Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC On the Rio Grande and Its Cheerless Fate HERMANN AND JOE GJ BIER A Sorry Ontlook Promised Attractions = Attrac-tions Melvilles Fall The Concert Con-cert General Xotes That combination of hyphens the LambPriceJordan troupe wound ups up-s rather cheerless engagement yesterday yester-day afternoon and evening We know of few lots harder than that of a company com-pany a thousand miles from home amid utter strangers playing to nothing noth-ing but empty benches and daily picking pick-ing i up those barometers of public feeling feel-ing the newspapers only to find therein cold welcomes or downright slatings If we could ever forget what the public expect and have a right to expect of us we would surely be inclined in-clined on these occasions to lie just a little and inveigle someone in to fill up those benches But reputation thou hit h-it be a bubble is a thing to be guarded and the cold stark nnpleasant sounding sound-ing truth must be uttered Besides that there is the consideration that these people are grown up and ought to know better and the other considera tion which is not a little irearousing that these people class us with the genus sucker or they would not boldly attempt to palm off such stuff upon us as On the Rio Grande and expect us to believe the people performing it are actors So we are emboldened to say that Salt Lake has gone a little past that notch that the walls which have echoed to the voices of Julia Dean Edwin Adams McCullough Couldock and the other shadowy notables of the padt will listen coldly to such false buncombe as that with which On the Rio Grande is crammed II A man may steal with his hands and still have an honest heart heroically exclaims the leading man Texas is a big State and must be populated says a broom in the presence pres-ence of his bride when they are seeking ior a marriage license A horse thief is pursued by vigilantes his animal killed by a shot and he falls through a window into a strange dwellingthat of one of Jjis enemies bythe wayand exclaims Thank heaven am safe or something some-thing of that sort These are only samples of the idiosyncracies with which the play is crowded We are sorry for the people concerned in it though several sev-eral of them are sorry actors but the hand of death is upon it and nothing can save it from destruction TUESDAY night Herrman tho original and only comes to the Theatre The sensation of the hour now is the vanishing van-ishing lady trick and of this performance perform-ance contemporary says The great disappearing of a lady in full view of the audience is simply marvelous A curtain hangs at the back of the stage a few feetsay threein front of this he spreads an open newspaper on the ground on this he places an ordinary leas chair He then leads his wife from be hind the curtain seats her on the chair and holds up before his audience a light silk veil in foulard With this he proceeds to cover the sitter and as it is narrow it does not fall over her back but both sides are quite hidden from view An instant after He whips off this envelope with magical rapidity and the chair is empty Never have 1 seen such an illusion as this The newspaper remains intact and besides be-sides I am assured on good authority that the trick is not effected by means of a trap Its success is stupendous and all Paris is rushing and will rush for months to witness with wonder and admiration this newest manner of get ting rid of a wife Herrmsn will make a fortune by the operation JOE GRISMER and PhebeiDavia return this week and give us a taste of the line of drama of which theyare such able exponents On their last visit here Called Back made a very strong impression impres-sion and as hits of this sort are always good stock in trade we think it will draw well again next Thursday evening eve-ning The Monte Cristo of < ihe company is too well known to need mention The Field of Honor or RethsDevotion is the military drama which was put up for a ran during the visit of the G A R to Sag Francisco and has been seen in this cdy From the character of the printing however it is sure to be of a popular sort PROF KEOUSE places the programme for his first subscription concert in THE HERALD today and a glance over the thirteen numbers which make it up will show that he has labored herd to give a high class and artistic entertainment The date is cue week from Tuesday Lovers of music will see names and numbers Both on the programme which will fully warrant their patronage A largesale has already been guaranteed on the subscription list THIS is the day of the shattering of idols and another that Salt Lake held high has fallen from its pedestal It had been tottering for some tire however how-ever and the announcement will not create much surprise The following is taken from the News Letter Emily Jtfelville opens the Criterion Theatre Sydney with the opera of Falka Her voice is almost gone and she does not seem to improve in other respects being stiR as extravagant as ever She has had a romantic career since she vamoosed from San Francisco with Tom Caselli whom she afterwards buried in Brisbane Queensland and during her stay in that city made daily pilgrimage to his tomb On her return to Melbourne she contracted an engagement engage-ment both o ° a business and private nature with a Mr Budd a Melbourne j solicitor who after dropping hio little all retired from the firm She shortly afterwards left for India and on Her re turn we find her the morganatic bride of Signer G Verdi of Milan otherwise known as Bill Green of New York City in operatic baritone This union has been blessed pith offspring and all three are happy CnARLIE HEED and Alice Harrison have not made a decided hit with Litte Jack ShepPlrd San Francisco PATTI gives foal concerts in San Franciscoopening next Friday evenine Seats are G and 5 Boxes 60 50 30 and S25 MME NEVADA and Mile iVan Zandt recently sang together in Paris regardless regard-less of a rumor then current that each had lost her voice ROSE OOGULAN rejoins the stock at Wallncks New York next season Annie Robe is to retire and will wed a Wall Street broker MARY ANDERSON has secured the Lyceum Ly-ceum Theatre in London for a season of f thirty weeks beginning In September during which period Henry Irving will be engaged with his American tour TALENT like blood will tell The Lady of Lyons was presented at the Clunie Opera House Sacramento a week ago Thursday night with RoseWood Rose-Wood as Pauline and Logan Paul as Claude Melnotte Miss ELEANOR CAREY received the news of her divorce from San Francisco and was married in this city on Tuesday to W F Blood whose stage name is W F Blande He is also with The Tangled Lives Company Ea LEAJiDEB BICUABDSONS Comment formerly i for-merly Byrnes Dramatic Timeshas gone up Comment had an existence of jus lourteen weeks and it is said 10000 I was sunk by Mr Richardsons backers one of whom was Charles Hoyt HAZEL KIBKE has been disinterred and galvanized in England Miss Mill ward appearing as the heroine and Tom Whiflen as Pittacus Green Mr Whiffen makes of that character according ac-cording the statement of an English paper a selfsufficient and aggressive r ass assMiss Miss VIOLA ALLEN has been engaged by Mr John A Stephens for the production pro-duction of his forthcoming new play Miss Allen has for some time been associated asso-ciated with Mr Atkins Lawrence in Mr Gunters Wall Street Bandit which has apparently fallen a victim to highwaymen highway-men in the shape of sheriffs Ex FOB his new opera Otello Verdi is to receive 40000 Gounod received half that sum for his Redemption On the first night of the production of Otello at La Scala Milan there will be a charge of ten francs for admission to the theatre besides the price of seats Besides the above sum the publisher Ricordi agrees to pay half the authors fees about 40 for each performance MB MILTON NOBLES has temporarily closed his season in order to celebrat the christening of his child The idea is guile a novel one and I recommend ito to the kindly attention of Messrs James Barton Frolnnan and Randall Charles Watkins Sydney Rosenfeldt and other gentlemen of genius I have no doubt that Mr Nobles found it very convenient conven-ient to have a child to christen just now because if the truth must be told anc I suppose it musthis season has been of a nature which can only be characterized charac-terized as financially disastrous However How-ever as soon as the baby has recovered from the shock of being christened 1 feel assured that Mr Nobles having recovered his second wind will make another plunge at the one night stands Letter News Letter SOME two or three years ago an orchestra or-chestra was organized in Liverpool from among the society ladies by a viscountess in order to raise money for a charity but it has since teen continued con-tinued and has now become something like a permanent affair At present the orchestra is limited to a string bandIt band-It is possible that the heavier brass instruments in-struments are unsuited to ladies lips and fair cheeks distended by blowing for instance a trumpet would certainly not look pretty But apart from this the affair is constituted on th < most business like principles There are fourteen first and a similar number of second violins eight violas and eight violoncellos Three ladies have even been found willing and competent to play that ponderous instrument the double bass Girls of almost every type of beauty are there clad uniformly in white frocksrelieved by shoulder knots some of pale blue and others of salmon color No Adam is allowed to invade this orchestral Eden |