The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-20


the requisite artistic and dramatic
qualities, always pays better in the
long run than appeals to base instincts.
a realization Of this by commercial
managers would purge the stage of the
Offenses that have lately caused dis
turbanca-
Ernest Blum, who is writing his in
teresting "reminiscences for q Paris
newsBaDer saws that he formerly never
wrote review of the theatrical year
in Paris without some alIusion to
Sarah Bernhardt's thinness, and he
would frequently saw to her collabora-
tor. Toche. that without Sarah Bern
hardtIs famous thinness to write about,
they would never have been able to
pay their rent and they both dreaded
the day when she might get fat. Blum
tells Of his meeting with three young
women at the door of the Gymnase
theatre. They were figurantes. but so
attractive that he turned to look at the
trio which had just come out Of the
managers Office. He asked an employee
OF the theatre who they were "Oh,
three figurantes, beginners" his in
dormant answered. Their names will
not suggest much to you, as I scarcely
know them myself. But I think the
little blondes name is Blanche Pier
son; the brOwn-haired one is Celine
ChaumOnt. and the third has a name
which seems to have been made uD. It
is HagOr or Sarah Bernard or Bern
hardt l don't know which" He says
that Sarah Bernhard was the most
striking of the three as she was
charmingly youthful and fresh-looking.
in spite Of her most ungraceful, phe-
nomenal and epoch-making leanness. -
Dramatic Mirror; The war has
inspired the English song writer's
to the limit. Some of their la
test Give US your kind applause"
ditties are: THE Queen and the Sham
rOck." THE Left-at-Home Brigade, ~
Ordered South, Good bye, Daddy
Wonderland" "a Hot Time in the
Transvaal Tonight Another Little
Patch of Red" THE Soldiers of the
Queen" John Bulls Letter Bag" "Off
to the War" "The BOYS that Mind the
Shop" 1.-THE Girl in the Khaki Dress, -
Thinking of the Lad Who Went
AWAY" and Zone Of the Soldiers" Es-
pecially strong appeals are made in
Bravo; Dublin FpsileeIs," and What
Do You Think of the Irish Now?" 1t
is to be hODed that the war will end
soon, or the song scOurge will drive the
patrons of the 'alls to desperation.
The following are some of the ad-
verse criticisms of "Zaza," following
Mrs. Carriers first London performance
in that play:
The Times says: 'Zaza" was con-
structed by NM. Berton and Simon to
encircle the talented Nine. Rejane.
What that talent is most playgoers
know very we'll. Nine. Rejane can be
daringly vulgar and yet compel tears
in the midst of her vuIgarity. And,
what is more important still, she has
the quality Of charm. 1t is not to be
pretended that Mrs. Leslie Carter. for
whom the American version has been
made, displays the same talent She
can be violent; she can present all the
stages of hysteria. But in pathos she
is not so satisfactory, while the quality
of charm she lacks altogether The
Telegraph describes Mrs. Carriers act
ing as hard and mOnOtonous, and says
that her interview with the child,
which ought to have been one of her
strongest, was one Of her weakest mo-
mentS. The Westminster Gazette re-
marks that she gave an imitation of
the style Of Rejane without the sub
tlety, the dexterity and the charm
which possibly could make one forgive
the audacious indelicacy of the French
actress" The Standard says: 1T is
possible to imagine that, as played by
Nine. Rejane, the part assumed a more
delicate and less Iurid aspect than that
which her American rival confers upon
it. In the gentler scenes Mrs. Carter is
even less satisfactory. Her pathos has
a certain hard ring about it, and that
browning virtue OF tears in the voice
is absent"