Show Music and the Drama Neil Burgess is slowly recovering W J LeMoyne has a superb part in Sweet Lavender Henry Miller has fine parts in all three of the Lyceum plays Nelson Wheateroft has the same amiable good night with him Edward Buckley will be leading man at the Alcazar next season Tho Mirror reports that actors salaries are taking a frightful tumble Manager Frohman had four Wife companies com-panies ail going at once last season E H Sothern opens at the Lyceum theater August 19 in Lord Chumley Tee Wife is to be played by the Lyceum company next summer at the Criterion Cri-terion theatre London Minnie Dupree a young California soubrette sou-brette is to create the leading comedy role in Gillettes new war play Charles McGeachy is here in the interests of Richard Golden who opens at the Grand August 5 in Jed Prouty Margaret Mather will shortly play an engagement in this city Her tour is under the directionof Al Hayman Charles Dickson Jack of The Wife thinks hed like to bo a star next season so he is getting ready to try and sparkle The ladies of the Lyceum Theatre oom pan will exhibit some marvelous costumes in The Wife Sweet Lavender and The Marquise Shenandoah Bronson Howards new play will come in with a rush in New York next September It will be the first big event of the season Mrs James G Elaine Jr will open in New York next October James G Blaine Jr will go from Washington to witness her performance The Lyceum Theatre companys repertoire reper-toire consists of a successful American English and French play The Wife Sweet Lavender and The Marquise Effio Shannon joins tho Lyceum stock company next season But before the company opens in Now York she will plaj the leading cooiedy part in Shenandoah at tho Star theater Sweet LavenJer ran 250 nights at the Lyceum and 40J nights in London Louise Dillon is Lavender and Henry Miller the lover of course When 1r11 h does not make tho love the play is a failure This will probably be our last peep at Louise Dillon as a Lyceum player She resigns at the end of this season Miss Dillon has been playing almost constantly for nine years and is about ready for a night off Tho next Lyceum play Tho Charity Ball gives Grace Henderson her first good chance for strong work Miss Henderson by the way is said to be one of the best natured of actresses to deal with She takes any part assigned to her and never grumbles There is a scheme on foot among eight or ten professionals in Now York to make up a strong company for the double purpose of summering in Salt Lake and giving one dramatic performance week for ten weeks during vacation They are all stuck on the lake and say they will be content if they can only make their expenses If the scheme goes Owen Fawcctt will be the I comedian of the company Charles F Stayner nephew of C W and Arthur Stayner of this city is in this city from Petaluma where he has been a successful suc-cessful music teacher Mr Stayner is en route to Leipsic to pursue his musical studies but ho may remain in this city or Ogden for some time and take up classes He is a graduate of a New England conservatory con-servatory and makes a specialty of piano violin and brass band instructionS instruction-S |