The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-17


representation than to see a yacht
race wor on a fluze. and there are
some actors and men who impersonate
actors who have the lesson yet to learn.
The husband of Minnie Tittell Bruno
IL Il is he who Euides the destinies OF
'M-. ard Mrs. Minnie Tittell Bruno,
as the advertisement puts it, has not
displayed any alarming familiarity
with the details Of this lesson.
The galleries. perhaps, had the loud
est roar coming, and they gave it. The
town was covered with bills depicting
a Roman standing race, such as you
see in the hippodrome at the circus,
when the gallant who hammers the
bell bawls out. THE lady wins!' The
riders are rounding a curve INTO the
stretch. the ibres in their very beings
are strung up to the highest tension
known to the photographers art and
horror is depicted in every face. Above
the picture is the announcement: Mr..
and Mrs. Brune"-Or is it Mrs. and Mr..
Brune-in Theodore" Beneath it in
flaming letters is the line: An actual
scene in the play.
NOW the 6uAlEAN Dgg1 saw -A-~-0
posters and f0Cked in unison to the
play house on the opening night to see
the grandest of spec acles. Instead,
they saw the emperor in a box at the
races. heard some one cry out that the
empress had been insUlted. and the
race was called off. Even in the eX-
element Of the moment it dawned
upon the gang that some one had been
distributing blanks and the burning
tended doing with her traducer and
lover probably prevented loud calls for
the manager. The second night though.
he box Office began to feel the effects.
The gallery held a corporaIs guard
from then on till the close Of the en-
gagenent.
Il was explained by somebody con-
nected with the show that the missing
hippOdrOme was not the fault of the
management; that it used to be in the
production but Klaw & Granger
stopped it WREN the Ben Hur' chariot
race was produced. Then. forsOOth,
the paper could not go to waste, so it
was hung up. With this explanation,
IL is hoped the galleries viii not start
anything.
For the husband Of Mrs. Bruno to
allow the public TO understand that he
was playing Andreas was hardly fair
10 M sur Kiss 81 say AllG LLlElAuS VI
Mr. Bruno, who have seen him upon
the stage. But the towr seemed not
10 mind it. after learning the relative
merit Of the two performers. and if the
young proprietor wanted to visit in
Idaho that was his right 1t was in
very bad tastR- though. to cut out half
an act of Theodore as was done on
Wednesday night. for the reason, prob
ably. that the house was not filed.
That sort Of thing is deplorable in any
company. much more so IN a company
of prOfessed standard, playing the best
houses In the west.
But whatever faults there may be in
the company the management and the
production. it viii be conceded tRat
Mrs Bruno is one of the greatest lit
tie" women on the stage. tt is almost
impossible 70 believe that a dozen
short years ago she was Che sOUbrette
in "A Trip TO Chinatown" Now. she
has become a Blanche Wash and has
retained some Of those soUbrettish in
stincts which give additional charm to
her work i'm Theodore" III the finale
where she pOisons her lover. believing
she is giving him a love potion, and
throws herself wildly upon the floor
Mrs. Bruno is superb. IF she would
instruct AndreaS TO remain dead. how
ever instead Of getting up to take the
curtain call, / imagine the effect would
be improved upon.
Tt is with regret that we learn Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brune's departure for
the east. which took place last Friday
and the cutting down of the company
by six or eight members How the
production can survive without the
little woman I'm the cast is a problem
She has been rehearSing d substitute
for about two weeks. however. and the
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atFical metropolis, New York, leaving
a company about half the size of and
half as competent as the original to dc
the work.
The most important and difficult Of
all stage business for the actor e
learn is how to fall. To fall naturally
IS as hard 10 learn as how to say 81
love you and still harder TO execute
Considering the fact that there is
scarcely a play in which they do not
occur. it is absolutely necessary Il
know how TO do It, To he effective Il
is essential that the fall should par
take Of realism. else il prove ridicu-
lous one Of the most dangerous Of al
falls IS what IS technically known a.
the face fail. fin which the actor 9itche.
forward on his face and apparently
strikes his head on the floor. When &
is done gracefully and correctly, If al
ways produces startling effect Il
requires considerable experience Il
make it properly Mrs. Bruno has mas
tered it IN the last act of Theodore.
Miss Viola Allen in the finale of tn
fourth scene Of an the Palace Of tnt
King makes such a fan, and IL is de
scTibed as being thrillingly effective
When Edwin Booth appeared as Rich
ard III he startled the audience a
each performance by apparently fan
ing on his head. The fall. of course
was broken by his forearm and Is no
SO dangerous as the face fall One O
the most thrilling falls of recent years
was made by Fanny Davenport il
Fedora" At the climax of the thirt
act Miss Davenport fell backwsr,
down a fight Of stairs. THIS IS a verl
dangerous fan to make. and th actres
was not infreQuently severely bruised
Until az actor or actress has found tn
best way to break q fan and now q
do II without hurt or injury the,
usually wear pads on the knees an'
elbows
The calamity that recently has fallei
aver the peonie Of the United state
hv William McKluley's death starte'
che theatrical felk to discussing To-
company which surrounded Booth a