The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-25

soul and body that naught would be left
Tor his music At the conclusion of this
scene. carried to some success by Mrs
Roots sincere writing and Beverley
Sitgreave's acting, Mozart turns to the
composing OF his requiem mass. which
ne felt TO be a warning of his own
death But the historical count, who
paid an advance sum on the order. is
here suppianted by a heavenly call A
voice from somewhere commands him
TO compose death music
The effectuality of the fourth act is
not due to anything dramatic in the
showing of Mozarts poverty and mis-
cry, for that is the conventional and
unappealing exhibition of genius unre-
warded,, but to a finely faithful repro
duction of Munkaczy's painting of the
composer singing his last requiem.
Mrs. Roots good taste runs through
her play, and I suppose Howard Kyle's
dramatic art is responsible, also, for
this staging of a great picture. The
Swallowed details of the room, suggest
ed and not obtruded the correctly tint
ed costumes of the figures that slowly
take the poses of the Munkaczy group,
and the singing by the assembled quar-
tette to the accompaniment of harpsi-
chord-well, it is a memorable joy for
artistic eyes and ears.
Time is cruel when along with years
it adds fat to an actress, and it will
be fiendish if it expands the chubbi-
ness of Anna Laughlin into obesity. A
fcndly solicitous study of Anna in
His Majesty" the weeks musical
farce, rouses a dread that a few years
hence she may be half as wide as she
is Tonga physical possibility, as her
length lacks inches of being five feet
Anna is not as clever as Blanche Ring,
the other actress put into this show for
its New York Introduction, but as a
pitsy, itsy, tootsy-wootsy she takes
first place away from Blanche as
Chicago grass widow. That should not
be so, and it is due to the fact that An
ma can get along with nothing but her
own baby goO-gOO, while Blanche re-
quires substantial material to go on.
New York is told that His Males
ty" has been made over since its
month in Philadelphia. [ won't be-
lieye it is any better than it was. for
/ can't believe it can have been any
worse than it is. An act of George
Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman."
as published, but not as performed.
sent its characters to hell under SEN
tence of living there exactly as they
had lived on earth. Shafter Howard
may have thought that portion of the
Shaw comedy too good to be lost to
the stage That is a guess based on
HOward's locating of the first act of
His Maestyj' in hell, with the arrival
of q theatrical company and others di-
rect from a railway wreck. The col
labOrating genius of Meilhac, Halevy
and Offenbaeh was tested by the task
in their "OTpheus and Eurydice" of
making the place of torture place of
gayety in incidents and music. 1t is
no wonder that Howard, amateur hu-
morist and musician, isn't able to equal
the work of the one Englishman, to
say nothing Of the combined three
Frenchmen,
After Towards prisoners to Satan
have blown themselves up with dy-
Mantle from a sulphurouS cavern to
flOweT-SCented island, he repudiates
them in the new version of his play,
for he says that his story has been
taken out and lot of irrevelant stuff
put in Dick Carroll, Harry Kelly,
Knute Erickson and Hughey Flaherty,
song and dance comedians whom no
gentleman could be expected to nod to,
much less write with. Probably
Blanche Ring has an opinion of them,
too, for they have taken care of them
selves and done nothing for her.
Blanche is of no use whatever without
well as sing, and, lacking any such,
she puts in one of Edna Mays one of
Fay Templeton and one of her own.
snowsterm ragged on the opening
night and its chill seemed to penetrate
to his satanic majesty's supposedly
superheated pit. If hell had frozen