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Show j "See the Players Well Bestowed '' I A very generous act is projected by some of the friends of that meritorious and veteran tragedian, Mr. T. A. Lyue. It is proposed to tender to him a substantial benefit, and tlie theatre has been engaged for next Monday night in furtherance of that end. We yesterday printed the correspondence cor-respondence between Mr. L. and a number of our prominent citizens, by which the play of "William Tell" was selected for Mr. Lyne's r-:-:utn:t the title role to be, of course, rendered render-ed by the benciiciarc. In his hands the part will beisuro of a faithful in- : tsrpretution. It has ever becu con-I con-I sideml one of his best characters acd ! his impersonation of it in times past is very favorably remembered by our thcalte-goi-rs of a dozen years ngo. But our friend, Major Goodspeed, who has always taken a kindly interest inter-est in the venerable actor, has determined deter-mined to add to tho natural attrac tious of the occasion, a performance hitherto i.n q 1: l'.cd and unattempted He telli us that he has secured the most brilliant array of talent ever congregated in one performance. He smiles when he says this, but it is the smile of confidence and faith, not the smirk of irony and doubt. He recites re-cites occasions on which the greatest living actors have united for a common com-mon purpose in entertainments which have become historic for their vast aggregation oi dramatic skill. In his view all such events pale their ineffectual in-effectual Are in the presence of the marvelous array of genius which he is able to announce. The dramatist of the occasion is well selected; For a long timo it was undecided whether Bentham Fabian or William Shakespeare should bo honored on the occsision. The friends of Bill, in Bingham and Dry Canon, rallied to his support, howevor, and his pretty little piece of Hamlet has been decided on. Only the first and fifth acts will be presented, aa the owners of tho building do not with to do anything which will so incense the audience as to induce them to tear down the noble structure. They think two acts may perhaps be performed per-formed with comparative safety, but fear that anything beyond this would breed a riot. Of course, Major Goodspecd doesn't think so. He sat at our table yesterday, yester-day, and diluted with beaming countenance coun-tenance a countenance childlike and bland to an inexpressible degreo ; upon the grandeur of his scheme. He anticipated nothing more serious than a flood of tears from the au dience, properly interspersed with sobs and groans, at the fiual slaughter. slaugh-ter. But wc confess that he has not entirely satisfied us on this point. We remember how Marc Antony stirred the Roman populace to deeds of sudden mutiny by bis little speech 011 Emigration Square, and wo can scarcely couiider without a tremor the probaolc effect of words like these from the lips of Judge Toohey, as the Gliost, uttered in his deepest guttural gut-tural : .Fiil tliu bumper fair, Evoiy drop wosprinklt: OVr tlie brow of carp, Smooths wwny a wi inkle. yits electric ihuiio He'er no swiftly pnssoj As when '.hrough tlie frame 1". shout s from brimming gl&Est'a. If there is not trouble when Judge Hemingray as King lots out in this tit rain, we shall be surprised : Know ye the bind wtmra Urn eypnssh and myrtle Are 'iinhlems of ducd.i that dune in tliuir c iraii, Whero U10 fiigc of UiovuUuro, the love of. tlie turtlu, Now inelt into sorrow, now iJiud'Jtin to crime? We may, of course, be mistaken, but we do not expect to live long cmough tq t:ec. a Salf Lake audieacp sit quietly and listen calmly to words like these proceeding from the mouth of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, In-struction, in the character of Horatio: Ce-mi little boy blue, come blow the born, Tho cheep's in the meadow the cow's in tl,e covn ; Where's the little boy thai look nflcr the slv ep? ire's under the li iy-roow fuat asleep. If the above words create a disturbance, disturb-ance, what will be the effect of these utterances, by Major Goodspeed , aj be enters, wearing the robes au4 bearing the 'staff of office, as Polonium? Polo-nium? Coma live die kallied smaii, And the more loathsome ngo, hero pride imd iinpiidcnc in fihion knit, Usurp the chairofwh, Inditing nnd arraigning every tiny, bomethinp they cult a play, L':t their fastidious, vain Commission of tho train Itun on and rnn, sweat, cMiriirc and coiit demn; Thoy wen; not made for thuu, tes thou for them. Is it not fair to presume that misery will be likely to enmie, as Laertes, represented by Mr. Hawkips, the " Custus Momm," of the Hkealp, " talks outin meeting" in this strain: Huil to tho chief, whi in triumph advances, ad-vances, Honored nd blest be the evergreen pine ! Long may the tree in hi.-; bnunyrUintlftn- Ql'i ; Flourish the shelter nnd f;niee of uur line ! I And the grave-diggers, to properly render whom, the ghost of the dead Dane returns to earth accompanied by the murdered Polouius! Docs not this fact alouo show thai "there's something rotten in the state of Denmark?" Den-mark?" Were it not so, would the eloquent Toohty and tlie amiable Gaodspeed consent to throw off the armor and the in&iguia of office, and condescend to the menial employment employ-ment of .delving "down among the1 deadjmen?" We have neglected to speak of Hamlet, and must leave him to6peak for himself when tho night comes. When we began it was in our mind to' do Fuller justice by him than by any of the gentlemen who have consented con-sented to appear. We have only room to add that wc doubt not tho entertainment enter-tainment will be a grand success, and that the parts attempted by tho gentlemen-amateurs, will bo ably and carefully rendered. It could hardly bo otherwise, indeed, since all fiOasess intelligence of a high order, combined with liberal culture and undoubted literary taste. Mr. Lyne may well thank bis frieni Goodspecd for arrangements ar-rangements such as these, and the success which is thereby ensured. |