Show I DEAM1TIO AND LYRIC The Duff Opera kfrnpany i Next Week iI i I I LtIiDIN RUSSELL A1BSEGlllN j Oonfocenco Theatricalsbuffs Three Operas JLntest JTfcoatrlcal i Notes J 1 T here 158 dearth of enmsements J local circles just now the quiet would have beenbreken by thetHeme Club iat After Dark i sometime this week but for the invitation they received to go to Coaiville As it i all their spare tim ha been put in rehearsing The Greek Lanes and Confusion for Conference 1 presentation Wednesday Thursday and Friday and After Dark has been shrived till later in tb < e month Bishop Gluff who was in t01 yesterday sajs thai CoalvXle is onfth tipit e ofiCj m = p1 ctency over ie Oluts Quit aua he thicfcrthe only dr wreck will be that there will be iasaSoieat room tot s to-t those who wish to attend 1 t J C Duff the stacager of the ii I Duff Opera Company is trying to do for comic opera what his brotherin lav AugBstiu flay is doing for the comedy drama Bramutic critics where tbfc organization bas a jpeared have given Mr Duff tie cred of being par i Ucuiirly strong in hisen embles Csr i jpug the greater part of the scenes tfcy Use for each dreseing the operas to IUeguificen e and with the artists he I t 1 DOI numbers in his companyhe SQlIk1 be in > position rt give abso i ely the best per orrnacices of 1ig tope t-ope a that hare oeea witiisssed here in 1 ll1anv sears i hS Lillian Russell is a very much averrsstl young lady about whom J lltre five bee fl no end of steries afloat but i > c lean > to keep uo an ability and ac sauce and those ape the main P1 > J tue oubhc exact If we remem her rat She appeared in this city be I ot she bad bee seen iu the east with j i t lh Rdomn4 ilreauis Company She ten pwsessed a remarkably good f I ulc though not displaying much < i b tnonie aoility and it ws rather I + < H1d red then why such talent should I be O rupyiug 0 inferior a p sttien in I the Company But she was soonrecog iIi i-Ii pi aid lifter that she a p peared in the I t t with great success and ta day 1S i wrtjoiit qcesiinn one of the heads of I l 5it oj > eraerponents Veiona Jarbeia lS another talented and bright ady Wiie soubrette workhas won for crt t1 t Ll lt position in her profession j Jja ieline Lucttt is alto with Manager I unit She was atone time JSht teabOii I the Dma donna of the New Yor rlsino f > mpRny Zelda Seguin A lady aoenue voice and consciennou stage vork has endeared her to all theatre I goers is too well known to need more than d the mention of her name to intro J J duce her here in The orgnniza oil is also very strong i mitmen J H Kyley who earned oTa J a national TPDU ration as the original in America of ail the leading comedy roles of Gilbert Sullivan is leading comedian Since the production ol The Pirates with which opera became be-came over from London he has been considered the best exponent of Gilj bertian comedy Two of what lttO believed be-lieved to be his best roles he will be seen in here KoKo in The Mikkdo and the Lord Chanc il Jr in Ie Tithe I The fenor is h young society than I from Brooklyn and appears to have capturHd the ban Francisco press an i enthusiast gays of iiiia Mr Harry S EHiiIianl is + a rather Qistii vuf > hed ankfFoo and ha a KwwtHnl ttnor pure and iweet his opening number wassuaR with exquisite taste and was I of course redtmaaded ae is one of the best acting tenors ye have seen IIi II-i Chas W Dungan baritone John E Nash baritone and FraEfclin Baudinot basso complete the cast that bear strenyth on its ace t 1 The compay > appeei P saat the Salt Lake Theatre for several nights next week and will present The Mikado lolanche h and A Trip to = Africa 11 I Dotes i Ttzlt CHARIUXO Enid Leslie is with Helen Dauvray One of Our Girls MARY AXDKBPJ gives seven perform aSi s in Dablinrirelanrt forthe beniefit of the Oha estoa sufferers f A PAR G t PH in the > zwic erjsays Jessie BartlettDavis will go out at the head of light opera organization Gc TEB s WALi Street Bandit WES pro duced in New Yoru last Saturday nigbt and appears to have made something of a success Ejrsas BOOTH is having a triumphal march in Michigan The houses on the circuit are sold Qut from two to three days in advance of his coming and at increased prices Ned Royle is m his company I A R1T R from Miss Adams from San Francisco says she is > busy all day at the 1 tuealjre now rehearsing in Kenneth Gordon Gor-don She says the revivals oT the Da ni Jeheffs the Two Orphans by Jeffrys ew6 ere quite successful THE Ew Yom press is not particu larlycomplimentary ui commenting on Lawrence Barretts corapauy and is is generally conceded that the loss of Louis james and Maria twill t-will prove irreparable to Barrett WSEJT MB and ilre Louis James reached Milwaukee on the 5th to play an engagement it was discovered at the last jniHUte that the stage costumes belonging to Mrs James had been accidentally acci-dentally sent on to St Paul The lady was accordingly compelled to play Bostiarfn a modern evening dress DLSOG the season Manager Palmer will give experimental midweek matinees at the Madison Square This i scheme is for the beniffc of aspiring I American authors who wish to get a metropolitan hearing The first matinee of this deaciipton islo take place in November when piece bv W j 1T Howells will be pluj ed for the first t me I IT J5 said that Bacth allowed Barrett Ito I-to become his manager because he i wished U du iountbing to repair that actors money misfortunes Barrett is I making money out of the contract but judging fr = m the way I the New York paper t ct oak of Ins support since James i and Mane Wainwright left him he is I in danger of loit r ti < in irh cut of one pcckyt > HjjiL puts i > io the other < tJ < t HARRY DIX Y saVs They will laugh at a joie IL London when you tell em its funny For instance in-stance 1 found them receiving some of the bright things in Adoni = i in dead silence i si-lence and I struck upon a good scheme After I had sprung a gag I would tap with my cane upon the stage and that was signal for the chorus to begin to laugh Thereupon the people iu front would say lloih t muitbe fuhnv See the people on the stage are laugh mg at it Then the audience would burst into a roar and the gag would go just as well as iLit hd been in America Amer-ica I of MR DIXEYS engagement which i set down to begin at the EVlli Avenue Theatre tomorrow night promises to be one of the very largest known in th bouse The advance sale of seats already al-ready enormous and the indications are that Mr Dixey will receive a welcome wel-come on his first appearance such as Sias rarely if erer been extended to an actor in America Mr Joseph Murphy who as these lines are written is just closing an engagement at this same theatre the-atre has done a simply wretched business busi-ness On Wednesday afternoon of last week Mr Murphy gave no performance perform-ance owing to alleged stomachache It is intimated that he was attacked by J this malady on looking through the curtain at the audience which f war about as i bad as any verfS een 7nsnv theatre in New York ° ffontweit aHa dramatic T tnef 6 j I |