The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-03

Tuesday every seat was \
occupied. Wednesday peo-
pie were standing. Thurs
day more stood Friday /
they were packed in. Sat,:-day-can't |
say. The form closes before the even |
ing performance. And it was Lent, too. |
Somebody will ask William a Brady /
how he did 1t. and he ought TO answer, |
II had a good show and George Muir /
ray" This is ali the explanation re- |
quired- Way Down East" with its |
wholesome comedy and pathos, could
not help striking public fancy, and
striking it hard under most any cir
oumstances; and when the play is pre-
ceded by Uncle George" who hardly
excepted the lamp posts in casting his
shower OF readable description and
comment about the state, it was bound
10 be a success,
1t is a safe prediction that Brady
will send something else here for p
weeks stand All we can hope Tor is
that il viii be something equal TO
+" Way Down East"
Through the courtesy of Stage Man
ager Bunny a Herald man watched the
Way Down East" snOwstOrm in Op-
GRAFTON one night last week, for the
sole purpose of making a grand ex-
pose for the benefit of the shivering
large triangular shaped sieve hanging
overhead and filled with paper, which
has been cut, Of course, to the proper
size 20 represent the beautiful. Two
ropes attached to it are held by a stage
hand, who sits in a chair and reads the
Sunday papers while he tugs first at
one and then at the Other-very mo-
notonous labor--causing tie snow to
fail steadily as it Sits through the wire
netting. Lights are arranged to inten-
sify the wilderness o. the snow. OF
TO one side Of the window. through
which the audience sees the storm,
there are four tWenty-four-inch elSc-
trio fans. each with its motor of one
quarter horse power, running ct the
rate Of 116 revolutions n minute, and
so arranged as to give the snow the
proper diagonal and whirling descent
as it strikes the current That might
be the whole thing in "a nut shell, but
it isn't. There Is a good deal more to
C4rismer's invention, all appliances in
which. by the way, are patented
Above each fan there is a cylinder
full of salt. just plain. ordinary salt:
Every time the door is opened, another
stage hand pulls a lever and the salt
comes out liz a steady stream. 1t is
caught by the current from the fan and
is blown by the door with terrific force.
This is the sleet effect. and when the
actors are seen to lower their heads as
they rush out into the storm, it is not
al play acting. Should they stand up
right the full force of the salt would
Patch them in she face, and, as may
De imagined. such an experience would
be anything but pleasant Two barrels
OF snow and $50 pounds of salt are used
At every performance.
The wind is produced by silk. The
texture is pulled tight over cylinder
of Stats, which turns py, crank; ana
It depends on how tightly + Ie silk is
pulled over the Stats whether The wind
is a breeze or a gale.
Each player before entering, during
the storm scene, dips his feet IN a
bucket of water, and has the stage
hands throw salt at him. The boots
being wet, the salt Gdheres to them
Salt also is thrown over his head and
shoulders, SO that the effect is general.
When he comes on the stage the actor
looks as though he might have walked
several miles in "a snowStorm- 1t IS
without doubt tine most realistic storm
scene ever produced on the stage
VIII some physician, scientist Or
weather expert kindly explain Why
Every thespian who appeared in Salt
Lake last week and the week previous
raught cold? This is supposed to be a
splendid climate and the altitude is
ideal, sc actors usually say, and while
this is changesbie weather, there is an
absence of explanation for the awful
epidemic
company, could not speak above a
whisper, and Miss Hall came quite as
near to going out Of commission. Ralph
Cummings doctored all week. in order
70 get through his part. Miss Hope
and NJ. Rvrne claimed their strong
scenes in Way Down East were
ruined by bad threats and Nj. Fisher
the squire says he lost ten pounds
through his pipes" being affected
Madame Sembrich's appearance at the
tabernacle Is not far away-March J.
is the date-and as the event draws
nearer the public is beginning to real
lie its Importance. Certainly salt Lake
has never heard anything TO compare
with - g performance outlined. we have
had Media and Nordica and other grea
artists in concert, but never ha
Faust" been sung complete IN thi
city. With such an artist as Sembcich
and such a company as she carries, Z
say nothing of the addition of go O
more notes.-the tabernacle chOir-il
the choruses. it should be a matter o
Generalization to all interested in musl
that the treat is in store.
Director stephens is hard 1T work OF
the preparations and il should be
great success.
Mime. sembrich is not an AUSTRIAN
but a Pole. and she sang the first sons
sn the Polish language that had beel
Iseafd for many years IN St petersburg
She sang as an eHcoresOnce a song o
Chaoin's, and 20 her establishment tn
audience in the opera house heard
with great enthusiasm 1t was afte
this that she went 10 the imperial pal
ace TO sing for Alexander IL H
asked her TO sing some OF Chopin
songs
Pot Your majesty, can sing Chopin
only in Polish SEe answered.
'.yVhy. sing il in Polish. of course
he rejoined. Nine. Sembrich did SC
and after that her Polish songs were q
regular feature of her appearances il
St Ectersburg. But in other parts o
Russia they were not 50 well received
on her way hack to Dresden from
St. Petersburg IN that year, Nine Sem
bIich sang at Wilma. one of the forTne
Polish capitsls She has Snng Their
a1Uularlx every yea 5tifinE The 10