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Show Nov. 28, Dear Old Hal: It has been another week devoted to the home product, and as is always the case in Salt Lake, the home product has shown that it is equal to all requirements. This time it has been a return to light opera; to my mind, the amateur talent of Salt Lake was never more charm ·ngly employed than in the days when Careless, then Stephens, then Krouse, got it enthus d over Balfe, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Suppe, and turned out those ell remembered productions of • Pinafore,'' "The Bohen,ig l'." • " H:p- ........ J:> , ":. _._' -..;-vu,' • I • the -~aking of a most useful per_for111er; she is· always true and correct m ,Yhat she attempts. Mr. Downey was a cl.ever major general-after the first mght. Really, Mr. Downey, ther~ was no ex~use for an old minstrel llke you falling down as you did at the op~ning night. Lieutenant Jenks, as a smger, was handicapped by Lieutenan~ Jenks as an actor; bis delightful voice. f~r he bas some charming notes, coul~n t make me forgive him for not knowmg how to make love to the gentle s.avage. And that induces the refl~t10n, how stingy old Mother Na~ure. 1s and always has been in distributmg her gifts to our tenors. They have always been able to sj:n g, but acting bas been more or less of a sealed book to them. Nat Brigham in Sampson of Omaha warbled like an angel, and acted-well, he sim!)ly made no pretenses. Bob Easton rivalled. the lark at heaven's gates in Thaddeus in his music, and looked like he wanted to dodge all the while he was acting; even George Pyper, who sang in "Patience," "The Pirates" and "Fatinitza," as only George can, always seemed to do his love scenes under protest: but George's voice and his legs covered a multitude of elocutionary sins. I could write a whole volume on that hevy of lovelv girls, headed hj,.. Misses Burke, Colton and Smith, who made up the very animated chorus. Their first act for gaiety. bustle and chatter l has never been excelled 1 y any amateur show. It was all most enjoyable, \ in spite of some undeniably bald ~pots, and I trust si~cerely that Mr. Peabody, who made his debut as an operatic leader, and the Young Ladip~' Aid so-1 ciety, will let us hear from them often. The new woman has come to the Grand. and the to n is now eng·aged in discussing her. I haven't had a rio-ht do\Yn good opportunity to judg(;> of her my first a11egianc having- been give~ so entirely to the homf' prodnct at the other b use. and I want to ~ee her in so11 thing else before I enter nal judgment. In the fi~t two aQt8 of ·· Runa, ay Wife" T d --in't thi k I w;s greatly stru ~: latP1 o I found she grew on m ; her face i r>retty but rlo11-li P; h€'r hraa .of hair ,,ond~ ful: h~r st. le rather qmet; 11e ~t , ·eek . he :v1ll do ur old friend. '·Camilla." rPincarriate<l. an 1 , ' shall thAn R -e what T' _shall s young. 1\Ir. ,vyn~ate a~arn stru l 111, au?-1ence hara: he SE' ms to 1 c c mm man at the Grand; ma.r h in tim he , ·ill maJ~e th ran l p tr ns f rget Ing r, oll. I M,RG• |
