Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-18
Some Of the Delights Experienced
BY Utahaus in San Francisco,
NANCE 0'NElLL AS JULIET.
fine Weather., Feast OF fruits aud
Flowers. a chat Win WIN Claw
son--Otber News Notes

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san Franclsco July 1.-THE hot wave
that swept over Salt Lake Sunday and
Monday. sent a host Of people skurry'
Ing out Of town IN search Of cooler al
tItudes, and the Pacific coast trains
got their share Of the weather refugees
our little party, bound tor that Nee
ca OF jaded Salt Lskers, Pacific Grove
halted over night In san Franclsco
WOOed by several considerations, first
the delightful STATE Uf the weather
suggestive Of nothing 40 much az sa
Lake IN May second, the desire to
break the m0notOny OF the railroad
trip. third, the printed announcement
that our fayorite Nance 0'Nell was TO
be seen IN "a revival OF Juliet This
last quite decided US on remaining over
and we are not sorry today that we did.
nights rest at The PalaCe-Grand
two famous Old hotels are now con-
necled by an overhead bridge and run
under one management. a chat with
win ClawsOn at his studio on Market
street and a feast of fruits and flow-
ers are some Of the pleasures we have
experienced In addition to seeing the
imperious Nance add another Shake
spearian heroine TO her reportory
Miss O'Nelll has been In oil sorts OF
luck since We saw her In Salt Lake
after leaving W. she went east as far
as st. Louis where the exposition cere-
monies demOralized business, and she
returned TO san Francisco 20 accept
position from the Republic theater, TO
do a round of Shakespeari0n charac-
tiers. The proposition was made a
tempting one, because IL included Ju-
llet. part she had never yet essayed.
Before Romeo and Juliet could be
rehearsed, howeyerthe Republic was de-
stroyed by fire, and Miss ONeill's COM
pany was transferred to the California
theater where for several weeks past
she has been doing her old list Of plays,
with Fedora thrown In.
Romeo and juliet was announced
for three nights only so IL IL evident
that Mr.. Rankin did not feel great
deal Of confidence In II. Miss O'Neill
Is 80 great a fay0rlte here, however,
that they filled her house, gave her re-
call after recall and even the critics
of the most caustlc Of their trihe--were
more than half way Kind IN their re-
views.
We saw the play, on its second rendi-
ton, and though bitches were evident,
here and there, Il was surprising there
were so few Of them. The produc-
ton was only mediocre and
some OF the places In the
cast were very weak. But probably
the audience, like ourselves did not
come to study any one else than the
heroine, and aside from a few filters
over Copulet and Paris, no protests
were raised AS to Nance, let 1t be con.
fessed at onoe--she Is not juliet GlQr-
ious, imperial leOnine, all compelling
in her magnetism not the sweetly
girllsh, budding maiden described by the
master She looked a dream of love-
Illness In her simple white and gold
gown on her entrance, her hair curled
and worn short, band Of ribbon
around II with bow on the side-ey-
erything to suggest the girl OF Has
Juliet is descrlbed-everything but the
face the voice and the figure, What
woman herself an ideal Magda, Eliza
beth, Fedora and Lady Macbeth, could
hope TO be an ideal juliet as well?
Shakespeare himself rather fixed the
limits In the way he insists on making
Juliet just IL, and as the glorious
Nance ShuOQ IN cue center VI tue hlhbe
and heard her mother and the nurse
iterate and relteIate the lA-year- old
idea, we. who knew her best, thought
we could detect the suspicion Of q
twinkle in her eye Certainly. moth
ing but the utmost degree OF worship
on the part of the audlence-and wor-
ship is not too strong a word 20 des-
cribe the feelings OF san Francscans
for Nance o'Neill--could have kept
them from INDUCING in a smile, Her
reading was beautiful, her grace .gon-
derful her beauty such as Boadlcea
herself might have enyied. The love
scenes were most touching. tue pUuon
scene powerful the death scene suohg,
but not entirely convincing and yet We
al felt she had not satisfied herself as
Juliet, and We all believe she win not
give it a lasting place In her repertory,
The only feature Of the support that
call for praise were the Romeo Of Rae
clllfe fairly not greatly done. and the
Peter Of l.. Z. Slockwell, a super b
comedy bit.
Miss OMEN opens In New York as
Lady Macbeth, In September. and no
one doubts that she win sweep the me-
tropolis II only she Is given a Mac
| beth worthy Of her. III. q. W.