Show I DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Past Weeks Attractions BILLS FOR THE WEEK COMING COM-ING The Rajahs Black EyeMiss Olsen Peril BarrettXelTille Mario Miscellaneous Miscellane-ous The triumph of matter over mind of flesh over intellect of flaring lithograph over established reputation reputa-tion of the human form divine as displayed iri tights over finished acting artistic narrative and brilliant bril-liant ensemble basbeen vitDesee in bait Lake during the week just passed The Rajah with its run of eight months in New York with its Pitt Elmore and Lemoyne and with its Madison Fquare trade mark that brand which has heretofore possessed the draft of magic has encountered the frowns of fortune at last ani has retreated from our shores with a very heavy balance carried to the wrong side of the ledger To the Messrs Frobman whose Hazel Kirke Esmeralda and Young Mrs Winthrop organizations were so eminently sucj esful here the result will be astounding To Manager Maguire it will be no less a severe disappointment as the coming of the Rajah had been 1 oked forward to ana rot without reason with almost the exprcfcations of in ther Abbott svaso v u he first ballet lithograph the Uevjis AUC ion unfolded un-folded to th breeze tiruc the Rajahs knell and for all the business busi-ness it d d after Martmettis contortions contor-tions were once beheld it might just as well have folded its tents and followed the example of the Arab a magnificent company it was with a very pleasing playnot such a one as Hazel Kirke or Young Mrs Win hrop it is true but still a play to interest amuse and instruct the Fates were against it however and to the Fates we must all un complaiuingly bow The Davild Auct ol iilutrated that peopla still have money to spend on a thing that strides their fancy it is very plain to those who have seen the spectacle that its title was chosen to strike the gallery eye as its proper name ought to be if the story were taken for 1tThe Golden Branch This however is of too peaceful and unsuggestive a character and would not serve with half the potency of the other incase ol any unforeseen emer ° encyas for instance the Rajah the Devils Auction is bound to make mot ey it has too much of the circus in it to do otherwise it might be immensely im-mensely strengthened by the introduction intro-duction of some good singing the one song by the fairy would have been magnificentif omitted as we will venture to say it will be after the first night in San Francisco Fran-cisco before they leave there too they will probably have to Improve iheir coryphees and in mercys name let us ask them if they m kea ke-a return call to send up the score of their music to the orchestra a week or so in advance THE WEEK COMING THE HOLIDAY HOLI-DAY Tuesday and Friday seem to be the only dates this week on which we are to have any amusements Miss Agues Olsen leading soprano of the Tabernacle Choir and a moat popular young lady withal will be the recipient of a benefit at the hands of her friends on the first named date the names of Mr Weihe Mr Crawford and Miss Druce are found on the programme Mr James Crawford brother to the basso also makes his first appearance appear-ance and the sextette from Lucia with Mies Olsen as soprano concludes con-cludes the enter ainment The advertising ad-vertising of the distribution of the young ladys portrait to purchasers of ticket which might be regarded as in questionable taste if it came from the management is an independent inde-pendent movement on the part of Daynes Coalter and each photograph photo-graph is labelled with the compliments compli-ments of that firm The Fourth the glorious fourth is usually regarded as a gala day for theatricals and the Home Dramatic Club will work for all ic is worth on the coming Friday Two perform antes of the new play of Peril will be given one at 2 and the other at 830 the full strength of the club will appearMiss Clawson sustaining sustain-ing a highly emotional part Mr Wells appearing in a line something out of the u = uai that of heavy old manand Mr Spencer enacting the usual cutthroat role he tills in so life like a manner Cummings Mr Young Mrs Cummings and Miss Whitney make up the remainder re-mainder of the strong cast The Careless Amateur Orchestra makes its second appearance with the Club on the above named occasion occa-sion under Mr Careless the members mem-bers have been hard at work since they were last heard and on Friday they give some of the fruits of their labors among other selections Schuberts Serenadesolo for cornet will be renderedquite an ambitious step for BO youthful an organization STAGE WHISPERS Harry Emery is in Chicago J D White is in New York Jean Clara Walters has left the Madison Square company and gone to Ban Francisco Henry J Byron the dramatist left 100000 behind him Jeffreys Lewis was not a success in Australia Fred Yokes has paid lOs in the pound recently in London Charles Beatie the play and novel writer bequeathed 275 OCO Marie Jansen Swill shortly appear I at Wyndhama Theatre in London I Billy ET arson has already left i j Haverlya Mastodon Minstrels and is on his way back to San Francisco The Dramatic News is authority for the statement that W J Coga well is in the beer bottling business in Philadelphia Mrs Langtry closed a tremendously tremend-ously heavy engagement in San Fraucico last night The admission admis-sion price was 52 The Pop company have been in all sorts of trouble westward since they left here they hive latterly been advertising Caaieton and traveling without her to the disgust of California Cali-fornia audiences The music dealers Daynea Coalter have changed their quarters quar-ters They taKe advantage of whatever < what-ever musical as ociationB sun linger around the t Id Calder stand and at conference time that might prove to be considerable KEHAN It will be interesting to note how the Londoners like Ada Rehan She is more American than any actress the English have had from us In the Daly comedies she is the American society yound lady with slight exaggerations a sort of mature Daisy Miller Kews Letter Mis Annie Cannon was in London = Lon-don the night of Lawrence Barretts last appearance in Yoricks Love She states There was a very large house and in all my recollection I never saw such cheering applauding applaud-ing and recalling Barrett was encored en-cored af er every act and the offerings offer-ings of wreaths and flowers was somewhat bewildering The Opera Hou = > e Silver Band newly uniformed will be the principal I prin-cipal feature of Fridas procession the Fort Douglas Band will probably prob-ably be the only other organization engaged the Firemen play ac the lake the Sixth Ward Band go to Og den and the Careless Orchestra will be heard in the Theatre The Tenth and Sixteenth Ward bands are disc engaged Emelie Melville has again mounted the high road to success She recently essayed the role of Carmen in Australia and so popular was the impersonation that the piece had a three weeks run up to last arcoonts and was thought to be good for three weeks more The press claims that she may now essay beyond the domain of comic opera with fearless confidence The comic opera for which Mr William D Ho wells is ta supply the libretto and Mr George Henschel the music will have a characteristic title as it is to be called A Sea Change or Loves Stowaway The name gives but slight indication of the plot but it is sure to prove interesting in-teresting after Mr Ho weJle dramatic dram-atic success and those most familiar with Mr Henschels work predict an equal degree of merit fir his part of the undertaking A member of the Opera House Silver Band handed us with a smile a clipping from the Tribune wherein is stated that next to the Fort Douglas Band ranks the Firemens implying we suppose that we have no band which ranks ahead of the Fort Douglas The boys should remember re-member that it Is only the Tribune who says this Their position among the musical organizations of the Territory is too well known and too generally conceeded even to need I defining In a recent number of Harpers Monthly there is an Easy Chair allusion allu-sion to poor old Mario the voiceless voice-less Some one whose privilege it was within the last year to hear the famous tenor sing contributes the following HIt was last midwinter In the drawing room of the Circolo Artis tico at Rome Mario was seated at the piano carelessly running his fingers over the keys when some magnanimous person suggested Let me introduce you to him Thereupon I was led up and pre sented as an illustrisBimo Ameri > cano It is such a compensation compensa-tion since the fates deny it to one to be a prophet in ones own country to receive those dIstinguished distin-guished epithets illuatrissimo cc cellenza et ceteraabroad Mario inquired if Patti was still the favorite favor-ite soprano in America and upon my replying that I believed she was leech he ejaculated Patti is no artist She is a magnificent machine ma-chine You oil her and she goes The oil Ecco and he tossed a purse up into the air Then he went on toying with the keyboard and ere long started singing humming hum-ming rather as if for his own amusement a popular street song Funicolifunieola From this he meandered into a Vorrei morir and nothing more pathetic than the old mans feeble rendering of this impassioned = im-passioned melody can I conceive His voice was a mere ghostfaded thin as a vapor but fraught with an intensity of feeling which was all the more affecting because the organ or-gan was so defective At length upon a certain precipitous high note he foundered and broke But again like a true Italian he was not disconcerted dis-concerted Bah my poor voice it is a skeleton he exclaimed laughingly and resumed the conversation Of course this little episode was quite familiar and unconstrained un-constrained We were all brothers in the Circolo and besides there were not half a dozen of us present all told After that I saw Mario quite frequently In the clubrooms but never again was it my good fortune for-tune to surprise him in a vocal mood |