Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Alabama Players OffStage the 1 Off-Stage ITODDART AND BARRYMOB he Cast of Ont of Darkncis Kankli Ghouliih IdeaLateSt Amusement Amuse-ment Notes LABAMA was r f the sole attraction of the week u bnd i the only one Tare T-are to have until Mr Royles play comes on for production pro-duction uAla bama made a most charming pression but it in not of the sort that can draw three full houses b midsummer and its last night was not I money maker It has not a strong gal f ery interest and that is its sole drawback The gallery attendance is tho managers nsrgin of profit and with a patronage t linked to the down stairs gathering no lay can hope for an extraordinary jonfiovity r r We enjoyed a very pleasant talk wIlh t Ur Stoddart one afternoon He had come lown to the theatre to attend a rehears f if Mr Royles play being a friend of the r luthor and an admirer of his new work rrhich had been read to him in New York Ie was full of warm and kindly interest or the produotion and said he thought Out of Darkness was a very promising i tad clever play Salt Lake he said was r I eke home to him the people made him I eel like there was something more between hem than the mere relation of player and I vudience This was his eighth or ninth risit and the city was always beautiful to 1 I aim Speaking of the illness of Miss Brooklyn which prevented her appearance In the last night of Alabama Mr Stoi lart said it was somewhat risky for a con any to be traveling with only one undo study We asked him what would happen if he were to fall sick Oh he answered vith one of his grim smiles uwe oldtin actors never get sickin my day people feted if they were able to stand up 1e teen old John Parselle bless his memor lave to be supported from his dresiin room to the wings and when ho heard hi tue it straightened him up like an old war Aorse and he went on the stage bold as a ardor He was on the boards over flft rears and he never disappointed an au lience once in his career I have done so list once and that was years ago when I rras first playing with Charlotte Gush nanI had to have an operation performed > n my throat and had I gone on it would lave been impossible for me to speak Referring to old time members of the profession with whom he had been aSfO iated Mr Stoddart spoke with emotion of old Charles Fisher at whose funeral he efferson William Winter and Couldoc lad officiated as pall bearers only a few Jays before Poor Fisher he said He I sad tciled all his life to earn a competent I with which to spend his last day n the little English village where ae was born When he retired from Dalys company he went back with his ounfr wife but everything had so changed hat he couldnt content himself and he started back to America only to die as ae landed Fanny Morant that grand tress who appeared here as the countess 4n the Danicheffs was living near Provl lence She retired from the stage long ago Poor Annie Russell another of the famous family with which Stoddart has oeen so long associated will never act gain In all probability she will nevi eave her room again She has under ono leveral severe operations and she is now I fcttially paralyzed It was one of the saddest cases in all his experience Mt 5tO dart said Annie Russell was the mos line that he her particular r > ted girl in strIcken known Just as she was iown lad ever she and her husband were hopefull next season when she expected her building on in play of her husbands r ppctedtostarin a That she would have been a strong success a ° one can doubt MreStodaart came to America thirty llr from Edinburgh and hUB < ago even years returned to his native countr has never of but sixtythree years ago He is Ii nee and looks ss though and hearty Is 1 strong rter of a cen another quarter he good for e was foLowed farming folowed For he has fofowed fury years but lately be has found the side on Democratic grangers thai most other like nothing In it and he has there was Jersey farm for New York traded his Sew Unlike too many others In jhe profession Hats securing a good fession he has not been f with nothing to show for alary for years called tomorrow it and if he were to be make his final exit his wife his unmar to daughter and his son a law erwho ried would be whole familywould not s ompriee his eft without a competence if Barrymore off the stage is one I Maurice 9f the most witty winning and enchanting His fasci wish to meet could I men one not exerted on ladies are bating powers I fact that those of his own alone but it is a irrisestibly drawn towards I just as sex are best going illustration ol him He is the 1 universal favorite Rumor the term 350 a week and that he bo earns JaYS needs another 350 to come out even How is genial hearty I ever that may be he a handsome Bohemian in whose presence no one could stand five minutes without feeling feel-ing drawn towards him He is a sporting I His first thought after man essentially i getting off the stage Wednesday night was to come to the telegraph editor of THE Hallr Itzslm HEHALD for the news of the the mons fight which was coming over wires and he staid up till 3 I oclock to get the last word from Minneapolis Barrymoro looks about thirtyeight He is the husband of Georgie Drew Barrymore who made a hit last season with Crane He is great also the writer of several strong plays including in-cluding one especially strong called Na lesda and he is just putting the finishing touches to another Barrymore accepts verdict his with easy good humor the on Reckless Temple the play which he brought out last season but still insists that it will go and says Salt Lake shall see him in it yet s a a Charley Harris the great original Tucker has been in Salt Lake several times before but we didnt know it and as be himself says it is supposable that he did not eminently distinguish himself He appeared ap-peared years ago with Willie Edoain in y Dream and two or three seasons back t with Minnie Maddern in Featherbrain He baa found his opportunity in Alabama t Ala-bama and be makes the most of It He jt says he does not play the part for laughs I atleast that is secondary with himh w plays Tuckerjust as earnestly as he can i and succeeds in getting almost half plaintive plain-tive interest aroused in him which few other actors on earth could do with the part Mr Harris went out in Salt Lake society a little under Barrymores protecting protect-ing wing and he enthusiastically says there are more pretty girls here to the square foot than any other place on the Lords universe 4 The full cast of Mr Royles Out of H Darkness has been made up and is given I below Rehearsals are going forward i tlmost nightly and the present expectations expecta-tions are that the play will be done Friday night and Saturday afternoon August T and 8 The event is exciting widespread Interest and already several swell theatre parties have been made up for the occasion Marguerite Otto of Metropolitan opera HouseHies Edith Clawson jHaas Otto her father a sotD S Young I Harold Hunting a director of the Metropolitan M Metro-politan opera house J D Spencer ii l t or John Pader sr a business manH M Wells John Pader jr a poetuuuEdwin Hoyle Adrian Karje a pianistLucius Benders Mrs Merryweather a lodginghouse keeper u Mrs Birdie Cummings Jennie Merryweather her daughter u uuuMlss Ivy Claws on Miss Moth of Metropolitan opera house uMlss Winnifred Kimball Miss Thistle of Metropolitan opera house u uMIss Carrie B Conkling > Manager Charles Frohmans plans for his various companies and attractions arc now complete for the coming season His first production will occur at the Madisi Square theatre on August 3 when the 1 breezy comedy Jane will be given 1ts i first presentation in America with a special cast His next production will be gien at Herrmanns theatre when Henry E Dixey will appear In The Solicitor playing ing the title role and supported by an exceptionally ex-ceptionally strong company including Louise Thorndyke Boucicault On August 24th Charles Frohmans company of comedians dlans presenting Mr William Gillette successful comedy Mr Wilkinsons Via ows returns to Proctors Twentythn Street New York for the full season and on August 17th Charles Frohmans stock company will presentfor the first time Mr Henry C De Mules newplayentltled The Lost Paradise at the Columbia theatre in Chicago On October his elaborate production pro-duction of Victorien Sardous famous pla T Thermidor will occur at Proctor theatre to be followed by the reappearanc of his stock company at tho same theatre on November 10 where they will remain during the entire season presenting The Lost Paradise and other new plays On September 12 t the new Columbia theatre in Boston will have its opening and Mi Frohman will begin his stock season at that house and on November 3 the first American can presentation of Miss Helyett will occur at the Star theatre in Now York All of Manager Frohmans engagements in connection with these various enterprise are complete and number nearly two hundred hun-dred and fifty acting people In addition to his companies playing in New York Manager Frohman will have eleven strong organizations touring the country Mi John Drews starring engagement under Mr Frohmans management does not begin until September lbJ2 r There is not much distinction between the females who take to the stage on account of some malodorous event in their live which has given them some loud advertising advertis-ing and those literary ghouls who propos to tear open the grave of Lincoln and cause the wounds of that great actor Edwin Booth to bleed afresh McKee Rankin is i the gentleman who has conceived the bri liant idea of writing a play on the life of Lincoln depicting the assasination the capture of the murderer Booth the episode of the burning barn and the murderer death Not many things are sacred to tbe fakir who thinks he has an idea for a successful suc-cessful play but one would think that an actor of Rankins former standing woul hesitate before he proceeded to do something some-thing that he must know would rend wit anguish the heart the most distinguish member of that profession to which it is Rankins boast to belong Booth will not last many years and a spirit of ordinar decency would withhold the Lincoln project pro-ject till he was not here to be wounded by it Notes Lewis Morrison Is doing The Stranglers of Paris in San Francisco The Garden theatre season opens October 12 1 with Florence and JeCerson Wainwrights production of Amy Robsart is i i set for Palmers theatre September 7 Sothern Is now at the Lyceum The regula company open the fall season in Lady Bountiful Bounti-ful Bulwers wonderful novel loA Strange Story la to be dramatized by Charles Edmonds Ed-monds Venerable Lydia Thompson has been replaced re-placed at the head of a burlesque company bj Kate Castleton Mansfield closed the Garden theatre very abruptly ab-ruptly Report says he has lost a tremendou amount of money Drew engagement with Daly does not end till after next reason Dalis fall opening piece is unknown In Xew York We are to have the City Directory sooi with Sweatnam and Luke Schoolcraft tbe < former day minstrels In white face characters Thermidor Sardoas play which was prohIbited pro-hIbited by the Parisian police after its second production is to be done in New Yorlr October c > Fred Bond is to have a part Maudie Adams bn a standing offer Iron Bothern but as Frohman gives her J90 a week ind keeps her mother in the same company she prefers to remain with him Catherine Cog well the beautiful young actress who was here with Fred Warde has just secured divorce from her husband on the round of habitual drunkenness i The play in which Henry Miller appears and in t which he is made a feature of this season Amy Robsart was the play in which he made his first appearance any stage William Hanlon who was killed in Iowa rely while performing with Forepaugh was a member of the HanlonVolters who created a sensation in Salt Lake some time ago Kelcey and Cay van have parts In the Idler widely varying from anything they have pre lously done in the Lyceum Kelcey does the lain and Vheatcrof the good man of the play The popularity of the Handel festival at the Crystal Palace in London Is shown from the ttendance as follows Rehearsal 17507 Mon day 80S87 Wednesday ai4S5 Friday 23S19 Total 80706 The stage bees some strange revolutions and one of them are stranger than the fact that the dainty and classic Madison Square is to be yen over next season exclusively to Hoyts productions A Trip to Chinatown opens the ewreginje In September The bookh g card of the Broadway theatre next e180n contains but one name It is that of Mr Francis Wilson Manager Frank Saucer has such faith In the comedians drawing abili tit s that he eels certain ho will attract big audiences to the house for an entire season Mr T Henry French has secured the play called Article 231 recently produced nt the omedie Francaise and also a play called Love and Divorce an English production The latter play when brought out in London was called Husband and Wife and Is by lessrs F C Phillips and Percy FondalL Miss Minnie Gales leading man during the coming season will bs Mr Creston Clarke a nephew of Edwin Booth He is to act the parts of Orlando Romeo Benedict Ingomar Pygmalion Pyg-malion and Guido Ferrentl in Oscar Wilds play which Mr Lawrence Barrett produced In the Broadway theatre shortly before his death A report was circulated yesterday that Miss ale Castleton the actress and Mr James Collifr who is also a member of the profession aro shortly to be married The report came from Asbury Park where both are summering Miss Castleton Is very well known on the boards and has appeared in a number of farci cal I and musical productions She was married some few years ago to Mr Harry Phillips and is said to have secured a release X Herald Mme ModjesUas agent writes that when the stress was visiting Paris recently she had a seere attack of influenza which may delay her departure for this country for a few weeks at least It was Mme Modjeskas intention to sail for Bremen on Tuesday of this week on the steamship Lahn but unless she is fully record ered she will not venture to take the voyageS voyage-S Polish actress season begins in Canada iptembcr 21 but she will not be seen Jn New York until January when she plays an aegage ment at the Fifth Avenue theatre |