The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-07

dresses for her new doll" Mr.. Dock
Stader says it was the cutest thing
she has done this season, and az once
sent the pile of scraps but to the bill
poster in a basket, t&. be pasted to-
gether.
One Of the most TeaAzScfc stake effects
in Wagner's stupend\ IS music-drama
of The Valkyrie" is found in the clos
ing episode OF the last act. the magic
fire scene, where Wotan causes a wall
OF flame to burst forth from the rocks
in order to shield the sleeping Brun.
hide. The fire music written about
this daring incident contains SOME of
the most brilliant descriptive phrases
of any found In the entire Nibelungen
trilogy. The scene is generally de-
scribed as "Wotan's farewell" to the
beautiful Brunhilde, the VaIkyrie
maiden who was his favOrite daughter
in the halls of Valhalla BrunhiIde
has disobeyed> her father and for her
punishment WOtan takes away her inn
mortality, imposes on her a condition
of sleep and leaves her on the rocky
heights where the Valkyrie maidens
always assemble. with the understand
| ing that some day a great hero will
/ come to awaken her and claim her q
his bride. The ~enitent child begs that
she be protected by an ever-burning
wall of flames. so that none but the.
dare TO approach her sleeping place.
The scene where Wotan takes his
/ sleeping daughter in his arms before
/ laying her down and covering her with
her shield and helmet not only IN
spired Wagner to a wonderful musical
composition, but was also the inspira
ton for one of the greatest paintings
/ by the artist Pixis, which hangs in the
Louvre in Paris.
George AIDE is a hit as a speechmak-
er The American Dramatists' club
held its annual dinner in New York
recently, entertaining David Warfield
as the guest Of honor. This young man,
not many years ago the principal He
brew comedian of a high-priced bur
lesque company, was cheered and eulO-
gized as being today the greatest of
American character actoFs-which
proves the opportunities that art en-
joys in a free country.
George AIDE also was present, and
was received with something Of the
honor that is presumed to befaH the
returned prodigaI "A year ago, when
Mr.. AIDE met with US, there was some
thing uncanny about his presence-he
had never experienced a failure" eX-
planned Bronson Howard, president of
the club. Now, thank God, he's one
of US With the production of The
Bad Samaritan he has been initiated,
and we extend to him our hands IN
fellowship. Mayta he'll tell Us how it
feels to him.
'Pm rather inclined to believe In
that Sweet are the uses Of adversely
thing" replied Mr.. AIDE. And since
The Bad Samaritan I take my stand
with Emerson, that for every failure
there is some compensating blessing
When / went back to Indiana after
Ea tot Of
tan'-and 1 took the first train-the
first man 7 met as I stepped off the
train was an old Indiana citizen, who
said: Say, 1 hear you've got a failure
in your new play. George
Well, I don't know I replied: 'theZ
say the good die young, and on that
theory mine was the best. But I guess
it was pretty bad
Well replied the old man, it must
have been bad if you say so, but what
I can't understand is, how in HI New
York got on TO it, "
Here are some of the lines of Forty
Minutes from Broadway" by George
NJ. Conan, in which Fay Templeton is
starring:
Oh he was such a good man and we
had to lose him!
So was George Washington, but he
had to die-didn't he? Now our friend
had a million dollars when he died an
every wish-I think he had things COM
in pretty sweet.
No, he never left a will.
Take il from me-dat old guy
wouldn't have left his address if he
had known where he was goin'!
But why do you cry, Mary?
I'm not crying. My face feels un-
lucky-that's all.
CThe hOusemaid's confession. )-FoOI
that [ am, listen to everything hear.
Oh, that I could hear everything I
listen to.
Too bad. too uad, he's going to marry
an actress.
Why, there are lots of good actresses.
There are more bad plays than there
are bad actors
| don't believe him.
Why, that's nOthing-there are lots
of guys in Boston that don't believe
COrbett ever IicFcd Sullivan.
I know how to handle women. I I'M
derstand 'em like a book. That's the
reason I'm a bachelor
You're on the square with everybody
else Tom, what do you want to cheat
yourself for?
If you had million what would you
do on the level?
I'd do everything on the level.
Would you live in New Rochelle?
Mother always had four servants at
home-me and my three sisters.
Did he die suddenly?
He was alive two minutes before hs
died.
What was his complaint?
Nothing in particular. He kicked
about everything.
z. S. Willard will be seen in a one
act drama, THE Man Who Was" a
stage version Of Rudyard Kipling's sin
gular story. the second week of his en-
gagement at the New Amsterdam the
atre, New York. This play will be
presented with "A Pair of Spectacles,"
in both of which plays Mr.. Willard will
make his first appearance here. Mr..
Willard purchased the American rights
to The Man Who Was from Beer
bohm Tree.
AS the gentleman masquerading as
a butler in the Man On the Box"
Henry E. Dixey has every night to
obey his mistress orders by slicing a
T0iuo bppf fouOIIp into tho tbiuOnC4