Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-20

Husphhu ~ several inches less, there
was lack of congrulty in the relations
OF the two roles and the part soon be-
came dlstasteful TO Mr.. Goodwin, but
solely on that account 1t IL said that
he tried by every means possible TO
Increase his stature for the part, even
going 70 the extent of wearing shoes
with heels three inches high and dom
ming a pompadour wig that gave him a
false forehead three inches above his
own, but this threw his face out Of
proportion and he soon abandoned the
task of trying TO make Hale taller than
his sweetheart and ceased produce
Ing the play, The play then
Fitch and from him II was OBJ
tanned by Mr.. Kyle, who had come into
strong prominence in New York for his
success in Way Down East and other
roles. Nannette Comstock succeeded
to the part OF Alice Adams. and in Il
she made such a success that she was
no longer content to go on the road, and
this opened the way for Miss lat
whom Mr.. Kyle remembered from h
old association with her at the Grand
In this city, She has been serving
long noYitlate in stock companies y
now, judging by the press reports.
is able to take her place among Il
most accomplished leading stock ac-
tresses OF the day.
Mr. Wilkinson, manager Of Mr.. Kyle,
is the same man who brought out Ned
Royla In Friends" and who starred
the younger Salvini. He Is jubilant
over the success of Mr.. Kyle in ma
than Hale" and says he has only
known two losing weeks In the whole
Of the past season,
The story of The County Fair"
which will be seen here shortly with
Neil Bugess himself In the character of
Abigail Prue. can be told in few
words, as follows: Aunt Abble, or
Abigail, Is a Yankee spinster with a
tender heart with n rather hard and
brusque exterior. She Is courted By
Scion Hammerhead, to whom she has
mortgaged her farm and by Otis Tuck
en- very bashful wooer, who for four
teen years has longed and dreaded TO
pop the question, In the first act we
see Abbie In her little cottage, where
she has given shelter to Tags. q desti-
tute newsgirl. We watch her going
about her simple duties, snubbing old
Scion, coyly coquettlng with Otis and
singing her evening hymn with hon
est and very awful feryor before she
bolts her doors and retires for the
night. The curtain Of the second act
rises on charming rural scene, In fact.
II Is said to be one OF the daintiest
pictures ever seen on any stage. In the
next act we have Aunt Abbie's barn.
which, by the way, is a genuine we'll
built barn with real stalls for the cat
tie and real live horses. Then In comes
a merry crowd OF farm hands to shuck
Aunt Abbie's corn and dance aud sing
until they can sing no longer when
they go or TO supper, leaving Aunt
Abble TO Lieve over her mortgage and
sob at the thought Of her election by
old Scion. But he don't eject her after
| all, for Tim has been quietly training
| Aunt Abbie's horse, called cold Mo-
| lasses," and In the last act at the Coun-
ty Fair, and In the greatest race scene
ever witnessed, he wins $1,000, pays OFF
the mortgage and makes everybody
happy. Otis at last summons up cour-
age TO propose, Tags discovers her
long lost mother and the curtain falls
on scene of general rejoicing.
Last Tuesdays New York and Phila-
delphia papers just at hand are speci-
ally interesting TO people here who fol-
low eastern musical and dramatic
news. First they contain accounts OF
the initial production of Miss Bob
White" Willard Sponsors new opera
produced last Monday night In Phla-
delphia. The papers OF that city bub-
Die over with enthusiasm about II and
think that the composer has shot ahead
either OF his Little Tycoon" or "Prin-
cess Bonnie" Jennie Hawley who had
the contralto role, Is handsomely men
toned by the Item, the Press and the
Ledger. the Press paragraph reading as
follows Throughout the evening eye
and car were both gratifed in an equal
degree. Miss Jennie Hawley made a
big hit at the beginning Of the per-
Torrance with her one Only Dame
song, the chorus OF which was whistled
by the galleries during the oncores.
Thatwas doing pretty well for the third
OF twenty-siX musical numbers
In New York the long expected re-
vival of Diplomacy took place at the
Empire theater, with Faversham In
the part of Henry Beauclerc, Charles
Richman as Julian, Miss Millward as
Hioka, and Margaret Anglin as Dora
Fashionable New York was out to see
the performance, but the criticisms say
the impression II left was hardly up
TO the big renditions Of previous years