The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-15

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= Monday and Tuesday evenings, ,
. Kan Show presented by the >
= Press club Of Salt Lake; Wed y
= uesday evening, invitation re- >
> Cital by the pupils OF John j, ?
> Mcclellan.
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r He theatrical event Of the week
viii, of course, be the Ham
Show" to be presented by the
Press Club Of salt Lake in the salt
Lake theatre Monday and Tuesday
nights. The Tom Show" of last year
viii be remembered as wildly
hilarious event, but most OF those. who
saw that performance and who are
familiar with the Ham Show declare
that the latter is so far ahead of the
former in eveTything.th goes to make
zap enjoyment that there was no chance
Tor a comparison. ..---
An idea has gone abroad that the
Ham SHOW" is nothing much but
hOrseplay. The very opposite is the
truth. Though it is highly probable
that ShaEespeae never intended Ham
let" 20 be a comedy there are mauy
ludicrous situations in the piece and
the Press Club performers merely in
tend TO make the most of them. You
all remember the scene sim Hamlet
where Sherlock Holmes. aided by shy
lock and Julius Caesar, exposes to
Hamlet the murderer OF his father2
Well. the average Shakespeare actor
makes that tragedy. il should be
comedy and the Press Club so presents
it,
Again, iu the sceue-you doubtless
remember it-where Hamlet discovers
Romeo making love 10 his iHamlets)
old sweetheart. Juliet while Brutus
and Mare Antony Groom a love song in
the distance. there is a LOT OF genuine
clean fun The great woaGer is that
other comedians have NOT seen the
laughing possibilities Of this and other
portions OF the so-caled tragedy,
Hamlet"
IL is difficult to understand whether
Burns Mantle of the Chicago Inter
Ocean is .j0llying' OF whether he is
deUseIy ignorant OF his subject when
he talks of the wild time I'm front of
Dustin Faruam's play, "The Viz
giHiant' when he takes it to Cheyenne.
where it is booked TO appear next sea-
son. Mantle seems to have the idea.
az least he tries TO make as believe
he has the idea, that Cheyenne Is
wild and woOlly frontier town. where
cowboys come TO shoot things up
every little while and where a top hat
IS as fair a mark for bullets as
hostile indian was In the real frontier
days. Mark what Mantle says.
Hnr a
shots taken at the actors during the
first two acts, but I'm the matter of
shooting toward the foouights the
cowboys have grown lax in their prsc-
tice of late years, and it Is altogether
likely their aim viii be uncertain. even
though they should refuse 10 refrain
from this strenuous form Of criticism
on the women's account, which is
again unlikely
'The westerners win enjoy seeing
themselves idealized. The range riders
win stamp their high heeled boots In
noisy approval of the NiTginiaus de-
termination TO master Trampas. and
each one VIII picture himself that
quiet soft voiced. polite, determined
SORT of hero, however much he NAV
laugh at his tenderfoot name. on the
corner next day. 1t is human to envy
virtue and the cowboy, who is and
was. even lin the time of ''The Virgin
iau." a far more picturesque Individual
iH books and plays than in real Iife
IS very natural and 2 very reason
able individual"
Ii Is 10 laugh The chances are de-
cioedly that Dustin Faruam has
played TO no more intelligent. no more
cultured no better dressed audiences.
even in Chicago. than the audience he
VIII play 60 in Cheyenne The people
there are honest yes. they despise
shams, yes, their veins throb with
healthy American blood and the pure
air they breathe makes them strong
iu mind and body, yes, but they don't
shoot az Performers any more, they
don't LerrOriZe the stranger iu their
midst They are orderly. wei be-
haVedr Wen dressed. splendid people.
whether Burns Mantle of the Chicago
1rter-Oceau knows if or not.
Next Wednesday evening al the salt
Lake theatre occurs the piano recital
10 be given by a number of the pupils
OF j. j. Mcclellan. The doors win be
locked at SOS sharp and none win be
admitted except upon presentation of
invitations which are now being is
sued.
The following numbers HiH be per-
formed
Concerto in f minor Chrst move
menD, Chopin
Concerto in Z Fat major (drst move
ment). Beethoven.
Concerto in G. minor Second and
third movements). Mendelssohn.
Concerto In ID minor hiendeissohB
Concerto in y minor Mozart.
Assisting the pupils in these splendid