Show I t pt O 0 oOA JtC 0 I t I ooooooooooooooo ill yr r Tomorrow nignt there comes to th I theatre one of those white and black combinations that seem to give en tertalmment to a certain element in the c munlty although that element ele-ment hl growing smaller all the time ever sinse befoh de war The Sunny South is a picture of l life below the late Mason and Dixon II line and gives an idea of darkey toils i and amusements Probably it will prove to be an attempt to incorporate k I negro mnstrelsy into the drama just I i i as Nellie AIcHenry undertook to Incorporate In-corporate the circus Songs and J dances colored sketches cake walks steamboat landings and all the other material usually belonging to the I minstrel stage geem to have been 1 strung together on a spiderweb plot and called a drama c t After the Sunny South there will be ndthing at the theatre until Richards f Rich-ards and Prinsrles minstrels April 22 unless some unforeseen companies arrive ar-rive Some local theatricals will be given in the meantime Some of the future bookings iclude Emily Banck er Peter Dailey Efiie Ellsler The Girl I Left Behind Me and James J Corbett I j W S Gilberts solemnly ridiculous l satirical comedy Engaged Is the bill 4 I I I to be given at the Grand Opera house r next week It is a piece which when r well done affords delicious provender tj for fine minds and that it will be well done by the players at the Grand goes without saying The things which con tribut most largely to the humor of the play and to the indescribably droll effect vrtjich is produced is the apparent I appar-ent sim rity and earnestness of the characters who are continually ut termg speeches with the utmost depth i i fit feeling which when analyzed by the intelligent hearer are found to be 1 1 of a tremendous ludicrous nature I I 1 Pome have thought that such fine I satir might be lost on the audience i iind go over their heads but Manager i I Rogers says he knows his audience I better than that and is certain of the I keenness of their judgment The leading I lead-ing part that of Cheviot Hill a rich and stingy young Scotchman has been I 11 I assigned to Air Harry Corson Clarke This will be the first occasion on which l r that effective young comedian may been II Ft be-en without a wig and in his natural ice ant no doubt many of his admirers p ad-mirers will avail themselves of this t opportunity to behold him in an aspect whiih is familiar only to those who I know him in private life In the play Cheviot Hill has one great weakness It lies in his extreme susceptibility to i femae charms and he falls an easy and willing victim to pvery woman he meets Air Howard Kyle will appear i as Belvawney a radiant being who t I has a most beautiful way of expressing a himself and who is greatly given to i I making the most of his remarkable talents tal-ents in that direction Air Kyle whose i I me odIous voice and exquisite reading I I t have charmed everyone who has heard r them should make a Belvawney in f whom the author might ecognizc his I irJoal vnnomiiirn of the Dart Air Cecil Kin tone reenters the cast again asS as-S I11Terson whose daughter Miss lyeign is one of several engaged tn 5t Cheviot Hill Xr Hugh Ward will hiveSse prrtof Angus a most lacry moP rounjr Scot who weeDS at the i sli t provocation and who is most industrious in the performance of good Woks such as wrecklnff trains poach r ing and distilling Illicit whusky all of which gentle arts he practices assiduously assid-uously in order that he may provide for his ain bonnif bonnie Meg to who he afterwards quitclaims for I and in consideration of forty shillings I The aforesaid Meg who will be r presented pre-sented by Miss Kingsley is a verra verra gude girl and an equally pretty girl all of which she herself admits MissrtAIadge Carr Cook will play Mrs Macfarlane mother to Meg Her dialect dia-lect is perfect as may be seen when it is stated that she was once engaged specially to play the part of Meg Wildfire Wild-fire in The Heart of Alidlr ian at Edinburgh Scotland The pan of Major Ma-jor AIcGillicuddy has been given to Air Ellis Alisd Victory Bateman will as purnp the role of Belinda Treherne a maiden of a higiily romantc and sentimental sen-timental nature who is consumed by n undying passion for Belvawney but who marries Cheviot Hill because j business is business Engaged j and should prove a highly entertaining i bilL I I I successful J A pretty and pleasant entertainment will be given at the University of Utah I on Friday evening next for the benefit It is in the of its athletic association 1 hands of some of the pretty young I girls and will be a popular event There will be booths Japanese iiter culinary and of confectionary SSTattractive kinds while a beauti fullj4 Wsical programme has been ar aclfefc Although the profits are to go I to Wthy cause it is not on that f are expected to that people cone core but because they will be royally I entertained b the young sxlety belles who have the details of the a fair in charge A short time ago ttie Infant pohs Journal published an article stating that the company which supports Mrs Julia MarlnweTaber the actress Is poor Stis Taber demanded a retraction re-traction and failin to get it sue the Journal for 25000 damages for libel will the case comes to trisS the issue If establish a valuable precedent Under rable verdict for the plaintiff it a written down thst a newspaper e wllle cannot criticise theatrical performance perform-ance and that would be as much a criticism of street car service saying that must be stopned vice for example I time it occurs to us that there At the is same frequently more ground for of theatres to sue the manag rons O u patrons traveling show for obtaining of luoney ers under false presences than for or managers to sue newsoapers I actors libel hen tht tell the truth about for that companies some of the toatoquate on the rnd It is thebusiness are put J1ewspape to protect the public of a imposItion When a thea rl al frCm announces that he has a manager l which will be presented strong play company and so loads peope I bY a itronIze fine his show he is sureise money under false pretellc2S If ttn rfort1mCe Is not all that he his 1 it Theatrical 9ulgers for claU nd or actrsS are constantly c 1 r c ct n t t9 = 2 t whining about the treatment they receive re-ceive from newspapers The trouble is they have been spoiled For years It has been the rule for newspapers to rarely say anything harsh about th atrical people and there have been just enough exceptions to this rule to profit prof-it The public has become weary of this sort of thing and they W3nt to know when they read about an opening performance per-formance whether the play is worth seeing or not If the manager expects to have the favorable verdict of th newspapers let him hav iJod players anda good play then he will have no thng to complain of Sometimes we entertain the thought that perhaps the newspapers would be mora honest if they were not so kind Stage Gossip Two productions by home talent will be given at the theatre the latter part of the Lenten season one a drama and the other an opera V I Have you seen that little fellow around I town dressed in a white sweater and always al-ways ready with a cordial how ire you when you chance to meet him That Is Air Lask the stage manager of the Grand The good business done at Wonderland quite proves the fact that there is a field in Salt Lake city for a cheappriced theater the-ater Very well filled houses during the past week have much enjoyed Monte Cristo S Another postal card from Brigham Royce who left here with the Warde James combination states that he played a special and very successful engagement with Marie Burroughs in San Francisco during her season there and then joined Air Frawley in P la dIr d-Ir Aloffafs play Reunited is almost al-most ready for production and the author is very hopeful for its success Miss Clo menia Pratt will play the leading female role The Spy of Chancellorville and I those who have seen the lady perform in numerous past productions in our city do not entertain any doubt but that she will reflect credit both upon the play and herself in this character The opera which will be given by home talent in the near future is a very pretty and tuneful one and will be made the most of by the company selected by Prof Krouse to present it It deals with the wellknown story of Allies Standish and John Alden and the proxy courtship of Priscilla The company selected will comprise the following wellJtnown vocal ists Airs AIcNally Miss Martha Boyle Miss Phillips Airs Jennie HawleyWood row Airs Newman Air Robinson Mr Pyper Air John Spencer Mr Geo Wes terfelt Mr DeWitt Jennings The whole production will be under the direction of Messrs Whitney Lask and Professor Krouse James ONeill received a card from an admirer the oilier day on which was written John Edward McCullough gieill November 8th 1SS5 long live ONeill Aliss Georgia Cayvan has been quite ill in Paris and is now in London It is believed that she will not star as soon as she intended V Lottie Collins has gone back to singing Tarara Boom deay t One of the daily papers whose musical views and reviews are studded with technicalities tech-nicalities speaks of the music of a recent comic opera as at least inoffensive Perhaps this critic like many of the public is ready for varietys sake to hear a little offensive melody t a Charles H Hoyt is contemplating a comic opera Oscar Wildes new play The Importance Im-portance of Being Ernest is a rii tling farce in which he throws all his own dramatic theories to the winds Air Irving has decided to produce an English version of Mme Sns Gene at the Lyceum theatre London he himself taking the part of Napoleon an experiment which will be awaItel with no small curiosity S 10 Bessie Bonehill is no longer a star or her own account She is at present a member of the Little Christopher Columbus cast at the Garden theatre New York I Paris in default of an interesting native play is talking about one of Sindings gloomy Norwegian tragedies The Father Sinding is the man who believes that the sexes are eternally eter-nally at war and that woman inevitably inevit-ably triumphs because she is cunning and heartless Paris wouldnt have much patience with his philosophy but this play has a bloodcurdling mad s ene remarkably played by Philip Gamier who was here with Bernhardt and it has made a sensation S S Air Alansfields production of Napoleon Napo-leon at Nashville Tenn met with some unpalatable comments The American of that city characterized the play as unworthy of his ability and criticised Air Alansfields work in it as careless The affronted actor from his private car addressed a letter to the newspaper saying that he was ill on the night in question and that he rose from a sick bed in order that his audience might not be disappointed and declaring that he would not hereafter here-after visit Nashville How is this for the scenario of an upto date melodrama Act L Coest of Africa where every Ixly is shipwrecked Cannibals are about to get on the outside of the entire party when hero hypnotizes them Cannibals inmediately begin to form living pictures Ke shipwrecked people escape in a flying fly-ing machine which happened to hang on a tree Act nIn the flying machine Vlllian attempts to throw hero overboard Heroine stabs villian with a hairpin and quiets him temporarily while hero manages man-ages to land the machine Act III Football ground Introduction of college songs and yells Villian tackles hero and tries to make a touchdown touch-down Hero is battered and bruised hut heroine rushes on with Lightning Liniment Lini-ment and villian is tinfoiled again Act IV Hero and villian draw straws I for the heroine Villian wins Hero discovers dis-covers that in his early life villiin hashed has-hed in Hoboken and threatens to ruin him by disclosing that fact if he does not renounce his claims to heroine Villian succumbs rather than endure the disgrace dis-grace Usual ending This thrilling plot is placed at the disposal dis-posal of some budding American dramatist |