| Show I z JNTHEtHEAiRICALREAUL w But Few Attractions Until the 1 New Year 1i 1 i I 7y11ws OF THE WHITE CIiY 0 PLANS OP THE SALT LAKE STOCK 2 COTIPAXV The SJeiifJelssolm Quartette Concert I on Teesdny Night A Cantata I Irvingrs Merchant of Venice Theodore Salmons Recital 3Iu Klcnl and Stage Gossip > it It J Tomorrow evening and Wednesday evening at the theatre the Chicago Sterioptican company will give an entertainment en-tertainment illustrating the Worlds fair As the pictures will be the full f size of the stage the beauties of the White City can be handsomely portrayed i por-trayed Combined with the stereopti i can pictures a number of spectacular I effects will be introduced This should and doubtless will be a popular entertainment It enter-tainment attracting alike the favored few who saw the fair and the many r i who did not jet who possess quite as l keen an interest in the big show t S + i Tuesday evening the music lovers will be in their lory at the theatre On that evening the Mendelssohn t Quartet Concert company will appear f under management of the Orpheus F club of our city The Mendelssohn f quartet is a famous one and their 1 singing will doubtless be as well appreciated L ap-preciated in Salt Lake ns it has been r elsewhere Miss Cora Cowan a well rt know reader has a prominent place in the programme Our Orpheus club composed of some twenty of the best I mate voices of our city will sing several numbers and their singing is too well known to need comment I t < A notable event was the performance of As You Like It by the Professional I Profes-sional Womans League at Palmers f i theatre in New York recently Not a r man was in the cast yet the performance perform-ance was largely attended and was I pronounced highly artistic albeit some of the voices were sadly out of keepirg with the beards Madame Janauschek made a great hit as Jaques When she spoke the Seven Ages the audience went wild The I league which is a charitable organization organi-zation cleared over 52500 on the playS There is a barn storming organization t organiza-tion playing the small towns of the I easier states called the Latoska I company which is accredited with t I using suggestive handbills as advertising advertis-ing matter which would make Sybile r Johnstone blush Thd advertising matter was such that the majority of the newspapers refused to publish it 1 f but the manager serenly produces a I few thousand circulars and causes the I women of his company to distribu them on the street Whenever the local manager allows the show to appear ap-pear and many of them canceled their t dates after the company struck the town a blg house usually greets it S S t jueander Itichardson is in the field I r again or will be shortly with a new I t dramatic journal which well be entitled t i Leandpr Richardsons Illustrated DraI inatic Weekly = Richardson is one of i the cleverest writers on dramatic top 1 ics in the world today The brightest I days the old Dramatic News ever saw was whn his hand was ai the helm I i Mr Richardson is the author of a number num-ber of successful novels and plays I among which may be numbered Nat Goodwins r Si ninee It is aimed to I I make the illustrations a prominent feature fea-ture and to that end a prominent artist f ar-tist will have charge of the pictorial i i portion The ilustrations will in nowise I I no-wise be limited to portraits but will cover plays and general theatrical j c events all over the world I Few of our people know that there I has been growing into a beauty and I comfort a pretty little opera house at I Murray ournear neighbor on the south so near in fact that the Rapid Transit I Tran-sit electric road connects us with the village The new house is being erected I erec-ted by Harry Haynes and was design I i i 1 ed by Proudfoot Bird architects of i j our new city and county building As i soon as the lighting is completed the old time comedian Phil Margetts supported sup-ported by a competent company will open the new theatreS c 0 theatre-S S The Salt Lake Stock company have a hankering after holiday dates and j are booked in Shadows of a Great j City Christmas night and the two i following evenings On Christmas af j tern > a matinee will be given when j 1 one Oi the former successes will be 1 1 produced SS S 1 I c The sacred cantataMoseph in Egypt J will be given in the Twentieth ward i t meeting house December 20 the proceeds i pro-ceeds to be devoted to charity Professor Profes-sor Joseph J Daynes will act as conductor f con-ductor and Miss Kate Romney as pianist r pian-ist f i i l Friday eieningj the lovers of the 1 hght fantastic will find happy occasion i j canon for their likes at the Salt Lake > theatre the event being the first ball f of the season Saturday afternoon a t childrens ball will be given t i Mage Gossip I The Danger Signal is being pre sented in the Pennsylvania cities to fine audiences Maida Caigen and Frederick Pauld ing aie still doing well in Texas Maurice Barrymore will play Charles Coghlans part in A Wonlan of No Importance Mlle Rhea is to play an extended engagement in San Francisco at Stock wells theatre Alexander Salvini is now called the only legitimate successor of the famous Charles Fechter Wilton Lackaye will join Palmers stock company next week taking Maurice Barrymores place Lotta is resting for the winter in California She will resume her theatrical theat-rical career next season M B Curtis is still in Boston but he his not completed negotiations with JOn Stetson for his starring tour Margaret Mather and her husband are prominent figures in Chicago Miss Mather says she will never act again Lithographing has become such a fine art that it is almost impossible sometimes to distinguish a lithograph from a photograph t Minnie Maddern Fiske with Hester Crews was well received in Boston last week The play will be heard in New York in February New York has six schools of actJnl Boston four Philadelphia three Chicago Chi-cago three San Francisco two Cleveland Cleve-land one and Baltimore one As Sol Smith Russell has none of the vices which too often absorb the fortunes for-tunes of successful actors his credit account is steadily increasing Stuart Robson Is having so much success in The Comedy of Errors that he will use that play exclusively during his New York engagement besides this an olio bill of excellencies will also be presented In the thea torium the stock company will appear in the amusing comedy The Book Agent Ag-ent Chauncey Olcott received an ovation in Buffalo the city of his birth Monday Mon-day evening November 27 This was Mr Olcotts first appearance before his old friends as a star Manager Augustus Pitou will have four companies on the road next season sea-son Chauncey Olcott in Mavour neen The Power of the Press Struck Oil and a new melodrama by William C Hudson My Footlight Husband is the title of a new book written by Alan Dale of I the New York Evening World The story is tersely told wholesome and I interesting and is free from What I might be termed objectionable matter j The third edition is now being printed I A new prima donna has appeared to delight the lovers of opera Miss I Eleanor Mayo daughter of Frank Mayo an actor possesses beauty dramatic dra-matic talent and a voice of unusual power and sweetness At present she is the newly discovered favorite of the I New Yorkers This seems to have been a souvenir week all over the country E E Rice I in Boston for Venus Charles Froh man for the Councillors Wife at the Empire theatre New York Charles j Frohman for The Girl I Left Behind Me in Boston Edwin Milton Royle I in Portland for Friends and Effie Ellsler in St Louis are all giving souvenirs this week I This bids fair to be a season of comic I operas Of the new plays produced the i uajority have been failures whili i i among the comic operas only one has failed Of the six new operas The I Algerians Venus Princess Nicotine j Nico-tine and The Rainmaker of Syria tare t-are successes Prince Pro Tern is a failure and The Maid of Plymouth is still undecided I Irvings presentation of the Merchant Mer-chant of Venice is said to be exactly the same as it was several years ago even the scenery being an exact copy j of that usd during a former visit Miss Terry is the perfect Portia and makes I 1 the most possible of that beautiful i i character During their opening engagement en-gagement at AbbeyG theatre New York the theatre was packed and I there were ten curtain calls I A production of As You Like It put on by the Professional Womens League of which Mrs A M Palmer is I I the president New York city lately i was a great success The piece was acted l I ac-ted entirely by women the scenes I i I were shifted by women the orchestra was feminine and women as ushers were directed by Aunt Louisa El dredge The performance was artistic j I and pleasing in every way and demonstrated I demon-strated the ability of women to act in male roles The league netted over I 2500 by the production A specially attractive and novel performance I per-formance will be given at Wonderland for the week commencing Thursday next A troupe of genuine Southern I darkies will give a firstclass minstrel performance on the Bijou stage and the management has offered a cash prize to the best dancer Here is a chance to see the genuine article which can only be given by a darkey especially espec-ially when anything is in sight Buck and Wing dances Virginia Essence Es-sence etc in true Southern fashion will be the style in competition and Gus Heege wrote Yon Yonson when he was snowed up In the pinewoods pine-woods of northern Wisconsin one winter win-ter It was a hard winter for actors and Heeges company disbanding in the pineries he was glad to get employment employ-ment in a lumber camp He came out of the woods in the spring with 60 a strong constitution the Swedish dialect dia-lect and material for the play which has made a fortune for himself and his manager He went to Sweden for color for his forthcoming play and traveled in the steerage returning The horse run in In Old Kentucky is one of the strong features of the play but it is attended with more or less danger owing to the fact that horses cannot be depended upon A short time ago in Brooklyn Laura Burt who plays the heroine and rides the favorite mare to victory came very near ending her career as an actress She had finished the run and rode back to bow her acknowledgment of the applause ap-plause when the animal became scared and cavorted around the stage scat tring pickaninnies and sta e hands ins all directions Miss Burt slipped off the horses back and the animal went for the footlights and stepped over into the orchestra Fortunately nobody no-body Wps hurt The opera season in New York had an auspicious opening Dec 1 The Metropolitan opera house has been entirely en-tirely remodeled since the fire It is decorated in white and gold the boxes are better arranged and the new I seats are large and roomy the entire I building is thoroughly lighted with electricity When Mr Abbey first managed man-aged the opera house years ago Faust was the opening opera with Christine Nilsson Campanini and Schalchi in the cast On this its second sec-ond opening the opera Faust was again used and Emma Eames Schal chi Lassall Edouard De Reszke and Jean De Reszke were the singers The vast building was crowded and the welcome given to the artists was one not soon to be forgotten When Miss Eames as Marguerite made her appearance the applause lasted fully six minutes Both the De Reszkes received re-ceived attention as did also the newcomer new-comer Vaschetti The new conductor too was remembered Faust was admirably sung and flowers and encores en-cores were in such profusion that it I was after midnight when the opera I was over I II I |
