| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Emma Abbott Continues Dangerously Danger-ously Ill YESTERDAYS PERFORMANCES Bices Corsulr Coming This Week Chimes of Normandy Jra Diavola Notes The condition of Emma Abbott was one of the principal topics of regretful comment com-ment in all circles yesterday Throughout Friday night her fever was high and all tho symptoms grave Yesterday mprniiyj Dr Pinkerton thought it proper to acquaint her with her critical condition and Mrs Pratt wife of the manager and Miss Ab botts constant attendant during her illness ill-ness informed her that if there wa any business she desired to transact or any matter mat-ter of impcrtanco unfinished it would be well to attend to it Miss Abbott is said to have received intimation vith calmness and to have expressed her readiness to go if Providence so willed it There was the strongest consternation among the company com-pany when they were informed of the danger dan-ger and Miss Annandale and others of the ladies were weeping back of the scones Mr Pruette said nearly all the company had been together seven years many of them ten years and they were as united and Tiappy as one large family Tho thought of losing Miss Abbott almost stunned him I and the universal anxiety around the stage told an eloquent story of how the head of the company was loved by all its members At 1 oclock Miss Abbotts condition changed for the better and during the afternoon af-ternoon she improved considerably so that Mr Pratt when seen by a HEKALD representative repre-sentative last evening was very hopeful At 10 oclock Drs Pinkerton and Bascom said she might be called better but still not out of danger They were to see her again at 12 oclock and consult They said that it would bo twentyfour hours however this evening before the crisis arrived Late last evening the physicians held a consultation and when they made a report I iJj was to the effect that Miss Abbotts con dition was very critical Yesterdays matinee was a rather chilly affair The audience was not large andover I and-over the performers hung like a pall the knowledge of Miss Abbotts critical condition condi-tion Tho rendltion was full of both good and bad spots Pruette was of course the feature fea-ture us the count and Annandale though her sprightliness was somewhat elphan tine sang tho music of her part with much sweetness particularly the When Im by Thy Side ballad Mr Broderick was good as the miser but we have seen the part better acted Mirella as Serp lette looked better than she sang and Pache the tenor 1 was about as bad as they are made Tho choice little quintette Cold Sweat is on My Brow was made ridiculous by his singing off key and something scarcely less absurd were the chimes in the orchestra orches-tra there was not a note that wasnt from a quarter to half a tone off and how that leader could smile through it all is something some-thing beyond tho ken of man to compre hend if if Tho performance of Fra Diavolo last evening went before a rather light audience L audi-ence it could hardly help being somewhat I depressing Pruetto as a rednosed ruffian again showed hi3 decided makeup talents and he and Broderick made all tho life of the show Annandale made a good Lady Allcash indeed wo heard the music of the part for the first time as previous delineators delinea-tors have mostly been Clara Wisdoms who could only walk through the lines and cut the music The best musical number of night was Brodericks magnificent render ing of tho introduced song of The Wolf Michaelena sang better than he has yet done Miss Mirella only made a passable heroine Tomorrow tho company go to Proo where they do Tho Bohemian Girl thence on to the Colorado circuit opening in Denver on the 12th Salt Lake city theatre goers will have four nights of spectacular burlesque this week beginning on next Wednesday evening even-ing January The attraction will be E E Rices famous extravaganza the Corsair Cor-sair a piece which as yet bas never been presented in this city The play which is in three acts and ten scenes is supposed to be a burlesque on Byrons poem of the same name though the story of tho poem is probably not followed closely and can hardly bo traced in the plot and it may as well be frankly conceded at tho outset that we may not look at the production in any other light than that of a stage spectacle But wnen the author of Evangeline starts out to do the spectacular something is pretty generally sure to come of it His musical compositions are catchy and melo dons and his good taste in scenic effects handsome costuming and mechanical sensations sensa-tions to say nothing of his lavish use of moneyaro well known The piece has been presented in nearly every large city throughout the country and in New York it has had a run of over two hundred consecutive nights Ail the scenery is singularly beautiful but for richness and artistic combination of colors with delightful effects the harem scene in the third act whero ono rich curtail cur-tail after another is drawn aside reveal ing the beauties of the Pashas household in picturesque attitudes has hardly been equalled among the recent triumphs of scenic art All of the othor scenes are picturesque and captivating and the trans formation scene at the close of the play the Palace of Pearl forms a fitting finale to the series of stage pictures The musical numbers are numerous and nIl are the joint production of Edward E Rice and John Braham The company which is a largo one is said to be composed of good material and to be fully capable of doing full justice to the parts assigned to them We herewith append tho full cast Conrad the Corsair familiarly known as the Scourge ol the Seasu Miss Bessie Tannehlll Mcdora the original maid of Athens niece and ward of Yussuf not the first pledge entrusted to an uncleLila Blow Birbanto his second In command but cry far from being anything to others u 00 Charles Udell 4 Seyd Pasha a Turk in fact a turband u Edwin S Tarr Yussuf a renegade slave dealer with a job lot Circassian beauties sir cash in and take your eboiccoouChas J Hagan Syng Smaul a Pasha major domo footman foot-man horseman and drag on man 00 Harry P Allen Hassan a boatswain and a base un 00 n Sadie Stevens Galley boy t I Captain of the Pasha guard f Julla e enac Ganem u Maude Emerson AH l l His t I Lida Loraine 5 bmpdhn f Lieu tenants r 00 Amy Wade Bachshcech l 1 Three Corsairs l H Snowstein Mastapha who put on line > JL C Brown P1r Selim I airs f J Ben J Miles Gulnarc thePashasfavorite reigning beauty though shes knowing Estelle Clinton Zulieiua favorite exasperated alight a-light of other day a little faded uu Lillian Claiborno Fatlma i Attendants of j Nan Egan Babe u f the Pasha 1 I Minnie Packard Jximah L Belles of theharem f CarrleRichardson ObekL V not the harem < Iyda Lear Odaho f 1 scarem ort I Estello DeVcro Otoldioo I Lillian Willard tTaldauu Slaves Carrie Schrreiscr Serena J Lulu Wilson Sol I Four Corsairs whoso f F M Gibbons Lar u I airs are more mu J C C Barrett St I steal than 1 Geo S Horst Do e I coarse IFranlvAaderson The mule fling a whimsical bit of non senseMessrs Harry F Allen and Ben Miles 4 s Many Salt Lskers who know the Sturte rs vent and Gilsey houses and Fifth Avenue theatre neighborhood as if it wero home read with strong interest the news of the dinolition of that theatre and Hermanns new house by fire in yesterdays HERALD Both places were notable resorts of travelers travel-ers and the Fifth avenue managed by Harry Miner had been the scene of a host of dramatic triumphs The Kendals recently re-cently played there and Fanny Davenport who was occupying the house with Cleo j patra had built her hopes on a long run of that play Hermann had lost money steadily over since he took the house from Dockstader who also lost his fortune in it As far as the loss of the property goes there will not be much suffering The Gil sey estate will never feel it and New York already has so many theatres that the loss of two will not bo felt except by the companies com-panies which had been booked there during the winter and spring season |
