| Show DRAMATIC Aln LYRIC The Messenger Went to a Big House Last Night BILLS OF THE COMING WEEK Booth and BarrettA Home Club Anniversary Anniver-sary Si Plunkard Tlio Concert Notes With howls of laughter and shouts of applause ap-plause Messenger from Jarvis Section went before the regulation crowded house that can always be relied on for tho Saturday Satur-day niRht of conference week The piece had greatly improved by its one presentation presenta-tion and it went very easily and smoothly throughout Mr Young who has so tremendous tre-mendous a load on his shoulders showing the most marked improvement Spencers character delineation again caught the house immensely despicable as his part is and Mr and Mrs Gilbert were of course good as before The piece goes again tomorrow to-morrow night and is Rood for a third big house In tho audience last evening was Mr Tyler manager of the Little Tycoon company com-pany He said in the box office that the performance was an astonisher him he had seen hundreds of amateur performances perform-ances but never one half so good as this as for Spencers part he said it was simply absurd to class it as amateur acting at all < < The next attraction to appear at the Salt Lake theater following the present engagement en-gagement of the Home Dramatic club will be Mr J C Lewis a young and talented Yankee character comedian supported by a carefully selected cast in the Yankee comedy com-edy entitled Si Plunkard Thursday evening eve-ning April The scene of this play unlike un-like all others of a similar character is not laid in the New England states but in the western part of Pennsylvania and Si Plunkard is a farmer who both plants and peddles Yankee notions and supplies the down east clement The story is the customary cus-tomary one of a maiden whose father falls into the power of a designing villain who offers herself as a sacrifice and who is saved by the cuteness of the yankee peddler Incidental In-cidental to the comedy many specialties are introduced and a fullrigged threshing machine at work on the stage is one of the mechanical effects The principal comedy clementi s furnished by Mr Lewis as Si Mr Milligan as Felix Smart Miss Rica as Eliza Simpkins and Mr Jackson as Scrubby Scrub-by Fewclothes a village youth The event of the coming week at the theatre will be the concert and ball to be given by the Spanish Mandolin and Guitar club assisted by the Ladies Mandolin Man-dolin and Guitar club on Friday evening and Saturday matinee The great feature will be the appearance of the ladies club forty members in a neat uniform and the playing of a selection by both clubs united seventysix instruments instru-ments in all The amusing Shadow Pantomime is tQ be revived and given on Saturday afternoon after-noon for the children who are already up in arms over the event Following is the programme and the names of the ladies club Pearl ValtihLadie > Mandolin club To Thee Returnre Volvl a ver Mex IcanSpanishMandohin club Cornet and Trombone Imitations Guitar and Mandolin Accompaniment un onAlma Sharp On the Waves Sobra Los Olas Mex ican bpanish Mandolin club Harp Selections Sweet Woodland Waltzes D Jeremy Paganlni altzLadics and Spanish nnMandolin club 76 instruments IATlEC PROGRAMME Corda Polka Ladles Mandolin club Te Volvi a Vcr Mexican Sjanish Mann Man-n dolin club Pagamni WaltznLadies and Spanish U u Mandolin club Shadow Pantomime MEMBERS OF LADIES MANDOLIN CLUB Mandolins Guitars May Ellerbeck Tizzle Groesbeck Alta Young Winnie Clawson Tesfaie Clawson Etta Ellerbeck Xellie Grocsbeck Lutle Whitney Mamie Whitney Lutie Savage EdIth Dinwoodey Leah Dunford Carrol Cannon Mary Burton Ida Savage Lizzie Burton May Smith Ada Croxall Julia Mikeaell Nettle Raleigh Mrs J A Faust Alice Mikesell Ivy Claw son Emily Cowles Bells Hurt Edna Wells Minnie Folsom May Stephenson Viola Pratt Minnie Halstr Instructor on Mandolin Mamie Morris Mando-lin Fred Clawson Phoebe Phillips Mrs Clara Field Kate Burt Jennie Swift Mary Eastmond Hose 1 oronto Nellie Carson Mrs JTrjnk Beatie Director and instructor on guitars Miss Ella Olson it Conductor Stephens could take some pointers from Manager Burton about the question of admitting babies in arms to concerts At the Theater they are barred out und they should bo kept out of the concert room whether that concert room is I the tabernacle or any other hall Frida night several of the tenderest portions of I Weihes selections were ruined by the wail of babies which arose and completely submerged I sub-merged the volume of the violin There will always be people who have such absolute I abso-lute confidence in their children that they will take them out to public entertainments entertain-ments but the manager who arranges a I delicate musical programme ard asks tho public to pay their dollars to come and enjoy en-joy it should firmly but kindly point out to the erring mothers that he does not share their confidence The Juno festival is coming on and a repetition repeti-tion of Friday nights scenes and sounds ought to be avoided The Home Dramatic club celebrated their eleventh ann crsay on April 1st The occasion would have been observed with some sort of a social or reunion had not the club been so occupied with rehearsals re-hearsals of the Messenger from Jarvis Section A list of the plays the club has given since its organization in tho order of their production is given below The Two Orphans given as a benefit to Miss Adams in June JSTP was the first performance that brought the club together to-gether Their organization however took place April 1st 1SSO when they produced the Romance of a Poor Young Man Following that were given Ours Lifes Revenge Extremes Peril Rosedale Fettered Pique Confusion The Bankers Daughter Guvnor Daugh-ter Article 47 Coralie Alter Dark Divorce The Silver King Queens Evidence Storm Beaten tJA False Friend Tho Lights o London Our Boarding House Lon-don Saratoga Diplomacy Inshavoguo Shaugraun Blow for Blow ForgetMeNot Miss Chester The World Box and Cox Youth The Two Orphans i dp by the Enemy Forbidden Fruit The Private Secretary The Money Spinner Secre-tary The Long Strike Hazel Kirke The Red PocketBook Called Back Pocket-Book YoungMrs Win The Green Lanes of throp England A Messenger Iom Jarvis Life of an Actress Jar-vis Section Mr Willard Spensers Little Tycoon Ty-coon Comic Opera company is anew a-new attraction at the Salt Lake theatre thea-tre This organization has visited the city before and sucocdeed in creating quite a favorable impression There are few of Salt Lakes theatre goers who will not call to mind with delight the charming Love Comes Like a Summer Sigh Heel and TOe Tell Mo Daisy and the many other very pretty airs of The Little Tycoon Ty-coon Tho opera bas never been presented t by any other than Mr Spensers own corn pany and that gentleman personally directs each performance The company embraces this season Miss Telulu Evans WillMaude ille Jennie Goldthwaite Joseph Mevly Alice Hosmer and many of the old favor Ites Welcome Little Tycoon 4 The welcome feature of Fridays concert was the appearance in our midst of the popular tenor Bob Easton though not in quite so good voice as during the afternoon rehearsal when we heard him dwell for ten seconds on a3 fine a high C as ever proceeded eeded from the throat of a tenor ho roused the audience to the old time enthusiasm and got the only double encore of tho night Its It-s very regrettable that a Bvoico like Eastons cannot be retained in Salt Lake i the choral and the choir both stand in need of him and he will be needed more than ever during the coming I festival A duett for him and the basso Myron W Whitney we learn is among the 1 attractive possibilities of that occasion We note that Logan is making the most I of Eastons presence there George W Thatcher jr director of the Logan opera house orchestra is arranging for a production duction of the opera The Black Mantles and the cast is as follows Dromoz J M Wilson Don Louis R C Easton Don Jose W S Lamoreaux Don Philip R W Sloan Nicolo A Anderson Girola Mrs R W Sloan Queen Miss Bessie More head Inez Miss Hattie Thatcher The Now York Herald said of Barretts death Next to the bereaved widow none probably winced so keenly under the sudden den blow as the brother artist Edwin Booth whose recent effort has been so closely united with that of Mr Barrett Barrett was like a younger brother to the melancholy Dane He was always full of resource always cheerful where the more desponding temperament of his companion com-panion saw no light shining He absolutely enjoyed the details of management which Booth in his later years certainly detested No more perfect partnership in art could be imagined i than of these two Snortly after 11 oclock yesterday forenoon fore-noon Mr Booth called at the Windsor hotel to express his sympathy with Mrs Bar rett The strongly marked lines of his face were deepened as if with a gravers tool When tho intelligence of Mr Barretts death was conveyed to him after his return from the theatre on Friday night he was completely unnerved He is reported to have exclaimed I always thought I should go first I He remained some time with Mrs Bar rett administering what consolation was possible and when he emerged from the death chamber he seemed to have grown years older He declined to be interviewed and retarned immediately to his apartments at the Players Club Mr Theodore Bromley manager for Booth and Barret said that it had been decided to close the Broadway theatre mill Tuesday All moneys which had been taken at the box office for yesterdays performance was refunded during tho afternoon Richelieu was t have been the bill for the matinee and Romeo and Juliet for the evening All the members of the company expressed the deepest regret at Mr Bar rettsdeath and were much relieved when they learned that they would not be called upon to play The engagement at the Broadway theatre would have closed in any event on Saturday next It is quite likely however that the term which has been billed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music will be filled out The roles which Mr Barrett would have played will be assumed as-sumed by Messrs Albert Brunuing John A Lane and Lawrence Hanley Notes Wilkinsons Widows Is a great go in New York The date set for Mr Brighams ballad concert is tbeSSth Bernhardt goes to Australia after her San Francisco engagement The late John A Mackey was here with the Kate Castleton Pop company in ISSv A Texas Steer has hit San Francisco very hard and Hsyt coins money every night Santley the English baritone is in New York He will make a professional tour of two months Charlie Reed and May Irwin left the City Directory company rat icr abruptly in Chicago on the 19th instant Lawrence Barrett was worth whcn he died about 2200000 This was all made within the last three or four years Mrs Langtry wants to play Shenandoah in London and is now negotiating with Al Hay man and Charles Frohman Robin Hood made the operatic success of the day in San Francisco It is there held to outrank Gilbert Sullivans best efforts The New York Herald calls Thou Shalt Not which was produced in New York last week a curiously offensive and indecent play Clara Morris is athome in Riverdale She sut her season down two weeks Immediately preceding pre-ceding Easter telieving that there was not much money in it anyhow Edwin Booth has greatly dissatisfied his company com-pany by the announcement that he will only play for twenty weeks next season in the larger cities of tho east Joe Levy who was so long with Barrett will not continue with Booth on this account Henry B Dixey is thinking of buying The Prodigal Son from Augustin Daly Dixey Is a good pantomimist and ought tu make a very strong part of Pierrot in which Miss Rehan virtually failed from tho very reason of not being a pantomimist Marie Wainwright will close her tour on April 25 and will return to New York City for an elaborate production of Amy ivobsart in Sep tember at Palmers theatre This is the same play in which the beautiful Adelaide Nillbson first made her fame here Charlie Reed appears on the end With Thatchers minstrels next week at the Hollis street theatre Boston His engagement is limited to one week only for which he is paid avery a-very handsome silarygtCharles used to say that he would never black up again Examinei A Chicago dispatch says Miss Louise Montague I Monta-gue the actress and John W Norton the theatrical the-atrical manager who is interested here and in i St Louis are to be married as soon as the actress ac-tress engagement with the Crystal Slipper company is ended which will be in a few weeks When seen about the rumored marriage Mr Norton denied it but Miss Montague said It was a fact Rest and home comforts are rapidly restoring Tragedian Thomas W Keene to perfect health A friend who sawlitm at his residence at Cas tloton Four Corner S I yesterday says In mental brightness and bodily vigor he is as sound as he ever was and the muscles of his throat which were partially paralyzed some time ago have been almost completely restored to their normal condition lIcYic ers new theatre was opened March 29 by Jefferson and Florence in Tho Rivals II a large and fashionable audience being present Five months ago tho theatre was burned and has since been reconstructed on substantially the old plan the main exception being that the balcony boxes have been removed and only those looking directly upon the stage being retained re-tained The prevailing tone is terra cotta and the new playhouse is one of the handsomest in i I the country As it now stands it represents with tho building an expenditure of 5800000 At the end of the second act speeches were made by Mr McVicker Messrs Jefferson Florence ahd others I Tho Kendals have probably made as much clear money this season as1 any combination on the road Jack Barnes the leading actor of the organization says that the average net profit for Mr and Mrs Kendal has been 5000 a week That would be on a basis of thirtyfive weeks 5175000 over and above all expenses This we believe is an unparalleled record for the present season and continues to amaze thoso people in the company whose previous experience did not extend beyond the British isles They did a poor week in Baltimore tho worst of their season Mr Kendal was commenting com-menting on it one night when he said We consider this rather bad here but what a devil of a good week it would be at home Whenever English actors say that receipts on the other side average up with ours it is because be-cause they are failures here That is why Mr Willard says it Journal |
