Show I JffiAHATIC AND LYRIC J t A Week of the Legitimate Drama F l r SHEBIDAN THE TRAGEDIAN i Xontso BavenportKato Castletona Engagement Scalclil and Her 1arrot Amateur Jfows TJp to i the tune of McCUlloughs mel amcioly wreck there were five men in America who were universally recog m Bizei M the standard exponents of the legitimate drama Booth McCullough Barrett Keene and Sheridan Fred Wardehas made some convulsive efforts t to have his same classed in this exclu BiTe list but of recent seasons he has been rather falling away from than 1t I climbing nearer to it Evory one of these stars who has appeared in Salt I I Lake has had no reason to complain of the appreciation of our audiences fork for-k the intellectual form of entertainment here presentedand we believe all except Booth and Sheridan have sometime some-time favored us with a visit after this week Booth will be the only one of the great tragedians whom Salt I Lake has yet to behold Sheridan comes s r for seven performances giving us what > I l I is said to be his greatest impersonation tomorrow night Louis XI and following as will be seen by his announcement f an-nouncement with Shock Richelieu > > Lear Hamlet Kicha Jl and a matinee r mati-nee of the Marble Hear Probably the best estimate of Mr Sheridans powers j 1 Ii d I has been given by the critic of the New i York Star his opinion of this actors E r Louis XI is a two column article and is too extensive to reproduce here We make from it however the following I selections f The talk of the town among professional j I 1 profess-ional people is the splendid acting of ir E Sheridan in Louis XI When i ic appeared in Delavignes sombre l drama at the Star Theatre last Saturday Satur-day night old and experienced critics i who were wont to sit quietly through a aj performance were moved to applause t and the audience fairly rose at him It l i was a great artistic triumph achieved ti 1 by genuinely artistic methods It was t all the more gratifying following so closely as it did upon Mr Irvings performance I per-formance the same character performance per-formance generally conceded to be the r best liven by that gentleman during his f engagement in this city fi These qualities are not given to many men and hence it is that few actors essay the portrayal of Delavignes hero Dunne the present generation the j greatest interpreter of the partwas the i late Charles Ream He acted ifwith the x fire passion directness and cunning that tradition attributes to his fathers r i Edmund Kean performance of Richard l III It was a groat revelation of dramatic I n dram-atic art lurid in its tearful realism and I magnetic in its portrayal of human 1 3t horror The part bas not been acted in I such a manner since until Mr Sheridan t appeared in itat Ihe Star Theatre last I Saturday He is the legitimate successor of Kean He reaches m this character almost the absolute perfection ot dram 4 I ° Tictic art If With Mr Sheridan there was a I reverse condition of affairs The surroundings sur-roundings were tawdry the support inefficient l in-efficient The entire weight of the performance per-formance rested upon his shoulders HeW i He-W like Atlas bowing under a heavy burden Yet despite all these drawbacks n I draw-backs he awoke the enthusiasm of blase 1 theatregoers He riveted their attention I atten-tion by the force and directness of his art he moved them to tears at will and 1 Jie provoked their cheers and emphatic em-phatic plaudits at the end of each act There was nothing perfunctory in what be did There was no traditionalism K 6 no puny theatricism It was nature 1 and it made the whole audience kin When the curtain went down on the r K last act two of tile oldest theatrical critics in New York men who have seen all the great tragedians who have appeared here during the past thirty odd p t years turned to each other and grasping t hands uttered simuitaneously the one I word Grand r It is impossible not to be enthusiastic over this really greatperformanceAnd e it is alLthe there gratifying to bauble to j praise it because It is gIven by an American i Amer-ican actor who h Snot been puffed and j i < advertised with all the flummery of ti t modern managerial tactics Of course Mr Sheridan has been familiar to New i f York theatregoers fqr some years He 1 has always beep recognized as a careful ii 1 t 1 intelligent conscientious actor who strove to do well all that was allotted to him AS Louis XI he has leaped into ° fameand afteryears when the history V of the stage of the present day is written writ-ten his name will be classed among the notable events of an era brilliant with l dramatic endeavor and rich with stage 1 incident ILouIso Davenport t s This is the stage name of Mr Sheri t dana leading lady though in private circles she is known as Mrs W E i i 9 Sheridan Her marriage to the tragedian 1 t t k s trage-dian it will be remembered was ti chronicled by THE HEEALD some weeks r ago She is a young lady said to be possessed of exceptional dramatic powers pow-ers and it goes without saying that she g II must be a capable actress since Sheridan iI Sheri-dan long ago selected her for such parts as Marco Ophelia etc Tomorrow r I night she assumes the character of the Dauphine in Louis XI s i r Kate Castloton l 4 f Kate wound up her Salt Lake engagement en-gagement yesterday and leaves us f his i morning without having encountered i i i Iii great prosperity A bad play bad support sup-port and bad times are hard things to p I battle against and brighter stars than 1 Kate have not been able to bear ups up-s against them One swallow does not I make a summer When YOU come again Kateand we trust this experience i experi-ence will not embitter you against us fortify yourself with good singers and a t > comedian of Mackays calibre find a d J 1 j play somewhere nearly equal to your t r merits and dont be induced to barnstorm i t G f barn-storm in Echo and Park City j s i Scalchi There has been a good deal of surmising surmis-ing that Scalchi was kept off the stage j 4r r 1 I iy Mapleson on Thursday night t It I r f because her salary alone would cat up a great part of the small amount in the house and Steinbach was a comparatively compara-tively cheap singer But this is not the case Scalchi came to the theatre dressed for the part and tried her voice but found she was unable to sing she had caught a bad cold and her lungs had to be covered with a mustard plaster Sne asked Mr and Mrs B B Young who went to call on her in her car next morning what it was that people said of her and when they frankly told her of the parrot story she expressed great annoyance But we believe that story to be literally true for all that or of the gentlemen in charge of the train told a HEBALU reporter on the night of the opera that Scalchi would note able to sing owing to her grief over the loss of her pet bird her weeping had been so copious that she was all unstrung and really did take the slight cold which served asher as-her excuse It will all help to boom up the Big Tabernacle event however and the shrewd Colonel knows it Among tho Amateurs On Tuesday evening next the Salt Lake Dramatic and Musical Association will repeat their performance of the Marble Heart in the Musib Hall This is a company of young ladies and gentlemen gen-tlemen several of whom have been playing play-ing on the amatenrstnge some years while others have only recently made their appearance upon the boards Included In-cluded in their number are Messrs Geo J Bywater and Thos Morris who are among our leading amateurs and Mrs M 0 Hullone of Sal Lakesfavorite vocalists vo-calists and one whotnoughs he has only appeared upon a few occasions shows marked dramatic ability The company has only been organized about one year but they have been successful in their performances from the first and have put all their pieces on in good style So far they have played only on the Music Hall stage but they are con templating an attempt on a larger scale soon if circumstances favor them The Music Hall is a handsome little theatre and has now some good scenery painted by W C Morris so the performance can be presented very acceptably and as the plays performed this by this company have always been of an excellent character they are deserving of patronage Interesting to Our Choirs Professor Careless has communicated to the choir leaders of the city his design de-sign for commencing classes in sight reading and from all sources he receives letters encouraging his plans It is so important to choirs that there should be good readers in all four of the parts that each ward ought to take the matter mat-ter up and send such of their young singers as are unable to pay for their tuition along to be instructed No one but a choir master can appreciate the difficulties of having to teach music to singers who can not read Professor Careless is now forming his classes and all choirs should see that they are represented in some of them He will also form a class in harmony for leaders lead-ers and advanced pupils 1 a month is the only charge and one lesson a week is given Notes MAY BLOSSOM comes west in May EMMA ABBOTTS Opera company is down in Texas CARLETON HAD a benefit on Friday night in New York FAY TEMPLBTON has been engaged by Rice for ono of his burlesque companies PATTI AND Scalchi sing together in San Francisco tomorrow night in Semiramide LILLIAN RUSSELL has returned to New York but has apparently lost her sway as queen of the dudes McKEE RANKIN has been very successful suc-cessful in San Francisco in 49 which ran all last week at the Bush Street Theatre THE LOGAN Journal reproduces THB HERALDS criticism on Patience Miss Thatcher is a native of the town where the Journal is published BLIND TOM whose novelty has worn off is now playing in the more obscure towns of the south He seldom appears in the populous centres PBOF KBOUSE through Dramatic and Lyric desires to express his obligations to the musicians who assisted him In the Patience orchstra JOHN B LINDSAY was playing with the preacheractor Miln last week in Ohio working up toward New York Their business had been only soso IT is positively settled that Osmond Tearle leaves VallackIs company next seasonhe thinks he has been there long enough J H Barnes is spoken of as his successor Mirror e THE HOUSE programme on Thursday night had it III Trovatore Whether this was the usual error of the printer or a reference to the representation is unknown A L KATE CASTLETONS company is one of the few on the road which has made money this season They play towns of all and any size and having a cheap company are under no great expense They had a 400 house in Park City THE LIGHT musical skit once performed by the Clawson Brothers and other amateurs entitled Aunty Whiffles and the Excursion Party has been thoroughly overhauled and we learn will shortly be tried again HARRY PHILLIPS informed a HERALD reporter ferociously that the story of his trouble with his wife is a damnable lie He has commenced suit for f 20000 damages against the Winnipeg paper which started the falsehood THE AUCTION sale of seats in San Francisco brou ht in brought 20000 in premiums pre-miums that is prices paid for the privilege of selecting seats at the usual rates This is 25 per cent heavier than last year Mrs Fair bid 150 for the privilege of selecting the first box JOHN PARSELLE who recently died sud denly in New York was one of the oldest members of the Union Square and will be well remembered here from his character of the banker in The Bankers Daughter Mr Cazauran said of the deceased actor Mr Parselle was the best pere noble on the boards In silk stockings white wig threecornered hat and rapier he could not be approached In Miss Multon and Fernol he did some fine acting He was an admirable straight old man Hew He-w as popular with every member of the company and particular chum of Jim Sto darts His loss will be sadly regretted |