The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-23

McVicker's early days and HooIey's
were so idolized and so brilliant, so
high-priced and naughty, that the
humble stock actor of today is a mere
pygmy with his narrow following and
his hard work. The soubrette, having
fallen by the waySide in the matter of
parts, is not the frolicsome certainty in
every performance, for meme of the new
playwrights knows how to write SOU
brette parts any more than the new
sOubrettes know how to play the old
time rough comedy.
Perhaps the stretching of a town with
its gossip and a contact of minds and
states into a huge metropolis With ar
mics of strangers rubbing elbows ard
exchanging ideas hourly makes the diff
ference, but nobody has felt the shadow
or monotonous intertia more than the
early musicians who studied fruitfully
and beautifully right here years ago.
Jessie Davis, who in contrast to Rms
sell IS all musical nerves and thrills
and wild ecstacies, feels as lost among
the new musicians as if she were in a
foreign land. She used to be in the
swim of it, with a stroke ahead of the
pest OF them, but she slips in at the side
doors of harmony chasers' temples and
wonders what their jargon and trum-
perry pretense all means Lillian Rus
sell and Jessie did not belong to the
same guild, though they were not far
apart IN their beginning of the search
FOR music, and had the same teachers
from time to time. 'Daughty'' Russell
has a voice, too, and Willie Davis. who
IS about the same age, has, but Willie
shuts one eye and laughs when ANY,
body asks him 10 sing Once in a
while, boylike, he will lock his doors
and take out a guitar and strum music
ally upon it, but he will not take lessons
nor in day0fa -
Which he regards, manfuly, as one Of
the Feminine arts without reserve Will
lie ought to be called Bill or william:
Willie" does not ft his broad. straight
shoulders or his mannish way.
''Daughty'' used to travel with her
mother and was a good deal of worry
as well as pleasure to the prima donna.
"Daughty'' had her own religious con-
victions at an early age, and one was
that prayer was a good thing at any
time and place, and down would little
Miss Russell flop, clasp her hands and
ADDRESS the high throne whenever she
was bOred or there was evidence of
WEAKNESS in her company. At night
she had a wonderful string of appeals
which she used to have her mother lot
down on paper and then produce when
bedtime made it possible to pray until
- - ONCL NOOA every DOUy present
II Nellie lost the paper there was war,
decidedly not in line with "Daughty's'
religious precocity, so something was
always produced and carefully read
over to the revival infant who would
pick out her favorite supplica tions and
present them seriously. She had a list
of oeneficiaries in her evening prayers.
including all the comedians is the COM
pany, some Of the chorus, the property
man and scene shutters. the baggage
man and one tenor. All her mothers
numerous family had been added to
this aggregation. and sometimes before
'Daughty" reached the end she was
pretty tired of enumeration. One night
at prayers, after including her COM
panions, her grandmothers, immediate
progenitors and some Of her aunts. she
lisped, sleepily, Now, Lord, iss YOU
know any more OF dem Leonards. why
dus you Dress dem, too; I fordet en-