Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people. [volume], May 24, 1902, Page 6, Image 6

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ff 6 GOaDWfN'S WEEKLY.
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Hj j The "Jolly Musketeer." ,
H I The Salt Lake Opera company with
H j Emma Lucy Gates, presents the "Jolly
H f Musketeer" 'for the first time tonight.
H I George Lask has been giving the company a
Hj j taste of professionalism the past week, and
m there is a snap about the work in the "Jolly
H Musketeer" that savors of something past
1 the amateur.
H ' The house has had a big sale for to-
M night, and success is assured for next week.
H I
H 'f Julia Dean with Goodwins.
H L Good work little girl. We watched
m t you play Cinderella at five years of age in
B ' the old Continental, we saw jou play Hearts
1 j in your girlhood days, then at the Grand
Hj ' theater, next with Jefferson, then you came
1 home again with the Neils, and now with
H ' Nat and the beautiful Maxine. We can't
H t write a stereoty)ed notice, little ingenue
Hi V with all the host of your old Salt Lake
B t friends and playmates we wish you the suc-
m if cess that must be yours.
H l Jonas.
H -fj Jonas played a piano at the theater
H Wednesday evening. Jonas treated us. It
H j,, wasn't solely an exhibition of beautiful nie-
HL , chanic action, it wasn't with the poses and
H J mannerisms that most musical geniouses
H most affect. lie played music for all of his
H L audience, and there was no one who left the
B I theater unappreciative.
H , i The programme was a most' popular
H ' one, and was selected from Chopin, Scliu-
Hj j. mann, Liszt, Rubenstein, Wagner, Schubert
H ' and Delibes. The professor also played two
H i of his own compositions.
;; Calder's new Steinway was the piano
H v . used.
H
H Such a Kidder.
m j Kathryn Kidder like Blanche Walsh is
jU very unfortunate in not being able to find
m a play, but that is no reason why she should
H bill an "immortal comedy" and bore a pa-
m jj tient audience for three hours.
jH J As Peggy in "The Country Girl," Miss
M j ! Kidder is clever, but she is becoming a tri
m j 'fie gross for her old romp act, and she is
H ! not attractive enough to hold an audience
B j through anything as "talky" as the inflic-
H tion of the last two nights. Every now and
I then there was a breath of relief in a
j if' bright line, but there weren't enough of
Hj IS them to compensate for the arid dialogues
B Hj in every act. Of the otlier ladies in the
BjpJ company Miss Ashworth is particularly
H If strong as a poser, and Miss Plinck did a
M W rather smart bit as the maid.
H II And then a Mr. T. V. Hamilton played
H; Moody. A lack of intelligence, and utter
i stupidity in his interpretation of the part,
Blj was a guaranteed cure for insomnia. As
jf "a actor," he is most vealy. Messrs. Hack-
HII ett, Ferguson and Orr Cash gave an artistic
HM performance, and especially is tliis so in the
H case of Mr. Cash "Orr Salisbury." This
B is not said bcause this city was his home,
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and his friends are here. He gave a fin
ished performance. Would that we could
say as much for the rest of the support.
The company goes to San Francisco
from here, and if the Kidder springs "The
Country Girl" Mont Pelee will be as a toy
firecracker beside Peter Robertson and
Ashton Stevens.
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Mansfield.
It has been years since Mansfield fa
vored us with his presence, and his engage
ment at the Salt Lake theater next Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday will be the most
notable theatrical event of the season.
He will play "Beaucaire" on Thursday
evening and Friday afternoon, "Beau Brum
mel'" Friday night, and "The First Violin,"
on Saturday evening.
He is the first actor on the stage to
day, and the productions his management
has scheduled for next week, are among the
most eminent successes of his artistic rep
ertoire. Mansfield's "Beaucaire" has been his
only play this season, until starting on his
Western tour, and from the interest in the
story of the barber-prince and the fact that
it is to be played but twice there will be a
great demand for tickets.
Beau Brummel on the stage, as por
trayed by Mansfield is historical and is one
of the most fascinating of his creations. Mr.
Mansfield will be seen for the first time here
as Eugene Courvoiser in "The First Violin."
Jessie Fothergill's story of the musician
in the Elberthal symphony is familiar to
nearly everyone, and with Mansfield as the
princely violinist, the play will be charming.
A Startling Production.
Not so very long ago, before eminent
theologians found their time engaged by
the task of tearing to tatters various tradi
tions of Christianity, the drama could not
have marched f ' r into theological territory
without meeting stern challenge. The de
fenders of the faith must be very busy now,
however, ior the glare of the footlights is
being turned on most sacred things and not
a word has been heard from the pulpit.
"The Christian," with its frank discus
sion of the ways of the English clergy, has
paved the way for "The Eternal City," in
which the Pope will be represented in the
flesh, while "Ben Hur," 'in which the pres
ence of the Savior of mankind was 'indi
cated by a white calcium light, has made
possible "Mary of Magdala," in which the
personality of Christ will be a prominent
factor in a dramatic love story. Miss Viola
Allen's venture in "The Eternal City'" will
be watched during the next theatrical sea
son with an interest that will be exceeded
only by that in Mrs. Fiske's appearance as
the woman who wept at the tomb of Jesus.
It is all the more surprising that noth
ing has been said in protest against these
coming productions in view of the trouble
caused by the project to present the "Pas
sion Play" in New York. When Salmi
Morse undertook the task twenty years ago
the clergy united against him and the power
of the city administration was used without
stint to defeat him. So bitter was the cam
paign that he finally drowned himself in the
Hudson River. When it was proposed to
bring the "Passion Play" from Montreal
during the season just ending there was
every evidence that the experiment, would
have similar results. The Lamb's club was
almost disrupted because it gave in private
a few tableaux from Clay M. Green's
"Nazareth," into which the person of Jesus
was not introduced.
Mrs Fiske wisely takes the position
that her new play is in no sense related to
the famous Oberammergau drama. She
holds that it is not religious, but strictly his
torical. It is an American version of a
drama by Paul Heyse, the dean of the Ger
man playwrights. Mr. Heyse left this work
until he was in his final years of activity.
He has been a disciple of the German lead
ers of liberal thought on religious matters
and has echoed their views of the events
surrounding the death of Christ.
He has made use of only two Biblical
characters in his drama. They are Mary of
Magdala, the Mary Magdalene of the New
Testament, and Judas lscariot. Both will
cause no end of discussion, both because of
their intrepretation from a dramatic stand
point and the bearing of that interpretation
upon the life and character of Christ.
Mary is first presented as a profligate, a
woman of wealth seeking to pass her life
in the enjoyment of the pleasurs of the
world. Sold into slavery in her youth, her
parents lost, she has nothing to bind her to
the conventions of society. Her master in
Magdala was wealthy and to her was left
his wealth. Her ways become the scandal
of Jerusalem and the populace determines
to drive her forth from its gates. She is
pursued by a mob which would stone her
except for the intervention of one who goes
to her aid and faces her tormentors, repeat
ing the words of "the Master," "Let him
that is without sin cast the first stone."
To this deliverer Mary turns, lavishing
upon him her love. Though "the Master"
does not appear it is shown in the next
scene that the profligate woman has come
under his influence. His presence and na
ture awakens her spiritual nature, so long
unrecognized in her life, and after long
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Qalt Lake Cbeatre.
GEO. D. PYPER, Manager.
SALT LAKE OPERA CO.
WITH
Emma Lucy Gates
IN
"THE JOLLY
MUSKETEER"
Saturday Matinee and Night, ana
MAY 26th-27th-28th
Prices, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1. Matinee Prices 25c and 50c