Show 1I 1 DRa A l1A lC A LYRIC I t A1f rf fur Chances f rthe > Formation 1 f 1 Forma-tion of a Good Orchestra fiHE DALyst j IOW NIGHT i An Orchestral Speculation Vacation Frank Bush Acain Patience and Pretty Girls General News Once or twice in every season when amusements from the outside seem to languish there comes to us with renewed I re-newed force the thought of how many excellent musicians we have in Salt Lake and how rigidly and clannishly they seem determined that they will t + unite in nothing that may give the public pub-lic pleasure But there seems to be a II faint glimmer of something in the future I that points to a period of more promising promis-ing things The absurd leagues that I bound the boys of the Theatre and Opera House orchestras show signs of weakening and we hail the sign as a consummation devoutly to be wished I 4 As far as we have learned the protective i protec-tive league the musicians entered into z has never achieved to one of them the > slightest particle of good and it I has been the means to our personals < personal-s knowledge of keeping many a dollar oUt of the best of these musicians i vpockets Prof Kroase expects to have fnoldifficnlty in obtaining a number of picked musicians for his orchestra in IPatience and we trust his expectation may be verified Prof Carless has i demonstrated that there is material i outside of the two orchestras that can lie made available and this has no doubt Had the effect of causing the organization t organiza-tion toe the fallacy of this hope that musical engagements here could be q controlled by any U Union Why will not slie skilled musicians of the Opera and the Theatre realize that there is money in their uniting drawing in what Went there may be outside of both and forming perfect orchestra that the public Tmfd flock to hear tretSv tlf i st b There Sever has been a time Since our annalsS > f music began when concert giving was mad < t so nearly a regular business and a paying one to the musicians mu-sicians engaged in it as when the old Careless Qrchestra existed and came out witlf its regular series of entertainments entertain-ments We remember the first of the S series was given to something like af 400 I Louse tHe next wen t to over 500 and the third counted up in the neighborhood of 700 Times axe harder now but in our mind there is not the slightest question i i ques-tion that an orchestra such as Salt Lake J I could summon together with thevocal Ie adjuncts which can be had for the asking ask-ing could still draw audiences that I ivouldjbe vastly more paving than the I I transient engagements which now form 1 the musicians means of livelihood We I cart readily count from twenty five to fty men s saying nothing or iroTgESoT Kinne and the material he will shortly turn out at the Fort who are in every way capable of junking the finestior is chestra between ist Louis and San j t Francisco The only thing that is lacking lack-ing is the will and we sincerely trust that will not be lacking long I Since the above was written we have been handed the list of men securedIor the Patience orchestra It will be seen t that besides most of the Opera Housemen House-men it includes Mr Weihe Mr Van Praac and Professor Kinne from which we may hope that the hoped for millen niam is at liacd First violins W Weihe and M Olsen Second ViolinE Eeezley VJola Messrs Pedersen and her dam Cello Messrt VanPxaag and Olsen > Basso 0 WetzeL 5 ClarianetL Kinne Fort iDouglas Comet H A4dous I FluteG Hedger TroI b neIL Case Drums and tympani Mr Oarlson I The Next Engagement Tomorrow night the < curtain wS ascend oa one of the peculiar kinds of entertainments idueli were ever popular h popu-lar in Salt Lake Ike comedy where the ridiculous the pantomimic the gymnastic I gym-nastic and acrobatic combined S are < m iu 1 I a screamiug concatenatioo We only know the Dalys by repute but repute I j v I puts them among the head and front of mirth makers During their recent c engagement in Denver the TribuneRe j publican said S j Not for many months has the Tabor i Opera House resounded with so much S laughter as the Dalys produced last night in presenting their athletic comedy Vacation Whether or nol the comedy is athletic we will not pretend i pre-tend to say but there is certainly a good deal of athletics in it The four I Dafys are accomplished gymnasts and I the fun which they make if anything I y superior to the wonderful work of the f Hanlpns in their Voyage eh Suisse I 1 i < It is not worth while to describe the I 4 S l I plot of Vacation The very name i r IK L + 11 I suggests a lark and this is just what i 1 the play iat least so the immense i i audience which assembled in the Tabor r last evening found it The fun is I i uoistrous but clean and if something j Iii l i-ii nonsensical it is none the less amus j l IIlJr a ji j IIlJrThe high kicking of William Daly f 1 Jr is truly marvelous and the wonderful wonder-ful facility which every member of i the company teems to have of tumbling S tumb-ling round without being hurt is amazing Vacation has caught and we have no doubt that it will draw good houses throughout the week t The Variety Company i Thursday night returns to us the clever troupe in which Frank Bush Valjean Madame Dorina and the i other marvels are the reigning stirs The three or four weeks Leavitts company a com-pany have spent in San Francisco have Been weeks ot unalloyed prosperity with i them and they go hack to the east j Hushed with success and rolling in a ducats The impression the troupe t i made on its former visit was too vivid to 1 be oou wiped out and the members are i I i sure of a hearty welcome from our amusement lovers i t t I I 1 I r Patience z We had the pleasure of listening to a i l i portion of the rehearsal of Patience the 1 I I i other night under Krouses nervous magnetism the chorus and principals lave conquered ihe main difficulties of I LA r more than hall the opera and the first actis now most whatahe professIOnal part of tbe company call pat about 7 lwerityfiveof the prettiest girls Salt Lake affords ana fifteen or twenty male singers make up > the chorus Mrs Levi berg as Lady Jane is proving herself a host and being a perfect reader lends valuable aid to thoseof the chorus girls who are learning ear Mr Pypers tenor solos cause small furores in the company at each practice he is expected = ex-pected to make a great hit as the Duke White and Spencer in the duo Conceive me if you can an every day young man are seen tp make everything that is possible We did not have the pleasure plea-sure of hearing Miss Thatcher the Patience but judging from her face she will be the personification of Gilberts ideal The whole company are working with the utmost enthusiasm The costumes I cos-tumes will all be designed from cuts and will be made as a whole by a firm in this city Ages of Actresses Lotta was born in 1848 Mrs Lingard is 33 Adelina Patti was born in 1843 Rose Eytinge owns up to 48 Mrs John Drew is CO years of age Mme Ristori is 57 years old and is proud of it Clara Louise Kellogg was 28 a few years ago Mary Anderson was born in 1852 and was 20 years old Last month Maggie Mitchell who has a daughter on the stage was 24 years old recently Fanny Davenport is 31 years old and Ada Rehan her great successor is 21A A profane Philadelphia paper reports a ballet dancer as saying that Fanny Ellsler died of some juvenile disease I Lydia Thompson was 18 years old for I fifteen years when she suddenly i became 53 As in everything else she I is eccentric Mile Mazmi the great Parisian ballet dancer her daughter Mlle Martini and her granddaughter Mlle Carlini are each 20 years of age That is what they call a singular coincidenceNew York Graphic The Stage Lilly Post is playing in Prince Methu salem in New York Ben Cotton and his daughter arc plav lug True Devotion in San Francisco Davnes has composed a new mazurka which is about to be issued bv his firm entitled The Adelina Mazurka Emma Abhotts receipts for her first week in San Franciscoseven nights and two matinees amounted to 12000 Phil Margetts will go to Springville about the 25th to play with the company com-pany of that place the drama of Will and the Way Carleton appears to havc profited by Salt Lake criticism Hatch Alfa Norman Nor-man and llattenberry have been dispensed dis-pensed with One of the strong attractions shortly expected westward is The Shadows of a Great City with Lewis Morrison and Gerald Eyre in the cast l The rendering of The Storm by Pro TessorTDsynes SiC Iall on the night of Trial by Jury was one of the strong features of the entertainment Goethe says that one ought every dar to hear a little song to read a little poem to see a fine picture and if it be I possible to speak a few reasonable words Mrs Bowers in Brooks Dicksons 3harbonniere company playing recently in Chicago refused to go upon the stage because her salary was in arrears and McVickers theatre had to be closed Salaries are being reduced twenty or thirty per cent on the eastern stage Pitt the Rajah man kicked over the traces on being docked and Mantell in Called Backhas flatly refused to accept ac-cept a reduction Geo D Betts has issued a handsome holiday number of 1 he Elite the official programme of the Tabor Opera House in Denver It is replete with professional profes-sional pews and contains some tremendous tre-mendous puffs for the Daly company that opens here tomorrow night The only fault we have to find with the Sixteenth Ward Brass Band is that it makes selections too difficult for itself it-self or else insufficiently rehearses them The clarionet and three or four other instruments in the selection played on the stage Thursday night were particularly noticeable as being off the track Mme Ristoris business has been aw ful in New York There was a loss of 2500 last week and these figures will probably be exceeded this week Nowadays Now-adays when a man wants to say that the business of a given combination is very bad lIe observes The house was very Ristori Exchange So far Emma Nevada has proven to be the one colossal humbug of the season Mapleson hied him away last Saturday He is now in Boston where Patti will king with him as his partner and under no stated salary She will receive three quarters of the net profits made an arrangement ar-rangement which leaves Mapleson in i the most blissful condition he has known for years Dramatic Times Ceylon is evidently not designed as a residence for those who are dependent for their enjoyment upon musical instruments instru-ments The dampness of the climate is so excessive that although a piano may be taken to nieces and dried in the sun I as a preparation for a musical entertainment entertain-ment the keys may that very evening I remain down so as to give no sound jStriifged instruments almost fall to i pieces as common glue loses all its I adhesion in that country I No one could aCk for a handsomer i i recognition than that which the TVifiioic i bestowed On Messrs Taylor and OlsenS Dramatic Company yesterday morn I ing The notice was in connection with If that companys performance of Old I j Comrades in the iluslc Hall Friday I evening and the Tribune savs it wa i 1 rendered in a very acceptable manner The only exception that could be taken 1 to the tribute is that the performace did not come off at alla postponement illg been taken until last evening i The Salt Lake correspondent of the San Francisco Music and Drnma speaks a < follows of amusements in this city I He is mistaken as to the Home Club pur I chase The attraction for New Year is j i the HomeDramaticmatinee and evening j in Gilbert and Sullivans latest On Bail Few combinations on the road can excel ex-cel this talented company I understand under-stand they have purchased Wages of Sin Manager McKenzie is throwing himself in improving the appearance of the Salt Lake and when finished it will compare favorably with any theatre on I the oast Evan Stephens lias returned from his vacation in the1 north and will at once resume his Monday night class and his pupils at the University a new chorus by Stephens With SongS Sweet and 3heering has just been issuedjin convenient = con-venient style by the Juvenile Instructor office Mr John Maguire the successful manager of the Montana circuit leaves tomorrow morning for Chicago and New York where he will organize a company to play this circuit He will be supported by a strollS and well selected e < ted company Mr Maguire has so successfully managed his circuit that he has made for himself host of friends and we hope that theround which he now proposes playing will be one continued ovation His repertoire will consist of Little Emily a dramatization drama-tization of Dickens > David Copperfield Daniel Bruce by Gilbert The Dukes Motto Marble Heart and MylesNaCoppaleen in the Colleen Bawn HelenaIndependent The same paper also says Mr Maguire Ma-guire has secured the services of Henry Irving with this part ot its item we must beg to differ Mr Irvine do snot s-not come west at all |