| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Annie Pixley and the Deacons Daughter A BUSY CONFERENCE SEASON Booth and BarrettLa Tonoas Deserved De-served Fato The Bohemian Girl by Amateurs Mr Archibald 0 Gunter who once conducted a more or less successful assay office under McCornicks bank has written a number of clever plays and a recent successful novel called Mr Barnes of New York Critics say his play of the Deacons Daughter lInni Fidcy in 2 2IN IN Wks G tnCGnl t 1nh > t + If ri Ii in which Annie Pixley appears at the Theatre tomorrow night is as clever as anything he has yet done and by some it is called the best of all his f achievements Of that we shall be better able to judge tomorrow evening Miss Pixey the most popular of all American protean artists next to Lotta is crowding her houses everywhere with the play and is adding to the reputation she already achieved in Mliss and other plays The announcement in yesterdays HERALD that Booth and Barretts prices would not go beyond 3 was greeted with satisfaction People who stood 2 50 a year ago to see Booth alone would be apt to think that the other 50 cents was cheap for tbo privilege privi-lege of seeing Barrett along with him aud there wiil be little if any grumbling grumbl-ing at the rates Last night the tragedians concluded their second week in San Francisco and tomorrow evening even-ing they enter upon their third and last It is ostimated that the three weeks receipts will be not less than 575000 They receive 10000 for three nights in Omaha And so the old California Theatre is sold and will be known among the temples of the drama no more Jt brought only the moderate sum of 127000 and rumor says that it will be torn down and a hotel built on the site The California has a history around which a good many valuable associations associa-tions cluster It was opened twenty years ago by McCullough and Barrett with Money as the attraction There Edwin Adams saw some of his palmiest days Booth Cuhman Fechter ONeill and many others of the great lights have trod its histrionic boards It has been the scene of many notable successes and as many notable failures Fred Bert Haverly McKee Rankin and others found there their managerial graves Lately it has been conducted n who has n it nO by Al Hayman run as a stock company with Lewis Morrison Jean Clara Walters and such people at the head Mr Hayman it is understood under-stood offers double the present rental to be allowed to seep the control Stephens class which made a pronounced pro-nounced hit in its public concert has finally decided on taking up the Bohemian Bo-hemian Girl and giving a regular opera presentation with Nellie Lruce Pugs ipy as Arline Bessie Dean as the Gypsy Queen Mr Easton as Thaddeus Mr tTuddard as the Count and probably with Mr Spencer as Dev lshoof This would make a strong cast and with some instruction in the acting parts Mr Stephens pupils would make a certain success Their rendition of Traviata and Trovatore shows that Balfes music is not a whit beyond them The chorus ot 100 in gypsy cos tunic would alone be a feature which would fill the house t t ss F Conference is announced for Salt Lake and theatricals with all other species of trade will boom in consequence conse-quence There will be a four nights season at he Theatre by the Home Dramatic Club the great AngloIrish play of the Bhaughraun being done for the first time by this company on Thursday evening April 5th and repeated re-peated Saturday the 7th Friday evening even-ing the 6th the railroad sensation After Dark will be produced and Monday Mon-day the Oth will witness a revival of either Storm Beaten or Confusion At the Opera House Margetts and Evans with a company made up of John S Lindsay Mark Milton Mr Bywater Miss Chloe Pratt Ruth Jones and Mrs Wilton Miss Napper and others will give the celebrated clay The Romany Bye which they have secured from the Comedian Stock well in San Francisco The company appear two nights the 6th and 7th If New York continues to bang away at La Tosca The Giddy Gusher in the Minor went to see it and puts down her impression as follows New York is a bad place for a corpse anyway especially in so advanced a state of decay as La Tosca Then the curtain went up and for twoacts I sat and wondered now clever people could be induced to spend their money gilding gild-ing oatmeal and dropping plunkers into porridge I The third act I claimed as an infringement in-fringement of a scene I enacted at LInLlnnnnr 7JninnRbu1ahtarhnl SS tok gas and I pranced round a draw ingroom in a state of holy horror while the shrieks of the woman losing her old molars and extensors incisor and outsiders harrowed my sympathe ic soul to madness I clung to an attendant at-tendant un give her gas youre giving bei well I aavised giving her anything any-thing and all the while arias howl tore up the carbolic laden air and tin I attendant mixed a dost of something to quiet my nerves So the third act didnt horrify me as much as it did others because Ive beeu through it before But oh 1 Great ripsnorting Scott That fourth act paralyzed me I got afraid I lioked around toSee if I ccul l witness the rest of it in the company of so many straneers I thought I might have enjoyed It if Id been looking it it through a Knothole in a board fence But to glance from the situation on the stage and meet the enquiring eyes of a lot of young dudelets 1 ft over from the season who peeked out of a box to sec how the women took it was a little more than your ragged Gusher could stand A yell of horror escaped me as Mordaunt dismissed the seneschal at at the gateand bade him knock before he came in again I had just strength lent me on good security to crawl up the aisle My beloved Sanger met me in the lobby and asked me if Id been cold Good gracious that act fried us in our own fat I i i 4 + Fanny Davenport with red eyes and a heaving bosom thus discourses on La Tosca to a newspaper reporter I hardly know what I am going tc do she said in answer to the first query put to her regarding her projects pro-jects 11 feel anything but pleasant toward to-ward the press which I think is unmercifully un-mercifully persecuting me I have given La Tosca as it is written If you agree to present an authors work to the public you give it as nearly as you can in the way he wrote it Thats just isnt itll think Sardou would rot appreciate it very much if I were to give his play otherwisa neither would the public Mrs Frank > eslie says that the two first acts should be made into one Why 1 shouldnt dire to do anything of that sort with the work ol an obscure author much leas that of a man of great intellect like Sardou The press would have me change if entirely Shall I make Scarpia an angel shah I make his love Holy If I were to do so Sardou would be apt to say it was not his play and the press would exclaim Why do you not give us tardous tragedy as he wrote it Let us judge whether the material is fit for the stage or not There is a terrible pictureit is a nude corpse being dissected Yet crowds throng about the winnow where it is displayed staring at it If the flesh is painted so that it rerembles nature does that spoil the picture True it is not a beautiful suoject But that doss not alter the art of it just the same Criticism 1 believe in but abu e and persecutionno Take it off Take it oil they cry Is it any wor ethan e-than thousands of other plays that have been done Take for instance Francesca Da Itiuimi Is not that rather a quesliuable subject 1 Is not the moral of Cymbeline a great deal worse than that of La Tosca Uk but that is Shakespeare and so the press accepts it Fazio is another play of the saint > sort If people were to accustom themselves to the terrible things in life there would be much less sin It is because they shut from sight the evil that there is so much of it Notes W C CKOSBIK has dropped out of sight DE LOKME the stalwart tenor left the Conried opera Company in ban Francisco Fran-cisco ROSINA YOKES manager gushes about his Salt Lake business to eastern reporters re-porters THE Baird minstrel troupe drew a goodsized audience again last evening and the matinee was well attended JOHN MAGTJIKK the Montana maneger has brought suit against Thomas Nast for 250 which is claimed as borrowed money FRIDAY was the 82d anniversary of the birth ol Edwin Forrest The oc oAsion was fittingly observed at the Forrest Home established for the relief re-lief of broken down actors by Forrests munificence LAST Thursday the comedians of New York clubbed together and gave a notable benefit to Tony Hart Several scenes from Julius Caesar were m the bill and the following was the ideallic cast Brutus Mr Crane Marc Antony An-tony Nat Goodwin Cassius Stewart Robson Flavins Fraicis Wilson Osmond Tearle and Steele Mackaye filled minor parts IT ia said of W H Crane that when his heart is ready to sink into his leathers his mirth will bubble Following Follow-ing is a telegram ho sent to Mr Slosson proprietor of the Hotel Duquesne Pittsburg immediately after the Union Square Theatre fire To John Bap tiste Slosson Hotel Daquesne Pitts burg Jfa Have saved DIY wife and my honor Everything else lost But young people have hopes Signed W H CRANE ANOTHER good house assembled in the Eighteenth Ward new hall last evening even-ing to admire the charming tableaux the music and recrtitions and the amusing farce of Lend Me Five Shillings Shil-lings There was a visible improvement improve-ment all around notable in the tableaux tab-leaux and the applause was most hearty and frequent The only drawback draw-back was the absence of Mr Easton who was preventedfom attending and that of Mr Young whose absence was not explained Tho two nights brought in close upon 250 to help out the wards building fund rUE Daly Theatre Company leave for England on the 21st 1 of April to play a third engagement in London Before that the company will visit Boston and Philadelphia On May 3d they begin an engagement of thirteen weeks at the Gaiety Theatre in London and on August 2d present The Taming of the Shrew at StratfordonAvon upon invitation in-vitation from the committee in charge of tbe Memorial building at that place The company will also play a week in G asgow a week in Manchester a week in Dublin and a week in Paris opening September 2d at the Vaudeville Theatre On September 25th they sill from Queenstown for New York to open here early in October IF any one wondered why V T R J did not have a place on the walls with the numerous other placards in A Hole in the Ground the following front the Mirror will explain THE Salt Lake correspondent of the 1 JFrror communicates the startling in tellisence that the manager of A Hole tives because he doesnt like the I Mirrors criticisms of Mr Hoyts noble masterpiece I dont blame him in the least If there exists a corps of writers so hopelessly unappreciative that they cannot grasp the intellectual and artistic beauties of Mr Hoyts superb dramatic compositions why of course they ought to be deprived of the glorious opportunity of enjoying them gratisor better still the paternal pater-nal manager would be aiding the cause of the purest and highest types of authorship by spanking every one of these benighted correspondents and putting him to bed in the dark |
