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Show NAND OFFTHE STAGE. It Lake's Amusements During the Past Week and the New Attractions Attrac-tions to Come. IE GBEAT MAY FESTIVAL. Condensed Eesume of Dramatio .'and Musical Doings Here and Abroad Notes, jig week just closed lias been a memorable one in Salt Lake. The engagement of Wilson Barrett at the Salt Lake theater thea-ter opened Monday evening with 'Cluudian." Tuesday "The Silver King" was given, ind Wednesday closed the X inicf season with "Ben-My- The engagement of Mr. Bar-it Bar-it was noted for the immense audi-i audi-i whieh.fov three nights, thronged ; honter, ami I also for tho very un-1 un-1 amount of enthusiasm winch that lit mum's anting created among the filers Never before m the history 'Vi'lt Luke's theatricals has there .,, sack a iwrfjwt Btrm oft "P" . Uion bestowed on the porform-L porform-L of an individual, and never 1 Was that approbation more rthilv bestowed. Mr. Barrett is cx-,'iiouallv cx-,'iiouallv hue in all that he tinilcr-1 tinilcr-1 .s md Salt Lakers are not apt to ,lnto ecstasies over stage effects that , uot up to aml heyond the standard, .eictore it is duo to the beauty of r Barrett's acting and his fine juilg-t juilg-t in mounting his selections that i." discriminating taste of his audi- . Dramatic and Musical Notes. loSpteffi'atskUlsto hous0e!nhlf,eff'3rou,,is at hl3 uier nouse in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Clara Morris lias returned to her house in Kiverdale-ou-the-Hudson AHnnFH0 AekeMtrom will go to the Adiiondacks soon in search of health. nn''l! ?nrriKa Plays an engagement engage-ment at the Boston Museum next mtuth. concert' V? reCentlv hear(l concert in Bologna. She sang for a inSrHnU.aHCa?rViU pla-V tbe kal" ingpaitin 'Hand Across the Sea" again next season. h Kate Pursscll continues to meet with success in her equestrian drama "Queen 01 the Plains." Tlie next tour of the Jellersou-Flor-bet at I aimer's Theater, New York. Marie Van Zandt, the famous prima donna, is a sister of Edwin Warner manager of Hanlon's Fantasraa coni pany. Dan Sully will introduce a real steam locomotive in the railroad scene of "The Millionaire" next season, lie is having the play re-written. Theodore Bromlev will manage the next, tour of Edwin Booth and Lawrence Law-rence Barratt. Mr. Joseph J. Levy will be the business mauager. Suppe is writing a new comic opera, of w hich the subject is taken from pre- ,f s was so satisfied as to arouse nor 'f sympathy but enthusiasm. Mr. 're;t will be long remembered in Itbake. AC THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE. npW departure in minstrelsy, in-nluceil in-nluceil by the Cleveland) last Mon-. Mon-. evening, has drawn good 1., es during the week. Here ,iU the nice discrimination salt Lake's amusement seekers was aiic manifest. Had the CTcvelauds 'm but a mediocre eutertaiivmeut the t night's performance would have rti largely attended, and that would no caiicd the matter; but the fact at the troupe has held the boards for i nights and two matinees and do--hteii the people before them at every Ipearance, is sufficient evidence that ne is real merit in all that the cvelcuilsi do. Tho matinee this after-it after-it was fairly attended, a large pro-irtion pro-irtion of the audience beiug cornel corn-el of ladies and children. Tonight ill clos'.i the engagement of Clcve-iid's Clcve-iid's minstrels. Wednesday and Thursday evenings of rt week the Katie Emmett company ill giro "The Waifs of New York." Tho San Francisco Call says: A new ur appeared at the Alcazar last cven-uiu cven-uiu the person of Miss Katie Ennnctt. ie brings her own company and a av entitled "The Waifsof Now York," liieh has been seen in this city before, is a work of considerable merit, and lias pleuly of sensational features, in-niling in-niling it narrow escape from death on railroad bridge, consisting in a couple I trains thundering across it, and Wll-i', Wll-i', who is trying to elude the clutches In villainous Frenchman, hanging un-nieath un-nieath the bridge from tho trestle ink. There is also a great tiro scene, liss Katie, Emmett made a very favora-le favora-le impression in the part of .Willie "lii's. a New York bootblack". She mill the qualifications that soubrctlc ork calls for. The support was good. TUB UliAND .11 A V FESTIVAL. Friday ami Saturday of next Week will riir the grandest musical performance or witnessed in Salt Lake. Arrange-ents Arrange-ents for producing some of the most ilightful compositions of tho great iisiors are about completed. Mr. an Stephens will be the conductor, (i Professors Krouse, Kent, Weihe d Pcaderson w ill act as directors in f various parts assigned them. The wis will be quite unprecedented iu c annals of music in the west, and the los have been selected with great no. Tickets entitling the purchaser a elioise of reserved seats are now sale, and the chart of seats will be minted at the box office of the Salt U theater next Monday. Tho foiling foi-ling are the programmes for the lee performances: FUIOAY. Xi'ima Overture." Bellini .1. , Select Orchestra. , w i'i-s Chorus," (Kaimti amwod 'ill Lake Choral Society (three hundred voiiTsi, orchestra and pipe organ. 2.1, "''"Salem" . . . . B. B. Younr?, Omaha welt, aim Aria, "Fly With Me,"(iirnanl) V,V Verdi prt u iss LlMtB Thomas. ,i l.'ur' "uaecompanlod) "Farewell orKt." Mendelssohn iiisionc uerman legend. The new work will be ready next autumn. Robert Mantel's plays for tiext season will be "TheCorsican Brothers." "Mon-bars," "Mon-bars," "Othello" and "Hamlet." He begins in Duliith ou September 4. Kobort Mautcll has taken out papers declaring bis intention of becoming a citizen of tho United States. Mr. Man-tell Man-tell was born in Irvine, in Ayrshire, Scotland, The Royal Opera at Munich has obtained ob-tained Frail Wagner's authorization to give a few performances of "Parsifal" this year, a privilege which Bayrettth has enjoyed exclusively heretofore. The Italian Minister of the Interior has opened a compotion for the composition com-position of a funeral mass to be performed per-formed at Turin, on July 28, in commemoration com-memoration of the death of King Carlo Alberto. The Hanlons' "Fantasma" company close their season shortly. Active preparations pre-parations for tho new spectacle, which is to bo produced next fall, willjthen begin at their summer home in Cohassett, Mass. Fay Teinpleton opens her starring tour under tho management of W. S. Lykens August 18 at tho Fourteenth Street Theater. New York, appearing in a new burlesque by William Gill called "Heindrick Hudson." That Marion Manilla' is one of the most popular of comic opera prime donne can bo seen by a visit to the Broadway Theater at any time. She can act and knows how to sing. So says a New York contemporary. The very great success of Gus Williams Will-iams as a tnonologist with Herrmann's Vandevillc Company will certainly enhance en-hance his attractiveness next season,' when ho jointly stars with John T. Keely, in a new comedy called "You and I," Miss Georgo Cay van, tlieleading lady, of the Lyceum Theater, Now York, has purchased a house up-town, in Gotham, for $17,500. Miss Cayvan seems to bo a successful business woman as well as an excellent actress. A society has been formed at Kuss-nacht, Kuss-nacht, on "tho Lake of the Four Cantons, Can-tons, in Switzerland, for the purpose of producing Schiller's "William Toll" in the open air, on the very spot where tho legendary hero of Swiss independence independ-ence is supposed to have acted. Bernhardt is busy learning an historical histori-cal play "La Dame ilu Challaut.", adapted from an Italian ouo by Gui-seppe Gui-seppe Glocosa. The action passes at Milan in tho Sixteenth century, when Lombardy was the battle-field of French and imperial armis. There will be great scope in it for tho costumers' art. Lillian Russell, of the New York Casino, has been presented with a toy teiTior that was passed over the footlights foot-lights to her the other night in a basket of violets. This opens up an entirely new field of amusement aud expense to tho dudes. We may expect all sorts of extravagance now, from a white mouse to a bull-dog. Frederick Wardo goes to Europe June 14 for a brief vacation, returning to this couutry iu time for his joint starring tour with Mrs. D. P. Bowers, which begins September 4, in Jroy, N Y. Their repertory for next season will include; "Henry VIII., "Macbeth," "Othello" "Virginius," "Damon aud Pythias" and "Gaiba." The supporting company will includes several well-known well-known and competent actors and actresses. Maud Granger's production of Lucy Hooper's play "Inherited m Washington Washing-ton " proved eminently successful. The National Theater it is stated was filled nightly with the elite of the city. Among the box parties of the opening night was Mrs. Senator Stewart am family: Mrs. Stewart saw the ongnal production of the play at the Thear lie P Application, in Tans. Inheiited offers Miss Granger one of the most intense emotional roles she has eer been seen in. ivi , -n,, oorat society. h r ' M1110 to Part" (Daughter of M?f'uKUt) llonlzettl s ,Bertha Baylissof Omaha. "Winsoio, -Faust Fantasia" .... Sarasate 1 1 . W. E. VVelhe. K;,i u,'.'aml Aria' "'Lve Piles on i3 ""ions B, "Miserere" (prison ll K atore) Verdi ' Bertha Bayllss. Mr. G. D. Pyper, rrmt-.H l-'horus ana orchestra. 'Silt? Bolo--.-:...Mls Jennie Hawley lS nnartette" Verdi Uzie Thomas. Bessie Dean, It. C. ' andUuot (II 'frovatorel Verdi ft lpn?"hn?.?ud Mlss Bmha Bayllss. rX ah, ChOT"s." (Messiah).: ' s'lety. orchestra and great orau. SATCUDAV NATfiTEE. izeGiMi'Iv,' ovrture Rossini i.utlmglBand (Anton Pedereen, eon- 'tnrtlm. ductor.l Cm hun"? iTrovatons) .Verdi " Public school children, orchestra and Duet ' 01W. ' Mi"; ivJJ1tBl,,l'let" E. Stephens !il lad v 1 D.au Mr. R. C. EaWn. xln Kare" (Martha)... Flotow (-fSsHope"... feWens )ni'-n- '0 children. 8 Koses Underneath the Snow" .... "rw c- Eastern, tte'i emlest of the Heart" iTrova- '. Verdi io ' ti, B- . Youuk "niahal loulSof War" 'Sampson of :is um i,' ' V, ' Madame Mazzucato Young nertha Bayllss, Bessie Dean, Grace MOdlM? u-!,y Mother'Mlirikritana) . . .Wallace Hail ( ,'Alunbia"" Mi8S Jelmie Hiiwley. 'iWrca (with'h'aiV. Audience, dr-cotra,auai-andorsau. p . i SATURDAY miiHT. "on-'Ilar'h",'AtBR,,rt Mendelssohn Uiefor fh f. Poloulii with chorus nr-V?e tz.ar ....Glinka siclt m I e,t7 a,ld orchestra. ui.. "nJA'ia,"How ITrusted" (Krna- , Verdi ' 'lnnnt T s- auard. - "WArtSV'W E. W, Kent :necru;,..,-,'LaTi'viata, "Shame on ;'!r. EdltV i- Verdi 1 East" aH k5'ton, Bessie Dean. K. Mother; Pfc -G?d,lard- J- D- Spencer iu"r', Choraj society and orches- , "'it an,?" " V -,' Thos- BadcliBB Pond H, LA,rlf- "Great Gods" nml Redeeming" Mercailanti - io. wi,rlss Bessie Dean. '.-tlr Alyn and Choral society. " Creator," (Stabat Mater) Iiss if; ' '. -, . .- Rossini v'io. 'it k rhwas aud Viola Pratt. , 18 Enough" (Elijah) " - Mendelssohn "(-e Israel" lEltjab Wu. . r!ss Bertha Bavltss. 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