Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Next Attraction at the Theatre B4NDXAM AND MANSFIELD The Latest Dicey Yarn Stoph ° nA lle turu Morrison Coming Uojt Shermans Idea t The next thin at the theatre to tilt against the bathing resorts wll be the Two Johns Comedy Company which appears on Friday vening These vrh I want to know what the Two Johns u wo refer to a Detroit paper which says A large audience was at White Grand Theatre to witness the poform anco of The Two Johns The play is i s modern edition of the Two Dromios having instead of two lean clown i tricked out in trunks hose and tout I hair two very clever comedians in peg I op pants sack coats and Derby hits From the time the curtain went up of me first act to its dual fall then was 2 continuous guffaw tilling the auditorium auditor-ium ovor the mis akes the contre ttiaps the mianaps and the luiiicrou > aitaatious presented Many stiuidm oiatic programmes have been given i Ddtroiti for the declared purpose of causing laughter but few of them hav been so free irom vu ga rity so vod stupidity and tiO fall ot lud as Tae ltv c Johns S As soon asthe telegraph Ust week informed in-formed Mr Daniel E Bandtuann tha < Mr Richard Mansfield and his com pnny had suddenly sailed for Englanu to head mm art Bud be first in the field thereat the Lyceum with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the tragedian loft his cattle ranch in Montana for London Mr Bandinanu has arrived in this sity and sails today on the Umbria Hi received a cablegram yesterday from his agent in London Mr John Lavine announcing that Mr Henry Irving hell he Opera Comique bgauat him until he cute August 6 when Irs lease heM gins he-M Mansfield in order to be ahead of him had announced his open ng for August 4 and Mr Bandmann bad cabled to buy Mrs BernardBeere forthelast few days of her engagement engage-ment so that he could appear before Mr Mansfield as he expected to until < that gentleman gave matters a new complexion by his sudden departure But then Mr Irving stepped in and irrangeo that Mrs HernardBeere should play out her engagement Hauce Mr Bandmann is indignant at Mr Irving though ho says he has the best of wishes for Mr Manfltields success suc-cess which he considers is necessary to Ills own Mr Uanflinann was except on the subject of Mr Irving in very good humor yesterday He said that Mr Mansfield was now not announcing a date for opening He himself wnen I August 4 was announced as Mr Mans fields date had cabled that he would appear August 3 Mr livings action he said was a great surprise to him There was no rivalry on his part and the greatest blow that could happen to him would be Mr Mansfields failure He waa willing to let the British press and people decide on the merits of hIS play and its performance and thought he would now open on his original date of August GN Y Ecrald Evan Stephens returned yesterday from his three weeks jaunt up to Portland Port-land and down the coast to San Francisco Fran-cisco He is greatly bronzed and generally improved by his trip but says he will undertake nothing in a musical way before the commencement of the new term at the University where he will be the musical professor and preside over a fustclass and complete musical department which it is expected ex-pected wIll include Mr Weihe as instructor in-structor of the violin This indicates that the University this year will do nothing by halves As for all the rumors ru-mors regarding a 6000 offer for a week of the opera company in San Francisco Mr Stephens smiles at them and says he first heard of the matter when ne picked up a HERALD out on the road I He saw no one while he was gone who could make an offer and the only music he heard was a few solo by Miss Dean in the parlors of the Lick House and the grand reception concert in the Mechanics Pavilion las Tuesday This was a great success he says thi ugh the chorus of COO did not tell out stronger than 100 would have done owing to the faults in the building r A letter from the other side delivered last night tells a yarn about Henry B Dixey which has not yet become public pub-lic property Dixey has been in London Lon-don for the past three weeks renewing the friendships be formed there during the run of Adonis with the jeunesse done He dined with a titled friend at the latter club a couple of weeks ago and after dinner the two gentlemen sauntered down Eegent street arm in flU enjoying the flavor of their Ha banas Suddenly a cry arose along the street in front of them and presently a pair of horses dashed in sight wita a closed coupe swinging behind them From inside cama a womans shrieks As the horses came rushing towards them and the shrieking increased Dixeys noble companion methodically adjusted his solitary eyeglass and managed man-aged to ejaculate Gadl I If The young American comedian however jumped into the middle of the road and at the imminent peril of at least a dislocated shoulder succeeded in catching and holding the horses till assistance came to him Then tho door of the coupe was thrust open and a certain noble lord very much disarranged as to ap oarel supported a fainting woman out The gentleman is wel known by fame to American readers Dixey same forward to proffer his assistance out his friend with the eye gla < s coolly approached said he thought he had a prior right to be of service as he recognized recog-nized in the lady his wife asked the omedian to kindly forget the occurrence occur-rence called a cab and drove off When the gentleman with she eyeglass eye-glass hove in sight the ladys friend in tile cab suddenly disappeared Next morning Dixey received before rising i diamond pin that will shed many an ffulgent ray of light on Broadway on tia return Stage News sR Lewis Morrison writes THE HBBALD an eloquent letter denunciatory of the I effect from the Dark Secret into After DarK When Mr Morrison wrote he was under the impression that the WebsterBrady people were playing After Dark in Salt Lake and that was their intention till they found thu piece hart been done by the Home Club Mr Brady we feel sure is too clever a fellow fel-low to deserve the name of pirate find Mr Morrison will doubtless withdraw with-draw the unparliamentary expression when Le learns that both his taukefixc and his drama are dark secrets as far us salt Lake is concerned Besides the Dark Secret l Morrison does Faust end Won at Last by the author ol Haze Kirke Notes THE receipts of the Wife for the first w ek in San Francisco were 9275 75 THEBU is to be a colored female minstrel min-strel company on the road next season DALYS comonny will perform at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Strat fordonAvon August 3d CvTnEBiNELEAvistue siserof Jeffreys Lewis has struck a 25000 angel in London who proposes to secure a the sire for the production of a new play If Jeff only had such luckJ1u3Ic tad Drama yismoB OAMPANISI was not discouraged dis-couraged by the attempt mad to al tacit his ba gaL e when he sailed for Genoa but will return to this country in the fall with a company o give concerts con-certs in costume THE original production of Haze Kirko in ban Fraucisco was under Mr lArohmans management and was very profitable The first week of The Wife has exceeded the receipts of the first Hazel Kirke week by nearly 2000 L R STOCK ELL has secured from Kite Claxton the right to The Work tairist r Her for the territory west of he Missouri River It will be played it the Alcazar Theatre and than oi tour by the GrismerDavies Company lIoYT SHERMAN has stray thoughts of getting one of our crack choruses to 4ivj a concert by dectiic light on the Garfield pavilion Get the Stephens people and it would be an enormous go He says he has seating accommodations for 1500 people Miss KATE CASTLETON will leave Castle Cas-tle 1 Castle ton at Oakland California in August rehearse her new play A Paper Doll in New York City end begin her season m Syracuse New York Septem her 21 Mr E RoserbiiUm will be her representative this season SIR WIEXIAM YOTJSG who has lately been in New York with Lady Young is he son of the late Sir Charles Young who wrote Jim the Penmen Sir William Wil-liam makes his home in Canada but during the coming summer he will be eon at the chief watering places of the ountry presenting the oneact plays of his father for the entertainment of the guests |