The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12

impressed with Lola or her dancing.
This unexpected cOntretemps made her
furious She applied to the king, and
he commanded that she should appear
at the royal theatre whenever she liked.
On the night of her debut the king
himself led the applause. Lola looked
superb in her unique Spanish costume,
while ivOEX castanets cIick-cltcked.
with the sounds Of the music, but the
danZas habladas did not impress the
German public. La Cachucha' was no
more to them than a war dance BIZ a
FIJI islander. Lola was Kissed and
never afterward danced in Germany.
But her influence with the king was
not weakened, and Lola MOntez was
now more talked about than ever. The
university students, who were very
powerful, and at that time wore swords,
hOtly discussed the merits and demer-
its of La MOnteZ- Being divided in
their sympathies q riot followed. and
a royal edict closed the university for
one year. This added to the public eE-
element Lola was fusulted and pelted
whenever she attempted TO drive out,
and yet while engaged in fighting down
this unpopularity this extraordinary
woman found leisure to correspond
with all the celebrated diplOmatists of
the day. She became the real ruler Of
Bavaria, and carried her power over
the weak king so far as to presume to
make laws for the people. This led to
her undOing. The people rebeIied and
great public indignation was aroused.
The majority of the students now
agreed that she had hypnOtized the
king and was an enemy OF the state.
Bodily violence was openly threatened.
and Lola was compelled TO fee. dis
guised i'm male attire, in a closed car
riage. surrounded by troops, who es-
corted her to the frontier Her house
at Munich was burned to the ground,
with all its valuable treasures OF aTt.'
Up Harlem way in New York recent
~ they presented a dTamatizatiOn OF
'Parsifal" that aroused the town, A
good majority Of the reviewers went
out to see il, and a good majority saw
features in il that even the author did
not believe were there.
The Evening kilograms man account
was exhilarating in its breeziHess
Says he:
Mr.. Wagner made no provision for
q cave of spiders in his little opera
but the spiders were i'm the play. all
right. This was no cheap 'Parsifat
The cave Of spiders offered a lovely
opportunity for a Little Eva transfer
nation scene in which PaTsifal. i'm 4
white nightgown. hoated down a flight
( of notified green marble steps, chased
/ the spiders and rescued kundTy and
a lady friend of hers, who had got %
going with KfngsOr. Harlem declared
the cave of spiders was the hottest
scene in the whole show
THE flower girls were all named out
on the programme and one was called
/ Sweet Joy. They danced about Paysi-
faI i'm the enchanted garden, and one
unsympathetic woman i'm the audience
. remarked, sweet JOY must have
caught cold I'm the garden she's evil
IDENTIFY got rheumatism.
lis this the same stock company
that gave "PaTsifal' at the MetropOl-
itan last winter asked another Wo-
man of her escort.
Sure. was the reply, and the Wo-
man looked awestruck to think she
was getting it all for so cents.
Say. the shows a hot one, but the
music's on the BUM declared q heavy
jawed youth who cheWed gum.
Alas. poor Wagner. The music was
the only thing he or Mr. COnried would
have recognized I'm the show. IT, was
) directed by Mr.. Louis F. Baer who
really accomplished wonders with q
limited orchestra. His overture was az
least a living memory Of the Metropoi-
itan orchestra, but the gallery gods anc
half of the rest Of the house tired along
about the time of the GoOd Friday mu-
sic and stamped and clapped hands TN
/ the players stopped
Harlem evidently wanted the show
without any frills or lett motifs. The
scenery was prOfuse and Miss Uns
! AbeII- Brinker ate nearly all of IT, 6ht
acted till she got hoarse and the goes
I cheered her Thurlow Bergen as Parsi-
faI. wore lovely velvet trimmed clothes
3 and David Edwin as Klingsor out
B traaedied tragedy. Ethel Browning
{ as I.exia. daughter of a beggar per
4 SON. who was put i'm the play for JIG
particular reason, was the only one il
! the cast whose acting was calm enough
I to be called repressed. The rest thee q
I and .thou'd' with great gustO and
called Parsifal from Parsittie TO Percy
+ FAN"
Sir Charles Wyndham. an accom-
plished English actor, was so out
( rareously "booed" at a recent hrs'
night performance I'm London that ar
( agitation against the nuisance mas SCI
{ i'm In the general discussion follow
( ing one authority has commended that
( Inc London writers on theatrical mat
ters are largely TO blame for an abuse
Z greater. even. than bOoing. that mas
/ snrlinp I'D lately. For some time, mixed
M with the bo0s. there have been eE-
Z nIessioss of opinion shouted from the
gallery. and these some of the critics
I have been foolish enough 10 quote. -.
a consequence there IS reason % believe
hind gf lines with TnleF