| Show BMIATIGASD LYRIC The Closing Day of the Great HaylfestiYal 44 SHEKAKDOAH ONCE HOSE What Mr Stephens Says of the Eesult Wilson Barrett to Ecturn General Notes of the Profession The first May Musical Fastivallet us hope it will not be the last camo to an end with the afternoon and evening concerts yesterday Tho attendance was nearly even all through the matinee being a shade the lightest and the audience last evening being about on a par with that of the opening open-ing night It was impossible last evening to learn the total receipts of the festival j n close estimate would probably be 3500 they will not go far beyond that if at all this result while it is very fair hardly comes up to what was expected but it is we trust sufficient to pay all expenses and remunerate the principal toilers in the grand entertainment with which the city has been regaled r The matinee programme was brightened by the beautiful spectacle of the 1000 school children who were massed into the chorus scats and who looked a huge bouquet bou-quet with the gay and restless colors They sang with lusty and tuneful lungs in the two partst and were immensely applauded ap-plauded While they were standing a couple of photographs were taken of the spectacle and if the result is favorable the pictures will bo decided curiosities The musical numbers were ot the popular order andprobably the best received was i the Tempest of the Heart by B 13 Young which was rendered in excellent style better in fact than anything he did the opening night The Sampson trio I was not given owing to Miss Youngs absence much to the disappointment of the audience Miss Bayliss rendered a pretty song in its place Mr Easton and Miss Dean sang the duet of the previous night and Mr Easton Bang the charming ballad Roses Underneatn Snow I both numbers being well rendered Mr I Pypers old friend AJI so Fair was given in his usual graceful style and Prof Radcliffe gave the beautiful Pilgrims II Song of Hope Edith Knowlton and Viola Pratt sang the lovely Holy Mother duet i in good style and were greatly applauded Tho Gatling band opened the matinee with the William Tell overture played very creditably and conducted by ProfPederson The evening programme was a grand one somewhat heavier than that on the initial night and for that reason hardly so well appreciated when it began to grow late but one with two or three numbers in it any one of which would have caused a furore and floated the whole on to success I These numbers were the great finale from i Traviata magnificently rendered by Mrs Knowlton Miss Tnomas Miss Dean Miss Pratt Mr Easton Mr Pyper Mr Goddard and Mr Spencer voices that alone could bring an encore out of the Old Hundred ut which when backed upon by that great magnetic chorus the orchestra and the organwere simply irre sistablc The encore calls were loud and long and the singers had to come out and bow and then go over the selection again Scarcely less enthusiastic was the reception accorded the inflammatus toe noble selection rendered by the chorus and Miss Bayliss this too had to be repeated Mr Goddard never sang better than in his Ernani selection and he also was accorded an encore Miss Dean sang an exquisite selection by Mucadante and was vociferously vocifer-ously recalled when she sang a ballad to Mr Mclnt res accompaniment These encores en-cores threw the hour rather lute and Miss Bayliss and Mr Youngs solos from Elijah which were rather difficult at the best did not meet with the enthusiasm they would otherwise have done though both were admirably given Miss Thomas and Miss Pratt were recalled and made to bow their acknowledgments twice for their excellent duett from Stabat Mater The chorus was at its best again in the two pieces mentioned and it gave the Russian chorus with great spirit The Thanks be to God was hardly so well done thougn the audience was growing so restless that its deficiencies were not noticed Mr Wcihe conducted the Priests March with which the concert opened We asked Mr Stephens at the close of the festival how he felt regarding the whole thing now that it was over h I am in two moods he said one of extreme satisfaction at the work of the Choral society so-ciety which though I say it who shouldnt was glorious It was more than thatit was not duplicated to my mind by the New York or Boston Philharmonics and Ive beard both I think they did Farewell to the Forest exquisitely they have done nothing but what was good except the Thanks be to God and that was so sluggish slug-gish I cant forgive them for it My other mood is one of disgust I might say indignation at the parents of those 1000 children who could not take enough interest in them to turn out and hear them sing What these children did was marvelous mar-velous considering that they learned it all in the district schools that they were not picked at all but taken just as they came It was to my mind a triumph for the advocates ad-vocates of music in the public schools when we think that they have been only studying for a year and that it has only cost them a cent a lesson Then to think their parents had so little inteiestin them that they allowed them to sine to empty benches it puts me out of patience Regarding the artistic outcomeIam all ways satisfied The financial is very fair though I have not the figures yet and cant say what they are I do not agree with some that a dollar was too much to charge if with tho entertainment wo provided pro-vided we cannot command the price paid for a minstrel show then we ought to hare no such thing as festivals We dont want to charge so little that we cant keep up the excellence of our programmes and next year we will want I hope to bring in some great soloist to head the thing and that of course will mean moro money still Nextyear the festival can bo started earlier boomed harder and with the prestige this one has given us I have no fears as to the result You may say thisthat I think the advertising promised by tho railroads rail-roads in connection with low fares for the festival and the young mens conference has not been pushed as it should have been or we would have had a larger attendance at-tendance from the outside I have not seen a single announcement in tho papers from either of the railroads and parties are hero from Logan who tell me that people peo-ple came to tho depot in Logan expecting to get halffare but were told by the agent that he had no instructions to sell halffare tickets aud they went back homo again Shenandoah Bronson Howards war drama in which for tho most part the fighting Is done with smokeless powder and noiseless guns may be said to have been advertised into prominence by the patriotism of the people to have made at the same time a fortune for its owner Mr AL Hayman This lucky piece of dramatic construction will be the attraction at tho Grand opera house next Thursday evening the engagement being for three nights and Saturday matinee The company having it in charge for the present engagement is exactly the same that produced jt in New York where it ran for 300 nights and which is at present concluding one of the most successful dramatic engagements ever known in San Francisco and it would appear from tho eager way in which orders for seats are arriving at the Grands box office as if the enthusiasm would be suf Hciently strong and lasting to duplicate J the business during its brief stay here Tho first production of Shenandoah in this city was necessarily weak especially where the ladies the cast were concerned j This was due to defections at the last mo j j I ment before setting out on the journey westward when it was impossible to pick and choose and yet tho intrinsic merit of the drama was such that the business dono was phenomenal The performance by the present company the exact originals is spoken of very highly both by the New York and San Francisco press and also by those who have seen it Not ojily will the cast be more finished than before but the stage effects be more satisfactory the last named also being the original If Shenandoah Shen-andoah has received a great deal of free I advertising it well deserves it We can afford to letBronson Howard as author and Hayman as proprietor make money out of such a worthy enterprise as the production pro-duction of an American patriotic play especially as Howards taste in handling the subject has been so thoroughly creditable credit-able to a sympathizer with the conquerors Shenandoah has been so much written writ-ten about that it seems needless to say more As play in its construction its dialogue its incisive presentation of acute war situations it stands decidedly ahead of all war plays and of all native works It has a remarkable sense of realism about it without at any time pandering to the desire for gore It has delightful comedy a charming love vein which is uniquely carried throngh the war itself and softens the picture while it throws into greater contrast tho terrible seriousness In fact Shenandoah is the first war drama ever presented which docs away with tho claptrap and stage show and relies re-lies upon a realistic presentation of tho situation sit-uation to awaken the sensations of an audience au-dience Its great recommendation is that it does not revive tho discussion of tho rebellion re-bellion It presents it asa light of determined deter-mined principle leaving only the facts to decide as they did decide the issue With tho courtesy of a magnanimous victor Bronson Howard selects as a central situation situ-ation the retreat of the afterward victorious victori-ous army and the rallying enthusiasm of Sheridan certainly as delicate a way of spothingantagonistic feelings as could possibly pos-sibly bo taken THE CAST Gen HaverillJ Officers f P Burbcck Col West of I H Miller CaptHeartbefifco f Sheridan R A Hob rts Lieut Uedloe J Cavalry G W Bailey Maj Gen Ircnaeur Buckthorn commander of the 19th Army CorpsHarry Harwood Sergeant Barkcl Jus O Barroys Col Robert Ellingbam 10th Virginia C S SDayton A u uu u Frank Dayton Capt Thornton secret service C Si An unn nun nJoseph Adelman Harihriclr surgeon C S AuunA E Lohman Capt Iiockwood U S signal corps Un Louis Heudricks Corporal Dunn W J Cummings Lieut of signal corpSnuJ 1C Hulchmson Benson E J Morgan Lieut of mfmtry Geo Maxwell Major McAnalts nT W Walls Pete un u oo oo 00 C SchaJIer Scout W Tomlinson Mrs Constance IIwerilLuuDorothy Gertrude Elhngll1lmuOdctte Tyler Madeline West Zoo Tuttle Jenny Buckthorn U S AImette Comstock Mrs Edith llwerJllunnAlieo B Haines Old Margery Alice Haslam Junnette Catherine Grey IrnSONAL MEMOItAXDA Henry Miller always a favorite here has in Kerchival West a part in which he is said to have made the success of his life James O Burrows another favorite favor-ite was one of the big hits as Sargent Barket Frank Burheck tho original General Gen-eral Haverhill has not been seen hero for some years The balance of the gentlemen are strangers here although good results have preceded them Of the ladies but one has ever appeared here Nanette Comstock Com-stock was first here as a member of Hoyts Hole in the Ground and last year with Nat Goodwin Dorothy Dorr was the most important member of Augustin Dalys company that he tried to enjoin from appearing ap-pearing in any other organization until her contract had been fulfilled Miss Dorr was victorious in her suit however and has remained re-mained with Shenandoah since its first night Odette Tyler the errant little rebel of the cast has been exceptionally highly spoken of Zoe Tuttle and Catherine Cathe-rine Grey both graduated from San Francisco Fran-cisco theatres while Alice Haines completes what is known in New York as the six handsome heroines of Shenandoah II Wilson Barrett was evidently in earnest in these eloquent speeches he made before the Salt Lake theatre curtain He has wired Mr Burton that ho wants three nights in Salt Lake at the end of this month and he proposes to put on three new pieces entire The next notable attractions at tho theatre the-atre will be Paul Kauvar done by the noted To Haworth and A Long Lane one of Leavitts melodramas |
