Show Ie 1f DRAMATIC AND LYRIC I r The Great Festival Closed Last T t Evening I I I t t WHITNEY THUESBY STEPHENS I i I P Night and Day of Triumph Boland Beed Shenandoah Limited I HallNotes I The great June festival the overtower I lug event in our musical history went outlast out-last night in a blaze of glory and enthusiasm h enthu-siasm I The audience was a fine one somewhat 4 larger than that of the opening night The reserve portion was a trifle lighter the I general admissi considerably heavier I I The number present on a close estimate I 1 was probably between 3600 and 4000 THE I HERALD estimate of the receiptsnothing positive can be told till all the tickets are i in and the final count madeis as follows First night 2000 I Matinee 750 Second night u 2250 Total 53000 This may be considerably over or under the actual figures but it will not vary greatly Wo trust it will be too low an estimate The late hour at which the concert closed prevents any lengthened comment on the details There was almost a surfeit of en The matinee programme was an inspiration 1 I inspira-tion Stephens studied well to avoid trash ana yet to give the afternoon performance the popular tinge How well be succeeded I is evidenced by the warm words of Miss Thursby who assured him that she had never sang in a festival where there wore EO many beautiful selections and she said this was specially true of the matinee The divine chorus had two light numbers The I Summer and The Farewell to tho Forest For-est The last will always live as tho very best achieve ment of the society and theWelsh selection crowds it very close Another charming feature was tbe Bel Raggio selection by Miss Snyder and the chorus of ladies this receive an ovation and had to be repeated Mrs Allison sang somewhat mournful song by Stephens ana xor an encore gave One Day She had a great welcome and she shows a great improvement especially in her high notes which as Miss Thureby enthusiastically en-thusiastically said are great Thurgby had two recalls after she sang Stephens I song My Western Home she gave a German laughing song and that being I be-ing loudly rewarded she gave averse a-verse of the Maid of Dundee inmost in-most exquisite style The great event of the afternoon and in the eyes of many of the whole festival up to that time was the magnificent Vengeance duets from Lucia by Whitney and Easton the two great voices could not be blended better I I and when they reached the end the audience audi-ence composed too largely of ladies rose as cue manor woman in a tumult of applause ap-plause and bravos It had to be repeated Whitneys beautiful song Three Fishers was encored and be sang The Mariners Home in splendid style The Ladies Guitar Gui-tar and Mandolin club had a big reception and an encore they steadily improve Mrs Agnes OlsenThomas tender Norwegian song was a gem and Whitney led the de I j I mands for an encore to which she ro1 sponded by giving her always beautiful native Satcrjcntcn One of the features of the afternoon was Mr Daynes organ solo a magnificent arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner with a multitude of difficult and intricate variations The attendance at the matinee was about 1500 During the afternoon a photograph I was taken of the chorus by Sainsbury Johnson I a Mr Gillespie presented the following to the society last evening and it was unanimously unani-mously adopted Whereas The musicloving public and many organizations and persons have so generously aided in making the present musical festival of the Salt Lake Choral society a pronounced success in every particular par-ticular therefore Be resolved That the Sait Lake Choral society express grateful acknowledgments acknowledg-ments for courtesies and favors to the following fol-lowing To the church authorities of the church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints for their generosity in permitting the use of the Assembly hall and Tabernacle Taberna-cle for the preparation and presentation of this June festival to the Choral society directors di-rectors to Prof Evan Stephens our peerless conductor and to Prof Thomas Radcliffe our faithful organist for their patient untiring efforts which have made this festival the success it is to Miss Emma Thursby and to Mr Myron W Whitney for their successful efforts to afford the citizens of Salt Lake City a musical mus-ical treat to Professor Joseph J Daynes and Mr Pickett for their excellent assistance assist-ance as accompanists to Mr Willard Weihe and Professor H S Krouse for their superb numbers upon the programme to Miss Ella Olsen and tUe Ladies Guitar and Mandolin Club for their exquisite renditions ren-ditions to Mr E Wetzel and tee Guitar and Mandolin Club for their excellent selections se-lections to Professor H S Krouse and the Apollo club who ably assisted to Mrs Bessie DeanAllison Miss Lillie Snyder Mrs Agnes OlsenThomas Mrs Lizzie ThomasEdward Miss Viola Pratt and Messrs Easton Pyper Spencer Goddard and all of the soloists and others who participated parti-cipated in the special features of the festival festi-val to the music loving public who have so generously exhibited their appreciation of the Choral societys efforts and in conclusion con-clusion to the press of Salt Lake City for the many generous compliments and magnificent magni-ficent tributes they have from time to time bestowed upon the Choral society and Its June Festival of the year 1691 led English oratorio with Albert Randeg ger the most famous teacher there and tha man who wrote for him tho song The Mariners Home is the Sea which he rendered ren-dered yesterday While with Randegger Mr Whitney received an offer from Christchurch Christ-church in Now York of l75 per Sunday as principal basso which ho accepted After singing there for one year he took an engagement with Theodore Thomas for a season of travel with his famous orchestra orches-tra Since then Mr Whitney has sung in England two seasons in oratorio and concert con-cert and associated with such artists as Mesdames Lemons Sbcrrinrton Ruders dorff Christine Neilson Patoy Parepa Rosa Patti Titiens Antoinette An-toinette Sterling Mr Sims Reeves Santiy Edmund Lloyd Vernon Rigley Stockhausen and many others of the first rank He has sung with such conductors I as Sir Michel Costa Sir Jules Benedict Henry Leslie Joseph Barnaby August I Manns Sir Arthur Sullivan Sir Charles Halle etc During his last visit to England Eng-land he received an invitation to take part in the centennial celebration at Philadelphia Philadel-phia as the only vocal soloist a cantata having hav-ing been written for that occasion by Sidney Sid-ney Lannier music by Dudley Buck containing con-taining a fine bass solo written expressly for Mr Whitney At the performance of the cantata was an audience of 100000 people peo-ple not one of whom failed to hear every word of Mr Whitneys solo The singer considers that performance the greatest event of his life Mr Whitney has sung in nine out of the ten music festivals given in Cincinnati and in nearly all the great Boston Handel and Haydn festivals also in many in Chicago St Louis New York Indianapolis Cleveland Cleve-land San Francisco and in fact nearly allover all-over the country he has recently been on the great Gilmore tour Mr Whitney has been nine years in opera see with the Boston Ideals and two with the American Opera company with Theodore Thomas director He has acquired a goodly fortune as a result of his labors and lives in a country seat just out of Boston where he has a great trout pond that is famous all over Now England A pleasant circumstance of Mr Whit neys stay here was the discovery of the fact that he and Bishop O F Whitney of this city are relatives though very distant ones The singers family Bible in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts and the bishops family Bible here both start off wfth the same ancestors John j f and Elinor Whitney Watertown Massachusetts Massa-chusetts 1635 fi m tf f l 7J Emma C Thursby was born in Brooklyn N Y All her published notices nowadays nowa-days are silent regarding the date but we judge it was somewhere between 1800 and 1855 Her parents were wealthy and she studied music as a pastime it stood her in good stead however for with her fathers death which took place when she was twelve years of age came complete financial finan-cial ruin to her family At that early age her voice was a remarkable one and she determined to devote the gift heaven had given her to the support of her mother She had been reared in strict Puritan fashion and sought admittance to the church instead of the theatre as a means of attaining her end She has ever since I kept to the concert platform instead of tbe operatic stage though she has been the recipient I re-cipient of some very tempting and flattering flatter-ing offers A French critic in the Gaulote tells bow she gained her first entry into I the great world One day says he Mr Maurice Stra kosch was passing through Nov York Strakosch you know well the brotherin F t t 1 N 1f Y r fL 4 rii 7N Y 0 I n5 iil f I o flO 4 lar rt1 cpJW1 7 lit ih I kQ rc c jI f4P1 i itt I cat1i 0 c 5 r i pf s i vt 4i 1ri a k 2 J5 4 1 a n tj1 t c r 1A s i V 3T3 ST O ft o < + tt o < I cores at first nothing escaped without a tremendous rccall and sometimes a triple encore Miss Thursby had to sing three times and she was called back five Whitney Whit-ney awoke a storm of applause the gret test of the whole season for his Norma selection selec-tion with the male voices By request from the audience he responded with Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep and as the last majestic one rolled away it seemed as if the audi jnce would tear up the benches in their enthusiasm Again and again he was called back to bow his acknowledgments Everything else was up to the standard Weihe had three calls Easton Mrs Thomas and Goddard a deservedly great encore Radcliffe surpassed himself for his solos and accompaniments Bessie Dean astonished everyone Her high A fiat is superb and her low B not less soRer so-Rer progress has been wonderful There were so many encores that it was after 10 before The Spring commenced and charming as it was with Whitney Whit-ney Thursby and Pyper in the solo parts and the great chorus lending their sonorous support the heat and the lateness of the hour combined to I dampen the enthusiasm bu the rendering 1 was something althogether new in this city I Thelibretto was followed with vivid interest I inter-est Mr Pyper in special deserves decided commendation He has never done better work than in this festival and last evening he stood up with the great stars and filled his part most nobly The chorus did the great Damascus piece I nobly and for an encore Mr Stephens announced an-nounced The Summer one of the gems of the matinee At 1115 oclock the audience dispersed Mr Stephens thanked the chorus and soloists solo-ists they responded with a burst of applause ap-plause for him and the great affair was over 4 m f IIi 1 j1 I IJ I Mr Whitney of which the above is a good picture leaves this morning fur Obor lin Ohio where ho sings in a concert during f dur-ing the week He has mado a wonderful impression in our festival and probably will be longest remembered as the one predominating pre-dominating feature of it Myron W Whitney Whit-ney was born in Ashby Mass how long ago we do not knowwe should say from fortyfive to fifty years ago He studied music several years in Boston under E H Frost and sang occasionally in concert and oratorio but not with much satisfaction to himself He accordingly determined to study in Europe with the best masters and went to Florence Italy in ISGJ There he took a long course of study with Signor Yannucini the most celebrated teacher of the voice in Italy To this teachers method of using the vocal organs Mr Whitney ascribes as-cribes most of his real success After leaving Italy he went to London and stud law of Adelina Patti tho Christopher Columbus Co-lumbus of throats of gold a complete musician musi-cian the first and last of improssarios Some one told him about Miss Emma Sunday came he followed the crowd and betook himself piously to tho temple Piously Pi-ously or curiously I do not know but what does that signify l It is true that he hoard but little of the sermon after the opening hymn for he was plunged into mystic ec stacies at hearing the invisible singer of the organ loft After service the impressario obtained an introduction to Miss Thursby and made the most brilliant propositions to her Had tha young singer nay right to refuse Was she able to push away the good fortune which had come to her and repent of her former rigor towards herself That is possible in a word for her longer to conceal her gift from heaven this marvellous voice fitted for all the pure and noble purposes of art Certainly not and even less because her religious scruples were respected Mr Strakosch asked hrr not to go upon the boaras of the theatru but simply upon the platform of the concert hall Under these conditions Miss Thursby signed a contract for the proposed engagement engage-ment and after some weeks of special study made her first appearance before the public and under the personal direction of her imprcssario She surprised and enchanted her audience audi-ence and won such a triumph as is filled j with sweetness to a young artist From this first moment Miss Thursbys reputation reputa-tion was established in America it now remained for her to be crowned by the prandpublic of London and Vienna of Berlin and Paris Thursby has sung in every capital in Europe and in America tier name is almost a household word If we were asked whether we considered her as good an artist today as she was ten years ago we should be compelled to answer No A voico which has been constantly used ushers us-hers has for fifteen years must lose something some-thing of its youthful freshness That she is still a great artist no ono who witnessed the enthusiasm she awoke at our festival could for a moment doubt Miss Thursby and her sister go to San Francisco tomorrow I wl P1 p I I 1 1 This picture which at first glance might be taken for a cut of Oliver Goldsmith is a reproduction of the features of the young musical giant on whose shoulders so much of the tremendous weight of the festival has rested Mr Stephens is a young man I who belongs to the selfmade class and I one of the best instances that this genera tion furnishes of how talent and determination determin-ation will push their way to the top He was born in Carmarthenshire Wales in 854 and is consequently thirtyseven years of age He came with his parents to Utah in 1806 when he was twelve years of age They settled in the small garden town of Willard north ot Ogden and there the early teens of the young musician were devoted to herding sheep and performing other offices necessary to aid the old folks in a struggle for a livelihood He had a passionate ionate fondness for music from his childhood child-hood and possessing a good alto voice as a boy he joined the Willard choir and continued tinued under the tutelage of Mr Daniel Tovey Mr David Jones and Mr Edward Woozley It is an interesting that the first and last named of these gentlemen should have traveled a long distance to be present at the festival to see their former pupil mounted on the high pedestal to whIch he has attained Stephens gained the greater part of his early musical knowl edge from selfinstruction ho learned to read music while tending tlocks on the hills and studied harmony composition and counterpoint while following the plow in the field Although largely selftaupht he I says himself that he owes much to the en I couraeoment of the three choir leaders named above An excessive timidity and J bashfulness under Which he labored as a boy however prevented him from receiving receiv-ing all the benefits from these instructions ho might have done From the time he was I seventeen till he reached the ago of twenty I I two Stephens was a day laborer I on tho Utah Northern railroad he took charge of the Willard choir at seventeen and all that hard period he was toiling as a grader or scraper his constitution was always somewhat weakly and such work taxed him severelyhe pursued his studies in his spare inomeutsat night During this time he wrote many of the songs choruses glees and childrens choruses which have latel > seen the light for the first time At the age of twentytwo Alex Lewis leader of the Loan choir persuaded him to remove re-move to that place and become organist for the choir Tnis was a side occupation however that did not yield a livelihood and he took up the occupation of striker or assistant to a blacksmith Six weeks of this severe life however wore him out and he decided then to make music his profession profes-sion As a teacher in Lcccn he was a success suc-cess and his two years labor there made bis name known in Salt Lake before he decided to remove here He at once took a I leading position as u teacher of childrens classes and has rapidly advanced as an organizer of choruso clubs a producer pro-ducer of operas concerts and festi vals till ho is tho host known and most firmly established musical figure in I tho community today He once spent ten months studying in the Boston conservatory conserva-tory and that did a great deal for him Ho organized the present choral society after Gilmores visit and lately took charge of the tabernacle choir His energy and talent were never better illustrated than in this latest step for under his guidance in the brief coarse of a few months the choir has been rejuvenated and revolutionized and quadrupled in strength and efficiency the organ improvements and the great change in the seating arrangements of the choir are aU due to Lit ideas and efforts Stephens is a delightful personality to all who come in contact with him he will probably never rub off all the old fashionedness that his early contact with bard country life gave to him and wo dont know that his friends would desire it Ho is proud of the fact that he was a country boy notion ago and like old man Rogers in Esmeralda he takes no pains t conceal con-ceal whatever North Callny ways he may have Nothing for instance could induce in-duce him to don a swallow tail coat in the festival and he says he hopes ho will never be seen in one alive or dead He is gentle asa woman but a terror for work and discipline dis-cipline as the choral and choir well know He is a wonderful manager and holds his people together by G tact little short of wonderful Unlike most musicians Mr Stephens is blessed with a keen business sense as well as a musical ono He has made an excellent Scary for the past few years and several pieces of real estate in Salt Lake and a small herd of horned stock bear witness to his wisdom in investing invest-ing His one fault is that he is a bachelor but that his friends are in strong hopes of being able to induce him to remedy We believe WhIny and Thursby go away from Salt Lake with a considerably heightened idea of her importance as a musical center Both were In rapture over our great chorus and both expressed their surprise that there should be a second society so-ciety a church choirin Salt Lake almost al-most a duplicate in number Both were deeply impressed with Weihe5 and Mrs Alison and both were more than interested in the unique number given by the male I mandolin and guitar club Friday evening When the charming lady club came out in costumes at the matinee and Miss Olsen took her place at their bead and waved the baton in true professional style Mr Whitney looked at Miss Thursby and Miss Thursby looked at Mr Whitney with expressions ex-pressions that seemed to say What manner man-ner of community is i this we have fallen int anyway We warrant that no other city in the west of America affords talent of such an high order or of such a variegated vare gated quality S 4 While we are on the subject of the mandolin man-dolin and guitar clubs we would like to advance one suggestion We feel sure a observance of it will conduce to make tho I present high popularity of both club more I lasting It is this That in responding to I encores and they invariably have to respond I re-spond they make briefer selections There are so many of the club to seat that it takes a long time to bring the whole club upon I the plctform take them off and bring them on again and if a pro r mmo i loutr tho I audience is in dancer of being wearied Wo also think the lady and gentleman conductors con-ductors could profit by a course in baton 1 beatingand especially the gentleman > 4 Wax Works contributes the following Impressious of tho festival For a number of years I was a regular customer of the Cincinnati May festivals and a person who is familiar with the work done there is acquainted with the best there is to be had in the festival hue Cincinnati Is crammed with a great art and music iov inn people and as the homo of Theodore Tnomas and his famous orchestra for so many yours it had all the resources at its command necessary to give festivals on a grand scale And yet here in Utah I attended a festival festi-val as enjoyable and with some features of stringed instruments that were unknown to the great festivals of the Paris of America Amer-ica icaThe The liberality of the tabernacle trustees in permitting that grand building be used for musical entertainments makes everything every-thing possible for Utah This generous action ac-tion is especially gratifying to me a 1 once was denied a largo Methodist church for a similar purpose the deacons deciding that the class of people who attend festivals are liable to spit tooacco on the carpets There were a few things that caught my eye at Fridays performance and the one that was especially noticeable was the many handsome plump aud beautiful ladies in the chorus Choruses in the east are as a rule scrawnythe soloists 5iivai ably monopolize the fatexcept Mrs Os I good and a few other oratoric singers who were too angelic to take on fleshy covering I Tae old stagers Anna Louise Cary Clara Louise Kellogg and singers of their day were always in prime condition The dresses of our chorus girls were simply I exquisite and the effect of the blue pink and white under the electric light with I rosy faces and alabaster necks rising tier I after tier to the great organ with the I right wing tipped with the ebony of males in dark evening dress was a picure that I will never fate from my memory I True grand majestic Whitney the Old Ironsides ot bassos whose matchless voice I it true as steel and effective as a thunderbolt I thunder-bolt who stands among singers as the Guldstone of song what I privilege it was to hear him I And sweet Emma Thursby my first recollections of herwero so pleasant that I I cannot refrain from speaking of them I wrote Miss Thursby a personal letter asking ask-ing her to sing at Lima Ohio She came under the management of Max Strakoscb tbe imprcssarion of imprcssarios In the afternoon Strakosch wus walking with me down street when be said he desired to buy some grapes for his birds Alter securing se-curing a couple of pounds he invited me togo I I to-go along and see him feed his birds 1 accepted i ac-cepted as I was curious to know what kind I of birds a big handsome Frenchman like Strakosch was toting around the country I On arriving at the hotel he opened the door of tho parlor and with a wave of the I hand pointed out Miss Thursby and her sister saying JCnese are my birds When I fee them grapes they sing better and ho proceeded to band them a grape at a time as i they were mere children The incident was dear to me as it illustrated the sweet innocent nature of Miss Thurs i by who through all her fame retains the charm of unspoiled childhcod j I was trio greatest show on earth for a 5 I and settled to my mind tho fact that Salt Lake city is not away beck but several centuries ahead of the times I What other city can beast of such a festival in such a hal except Cincinnati the mother of all May festivals and a few I other cities with a quarter of a million peoulo I The reference to Theodore Thomas as reerence the back bone of the Cincinnati festival suggests that bait Like festivals good as they arc will always lack the one thing needful until an orchestra in keeping with the tabernacle the choir and the oman is secured seurc C 4 I Roland Reed will hereafter enjoy the distinction of having drawn two big audiences audi-ences at the theutra in the face oi the Choral societys big pull and the excellent programme presented at the tabernacle To say that his Lend Me Your Wife is a howling success is to put it mildly indeed and had it not been for the Cnoral the standing room only card would have been tnding put out oach evening Mr Reed has every I I reason to congratulate himself on tho outcome out-come under the circumstances and wo I shall be glad to ace him under more favorable favor-able conditions Tho increasing interest in the tonic solfa I system among those who have hitherto opposed 1 op-posed it is one of the curious signs of the times in tho musical world Regarding I the system Mr J S Lewis who has had years of experience in it thus writes THE I HERVLD The efforts which are now being I I be-ing made to introduce the tonic solfa system sys-tem of music in this territory is praiseworthy I praise-worthy They deserve the support and I cooperation of every lover of the divine art The system now has the unqualified approval of those who understand its superior I I su-perior advantages over the old mysterious I I I 1 peror notation The tonic solfa method is plain simple and comprehensive it I brings music ot a high grade down to the I capacity of tho lisping child A knowledge of this system simplifies tenfold the art of reaching the old notation It does away completely with all of the mysteries of the stat the lines spaces clefs sharps aDd fiats in the signatures The system is complete in every respect and covers entirely tho broad field of music In it we find tho standard music of Great Britain and the great operas and oratorios There were no less than forty thousand copies of the Messiah published in this notation during the past year I teaches the mental effect of each of the seven tones in the diatonic scale It gives a descriptive name to each of these tones which name describes the mental effect ef-fect of the tone and is so closely associated sedated with the tone itself that a child of ordinary talent can be easily taught to sing or stnke it with certainty Enclaud Scotland and Wales have adopted the tonic solfa notation in all their schools Evidently Evi-dently it is the coming system here also though possibly like a other great truths I I it may receive it share of opposition until I the time comes when it will be better known 4 4 4 I Shenandoah will have its third production produc-tion at tho Suit Lake theatre Friday Saturday Sat-urday matinee and cl bt June 12 and 13 when it will be presented by the exact and original New York cost scenery and effects ef-fects which have characterized its wonderful wonder-ful success all over the Englishspeaking world It is universally conceded to be the greatest dramatic and moneyed success this country has seen lor years Mr Bron sou Howard the uutuor las received more i in royalties from this one piece than has been tat entire profits of some of the most notable productions we huve seen Mr Howard has the distinction of holding at I I I present the positkn of Americas leaulag arauiatist In the Hourietta The Bankers Daughter Young Mrs Wlu I tnrop One of Our Girls aud Saratoga I I toga Mr Howard has undouotediy furnished fur-nished the stage of the United Stales with several of its pronounced successes of modern I mod-ern days He knows with wuat the thea tregoersaro most please J and proves um a very agreeable way You arc not startled by any great dramatic tinish in dhenAn I doab You are charmed into 1 s uso of i complete forgetfulness of jour surroundings surround-ings The walls of tie theatre melt away I in the undulating autumntinted bills I I which surround the beautiful valley of I Shenandoah and the paint and canvas ot the scenery lose their artificiality while I the decorations overhead have given place to the blue sunkissed sky The characters lof j the stage too have become alive and prove reality and their doings contra con-tra you as much as if you your I self were one of their party and your lifes happiness depended upon the p I result of their efforts and when all is over und the curtain has been rung down upon the last act you soin to awaken as from a dream tnat was really nothing and has been a Heating memory of your past The scenes wnich you witness impress themselves upon your mind where they tarry for many days furnishing food for wholesome thought and meditation The slumbering patriotism is brought face to face with the trials hardships and suffer uter ings of those defeated men wno have bled and died that their country might live and their countrys flag float in triumph above tbe heads of a free and great prosperity Then do you realize tho lull force o the emotions which can swell alone and strain their actions to the very limits of disaster and posterity Carlyle Burbeck and tho other favorites are with this qornpuny I Tho Limited Mail said to be a very original and unique drama dealing with the intricacies of telegraph and railroad I station life comes to the theater this week A Columbus paper says somewhat glowingly The initial presentation of The Limited MaUt last night was a grand triumph for a Columbus man Elmer E Vance the author has been a telegraph operator at the Columbus union depot for years His leisure time has not been devoted to loaf tmo ote ing or aissipution nor to empty observations observa-tions about the depot He has seen the limited mail como and go daily and has given them their orders Ihe successful production of his conception is the climax of years df study He has reason to feel proud and everybody in Columbus should feel proud of him and of his great play He deserves success but those who witness the grand performance should remember that it represents the work of many nights for many years It is gratifying to know that Mr Vance his been financially able to bring out the piece in such an elaborate manner There never was such a performance perform-ance that pleased the people better here and will meet with favor wherever it appears ap-pears We opine that the sensation which the I Tribune tried to make out of the very ordinary fact that Peter McCourt is advertised ad-vertised in New York as manager of the Salt Lake theater will turn out to be very I little to make I sensation of Mr Burton will return from New York to morrow or next day and it will be found that there tere I has not been the slightest change in the conduct of the Salt Lake theatre Mr Mc Courts name is placed as manager solely I because of the influence he has in the east as manager of the Tabor Grand The relations I re-lations existing between Al Hayman tho Frohmans Mr McCourt and the Salt Lake theatre will be somewhat more intimate from now on but the local management will undergo no change 4 The altogether coarse and stupid assault made by tho Tribune on the accompanist of the festival Mr Daynes was condemned I on all bends yesterday Mr Whitney and Miss Thursby both praised the accompanist and the statement that Mr Daynes only played a lura to tum accompaniment is an J evidence of the Ignorance of the I wouldbo critic Ho played the music I as it was written and had he burst into tho runs trills and pyrotechnics that the Tribune writer is captivated by he would have been censured and justly A man who doesnt know enough of music to be aware that the number put down to the Apollo club contained a typographical error and who goes ahead and criticizes Sullivans divine Lost Chord as The Last Chord with almost the learned and profound air of one who helped tho author write it such a nina ought to he put through a vleorous course of musical education edu-cation and then shot Notes This weeks Mirror has a most excellent nil length portrait Henry Miller M Manning Effle Ellslers comedy recently re-cently tried on the dog In this city has scored a ghastly failure In New York Marie Burroughs has been reengaged to support sup-port E S Wlllnrd for next season which will commence in Philadelphia in September John L Sullivan has been expelled from the Elks The organization does not think that Joh however strong has been elevating the ataKe Mirror Miss Patti Rosa has a new play called Dolly Varden the work of Mr Charles T Vincent which she expects to produce In Chicago for the first time in August The little actress intends paying another visit to Australia In IS92 Fanny Rice will star Her tour wf begin at the Tremont theatre Boston on September 7 She will appear 1 a spick and span new farce I comedy adapted from tho French by Arthur Wailack in which she will play the part ot Violet Carroll I transpires that the report of Janauschecks retirement was a canard circulated by an retrement canar I agent she had discharged Janauscheck confesses con-fesses however that the public no longer wants I tragedy and that henceforth she will devote I her talents to the exposition of a lighter form of i dramatic work I E L Lomax general passenger and ticket I agent of the Union Pacific railroad gave a supper on Monday evening at the Matson Riche to Sidney Armstrong Annie and Maude Adams WilUam Morris and Al Morrissey of Charles Frohmans Men and Women company com-pany JKJiV ask Drama The tlrst public meeting of the Salt Lake Tonic Salfa society will be held in the Fifteenth teenth ward chapel on Tuesday June 9 1S91 X commencing at 8 pm Practical demonstrations demonstra-tions of the advantages of the system will b given by the speakers 1 interested are cordially invited to attend The Unitarian church choir will give a concert con-cert at the Salt Lake theatre on Thur day evening even-ing June t Proceeds are for the benefit ol the choir fund Among those who will appear will be Mrs V M C Siva always popular with Salt Lake music lovers Ir Metcalf Prof Weihe and Prof Kranse This i sufficient I suffi-cient to guarantee 1 highclass entertainment As Prof Weihe will shortly leave for Berlin this will probable be the last time he will be heard for tome time Modjeska is to appear next season in a modern American play called the Tragic Mask She has four new pieces for her repertoire reper-toire The Roses of Tyburn a German historical his-torical play is one of them A new version ot Marie Antoinette will also b acted by her She will appear In New York in January at tho Fifth Avenue theatre under the management of Frank G Cotter ftr tro weeks Last month Madame Mcdjeaka appeared at Prague in the Theatre Luppald On the last night she was presented with a silver wreath on which was Mirror engraved To the Queen of Dramatic Ar t There are beginning to be some well defined doubts as to the tour of Mr Bill Nyes play which Stuart Robson was to support with his money and Mr Seabrooke was to Irradiate with his genius font there is a genius on the American Ameri-can sIage it Is Tom Seabroolte but the play does not seem to materialize and George Floyd who was to have been Its manager Is reported re-ported to have said in Chicago that he doesn think i will como to anything and that he will probably take out some other organization ThU oraiaton t probably very interesting to Floyd but how about Mr Soabio jke and his tour and Mr Kobsoi who nas put In his money and engaged the Union Square for ten or twelve weeks and how aoout 11 Bill Nye and his play I i a funny speculation any way for an actor to put OeOorfl2OOO on an unknown play by ana an-a thor who had never written a play before Journal htj New York Journal says of the play In which Henry Miller is doing the leading part The Merchant is only doing 1 fair business at the Madison Square and Us career Is not likely to be a long one for some other company will come tnere in June to replace a piece that while pretty will probably never be anything more than a moderate success It seems that the optimistic telegrams which reach this country about the great success of E E Kico in Australia turn out merely echoes of the sanguinity of temperament that distinguishes distin-guishes the principal apostle of the nude on the American stage Tho truth now comes to haud Eangeline has been a dreadful failure and already Rice has telegraphed to tan FrancUco and Portland for means to help him out of the Antipodes I is pretty saw to bay that he will not get it |