Show oce OOOo oOOOQOOC ooooooooooooooo i U The inauguration of the summer opera season at the Grand Opera house takes place tomorrow evening on which occasion the members of the Pyke Opera company a popular musical mu-sical frganization will make their del de-l > utj j0Uore a Salt Lake audience in the operate success Falka by Chas Fagni It is offered as being up to date replete with bright sparkling comedy and many musical gems It held the boards at the Casino theatre Xew York for nearly a year and is the opera in which De Wolf Hopper made a great hit In the character of iFolbuck The full strength of the company will be presented including thf > noted primasoubrette Louise SlSEfrsed Pyke who has a pretty face and a sweet voice of considerable range Daisy Thorne soprano Helena Salinger a mezzsoprano from Australia Aus-tralia Tinfield Blake a basso said to be as good a singer as Cowles oft of-t c Bostonians and a better actor Arthur Boyce tenor Mira Detra Qlotta baritone Al Leech a leading comedian known here and has gained for himself a wide reputation in comic opera He is ably assisted by George Bird The management will do all it can to make this engagement a success suc-cess New scenery and rich costumes are provided for ach opera presented It is promised that the chorus and ballet bal-let shall have in it not only good voices bit handsome young ladies all well interned During this engagement the following operas will be produced in rapid succession Beggar Student Night in Venice Tar and Tartar Queens Lace Handkerchief Said Pasha Prince Methusalem and Black Mantles The following is the synopsis of the argument of Falka Folbach a military governor in Hungary Hun-gary is promised by the emperor a patent of nobility on condition that he can show a male heir direct or collateral col-lateral on whom the succession can ibe settled Folbach is childless but has a nephew Tancred and a niece Falka On the death of his brother he had placed the young man in a village echcHll and the girl in a convent Tan i cred Lahas never seen and he sends for fil3T deciding that he shall be the j heir fjn his way Tancred is capturei by gYpsies and Edwige sister of Bo leslas the chief of the robbers agrees to save him if he will marry her This lie promises but subsequently make his escape and reaches his uncles i i town pursued by Boleolas and his sister i I sis-ter In the meantime Falka elopes from the convent with a young fellow j named Arthur They come to the same Inn where Folbach is waiting for Tan j cred and are tracked there by the doorkeeper of the convent To escape him Falka dresses herself in a suit of I I Arthurs clothes and finding that her I J brother is expected she personates him and Folbach accepts her as the rpul Tancred This brings about a i number of amusing complications in I which Falka Arthur and bandit chief I and his sister and Tancred play Im I 1P ortjnt parts The con > li atlDns are carted on through thre acts in which I an attempt is made to force Falka I who is masquerading as her brother bride lancred to marry a rich young fearing the gypsies dares not avow himself and thus aids to keep uo tho trying situations The Salt theatre has a list of coming attractions that are under en Esement to appear at tot house showing considerable Activity during book the coming seasons Some of the dngs nclude the best attractions on the I stage while negotiations are pending for some excellent shows not in the j o1J wing list I firifflthsf Faust company about JuneS June-S Salt Lake Concert company June 5 I Hoyts A Black Sheep August I Xv H Gillett Too Much Johnson company September 2325 I ° e Passing Show October 1415 Bs A CivHized Community BA t 246 I A M Palmer company In Trilby CCovember 12 I DeWoolf Hopper Opera company November No-vember 47 Pauline Hall Opera company November Novem-ber 1112 Robert Downing December 67 The War of Wealth December 9 Charleys Aunt December 14 Louis James December 2527 Thomas W Keene December 3031 MariP Wainwright January 13 1SD6 In Old Kentucky January 910 Frederick Warde January 2729 raL irnrJn Tannarv 30 February 1 James ONeil February 2426 Suart Robson February 2829 I Mme Tavary Grand Opera company Gflarch 17 Hoyts A Milk White Flag April 1011 Charles Frohmans company in 3Las quraders April 1315 Peter F Dailey May 12 Griffiths Faust company is scheduled f appear at the Salt Lake theatre next tFridayN week but they have been so extending their dates ton the northern circuit that they are net likely to reach ihtere so soon It is a spectacular rendition rendi-tion of the play of Faust something after the character of that presented by Louis Morrison but said to be even o a grander scale The scenic feat fea-t res of the piece are made a special i Ce e particularly the gruesome sc le the outskirts of Hades where ttte atten angels abide in torment This is said to be singularfy realistic in detail and there is some talk of getting get-ting a number of our local celebrities to appear in the sulphur bath act uA Tour in June Is the title of a performance that will be enacted next month with Mr Oscar EliasoI in the leading role Mr Paul Hammer enacts the part of advance agent and Mr Jay Rogers will be among the leading support as manager Mrs Eliason will apear as leading lady and sly Frank Eliason will also be in the cast The sceneS will se laid in Ogden June 1st end later on in Pocatello Boise and W ther points reaching perhaps to iJutte and further if circumstances tify This is a strong aggregation 01 talent supporting a firstclass at tractin It and though it is not the ideal gtlIIf6 ear for a Professional tour tftit JC viU0Ji more than offset by Gb r 0 C U J M 1JJ the managerial abilities of the advance ad-vance guard The greater public who are Promised prom-ised an opportunity to hear Ysaye at the tabernacle at 50 cents admission will rejoice that they have a chance to listen to the distinguished violinist on terms that are within their reach The last thing that M Ysaye said to a select few of his admirers on the night after his performance at the theatrethat is h esadi as much of it as his limited supply of English would permitwas that we had a charming city and charming people I must come to you again With the strains of his wonderful music still ringing in I their ears a cordial welcome was responded by those present It is quite a circumstance that our citizens will be able to receive something for 50 cents that costs a thousand dollars and that this is the lowest sum that will secure a recital by M Ysaye is beyond question because Mr Johnston Bays so and he ought to know Wonderland opens Monday afternoon after-noon with an exceptionally strong bill on both floors The Big Black Boom Minstrels will hold the boards in the Bljou theatre while the new stock I company will produce the beautiful I domestic drama in two acts Milky White In the theatorium Wednesday Wednes-day is the day when each lady attending at-tending will be presented with a beautiful beau-tiful souvenii Saturday all children will be admitted to both floors for 5 cents The novel feature shown last Monday Mon-day night at the opera house of changing the scenes from an interior to a set garden in full view of the audience proved an attractive inci dent as many had never before seen it done The public has long since suspected that the scenery is painted and not real so there was little or no shattering of idols Stage GossipS Gossip-S Albert Mann who was stage manager of Wonderland in its palmi est days is still dallying with the I profession We have a programme from El Reno O T showing that he appears in a classical drama entitled I The Two Tramps for tha benefit of the Ladies Aid society I The BiMetallic Blacks realized just about 5500 net proceeds for the Young Ladies Aid society by their recent performances per-formances The information published prematurely and exclusively in another an-other newspaper that the profits amounted to 700 has caused some embarrassment to the managers especially es-pecially to thejnterlocutor who finds it was easier to carry on a dialogue with Harry Parker in the presence of a large audience than to manage a private dialogue with disappointed be jeficiaries a M The Salt Lake Concert company is corresponding with Dliss Jenny Mackintosh Mack-intosh to secure her as the soprano of their organization The young basso Willard Squires who has been missing from our musical musi-cal circles for some months is touring in grand opera with a company of some prominence in the northern states In the course of its travels he may appear here The stage manager who has had charge of the opera house performances perform-ances since Frawley left is George E Lask who has done excellent work I and staged the pieces quite as well as his illustrious predecessor He now returns to San Francisco well pleased with his twelve weeks stay and with a host of pleasant acquaintances who regret his departure The commencement exercises of the University of Utah and of the High school will be held at the theatre on early dates to be announced Beerbohm Tree is another of the English contingent that is suspected I of being fair and false He is an excellent I I cellent actor and received high social honors in America that failed TO turn his head from the main chance He saw that Trilby was not only a dramatic I i matic hit but a money maker and as he has often been referred to as the t ideal Svengali he considered that he had a personal relation to the piece i and plot It is not the highest compliment i com-pliment that a man could receive to be Iso I-so described but after seeing it forI I the first time he said to the playwright I play-wright Mr Potter it is a marvel i i i lousy good play and if I were a dishonest man I should have one made in London on the same lines Later he negotiated with Mr Palmer who owns Potters revison for the right to play it But he seems to have thought the per centage for brains was too high for the cable brings word that Tree has made arrangements ar-rangements with Du Manner to play it without regard to Mr Potter This Is sowing the wind with a vengeance and when Mr Trees funds get low he will find something to reap on hs return to America for Mr Potter stands high in the estimation of American managers and they will have it in for Mr Tree S a Salvlni the ypunger and Hamlet are strangers yet The acquaintance was brief and Salvini continues in his romantic roles of Don Caesar and The Three Guardsmen sMarie Burroughs has added Leah and Romeo and Juliet to her repertoire reper-toire and offers them to the Boston public According to Shakespeare Juliet was aged 14 Deny ItS It-S S S Cinderella redivivus A pair of slippers slip-pers with solid gold buckles and set with diamonds rubles and pearls will be prespnted the coming week to the lady who can show the smallest and daintiest foot on the stage of the Boston Bos-ton theatre S S S Wanted Russian play in which the leading lady is not named Vera t S S Effie Shannon has been engaged by the Frohmans to take the part of the young wife in The City of Pleasure Daniel Frohman had his house on fire the other evening and much damage dam-age was done before it could be putout put-out Sadie Martinot has been playing In The Passport during the past week at the Bljou theatre New York Gunther the author of My Official Wife threatened to enjoin her for the palpable similarity of the piece but he did not do it Salt Lakers have little sympathy for either Martinot or Gunther a S S The New York public seems as If it will never tire of William Gillette In Too Much Johnson 5 In a letter to the press gIving his 1 I views of the present condition of the stage Stuart Robson says I have been on the stage nearly haJf a century cen-tury my experience surely gives me proper license to speakand I hereby declare solemnly that plays of the present day are purer the actors better bet-ter and the general character of the stage higher than at any time during my career S S S Mrs Tom Thumb old enough to have stopped growing and immensely wealthy is again on the stage taking part in lilliputian performances in the middle states Her present husband is Count Magri height tliirtytwo inches ages 44 years > > There are fiftyfive theatres in New York city S a S The most studious and conscientious conscien-tious playwright in America is Mis Marguerite Merrinston the author of Captain Letter la r I The Giffen Niell company recently closed a successful Week in St Paul with their company in Captain Swift None of the members who played here remain in the company II a A Nellie SIcHenry is thinking of reviving re-viving The Brook in which she made her first success as one of Salis burys Troubadours The eastern Public pub-lic agree with us that she has run A Night in the Circus long enough I have noticed says Marion Lea the clever American girl who has been making hits as the Kendals leading woman this season that in England the sympathy of the audience audi-ence is with the hero in his troubles while in America it is the heroine that wins most of their interest I have never attempted to account for this but at least it indicates innate chvalry in the Yankee breast 5 Ten years ago John Kernell gave a Bowery beggar a quarter Last week between the acts of McFaddens Elopement in Johnstown Kernell was visited by one of the most prosperous pros-perous citizens of that place who handed him a quarter and a gold watch inlaid with diamonds He had been the Bowery beggar of ten years ago and he said that Kernells quarter I quar-ter which he now paid back had saved him from suicide |