The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-30
NORMAL SINGERS
AMUSE AUDIENCE
"The Merry MiIkmaidS," Given
at Salt Lake Theatre, Proves
Great Success.

Just Joyous, jocund youth-pink and
blue frocked girls and white shirted boys
and there you have the Merry Milk
maids, given last evening at the Salt
Lake theatre by the normal class of the
University of Utah II was a thoroughly
varsity audience that stamped and APP
performance. Perhaps no professionals
who have appeared upon the boards of
the historic old play house ever received
the ovation that rosy checked lassies and
course of the performance. And, best of
ALL 1t was not merely loyalty that prompt
ed the enthusiasm but, rather unusual
Tor an amateur production, the Merry
MIlk1naidS' was decidedly good. &
II was not merely that the girls were
slim and pretty with the grace of girl-
hood, it was not only that the boys were
straight and manly, but the choruses and
solos, the ensembles and the dances, ali
were fully worthy of the appreciation
they received. The cOstuming was rather
elaborate, the stage showing a gay riot
of cOlOrs, but then. what could one ex-
pect, il was the normal class and Mrs.
Martha Royle King had a feminine eye
upon the staging as well as insuTing the
musical success of the performance.
Probably the prettiest number of the
entire performance was the finale of the
second act, the youthful bride and bride
groom, the nuptial wreathS and the filmy
summer gowns of the chorus of some $50,
all contributing to an exquisite stage pic
ture.
AS 10 the musical merit 1I TIE pelIOfftt-
ance there is nothing TO be said except
the single adjective excellent The
solos and triOS were perfectly blended,
while the choruses showed conclusive evil
dence of careful and painstaking rehear-
sal.
Petite, dark-haired and pretty, Miss
Mae O'Nein was an ideal stage queen.
while a Dorothy who looked her part of
a village flirt, was Lillian McFarlane;
clad in gypsy garments, swa-thy and
pretty Claire Noall made a Monica, a
Romany lassie who looked the part while
Ruth and MarSery, taken respectively by
Ella ChristOpherSOn and Francis RedfielG.
We're dempre, dainty little actresses. and
showed indeed more than the average
amateur talent
As Farmer Jim, Stanley johnson made
q decided hit. With rare self-possessioH
this young man made love and Responded
with equal abandon while the Captain. ID.
II. Sandin, a gallant and doughty
commander indeed. The judge. the round.
boyish face OF Frederick Reher, looked
oddly beneath the gray judicial wig,
proved an excellent piece of oaricature,
while Willard Nilsson and ]. Welton War:
in dual roles of commodore. beggar and
doctor, distinguished themselves. Ward
as the sad-faced peddler was particularly
good. But the twenty-four boys and
eighty-fiVe girls who made up the fresh
faced youthful chorus, deserved at least
half the credit of the performance and, at
the conclusion when a huge u was let
down from the wings and the girls in
pink. blue and yellow and the boys in
neglisee, rolled forth a local gag" song,
the applause was simply deafening.
The Merry Miikmaids'' considered aside
from its interest as a local school per-
Torrance. is musical, tuneful and frolic-
some and Mrs. Martha Royle King, who
has spent SO many hours directing the
production. Is to be congratulated on the
success of Wednesday evening. And in
cidentally the instrumental numbers were
/ highly appreciated.
Viola Allen. who comes to the salt Lake
theatre tonight. is one OF the few prom
inent actresses who do not think it lec-
essaTy 20 emphasize the fact that they are
stars by claiming as much of the agten-
ton of an audience, and allowing their
| fellow players as little as it is possible
to arrange. even when il IS lone at the
expense OF the dramatic interest ami
strength of the play. For this reason Miss
Allen always surrounds herself with 4
company of thoroughly capable players.
and does not insist on standing in a glare
of lime-light that leaves her associates
in an obscure shadow. Among the we'll
knCwn professionals who important
parts in Miss Aliens splendid production
are William X. Harcourt, Sidney Herbert.
Fuller Meliish. c. Leslie Alien Henry j
Hadfield, Alison Skipworth and Zeffie
/ Tilbury.
There is every indication that there will
be a capacity house at both afternoon and
this evenings presentations of Clvtie
Fitch'S Dlav. "Fhc COWBOY and the T,a1S'
company is now being put through its
PAGES on rehearsals Of Henry Arthur
Jones' masterpiece. "The Dancing Girl. .
which will be the offering aTondly night
and all next week.
At the Grand Miss Frankenfield AMI
her associates have scored q decided hit
and this weeks show Under Two Flags"
is proving very popular. A SPECIAL matt
nee performance viii 0e given at , %
lO'clOck this afternoon.
The vaudeville to be Offered the public
next week at the Lyric theatre beenniB2
at Saturdays matinee. is OF a highly on