Show = = = = 1 pRAMATIO AND LYRIC I Thomas as a Lampooner Professor pooner j a OF DEALING IN 1 DIFFICULTIES TRUTH 1 Ii nanMer of Jairus Tomorrow Nightm George Hollands Chastise i mcnt TIic Jersey lily Plagiarism Miscellaneous j Miscel-laneous Etc 1 Thomas has shown him Piofeesor equally terrible with the self to be with the fiddle bow We ren as I have long been numbered among I that throng of amusement set ktrs have feeby sustaineJ who for years the shock of nightly seeing the i professor mount the conductors I rostrum in the Theatre orchestra i but now it appears we are to be I I singled out as the sole victim of his I wrath in another direction A long I course in listening to his selections I however has endowed us with sufi suf-i ficient fortitude we trust to endure this fresh affliction aud steeled by I frequent applications of the Syren Waltzes and Sing song Kitty 1 tfonc You Ki Me Ob we feel sufficiently i suf-ficiently calloused to b3 abIe to meet this shock with comparative indifference The great trouble with Professor Thomas is that be has worked himself him-self into tte dead positive convic tin that his administration in the theatre orchestra is objectionable to the Dramatic and Lyric writer of this paper and to thst person alone he dues no hear the titter with which same i f Us selections are received re-ceived nor the haltaudible groans that run about the paiqaet at the comoifeBceinen of others the complaints com-plaints that reach the box office apparently ap-parently never penetrate hs ear and he labors unconsciously on unaware un-aware that tle region back of him is a howling wilderness of anathemas an-athemas If it were true that all complaints and all dissatisfaction existed only in Dramatic and Lyric to what may be ascribed the complaining com-plaining letters we recentlv mentioned men-tioned as having been printed in I TIlE IIERALD twelve or fifteen I fifteenI years ago to say nothing of the I comments made from time to time I by mtets in other papers V 11 J this were in the least a personal matter the Professor may be assured it would not find publication In the Milieus ot THE HERALD and if Dramatic and Lyric had not re ceved sufficient public commenda ton to convince him where the popular sentiment lies he would as snredly hesitate before pUlsuing any further so unpleasant a task What are Professor Thomas par ticalar claims in the musical line Ihat entitle him to the position of eider of the Theatre orchestra for iCe Or what mysteripui claim on the hause has he esablished that he retailed in spite of the protest of ts patron and the fact ibst any ne of his band is an abler musician I nj performer Should not thai th-ai r cf an orcbeslra be able to ead with hisicstrjmtnt And will the most deluded nt his followers aim that Professor ihomaa is an efficient performer on the violin V t What has been his record of musical L achievement in the past What was the artistic estimate cf the Sorcerer l work undertaken under a host of the most favorable auspices that a conductor could desire VVb at has become of Zio s Musical So I defy an organization whose future I prospects had never been equaled I at the time it was given into the Profeaora hante What height of celebrity has the Glee Club attained L after years of practice under theo the-o l d tUlin These queries > c eav 10 eCho or any one else 1 flispesPd t J reply There i are njfc many points in Pro 1 eSSJr Th mas invective of Friday II tbs are woth l13wer 1 taking time to an wet The rather malicioD9 fling at Mr CareIs3 whom he describes as having been for ome Ime without an engigeffieut the Btftementthat the majority of the U1sicIans In this cIty are disposed to fraternize and tue charge that the Vriter has raised them e1iDgS of 6 discord among laugh will all 8Uffie to over The efficiency of the members of the Theatre D orctIBstraJ one fcr a W2ihe moment doubts Mr 1 tedLlington Clive and CastJeton bnithJ Giles are the lix EVen we or referred to uct five as the Professor 01 six Pble reader quotes as being know anl1 performers we of Vho would no one ese in the orchesra gory the come under tht catt < < denial ttlat of the Profes301 there J exists a pledge in thtir tfganiz lion which PL3yUflern bimJs tbem to Un 1er no 0 hr cJr lltly laave r CndueLor3 we j librt l to him and Mr Beez ttl ey for setlemen Young in tne gentleman is drummer ff Theatre ffer < tf the orchestra > and wag Careles3 amatSir ° S1l10n in j the I 1 I P6 kJ he aSked amateur rche3tra last rofessorThornas 6r to Consult with e before Burned nasbef ° rfa answering in 116 brief an hour or rief r m so with tol ld him respJDse that the Ulofessor he hat It cmld not consent a r he3tra Was the agatnt the rules of the hhoma3 orchLlatment that the 1e Orchestra is i Inanag U1ent to have conceded by all the right wt borne engagements In the Theatre dt o out aYQ fterno by the facts of last 11t n and IllJdt that hid t evening the 1 ay of its slz9 orchetra is equal fJ11tl In thia UI t dh We pass in put of the l he Gtunned tl11 e may have silenC 15 Ieevel 5tOm taY compli tavelliug Companies we I are utnble to deny but respectuly hint that it is the Silt Lake public who pay the dollars six bits halves and quartets to sit through this musc who are the constituted jidses In conclusion it need cny ba saId hat it woulJ have been the manlIer and wiser curse all around for the Pifessor to have given toldly tne real reason for his utterances in Fridays HERALDJ vjz that the writer of Dramatic and Lyric is a member of the Home Dramatic I Club an organization which chose Mr Careless as their orchestral I leader l and assisted him in the formation for-mation of his amateur orchestral society TO MORROW NIGHTS CONCERT The long talked of Daugater of airus and the first public appearance appear-ance of the Choral Society occur I tomorrow t evening at the Salt Lake I The itre No expense or pains have I been spared to make this the lead bi ing musical event of the season Tue orcnestra has been enlarged to twenty performers and Mr L L VanPraag he cello soloist bas been added 10 their numbers Mrs Careless assumes the principal soprano sop-rano part and besides lender ng several arias in the cantata will sing a solo in the first part Miss Edith Clawsoo Mr Crawford and Mr McAllister are included among riie soloists The sale has been going on during the past week at the store or Geo Careless Go and will be continued tomorrow by Mr Rossiter at the box office Cheap price3 prevail for the occasion and aJCullfhouse should assemble greet the new societys first public ven lure STAGE NEWS Mr G ore Holland who played Our Am riran Cousin here several months ago has been chastised in New York The copyright this play as neatly every one knows belongs the heirs ot the late E A 8otern one of whom Mr Lytton Sothern is now playing his fathers specialty of Dundreary It came to tbe knowledge of the Sotherns that Mr Holland wus infringing on their copyright and their agent Mr Wail issued a notice to all managers caiHioning them against allowing Holland to perform Our American Cousin in their theatres This orcke up Mr Hollands appearance appear-ance as Dundrear i and the other day meeting Mr Wall on Union quare he walked up to that gentleman gentle-man and as the Times puts it sadhe considered him a eoandeo and soandso Mr Wall was quite surprised and asked him if he meant it Mr Holland said he did when Mr Walls arm worked quickly a blow fell and in a moment mo-ment Mr Holland was lyiog on the sidewalk Mrs Langtrys agent called on the Home Dramatic Club last week and very courteously Inlormea them the tit e of the play they were ad vertisinc Wires Peril belonged to the Jersey Lily by copyright The name had been chosen by the Club for a revised edition of Maud Peril but they cheerfully withdrew it when they learned of Mrs Lang trys objection According to the verdict of the actors themselves Lifes Revenge waa very poorly done at the matinee but vastly Impioved upon at night in tbe afternoon some of the lines were almost inaudible a lady in front sent a note to one of tbe male characters enquiring if hie part was a secret Up to last years there was a tradition > tra-dition that no theatre in Salt Lake could h pe to cope successfully with a circus the StIver King did a good deal to dissipate this idea however how-ever and afrer Mrs Laugtrys performance per-formance we doubt not that it will be dispelled altogether A speech of five or six lines spoken spo-ken by Crystal in Hearts ot Oak occurs word for word in Mauds Peril We suppose as the first was written by Herne and the last by Watts Phillips it can only be called one of those coincidences for which there is no accounting Goodwin Is drawing crowded houses in San Francisco in the play of Confusion this is one of the great successes of the past season and is the play In which Mr J D White recently made a mark that gentlemans name does not appear in the San Francisco cast Patti has come to the conclusion that the collection of 10 per cent of 5000 is a task thatlTieolini or herself her-self can attend to and old Franchi has been dispensed with he has been the divas agent for eighteen years Irene Parry is in the cast of BlueBeard I Blue-Beard a comic burletta now going in New York she has been engaged en-gaged by John Stetson to star in some play of the Minnie Palmer order The concert in the Presbyterian church during this week has some excellent names and numbers Mrs Lev berg mak > 3 her first appearance in a long time Mrp Lanjry YFSS sued by John A Stevens for 1500 for not appearing ap-pearing at a halinee She won the suit by produ ing a doctors certificate certifi-cate Louis Harrison will marry Emma Schultz at the conclusion of the season the honeymoon will probably prob-ably be spent in iEurope Wilson Barrett the original Silvering Silver-ing will make a four of America durimg the coming slason j Marie Jansen has ailed for Ion don It is said accompanied by an adorer from Princeton Freddy Gebhardt has long since been dismissed from Langtrys train My Partner has been very much of a failure in London Ada Oilman stars next season in Mountain Pink |