| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Close of tlie Private Secretary Engagement ADA DWYBES UNDOUBTED HIP I Lost Klght at the TheatreSir KoyV Hand some Tribute Jo n SnIt Lake Girl I Coming Events General The theater last evening held within avery a-very low dollars of the amen ii t the Private Secretary drew ou the opening night The matinee was a fair one and tho three performances per-formances must be sot down as among tim most successful of any in which the Home I club has taken partbarring alone the con ferenco dates The audience last eveDjL was even more uproarious than on the opening and tho performance moved with greatersmoothness and ease than before thou n the first night was decidedly free from hit hes Tho Glovers made immense im-mense hits Len Jr being a host in himself and Leonard Sr surprising even those who thought they knew him best or tho Homo club Miss Claridge deserves first mention and Mr Spencer and Mr Wells next Mr Spencers character afford rig rather more opportunities than Mr Wells which was not so well drawn by the 1 author as the others The two Kittenish girls were admirably played and Mr Young and Mrs Knoll did smaller parts in great style The Grovers feel naturally gratified both at the artistic and financial outcome andare warm in their praises of Salt Lanes crack amateur organization if Under date of the 3d Mr Edwin M Roylo sends thd following very pleasant letter toone of TUE HKIIALD staff You have doubtless ere this seen newspaper news-paper accounts of the recent success in New York at tho Fifth Avenue theatre of Miss Ada Dwyer in Cora Tanners production produc-tion of One Error But being a newspaper news-paper man yourself you would of course 3o pardoned if you accepted the report with a few pounds of salt If such is tho case let me assure your readers many of whom will bo glad to hear of it that tho success is as genuine as if it hadnt the sanction of the New York critics I strolled into the Fifth Avenue theatre last night and wus not long in discovering that Miss Dwyer was tho Jeature of the performance per-formance She was playing a French adventuress ad-venturess of tho conventional and time honored type but infusing Into it an intensity inten-sity very unconventional and striking Tho audieace was quick to respond to Miss Dwyers power und rewarded her with the most generous applause of tho evening und u very flattering scene call in the last act Miss Dwyer reminds me of Clara Morris with the exception in point of appearance of course in favor ot the younger woman Her many friends in Salt Lake may assuredly as-suredly look upon her career with much pride and well founded hopes of great ar Us tic achievement Tho Salt Lake correspondent of the Slustc and Drama bends this chatty letter to his paper of the musical and dramatic status of our city Whatever may ba said of the Mormons politically or religiously and the MornJons are not much different Irom other people when you come to know them they deserve a world of credit for tho impetus they havo given to music and drama in their desert home No town of Germany where music is a compulsory study could show a greater development in the sacred art than in Salt Lake In drama the Utah capital has also been famed from the earliest days Salt Lake city is one of the cities of the United States whose number can bo counted on one hand that b smaintllined a stoclc m panyintact roiii tho old times This company com-pany is beyond the designation of amateurs I for while not on continuous duty the season through it appears regularly on the most important occasions of the yen with the same membership and exhibiting the ability of the best metropolitan companies com-panies At the head of the Home Dramatic club is Horace G Whitney the dramatic eaito of TUB DAILY HEHALD Manager Burton and his assistant Hater M Wells of the theatre l i are also le din members The stars for the presentation given by tho club aro frequently imported as in old stock days In Held by the Enemy n recently produced Leonan Grove sr and his son assumed the leadin paris Arrangements have now been mud for the next i nRapement which will bo at tho time of the territorial fair and Mormon conference October 8 to 8 with a matinee Hazel Kirlie will bo prrduced and 110 less a personage than the veteran Coul dock himself will heal the cast Mr Couldock has bcien engaged through KUi und Erlaners agency and will spend u pre pnratory week in rehearsing the company Edith Clawson of ho dramatic clnb as tunics the part of Hazel ICirke and Birdie Cummlnps of Dolly Dutton Tha entire membership of the dramatic club as from its inception is Mormon Couldock played many engagements with the stock company here in early days and his daughter fa burod in tho cemetery here That one of Couldocks age and reputation should cross the continent to appear on this occasion is no small compliment to the home club I S Manager Burton says that of nil the I things ho svv unfold the opening of the 1 dramatic in San Francisco Scanlan was making most money at the Calllornia and Nellie McHenry least at the Grand I opera house Dixey was doing fairly at the Buldwin At the Tivoll which always booms they were running Genevieve do I I Brabant and one of the most brilliant of j fects imaginable was produced by having I I eltioirio lights blaze out in the pink ropes > which tho ballet used in doing the jumping rope bU5iue > s It had tneeffkt of dancing j amid parlwidfl of lire Mr Burton had along 1 I long conference with Al Huyniau over things theatrical and had the satisfaction I I of hearing that managerial magnate regret that the Palmer season hero had been sburtontd to plve Stock ton and Sacramento I a obance Mr Ilnyman is enginuirmij a I 1 monItiOn production pf > Tni Crystal I Slipper fop the Grand opera house in thq i near future and ho will close up the 13t 11 t I I win for two weeks iu ordT that nothing may interfere with its run After its fitn Franclaco production it comes here In entirety Ii I Ail Cache county is reported to he in a fever of expectancy over the opening of i their handsome opera house at Lpgqn this week A lujrge excnr ion party will Usjuc1 the Honm Club Company from here Thura day urorniiiK H Jd by thqEncmv and Confusion wiji bo played with ti e itum t I tVful casts with vhicjli bfV Web rendered lieip and the Fart Dunglas people have ajibii loaned most of UM uniforms and nc couiremonls of yar for tone lirstnauted plnv The regular price to prevail at the new bnuho in the f utuie from fijCQ to Edo vjlQ ti keu for the ontra emcnt and tie reserve SQ begins next WeUnesilttv ill 1 Lqpan lila hoH q coat s WOO and 111 tho 1riot in the territory ta be entirely hlgq4 I by electricity I QiHettB9 adaptation from the German II All the Comforts oC Home was produced in Now York last Monday night Miller and Maudio Adams woro in the cast The only report of the piano we have seen is ip the New York ZlernJcf which calls ita fair success says Mr Millqr was not at hame in his part and adds Streaks of < > Shenandpah all through Mr Millers work The YQung matt never 8 seems quite himself unless J in a situation where he is saying love youH in the throatiest of throat tones top wjmpering iftamw ii aliortwaisted gpwn I suppose though t thats the natural sprt ot thing tor an actor taclo vyhon making j mak-ing love to f pretty lf fiirl as Miss Adams She remindg ° n Qr sweet little Temnest I up v at Palmers J u I William Gillette the flrnmatif nntVnr t I who may be said to bo now in the ucontido I of f his success Is confined to his home at Hartford Connecticut a very sick man i He is Buffering with some complaint of the stomach and the physicians say his condition condi-tion is rely serious if not > critical The illness comes upon him at a time when authors thors desire to bo in health could scarcely bo stronger He has had in hand for some months and contemplated spending 30000 upon a spectacle Ninety Days After Date which was to have its first production produc-tion at Nibloa theatre about this time Owing to sickness which suddenly pros tratcd him the preparations for the spectacle specta-cle had to bo alatiuoned His Held by the Enemy is still Jn reat favor with people who are fond of war plays and his Private Secretary recently ojuvcnated is delighting large audiences wherever it is played His most recent work and the in which he takes n special pride is the neW comedyfarce inspiration for which he found in the German Ger-man source It is quaintly styled All the Comforts of Home and will have its first metropolitan production at Proctors thea tru to morrow night Mr Gillette hw all IonS been anxious to Witness this production but the physicians vill not permit him to make the trip to lTew York and he curtain will ring up on the farce with the author many miles away It reminds us of Tom Hood to bear I tint tCr C Gillette wrote some of the funniest im s of the new play while in his sick bed Ho has the sympathy of the entirn profession fession in his illness and hearty wishes for speedy recovery Yesterday MrCharles Vohmanand Hurry A Rockwood went to Hartford to meet Mr Gillette whom they lad not seen for six months Journal General Notes Fred Warde opened his season last week The Still Alarm is tho next attraction at the theatre Charles Drew and J S Greensfelder are among the principals engaged for Pauline Halls company Kate Claxton is still putting u the Sea of lee No wonder she experiences so many frosts Ogdens new opera house is being pushed They claim a seating capacity of lSOO for tho building Marcus Mayer has arranged with Sardou to give Fanny Davenport the American refusal re-fusal of all his plays Thos Harris the venerable doorkeeper is seriously ill and has not been at his post for several nights The Kendalls have forwarded their congratulations con-gratulations to Young fciothern on the success suc-cess of his Maister of Woodbarrow The Lyceum Dramatic company make their first appearance on the 24th reader lug The Golden Plough in the Twenty first ward meeting house Marie Wainwright will include The Honeymoon in her reportory this season It m1ht be thought it would be full of unpleasant un-pleasant reminders Actors who kick at salaries nowadays Will be interested to learn that Garricks weekly wage in the London stocK was about eighty dollars The Choral meets again tomorrow night and the members will rally with avidity to the Summer glee Mr Stephens hopes to work tho membership up to 600 during the season Lawrence Barretts repertory for tho coming year will include Reminie Yor bits Lovo and Davld Garrick Minna Gale will still continuo to be leading lady for Messrs Booth and Barrett The clover performance of 1 Billee Taylor Tay-lor which made such a bit under Mrs Williamson in the summer is to be repented re-pented en tho 2Jth Ardio Cummings will nave a part and Spencer Squires has been reengaged at frightful expense The critical acumen of the Evening Times is illustrated by its notice of the Private Secretary lasteveninc he Tribune af the morningerred in crediting Miss Claridges work to Mrs Snell The Times gravely made tho same blunder This could hardly have been a coincidence Tho physicians say that George S Knight can live but a short time He is not insane but he has lost the power of speech and one side of his body is at times I almost useless His mental powers are nearly prone at timej he talks like a child I Ho fully realizes hia sad state lid seems to be waiting with resignation for the end I Examiner I Mr Edwin Booth was unable to attend the meeting of the board of trustees of the I Actors Fund yesterday because be is con yosterday lined by illness to his apartments at the Players club He will bardly be able to attend the funeral on Wednesday of his friend and oldtime manager Uncle Ben Baker Mr Booth has not been in good health for some time although at no time has his indisposition taken a very serious turn His physicians think he will soon recover his accustomed health ffew York Herald Oth |
