The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

steal productions. The piece has been
staged with lavish hand and the cos
TUNES are brilliant and effective. The
MUSIC posses6es a dash and brilliancy
that has never failed to please the pop
ular ear and in many instances Will
command the admiration of the most
musiciaaly audiences.
The company that will be seen here
when Woodland" is presented is a
strong and competent one, and among
the principals Will be found many of
the best known singers and comedians
who have ever been associated with
hght opera. Harry Bulger, a widely
known and popular comedian has the
principal comedy role, that of q bibu-
lous Blue Jay and bogus Lyre Bird,
with fondness for branded cherries
and a penchant for stealing thrones
Associated with him are Miss Helen
Hale, the dainty little Wellesley col
lege graduate, who has the part of the
pert and Saucy Jenny Wren bird; Wal
ter Lawrence as the bold Robin Red
breast, Miss Louise Tozier as the DASH
ing Prince Eagle, George Beane as the
pugnacioUs and comicaI General RoOs-
ter; Louis CaSavant as the wise Judge
Owl. Miss Greta Risley as the naughty
Lady Peacock, Miss Magda Dahl, the
prima donna, who has the part of the
exquisite Miss Nightingale; Miss Ber-
tyne Mortimer as the demure Dove,
and chorus numbering some three
score young women who, as they are
all supposed to represent some feath-
cred denizen of the forest, were select
ed for their voices, daintiness and
beauty.
Woodland" comes here stamped with
the undivided approval of the larger
cities of the east and middle west.
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A brilliant feature of the English
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chorus of cOnSerVatory-tratne voices.
Until the advent of henry w. Savage
n the grand opera field, it was the Gus
tom to present a miscellaneous assert
ment of ill-shaped singers whose only
recommendation was that they knew
the repertory. Frequently they had
been singing in grand opera choruses
for a generation. When Manager Saw
age decade ago began to develop his
justly famous company for grand opera
in the vernacular, one of his first pre-
cautions was to weed out Of the scores
of applicants all the aged and crooked
limbed. His aim was to secure young
singers possessed of some grace and
beauty as we'll as pleasing voices that
might be depended upon to sing ''on
the key"
This process has been going on year
after year until now his English Grand
Opera chorus compares favOrably with
the beauty chOruses" advertised by
the modern musical comedy shows,
something at one time considered i'm
possible in grand opera. In the large
ensemble productions to be given here
of 'RtgOlettO," LA Boheme," Faust
and Wagner's 'Tannhauser,' there are
scenes when the stage is crowded with
bright, intelligent young faces and
graceful forms enough to supply two
ordinary light opera companies.
His ensemble forces this season were
selected from over 1000 candidates
These came from all the leading con-
servatories and music schools in the
country, and may be said to represent
the cream of the ambitious and most
gifted American vOtce-students. With
such talent taking the place of the pro-
verbally stupid chorus singers of Olden
days. there is life and action in the
English Grand Opera ensembles impOs-
eible to be found in the foreign-voiced
organizations.
Swedish dialect plays have long been
popular with the great mass of theatre |
gOers who find enjoyment in the nat
ural reproduction on the stage of pic |
lures of home life in which the every
day incidents common to US all are
faithfully depicted, with only that
touch Of eXaggeratiOn that is necessary
to give high lights to stage portrait
ures One of the best of the Swedish |
dialect plays now before the public is
THE Girl From Sweden" which Man
ager Falkner will present at the New
Grand theatre tonight, for a run of
four nights. 1t is a domestic comedy
drama, in which a beautiful story is
told to the accompaniment of much
laughter. for into the story is woven a
vein of delicious comedy of such nat
uralness that it inspires genuine mirth.
THE Girl From Sweden" differs from
the other Swedish dialect plays in that
the heroine and hero are both of the
Swedish type. The story in which they
are the central figures has more than
an ordinary amount of heart interest
and develops also several thrilling sit
uations SpeciaIties are introduced in
abundance, and a company Of more
than average ability is provided to give
full effect to the presentation.
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I Commencing Thursday, Jan. %, "Ha- |
Eel Kirk will be presented at the New
Grand theatre for a period of three |
days. The drama is one of the most |
successful and most pleasing ever pre- |
scented on any stage. The first act |
shows Dunstan Kirke'S home and the |
Blackburn mill. Lord Carringford, a !
tourist from England, makes his ap-
pearan&e at the mill, and while fishing
in the stream was carried out beyond |
his depth into the rapids above the mill !
while in this perilOus position he is |
seen by Hazel Kirke, who gives the |
alarm. and he is rescued by the mill |
hands and brought to the home of |
Dunstan Kirke. During his short stay |
he became infatuated with Hazel, the !
beautiful daughter. Hazel in turn, |
loved him, and this incurred the i'll |
will of her father. who had chosen for |
her another. one Squire Rodney. one of |
natures nOblemen, who had, at various |
times, advanced money, and now held |
a mortgage on the homestead. Kirke |
was DESTROYS that his daughter should |
marry Squire Rodney purely out of |
gratitude. This the girl refused to do |
and, in fit of anger he disowned her, |
and cast her adrift forever. Lord Car |
ringford married her and takes her |
away. His mother appears at their |
home, having heard of the marriage of |
her son. She endeaVOrs to separate |
them by telling Hazel that the mar
rage was Illegal. Hazel, in an unguard- |