| Show MAfIIATJC AND LYRIC Close of the Fauntleroy Season Sea-son Last Night CONFUSION AND MISS VOKES At the GrandHoliday Bills My Jack 1 Latest Amnscmen Notes from all Quarters Fnuntlcroy with Flossie Ethyl as the little lord drew nn immenso matinee house to the Grand yesterday Last evening even-ing thcio was another goodsized audience and Georgio Cooper a littlo mid gotthe smallest Fauntleroy who has yet committed tho part to memory went through the role That so young a child should have been able to memorize such an immenso amount of prattle by actual measurement the part is said to contain moro lines than that of Hamlet is a marvel outside of the truth I and naturalness with which she nnrtmvncl tho character The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is apt to step in when this particular par-ticular Fauutleroy reuchcs New York Miss Rossmoro was as decidedly us eve thl nture of tho supporting cast Tho Home club make their first appear ancii since Youth Thanksgiving afternoon after-noon and evening rendering tho Harry Dixey version of Confusion Tho pug the baby and the catchword come to town at once your baby is worse will bo in everyones mouth again as they were on the former successful presentation two or three years ago We r ° 1 certain degree of sympathy for Mr huff He has evidently spent n good deal of money on his present company but ho seems to have spent it rather recklessly His chorus and principals are gorgeously costumed and are quito heavy as to num hers bu somehow there is a painful lack Qf anything pronouncedly brilliant in a singing direction The difference between tho old company and the new will we fear bu made painfully apparent in critical San Francisco I At tho Grand Opera house Thursday i evening November tho theatregoers of Salt Luke city will have an opportunity of welcoming thatmorry spriteliosina Yokes who comet with her jolly companions for a I three nights engagement The Pantomime Panto-mime Rehearsal one of the most amusing amus-ing pieces in Miss Yokes repertoire is a skit upon private theatricals It has no plot whatever but is only and only pur poyfl to be an imitation of the efforts of sop fashionable amateurs to act u pantomIme panto-mIme under tho supervision of tho author UVho muchbadgered author is played by lurtena Thorpe his principal tormentor an irascible Frenchman with his own conception con-ception of his part is played by Felix Morris tho heavy dragoon who cant make out what its all about by Charles J Bell whilst Miss Yokes Miss Lano and her other associato ladies illustrate different differ-ent degrees of feminine stupidity Nono of them can by any chance give the proper interpretation to the unhappy authors lines and their dancing and gestures in imitation of very raw amateurs are equally bewitching and amusing Bronson Howard tho author of Shen andoab is going to Chicago to superintend a special production of his successful military mili-tary play at McVickcra theatre It will be his first visit to tho Windy city in fifteen fif-teen years Ho has a very distinct recollection recol-lection of that visit Mr Howard was then making ono of his earliest successes Lilians Lost Love now Known as The Bankers Daughter was originally produced pro-duced in Chicago at Hooleys theatre but later was transferred to McVickers On the first night Mr Howard was thrown into a condition of great excitement by the leading lady of his company who got so be wildorod in the last act that she forgot every one of her cues Imagine the poor authors state of mind at seeing his play on the very verge of destruction He looked appealingly at tho actress for a momentbut it wa no uso the woman couldnt recall the words Something had to be done Tho author signaled the waiting actor to come on mid from that time on to the end of the play all performers were dependant ulLtiie leading woman for the cues for tbieir entrance came and wont and moved through the business of their scenes under tho direction of the author jsvhffsignaled them with his hand N cegthjly Mr Howard had no hopo that hie play had lado a favorable impression Ho was uuxious and yet fearful to learn something Irom the front of tho house Ho wished badly to know how tho audi dice had received the play but he was apprehensive ap-prehensive that the verdict was against him He waited until he saw tho man in tho box oflicu How did it goP ho asked Splendidly It was the answer Tho audience was delighted de-lighted but the last act seemed to pleaso them best of all it made the hit That settled Mr Howard has always boon unable to account for the success of Use last act butit wa thoroand theio was 110 getting round it Recently theXew York Herald made mention men-tion of tho enormous revenues Bronson Howard was getting for his play of Shen an loah Hr Howard is at present enjoying an income in-come of about l400 a week for royalties on Shenandoah at Procters theatre but this is a mero bagatelle compared with what his income will bo in a few months A special production of the play will be I given for a long run at McVicker s theatre in Chicago which Uronaon Howard will attend to personally It will bo his first visit to Chicago sinco his Bankers Daughter was produced fifteen years ago Meanwhile Mr Hayman goes to San Francisco to put on another prfituction of Shenandoahat tho Baldwin Bald-win beatro while a representative of tho firm Bails for London on the White Star steamer next week Wednesday to arrange for the production of Shenandoah there The same scale of royalties will bo paid Mr Howird from all four productions produc-tions aud an income of botween 4000 and 5000 a week royalties will bt ono of tho satisfactory results Writing American plays would seem to pay after all My Jack is the name of tho reigning success on the London stage It ia a melodrama melo-drama of striking originality with situations situa-tions that aro described as breathlessly sensational and sensationally striking The story is new and unique in treatment with a tender story of lovo and pathos throughout T Henry French the well known manager and tile owner of Little Lord Fauntleroy has tho American rights to My Jack and will start it on its Amor Lean career immediately after the holidays 1 Laxvrcnco Barrett is really paying for I Booths services at the rate of onehalf tho gross receipts of tho Broadway theatre ho I must be losing a pile of money for tho I business there is far from being what even Mr Sanger who is not a particularly san I guiuouian thought it would bo He did not believe in running any of tho Booth reper torff of plays moro tian a week with tho extTlPtion of Hamlet but even Ham et nits second week panned out very I badly There wcro rows upon rows of i empty seats every night I Considering therefore that Mr Sanger himself is secure for a profit on tho engagement engage-ment that Booth gets half the gross I receipts that Modjoska is paid SI200 a I Week not 1500 as stated and that Barrett besides has to pay the whole com1 j pony and furnish every stitch of the scenery and costumes he must bo sincerely hi gao hneo I wishing that ho had not again tried the experiment of making Booth a New York I I success It would not bo at all surprising after the bud engagement it tho Fifth Avonuo Theatre last season and the one now at the Broadway if vre never saw Booth in this city again Nos Milton Nobles is having immennu succors up north Peakes our old time basso is singing at the Tivoli in San Francisco Emma Juch is the biggest attraction that locms up in the near future at the theatre Mr Morris manager of the Little Lord Fauntleroy is the breezy Esor1 of the San Francisco Mutie and Drama Felix Morris will get a wnrm welcome back to Salt Lake especially on Friday lh r1 night when The Pantomime Rehearsal is to be done The Chorus society meets at the Assembly r As-sembly hull tomorrow night All who desire to have their names retained on the roll fhould report The Faust choruse have arrive and an excellent practice iH anticipated Flossy Ethyl is a catching little maiden So far on this trip she has done remark bly well for she has completely captivate two governors Waterman of California and Thomas of Utah both of whom are her ardent admirers The last of the series of organ and vocal recitals at < L Marks will take place next Tuesday evening at 4 oclock A choice number of vocal aud instrumental artist will assist and muBielpvers particularly and the public generally invited The setting of the stage at the Oprl house for the second and third arts of Fauntleroy was the prettiest and best wo have yet seen Assistant Stag Manager Browning deserves a word of credit and Tun HEUALD gives it As often as Manager Al Hayman will send us as good a company the Fauntleroy ono just so often will the theatre goers of Salt Lake city give him a hearty support Manager Huyman has many Irons in the tire but he keeps them all at a glow Fritz Morris the man at the business end of the Fauntleroy compauyposseKse the three qualities requisite for success Ho is a wide awake business man a quick and original newspaper writer and knows just how to make friends and how to keep them James G Peakes the Havisham ol the present Fauntleroy company was here with the former company last spring Mr Peakc who is a member of the well known Peakes family of thespiaun is a clever actor a talented singer an able stage manager and a popular gentleman all around George Thatcher who is now traveling with the Howard Athenaium company io ito i-to be put at the head of a big minstrel organization or-ganization under the management of Rich Harris next year William Gillette Is i writing the first part which will be nome thing entirely original and David Belasco will do the staging The Charity Ball which first saw light last Monday night at the Lyceum theatre deals with tho church and Wall street It i8 a comedydrama of local interest The second will bu at the Metropolitan opera louse during the charity ball Herbert Jelcey will impersonate clergyman Miss Ca van a New Ycrk girl Nelson Wheat croft a banker and Le Moyne an exjudge It was supposed that J H Ryley was the husband of Madeline Lucette until his London wife appeared upon the scene She will l be content however with i a divorce and an alimony fixed by the court so that Syley can then marry Lucetto regularly iyley says he married when a boy and parted from his wife fourteen years ago The copyrights of Boucicaults plays recently ccntly sold at auction in London fur the benefit of his wife brought ridiculouslj small sums compared with the prices at which they am held in this country After Dark which Webster and Brady paid 53000 for antI considered it i cheap brought onlyfdiO I while London Assurance Assur-ance which is public property here brought 7W Arrah Na Pogue went for fiSH and the others for very much less figureswi aid Drama |
