| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Milton Nobles New Play Tomorrow To-morrow M4EIE AI LEES SAD FUNERAL From Sire to Son Ben Israel Gen oral Review of Dramatic Events To morrow night Mr Phoenix Nobles who is coming to oe as well known in Salt Lake as many Salt Lakers revisits us in a iiev play from his own pan called From Sira to Son Tuesday he does Love and Law Wednesday the undying Phoenix and Thursday From Hire to Son again Mr Nobles last venture is said to be quite different from other pieces which have made his name known The play is laid in California and deals with the vigilante question Mr Nobles himself instead of a character to which there is a strong comedy side has the part of a father who starts out a gambler and is reformed through a daughters love The story is said to be one of the strongest interest and the usual good company that Mr Nobles always brings is promised again on this Visit The reserve sale began yesterday The next event in a local way will be the rendition of Ben Israel as a benefit to Mr E W Tullidge the author the piece It will not be a Home Dramatic Club affair as has been stated though Mr Wells Mr Spencer Edith Clawson and Birdie Cummings of that company com-pany will be in the castMr Ben ERich E-Rich the Ogden rustler having comedown come-down to assist Mr Tnllidge In arrang for and managing the performance The leading part will be taken by Mr Lindsay and Mr Taylor Mr Evans and others will appear The friends of Mr Tullidge will trust that his financial finan-cial fortunes which were somewhat clouded by the production of his Cromwell Crom-well may be strongly recouped by the coming performance With the strong company he has gathered around him there certainly ought to be no fears to the contrary Poor Aimee I When she croaked through Pretty as a Picture and heavily lifted her feet to the tune of its dance on our boards last December we remarked that it was pitiful to see a woman with the memories that clustered clus-tered around herhanging on so long after the world had done with her Her great mistake was that she didnt know when to retire The time was when the news of her death would have rnng round the world and thrown thousands thou-sands into mourning But now the event of her funeral hardly disturbs that gay Paris where she once reigned the queen of so many hearts A cable I to the New York Herald thus describes it HERALD BUREAU No 47 AVENUE DE LOPERA PARIS via HAVRE October41887 There were not forty mourners today at the funeral of Aimee which came oat o-at noon at the Chutch of NotreDame at Auteuil The weather was gray and chilly the church itself newiy built was cold damp and cheerless A t a quarter to twelve a small shabby looking hearse drawn by two very old spavined black horses turned slowly into the Place de NorteDame Behind Be-hind the hearse walked one solitary niourner M Tricou the deceased actress stepfather THE FUNERAL FLOWERS Upon the hearse rested six wreaths two large ones made of violets and white roses two smaller ones made of black and white glass beads and two very small ones made of lilies of the valley The large wreaths bore the inscription A notre amie Upon the church steps stood twenty or thirty ladies and gentlemen the latter reverentially removing their hats as the modest hearsethe funeral was of the category technically known as fifth classdrew up before the church 5IOUBHERSPEESENT Among the mourners I noticed M Serpette the musical composer Maurice Grau M Ohizzola M Bertrand director of the Theatre des Varietes where Aimee made her debut M Baron the popular comic singer of the Va dates Composer Prevel and Mme Sully who used to sing with Aimee in New York The mourner WHO wept most was a pretty little brunette of sixteen Who I was told was Aimees niece The ceremony was the simplest imaginable im-aginable performed by a venerable looking priest assisted by two young Italian priests THE FUNERAL SPRINKLING At halfpast 12 the venerable priest handed the silver holy water brush with which he had asperged the coffin to M Tricou who in capacity of chief mourner also sprinkled the coffin In turn each of the thirtynine mourners did the same as they silently walked around the remains of the once popular actress which a few moments later were brought out of the church und replaced in the fifth class hearse drawn by the aged black horses A few yards behind the hearse stood an omnibus bearing a large Inscription in red letters Joinville lePont FOLLOWING HER TO HER BEST About a dozen mourners climbed into in-to the omnibus and drove off to the Gare de 1Est bound for Nogent near JoinvillelePont on the Marne where I Aimee owned a pretty little country I place in the garden of which her remains wero buried this afternoon at oclock The coffin was driven in the hearse to the Gare de 1Est and was placed in a fnrgon arriving at Nogent about 4 oclock I The pretty little garden where Aimee is buried is scarcely a stones throw frow the spot where in the summer season the wellknown bals des cano tiors take place THE CAUSE OF DEATH Mlle Aimee Tranchon for such washer was-her family namewas able to walkabout walk-about and was in excellent spirits last Thursday On Friday she decided to undergo asurgical operation for the removal re-moval of an ovarian tumor On Saturday day she was seized with violent and incessant in-cessant vomiting her temperature rose to 102 degrees and she died on Sunday in the greatest agony As 1 left the church today her little niece Aimee with her eyes full of tears looked wistfully at the hearse and murmured mur-mured as if in contrast with the scene before her the words As pretty as a picture The eastern papers bring us fuller intelligence in-telligence of the little bout in a Nashville Nash-ville church between Emma Abbott and the discomfited minister As one reads it he can not forbear wishing to pat the singer on her wealth of shoulders Not only for her braverybut for her all woolyardwide indubitable business shrewdness We havent a doubt that honest little Emma was honestly indignant in-dignant at the accusations against her profession and that she gave it to the parson from the fulness of her heart But she is not the Emma we know of old ifwhile she was speakingthere did not floAt before her mind visions of special dispatches to the big newspapers of flaming black headlines of bursting box offices and of standing room only But all honor to her pluck ad or no adHere ad-Here are full particulars NASHVILLE Tenn October 9 18S7 A great sensation has been produced in this city today by a scene in the McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church in which Miss Emma Abbott replied to strictures made by the minister in his sermon upon theatres and theatre people The McKendree Church Is within a stones throw the new Theatre Vendome which has just been completed at a cost of 100000 and is one of the finest theatres in the country coun-try It was formally opened during the past week in the most brilliant manner by the Emma Abbot Opera Company The audience audi-ence made up of the fashion of the city filled the theatre nightly and made the occasion oc-casion brilliant These events and the fact that so much money was being expended doubtless suggested to the Rev W A Gaudier i Gaud-ier who has lately been installed as pastor i of the McKendree Church a theme for his morning discourse The church is one of the largest wealthiest and most influential in the South and utterances from its pulpit have great weight MISS ABBOTT WAS THERE Miss Abbott is accustomed to attend worship wor-ship wherever she may be each Sabbath morning as she is and halong been a professing pro-fessing member of the church As was usual with her she left the hotel this morning morn-ing alone and making her way to the nearest near-est church passed into the McKendree edifice and taking her seat near the door participated in the services joining in the congregational singing When the discourse dis-course was commenced Miss Abbotts ears began to tingle and her eyes to sparkle with indignation at the wholesale denunciation of all theatrical people Of course the reverend rev-erend gentlemau in the pulpit was unaware of the fact that Miss Abbott was in his congregation con-gregation while she had been as innocently ignorant the scathing remarks that she was about to hear From Irreverent jokes that served to provoke a titter amusement from his hearers the Rev Mr Candler proceeded pro-ceeded to denounce the theatres He spoke of the brazen faces In the shop windows win-dows confronting all as they walked along the streets and said they were an impure immoral set He said that in all theatricals every word had a double meaning and was full of vice He spoke of the prayers as offered upon the stage as blasphemy and concluded by remarking that the only way to purify the stage was to burn down the theatre THE LAST STRAW As the reverend gentleman warmed to his subject the emotions of Miss Abbott grew intense Her eyes flatbed fire her bosom heaved and her face grew pale with anger Direct allusion was made to the week of opera just post Said heNow this show that has been going on here alluding to Miss Abbotts opera at this new theatre People have been Injured by it and have paid a high price to hear a blasphemous prayer on the stage That Is the road to hell Controlling her emotions until the final word had been said Miss Emma Abbott rose in her seat and as she never spoke before in the presence of that vast audience vindicated vindi-cated herself and her profession A the first words fell from her lips and attention was attracted to the simply attired lady in the pew near the door astonishment and aKuzement sat upon every countenance A STINGING REPLY The reverend gentleman was dumbfounded dumb-founded but Miss Abbott who can sway hundreds with her acting as si U charm hundreds with her voice spoke < calmly as her emotions would permit replying to his remarks as follows I Emma Abbott have been on the stage since I was 8 years of age and I have tried conscientiously to the best of my ability to do my duty before God at all times and t can defy any one in the whole world to say one word against my good name I would speak of such noble and glorious nnmes as Jenny Lind Viardot Albani Parepa Rosa and other lights of the stage who have led noble and exemplary lives and have devoted de-voted themselves to doing good deeds and who have made noble wives and mothers In reeard to prayers being sung In operas upon the stage whenever 1 sing the prayers in Mignon or the Bohemian Girl the words come right from my heart In all the operas presented here during the past week there has not been oae impure or improper allusion allu-sion and because one occasionally finds vice in the pulpit or upon the stage that Is no reason for such wholesale denunciation which is entirely f rise and utterly uncalled for SHE BROUGHT DOWN THE HOUSE Never In the singing of one of her most thrilling arias or most soul stirring scenes was Miss Abbott accordei such an en thus asUc and prolonged burst of applause as greeted her then and there from that assembled as-sembled cong egation The indorsement that came from the people proved with whim the sympathies were resting he minister completely taken abaci remarked that he would not retort on a lady The circumstance created profound sensation and quiet could hardly be restored but Miss Abbott resumed her seat and joined In the lost hymn and then quietly left the church where she had gone not desiring any recognition re-cognition whatever Note A PRODUCTION of She by John S Lind I I say and Carrie Carter is said to be among the things forthcoming JAMES 0 BARROW is managing the 10 cent academy in San Francisco The gifted Lansing is in the support SARA JEWETT is lying sick and destitute desti-tute in a New York tenement house I The New York im created a sensation among the profession last week by charging that she was an opium wnck Milton Nobles who is famous for giving treas to his company on all public and private oEiiiversiriPs gave a birthday luncheon to his fourteen four-teen actors one day lust week in Denver The mem hears the significant remark Dont ask Old enough to vote Exchange Ex-change BBONSON HOWARD is a peculiarly placid man He takes success and failure fail-ure with equal serenity The fiasco of Met by Chance did not disturb his good spirits nor has The Hmiettas hit set him off his balance Considering his undoubted skill and his prominenco there is something singularly engaging I in Howards amiable modesty There is nothing affected about ftit is quite genuineMirror SPEAKING of Mrs Potter reminds me that my paragraph about her first night house having been bought up by Mr Vanderbilt which appeared several weeks ago has been seriously denied by the newspapers and finally by Mr Miner The statement at the time it was made to me seemed a tifle abs urd and for that reason I took pains to give its sourcj Mr Miner himself I am not surprised that he is ashamed of his tarradiddle now and comes forward to renounce it Mirror THE TELEGRAPHIC report from St Paul in Mondays papers to ihe effect that Edwin Booth and Lawrence Bar ratt had completed arrangements by which Mary Anderson would join their company at the end of the present season and that Miss Anderson and Mr Barratt would form a combination next seasoi similar to the Booth and Barratt company of the present is not believed to have any foundation in fact Henry E Abbey under whose management manage-ment Miss Anderson stars through this country next season beginning in November No-vember 1888 was much surprised when he heard of the report and said emphatically em-phatically that he knew nothing of it New York Paper DURING THE original production of the Lights o London in London the actor who played Harold after dressing in his convicts garb took it into his head that he had time enough before going on to walk around to the Post office Accordingly he put on an overcoat over-coat and sallied out intothe street On reaching the Postoffice he thoughtlessly threw his coat open and a number of bystanders caught sight of his prison uniform A hue and cry at once arose and two policemen pounced upon the unfortunate actor In vain he expostulated his story that he belonged to the theatre was regarded as an old gag and the officers proceeded pro-ceeded to march him off to jail Desperate Des-perate at the thought that it must be near his time for going on the stage the actor broke from the police and ran for the theatre a huge crowd after him yelling Stop thief and Escaped convict and not till he reached the stage door exhausted was the matter explai ied to the officers sati faction he gained the theatre just in time to take up his cuo and exhausted and breathless breath-less from the recent chase he rushed upon the stage and enacted the part of the broken down hunted convict so well that cheer upon cheer rewarded his efforts |
