Show THE PEEP O’ DAT— A first parts to Mr McKenzie and professional actors and has made himself very tilicient in the more dignified character of manager playing in thc company less to htnr in a part than for the general effectiveness of the whole This is a mark of for in the long good judgment and correct run he would be certain to tind many lo eclipse bis glory especially after nur theatrical heavens shall have been bespangled with professional stars he always could hold a first position in tin management' and not losoeaste in the body of a play! Great heaven how often do own leading men with abilities to rule a nation and capacity to legislate for an empire put' themselves in parts in life where a common laborer could overmatch them and your veriest vagabond that travels with a show eclipse their glory All the crowned heads ot Europe could not have furnished" in their own persons a company of actors to tread the boards by the side of the dramatic carp of old Richardson’s Booth nor have shone as stars in tne sameYirmament with those luminaries who perchance first shot out to public gaze in a - penny gulf” ora country barn They have been your E hound Keans While it' would be too partial to say the Management has committed no errors it may without 'reserve be affirmed that it has displayed on the whole excellent judgment and not only has the most efficient caste been designed hut the mo-- lilting and laborious members of the Association have won the best parts and leading characters The members of the classified and ranked pretty much in the places where their own t dents study and industry have marked out for them Once fairly upon the public stage of art in any ot its branches and afl will most certainly liml their level It is when they cannot reach the public eye in the fitting place to ibat the possessors of excelappeal to the public judgment lent gifts and fine artistic ii nidi do not take their proper place There is nothing in the world more severely just and omnipotent than the public judgment pronouncing itself upon the artists upon the stage either in opera 4or the plain drama The public everywhere choose their own favorite- and ‘ManaThe reasons are too clear to them gers everywhere accept ” A need a pointing out ' Association have had Deseret Dramatic The members of our the chance of taking their own places and finding their own level 'Let those who think differently take for an example 2sow among regular professionals of Mr David McKenzie the stage where the numerous dramatic corps are found organized with much completeness and classified with the nicety of managers studying profoundly the condition of their exchequers we own that- it requires much perseverance artistic training and slow progress’ besides natural talent tor actors and actresses to find their level Why not even by their" equals may your Garricks your Kembles your Siddonses your Keans your Macreadys and vonr Forrests be displaced have to wait until their Could their doubles come originals were dead before they coal'd find their level and take their places But it is very different with our Deseret Dramatic Association when all were as on probationary examinations before the public to have pointed out their proper places and receive their diplomas and their duo degrees For instance it is most evident that had any ot the lady candidates proved equal to lilt principal places not even yet filled ample opportunities have beu offered Indeed the Management hive necessarily sdciowhit tresptssed upon the considetrills of lady amaration of the public in their teurs These facts should at- once be significant hints and of our Dramitic Associaencouragement to umpiring members tion and they should remember that in every 'profession much well as labor and training as' talent ate necessary for excel' lence aiul eminence' Since their debut in oar theatre the Association lms made much improvement and some of its members have written their mirks and’ stamped their individualities Our comic Associa-tionstnn- d f the comp my were tile first to classify themselves 11 LITERARY JIAGAZET3 and Mirgetts Dunbar and others became decided portraits and distinctive caricatures The professional element has also been introduced) ami moreover even the Association itself has put on somewhat of a profession d character' and show features ot the professional face- Doubtless this mixing of our home talent with trained and legitimate artistes has tended much to’ the training and accomplishment of our amateur corps and created both for the theatre mid the comp my ii In time character both will asMime a profes'professional sional caste and its nnviteiuqtype be only remembered as forming the first pages in the history of theatricals in Utah The professional element having been once introduced in the persons of Mr Lyne and the Irwins it was not enough th it the plays should he put upon tin? stage in that solid magnificence and pictorial illustration which 1ms so delighted everybody but the public looked to see the dramatic ’cnrps show ft wie a mixed bouse the features and style of the profession in the first place and iu the second theatricals here are com the same as everywhere else and the public mercially had payed for admission to a first class looking theatre whS wonder then that it should almost ignore the fact that an The Management has amateur company were on the botirds had to nicely calculate this and make both the theatre and the company as professional in their character as possible This has been partly effected by the mixing of foreign artistes with home talent and partly by the style and completeness with which the plays have been put upon the boards Even the most good-nature- d in a Ward meeting become most unmereilullycritical and sourly inconsiderate in a'thea- tie— aye even to our very Bishops $ for the public are in a secular house for artistic exhibition and not in a tabernacle or religion temple Not even is justice done an amateur corps f and we never expect to be so generally ‘censured for critical severity as we were by the public for too much praise and considerate wording of our criticisms last year We have a painful sympathy for the writers of the theatrical notices and descriptions finind in the Deseret Xeics and Daily Telcijraph The public ranks them ns of course it will ‘ours frightfully below the mark and doubtless the Dramatic Association puts them twenty degrees lower still There is nothing that concerns nny one excepting praise and that soon" gets state and meaningless and if woidd be quite a relief to the members to have the public view It would preserve them from ennui There are only one or two occasionally for whom they possess interest ’‘Sister Marion when her “cadence” is touched of course is interested vand brother Hardy who was rather stiltish upon the stage in his first appearance is also doubtless a good natured subject to offer upon the altar But amt the other heathen Gods all great Jupiter why select sister Marion when this same delect of cadence and modulation is one of the most noticeable defects of the Association generally' The most m irked individuality yet offered by the Associa-- x tion from its own corps is Mr David McKenzie This gentleman is by natural instincts nri artiste In the public judgment he took the laurels from Mr Irwin a professional actor and obtained first parts for himself Mr Lyne is an actor of the old school of great experience and no mean standing In fact in his role he is a power upon the stage in Salt Lake City Damon and yet Mr McKenzie held his ground frith him in The most striking personality however and the Pythias77 most refined and finished artiste that has yet appeared before the theatrical world in Utah is Mr Geo Fauneeforty A A A 'Alpha Dteiws cf fhr Si&kct BY QUIZ : ' Our regular reporter of tlie weeks news being wc have had to employ “ Quiz” AVc told liinltto gel the notes up in tlie regular farm and tlie fellow has A sent us the following : City Improvements— Om readers will be 'glad to learn tint Tompkiu’s magnificent structure is fast approaching completion — no less that two bricks were laid yesterday On this startling news being communicated to the architect he was so overcome tliat lie declared that nothing loss' than a dinner at J110 It ! Clawson’s cojikej)osdbirttavcjnra IilPOETAXT TO THE HISTORIANS ’OFFIC- Eweek or two back a most remarkable occurrence took of place — wc chronicle it with delight — this city lnd a good dinner!! They were so surprised at this (to editors) unusual occurrence (we should have been equally surprised had we been that cadi published immediately a £uli account of this strange affair Scarcely had wc read tlie' account of this glorious least before we were seized ’witii aii insatiate desire to become editors ourselves Y They appear to have partaken of about fourteen kinds of entree dishes ten sorts of soups fifteen 'kinds of vegeof tables and twenty-fou- r description! pastry besides drinking an unbelievable quantity of ginger beer IVo believe this to be the first great and lemonade that literature has received in this country impetus Yvre shall paste both descriptions of that dinner on our fire screen and when anybody says Utah don’t patronize literature and the line arts we’ll point the slanderer tothat dinner and silence him for ever ' pres-ftfn- t) |