The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-08

Evidently Grieye was no longer I'm
partnership with TeIbiu. The excel
lencc Of the caste In both pieces is no
ticeablc. Miss Hughes (Mrs. CASTOR
Murray, was "a very clever and most
charming actress. equally sOod i'm farce,
comedy pathOs. or when singing and
setiuE delightfully."- iu the now much
abused ElEtIaya gauzd. or buFiesque1
form OF entertainment now displaced iu
favor of the sort Of composite variety
show which on the stage goes by the
description of musical comedy or
eccentric musical comedy" or by any
other tumble 0L words which may in
clude some sort OF dramatic action and
plot and So save the situation Miss
WoglgaT lMTs. Alfred Mei0n) was one
of the CieVCTeSt as she was one or the
most popular. actresses OF her day.
Her range of character WAS unlimited,
she could make you die OF laughter as
q siuttish gutter suiPe, and make you
weep as poor girl trapesing the
streets broken hearted by the loss OF
the child whose nurse she had been
She was as good in comedy as she was
in farce or melodTama, au0 her dan
cling, singing and delivery OF her lines,
So that mo- point should be lost. COM
biued 20 render her, a. an actress ln
buTueFQuo, uuEurpaEsable. she was
not exactly pretty. bat peculiarly fas-
chatting. and most graceful. Miss
Hughes. whose limitations were a tFIie
narrower. WAS another of these pearls
above price, who. could they be on the
stage now, would 30 receiving four on
i've times tine amount Of the salary
these FIRST -class all-TouDd actresses re-
ceivcd iu their own dag-
The vogue of our farce brought grist
% the Olympic miIL but nothing what
ever beyond the PeEEarly sum which
we received cash down tor our work
when AIRS. Kelley. MOntaEu Williams
uoihcu-in-law took d. read il and sold
fg to Mesers. Robson and EmdeH, man
ayers ~ The Olympic. NOWADAYS such
chance would have been "a little gold
mine 90 the authors. then iJ Euf1Ced
10 pay YOUR food and Lodging fer a
fortnight. -lNEeu UN turn comes,
EroWled Tom Robertson, sna king his
tleuched fist iu the air as he came out
&c the stage door at the Haymarket
after Falling TO get the modest terms
he wanted. "IH make 'em pay, And
so he did. hut not to- anything like the
extent that modeVu dramatists, with
u8t third Of the talent and Of the
stage aptitude of Tom Robertson, are
able 90 do 3 suppose that Daddy
Hardacre" was one Of little Robson
greatest successes. DID it bring to fits
adaptar who at times was the third
than ii hundred pounds og 500 ] doubt
PsIerave Simpson was a very supe-
rilr sort. socially speaking, of dramatic
author. In his youth DE must have
been strikiH2Iy handsome. and i1 mid
Ole age when ] was first introduced @
him. bis was the sore of presence not
20 be- ignored iu "a crowd. Seeing him
as q FIRST did got up "to the mines BOD
r.u-.n On oh 90
an expansive breast. ON which sou
really felt an order Of some sort ought
to have been ,gliuerins, with has Ions
black hair. now lightly tiUged viii
gray Che never permitted It's color uf
To the very last 20 betTay his age
brushed back behind his ears, his head
erect, his pointed black mustachs
WaEed "a la mi!iLatre, his eyes Hdshln8
and his manner decidedly naughty, q
stranger must have been deeply ina
pressed with his appearance, and was
bound 10 ask iu am eaEer and suoduec
tone, who's that2'
The reply struck you at once. lt was
'tPaigraVc simpson. 'PalgraVe' was
1nagnifCent. You thought OF a land
grave" and then vaguely OF some soT
az Palgrave iu distant days Of chiv-
airy. Yes, ne looked q lgraVe-What
ever that might be. lie looked a for
cloak. a s0mbTerQ and q suiettO anC
ne might have been a brisaDd chief
whose nobility Of birth had 90 be ig
uored in the interests OF the struggle
for life Yes, PalgTave was personally
the ideal OF the romantic dramatist
and the name was as it were title
BUT if 'palsraven suggested the count
the surname simpson" came in as me
discount; Simpson without the Pal
grave was absolutely nobody or any
body.
He was a good actor. too; he knew
the STAGE thoroughly, though his meth
DDS were somewhat meledTamatiC.
nave been told that as Granpus. ia
the Wreck Ashore" he (the wicked
sfnuRgier) being heard without whef
trying ~ break into house where th'
heroine is iu deadly peril. IS uns1lecess
fuI ia accomplishing ais fell purpose