Show DRAMATIC AND LYBIO The Hospital Benefit by the Home Club A TABSBKACLE JTEEE CONCERT Washlnlton Birthday Performances The Boston Quintette Clnb Late Notes The Home Dramatic Club upon its reapprarance after a somewhat protracted pro-tracted absence from the boards received re-ceived a most cordial welcome The revival of Pique one of their oldtime productionCjWas it goes without saying a pronounced artistic and financial success The time was when this admirable ad-mirable organization looked forward to the production of its plays with misgivings misgiv-ings of adverse public opinion and of financial diEaster but that day has long since past The club by conscientious and talented endeavor has fairly won such a place in the esteem of the Salt I Lake public that its appsarances are all i successes varying among themselves I only in the degree of the triumph achieved and the amount of profit earned The reception uniformly tendered this oreanization by a public singularly well educated in matters of the stag and recognized to be discriminating in its dramatic estimates must be gratifying gratify-ing to the members of the club Tie latter may be very sure when they behold be-hold their houses well packed from pit to dome that tho people are not there simply because of friendship such is not the motive controlling the choice of shows and the expenditure of money it is merit that draws The public knows just whet the club is and patromzjs it accordingly The successes of the club sire to be attributed to the fact that it is judicious in its selection of plays that it includes within its membership and brings to its assistance talent of a high order that its stage settings ana costumes are equal to those of the best companies that appear in our theatre the-atre and that it aways works hard to please The public appearances of the club are too infrequent the same standard of excellence adhered to would secure a much more frequent and i qually substantial recognition Pique is a strong play it combines the elements of sensationalism and of highclass comedy in a successful i degree And yet it does not contain a single amiable and consistent female character it is too long and is not altogether natural in some features Jar Wells who occas ona y evincea tome hesitancy in his 1meva rare fault with him scored one of his old time triumphs as Arthur Standish The continued successes of this talented young man in leading juvenile par smut s-mut have long since corrected tho I opinion of cartain of his admirers that failure would attend him in any other I line than comEdyhis George Washington Wash-ington Phipps and Sammy Djmple were in no respect superior to his Julian Beauclerc and his Captain Blandish The Mathew Blandish of Mr Young was a hit and one of his most successful delineations both in conception and portrayal Mr Spencer as Gyll and Mr White as Djmple the college stndentf furnished a large share of the fun of the evening in a hgbly artistic manner We believe tlat Mr White who was reminiscent of Stuart Robson has scored in this part the chief success of his dramatic career Mr Wilton gaTe his old time intelligent rendering of the doctor Mr Taylor who is always a useful and painstaking actor appeared as Ragmoney Jim Mr Bywater as Raymond Lessing pbyed leading and difficult part in a creditable manner he has improved much of late We have seen Edith Glawson in more amiable ami-able parts and to better advantage than as Mabel Renfrew In the evening performance per-formance her quieter scenes were the more admirable the stormy ones bore somewhat evidences of fatigue resulting re-sulting no doubt from her exertions in the afternoon The dialogue in the second act between herself and Mr Wells was superbly rendered by both Lottie Glandgo as Lucille Renfrew was excellent and made one of the strongest impressions of the evening To Birdies Cummings fell the most difficult part in the play that of the waif Kattch and she acquitted herself her-self admirably This young lady is among the most versatile of the members mem-bers of the club she is a hard worker and makes rapid progress in the art Clara Morris who had a severe cold repeated her favorable first impression Mabel Young though almost a debutante debut-ante plays like a professional The minor parts wero well sustained We congratulate the club upon its success and await the next The house in the afternoon was packed at night it was equally crowded crowd-ed and something like 800 will probably proba-bly be netted to the hospital from the benefit Governor West occupied his box and President George Q Cannon was an apparently pleased auditor I t That professional or amateur musician musi-cian who has not heard of the Mendelssohn Mendels-sohn Quintette Club and Concert Company Com-pany whose appearance at the Theatre ia announced for Monday March 4 must live in a very remote section of America Indeed the club is so well and favorably known that its reputation reputa-tion can truly be called national Boston was its birthclace and home In the winter of 184849 the clnb was organized by five young artists who had recently come to American from Europe and gave its first conceit by Invitation in the piano wareroomsof Jonas Chicker ing in November 1818 The name of Mendelssohn was suggested as it was with his Quintette in A op 18 that the club opened its programme the other numbers being La Melancolie a solo for violin a trio for flute violin and vio lincello Berrs concertante for clarionet and Beethovens quit tstte op 4 If one considers the condition of musical taste in America at that period it must be said Here was a veritable leap in the direction almost without parallel par-allel It certainly was a programme fitted for the most cultured audience which can be gathered today in any city In the United States The club remained re-mained unchanged in membership along a-long time then came inevitable changes but the quality of the artists has always been kept up to a high standard The club made its firstwesi ern trip in lE65 Since then ithas made an annual tour visiting all the large and the small cities east west I1ortQ I and south Mr Thomas Ryan the excellent ex-cellent solo clarionetist who is well remembered re-membered in this city is the only remaining re-maining member of the original club and at present is director The Tabernacle choir has just made a great move which will be hailed with keen interest by the musical public At a meeting the other night they appointed ap-pointed a committee to wait on the church authorities with a view to ascertaining whether it would be possible possi-ble to have the Tabernacle thrown open on some evening for a grand free organ concert A favorable answer was returned and Professor Beezley yesterday stated that the affair would soon be announced Professor Ead cliffe Professor Daynes Professor Kent Mr Weihe and others will be invited in-vited to participate and the opportunity oppor-tunity which so many have longed for to hear the great pipe organ tested to its full possibilities in a class of music in which it is nt commonly heard will at length be afforded t FOOTLIGHT FLASHES MON CoQtJELiN was 48 years old on the 2dd of January MANAGES H B CLAWSON loft yesterday yester-day for iSan Francisco RICHARD MANSFIELD will essay Eicflard III in London MODJESSAS comoany is scored by the California correspondent HARRY EMKBY says he and hialwife cleared up 5000 on their California i tourMcNisn J McNisn the popular minstrel heads the company that comes to the Theatre this weeK AUGUSTUS HILLSDOEFF the acting manager of the Jim the Penman Com I ny No2 is reporteu to haye de Suited The amount of the defalcation defalca-tion is not known though it is believed to amount to over 2000 HENRY E DIXEY comes out with a promise of something new for next season sea-son AdOLis is to be shelved and the long promised burlesque cf Faust is to be proluced with numerous girls less numerous skirts and catchy music E H SOTHEEN and his company leaveN leave-N w York on April 15 for ban Francisco Fran-cisco Miss Mary Anderson leaves the city on the same day for the same place both organizations making the jump together and opening the same night FOE twentysix weeks the Old Homestead Home-stead has held the Academys stage and is still thriving The management claim that 5SOOUO people have so far witnesstd the play and hope to make the number 1000 000 before they take the play on the road Miss PHOSA MCALLISTEE who started out to emulate Bernhardt in Theodora Theo-dora a few months ago has returned a sadder and wiser woman The lions that vere in the cast still live and it is huped that the remainder of the company com-pany have found themselves as lucky POOR old Mrs Frank Rea died last Saturday in Hartford Conn She was buried by theside of Frank Rea her husbanl who died about two years ago They were both Californians and are still affectionately remembered among the large number of professional people who make their home upon the Pacific Coast IT is a pity that Fanny Ricewho makes a decidedly pretty and vivacious Nedjy was overlooked by Providence when singing voices were being distributed dis-tributed May Yohe the capricious I young woman whocondescends to appear I ap-pear in Natural Gas at present has three notes in her voice but I think Miss Rice has only two and three quarters SOME idea of the great scale on which Henry Irving advertises may be gleaned on inspection of a late copy of the London Lon-don Era In this twelve pages are fillea with perhaps all the notices of the production pro-duction of Macbeth that appeared in I the English papers and the cost of the advertisement if paid for at the regular rateswhich is questionablereaches between 800 and 1000 I AM told that Billy Fhrences Fables not long ago published by Belford Clarke Company are meeting meet-ing with popularity and a ready sale This can be easily understood by these who have read the book which contains i con-tains sixteen capital short stories most of them tragic or pathetic Florence is one of the best tale makers in the profession pro-fession His fictions bristle with dramatic dram-atic incident and are rich in character portrayal Mirror MRS LANGTRY withdrew Macbeth last night from the boards of the Fifth Avenue Theater and she gives as her reason for doing so that her health will not permit her to continue so heavy apart a-part Well that is aa good an excuse as any other although I dont think it matters a rap to the public why a piece I is withdrawn at any time It is entirely en-tirely a matter that concerns the artist and management of the theater in which she is playing and no one else In the meantime Mrs Langtry will be seen in other plays and will no doubt continue to do a large and successful businessTruth ON learning that a Mr Gillette had i dramatized her novel Robert Elamere for production at the Madison Square Theatre tho writer Mrs Humphrey Ward cabled over a vigorous protest against the contemplated invasion of an authors rights and the presenfation ofa stage version which must1 hes sarily destroy the proportions of the story by emphasizing what is subordinate sub-ordinate and leaving out what is essential es-sential Manager Palmer on learning Mrs Wards wishes immediately announced an-nounced that he would respect them Preparations for the production at his theatre have accordingly been stopped I CHARMS WATTS at the Feberal Courtroom Court-room Sunday evening February 24 Agnosticism and Cnristian Theism with special reference to Clark Brad ens nightmare |