The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-01

degree the powers Of conception and
delivery, charming grace. natural
beauty and indisputable popularity, all
that an actress requires-Mrs. Kendall
TO the contrary, Notwithstanding
young woman viii climb to a place
among the Fishes and the Carriers
With lightning-hke rapidity- It will
be but a few short seasons-perhaps
two, If the prediction will be allowed
before Miss Anglin becomes an idol
of the American stage as a Joan of the
stellar ranks.
One thing was quite forcefuIly dem
onstrated during the engagement of
the Empire Theatre company. The
Salt Lake public viii not pay 81 per
seat Tor matinee performance and
there are comparatively few who viii
stand for that price at any
and pity it's. tbs true" that
during that beautiful presentation of
that remarkable play yesterday after
noon the Theatre was less than half
nlied il the lower floor and, for the size
OF the upper crowd, il was a waste OF
time to open the galleries at all. IT has
been the custom to knock of a half
dollar from the ajght prices for the
best matinee seats, but the Empire
company will not play for less than 81
and that's all there is about it,
y 81 bill is going to be looked at
twice by famil IS bread winner before
he lets go of it, no matter what the
occasion There is sometimes all the
difference in the world between that
amount and 81 or $1.50 when it means
the idling away of two or three hours
in a play house, for which there is no
visible return.
The local public mas never taken
kindly 10 advanced prices and probably
never will. Where the Theatre might
have been packed for each performance
Of Mrs. Danes Defence" under the
obnoxious advance there was but fair
showing of firSt-nighters, a starvat ton
matinee and only a fair house last
night.
Blanche Bates, coming out of season,
when the weather was sweltering, al
most doubled the business of the EN-
pire company, and Henry MilIers re-
eelpts for his one performance of
Darcy OF the Guards prebabIy ex-
eeeded those of Friday night
Colonel Jack Haverly's attendants at
st. Marks hospital pronounce him al
most beyond the danger line. His
heart trouble was augmented not more
than a week ago by typhoid fever. but
tire attack is not considered very seri-
GUS and the physicians sag il is only a
matter of two or three weeks before
he will be up and around and engineer
brought him to So some weeks
ago.
The news of Colonel HaverIy's inn
provement will be welcome. not alone
to his old craftsmen. but to ali who
remember the king of minStrelsy. and
they are countless. Mrs. Haverly is
with her husband. having come on from
Rochester, n. Y, early in the week
when his condition was regarded as
extremely grave.
At the Mutual Improvement confer
ence in the tabernacle two Sundays
ago the addresses were interSpersed
with musical numbers. either by the
choir. a prominent vocal sOlOist or
Professor Mcclellan at the organ.
making the music almost as prominent
u feature as the preaching.
This departure was move in the
right direction There cannot be too
much music in the church. provided.
OF course, that due care and attention
is given the selection of that music
Especially is the above statement true
with regard to the tabernacle.
There should be at least one organ
solo and a vocal solo at every meet
ing, in addition to the ChOir's numbers.
There viii be arguments to the con-
trary. perhaps, from those who say the
taberr acle is not a place of amuse-
ment- Quite true
But church music is not "amusF-
menr-" 1t is more truly a blessing 20
have it within reach. In metropolitan
cities no service is complete without
an abundance of singing. Nocalists
are paid high salaries to attend and
they make their presence purely q
business proposition, running about
from one church to another, perhaps,
to ill all the engagements possible in
a forenoon and get all the money out
OF it that is possible.
Here the condition is vastly differ
ent. There is no expense attached TO
the music at the tabernacle and, be-
sides the organ. there are a half hun
dred rare voices in Salt Lake. which
should and might just as we'll be heard
there as in other public places. They
are in that grand volunteer body of
singers.
But TO view the question from a diff
ferent standpoint. More than once
strangers have remarked, after attend
ing a Sunday service at the taberna-
Gle: The choir is grand-a most Won
TO have heard the organ apart from il.
! was in hopes, too, that some of your
noted Utah vocalists would sing. Is it
possible that the church does not push
them forward?"
Then there are many admirers of the
organ who attend church on Sunday,
but who are unable to attend the reg
ular Wednesday and Saturday recitals
on account of business.
There is every reason. RI fact, why
the organ should be heard AT the relig-
ious conferences and an increase in the
amiss.
Speaking of tabernacle recitals. that
was a magnificent rebuke Organist Nc
Clellan gave a small party of disturbers
in the gallery a week ago, only they de-
served much that the organist left I'M
said The incident recalls a parallel
occurrence at Los Angeles not a great
while ago, when James Neili gave the
galleries a severe calling down for dis
turbing a performance of his company
in Barbara Frietchie.' 4 norton of
his remarks on that occasion is here
printed for the benefit of the-what?-
who disturb the organ recltals by
shutting around from seat to seat or
trying TO leave the building before the
programme Is concluded. Mr.. Neill
said.
Il dislike very much TO step out of
Character l believe that in eighteen
years experience as an actor l have
not had occasion to do so before. but 1