| Show F ° a Lr 71 The week just past was as uneventful unevent-ful as the one to come will be notable Nellie McHenry to open it and An American Girl to close it If anything more deadly depressing could have been furnished we are not acquainted with its name The latter piece drew a ghastly matinee yesterday and a 4 much better attendance last night which means Pimply that the streets were overflowing with people who had to go somewhere and whose first allegiance al-legiance from long descended tradition was to the dear old theatre The property man who essayed the role or I the artist aristocrat on the opening night and who seemed to be rigged out in property clothes retired to his laco I fodium and papier mache and was supplanted sup-planted by Mr Sheridan who short as I his notice was invested his role with some sort of lordly dignity The two clever tots again caught the fancy of the house immensely and if Mr Howe could boil down all the other parts take a ladle to the agony with which tho piece abounds and do something to check ths stampede that takes place in the audience after the first act before ths children have been born he might make of The American Ameri-can Girl a permanent success At the Grand the week has not been large the bills presented being interesting inter-esting without being especially striking strik-ing It is with a feeling of gloom that we remember there are only six nights more of this most companionable company com-pany and that we must then say along a-long long farewell to winsome Rebecca Re-becca Warren to handsome Will In gersoll and to unctuous George Ede son Only the thought that they will be immediately followed by Kennark Clarke Edward King Blakemore 4 Cook Henry and Truax in All the Comforts makes the parting at all bearable Miss Truax by the way has arrived and the new company will begin rehearsals Tuesday At the Lyceum there has been a little lit-tle Fpurt of business though Ranch 10 has not had a crowded night A change took place in the orchestra or-chestra Friday and our energetic friend W C dive of nonunion fame arose to the surface at the head of the band Very lively music his violin made He is aided by several of his old theatre compatriots and will undoubtedly un-doubtedly add to the attractions of the house It must be a heavy sea indeed in-deed that keeps Mr Clive long under The week to come will be one of the busiest of all the glad new year Four nights of Mansfield at the theatre and two of Hoyt are going to tax the pockets pock-ets of the community to the uttermost the big taibernacle concert Monday night seven performances at the 4 Grand revivals of two of the merriest successes of the long winter season an equal number or more at the Lyceum Ly-ceum and the long and cleverly advertised ad-vertised society circus on the side at the Continental marketall this makes up a week which suggests that the city has returned to the old boom days or that society is going to celebrate the passing of Lent in royal fashion Monday Beau Brummel TuesdayA Parisian Romance WednesdayPrince Karl ThursdayThe Story of Rodion the Student These are the four bills in which Richard Mansfield will celebrate his return re-turn to Salt Lake Conference visitors J will find in the widely advertised Mansfield Mans-field an attraction well worth the advanced vanced prices charged To city people his engagement will be full of interest net alone on account of his own personality per-sonality but because of the peculiarly strong support with which he has surrounded sur-rounded himself Whatever else maybe may-be said of Mansfield and big ways it can never be truthfully alleged that he tolerates a stick or an incompetent in ihis company In these days of cheap labor and overcrowded professions it speaks well for him that he has six or eight people in his company each drawing over 100 a week and the presence of people like Beatrice Cameron Johnstone Bennett D H Harkins Orrin Johnson and several I others all in one cast is so rare as to be entitled to the name of a distinct dramatic event Salt Lake knows three of Mansfields 3 plays but the fourth which he < has only just brought out is new to this part of the country The Story of Rodion the Student r II r I 10 1 i tictnrd 3Innsflcl an Benn Urn mm el was written by Mr Charles Henry Meltzur the dramatic critic of the New York World and is founded on Dos toyevskis great Russian romance Crime and Punishment The story of the play is as follows Rodion Ro manytch an impecunious St Petersburg Peters-burg student is mentally unbalanced He holds the theory that murder is no crime If the motive be > a good one and the murderer can conceal his guilt He chooses lor his victim a vile old usurer pnd procurer He goes to his grouse murders Mm and escapes A sjeuth hound goes on his track in the person of a detective a sort of a Sher u lock Holmes who is familiar with Ro dions sentiments as expressed in public pub-lic yet who has no direct evidence of the students guilt in this particular crime A mason is arrested charged with the murder and the circumstantial circumstan-tial evidence against him is so strong that he is convicted Here oomes the psychological interest in the play Ro dions conscience awakens his days and nights are haunted by remorse and still shadowed by the relentless police 2 j i Riehnrtl Mansfield Baron Cheveral spy the unhappy youth finally gives himself up to < justice 3 S QUEENA Lord Walter Huntington William Ingersoll Clarence St Claire Earl of Chan dosWilliam H Tooker John Henry Wilkins George R Edeson Frank HortonHarry Hathaway Queena Montrose Rebecca Warren Mlle Rene a prima donna Rebecca Warren Florence Nightingale Fletoher Mdge CarrCook Alice St ClaireCatharine Jerome Little QueenaLittle Jessie Conrad NIOBE In Life Insurance Peter Amos Dunn George R Edeson In Love with Himself Cornelius GriffinWilliam Ingersoll In the Clouds Jefferson Tompkins Walter Edwards In Corneys Hands Fhineas InningsHarry Hathaway In Retirement Parker G Silox William H Tooker In the Flesh Niobe widow of the late Am phion King of Thebes Rebecca Warren In Authority Helen GriffinMadge CarrCook Indispensable Caroline Dunn Peters wife Catharine Jerome In Open Rebellion Hattie GriffinHelen Henry In Love with Corney Beatrice Silox Julia Dean In the Way Madeline Mifton the new nursery governessAlice Conrad In Service Mary parlor maidBelle Mullikins These are the casts of Queena and Niobe the bills in which the present Grand company will say farewell to Salt Lake Bach play will be done three nights and the cast in each is the same as when it made its pronounced original hit with the exception of a slight change necessitated by the absence ab-sence of Mr Warde Mr Edeson has his part in Queena Anything with the Hoyt stamp always al-ways goes in Salt Lake and the advance ad-vance advertising A Milk White Flag has received is sure to help it even though it does follow after Mansfields four nights run Hoyts greatest facility fa-cility aside from writing spicy dialogue dia-logue and creating ludicrous situations situa-tions is the unusually happy way he has of discovering new and odd types of character or else taking types familiar fa-miliar to everybody and subjecting them to a regenerating process which makes them appear like some new discovery dis-covery In A Milk White Flag it is the gayly caparisoned militia boys to whom Mr Hoyt has devoted his attention at-tention and the manner in which those well known individuals have been treated is continued evidence of his originality There is said to be a spirit and dash in A Milk White Flag which begins in the first act and runs riot throughout the whole entertainment entertain-ment To provide this it has been necessary nec-essary to employ a clever company Frank Lawton is the recipient of rounds after rounds of applause wher ever the production has been seen His I impersonation of the private Gideon Foote a hired man is extremely amusing amus-ing He is a dancer of unusual ability and his whistling specialty in the last act is said to be one iof the features of the performance One would not think there were many laughs to be gotten out of a funeral fu-neral but a funeral forms one of the main themes of the play No one but Hoyt would dare employ humor like the i3S < ming Although it seems im possibRs nu can extract no end of fun out of a funeral if you are in the mood for it Just imagine that the conpse has no trousers on the widow beings being-s mean that she does not propose to waste a pair of garments when the body is seen no further down than I the waist Allow your imagination to carry you still further to the conversation conver-sation the widow has with the undertaker under-taker The gentleman in black has said what a firstclass burial would st300 Ridiculous says the widow Why he only weighed 182 pounds and a dollar a pound should be ample We do not bury them by the pound says the undertaker but by the foot Six feet deep at 50 afoot a-foot is 300 S S Por the remainder of the week and until their train rolls out of the Rio Grande depot on the morning of the 13th may the date be ominous only of goods hickthe Tabernacle choir and their California chorus will engross the entire attention of musical circles It is assured now that there will be more than 300 people in the company and seven large sized Pullman cars or eight smaller ones will be required to transport the party The train runs as a special all the way and in every respect it will be managed in a style fitting the great body of singers who occupy it and the community they represent rep-resent The first concert will be given in the Congregational church Oakland Tuesday evening the 14th the next five in the Metropolitan temple San Francisco froin Wednesday the 15th to Sunday the 19th Monday evening the 20th the seventh concert will be given in the Auditorium at San Jose and the final appearance of the choir will be at Sacramento on the way home Tuesday evening the 21st They wIll arrive here early on the morning of Thursday the 23d The farewell of the choir or rather the au revoir occurs oc-curs on Monday evening at the tabernacle tab-ernacle when the town will have an opportunity of showing that it appreciates appre-ciates the labors of the choir and the undoubted good their tour = wlll do the 1IIfiiiI i < r I city and state The choir has raised the funds tot this very expensive trip entirely by its own labors no call has been made on the public and the only request the choir management now thas to make is that the public will turn out and enjoy the concert programme provided for tomorrow evening As a special feature and out of consideration for country visitors the 1500 children who made such an impression at the Sousa concerts will take part The full programme is as follows 1 Grand ChorusThe Pilgrims Lombard Verdi Thirteen hundred Children the California Cali-fornia chorus and organ 2 Trio Believe MeAtilla Verdi Miss Mabel Cooper Thomas Ashworth H S Ensgn 3 Male OhorusSoldiers Parole Harmony club H S Ensign director 4 DuetDer FreiscliutWeber Miss Alice Browning and Nellie Pen rose 5 Organ Solo with Chorus Noble No-ble Chief Glinka Great organ and California chorus 6 Boy Alto SoloAngels Bright and Fair Handel Master Charlie Pike 7 Patriotic Chorus Amarica Thirteen hundred children organ and California chorus Ladies Chorus Bridal of the Birds Richards Ladies of California chorus 9 Duet By the Brooklet Stephens Miss Herma Tylor and Mr Sam Win Jers 10 Night Song CA lullaby Stephens California chorus 11 SongO Loving Heart Trust On Gottschalk Mrs Glaribel Ridges Pike 12 Grand Closing Chorus Utah We Love Thee Stephens Fifteen hundred voices and organS > organ-S Bill Green H Coulter Brinker Judge Beeswlnger Edmond Hayes Templeton FrakeJ J Williams Pedro WraltersDe Witt Jennings John Gray Charles Lothian Old Man Smith James Ellis Jack Brown Charles Fowler Mrs Smith Nellie Drury Clytie MorpthorEdIth Lindsay Mliss Mnud Edna Hall This is the cast of Mliss Annie Pix leys famous frontier idyl which the Lyceum company puts on the coming week Miss Hall has made her mark in this role and it ought to fit her excellently ex-cellently A Monday matinee of M Hs > swill s-will be given and Partners will forma Tuesday afternoon The a matinee bill whole company appear in a sacred concert tonight The concert given by the Swedish Singing society last Friday night was an artistic and financial success Although Al-though the organization of this society only dates back a few months the very creditable showing made demonstrated that it is destined to become an in portant factor in Salt Lakes musical circle There are some excellent soloists solo-ists and the work of the Bellman quartette quar-tette has been much improved The latters rendition of Pellos Frier deserves de-serves special mention The following programme was rendered ren-dered Larksang Society Tansang Swedish Glee Club Selection Prof Larsen and Orchestra Bjorkens VisaLadies Chorus Tom din Bal Quartette Messrs Nordberg Lindeberg Lund gren and Lew Den Gronna JullenTenor Solo Mr A Backman Quinnans LovTenor Solo and Chorus Recitation Brudsmycket Miss Skoglund II Pelles FnieriBellman Quartette Sof i Ro Swedish Glee Club At the conclusion of the programme dancing was indulged in by the large I number present a a Following is the programme for the concert to be given at Fort Douglas at 330 p m today America Overture Barber of Seville Rossini I Selection from Cavalleria Rusti cana Mascagni Spanish Fandango The Pearl of Madrid Bachmann Waltz Tout ParisWalteufei Credo frfom Mass in BbMozart Medley Popular Airs Beva Hail Columbia S S S LONDON April 4Easter week will cpo thf nrpspntatinn of several new plays Among these will be Stuart Ogilvies romantic historical drama at the Shaftesbury Henry Arthur Jones new play at the Garrick the new piece of Dalys which will probably be named Jolly Japan another new play at the Prince of Wales and George R Sims and Arthur Shirleys romantic drama at the Princess which will be called The Star of India Miss Clo Graves has written a new play which will probably be produced at the Comedy theatre on next Wednesday April S The play is a farc comedy called The Mother of Three One of the attractions at the coming comedy will be a model for the colossal colos-sal statue of Sir Stewart Bayley which Hams Thornyscroft has completed at Calcutta A new musical farcical comedy entitled en-titled The French Maid by Basil Hood and Walter Slaughter will shortly short-ly be produced in London after a trial tour in the provinces Singe Whispers R S Easton is in town and will remain re-main to rehearse for the California tour Chevalier the London coster singer is the sensation of the hour in New York Mr Lothian Jenny Kennarks husband hus-band appears with the Lyceum company com-pany this week Julia MarloweTaber intends to add Adrienne Lecouvreur to her repertory reper-tory next season Herbert Kelcey will succeed Maurice Barrymore in the cast of The Heart of Maryland on May 1 Miss Georgia Cayvan will be managed man-aged next season by Charles Burnham She will have three new plays W E Weihe and Maud May Babcock Bab-cock will accompany the tabernacle choir to California and take part in the programmes I Frank Carlyle will play the leading part in Under the Polar Star at the Academy New York Blanch Walsh will enact the heroine William A Brady will take a big American company of wellknown actors ac-tors to Australia during the summer of 1S97 to play a repertoire of American Ameri-can successes At Tamagnos last appearance in St Petersburg as Othello an orchestra chair cost 60 and the boxes were from 100 to 600 Russia is paying high for privileges of hearing singers that are not in demand in this country W J LeMoyne of the Lyceum company com-pany has secured William A Brady to play the leading character role with Maurice Barrymore in Roaring Dick Co which will be done at Palmers theatre New York City November 2 Eddie Foy IS to be exploited next season by William A Brady in a new farce comedy by Clay M Greene and Edward W Townsend author of Chimmie Fadden Foy is to play a crazy electric Inventor whose mania is the use of X lays Sousas band has just finished a twelve weeks tour during which they traveled nearly 13000 miles and gave 140 concerts The receipts for six concerts con-certs in Philadelphia are reported to have reached 11500 three concerts in San Francisco 5500 and three concerts con-certs in Los Angeles 5000 In Portland Port-land Ore Denver Baltimore Toronto To-ronto Cleveland Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Helena and Salt Lake CIty the receipts for two and three concerts respectively ranged from 3500 to 2100 Bandmaster Sousa will interrupt his tour for three weeks in order to su iperintend the production of his new opera El Capitan On April 24 Sousas band willopen its New Eng land and Canadian tour giving thirteen thir-teen concerts each week until June 14 when their regular summer season opens at Manhattan beach Mirror Madame Melba has been singing seven years Her maiden name was Mitchell Her father was Scotch and her mother Spanish From her mother she inherited her musical gift The artist has three brothers and three sisters sis-ters One of her brothers is a remarkable re-markable singer When her father was appointed a commissioner from Melbourne Australia to one of the London exhibitions he took his family with him to Eurbpe Soon after her arrival Melba began to study with the great Marches i whom she has never left for any other teacher She made her debut in Brussels in 1888 Senor Manuel Garcia the brother of Malibran wio is the worlds grand old man in music has given up his post at the Royal Academy of Music in London He is 01 years old and made his debut on the operatic stage at a time when Beethoven and Schu bert were still alive when Men delssohn and Schumann were only at the beginning of their careers when Verdi and Wagner were still students and Gounod was a lad of 7 He sang Figaro in New York in 1825 and with his father made a fortune in Mexico but on their way to Vera Cruz they were relieved of it by masked robbers who insisted on the two giving a concert In 1850 Garcia settled in London where he has since resided Bernhardt Duse and Davenport are to play simultaneously In Boston very soon When asked what she will play in Boston Davenport said lIy whole repertoire Bernhardt will play Gismonda most of the timethat is if she lives to play anything She is working so hard this week that I should think there wouldnt be enough of her left to sweep up by the end of the week Every night and four mat inees Think of it I suppose she is tryIng to make a big week of before Duse comes in to divine the business And you are not afraid of the Boston encounter Ill do my best Sarah will come with let me see what is the duelling weapon of France Oh yes the pistol and Duse of course will appear with a stiletto and IIll have a tomahawk |
