Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC Francis Wilson the Actor Off the Stage THE HOWELLS CLUB PROGR MME The BIc Tabernacle Contest Next Saturday and Monday Llltle Glasers Sue ccsa Jlmusemeut Motes Francis Wilson has come and gone and left a great hit behind him We do not know of a stronger attraction on the road than Mr Wilsons company and the fact that his business was only good instead of enormous may bo set down to two reasons only One is that Salt Lakes theatre oing population is not large enough to fill fivo housesfor only a comparatively fow people attend the same show twiceand the other is that even our bestclass of theatregoers feel the prevalent dull times Mr Wilson mayset it down as certain hat i any attraction going would have pulled the business his would have done i As it was the receipts were such as would have tickled the heart of any ordi nary company but Mr Wilsons phenomenal phenome-nal fortune everywhere else has somewhat polled him for only fair business and the first place where receipts take a drop he naturally feels it 4 I Wilson off tho stage is the most delight I ful and companionable man imaginable His clear cut pale features and his coal L black hair lend an air of delicacy to his I appearance and his general get up off i the stage more suggests the tragedian L ban the comedian Mrs Wilson who C travel with him but who does not play says he is as strong and robust as an Indian In-dian despite the pallor of his countenance Wilson says as many bright and droll I hinge off the stage as he docs as tbo C merry Anso IV and without doubt one CC C reason for tho buxom and fresh ap oaranco of his wife is that she is kept fat by laughing The two were thet 3 recipients of many social attentions wmlo they were here and I they took a horseback ride on Friday to ho Twin peaks descending by way of r City Creek caiion They were in raptures over our mountain scenery They have a delightful home twenty minutes out from New York and a bright family of children of whom they never weary of talking Mr Wilson by the way has been in Salt Lake twico before but ho had not then mounted to any commanding position of fame Ho played the tutor in the Queens Silk Handkerchief when it was rendered here nine years ago in the Walker opera house He also appeared in a skit called Our Goblins Mr Wilson closed his season in July and does not open next year till after the preoidential election is over about tho inidole of July He will not come west next yeur Mr Wilson is a rirst class raconteur and among the best things ho tells are stories on himself I was playing in Chicago i Chi-cago on one occasion ho said to the writer at the time Coquelin and Mme Jane Hading were tone t-one of the other houses My play was The Oolab and it so happened that Coquelin and Hading were doing a play that week which had suggested tho main idea of my piece Hading heard of it and one night she sent to me for seats I was delighted and sent her a box Sho was immensely pleased with The Oolah led the applause in fact and seemed quite tickled to death She came behind the scenes to see me and expreszed her delight I told her how I appreciated her compliments in my best Choctaw French and rang in all the fauts and compicnezvaiis I had in my vocabulary Wo chatted away for half an hour and as she rose to go I asked her as gallantly as I could for a souvenir of her visit She answered L an-swered willingly and asked me what it should be I replied that I would prize more dearly than anything else on earth a little lock of her hair She replied that that was a little compromising compromis-ing in Franco and I modestly reminded her that we were in the United i Statas Then she said she would comply I if I would return the compliment by giving her ono of my photographs Next day came a dainty lock of her Imira divine Titian redand I eagerly hastened to return her one of my most Haltering cabinets with a tender inscription Well time went on and Hading left America for tho shore of her native France Tho day before she sailed she was interviewed by aNew a-New York Times reporter who asked her how she liked our people our clinic our manners etc etc She expressed herself as in raptures with everything and cverytung especially espe-cially with our theatres and do you know she said I think the very best thing I have seen in all my trip was a comic opera performance in Chicago by 1 ono of your actorsI think his name was Williams I 5 Perhaps the member of Mr Wilson ompany who left the strongest impression after himself is its newest member Miss Lulu Glnser Sho has only been on I hostage ho-stage threq months and as Wilson humorously humor-ously ealsi8only an innocent little brat Sho came from Pittsburg and applied to Wilson to play leading parts Ho good < naturedly told her sho might have a chance i she wanted to spend a few years in the chorus first As she was pretty ambitious and had sweet voice she was put in the chorus and engaged understudy to Marie Jansen One night Jansen was ill and the I little Glaser was told to got ready to goon go-on She fainted away Then said Mr Wilson I had hope of her She had been so fresh and innocent inno-cent that I was rather afraid she did not and could not sense the responsibility respon-sibility of the position but when she fainted oaw I was mistaken She went j l on and got encores where Jansen never 1 I i ir > R got a hand Miss Jansen added the comedian dryly recovered very suddenly next day When Jansen quit the company com-pany a few weeks ago Miss Glaser took her place and has beon progressing with rapid strides over sinco Mr Wilson re hearses her severely two hours every day off the stage She has many admirers and a flood of wouldbobeaux is constantly at her heels Glaser mere however is Lulus traveling companion and any invitations she accepts always include Mrs G I may interest the young ladys Salt Lake admirers by the way to know that she is thm engaged to a young businessman business-man in Denver 4 1 Tho theatre will without doubt bo crammed on Tuesday night when the Howells club aided by some other dramatic and musical talent render n varied pro gramme for the benefit of the Unitarian church fund Following is tho bill in full with those who will take part A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS A farce by Charles Martin Charlotte 0 ouMiss Zano Nanny Miss Katz Dobson Miss Stewart M r MerryweatherMr Westervelt Mr Shee Mr Ford TUB GARnOTERS By W D Howells M r Edward Roberts Mr Park Mrs Roberts Miss Lincoln Wiisuu Mr Westervelt Aunt Mary 0 Miss Zane Dr Laton Mr Smedlev Mr Bemii sr Mr Ford M r Bemis jr Mr Witcher Mrs Bemis jr 0 Miss Waahburne THE HOSE OF AUVEHGNE A oneact opera by Offenbach Fleurette soprano Miss Lincoln Alphonsoe tenor u Mr Pyper Pierre baritone 0 S Mr Goddard AH of the musical west is eagerly looking forward to the second annual competition which occurs in the tabernacle next Saturday Satur-day dnd the following Monday evening THE HERALD has secured a full list of the prizes and contestants and presents them as follows SATURDAY SIGHT FIRST CONTEST Brass bands members of one ward or association prize 810 selection of their own choico ContestantsIUnion brass band 2 Taylorsville band 3 Tenth Ward band Utah Salt Lake county city Payson silver band SECOND CONTEST Bass or baritone solo The Storm Fiend Rockeil prize 15 second 1 Contestants John Robinson Salt Lake Charles Kent Ogden John James Salt Lake Fred Taut Ogden H S Ensign Salt Lake J R Boshard Provo Willard Scowcroft Ogden William H Jones Salt Lake John Buckley Provo Hagbert Anderson An-derson Ogden mum CONTEST Piano solo The Dying Poet Gotts chalk Prize 15 second 53 H J Smirthvruite Ogden Miss Dora Davies Provo rounin CONTEST Vocal trio Yon Towering Peak Prize 30 4 30Charles Charles Kent J Ballantyno E Farley Ogden J H Boshard John Buckley J Buckley Provo E T Taut J McQuarrie F Taut Ogden Closing number Hail Columbia combined com-bined bands MONDAY SIGHT FIRST CONTEST Male chorus members of one ward The Dawn of Day CE Stephens Prize S10 I Malad male chorus Malad Ida Fourth Ward Glee club Provo Utah SECOXD CONTEST Quartette The Blossoms Close at Eve Ant Prize 40 J R Twelves H S Pyne J R Bos hard J Buckley Provo Taut brothers C W Hinckciilf J McQuarrie Ogden THIRD CONTEST Baritone solo young men under 21 years of age Tho Old Guard Rodney Prize 515H H S Ensign Salt Lako Ed Young Provo FODRTH COXTEST Solo and chorus The Linden Tree Prize 75 Party from Fifth ward Ogden party from Malad city Ida party from Third ward Ogden FIFTH CONTEST Tenor solo prize 15 and lOISleep Well Sweet Angel Orson Griffin Ogden Thomas Ash worth Salt Lake Joseph Ballantme Og den H S Pyne Provo Edwin F Tout Ogden J R Vance Alpine C W flInch cliff Ogden George Hyde Ogden SIXTH CONTEST Grand prize 250 Male chorus not under un-der fifty nor over ono hundred in number Comrades in Arms Adams Weber County male chorus Malad Choral Cho-ral society Idaho Utah Stake male chorus cho-rus Salt Lake male chorus I Grand union of choruses to close E Stephens director and manager A C Smythe Manti H G Whitney Salt Bake L D Edwards Cache adjudicators ad-judicators 1 While Mikado is scoring a tremendous success at Wonderland the California Opera company is now rehearsing for the production of the ever popular and universal univer-sal favorite Pinafore The Lass That Loved a Sailor will be handsomely and artistically arranged with complete sot tings and very strong in cast of characters Tho arrival of Mr J W Coffey the extraordinary extra-ordinary freak known as the Skeleton Dde will be tho leading feature of interest in-terest in the curio hall Mr Coffey is known as the living skeleton and is be Moved to bo without doubt the thinnest creature in the guise of humanity enjoying life S S Friday evening June 3 the Spanish Guitar and Mandolin club will appear in the Bountiful opera house giving a concert con-cert and concluding with an afterpiece entitled en-titled One Night In an Asylum A spa olal train will be run returning after the J 1ii J y performance and a number of Salt Lake people will accompany them Notes The County Fair has canceled its Salt Lake dates Al Hayman sails for Europe June 2 to bee be-e till August The Symphony orchestra Till occupy the opera Tuesday night Maude Harrison denies the report that she Is to leave the stage Miss Ada Dwyer will spend the summer with her parents In this city Miss Glasner had several very good photos taken in this city by Sainsbury Johnson Robin Hood opened In New York on the IGth and had a big reception DArville made a big hit Richard Mansfield comes to the Salt Lake theatre next month fresh from i i a great season In San Francisco Mr and Mrs Plunkett of the Wilson company com-pany are great wheel people They took several sev-eral runs with C E Johnson Georgie Cayvan sailed from San Francisco to Japan on the 21st She rejoins the Lyceum company August 22 in 5t Louts Francis Wilsons company is a company of married people There have been twelve marriages mar-riages in the troupe since it started out Fred Warde and Louis James open in Washington Wash-ington September IS Julius Caesar Othello and Francesca will be made special features Emily Melville is in India teaching music One of the sons she left behind when she decamped de-camped from San Francisco lately graduated at a California university IX J Hoaleys illness has given Edwin Milton Royle tho author of Friends a chance to play the role that Mr Henley was to havo originated and Mr Royle has shown that he is a comedian of no mean merit His ucthods are legitimate and he makes many laugh Mirror Emma Juch says that she has no complaint to make against the festive Lockes manace ment He has had she explains tome magniflcent successes and also some equally magnificent failures The magnificence of the Juch companys failure is not apparent ap-parent Mirror |