Show ooooooooooooooo J W S Gilberts latest opera His Excellency will unquestionably make a decided hit in America The story deals with an eccentric monarch of Denmark who leaves his court in charge of his prime minister and returns re-turns in disguise as a practical joke see how his subordinates are con 1 u ing themselves The prime min 1ta thinking to have some sport makes the unknown stranger temporarily tempo-rarily king and some curious complications compli-cations ensue The lines are in Gil bIts brightest vein and have been proionnrfd as the best which have emanated from his pen since The Ulikado The music is also very tak i T g The opera will be under ithe American management of Charles 1 roman and will be heard in Boston it the Tremont George It Sims who dramatized Ine City of Pleasure has written for Charles Frohman the following rhythmic poem for his play The City of Pleasure Laughter and love and the sound of song And the dancing feet of the thought Jesp throng Tarat < trip to a wild mad measure izt rn stretching your arms of white Cltv of all the worlds delight Paris The City of Pleasure Pa rion and pride and the blinding tears The grief that gnaws and the shame that sears And sweetest of all earths treasure The love that lives and the faith hat brings The balm of peace on its angel wings To the City of Pain and Pleasure An increased sale is noted among 1 our local booksellers of the charming I i works of Richard Harding Davis j i since it has become noised about that i lie is going to marry Maud Adams I II I j I Mr James S Anderson the scene painter who is frescoing the walls of the Grand Opera house is making goad headway with his task and will have them finished in a week or two The general decorations will constitute consti-tute a nocturne in tan color and gold luwlned with a few accents of bright colors The general effect at night promises to light up well Georgia C Foote is meeting with great success in hes two last composItions compo-sItions Ardell and Trilby Ar dplle is a catchy little song about A 2 SJktJ and lovely girl whose eyes are V Pre blue while Trilby with its waltz refrain is of course founded on the tribulations of poor Billee and his lovely model These pieces have been published Jn San Francisco by the kindness of Mr Alexander Badlam and the managers have promised that they shall be heard at both the Salt Lake Utatre and the Opera house during dur-ing the coming season Winnie Maddern Fiske is summering In the Adirondacks Salvini threatens to play Othello nct September < nel Ethan Allen has completed a p1J entitled George Washington consisting of ten acts and sixty scenes will fortynine characters only one of which is a woman i Trilby will be given in England I by Beerbohm Tree Mr Bicknell Young and Mrs Mazzu cato Young have renewed their con trait with the Chicago conservatory Mrr Young will devote the whole of hf > r time at the conservatory to instruction in-struction in singing Mary Anderson has written her auto Lugraphy Lewis Morrison has purchased all the plays belonging to the late Lawrence Law-rence Barrett except George Bokers K ancesca da Rimini Marie Burroughs has gone to London i < luest of IHW nys The oldest of Englishspeaking actors act-ors familiarly known as Daddy Hove will come to America with Henry Irving Canary and Lederers original New York Casino organization will be seen lipre early in the coming season in The Passing Show The cast included in-cluded over a hundred people amongst which are well known stage favorites such as Verona Tarbeau John E Hen shaw Lucy Daly George A Schil ler Gus Pixley Madge Lessing the Sisters Leigh ind Canary and Lederers oiginal New York Casino dancing pickaninnies Harry Corson Clarke has leased the L ceum thea tre Denver for two years and opens his season on September 30 I Minnie Maddern Fiskes tour will orcn in Pittsburg on September 30 and will include among other cities Chicago Chi-cago Philadelphia Washington Balti mcre New Orleans Toledo Detroit Kansas City Omaha Minneapolis St Paul and Duluth C L Dazeys War of Wealth has met with great success in Chicago Johnston and Arthur former managers mana-gers flr Ysayc have secured Mons AchlUe Rivarde violinist for fifty concerts con-certs in this country Rlvarde is a schoolmate of Ysaye and is 26 years of age Mr Johnston heard him at the London Philharmonic where he played the Beethoven concerts with huge success Duse will not visit the United States during the coming season Wright Huntington is spending his vacation at Lake Bashaw Conn He expects to direct Fords stock company at Baltimore next summer I The death of Rlohard M Hooley kkth > ranks of the oldtime tae I i2mantEer5 Ke made most of i I t 4 t I p JJ > I I his money with managing Christys I and the Mastodon minstrels during the war but is best known throughout the country as the wellknown proprietor proprie-tor of Hooleys theatre Chicago Maud Miller will be the leading lady at the Grand museum Boston during the coming season She is the daughter daugh-ter of Joachin Miller the alleged poet of the Sierras and the author of that delightful mountain idyl The Dan 4tes Singe Gossip air Robert Downing gives it as his opinion that of all the plays he has read within the last five years there is only one qualified to stand side by side with The Gladiator and that one is Victorien Sardbus sublime tragedy I trag-edy of Helena Our period of waiting like Micawber I for something to turn up in the way of theatrical amusements will soon be a thing of the past as in less than two weeks the Salt Lake theatre I opens its fall season with Hoyts successful suc-cessful production of A Black Sheep August 23 and 24 > C i W A Brady says he will givo the I greatest production of comic opera ever known j when he puts on a new Irish I opera at the Academy of Music New j York next season It is to be called The Maid of Erin and ia being written i writ-ten by Stanislaus Stange and Julian j Edwards Tho story deals with the time of Brian Boru and 300 persons I will be employed in the production I What promises to be one of the most I brilliant of American tours will be that lof Olga Nethersole under the joint management of Charles and Daniel Frohman Ever since Miss Nether soles return to London she has been 1 busily engaged in selecting the members mem-bers of her company and also in securing j secur-ing plays costumes and scenery Her repertory will include Camille a version ver-sion of Carmen written expressly for her Romeo and Juliet and a new play by Alexander Dumas fils I i C Sardou was interviewed not long I since on How to writ a successful I play He took the public into his confidence and told the secret of his Ii methods although it gives but scanty encouragement to the budding playwright play-wright His first conception of allOt a-llOt is purely abstract dealing more with emotions and forces than with persons and things Having evolved the central idea of the play to be written in this almost mathematical mathe-matical simplicity he then opens a sort I of ledger and for months and often years collects incidents and suggestions sugges-tions bearing on the problem which he has set for himself Next Tuesday the Utah kindergarten till have their excursion out to Salt air beach Some quite novel sports I have been arranged to take place throughout the day such as fancy I bicycle riding by little Syearold I Claude Schaefer a tamborine drill by I thirteen young girls a vocal solo by Charley Pike a bagpipe solo by D C I Dunbar with some fancy Scotch danc ing by the little Moffit children a vio lin solo by Prof W C Cure and vocal selections by the Ladies quartette The candy lemonade and ice cream booth I will be in charge of Mrs George Savage Sav-age and the Misses Kate McAllister Winifred Conrad Luacine Savage Ruth Wells Nellie Morris and Gwen dolin Lewis The programme and arrangement ar-rangement committee include Mrs Clara Beebe Mrs Ella W Hyde Mrs George F Young Mrs Lizzie Wilcox I and the Mrs Emily Cannon Edna Lambert Mary Cannon Katie McAllis ter Tellie C Taylor Kate Wells and I Clara James |