Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Close of One Busy Week and Opening of Another TOM KEENES REPERTOIRE Called BackTII Stowawaj Worlds Fair Company The Men and Women Company Notes The week has been a fairly notable one in the circle of amusements and Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day always one of the best theatrical theatri-cal dates in the year has contributed to still further swell the steadily rising stream of the theatre profits The house hardly seems to know the sensation nowadays nowa-days of playing to poor business The Home club had a very satisfactory season with Called Back and although their opening night showed some ragged places consequent on rehearsals held at earlv mornings late nights dinner hours n etc due to the impossibility of obtaining the stage at any other time the second and third performances brought the club up to their old standard THE HEHALD does not think as an error in typesetting made us say the other day that the representation I was equal to that of the GrismerDavis company What was intended to be said was that in some respects and notably in the details of the Siberian scene the Gris merDavis company did not excel the amateurs ama-teurs Were we to award the palm to any particular actor in this representation we would say that it belonged to Mr Young for his truthful delineation of the Socialistic Socialis-tic Ceneri Tho duD will probably prob-ably not be heard from again for some months That moral play The Stowaway cap turea the town and last night saw hardly I any diminution in the immense attendance The two reformedburglars one of whom was astonishingly announced to appear in a dress suit and actually did so again inducted in-ducted the audience into the mystery of blowing open safes As to how much the falling of that door is really due to powder or nitro glycerine is secret teat the or any other explosive a audience will never be admitted into It is certain that that safe is guarded as jealously jeal-ously as if it really contained the treasures the robbers were after and for aught anyone any-one on the outside knows it may all be as great a fake as the Ivy Leaf sensation which exhibited a live eagle on the street and then darkened the stage and sent a foatVior riiintnr afrQSS on Wires The Stowaway has some surprisingly good people in it considering the trasnness of the play and the reprehensible sensationalism sensa-tionalism of its real burglars The most capable actor in the company is the villain Mr Lynch who is so much of an artist that he must feel a tall disgust with his states prison confreres Opening tomorrow night with almost only twentyfour hours noticejcomes one of Rices big burlesque companies the Worlds Fair company It has been doing do-ing a tremendous business in Denver and owing to some delay the advance man only arrived Saturday to whoop up the Salt Lake engagement The Boston Globe says Catchy music funny songs pretty girls a lot of nonsense a novel and bewitching ballet and a threau cf plot all backed by gorgeous costumes handsome scenery and thoroughly attractive attrac-tive stage pictures go to make up tbe Worlds Fair the spectacular extravaganza extrava-ganza for the holiday season at the Tre mont and which was seen in this city for the first time this evening An extravagant extrava-gant spectacle it is indeed but its extravagances ex-travagances may be forgiven in its spectacular spec-tacular effects which both combine to crowd fun and pleasure into the few hours of its stay Such at least seemed to be the verdict of the largeaudience last evening and applause and laughter were almost constant The piece ran very smoothly for BO elaborate a production on a strange stage and fully justified all that had been said in praise of it It is presented by many old favorites in the east to whose specialties duo recognition was given Bright music i diversifies the piece and taken all together it ranks high among this class of pro < I t nn The curtain will rise at 830 tomorrow night owing to the heavy scenic sets necessary to tho piece Tom Keenecomes back this week after eight years absonceand we suppose his reception re-ception will be something like an ovation He played a tremendous engagement on his former visit a visit which was interrupted inter-rupted by his illness and we well remember remem-ber the disappointment that arose when it was announced that he would be unable to play Richurd ilL That tragedy is to be done on this visit and will be sup olemeated by Richelieu the opening piece Louis XL and Hamlet I r Thomas Wallace Keene or as he is more familiarly known Tom Keene wa born in New York city October 26 184 When quite young he developed a taste for the theatre and spent much of his time around the stage door At the ago of 16 he offered his services to play the part of Lucius in Julius Cresar at the old Chinese building on Broadway near Broomestreet His first regular engagement engage-ment was in Newark N J where he aD peered asa leading man to a popular star After traveling throughout the country supporting stars and acting with various stock companies he returned to New York i in 1869 and appeared at Woods museum now Dalys theatre in support of the favorite actor Edward Eddy He then again took the road and later found him elf in Calif ornia In San Francisco he be i 5 n came quite a favorite acting principally at the old California theater under Barton I Hill and John McCullough He was leading lead-ing man at the California theatre from S74 to 1879 when that memorable organi I ation was at its best He played younger lovers to Adelaide Neilson young seconds to Edwin Booth young heroes in many a cast which became famous after the old company was disbanded Mr Keene also achieved a great success in Chicago and in I860 ho began a regular I starring tour which was the most sue cessfui ever made by any legitimate actor up to that time His achievements as a star are a matter 01 record Season after season ho has forged rapidly to the front until he has won a place as one of the few great tragic actors on the American stage V Tomorrow night inNew York the now play Men and Women will have its fiftieth fif-tieth representation and Manager Charles Frohman will make it a souvenir occasion The Charles Frohman stock company will now compare with any rganization of its kind In New York It numbers twenty four players and is the only stock company in New York that is now presenting an American play Men and Women is by Messrs Henry C DeMille and David Be lasco the authors of The Wife and The Charity Ball and isa play after the same style as their former work The piece will play in New York well into the winter At tile conclusion of the companys first season sea-son which has turned out so gratifying and so highly successful they will make a tour of the principal cities only and as far vest as Californio and Oregon before returning turning to New York again Mr Frohman still directs Gillettes All the Comforts of Home in which Henry Miller is playing the leading male part that too will be out this way before long Sardous new play which is to be produced in Paris December 13 has also been secured cured by Mr Frohman and will be done next season It is probable that Mr Frohman will accompany the Men and i Vomen company west in person 4 oW 4 Signor Campobello and wife leave for the City of Mexico next Wednesday evening where the baritone is under engagement en-gagement to sing ten nights in a round of opera He receives 3000 for the season After that he will go on to Guatemala where all the war troubles have subsided and where he thinks he has a reasonable chance of securing the management of the National opera house which the country grants a subsidy of 80000 per year If he secures this it will be for next season and in the meantime he will return to Salt Lake for a few months stay during which he will probably inaugurate in-augurate a conservatory of music here The professor said to a HERALD representative last evening that a number of gentlemen whose names he was not at liberty to divulge di-vulge at present would in all probability erect a music and lecture hall in this city capable of seating from eight hundred to a thousand and to be located on Brigham street not far from the Hotel Templeton If they did so he would establish the conservatory conserv-atory in conjunction with the hall and remain re-main here long enough at least to open both Signor ampobello and wife were billed to appear in Provo last evening but the illness ill-ness of the lady prevented the trip Notes Music and the drama will be represented in the Christmas HERALD Jim Hardie is still starring with Sarah Von Leer Maudie Adams continues to win favors in the Men and Women company in New York Lewis Morrison is making money in Faust Ogdens opera house idstill forging forward for-ward but whether it will be ready for Abbott by December 29 is stilla question Traveling companies speak in warm praise of the new opera house in Logan W T Carleton will have to pay royalty to Pauline for his recent performance of Ermine in this city the opera hav having been sold to her by the Aronsons Barrymore has pluck His Reckless Temple goes on the road despite its sorry metropolitan experience When Mrs Potter returns to this country coun-try she will be seen in a grand production of Hero and Leander and in a new play of the Fedora type Before opening here she will play a short engagement in London v Helen Dauvray is now resting She will probably be seen in One of Our Girls when she resumes her tour She made her best success in this play Rose Coghlan is doing good business on the Toad Booth and Barrett had an immense season sea-son in Baltimore The Kendals would not appear at the benefit of Mrs Agnes Roborton Boucicault because they were at outs with Harry Miner at whose theatre the benefit came off But they sent 100 for a box a Goodyear Elitch and Schillings minstrels min-strels are to appear at the theatre December Decem-ber 9 dm The variety theatre expects to open about holiday time |