Lucille Western and
James A. Herne. the fact that its repe-
titon by these artists was prohibited,
and the further fact that that prohibit
ton has been advertised and re-adver-
tsei ever since, excited the curiosity
of the younger generation as nothing
else could have done, and old time thea
ter goers who had behold the play orig
inally were Just as eager TO see II again.
d. l.. q .. aut Iaue H.,
delineation by Miss O'Nell and Mr.
Rankin fully justified the public crav-
ing. Nothing more admirable than their
rendition Of Nancy and Bin Sykes has
been seen here In that particular line OF
acting since Miss Western and Herne
themselves portrayed thu same charac-
tiers. While they We're made twin star
parts In saturday nights presentation.
Mr.. Rankin Is probably entitled to first
mention. The absolute brutality, utter
ly unrelieyed by one glimpse of feeling,
which belongs to the character as Dick
ems drew II, was most faithfully and
accurately portrayed by Mr. Rankin. |
There is probably no one on the stage |
today. certainly not on the American !
boards. who could depict the revolving |
character with such minute fidelity He |
had the advantage OF seeing the great /
original OF the role In this country. +. /
J.. Davenport, father Of Fanny Dayen- |
port, besides playing himself in /
Miss Westerns company, so that he |
had all the best traditions Of the role |
at his fingers ends Miss O'Neil stood /
close alongside Of him, She confesses
in private conversation, that she never
approaches the murder scene In Nancy /
without a feeling Of horror, and one
can well imagine this 10 be the case.
Her rendition Is fashioned closely on
the lines Of Miss Western. though she
does not 90 20 the same horrible extent
IN plastoring her head with blood in the
murder scene that that actress did
She manifests good taste by 50 doing.
for the scene as she rendered IL, was
horrible 10 serve as a night
mare accompaniment TO the dreams OF
sensitive people for weeks to come The
scene In the garnet where Sykes Is lust
recovering from his Illness. was TO the
highest degree finished on the part of
both Miss O'Neil and Mr.. Rankin Mr. |
Clement Fagin's was uneven. The des-
pairing scene when the old man was
about TO be carried TO the gallows was
superb. Earlier In the play his make
up did not suggest Fagin's proper age.
and the Hebraic touch was hardly pro-
nounced enough Mr. Becks' Ola
had thoroughly Dickinson
Ian atmosphere What a Cheeryble or a
Tim Linknwater this actor would |
makel Mrs RaymOnd's Oliver Twist. |
was neither youthful enough, nor
plaintve enough. Mr., Bertherlette was
IN excellent Dodger The play at the |
best is but a sketch and unless one
draws heavily on his knowledge OF the |
book, II would prove full Of gaps. The |
Did version has scenes Of divers ex-
perience with Mr.. Bundle, and the end
shows Sykes dramatic death. which
rounds It on more satisfactorily than
he present one.
Tonight "Madga" win be seen for the
asst time and there is already a heavy
advance sale.
Human Hearts" opens its engage
nent at the Grand tonight. u Is gaid
10 be an up-to-date melodrama. inter.
)reted by q strong travelling company.
,
Manager Piper arranged q brief or ,
an recital FOR Miss O'Neil and her CON- ,
)any az the close Of the Tabernacle SER
iiees yesterday. Prof. Daynes rendered
several numbers and Miss O'Neil went ,
nto raptures over his work al her re-
luest he gave the intermezzO from
'Rusticana," and at the conclusion she ,
warmly thanked him and complimented Z
lin on his attachments as a performer. !