Show AiIAflc I AND LYRIC y The Genuine African Show at the Theatre ROSIN VOKBS LiST SIGHT The Salt Lke Choral SoctpfvEmma Juch at Hand Charles Arnold and his Playlate f > ot g S 0 Thero arc few things so sad as a really bad minstrel show and when besides being a bad show it is a show of real genuino darkies then its sadness passes into the realm of howling melancholy Such a show held the boards of the theatre last evening and kopt the galleries on the yell Tho few parquctto habitues who came out looked decidedly uncomfortable and before be-fore the show was out that part of the house oro a very chilly and autumnal i aspect Lew Johnsons Black Baby Boys I should return to their Mississippi morasses with as little unnecessary delay as possible Robina Vokes and her bright company played to a fair house last evening at the Grand and thoroughly charmed all who attended at-tended At the close Qf tho Circus Rider tho curtain was rung up in response to loud calls and Miss Vokes was handed a Qfing floral buggy whip the gift of certain < railwai officials It was decidedly handsome hand-some and the occurrence was loudly cheered The name of Miss Yokes and Felix Morris jointly or individually will always prove a tower of strength in Salt Lake Whatever play may Charles Arnold has some of the handsomest printing out seen in Salt Lake for many a day We have the InterOceans word that the per formanceis a good one It saj sHuns 4 s-Huns the Boatman is a very pleasing pleas-ing comedy drama and one of the most sat isfactorv nlavs written bv Mr hay M Green Mr Charles Arnold who appears in the title role is a young actor in whom it is easy to become interested and it will be surprising if he docs not make friends with the public in the engagement so lint terinUy begun Tho Dial is admirably constructed is unusually well balanced in characters and is brightly written and plentifully provided pro-vided with entertaining incidents A remarkable child little May Hannan is an important factor of the performance She plays several parts but suggests so little of the couched infant phenomenon in the joyful naturalness of her ntering into tho work to bo done that customary objections objec-tions to child actors are forfotten and one welcomes her presence into a scene She is as bright a little sunbeam as ever gladdened glad-dened a scene mimic or real and will help Mr Arnold with the public Thc sale of seats for this production dftans tomOrrow The theatre management received a dispatch dis-patch during the week stating that the Emma Juch Opera company desired to change their dates from February 23 to December 31 and January L The change was made and this great organization nearly one hundred strong as the bills say will reach us that much earlier than had been anticipated Their 1 visit will with id lb biitm l atl out doubt be one of the big musical fats tures of the season The Salt Lake Choral society which is the name chosen bv the committee to whom the matter was referred meets again in the Assembly hall Mr Stephens conducting and Prof Radcliffe accompanying accompany-ing on the organ The committee will recommend rec-ommend that memberships be revived each four months sixteen weeks and this will apply to honorary members as well No one will be admitted to the rehearsals who are not either active or honorary members mem-bers and tickets for both classes can be secured at the meeting tomorrow night The following will bo the programme of the evenings work Soldiers ChorusfromFaust The Heavens aro TellingCreation and tbe chorus will also look over Noble ChlerChorus from a Russian opera SELECTIONS 1 Crowned with the Tempest solo and chorus n Ernani Solo by H S Goddard Organ solo Selected Prof Thomas Kadcliffe Dcsripti song The RaftPinsuti Bessie Dean Asan evidence of the excellent material which the big chorus includes it may be ftfcJwJ that at the last practice the Sol Ate Chorus vv 5s very nearly conquered after three or four readings It is fie blonde woman who does the mischief mis-chief Lucretia Borgia had yellow hair so according to Grant White had Lid Macbeth who was petite and slight The mischiefmaker Mine Montbizon was a regal blonde Mme Simons blue eyes looked unflinchingly l at the guillotine when the stll fairer head of the innocent criminal crimi-nal Marie Antoinette fell into the basKet Bloody Mary was slight and fan Mane do Medici was a fleshy blond woman though ter hair was streaked with cray I when she died on her straw litter at I Cologne and Catherine of the same noble I house was either fair or stained her tresses to make her appear so It is thought that the daughter of Herodias who danced before Herod was jellow haucd the olu masters made her so those hi born Jewish maidens had the blonde tlntand nobody doubts that Delilahs blue eyes bewitched tho secret out of the softheaded softhearted black bearded giant Journal Ye and come to think of itLydia Thompson w ho is known tohave murdered a hundred plays has flaxen hair and a soft buttermilk eye I Stage Tips Shenandoah made a great hit in Chicago Chi-cago Manager Burgess goes to Denver this morning The Howard Atheneum company comes bore January HV M Palmers company does Captain I Swill on its western tour next year Low Dockstader is going to give comic opera in connection with his minstrel show GenevIeve Rogers the wellknown actress ac-tress died of congestion of the brain at her fathers home in Chicago recently She eU se f I was thirty years of age Stuart Robson who comes to the theatre on the 10th has wired to extend his en pacement to three nights instead of two 1 The Henrietta will be the feature of this engagement I When Wilson Barrett made his first visit to this country there were numerous requests re-quests for him to produce here his original Sivrr Kin but the request was not complied with for various reasons So urgent ur-gent has been the call for this play since I his appearance hero this time however thatiho has consented to produce it at the ff1h Su ioA d Fifth avenue theatre next Monday evening even-ing Too production will be the English pno duplicated nod the play will be put on < y nd given in every detail as it was pro I seated at Mr Barretts own theatre tho Princess London in 18S2and afterwards 5ven by him in the provinces over a thousand thous-and times Mirror Manager Burgessthinks Barrett will do the Silver ICing here The New York Dramatic Mirror has added a now department to its columns This department will present each week the views of some wellknown dramatic writer on topics of timely interest Each writer is to choose bib own subject unless htl prefers to controvert the opinions of another who has preceded him in the series Tho first of these weekly essays appears in the current issue of The Dramatic Mirror It Is from the pen of Dion Boucicault and treats of naturalism tho new departure in stage literature The list of special contributors con-tributors who will succeed Mr Boucicault includes Henry Guy Carleton Albert H c Lancaster George Edgar Montgomery Ehvyn A Barron Clinton Stuart B E Woolf Charles Barnard William Gillette Brander Mathews Laurance Hutton and others It is not yet definitely decided that Mrs Langtry will not come to this country to star again next season said a city manager to a Jirror reporter th5 other day I have a letter from Mrs Lingtrj in which the only news she imparts is that she has secured a London theatre for the season Her lease expires next summer and it is quits probable that she will return re-turn here Among the female stars of this country who are financial successes Mrs I Langtrv stands in tho front rank Her i profits season before last were91000 and the season before that they were S9t > 000 Even last season with the heavy losses in tho production of Macbeth which amounted to fully SZfJOOO her profits were 35000 There arc few stars lu the profession pro-fession that would hot be satisfied with iuCsjQ retur anj Mls Lanptrj his no 1 I cause to be anything but satisfied with her I I career in this country Jlfrror |