| Show J THE THEATRlCAL WORLD f Ned Boyle Preparing to Produce I His New Play n 1 t DAILEYS COUNTRY SPORT f r Annie OilaHey flakes a Great Hit in r Frisco i f Barlow Brothers Minstrels This Week The Stock Company to Produce May i Blossom with a Strong Cast Gossip Gos-sip oC Plays and Players eo Last week witnessed the most important im portant event of the theatrical sea SO 1 the production of Friends Play and company are equal if not super i for to any combination visiting us this year Added to this fact that the i I 1 author is a Salt Lake lad and that the play had its initial production here makes the coming of Friends i doubly interesting When Mr Royle produced his play here two years ago the verdict was I that the play had strong elements of j I success in It When it was produced in New York City some months later it had not only the elements of success suc-cess it had success itself spelled entirely r en-tirely in capitals In the iterim Mr Royle had boiled it down and rebuilt it and put it into almost its present shape As it stands today Friends is a play of strong dramatic Interest and better still of strong human interest in-terest It Is chuck full of bright things and clean comedy There is rot a dull line In it and the Interest does not lag for a single moment from I tfce time the curtain goes up on the first act until it rings down on the last I i Mr Royle has a great future before him While pleased with the great I success of Friends he has not allowed al-lowed his pen to rest in Idleness and already has ready for production a play of entirely different nature which will be tried at the first favorable opportunity op-portunity He is now gathering material mater-ial for still another play which he plans to make a companion piece to Friends Mr Royle can rest assured assur-ed the city of his boyhood is full of friends that will watch his future with keen interest and much pride i i i Friday and Saturday night we were t regaled with a visit from Peter J Dailey supported by a clever company of specialty people Prominent in the cast was May Irwin a great favorite with our local theatregoers Miss Ir wins song My Mother Said Dont was perhaps the gem of the evening i Together Mr Dailey and May Irv In are a great pair of fun makers The female end of the cast was rather given giv-en to abbreviated skirts but as their underpinning was very shapely and withal very agile and graceful they were easily forgiven A Country Sport had just enough pi > t to hold together a lot of clever specialty people and that seemed to be all the audience asked Friday I evening four curtain calls were given after the first act an unusual thing for an entertainment of this class The reception Miss Annie OMalley I has had since she joined Frank Dan iels Little Puck has been very marked so much so that her friends and they are many are anticipating for her a brilliant future The Sn Francisco Examiner speaking of Miss OMalley says The novelty and most decided hit of Little Puck was a well dressed frail little girl who sang Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep in a basso profundo which would have done credit to the great Fiellman She had t > respond to several encores i i i Monday and Tuesday evenings Bar low Brothers minstrels will pay us a I visit The name is new with us but it is well known in eastern and southern south-ern circuits and they come with good endorsements A ninstrel performance perform-ance is divided usually into three parts the first part sr overture in I which the festive end man gets in his work the specialty programme in which the juggler acrobat the mono IOET man and the musical teams hold to 11 closing with the afterpiece r A the whole company appears in ai idiotic farce Many of the minstrel f npanies have cut off the afterpiece T a first part of Barlow Brothers astrels have the reputation of being c 1 an bright witty and full of music while the setting is rich and artistic 17 ae specialty programme numbers in is cast some very well known jugglers jug-glers acrobats contortionists and musical mu-sical teams i i i The Salt Lake Stock company is billed to appear at the theatre the last three nights of this week in May Blossom Our local company is fortunate fortu-nate in getting Thanksgiving week which is always sought after by managers man-agers Thanksgiving day is the best I of all the holidays for the theatrical business Christmas and New Years are essentially home days but the inclination in-clination to go to the theatre after a good Thanksgiving dinner is very common and widespread May Blossom was produced at the Madison Square theatre New York in 1S82 and ran for 300 consecutive nights more than enough to brand it as one of the great New York successes It bel ngs to the same class of plays as Hazel Kirke and Eoireralda Pavid Belasco was the author and his name Is connected with some of Americas Amer-icas greatest dramatic successes The Wife Charity Ball Men and Women Tho Girl I Left Behind Me being among these The company Is said to be well cast and will doubtless give a performance on a par with their greatest successes The Two Orphans and Romany Rye Mr T F OMalley who is the stage director and who has a leading part In the production was in the original cast of May Blossom Stage Gossip Chauncey Olcott is doing a good business busi-ness in Mavourneen M B Curtis is negotiating with John Stetson for a revival of Saml of Pos Po-s n senRobert Robert Graham has a play with the familiarsounding title of After the BalL Stuart Robson began his tour In Baltimore Bal-timore November 13 with the Comedy of Errors Sol Smith Russell closes his season v In March and will go to Europe for a wellearned vacation Billy Birch the famous minstrel comedian is llvlnff in New York in retirement re-tirement He Is 64 years old Sylvia Gerrish is reported to be the a wife of young Hilton son of exJudge i Hilton heir to the A T Stewart estate Maud Adams in Masked Ball had a very engagement successful lately at the Broad Street theatre Philadelphia Philadel-phia As an illustration of the high salaries sal-aries paid to popular actresses Theresa Vaughn receives 5300 a week for her work in 1492 I The Texan with Its author Tyron Power as the hero will be tried soon at a matinee in the Fifth Avenue theatre the-atre New York Fanny Rices new play Little Miss Innocence Abroad bas made a success suc-cess and will replace A Jolly Surprise for the balance of the season When A M Palmers company returns i re-turns to New York they will use as aii opening play The Price of Silence which they have been playing in Chicago 1 Gebge Lipsher of New Orleans who a C CI K a 3 o adapted and rearranged Faust for Lewis Morrison is writing a new play for that actor It will probably be produced pro-duced next season Chauncey Olcott is said to have a much better voice than Scanlan had It is a sweet highlycultivated tenor His singing of Scanlans old songs is a strong feature in Mavourneen Maida Craigen and Frederick Paul ding carry most of the play A Duel of Hearts on their own shoulders It is a simple but effective romantic drama and one which has given them much success When Thomas W Keene adds The Merchant of Venice to his repertoire as he will do shortly five firstclass companies will be using the piece These are Irving Mansfield Modjeska Austin Clarke and Keene Augustin Dalys poor season in London will be the means of bringing him back to America earlier than was anticipated Dalys theatre is engaged for a burlesque company at the time Dalys company will be in this country Clara Morris has closed her Chicago engagement which is said to have been the most profitable that actress has ever played in the Wonder of the West Miss Morris is to tour the northwest during the next few weeks II Clara Qualitz who was the favorite toe dancer with Hendersons Extravaganza Extrav-aganza company four years ago when they presented The Crystal Slipper in Salt Lake is now one of the attractions attrac-tions at Koster Bials variety theatre in New York The Milk White Flag goes into rehearsals re-hearsals next week at the Madison Square theatre with Isabella Coe in the leading part The performance will be given in Wilkesbarre and then the play will occupy the Park theatre in Boston for a run Mile Rhea began a tour of Dakota and Montana a week ago She has not visited that part of the country before for several years On the 4th of December Mlle Rhea will present the Queen of Sheba in San Francisco at Stockwells theatre Jacob Litt and Thomas H Davis are to separate at the end of this season Mr Litt is the sole owner of three successful plays In Old Kentucky Ken-tucky The Ensign and Yon Yon son and he will direct their movements move-ments himself next year The dreadful suspicion that Miss Ro sina Vokes Is slowly but surely succumbing suc-cumbing to hereditary consumption is becoming current She is very weak and troubled with an aggravating cough Miss Vokes is now resting in Colorado Springs hoping to regain her health Mr James L Powers lost all of his scenery in the fire which burned down the handsome new Lyceum theatre in Memphis Mr Powers had finished his play and the theatre was closed for the night when the fire was discovered but it was too late to save anything Mr Powers was much hurried hur-ried to get a new outfit for his Chicago engagement Becket which Henry Irving is presenting pre-senting at Abbeys theatre in New York was to have been produced by I the late Lawrence Barrett who had i secured the American rights to the play He had all the models for the scenery and the designs for the costumes I cos-tumes prepared and expected to spend 40000 on the production I A oneact comedy by Alice E Ives author of Lorine will be produced Thursday evening November 23 at the Berkeley Lyceum theatre under the management of Franklin H Sargent director of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts It is the first of a series of subscription performances to be given during the winter at this theatre the-atre The new opera house at Murray erected by Mr Harry Haynes will be opened in about three weeks by the veteran character actor and comedian I Mr Phil Margetts assisted by a fine I company of ladies and gentlemen from this city The pieces we understand i will be the sterling old drama The I Chimney Corner and the very funny I afterpiece Family Jars That the public is pleased with the excellent performance of Arrahna Pogue at Wonderland is demonstrated by the large and appreciative audiences that have greeted the popular Stock company during the week On Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day another entire change will be made in each department and the Stock company will produce the drama Lady Audleys Secret This will be the last appearance of the Barlows and as they have been universal favorites their farewell performances will undoubtedly be marked by large I attendances from their hosts of friends |
