Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC y 1 Big Week in Amusement Circles DUFFS COMPANY FADNTLEROY Last NightThe Big Chorus Thursday Confusion Con-fusion on Thantsclvlnc Day Late Amusement Notes Patti Rosa is a strong hit in Salt Lake nhd her audience last night laughed and applauded ap-plauded as heartily as tho one the night he fore over her songs dances and general cuteness The matinee was lightly attended at-tended tho night house was but fairly filled Wo know all about Fauntleroy out here but that will not prevent our packing the house atthe Grand this week when it comes back Wallio Edinger more tho pity is not with the company but the children who are are among the best exponents of the part A Now York paper has this to say about Mrs Burnetts struggle to introduce Fauntleroy to the stage and to the public pub-lic The wonderful metropolitan success of Little Lord Fauntleroy is a splendid vindication and triumph for I Frances Hodgson Burnett After she had written the play she endeavored in vain to induce a New York manager to produce it The man who langhea at it rfSit scornfully was T Henry French He is a son of the man who made a fortune by printing plays and he has added largely to his own means by investments invest-ments in the Grand opera house and the new Broadway theatre Mrs Burnett being be-ing extremely desirous of obtaining a pub He hearing for her play finally in despair offered it outright to French for SlOOO He refused it at any price The plucky little woman although rebuffed was not dismayed dis-mayed She went to London succeeded in having her work produced and won instant success Then the American managers I tumbled over one another in their haste to secure the rights to Little Lord Fauntle j roy for this country i An American play by an American woman wo-man was one thing but any play with the I stamp of London approval upon it was I j quite another thing Then came the little I womans revenge She set a price upon her dramatic wares which made the New York managers stand aghast French was I the first to recover his breath He saw a chance to get ahead of his fellow managers and he acceded to Mrs Burnetts terms Now it is crowding the new Broadway I theatre with audiences such as that house of amusement has never held No limit is fixed for the run Mrs Burnett is said to I have made already 20000 on Little Lord Fauntleroy 9000 on Sara Crewe has I I been paid 15000 for her new novel by the Banners and a heavy sum for her story in St Xlcholat It is said that she can earn I dearly fifty thousand dollars a year with her pen 1 4 5herJ was the oldtime rally of messenger messen-ger boys on the steps of the theatro at daybreak day-break yesterday and at the opening of tho I window at 10 oclock there was a regular cru3h The opening night will be an immense I if the I mense one and the others equally so oncra catches on as it is expected to The sqjf of the opera Paola as presented by j tio Duff Opera company at the Salt Lake theatre tomorrow night is bright and I humorous Unlike the arguments of some of the comic operas of today the audience can follow it and see it work out to an intelligent in-telligent conclusion Tho dialogue at all times is witty there is no straining aftereffect after-effect The plot is laid in Corsica where some centuries before the story begins a member of a tribe of barbarians insulted a member of another tribe The result of the quarrel was the murder of one of tho I participants after a lapse of centuries tho story as told in Paola begins It is a time honored fact that the elder branches of the family arc tho ones to whom the hOIJor or keeping up tbs vendetta is given Fifteen I years previous to the opening of the play the heads of the families had died and the I loung heirs sent to Franco to be educated I Here th y become warm friends and we sec them in Act 1 just returned I together to their names in I Corsica Sapolo Baroni and Lucian Carols are these men who by their supposed sup-posed right of birth are the ones to keep up the feud between their two bloodthirsty families Lucien Caroli is met by his mother and kinsmen and Sapolo Baroni is greeted with joy by his supposed uncle Braggadocio and his relative info Both I of these young men are informed of the feud existing between the Barouis and Carolis and much to their disgust learn that they are the parties to whom tho sacred honor of carrying out the vendetta I is entrusted Finding that if they refuse to try and kill each other they themselves will be dispatched by their loving kinsmen kins-men they feign undying hatred and determine I de-termine to keep up tho deception till they cite sneak away In the meantime Lucien anu Paola Sapolos sister have learnt to love one another and Sapolo himself has I fallen in love with Chillina another Corsican Cors-ican belle and with womans wit Chilliua seek how she can best save her lover I Finally she brings a body of soldiers to where tho two families have re retired for the more easily carrying out of their murderous plans This winds up II everything satisfactorily and the feud is closed forever by the intermarrying of tho the two families It can safely be said that I very few organizations are as complete in every detail and as strong in musical talent as the one Mr Duff brings here Such i names as Digby Bell Mark Smith Frank j 1 Pearson Joseph W Fay F W Oakland Geortrine von Januschowsky Laura Joyce Boll Katie Gilbert are more than sufficient guarantee of a fine performance Digby Bell in the part of Sapolio has a chance for a great deal of very good comedy work and I has made a great hit everywhere in his song In This my NativeLand Every ¼ here this season Paola has been a sue VJess Mr Duff organized this company for an especial engagement of two months at the Baldwin theatre San Francisco and theatregoers should take this opportunity of seeing two operas well mounted and performed per-formed A large chorus and incidental ballet are a very important feature in this opera On Wednesday and Thursday nights A Trip to Africa will be put on at the request of the manager of the theatre the-atre as it met with such marked success tjo seasons ago when played hero by Mr D Tho backing out of Mr Barnes of New York has left Thanksgiving day vacant at the theatre and tho date has been tendered the Homo Dramatic club to fill jThe club had nothing new by them except 1 Held by the Enemy which could not bo prepared on such short notice and the only thing to do was to give a revival of one of i their old pieces Harry Dixey and Nat Goodwins Confusionwhieh the club presented with so much success about two years agohas been chosen and will be given as a matinee and night performance on the coming holiday The cast has not been definitely arranged but will be about as follows Christopher Blizzard Mr Spencer Mortimer Mumpleford Mr Wells Jimas Mr Young Rupert Mr Claws lr Jones Mr Evans Muzzle Mr Barlow Lucretta Trickleby Lottie Claridge Maria n n Birdie Cummings Rose Nettle Sad Violet Ivy Clawson The Pug The Bab The Assembly hall has been kindly granted for our singers to meet in and Thursday evening next at 730 every love of music who is capable of taking part in i good chorus singing should be presentfor line hall containing a grand instrument being secured tho attendance of the singers sing-ers is tho onlv thing now necessary to 1 start at once in full blast Stephens since returning from his sad errand north has been doing all in his power to have everything every-thing prepared for a most interesting meeting Copies of the Soldiers Chorus from Faust have been telegraphed for and the society will at once attack its stirring strains The idea of having one or two selections from soloists will be carried out and Walter Lamcreaux the Logan basso who has been some time under Stephens training will sing No Surrender Surren-der and probably the Martha quartette quar-tette will sing tho beautiful GoodNight Good-Night from that opera The chorus will also sing one or two of the Gilmore cho rues We are simply going to have a treat every Thursday night for the season and we do not doubt that all singers who desire to see A Trip to Africa will arrange I ar-range to attend the opera Wednesday night so as to leave the society night with nothing to conflict Music and the Drama Sophie Eyre is starring in The Witch in San Francisco Jack White writes from New York that the JeffersonFlorence production of the Rivals is a revelation Wilson Barrett puts in three nights at the Grand in this city Lot us have the Silver King on one of the nights Owing to the illness of a principal soloist solo-ist Mrs Hamiltons next organ recital has been postponed to a week from Tuesday It is not known at this writing whether b4 I 1I1t11il 1I f i I l I or not Wyndham comes to Salt Lake The frost he experienced before may deter him Emily Uigl fainted on the stage of the California theatre San Francisco last Wednesday and the audience was dismissed in consequence Mrs James G Elaine Jr is still prostrated pros-trated and under the care of physicians Recovery seems a lone way off but she bears her affliction bravely Mr Dunne the lucky husband of Patti Rosa and the gentleman who does tho I Frenchman in Bob was a member tho oldtime stock company in this city The wellknown actor Geo Boniface I who has just returned tram an Australian I tour with Katie Putnam is traveling with the Patti Rosa and will join them in Denver I Den-ver He says the tour in Australia was only soso Sharp the cornettist of the theatre orchestra or-chestra has imported a rare Besson cornet at a cost of S130 it is elegantly engraved and triple silverplated and Mr Weihe says its tone is as fine as any cornet he ever heard Lillian Grubb is back in this city looking I look-ing as pretty as ever but much thinner her long siege of illness having told on her It is quite probable that she will sign a contract to play or sing at some New York theatre before the week is over Mirror The big chorus is one of TUE HERALDS pet ideas and we earnestly trust it will start out with a boom Thursday night Our vocal soloists of all shades and both sexes should see to it for the credit of the town that their names promptly enrolled enroll-ed on the list Louise Dillon the popular soubrette submitted to a painful surgical oparation a short time ago It was successful and she is now well advanced toward recovery and is able to see her friends at Dr Man dcs private hospital No IS West Forty fifth street New York Richard Mansfield was formerly a dry goods clerk iu Boston a fact of which it is said he is not ashamed On Saturday in sending for tickets to the Dry Goods Clerks associations annual ball Mr Mansfield Mans-field expressed his desire to give on his next visit to Boston a benefit performance for that organization Something may be said of the Hamlet It was a gala night for the Booth season and revived for one evening the expectations with which the season opened at the Broadway Broad-way The charm of it was not in Mr Booths familiar Hamlet so much as in Modjeskas unfamiliar Ophelia Nothing she has done this season came so near to replacing her in the good opinions of her innumerable friends At all events nobody no-body ever saw Ophelia so beautifully dressed and nobody ever saw the great pathetic mad scene so pathetically done Nym Crinkle |