Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Minna K Gale on and off the Boards THE JOE JEFFERSON EVENTwh Yesterdays Performance Zamerftltla Miss Gales Performances Tlio JUa rlne Band Visit Notes I would be hard to picture a dream of moro perfect loveliness than that whichc Miss Gale presented last evening when donning Ingomars steel helmet and assuming assum-ing his spear and shield she bade him lead the way back to the haunts 9f civilization As Parthenia Miss Gale is almost matchless match-less She acts it with a purity a charm and a vigor when vigor is needed such as we rarely if ever beheld be-held imparted to the character before Every act last evening saw a curtainmo call and though the audience was not large awing to tho stormy night the enthusiasm en-thusiasm was without bounds Mr Clarke 1 made a carefully good Ingomar to be entirely en-tirely frank however we think Mr Weaver would have made a better We say farewell to Miss Gale and wish her a speedy voyage along the road t success suc-cess the road which sue has but just begun be-gun to travel Next year let her como to us with a leading man as distinctly n star figure as she herself is and we loretell i that there will bo no limit to the warmth of her reception Auf wiedersehen i The matinee performance of The Lady of Lyons was a most beautiful one and we feel sorry it was not seen by a larger audience Miss Gales Pauline is a poem and her alternately strong and sweet delineation de-lineation of the scene where Melnotto tells her of the cheat which has been practiced on her has never been surpassed here elias eli-as the story is to Salt Lakes theatre goers Mr Clarkes Melnotto was the best thing ho has yet done though it lacked the ro I I mance a handsome man might have given it and Mr Weavers Damas was capital In the last act Mr Clarke made a striking strik-ing appearance in the uniform of a French general Many people noted his strong resemblance to Bonaparte Mr Clarke is 1 a nephew of Edwin Booth and it is an interesting in-teresting fact that the uniform ho wore was the identical one in which his famous undo last appeared as Claude Melnotte Seated in the audience at the matineo esterday was a middleaged lady who was noticed to wipe her eyes frequently during I certain parts of the play ll is tine she said and Miss Gales acting is beautiful 1 But it is not that that affects me 1 was thinking of the last time I saw The Lady of Lyons plajod and of the people who played it It was about forty years ago or more in the old Social hall only a few years after the pioneers arrived here Mrs Wheolock wns the Pauline James Ferguson Fergu-son tho Claude John D T McAllister McAlster sp played Colonel Damas David Cnndland was the Beauseant Miss Cook was tho mother H K Whitney was the Deschapel lee and I think Joe Simmons did Glavis I suppose the acting nowadays might bo 1 called crude but I never expect to enjoy The Lady of Lyons again as 1 did then In the course of a very pleasant conversation conver-sation behind the scenes with Miss Gale tho actress said that of all the parts she had attempted that of Rosalind was tho ono she loved best When the writer asked where sho got her pronunciation for tho mmo of Shakespeares heroine she said sho had consulted tho Lest authorities be fore she decided on Rose a lincie Many actresses sho knew gave it ftosalj nde and on the stage it was generally Rosalind Rosa-lind l but both tha latter wero erroneous Sho plays the part after Mary Andersons I stylethat actress having preseutol her with her prompt books when she marred and retired Besides tho four plays which sho did in Salt Lake Miss Gale has six others in her repertoire including Much Ado About Nothing The Hunchback and Pygmalion and Galatea Next season sho expects to add The School for Scandal Off the stage Miss Gale is 2 as unaffected modest and pretty us sho IB on the boards she converses gaily with a flow of excellent spirits and was as happy over the applause of the aud onco as a child chid at holiday time 4 Miss Gale is twentj onr and unmarried She has only 1 been on the stage six years and came direct from the amateur ranks to join Lavvrenca Barrett She was his Fran Lcsea after James and Wainwright left him and was leading lady on tho great booth and Barrett tour At Barretts death she stepped into tho starring ranks and at once became 1 success She is gel eially recognized as having caught the mantle tnat fell from the graceful shoul ders of Mary Anderson It usher well wel and she wears it as one who has the un doubted right Youth beauty and talent are all on her Bice and a few years such work as she is now doing will we do not doubt place her in an undi puud place at the head of Americas ounger school of uctrosaes Uob Acres u n nJoscph Jefferson Sir Lucius Irj0vcr o Louis James Sir AIony Aunlutc W r Owen 1 Captain Absolute T I Iarnes FiulMand uo u nu ritzbugh Ow hley IJjvid George Denbaui 3 Fig Joseph Vrren Mrs MaHprop 1 uMrs John Drew Lydia Lancrui h u Moo Allen Lucy uo u blanche Beailu Tius is the cast with which The Rivals will be done in Salt Lake vi Tuesday Sul iuefd y evening even-ing I is just llo jfars since Sheridans Success as a comedian was made by the t production of hs Rivals and that comedy The School For Scandal I and U I iho Critic will cause hib name to live as t long as English comedy lasts In all the seasons that havo come and gcno since I The Rivih11 had its hrct production in L old Coven t Garden vvo doubt i Lho charac tei of Bob Acres has had a more noted delineator than Jco Jefferson I may ba equally denoted vvcothei Mis Mnlapiop was ever personified more completely than in MH John Drew As completej Jimes I anti Viola Allen it is certain they will not discredit themselves in their roles net I with such aqiidrtettd there Is small wonder L I I that Knit LaKe is in astute > if iivTmrnr I such as has not been soon ainoa tho Visit VJ cf I Booth and Bairett lf The theatre people acting in conformity with suggestions made by this paper hav o i decided that in futuro they will not recog nize in any manner the crowd that recCj I gregates days m advance of the opening COI of tho sale of any extraordinary attraction I Mr Burton savs that the first man or boy who presents his face at the box office Monday morning at 10 oclock orce llonday will be given first choice of seats for the Jefferson night The theatre will have nothing to do with forming tho line or assuming numbers and the all night camping on tho steps will bo1 strictly prohibited In a word the theatre is Iout of it and tho boys will have to light it out among themselves This is as ill should be Now if it something could bo done to breakup tbcnuiaancoof youngsters keeping in place in the line lne merely to sell It out again theatre patrons would nave another cause for gratitude > McKee Rankin has held March 23 and CO I at the Salt Lake theatre for a good n IOO many months past Those dates are nearly here but never n word has been heard from Mr Rankin and we see by u California Calfornia paper that he will end his senson iu that state Mr Rankms movements have always been somewhat uncertain and uncerain the theatre is ginning to weari of holding him dates which might have been let half a dozen times onlj to have them hal up 1 at the last moment 1 4 Tho Marino band date is Saturday Lil Apul 2 This visit says an advance Apri the second timo only in the histor history of the country where the great national baud has been allowed to leavo tho shadow of the capitol for a series of concerts the lit st frst occasion being for a limited tour last n Jmited yet iv when so remarkable a success was achieved and the welcome and plaudits of tho people were so decided and universal that the authorities felt i a duty to include tho reat west In this second and moro ex1 ended patriotic mnsical demonstration and permit the people of the grand Pacific slope e to have the privilege for once at least of listening to the magnificent strains of the wonderful bond which tho wh ole country contributes to maintain but ivhich until now only a narrow local con ituency has been able to enjoy I is hard to tell from the dispatches bother Tennysons play moulded to Ada lehan is a suctess or not All eyes nave been on the preparations and no dramatic eve < nt of recent yean will equal it in interest inter-est Tho Journal sal Tennyson if we remember right has written but one play before It and that wa a rank failure His mind has never run into a drcmatic moulds He is sweet aud chirrupy and often cloy log never strong and wo bal watch with serious interest to see whether this further empt betokens any programs in the art 7hich ho has cultivated so UttiM Tho story is the good old oiv9 ol Kobm Hood and the Mcia Marian jxlwavs a charmingsutje t Miss Rehan cfld John Drew will hare the two principal Itat5 and all the best members of the company will be in it a Mr A M Palmer talks seriously of selling out his business interests in tins country ana moving over to London with his family He nat urally realizes the difficulty of doing this hough after all It wouia not bo diaicult to find a food manager for Palmeis theatre and us for he Madison square that is already in good lands We should miss Mr Palmer no has bee n an important factor In matters theatrical md if his judgmuat has sometime been wrong hat is more a Question of education and pre jud ice than wilfulness and pen ersity There will be plenty of regret besides hat felt in New York if this paragraph rinted in a Now York paper turns out to bo true The manaeer trio has given the American stage The Two Orphans Daniel Rochat The Danichefffl r ud DA Alabama to say nothing cf a long list o other notable plays and who has kept such a company as Palmers of today together is a big creditor of the public and if tho public lose him his absence will be icverely felt Wo Know of no ono who ould entirely replace him The Teat oneratic season is over ana dp Abbey Scltoeffel and GreU are ccuutingup dr their gains It is not an iiuous task for their gains have not boon ol tho heaviest Still they are gains end not Josses and that is more than the public looked lor atone at-one stage of the game The season would have been a great monetary one but far the hostility of the Wagnentes who staged away in phalanxes whenever u French pr Italian work was presented But when Wagner was on the great public stajed away and the managers if they had tho season to go over a ain say they would cling to their French and Italian school and let the Wagnentos howl Certain IT is that no ouch casts as Abbey Scnoeffol and Grau have given were ever seen before iu this country and they may never be see n again Emma Eames Scalchi Albani Jean and Edouarcl Do Rezke and La SaiJe make up a combination that the vvorlo might bo ransacked without equalling Somo idea of the enormous expense tho et managers incurred may bo gained when it is known that they had n nightly bonus of 1500 from the owners of the boxes tho Goulds Sages Asters and Vanderbilts On and that the receipts outside of this ran from 56000 to SIOOCO nightly Still with all this the managers do not count that their gains in the season will exceed oOCOO 4 Each month each week marks an increased in-creased popularity in the history of Wonderland Won-derland the popular priced amusement resort re-sort The inauguration of the stock company com-pany has been received with great favcr and the securing of every bright and interesting inter-esting attraction that can bo induced tome o come this way has been appreciated and generously patronized For the > eek commencing m com-mencing Thursday next Mr Al BeeJy actor n actor and manager of considerable merit and renown commences a four weeks engagement en-gagement in connection with the stock company opening with the over enjoyable enjoy-able and emotionable drama Esmeralda A number of hign pric ° d novelties will ap p ear in the curio hull such as the Austins m their sensational novelty entitled Tho Sculptors Masterpiece and the marvelous l marvel-ous knife and tomahawk impalement act of John and Katie Arcane The Neapolitan m musicians in native costume will also bs a special feature |