Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-25
THE ROUND OF THE THEATERS

. Is
RECITAL AT THEATER--rhe Salt
Lake thcatcr held an Intelligent an!
| appreciativc audience Monday eve
! ming, that filled the lower part of the
| mousse and q ialr snare OF the galleries,
| on the occasion OF the recital given IN
aid of the Orphans Home anu Day
| Nursery, II all VINO b0usnt tickets nau
attended. the auditorium would have
been entirely filled, so mat siccoruins
| to reports from ticket agencies anu
| Individual solicitors, it would nPpear
| that the home had cleared over a
| thousand dollars, as the tncnter was
I%donated, and expenses were On the
whole Il nominal hgure.
The artists of the evening were VIII
lard Weihe, Miss iyDella GiaNton and
Miss May kimball, whose efforts
| held the large audience through the
last number, and brought them
| merIted applause. Mr.. Welhe was the
| most marked success of the evening.
| He received an ovation which brought
| him ont twice after giving the one
number accorded to him on the pro-
| gram, and also brought a large boquet
| of flowers, a tribute not only deserved.
| but the more noticeable from the
| fact that such offerings are almost
entirely confined to artists uf the falr
| sex. Mr. Weihcs program number was
Sarasate's Novel Fantasy on Themes
from Faust" 1t was mastery effort.
the product of a truly artistic temPera-
ment and marvellous technical talent.
The violin was one of his own manu-
facture, whose sweet. rich singing tone
might easily pass as coming from
makes dated three centuries ago. The
audience demanded another number,
lstowhich he replied with ajcradlc song
With muted instrument that was so
sweet and pretty. that Il third number
as demanded, and finally given This
last even surpassed the first 1t WAS
Wieniawski's paraphrase of the Rus
sian national hymn. whose perfor-
nance would have done credit to Ole
Bull This paraphrase bristles with the
most difficult technical Celebrations
OF a wide variety of forms that only
a master mind could conceive of. like
Wieniawski's. requiring heroic per-
Torrance to properly give II.
Miss Sybella Clayton is always a well
come favoritc with the Salt Lake
public-musical or unm,lsical. for she
plays with such graceful, absolutely
unconscious ease and grace that
those who do not particularly care
for The piano. find their attention
5riveted on her after she has played
the first bar Long years OF hard, un-
. n
intelligent application to study. have
moulded Miss ClaSton'S whole being
into musical cast that dciies fracture.
The most difficult scores have become
to her passngly easy, for her hands
are absolutely trained and drilled to
respond the most strenuous demands
5untiringly. and she reads n List score
as easy as n Alaguffey's first reader.
The audience would have been pleased
to have heard some heavy number
Monday evening. from her. But then
she did all the accompanying which
was, quite Il task in itself, so perhaps
not more could be reasonably asked
for SO her numbers were more on the
lyric line. which were charmingly. per-
fectly given. Miss Clayton's playing
last evening. might he characterized
as the most delicate musical lace work
of Il subdued,'bu wonderfully rich
PATTERN.
Miss Kimball's voice is Of an high
lyric order. rich and sympathetic, UNI
usually well trained. in perfect COM
mand. Her work was even throughout.
with evidence Of the best professional 4
instruction. and Intelligent apprcca-
ton of that instruction. Miss Itimball
ought to make her mark on the con-
cert stage, for her heart and soul are
evidently In her art. She Is a pretty
woman, with effective stage presence
Both ladies were flurallys remembered
as was fitting. Tho programs contained
theEwordslof Miss Nimbal's songs M
Italian. French and English, In which
languages she sang.
Ell ORPHEUM--Two favorltes already
seen before In Salt Lake come hack
70 the 0rphepms this week. the idyllic
little sketch "sweethearts' With Mr..
and Mrs, Edwin Conncl!ey In the east,
Its flavor of PASTORAL simplicity.
charming story, and excellent portray
Jack tho! Giant Killer Is another
well known Rketch, and returns with
the thoroughly efficient and blood
3curdling "big man." the clever little
mideet-comedtnn Ernest Rommel,
with his tiny partner Miss Caroline
Hass. while the rest of the cast is ac-
.ceptnbly filled hv Miss sylvia Hearne
md Miss Daisy Robinson.
Thektrio of clever gymnnsts an Eu-
5ropean novelty group under the name
of Krass givefsome excellent acrobatic
feats. Outsldcanf these. the program
is made up appnrentlv Gf amateurs,
the best OF whom is Mr. Arthur
Bowen. the SINKING cartoonist, who
gives mn. entertaining exhibition or OF
lection OF songs is good Lem pu T.,
who Is billed 8as "the famous Europ-
can singing clown,rs gives some good
limitations. and Miss Irene IIolway lis
a chnrmping personality in. some
charming gowns, though neither her
singing nor acting are convincing. Her,
selection. you Can't Keep The Irish
Down." belongs more appropriately to
a ma Y epettpl sc,s.t ha, that OF as
dainty n personality as Miss IIolway.
U Mr.. George Mckay. AMI Mrs. George
.Contwell are seen In a sketch entitled
part is the take-of on police methods
OF protection. Ono OF tho best parts
OF the evenings entertainment are tho
orchestra numbers, the old song accom-