Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Windnp of a Great Musical Season MRS DAVIS OFF THE STAGE Bob Slavln Tonorrow MglitDimcan Har risons raymastcrLatc Amusement Notes The engagement of the Bostonians went out in a blaze of glory at the Grand last night the matinee was light but the performance per-formance of the Poachers went with great favor At night however the house was full to the back rowthe audience being by far the heaviest which came out during the engagement The performance was delicate deli-cate chaste and beautiful musically it is 4 the greatest achievement of the Bostonians Boston-ians popularly it will not rank as so great a success as Fatinitza The music is written in the noblest vein of Ambroise Thomas excelling in some parts the music of Mignon the finale to tho second act the wine song and several concerted numbers are all high instances in-stances of fine mposition and the finale comes as near being grand opera as it is possible to find Indeed at times the music is almost too grand for the theme of the libretto It is not generally known that the great credit for producing tho opera is due to Mr Weil the Bostonians stago manager who is a good deal of the poet and musician combined The music is that of Thomas old opera Psyche not much heard of nowadays and Mr Weil did the necessary altering poetizing adapting and + general literary tinkering to wed tho musi to Gilberts celebrated play He has made a great success of his work The hits of last night were numerous and pronounced pro-nounced the Galatea of Miss Stone + being the central figure Miss Jessie Bartlett Bart-lett Davis making tho part of Cynisca stand out with bright boldness and Mr Karl doing some of his best acting act-ing as the sculptor His voice however showed tho illness under which he has boon suffering since he reached Salt Lake Mr Baruabee was a whole host as Chrysor and Miss Bartlett acted very well his shrewish wife Mr MacDonald and Miss Maconda filled in bravely Floral offerings to the leading ladies were presented sented after their most ambitious vocal A y efforts and the applause was unstinted The company left for Denver oh a special last evening Jessie Bartlett Davis is twentyeight and feels years of age and looks acts twenty Those who saw heron her first appearance here with Carleton six years ago as Griolet the drummer boy in The Drum Majors Daughter have noticed that she has grown just a little stouter and matured since then but at close range she + is as peachy of complexion as vivacious of manner and as charmingly slangy of speeh i as in the days when she was a youth to fortune and to fame unknown Dramatic and Lyric had the pleasure of meeting Mrs Davis in those days and of renewing tho acquaintance d = ring the past week at Garlicld Beach Yes she said with a reminiscent sigh when the han shakings were over nine years Ive been on the stage now and Ive had my share I suppose of both ups und downs Three hundred and seventy nights as Little Buttercup started me outand I 1 assure you I enjoj ed every one of them then a season with Carleton ugh I wouldnt take another of them for a thousand dollars dol-lars anight paid in advance and so I told him to his face when he mace me a proposition for a second real r Manys the night Ive taken my costume off and told him I wouldnt sing a note for him again to save him but he always came the baby act Think of the people in the front and the money that would be thrown ikViij and all thatso I invariably re Wonted and wont on Mrs Davis pro eeeded in this strain for some time longer in a manner charming to listen to but hazardous haz-ardous to put in print and as wo have just emerged from a libel suit wuh flying colors it is true but with some handsome legal bills to foot the editor deems it best to content himself with assuring his readers read-ers that Mrs Davis utterances would make beautiful reading if he dared print them especially to Mr Carletonand let it go at that Oi was an ambitious young thing of nineteen I nine-teen she went on when Mr Carleton had been exhausted putting in the time from 0 in the morning till 7 at night at the Chicago Chi-cago postofflce I got iTOO a year for that and 300 u year munificent sumfor singing sing-ing contralto in a church choir I had sung for Pati scared half to death of course and been patted on tho head by Mapleson and it was the old old story JIt nothing would do but that I must stndy abroad for Italian opera They all said so and I hungered for it I skimped saved and studied with that one end in view and the hour they used to giveme for dinner I took a lesson in That was my status when the Pina J fort fever broke out and tho wholecurront of iny life was changed Havcrly was organizing or-ganizing companies then to do the reigning craze and some one told him there was a contralto uo in such and such a church he ought to get Mr Davis was then one of Haverlys managers and he was detailed to go to the church and hear me He heard I me sing a little solo and the next day I saw my future husband for the first time through the little postofllce window a place about 50 big We fixed up the engagement engage-ment right there the opera engagement engage-ment I mean and I left the postofflce to go on the stage as Little Buttercup But-tercup That settled the scheme of studying r study-ing abroad and right glad I am that it did 1 ye been over there since and put in a years study I had grown big enough and old enough to take care of myself and my eyes were wide enough open to see things as they arc They talk about successes m Paris Milan Berlinbut how few there f1aci f1 i irlJ ht si who sue of the many American girls go abroad to study who ever reach that goal t and if they do succeed she said speaking eiruestly and contemptuously what docs it mean Dout tell me that Sybil Sanderson or any others of gout singers who mount the big wave of popularity popu-larity in Paris can do so und still rem tilt as they were when they went abroad t j study pure girls I I know something of the practices by which that success is won I know that tho only road to it is through a managers favor and I know what it means to secure that favor Had I a poor girl of nineteen struggling for a name and a position ventured math 1 those shoalsheavcn knows what might hay 1l befallen but as I have said I didnt a among it at all till I was old enough to t i > care of myself Bat thats neither h re nor there After I left Carleton 1 wen a season with the American Opera comp viy and got them in my debt just l800tben a season with the National Opera company the same thing with the name changed just to enable Mrs Thurber to beat us out of our salaries That unhappy experience past and I joined the Bostonians with whom I shall continue next season if I sing at all A good many other topics Mrs i Davis touched upon in a lively strain one of the most interesting being tho recent Booth and Barrett engagement at the new California theatre San Francisco It was highly amusing to us when we weroon the spot she said to receive the eastern papers with their reports of tho enormous buisness Booth and Barrett were doing the stories of the receipts reaching 50000 for three weeks and all that The opening night was a crush You couldnt get within two blocks of the house But after that it dropped to nothing noth-ing Empty benches wouldut express it It was literally terrible They closed their business after three weeks and wo took the fourth off their hands Business was i c fine with us from the start and before the week ended we were turning people away V leThe Johnson and Slavin minstrels comeback come-back to Salt Lake this week appearing at < tb the theatre tomorrow and Tuesday night To those who know Bob Slavin it will be enough to say that he is holding down his old seat in the company despite all reports to the contrary to cause them to stampede for the box office Carroll Johnson and the others of the organization will also appear Friday the 28th Duncan B Harrisons Paymaster which was last seen here when Miss Adams and her daughter Maudie appeared in the cast will come to the theatre for that night only To add to the realism of Harrisons big jump in the piece a tank effect has been included and an exchange says of it that the exquisite scene in The Paymaster requires 23000 cubic feet of real water while the waterfall water-fall comes rushing down a distance of 100 feet |