The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-23
"saIvation NeII."


Mrs. Fisze viii bring her play of New
York life, Salvation Nell" 10 the
Grand theatre for three nights. COM
mencing May 81 This is the play which
aroused that city by the unusual real
ism with which the life of he lower
east side was portrayed In il Mrs.
Fiske and her manager. Harrison Grey
Fiske, seem to have outdOne themselves
as stage producers
The old and unvarying naelodra matte
version Of the life in this quarter Of
New York was discarded by the Fishes
and out of all the seeming lowliness Of
Cherry Hill they have brought saliva
ton Nell"
The staunchest admirers of Mrs.
Fiske and her wonderful RECORD of
character creations admit that this is
the most vivid of her studies. and that
In this story of an humble scrubwoman,
who loves as a woman only can 1--we.
she has developed a type which will
live forever alongside Of Tess and
Becky Sharp.
The play had a remariIa bic run At
the HaCkett theatre. New York. and
the city hocked to see a true version of
its humber life. With an uneTriay art.
Mrs. Fiske has filed the play with a
naturalness thsa is wholesome. There
is TO bad taste in the mouth when one
leaves the theatre after a performance
of Salvation Nell" II is admitted by
all the CRITICS who have seen it that its
very realism and naturalness is good
and an object lesson in human nature:
for from it one realizes that cut + the
lOwliest circumstances a pure, sweet
life may be developed.
The play has been brought into the
western territory at a great expense.
With his usual lavishness, Mr.. Fiska
has not attempted TO cut the massive
production in a single part. The great
Nthird act, with its tall tenement houses.
massive iron fire-escapes and innumer-
able properties, will all be reproduced
just as during the metropolitan engage
ment. The last act takes all day to
prepare, and for this reason Mrs. Fiske
is frequently obliged to engage a special
train.
1t will be good to have Mrs. Fiske and
her great Manhattan company with us
again. With the original New York
cast" has become more or less amusing
when read on our signbOards of a Wis
iting company, but with the stamp of
Mr. Fiske's approval on the statement,
lit is encouraging to realize that the
company Will play here just as it did in
New York Tt is said TO be the largest
dramatic organization that has ever
toured the west. IN this day of small
casts, and the consequently cramped
story; and the single piece Of scenery
that faces one monotonously for three
or four acts, it is refreshing to learn
that Mrs. Fiske will bring here every
thing that the great art of Mrs. Fiske
deserves.
Mrs. Fiske is so strongly established
i'm the public mind as Americas great
est actress that # would seem natural
for her to rest on her laurels; but with
that energy which has brought her to
the position she holds. she is continuing
her endeavOrs. With a daring which
only the trUest genius can justify. she
has in Salvation Nell' accepted q Tart
entirely different from any that she has
heretofore portrayed. and she has boldly
gone into an atmosphere of humble low
Illness for another of her creations. An
actress Of less genius would be afraid
of the subject