Show A letter from Professor Stephens to the writer dated at Denver the 15th states that the eisteddfod committee were to meet that night to consider what inducement they could offer the I tabernacle choir to visit Denver as one of the big eisteddfod features It is I understood that the expense of transporting trans-porting 300 people would be at least 4000 and that Mr Stephens is unwilling I unwill-ing to make the trip with his singers I unless Denver provides at least 51000 I There are already over 300 entries in music art and literature he says but the committee feels rightly that the I biggest feature of all would be the I great Mormon choir Mr Stephens and I his companion Mr Christopherson I are being lionized by the Welsh people of Denver and he says the hospitality I he experiences is of the breathtaking order He has put in one day at Glen I wood and will linger in the mountains I ten days longer before returning homeR j home-R co R I The Denver Republican speaks as follows of Professor Stephens errand I I to Denver Professor jjjvan Stephens director or the Mormon tabernacle choir of Salt Lake City an organization numbering 500 members is in Denver endeavoring to complete arrangements for bringing 300 of his singers to the eisteddfod cel obration next September It is the desire of Professor Stephens to have his singers take part in the festival but they will not compete in any of the chorus contests as the rules of the directors limit competing choirs to 150 members His principal reason for bringing so large a number of vocalists from Salt Lake City is to show the Denver chorus that their efforts and cooperation the eisteddfod meeting last fall in Salt Lake City were genuinely gen-uinely appreciated Although the choir as a whole will not contest for prizes many of its members will compete in the different classes of singing The choir which is composed exclusively of Mormons with a Mormon leader includes m its membership mem-bership two daughters and several grandsons and granddaughters of Brjgham Young At least 300 visitors will come from Utah with the singers and Denhalters band of forty pieces Professor Peterson director will furnish fur-nish music during the trip The latter lat-ter organization is listed to compete in one of the band contests On their way to Denver the two organizations will give concerts at Leadville anc Peublo If the choir and Denhalters band really visit Denver they will represent musical Salt Lake in truly deserving fashion The band under Professor Pederson is doing some great work nowadays and is building up a fund from the Sunday series of concerts at Saltair part of the proceeds of which go to their benefit Everyone ought to feel interested enough in the bands going to Denver to help build up its fund to the needed proportions Concert Con-cert No2 will i te given today At the Grand She will be succeeded succeed-ed by The Police Patrol a sensational sensa-tional play for which there is some admirable printing out The galleries may be relied on to do their full duty R R Trilby wound up the CallicoKes engagement at the Lyceum last night and the Callicottes came very close to being wound up with it The Herald I the other day stated that these people had no right on earth to be playing Trilby which is owned by A M Palmer and Intimated that there might be trouble over the oroduetion It appears ap-pears that Mr Palmer has already heard of the theft of his property and he yesterday wired Attorney Barlow Ferguson to have an injunction placed on the Callicottes Mr Ferguson promptly applied to the courts but before be-fore the papers could be issued it was necessary to ascertain something about the copyright by wire from New York No answer could be obtained in time to stop last nights production so the run of the piece was not interfered with Should the Callicottes however attempt to produce it elsewhere in Utah Mr Ferguson will be on their trail instanter At the next session of congress there is every probability of a law passing making play piracy a jailable offense R R RAt R-At the Lyceum this week there will be only one night open that will be Friday when a benefit to Frank W Pollard the theatrical mechanic who was so unfortunate as to lose his hand by the explosion of a bomb will be given by his friends and associates The bill will be U and I with Messrs Post and Williams in the two leading roles The house has been given rent free and we hope to see it packed in so deserving a cause R a a It transpires that the teacher of William Will-iam J Bryan in the art of elocution was the same Professor Hamill who dwelt in Salt Lake some time in the early eighties and with his pretty daughter Alice conducted some successful suc-cessful classes here Among their pupils pu-pils were Ada Dwyer Russell Bishop Whitney Governor Wells and others who have acquired local fame as orators ora-tors actors and reciters Prof Hamill says of Bryan It was in 1878 that Bryan first came into one of my classes He was a good student but an awkward speaker though keen and logical in thought Elocution seemed to be the one thing in which Bryan desired to excel excelMany Many young men with more apparent appar-ent talent would have been discouraged and never have made an effort to be come a public speaker b s 7 The Mikado the Japanese village and Japanese drinks served by Japanese Japan-ese attendants will be the features with which Garfield will seek to woo a portion of the bathing traffic tomorrow night It will be a big portion judg ing from the talk about the venture Blakemore as KoKo Truax as Yum Yum Miss Cooper as Katisha and Miss Dean as one of the maids make up a good cast in themselves Mr Richards I Mr Thomas and Mr Ashworth are as yet unknown quantities on the operatic stage The chorus we are promised is made up from the tabernacle choir If this is true and they have the proper pro-per leader the chorus will take care of its part of the entertainments entertainment-s a Probably the first thing of any note we shall have at the theatre will be the Empire theatre stock company which will call after its visit to San Francisco Viola Allen heads the ladies la-dies as of yore the familiar face of Henry Miller will be lacking but in his stead comes Dodson the newest leading man who is said to be decidedly in vogue in the metropolis R t Y George E Lask sends us from San Francisco a very elaborately gotten up souvenir of the Tivoli where he has presided for so long a stage manager Every opera produced at the popular house with the date of its production and the extent pf its run is named in the book It is copiously illustrated the faces of Cheery Lask himself and of W H Tooker being in the list In San Francisco last week the battle bat-tle between the two popularpriced companies was waged very interestingly interest-ingly Stockwells company with Frederick Warde and Rose Coughlan leading gave a dramatic version of I Carmen and the Frawley company did equally good business with London Lon-don Assurance and The Charity Ball Warde and Coughlan for 50 and 75 cents a seat is one of the summer sum-mer marvels The New York Press gives vent to some gloomy thoughts on the theme I that the old actresses are growing older and no new actresses are being developed With the exception of Maud Adams and Blanche Walsh there is not a female player of fine talent on our stage at present who is not on nodding terms with 40 What shall we do when Ada Rehan marries into the English peerage and Georgia Cayvan elopes with that Boston millionaire mil-lionaire when Viola Allen is gathered to her fathers and Fanny Davenport goes the way of all flesh These are depressing reflections and it is no wonder our office cat is down with pneumonia Itis all very well for the Frohmans and Daly and Palmer to be searching Europe with a microscope for new plays But who is going to play them When Elsie De Wolfe marries Clyde Fitch and Virginia Earned Ear-ned is absorbed by E H Sothern and Ada Rehan becomes My Lady You knowwho and Maud Adams makes up her mind to accept Richard Harding Davis and Cayvan carries off her capitalist cap-italist what will become of us Y PIn In order to pursue this matter to its mournful end continues the Press an inquiry must be instituted into our actresses ac-tresses ages to see how long we may hope to have them We find that Fanny Davenport is two years younger than Clara Morris who is five years older than Rose Coghlan who is eleven years younger than Bate Claxton who is eighteen years older than Georgia Cay van who is fifteen years younger than Agnes Booth who is sixteen years older than Maud Harris who is three years younger than Mrs Carter who is two years older than Ada Rehan To arrive at this ungallant purpose more directly we discover that Miss Rehan was born in the same moon that got full astronomically speaking although bibulous bib-ulous beatitude would have been let off with a light fine in the circumstances to celebrate the natal night of our golden diva The man in the moon I I blessed both of those beautiful babies and the date of his benediction was the year 1860 Therefore it happened that thirtysix years ago although separated sep-arated by 5000 miles of land and sea the cradles of both these youngsters were rocked by greatness and they grew up twins like two lovely berries molded on one stem Ada toddled along the banks of the Shannon into Shakespeare Shake-speare while Lillian embarked from Clinton Iowa into music and matrimony matri-mony Lillian has had too many > hus bans Ada too few and we think it would have been better if they had struck an average giving a spouse to each and leaving Signor Perugini in maiden meditation fancy free But that is a domestic matter into which we have no right to intrude What we wanted to arrive at was the fact that notwithstanding their bewitching appearance ap-pearance few of our best actresses are in the first bloom of youth a s R LONDON July 180ne of the most interesting revivals of recent years will be seen next September when Sir Henry Irving will produce Cymbellino at the Lyceum theater Sir Henry reenters into possession of the Lyceum on July 25 when Forbes Robinsons lease expires ex-pires Eric McKay is not at all pleased at the announcement that M Sardou has received a commission from Sir Henry Irving to prepare a play for the Lyceum Ly-ceum dealing with the French revolution revo-lution and having Rovestierro for its central figure Mr McKay had been building up a drama on precisely the same theme during the past year Another theater is to be added to the increasing list of London suburban playhouses play-houses The plans and site of a big house to be erected in Fulham one of the most populous districts of greater London have been approved by the London county council and building operations will be begun at once J |