The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-10

commentator given in Salt Lake had
been sent on to Seattle, leaving Boise
with a disgusting fragment. Manager
Pinney should have adopted the meth
DDS of the theatre manager at Provo,
Utah who was bunloed in similar
manner by the Seabrooke company, and
attached the receipts for the protection
of his patrons. Under the Cir
cumstances the people here can not be
blamed for lack of confidence in any
thing, but the very highest class COM
panies, which do not often come Boise
wards. The Cummings company left
last night for Seattle. 1t needs never
come back. After last nights expert
ence nothing dramatic with the name
Cummings attached to it could muster
a cOrpOraPs guard of attendance in this
city,
,i,he Boise Sentinel viewed it this
way: IF the Cummings troupe were
/ in need of funds to get from Salt Lake
to Seattle, the generous people of Boise
would have preferred to have contrib
uted 1t rather than to have been so
ranl1ly deceived If Mr.. Cummings has
q company or scenery or costumes,
and certainly the Salt Lake papers said
he had. he sent them all on to Seattle
and held a rehearsal of amateurs in
the theatre loving city of Boise. May
hap the obtaining of money under such
circumstances is not technically OBJ
tanning it under false pretenses, but it
shaves the line pretty close.
However, it does no good to scOld,
and we should all emulate the example
of the old lady who always had a good
word for everybody, and who when
cOrnered as to her opinion OF the devil.
replied, that we might all take a lesson
from his perseverance.
so just one word of praise for the
Cummings troupe. which so outrage
ously buncoed our citizens Monday
Wasn't Nell Gwynn beauty?"
1t was source of regret to those
who appreciate rational and consistent
histriOnic work when the Grau Opera
company. an aggregation which has
been flirting before the transcOntinen-
tai public long enough TO know better,
flashed a cluster of American flags and
rObustly rendered stars and Stripes
Forever" during the performance of
s"El Captain" This IS an OVeT-mellOW
and stage mildeWed maneuver, which
originated heaven knows where. and
which has yearly grown more nau-
seating to all theatre goers except the
habitues of the upper story. This kind
of dramatic perversions are stupidity
and grossness enthroned and be-lau-
relied. The rendition of a patriotic
chorus in a production like Ell Capt.
tan" with its scene laid in Spain of
a century or two ago, before the lus-
trOuS American emblem was designed,
is about as appropriate as q modern
Juggling specially or up-tO-date skirt
stunt between the fourth and fifth acts
of Hamlet" The, public is quite content
TO have Brady madly wave the Ameri-
can ensign when that renowned thes-
pian, John l.. Sullivan. fistilly Furnishes
his foreign theatrical sparring part
ner; the world is even content that
there should be national anthems, but
if they have TO be rung in at the most
incOngruOus moments. in the name of
all that is rational, why not leave the
work to such Jugglers as the Bradys
and the Carriers. The spectacle of ''EI
Captain" waving a flag as big as a
tarpaulin and vically apostrophising
stars and Stripes Forever" is about
as grotesque a vision as has ever re-
galed a modern drama loving public
Usually they are very patient, but they
respectfully petition the Graus to no
longer punish them in this manner
1t is possible that the Grau mana
ger is not entirely to blame in this
matter. In acquiring the rights to the