The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-18
AmHSementS.



America is indebted to Mr.. Pollard
OF Australia for bringing to its shores
the kind OF orga nization that is seen
about once i'm a lifetime The Juvenile
Opera company is an aggregation of
child wonders; that is, they are Won
ders as children. but their rendition
o. any opera would hardly Standard
nobody would expect il to-the test of
serious consideration. The little peO-
pie rendered the tuneful success, The
Geisha." last night. and completely
captivated a large audience of first
nighters. How the management ever
pounded the work into their tiny crani
ums Is a mystery nobody will attempt
to solve. Every one of the children
does remarkably WELL some, of course,
being much cleverer than others. Of the
girls, and girls predominant in the
membership, the prime favorite was
tiny Miss WOodson in the soubrette
role of Molly. Because she is so little,
she is great The best singing heard
last night, however, was that OF Alice
Pollard, who has the title role. Her ca
reer is certainly a promising one. The
smallest member of the company, who
was taken for a boy, but who is, in
reality, girl Daphne Pollard, years
old, was idolized from the start. She
is about the size Of an incandescent
lamp, but a good deal more important.
There is boy in the cast, Master Fred
POllard-the Pollard family is a large
one-whO gives promise of becoming a
great baritone. He rendered a pa
triotic song "Old Glory and the Union
jack" in a way that brought him the
biggest reception of he night.
Clever as the little crowd undoubt-
eddy is, it is possible to overd0 the
thing. and there is the failing here.
The comedian. the Chinaman, is alto
gether too prominent. Some of his
work is not bad, but much OF il could
be dispensed with to the betterment OF
the performance.
This afternoon and tonight the juve-
niles will give another popular musical
comedy, The Gaiety Girl" Lovers of
novelty can hardly afford to let the
Riddles" get away from town without
seeing them.
With the regularity Of fate comes
the revolutionary drama. After Ma
than Hale" the deluge. The play wit
messed at the Grand last night belongs
to a class that is neither bad nor eX-
tremely good, but worth the price of
admission. Its chief fault seems to be
! plagiarism, and plagiarism of the worst
variety As long as the authors of AT
| Valley Forge" were going into that
business, it is pity that something
| besides Janice Meredith" could not
! have been selected as the victim.
/ In this latest offering we find almost
a perfect reproduction of some scenes
! in Janice" For example, the spy Is
captured by the enemy in the first
act. and. aided by his sweetheart
| gets word to Washington that the Hes
SLAMS are drunk, and the best thing he
can do is to cross the Delaware. etc
etc There is a pleasant variation II
/ the scene. The girls name is Virginia
/ instead Of Janice.
The company presenting AT Valley
| Forge" as a rule, is very capable, anc
! the large audience out last night mani.
! tested keen interest in the performance
] but may be clasSed as one of tht
Grand's best offerings Of the presen
season. and, as the advance agent said
well worth the money" The play runs
for the whole week. with .aatinees to
! morrow and Saturday,