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WT y I GREAT SALT LAKE E CITyUTAH THURSDAY DECEMBER 4804 1 ¥ ! in the jpart TBLEGKAPJI: this induced Gibber to tnist herCareless ii! lln of Lady Betty Modish' in the band1 t he : comedy which he had pat aside in despairof finiiing a lady equal to the con- ception of the character ’She accepted with great reluctance the “Mithridotes” when that part ofSemaadra in 1708 but Chetwood revived was tragedy the she part to perfection and says performed ' became reconciled to tragedy by reason of her isnccess In these characters however she could be excelled by' others but in ' Tody Betty Yiddish and Lody Townley she was tittrsdat Editors “ EVERT MOXUAT AXD W' - 4 n If 8TEMIOUSE JP- - iir ACLD WIFE - ' "- V-- Mlir dtatii bpaaic-te' Ii altered by tb Unicb-tfTlor y her fora has lost the graced 41' - Tb nutcbless grace that marked iti prime OV ? r ‘ c -- : now' 4 ts m§ b’ fiilrerDTeller ftuMmvwniMtri Moom tf earlier days - 'V : year have only 'made For rbangt-fu- ’ Uore wlnaome all her looke and way a 1 A to her voire! Lint Wu ' a lon1'’ rf'Vr tender have aodlrntut ' ItF movie If ye ran hie Match full ri' ’ ' lVTa? tbegleceome Aitifthen her yi e'e-- hrt 4 I v f S " : ? inevitable storms — Its wares of grtet its clouds of care v f Its luany trials bravely borne IUve made these trusses what they are ( But praise to llim who rules the world! Good emilee beside each frowning RI— The storms dear wife that bleacUbd tby locks ' Have made thy spirit waiter BtilU For Hib’s - l Iftlura did’st seem s flower before ' ’ ' daye'of ennshine given Thou emilsetn my pathway now The a clouded that star heaven V lights What though tko lengthening shadows fall That show ms near my day’s decline 1 I'fear no doom I dread noliange - While tby dear hand le clasped in mine J Ah! they who name the woman wealc Know not what fhon hast been to rncl -- i Que Being only One can knew The ludy strength I've learned from thee All care were sweet all hardens light - All crosses crowns whilst thon wert nlgli! Thy lots Lath taught mo how to live : Thy imile shult teach me how ie din' For-sportiv- -- ‘ HES r -- MRS V- - TcontixusdI' j : -- her iwrscm gho was particularlyfortunate her figim was always improving1 jthirty-sixt- h year but j her excellence in acting was stand-- ' worat-- loher a And LAST Lady Townlejone of her last new a proof that eh6' was still able to do if more could have been done for her’’ levies after noticing her figure and express eion that says of her “large speaking eyes jvtrts wa3 liiore ir : : U11 :'V 8onu$ particular comic situations' she kept them half shut especially when shoin- tended to give effect to some brilliant orr gay thought In'sprightliqess of air and elegance ofnianner bhc excelled all actresses an door sonorous tones of her voice 1'- -r ' Wilks and' the imimitable She Jdwtopphod for posterity? “Wilks Copper Oaptaiu was esteemed ope s best cliarac-ter- a Mrs Oldfield was equally happy in When she drew the pistor Irom rsjafina “°T pocket pretending To shoot Perez AVilks drew back as if greatly terrified and in a trmiuloua voice uttered ‘What thine own To wliicnjihe replied with and a hsilf shut eye- ‘Let mine own husband tben be in 's own wits in a tone of voice in imitation of his that the' thMtre was in tumult of applause” r ' from Gibber again we learn that she was Vilest and unpresuming that iupll the parts undertook she sought enlightenment - and iMmctionfrom every quarter was a “Mu matter to a give her hint that she was no R”e to With managers she improve vaj not “she lost nothing by her exacting' conduct: she had everything she asked' wch she took cure should be'alwaywreiasqri-becaus- e she hated-a- d much to be d U tCciyiUty7 Like Mrs limy she entered fully into the cWcte: peatly superior in tfie hahnomons ' How' are S ‘ of-lii- mhh ii ted lir: ft' A : tarch-countenan- ce - riow-i- - iu— icru tourff if f i ’ A- - it ut : & grudg-depue- ?-- V ? “Beaux’ J5tratageroy' was in v'the (1707) In which she played Mrs & - remarked to "Wilks w5?fe re-rs- al Sul-js- he that she’ ithouglit ilcalt'too freely with Mrs Sul-- giving her to Archer 'without such a p'Tcr ditorcc as would be at security to her t r Honor Hkthor Wilks communicated this tq ' the “Tell her said poor Farquhiarwho Tor her peace of mind's lnP tSQ 11 5®Aa real divorce marry her melf Sr bond that she shall be a’real acrmy “2 in lesarthan a fortnight i Oldfield 'wad the original represen rixty-fiv-e characters The greater njDer°r these belonging to genteel comedy mis called a career which she commenced er own iul703 when chance to her the parTof Leonora Iiir Sii jwigufed ice” Her t wonderful': 8ucces3- - in ynttij -- t tv-ntl- mV - v - - VITA i 1 j- ’rZ ' - T - :- -T j - - - - - ' - ' - - : — i the-ex-act- ress ‘of-th- e 'O 1 1 ' I ' r I - 1 : -- NY: gen-teele- A- ' i - ?-v- : - - :- -- the-camp- -- s : - prevail-ingfashio- ii lie was Cymon subdued-b- lphigeDia lie loved the lady’s refinement ana she kept his household as Carefully os if she! 'had been bis wife and presided at his table with '& grace that charmed him There was something of Beauty and the Beast in this connection but the end of the fable was wanting the animal was never converted to an Azor and & marriage with Zemira was the one thing wanting When Mnynwnring died society almost looked upon her asian honest widow IndeedJ it had never rejected her: The standard of morals' was low and when the quasi widow accepted the proposal of General Churchill to place' her at the head of his establishment as she had been ini that of Maynwaring no one “ blamed her Elarrage indeed seems to- have been thought of‘ and Queen Caroline who did riot at all disdain to stoop to little matters ot gossip one day' remarked to Mrs Oldfield who nad I suppose been reading to a court circle ‘‘I hear Mrs" Oldfield that you and the General are married” “lodam” stud the actress playing her very best “the General keeps hU own secrets” The two love passages in the7 life of Anne Oldfield were in short founded on sentiments and not on interest i The Duke of Bedford offered her ''' advantages than - the General or the Squire but the) disinterested actress spurned them and kept isterhood with Duchesses She was to be sben on the terrace at Windsor walking with' the consorts of Dukes and with Countesses and wives of English Barons and' the whole gay group might be heard calling one another by their Christian names In later days Kitty Clive Called such1 fine folk “damaged quality’ and lateri still the second Mrs Barry did not value such companionship a: “pin’s fee” bnt Anne Oldfield drew' from' it she transported which many an illustration ' to the stage " VA During her last"season her sufferings were often so acute that when the applause 'was loudest the poor actress turned aside to hide the tears' forced from her by' pain She never gave up till the agony was too great' to be endured and then she refused-t- o receive a salaiy which according to her articles was not tObe discontinued in illness "i Her mere conversation in that play intoxi-lite- d the housejAt 'g latec period heriradi- were even more- ecstatic at her i Lady encca an Townley— ecstasy in whicH the managers must have shared for tli£y immediately added fifty guineas to her : solaiy It was Jus? 'the sum which the benevolent 'actress'' gave an- nually to that 'most ' contemptibly (helpless pete'onagef Savage Herhighost salary never - 1 : e a J - ? ' -- - ’ 1 livi-io- n foot-ligh- ts j-e- £ - - re : - - sh - : - more-brilliant- c : : - self-possets-ed : -- : 5 1 K e fellow-creatu- re -- ral - - ' 4 1 7 - the'-Kang- -- i i -- 1 - - t- I y ‘ : - y - i ' - 1 V - i - : i- i l ‘After licr success in LadrBetty Modish’’ hes:iy “altthat nature had given her o&the actress feemed to have risen to Its full per fccliou6ut the varietyof her powers could not lowa till slje was jBeeb in a variety of timracters which as fast os they fell rto her shp equally excelled in Iu the wearing of Ms : : Ay r: y - OLDFIELD- 1 I - : guerrilla attack on a train on too Lexington railroad by taking a ckilJ fronl its mothers arms stepping from tho cars wiGb the cherub pressed to hisbosom claiming to be its father and being very tender and soucitous in regard i to its welfare son3 Maynwaring - - T Her I- -- ' ported Cuzzoni There were anthems' and arid Dr Tarkcrlio' prajyrS' and eennon! officiated remarked when all was over to a few friends and with some' equivocationparticular as it seems to uielhat lie buried her veiy willingly and wiih much satisfaction : - - I - r y-'- ilcrinnny lock— yes they are change j ' p Yet still I bow to Time's behest 'Forthougb the jngue has stolen the gold : the'silvehest Iluve tfhnt confdbecome that fair meek brow r Like those smooth lustroHj bands bfwhitct I fcnich them reverendly asme Slight touch an angel’s crown of light- - s e - IJe ttii V probably never equaled In the comedy of lower life she' wasr perhaps less original atleast Anthony Aston remarks that in free comedy she borrowed something from Mrs Verbruggen’s manner When Wilks as Iiord Townely exclaimed “Prodigious !’’ in the famous scene with his lady played by Mrs- Oldfield the house applied it to her acting and broke into frequent rounds of applause‘Who should act genteel comedy perfectly” asks Walpole “but people of fashion that have sense? ' Actors and actresses can only guess at theAone of high life and cannot be inspired with it Why are there so few genteel comedies but because most comediesiure written by men not of that sphere? Etherege Congreve- Vanbrogh and Gibber wrote genteel comedy1 because they lived in the best company and Mrs Oldfield played it so well because she not only followed but often set the fashion General Burgoyne has writ the best modern comedy for the same reason and Miss Farreii is as excellent as Mrs Oldfield because she has lived with the best style of England Forquhar’s : plays tsuk the language of a marching- - regimen in country quarters Wycherley Bryden Mrs Centliv-r- e etc wrote as if they had only lived in the Rose TaVern tint then the Court lived in Drury Xane too7and Lady Dorchester and Nell Gwyn were equally good company’ ' In this there is some injustice against Mrs Gentliyre for whose name should be supplied that of Aphra Behn Walpole judges more correctly of the comic writers of the seventeenth pentonr whenhe places Moliere “Senor Molieri as jUownes absurdly calls him at the head o them alL "Who upon earth” he says “1 as written such perfect comedies? for the “Careless Husband” is but one the ‘Non-juro- r’ was built on the ‘Tartuffe and if the Mon of Moder(EtheregeV and Vanbrugh are oxcellei V ihey ace too indelicate and Oon-- i for wii is not always natgreve ho beat-almural still less simple” i i t has been said of Mrs Oldfield that sha never troubled the peace of: any: lady at the head of a household b'utT think she may have marred the expectations of some Who desired to reach that eminence She early captivat- ed the heart of Maynwaring He was a bachelor rich connectedTwiththe“ Government imd a hard drinker according to the - - The Louisville Journal soys that tlie lloo the Countess of Burlington headed the Faustina party at: the opera which sup- Montjomeiy Biair escaped cnjituro from h wife and and 'Churchill were BevD vr MulleD n tie celebrated present and the cohtcmporaiy notices say Irish: estrouonicr ptiljlt-bratoand: that she had no other children: Her friends chemistpriest' died has at Boston were apt to express a different opinion and : A Hodman Mrs Delaney iu one of the very first passages gun of 20 inch bare and throwthan I can’: tnmedy-facof her autobiography says “ At six years old ing a round shot of 10801b wcijit is mounts Earnest as she was however in- these I was placed under the care of Mdlle Puelle ed dt Fort Hamilton near New York and characters before the audience she was frolic- a refugee of a very respectable character and successfully tested Yith 100th of powder it— v some at rehearsal ' When “Cato” was in pre- and well qualified for ner business 1 threw the1 tremendous missile fdur inrles amt wiU throw it nearly six miles 4vith a 1251b paration Mrs Oldfield was cast for Marcia' TO BR 'COKTISUEp the philosophical statesman’s danhter ’f chaige Addison attended the rehearsals and Swift 'I' V 1 BITS OP NEWSfe' the: Northern and 'W'estr 'Conflagration-iwas at Addison’s side making suggestions and j ternJStates ' during ' September j and October3 marking the characteristics of the lively peothousand families of Poles hate nearly averaged Forty-fiv- e loss one per-dajTUe ple about him lie" never had a good word been Siberianzcd about §2000000 per month for women- - consequently he' had his usual "?S i The rebel raiders in "Western Virginia rob coarse epithet for Mrs Oldfield speaking of shower of ashes Which fell in Costa A her as “the drab that played Cato’s daughter” friend and foe alikeRica on the 16th ult has'haiLits origin traced and ruling at her for her hilarity while reThe French silkworms have become dis- to tho volcano of Tiirrialba ' " v z' hearsing that passionate part and in her for- eased so new importations are being mode I foil mear shower Easton of toads A lately getfulness calling merrily out to the property from Japan via San Francisco Panama and England What next? what next?” New York r w Yet this hilarious actress played Cleopatra Ratting is a fashionable postihie in Paris Vice Chancellor Kindcrsley has decided j with dignity and Calista with feeling iu London Jia: bought one- A that a An company of the foreigner residing part any She lingered a few months in her house in : hundred and forty acres a few nules from- the -Lower Grosvenor street the details of her British possessions can hold literary copyit with glass mak- propose to enclose though: not a subject: of the 'British cityaand last moments as given by Pone mingle a lit- right - Madeira with 'the like of climate that ing i tle truth with much error and exaggeration crown fruits and foliage to be found in' that isle A wire The combustion of magnerium (sold at hotel amUesiilencea are tobc built and “Odious! in woollen ? ’tweuld s eolnt provoke! great : sis cents a foot) produces a light far superior WLcre the last words that poor Narciiia spoke : to any other known extjoptirg sunlight and Slices will bo chained for a chaflcolo live un" Sci X( let achsrmlne chicts and rirunels laco " almost equal to that v V Wrap my ccd limb mud had my lUelaaa ihcog '' On vwld not rar ! fiigbxful whan ona’a daatL The Caledonian (British) railway carries GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF EARLYS STAMPEDE And Betty giv this cheek S little red 1” single newspapers by the first morning train " ' : station to on their line wri--for farthone a was any Mrs Saunders lei Betty ’ identical place to ' who resided with Narcissa She had quitted ing stamp each which I' am now Just returned tnatoue the stage in 1720 and saysUrban “attended woman in Michigan took hold of a rat- greatest if not the greatest stampers t this war A Mrs Oldfield constantly and did the office of tlesnake ' and a 'stampede of infantry too hail yetto take thinking it was the stoveholder r to F&or Narcissa after the last” f place It'is the most singiuar affair that one ban Didn’t get bitten either Sriest was attired in a Holland nmht dress possibly iinsgine a whole day of glory and a few a splendid beginning and a V with tucker and double rnfiles of Brussels The Legislatureof Arizona pays a bounty minutes of shame— AVe swept picket hillsidesand monstrous end lace of rhish latter material she also wore a of $100 each for Apache scalps and the resi- breastworks ' arid funned our ' lilacs withiotha head-dres- s and a pair of “new kid ' gloves” dents there are going into the business steep breastworks and camps with evep pieces of sr- This another writer calls being “buried in full !A man can make $1000 a day at it so it is tillery taken before they could fire three rounds r: and a running foe before us The dean sweep was dress” The report seems to: have been eaidJ-' made i by Kershaw’s division and hat'is the way founded on Mrs Oldfield’s natural good taste i Pedb is used and (much liked for fuel : in we began our work The enemy fries to rally on in costume Fladiar euch is her name in the Rochester left but it is in vain w push qn and now wa v x r the hear the firing of other' divisions' on the 'tight st Tatler “is ever well drest and always the ' which'- come in for their share jof Successful love’ takes a load off our hearts too-woman you meet her: clothes are so ' it and gallantly : j' j exactly fitted that they appear part oflier and puts it on our shoulders Over hills stone fencesacross broad cleared person1 v fields B3 thick woods the fighting jgoes on asreg- It was in the above described dress that wish toon good term3 with' your piilow if you ular psandsteady as if it had just begun and still it-behappy the deceased actress 'received such honor os is now three o'clock we have driven tlie enemy with every-thin- g A gentleman who has ’passed through Contra four miles' captured all actress never received before nor has ever rethe them in with their dead spotted ground Costa California ceived since The lady lay in state in the reports the country as and wounded sent to the rear some 1800 prison-Jerusalem Chamber a distinction not infr- a picture of desolation Farmera who were era captured cighteeirpieces of artillery but the still goes on lalthongli weS have stopped equently indeed"’ conceded to persons of well to do in the world two years ago ore now fighting tho enemy who is by this time pushed high rank and small merit but '"which never- almost penniless' owing to the drouth Many driving further back than Middletown on a'liue extending : theless seemed out of place in the case of of them overcome with despair have taken from th of it left Anne Oldfield but had she been really a to drinking! There is little left to sustain this-i- s All but pending this time the life of man- or beast and the country is another work very wiell1 queen the pablic could riot have thronged on that is- - far j very far from goes ' fast becoming depopulated — VirginiaUmoa being quite as' good The number or our men v more eagerly to the spectacle v in tlie camps increases every hoifr-ThTho solemn lying in state of an English acTlie new King of Ba)-arihad no pocket plundering provost guard carries off a bajeh of them to tress in the Jenioalcm Chamber the sorrow till he was 18 years old Many per the iront but a large number rozcp out from the' of the public over their lost favorite and ' the moneyons have none at GO ground which they soon cover likewuc of tlie seven plagues of Lgypt— 4hc locitsts I should say All regret of friends in noble or humble but virwed- these men are so confident that the pnemy is prhip- After oil there is something about-tuous homes where Mrs Oldfield hod 'been ever welcome contrast "strongly with the ding gown prettier th&d any other gown in ped that they only waul to sccurcdhcir share of booty- ' French sentiment towards : French players the world alas! war U a game that two can play at It has been already said that os long as They hare the high prices fever in’ Denver TheButYankees bring up a new line) at about ond' Clarion exercised the power When she ad- as well as at Salt Lake hour and a uatter before sundown They push it tothe front and our left s (CSordonv) gives vanced to the to make the (then wav but tllat ls nothing- -' ' additiou to a the some way of They give gasometer recoil several feet mere By the by standing) pit an: increase of light and God bless them 'Tlnlnt of men must give way magic of her eyes the pit who enjoyed the chemical salts sometimes but diii‘t they ralfr? 1 say why v terror as a luxury flung crowns to her and changes of color can bo instantaneously pro-- don't they rally why for this is our only trouble cud this way an Englishman astonished misfortune on that lath of XJctobcr Bat wept at the thought of losing her but Clarion duccd Infolks the of Molines by the sudflen ap- rally they won’t Se themo bac unconcerned infirm was Clarion forgotten and to a decaygood wss the jnattcr They! as :quictljlivs ing' actor or actress a French audience ii the pearance through the city of a beautiful clear "just do officers not to reply anytiiiug just slip most merciless in tho world The" brightest red lightj with rays of the most brilliant des- back with their muskets poised in'jthey their lands as if they were deploying backward as'skirmishen and Lest of them as with us died iu the ser- cription ' vice of the public In the meanwhile the Yankees lose no time It A Sergeant and- four privates of the Roynow their turn to go onward' ' Kershaw’s divisis sailed from al few Engineers Southampton a' Monfleury Mondjjry and Bricoart died of ion now was struck it why tori fa its turn ago for Alexandria ou their way to after hating tried bard togives Stand iu ground Nothapoplexy brought oil by excess of zeal Mo-he- weeks They ate goiig out to make an ing better nothing more noble nations as it did who fell in' harness was buried with Jerusalem less ceremony than some favorite dog ITie exact topographical survey of the city and fight but now ithasgiven way like Dordon’sand like Gordon’s it won’t rally charming Lecouvreur that Oldfield of tlie neighborhood including all its more" famous general did welt They tried French stage whose beauty and intellect were hills and valleyg It sounds strange to hear thait to Our artillery inthe and twice mado a hU3 work a never so necessary the double charm which rendered theatrical yet been done) stand— at mch points fight too where tliby- might have Fraiice-ecstatiover thej Yankees but -was hurriedly interred within the vantage-groun- d Hayti advices are that President GefiVard had — no rally of a brigade no rally no was there inrally be 'oisawpit Bishops might exceedingly has issued a proclamation stating that though of a ' regiment no rally of a the whole terested in and unepiscopally generous- - to three insurrections had broken out within six army confused into a Jiairelesscompany shapeless mass of living actresses of wit and beauty but the months all are quelled and order is complete- menacing back back ail the time The flood in prelates smote them with a “Maranatha!” and ly restored The President has also consent-t- o creates in depth as we reach the turnpike The ambulances wagons all rattle down at an “Avaunt ye!” when dead Even'Bossuet commute the death sentence ofhose artillery first at a decent rate at a cool walk a kind of genwould attend the theatre to learn grace and buvicted of treason in July rebellion that come tlemanly stampede but a- few shells elocution' from them and their brethren bat an tu additional over beads our give right The Schenectady (N Y) Starhastwa ed- bursting We road a pro- whenhe had profited by the Instruction he turnofthjB a arc running speed' and has each itors of one control we half of and the from shells tection walkfagain' denounced them all as children of the devil! jhe iJouis XVIU however put an effectual check paper One side of the paper has the names I never saw or dreamed of a more they were ifnomore scafed on the unseemly practice of treating as dead of McClellan and Pendleton at the head of crowd ofnoskedaddlers' there had not aehamefrthan more and sir columns and the other that of Lincoln and been a the In their pre- -: oi-grac- a dog3 the geniuses who had been idolized when Johnson— of danger particle Y-Herald N dicament Finally an olu rotten brwge gave way living When the priests of the Church of and artillery wagons and' St Boch closed its doors against the body of asmin the celebrated barber poet of Agen there is a dcad lock forthe J Yankees Theyneeff there arc ambulances Bancourt brought there for a prayer and a France is dead " f lick to have them — all they have to a strike not blessing Paris rose: against the insnlters and do Is to come down the road where they are stuck missionaiv ship JohnAYilliams owned and the King moved by Christian charity or there they are -- In that wajwp lost thirty- - f London the has been of our own nieces’ besides eighteen4hat wo nine by Society sent own dread of a Paris riot Missionary his chaplain to wrecked on and Goa knows how many wagons and1 Island in South the seas: captured Danger recite the prayer give the benediction and to All those trains xnicht have been ambulances show that an honest player was not a some- No lives lost saved by a force of 'two hundred skirmishers but" less than a tired they were ' iEariy next year Carlyle will publish the it could not be got They-werthing — our menl had out of it i After the they enough “Life Oldfield volumes of his Mrs state in of of played Frederic” concluding Iving ' It is impossible at present to give you a fkir of as much ceremony as 1 Incendiarism is there was r of our losses la men the in extending- fearfully Bpealdng la generhja been observe at the obsequies of many a rtiral districts of England al the lossis as small' as it can be for a fight from ' the supporters pf the pall Sunrise to sunset although I know one regiment of Opggn0Amoqg ’The colliers’ strike in Staffordshire is as- one division to have lost twenty o£3eep We took were Lord Heryey Lord Detswart aud'Bubb snd secured them lsrgewenumber of prisoners few Djodington afterward Lord1' Malcombe The suming a grave character-as are did stain-- ‘ whlLit v w must have lost very first used to ride abroad with Mrs' Oldfield f‘ Spain thinks it won’t recogniso w side so'timely and finally m we did ear sir and A Vr To Ay that wewfcre wnipped byour own folly: as Mrs Delaney has recorded ' ' dom of Italy : Lord Delawarr was a soldier who became a alone is neither new nor consoling bet it is true Cor Richmond Examin Red haired ladiei are the rage in Paris gfeat 4ibeau "cnd went a'pliilanderiDg llis -- ‘ ‘ ? - air o youth! gentle eV What though Iti laughing' light has fled ‘ ' If iu lu calm blne’deptl I nee v ‘ and ef beaven peace ji Ifc believe exceeded three hundred guineas but thii was exclusive of benefits occasions on which gold was showered ' into her lap : Humor grace vivacity— all were exuberant on the stage when she and Wiibi' wgre playing against each other' Indeed one can hardly realize the idea of the supreme Queen of Comedy wearing the robe ana illustrating the sorrows of tragedy She for her own part disliked the latter vocation She hated as she said often to have a page dragging her tail about “Why do not they give these parts to: Porter? She can put on a better I- - Y SEMI-WEEKL- I1’ i — r N : V iX i v i - “ — w— -- v— t- -v 'V- -' |