Show IRE THEATRICAL VORLD Programme for the Charity Entertainment En-tertainment This Evening JI FIE PATROL COMING COjG EXGAGEMEXT OF FREDRICK WARD jlyv LOUIS JAMBS In Interesting Article on First Night Griticittmit Reappearance of the Home Dranmiic ClubA Sfeiv Opera by Two Americans Stagrc ossIp Elated by the success of the charity tecture lat Sunday night the Press iltib boys are struggling to outdo the results of even that in tonights effort to this end B very tempting pogramme as been prepared Three reasons there are for the great success of this Undertaking First the admission Is Ve y small 25 cents second the pro ramme Is very large third the pubic pub-ic know that almost every cent taken In at the door will go to charity the xpense being reduced to the minimum Everybody connected with It donating his services The fund is turned over 10 the Young Ladies Aid society for Distribution This organization is nOn fcectarian and its good work in the past I well known The programme this evening has many attractive musical numbers Xmong which the name of the Mandolin lub is prominent Two of our well Known ladles Mrs Dr Ferguson and Mrs Dr Gage will carry on a spirited spir-ited discussion on the subject of wo mans rights There are no reserved seats and the Erst person there with his 25 cents will Set the best seat The Fire Patrol which was bookEd book-Ed for an engagement at the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow night has not been heard from and the probabilities are that wo will have to confine our interests inter-ests in that line to the matter of the confirmation or the nonconfirmation Df our new fire chief 4 The nearest great light in the bookings book-Ings of the future is that of Warde and James in a repertoire of legitimate legiti-mate plays early in March Mr Frederick Fred-erick Warde is highly esteemed here as I strong actor of the legitimate school Mr Louis James has a wide circle of Wends and is getting admired both Cor his power and his versatility i The Salt Lake musical world is in a i State of happy anticipation over the I appearance soon of Mr Clarence Eddy the great organist Many of our people i have been favored in the cast by hearing this great artist and I think I may safely say that everyone of these will hear him again during his stay in our midst I In the March number of Jerome K I Jeromes monthly The Idler there appears i ap-pears a very interesting article enti I tIed First Night Notices I con II talus interviews with the leading critics J I crit-ics of London In which each tells just how he does it how he arrive at his I opinions how he accomplishes the mechanical I me-chanical par of his work the time occupied I oc-cupied and lastly each has his say u to the possibilities for honest crit Scisir in the immediate judgment required I re-quired by the demands of modern journalism jour-nalism The article was inspired by the quarry of an old gentleman which I ran something like this I cant understand how first night notices are done I go to the theatre and the play isnt over until long past 11 As I walk down the Strand an hour afterwards I look into the printing print-ing places and hear the roar of the machinery I chinery where the next mornings papers pa-pers are being printed What I want to know is how any human being can b gifted with the supreme omniscence I I and decision enabling him to write an Intelligible account distributing praise blam to author actors 1 or actos and management man-agement in the space of a few minutes how hecan judge in a few hasty sentences work which is the result of I 1 months of toil esnecially when one remembers that an influential critic can mar or make the fortunes of hundreds hun-dreds of people i I I The methods adopted by the majorIty major-Ity of the London critics are the same in one particular the criticism Is gong go-ng on mentally during the progress of the play and not one word gets into in-to manuscript form until after the curtain cur-tain is down the lights out and the crtir Is seated in his office adth his atide mentally complete Clement tt o the Daily Telegraph ploba I bly the > London critic best known in 1 America on this point says J The article ought to be in the printers 1 t prIn-ters hands by iUO Very often I dont reach my ouil e until 1215 and I never I I by any chance write a line of my critique ique until I get there I am writing i 5n my mind all the time without committing 1 I com-mitting a word to paper and working o with my brain as hard as possible That Is why I never go out between t I never talk when I can help it and i would upset me altogether to hear the views of others I am supposed sup-posed to cut all the ladles and sulk with the men But I am at work i My article seems to be simmering in m > brain somehow but does not actually actu-ally take form until I am walking or driving to the office jI I j I 1 I Mr Clements plan is the one generally gener-ally adopted by critics everywhere i Some make marginal notes on the programme but like Mr Moy Thomas 11 I of the London Daily News they find out afterwards there is no time to use them Mr W Davenport Adams of the Globe writes his criticism mentally men-tally a the play goes on even to f polishing phrases and shaping sentences senten-ces until to use his own words Uby 4he time the curtain has fallen the article ar-ticle which describes and passes jUdgment judg-ment on the performance is virtua ly I I composed This of course is unusual I I un-usual Very few writers are capable of writing mentally half a column or I I a column of matter and of carrying i intact in memory Most writers in my opinion follow Mr Walkleys method of simply gain o 4 insr impressions with no definite shape I I or on of the criticism until the pencil Is In the ban One or two of the I London critics write during the I I crtcs wrie progress pro-gress of the play Mr Spence for instance in-stance follows this plan but as he writes two reviews of the play the 1 same evening for different publications o this plan is necessary One review he I has readY when the curtain drops and one he writes after the performance I I in the usual way Mr E A Morton 1 II apparently from choice adopts the method of writing during the progress J I I of the play His idea i that ones tJudpjment is passed on the moment o tud moment that the critic only has the instant impressions to guide him I I C S aIn a-In the matter of style all the London critics admit that first night notices cannot be as polished in a literary way I I a they would be if more time could i be taken in their preparation But all are of the belief that the hasty t judjjinent Is usually correct and sel t doni does injustice Mr Walkley in speaking on this point says And one L advantage of first Bight pressure is you havent time even i you had the j Trill tojmake believe Clement Scott always goes after j some very strong point cither in the actlmr or In the play and starts his 1 I notice from that He tries to take the I a I r3 rj l D tings or things that the people will talk about and start with that and let his article grow around f Some always give the fable of the play first some particularly displse that method and so i runs through all the differing tastes and individualities But one thing all are agreed upon that the criticism of today is purely and simply individual opinion The old editorial we has gone out of the theatrical notice and the notice itself ha ceased to be the opinion of the 1 paper i is now simply the opinion of i the critic In nan r instances the criticisms are signed and the first person per-son singular creeps into the article I This is now generally accepted as the i approved method and in Its favor mY I be said that it allows a better expression expres-sion of personal taste and impressions tThe notice becomes tinged and colored with the writers own individuality The nubile values this individual opinion according to its estimate of the writers ability and judgment To criticise a playa new one without j with-out seeing it all is generally condemned con-demned One critic says I is an excellent rule never to describe what you have never seen When Mr Richard Rich-ard Mansfield was playing at the I iLvceum I remember having to leave o the theatre one night before the play was over The hero had sailed for America parting from his sweetheart twit vows of eternal constancy I said I that of course he returns in the fifth act laden with dollars to the arms of his faithful sweetheart and the pair lived happily ever afterwards I words to that effect What actually haDDened was that the hero was I drowned at sea and the heroine after elopIng with a wicked Italian baritone I who beat her took poison You see it is never safe to assume that a play wrlcht knows his own business S Few people appreciate the wide difference dif-ference I between the functions the re 1 sponsibility and the requirements of I the critic who reviews first performances perform-ances of plays in large cities and the country critic The latters influence I rarely extends beyond his own city unless i be a city the csnlor of 3 circuit cir-cuit The opinions of the San Francisco Fran-cisco critics influence the whole roast those of New Orleans a wide circle but these are isolated cases The hardest thing the critic of the provincial city has to contend with is the opinion that I his gone before The play and com I pany may have been reviewJ time I and time again and while he may rise I superior to these tad assert his own judgment he cannot be so free AS i he did not have continually in his mind the opinions of others already expressed on the play The requirements require-ments are not nearly so groat with the country critic and his criticism often i degenerates into purely a notice The I I sloveny antic saves brain work by simply saying Miss Soandso was I I good or was bad without saying I I how or why The flippant critic con Te lppant cric I tents himself with a supposedly clever I comparison of the play with a feast I and the actors are different kinds of I food Sometimes he varies this and compares the play to a crown filled with varicolored jewels and again IWIh the actors are wines of different quality qual-ity and strength With these three at this command he is always ready to i write a notice on short demand Oc I j casionally may be found a country I critic of real ability one who possesses I first of all that very necessary requirement re-quirement honesty and whose judg merit is good and who has the knack of putting his opinions Into attractive readable matter S S S The Crimson Scarf which was so successfully produced in a small assembly as-sembly room recently is soon to receive re-ceive a more elaborate production in the Salt Lake Theatre preceded by a short play given by our old favorites the Home Dramatic Dramatc company companyLCM LCM I Stage Gossip Walt Whitmans latest song The Lovers is being sung with great success suc-cess Napier Lothian jr has gone to Chicago Chi-cago to rehearsa one of Reginald De Kovens operas I The wives of the famous team Evans Ev-ans and Hoey are twin sisters a well as clever actresses This is the last season that Fannie Davenport will play Cleopatra Next season she will produce a new play Marguerite Merrington author of Lettarblair has just completed the libretto of a comic opera She has not decided on the composer John A Coleman of Thatchers Africa Af-rica company has been out of the cst for some time owing to a sprained ankle He has not left the company I In the Maryland Shakespearean festival fes-tival which is to take place in April Martha Ford will appear as Ophelia Juliet Portia and Desdemona with Creston Clark in the title roles Orrin Johnson Sol Smith Russells leading man was unable to appear for several days because of a severe attack at-tack of the grip Stewart Allen stage manager role acceptably of the company fled the i E S Willard will not act next season sea-son He is now trying to substitute in the time booked for him his present pres-ent company with Marie Burroughs a the star Some of the managers have accepted the proposal but the majority ma-jority are rather loath to make the change Lillian Lewis has been successful with her new play Good Bye Sweetheart Sweet-heart the scenery electric and calcium cal-cium effects being particularly good cum Lewis Is one of the crack shots among American women who shoot and is the owner of a fine new Baker doublebarreled shotgun Madame Modjeska has played her final engagement in New York Her tour next season is completely booked and New York is not inclvded in Itt It-t the close of the season Madame 1 Modjeska will retire from the stage llodjeska and return to Poland where she is greatly beloved Her departure will be a great loss to her adopted home America Metropolitan Opera House The gorgeous gor-geous spectacular pantomime Here We Are by the boxholders of this theatre Rare jewels Magnificent costumes Directions printed on every programme enable visitors to know just prgramme boxholder they are looking at This is done in no other country at There will also be a performance on the stage Life i Grace Abel the Indian maid of The Girl I Left Behind Me last week gave neW proof that she has a phenomenal memory Miss Armstrong who plays Kate Kenion was taken ill Miss Atwell copied and learned the part after the performance on Wednesday Wed-nesday night and played it letterper fect and successfully on Thursday evsning She was warmly congratulated congratulat-ed on all sides John Drew produced his new play 11he Butterflies with great success at Palmers theatre in New York Feb 5 The play is wholesome in tone and delightful in its wit and sentiment The leading role is well adapted to Mr Drew and he Is destined to become the idol of the matinee girls Maud Adams of whom Salt Lake is justly proud is attractive and effective in her hew role and although i doesnt give her such opportunities for varied plays as the role she filled in The Masked Bal she makes most of its good points Charles Frohmans comedians are still producing The Other Man About February 27 > Mr Wilkinsons Widows will be revived with the orig inal cast at Hooleys theatre Chicago This comedy will run until Easter when the company will produce for the first time in this country Alexander Alexan-der Bissons new play which Is now calledThe Liar This piece is soon to be tried at the Varieties theatre Paris and i one of the three for which Mr Frohman has sec red the Amer ityvn rights from Mr Bisson The other two are My Governor and 1The Manager The Liar will probably prob-ably be renamed A new opera oy two Americans Charles Paineand Everett T CoK 1 fr I 11ns was tried successfully at Lawrence Law-rence Mass on January 30 The title of this opera is The Automaton I Is of the comic variety and Is in two acts Both the writer and composer are natives of Haverhill aS The music Is bright and catchy and above the average popular airs There is a plot and the libretto is somewhat in the style of Gilbert The cast was mostly amateur and brought forth unexpected un-expected talent in Miss Helen Churchill Church-ill who ha been foi some years known locally l as a singer in a Baptist churh hoir The opera will be given a New York production A curious slang expression of the English green rooms has been attracting attract-ing the attention of people interested in Auld Lang Syne recently It is called A Sadlers Wells makeup Sadlers Wells was for years the home of the legitimate drama In London and is associated with many broken down actors of the old school Hence if an actor in England comes late to a performance and with an Indifferent makeup he Is joked about his Sad lers Wells the suggestion referring to the time when the makeup was improvised at the old Sadlers Wells theatre with a little white rubbed off the walls a little brown rubbed off a j brick from a chimney and a hole in the lights blackened with soot from the flue Tuesday next Washingtons birth day will be a gala day at Wonderland A new departure will be made hereafter here-after Instead of the regular performance perfor-mance given by the Stock company a specialty show given by all star artists will be presented in the theatorium On the bijou stage short farces will be given in addition to a good olio performance per-formance Professor Sherman and his caprine paradox or performing goats are retained for another week The I attractions at this house steadily improve Im-prove and the management too exert II themselves on souvenir days to give to each lady visitor a gift that is worth I more than the admission asked A prosperous business is assured to the management of this house in return for the quality of amusement furnished furnish-ed by them There was a panic on the stage of the Metropolitan opera house during the representation of Carmen at a recent matinee When the mounted Alguazi made his appearance just before be-fore the entry of the toreador his horse became unruly A Dane named > Nyegaard personated the Alguazil He Is a skillful horseman and he reined oin the animal shlarply The horse reared upon its hind legs in the midst of the chorus two women members of which leaped over the footlights I into the orchestra while the others scattered wildly One of the men in his haste to escape fell flat One of the women who had leaped from the stage scrambled back quickly but the I other was so heavy that she had to be I assisted by two of her mates and an usher Several members of the orchestra orches-tra looked frightened as the horse cavorted about but the leader continued con-tinued conducting as though nothing unusual was happening The persons in the audience toward whom the frightened chorus women ran in their haste to escape seemed to greatly enjoy en-joy the incident Mirror |