| Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC The Shat hen and Prince and Pauper WEALTH OF FAMOUS ACTORS Wlllard Weibe and Joseph Mcintyre Going to Enropo Oiieninff of a Busy Week Notes The operations of tho army of workmen employed at the theatre will bo interrupted this week by the advent of Mr Saml of Posen Curtis in his now play The Shatchen and by tho New York Prince and Pauper company with Little JSlslo Leslie at their head The audience need be under no apprehensions however regarding re-garding the sealing facilities Thus far all the alterations have been conUncd to the decorations and cutting off the front ol tho stage 4 The odd title of the play Shatchen which opens tomorrow night is a qoinea work of Hebraic origin and literally translated trans-lated means matchmaker or marriage 1 broken The play is said to be of great dramatic strength in addition to the humorous humor-ous element which pervades it and which furnished by Mr Curtis in a role with possibilities for funmakins similar to his Saml of Posen which set the town in a roar a few years ago Mr Frank Mor daunt lately hero with Robson has a rolo in the now play suited to his dramatic ability abil-ity and he has made a hit in it Charles S Dickson the comedian and one of tho authors of the play is also in the cast io Elsie Leslie the original Little Lord Fauntleroy will appear at the Salt Lake theatre for three nights commencing next Thursday and at the Saturday matinee as The Prince and the Pauper in Mark Twains story The child who is not yet eleven years old has been en the stage only foUl seasons but in that time bas made such perceptible progress in the line of true art that critics have ceased to speak of her 1 f ELSIE LESLIE as a precocious youngster and refer to her instead as an urtist Miss Leslie was at that time as she is now under the direction I direc-tion of Daniel Frohman the judicious manager of the Lyceum theater Now York that gentleman having teen the first to recognise and value her unusually rare ability Mr Frohman relates that she was the only child actress he over met with whom a coaching process was unnecessary unneces-sary sarYMrs Burnett saw tho child in Edithas Burglar went into ccstacies over her and Immediately began the stage version of Little Lord Fauntleroy it being understood under-stood that Elsie should creato the roll of Cedric As soon as the details were settled set-tled the authoress went to work on her dramatization and the youthful actress went to work on the story The furore which the little one made in Fauntleroy and which was in great measure the means of tiding the play to its phenomenal popularity itstill remembered She played the part ot Cedric for eight consecutive con-secutive months at the Broadway theatre New York and then returned to Mr Froh mans direction Hedecided to get a play for Elsie and Mark Twains Prince and Pauper was thought of The novelty of Elsies playing the dual role of Prince and Pauper will be ono of the special attractions of the piece There are to be four acts and six scene in the play and about forty people will take part in its production The scenery is to be especially es-pecially effective The costumes will be faithful copies of those worn in the period Elsie will bo compelled to make frequent and quick changes of t 0 tturne and as can bo seen the part will be more difficult than any she has yet attempted In a few weeks Mr Willard Weiho and Mr Joseph McIntyre will ho on their journey jour-ney across the Atlantic They both go to Berlin the former to study under the renowned re-nowned Joachim and the latter to pursue a course of instruction under the celebrated Scharwcnka They will be absent about three years and when they return it is safe to predict that they will be the most proficient pro-ficient men in their profession in the whole of this interior region Mr Weihe has a most brilliant future be bra him and with diligence and perseverance perse-verance it would not be surprising if ho took his stand with such artists as Wil helmj Musin and others of that class Both Mr Weiho and Mr McIntyre have at various times been heard by their Salt Lake friends and two more popular men it would be difficult to name They aro musicians musi-cians of whom the citizens of this metropolis metropo-lis are justly proud and they go abroad with a host of good wishes for their future success Within the past few weeks their friends have importuned them to give a farewell concert and they have at last decided de-cided to accede to the public demands Some evening between the 10th and 15th of August they will give a concert in the Salt LalEo theater that will bo one of the musical events of the year On that occasion occa-sion such talent as Mrs V M C SilVa I 1 Miss Jennie Hawley and SignorCampobollo will be heard It is also said that Mr Nat Brigham has kindly consented to appear The Salt Lake Symphony orchestra under the leadership of Mr H S Krouse and Prof Anton Pederson will furnish a pro gramme of popular music such as has never before been heard in this city There will bQ a numbQr of novelties and if the entertainment enter-tainment is carried out as contemplated it will bo an evening long to be remembered Jkthose who attend There will be further nounccments of the full programmeand it is to be hoped that all citizens Who hare the musical welfare of tho city at heart will give this entertainment their moral as well as their financial support Often in the past Mr Weiho and Mr Mqlntyro have lively offered their services to amuse and cptortain the public and no more graceful compliment could bo paid theta now than by crowding the house on the night of thqlr contemplated concert i But for the misadventure attendant on his managerial career Mr Booth would be more than a millionaire As it is ho is worth probably 300000 He lives simply but js i lavish in pther directions Ho has paid a fortune out in settling his old debts His gifts to tho Players clubland in other directions have been princely Since tho death of his wife and the mar rjage of his daughter Booth has llysd almost al-most entirely by himself and at no extravagant extrava-gant expanse but his hand hus always been ready to dp a generous act wherq generosity gen-erosity was deserved His wealth is t largely invested in real estate Ho owns property all over the country and is always ready for new investments It is calculated that if he has live more years of acUyftlifaon the stage he will round the million point in spite of his liberal lib-eral encroachments on his income His two seasons with Lawrence Barrett t 11 101 as manager were very profitable outside of New York to him as he was assured of a certainty no matter Low the public stood The public stood in his f avqr everywhere every-where Even in this city he drew profitable profit-able audiences andhia position now such that will baa sure curd as long as ho chooses to work Itis not unlikely however that ho will l soon make up his mind to abandon tho stage writes a correspondent He has t threatened to do so a number of times but has always succumbed to the fascinations of his profession and wound up by reversing I revers-ing hisdecision He is not a man of many intellectual resources off tho stage and requires re-quires excitement of actual employment to keep him busy where such a man as Mr Jeffurson with his pictures and his farms can enjoy idle life as well as active Journal Jour-nal 4 Vcr littlo is known generally about I Lawrence Barretts means tis tolerably j certain however that ho has got a neat quarter of a million dollars where it will do i him tho most eood He earned handsome 1 income and saved most of it for many > oa1s1 1 Barrett has no extravagances His dyspepsia I dys-pepsia forces him to live simply and bid nervous temperament forces him to keep I busy Between the two his fortune has no chanca to rust He is an enterprising man I and has a talent for business As manager of a New York theatre ho would be a success suc-cess as long as he did not endeavor to push himself too far up the public That he will oventuallybo at tho head of theatre hero is the trou there littlo dQubt especially as 1 ble that ho suffers with his throat will seriously i seri-ously interfere with the long continuance of his utility as a star Journal votes Jo H worth writing book Carleton brings two new operas out west this fall FortDonolson is thename of the latest war drama Dixey comes west this month with Adonis and The Seven Ages Emma Abbott has a solid week hooked at the theatre about Christmas time Frank Daniels will stick to Little Puck next season but will entirely remodel The City Directory will soon bo here Charlie Reed is with the company and funnier than evor Goddard the baritone is about to open a tonsorial establishment in Nephi We s iall regret to lose him Edwin Booth is suffering from a nervous affection of the knees that fails to yield to skived medical treatment Hedmont will be Juchs principal tenor again next season Wo think sho ought to have done better than this The Lyceum debating society is going to enter the dramatic fields with the Golden Plough or Detected at Last Saints and Sinners was played all last week by Palmers company at the Baldwin This week concludes the engagement The distinguished dramatic critic Nym Crinlde has written a novel which ought to have a heavy sale in the profession Rose Coghlan is negotiating with Edwin Royle for his new comedy drama Quick sands ThQ play will have a metropolitan representation shortly Mirror Mrs Herbert Kolcey Caroline Hill has been engaged to create a part iu Reckless Temple the play in which Maurice Barry more is to star and which opens at the Standard Theatre October 13 Minnie Dupreo the clever actress who played Susan here with the Held by tho Enemy company is with Cora Tanner in One Error next season Ada Dwyer will also have ono of tho principal parts Carlotta Macon who was favorably known with tho National Opera company and later with the Bostonians has been engaged to support Mt s Emma Juch in her grand English opera company next season Augustin Daly told a London reporter that there was only baa American aatress of this generation who cpuid be compared with Ada Rehan and that was Clara Morris Mor-ris Mr Daly was instrumental in bringing bring-ing out both ladies Madame Campabello will arrive here to join her husband this week Sho is a young lady said to bo gifted with phenomenal phenom-enal soprano voice T Signor Campo ello by tho way says he ismore than satisfied with the outlook in this city Franz Vetta the famous basso and Lizzie McNichol tho wellknown contralto aro summering at Nantucket but they return re-turn to New York shortly to bagin rehearsals rehear-sals for the Emma Juoh grand English opera company Miss McNichol by the way is known off tho stage as Mrs Yetta Journal Peter McCourt accomplished some pretty tall workin the past week While his theatrein Salt Lake1was still burning he made a deal withlho Salt Lake theatre to include it in his Silver Circuit and ho now has control of that house In this way ho will protect the interests of the people Who are to play with him in Denver and in connection with the Al Hayman chain of houses time can now be offered for a tour from Omaha to Portland Oregon and back at Charles Frohmans office Mirror The silly storyclung to with affection by the elderly professional gossips tha John Wilkes Booth is alive and turned preacher in the south has been rescusqltatec and once more started on a tour through the western press The ancient fiction is now embroidered with a portentous hint that Edwin Booth is in the habit of making regular remittances to a certain locality This suggestion probably grew out of a muddled knowledge of the fact that for many years a female member of the Booth family was proyed upon by adventurer who pretended to be in communication with John Wilkes and who applied the fund thus fraudulently extracted from the innocent inno-cent lady to their own uses Mirror It is extremely probable that the famous cmposer of uFaustlI Charles Gounod win visit America in the fall In spite of mapy statements to the contrary it appears that he wishes to come Ho has sent a contrao to an agent in New York and it is nowre ceiving due consideration from T Henry French manager of the Madison Squar Garden If the terms are agre d upon Gounod will appear in the great amphi theatre in October conducing performances perform-ances not only of his operas but of his oratorios and other works About one hundred and twenty people will be brought I over with him to apprar in the representations representa-tions and everything will bo don to male his visit one of tho largest musical seasa tions of the day There is no doubt that a widespread public interest would bo displayed dis-played and the eminent composer would be received in a manner worthy of his fame Active preparations are beingmade for the metropolitan debut of Tohn L Sulll van who is to jointly star next season with Duncan B Harrison in the latters new play Honest Hearts and Willing Hands Johu L will make his initial bow as an actor at Niblos on September 8 and will be supported by a very strong company which is now being engaged No expense is being spatcd to make the production pro-duction an emphatic success A nurnboro very clever songs have been written by I Mv Harrison and will bo sung nt intorva during the play by n double quartette This attraction which is certainly one of the greatest novelties of the season has been Iqle in all tho larger cities between New York and San Francisco by Mqssrs Randall Ran-dall Dicksqn and will travel in a privat car now being built specially for that purpose pur-pose by a noted carbuilding factory Journal |
