Show GLIMMERINGS Mr and Mrs Nat C Goodwin Max Maxine iCe ine Elliott will make their sed revival of The Merchant of Ven Venice VenIce ice at the National theatre Washing Washington ton Lon on May 6 George W Lederer Leder r announces that he has completed negotiations to erect in New ew York City a big bg theatre the ex exact act duplicate of the London Hippo Hippodrome Hippodrome Hippodrome drome a sort of compromise between a theatre and a circus Under Two Flags with Miss Blanche Bates atthe at the Garden theatre th atre New York gives every promise of a along along long run and the managers already declare d clare that no other attraction Is like likely likely likely ly to be needed there for the rest of the season Miss Viola Vi la Allens engagement at the Theatre Republic in In the Palace of the King is proving to be one of the most successful of t season For over two months the house has been well filled and the advance sale insures continued prosperity Now that Olga has re returned returned returned turned to England the only actors from that country who ho are conspicuously bidding for fr American Ameri an favor are John Hare and E S Willard who arse to visit the west vest shortly Mr Hare has had a noteworthy success with The Gay Gaj Lord but Mr Wil WH Willards Willards lards tour although profitable is un Understood not to have attracted the at attention attention that other Ameri Amen American American can trips He is playing a somewhat extensive exten S ive repertoire ire that th includes deS The Professors Love Story The Middle Middleman MIddleman Middleman man Tom Pinch Pin David Garrick among other plays Willard is among Manager I bookings New Orleans Pic Picayune ne There was wa only one otie o e session yesterday orth of path Cath Catholic olic Winter school Henry H nr Austin Ad Adams ams lectured at 4 in the evening on The Theatre In the course co urse of his hh remarks he said There are three great groups in the modern theatre First The melodramatic bombas bombastic bombasI t tie tic epigrammatic Q l e society s play Second The poisonous mephitic narcotic modern society problem play Third The rural bucolic milkmaid sort of play with daises and butter buttercups buttercups cups and cows and cattle plays plas a la Ia Sol Smith Russell These kinds of plays are ale in no sense true educational or even re remotely remotelY remotely representative of what they profess to how us ir They Y haVe liae no syn synthesis S yn 11 thesis thes is of the of life which the ethics of the play demand and they violate the dramatic unities It is not generally understood that the Opera company gives but three performances a week this for forthe forthe the reason that Marcella is at its head and no performance is given given given en at which she does poes not appear The company Invariably ly arrive a day in ad advance advance vance of f an engagement which means a good rest There are no DO tired voices and in consequence a perfect perform performance performance ance is assured The New York Y rk Journal editorially combats a clerical contention made nade be fore the Actors Church alliance that managers produce impure plays simply because beca se the public demands them The Old Homestead Shore Acres and Clyde new Lovers Lane are packing the theatres in which they are given while the farce of frivolity and drama of degeneracy are swiftly declining George W Heintz general passenger SH f st nt of the h Bis iti iund W rail railway railway way placed a private car at the dis disposal disposal disposal of the Way Down East com corn company company pany Sunday morning last so that they could view viewS the incomparable scenery by daylight which this road is noted for Mr Heintz went further by ing the entire company with an elegant lunch It is the intention of the Way Down East company to pre present present present sent him in return ret rn for his courtesy courtes a handsome Elk charm Miss Shanna Cummings a sister of Mrs Ella CummIngs Wetzell of this city has introduced in New York the novelty of singing oratorio in costume I It is rather an odd experiment and the tIt I musical papers have taken it up and I made various comments Miss Cum Cam Cummings Cummings is the highest salaried church singer in the city of New York and as such anything of her creation will nat naturally naturally naturally arouse a strong interest no mat ter tel what it may be Adolf Dittmann manager of the Ditt Dittmann mann music publishing house at Chi Chicago Chicago cago and formerly a resident of Utah has issued his new song For You Alone which gives every promise of ot becoming one of the most popular bal lads of the day Mr Dittmann is a native nathe Utahn but went to Chicag eighteen months ago to start in busi I ness From all reports he is pros The organ organ concert by Clarence Eddy one of the foremost organists of Amer Iner lea ica occurs at the tile Congregational church Tuesday evening Mr Eddy Is assisted this season by Miss Anna WIn WInnifred Stuart of Portland a talented young vocalist Mr lIr Hedgeland of the Kimball Organ company which has the contract cov coy ering the remodeling of ol the tabernacle organ is expected to arrive from Chi Chicago Chicago hI cago cage toda today He is bringing a consign ment of pipes for the instrument Work has been going on steadily all week Eugenie Blair was the most pointed woman in Salt Lake last week Her manager acting on her request made ma e all arrangements for the com corn company company pany to spend Sunday here in order to hear the tabernacle organ Later they heard of the improvements now being made which of course made the treat trea t impossible il |