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Show iAFZ V Cs'l !i 7 R" vcr popular comic comic opera ami a V )' 1 ' ! comM '"T ,,lis season much bright- MMm Thelrou"ocarriesovurlil,y 1 ibl'Qi' k i$ 0o'P of th. 8tK Condenied for :f) S s-ViljL?& '1 Sift' All actors will be interested to hear Xf k'Jiy -w'-c 't. tn,it tm'rw lla D" unearthed somo-vvy-r'rf' FftiisSS wnPre the Kast a large daguerreotvpe 7V f I M'ilih of Edwin Forest, takeu when he Was , 'tMX ' TS m4 Bb)l,t thirty-live vears old and showing rfl l, 'iil!lili his face at its bent. All other portraits vj") ' j "f Mr. Forrest now extant were taken being able to secure an opportunity of displaying her ability at any of our local theaters, hit upon the idea of realising a fortune by displaying her mature charms to the denizens of Chinatown as Mazcppa. For this purpose she secured an opening at the t'hiueso theater on Washington Wash-ington street; but she reckoned without her host, for the celestials, though ardent ar-dent admirers of the feminine form divine, are apt to turn up their noses at it when it is rapidly advancing into "the sere and yellow leaf." To bo brief, so delighted were the Chinese theatergoers theater-goers with the piece that they tore down the curtain as it descended on the first act of "Maeppa," and the first performance was the last. Miss (lay-ton (lay-ton next turned up in Eureka, Humboldt, Hum-boldt, where she appeared in conjunction con-junction with Dr. J. Warren deLano in a season of old comedy, producing, pro-ducing, among other pieces ''The Limerick Boy." The season was not successful, and she departed for fresh fields and pastures new," leaving herself her-self to be affectionately remembered by the local trades-people. And now she suddenly shows up in New York accompanied ac-companied by her manager, "Colonel" Marshall, a gentleman who can prove in the shortest time a record, to the most skeptical, that he rarely if ever takes a bath. Such are the interesting duo who seek to pose among the lions of the present season in New York. The Little Tycoon. On Friday and Saturday next "The Little Tycoon" will be produced at the Salt Lake theater. The company comprises com-prises liity-two people. The story of the surprising intelligence from Chicago Chica-go concerning the demise of Frank 1. F'rayne lost its momentary sting when the startling report of Henry Aveling's suicide broke upon the ear of hundreds who were quite unprepared for the sad shock. While here and there actors were exchanging viow as to what motive mo-tive prompted, tho young actor to suicide sui-cide with poison, tho news of Lawrence Harratt's sudden ending arrested the attention of the theatrical world. Close upon the heels of Uarret's untimely taking off came to the intelligence of John A. Mackay's doath in Cincinati of pneumonia. His death is much deplored, deplor-ed, for he was a genial fellow and a very clover comedian whoso talents won for him the admiration of the amusement public. Frank 1. Frayne was never himself after accidentally Annie Von Bebrens on the stage in Cincinatai about live years ago. For a long time following his misdirected shot during the performance of "St Slocum." Mr. Fray 119 refused to appear ap-pear in public, and ever since he has sull'ered intense mental agony from the shock the accident caioed. He died unexpectedly of neuralgia of the heart, his last appearance being in Cleveland three weeks ago. Wonderlnnil. There is a veritable bonnet of wonders at Wonderland for the coming week. No such entertainment was ever presented pre-sented in any city as will be presented here during the coming week. They are as fullows: 1'hoite's grotesque pantomime, Tassard and Lucifer in a grotesque sketch called "In Dr. Hyde's Private Sanctuary," the Althea Sisters. "Chrystal Slipper" company, has sued her husband. Benjamiu Tuthill. for a divorce, charging hiui with infidelity and cruelty. She also asksforalimony. The bill sets forth that Mr. and Mrs. Tuthill were Married January -H, lss.j. at Philadelphia. 1'a.. and they seperated February 5, IH'.il. The charge is made that the defendant was too intimate with Marie Leverings, a chorus gill with the Mct'aull Opera company, and also with a woman in Cook county, whose name is purposely witheld because be-cause of her effort to reform and to save the feelings of her family. No Dani-or to !! Ielr. Kansas City Star. Miss Casselle, a young actress of the Out of Sight company, died of la gripe at Troy, ., on Saturday. Thnt is the company is which Madame liis Hebar belongs, but there is no danger that the grip will tackle her. (.omip or Tha Stag. Stuart Ilobson wears his honors with becoming grace. Success has never spoiled him; he is the same genial, kind dispositioned gentleman ho has ever been, and bis reputation for that is as wide as his reputation as a comedian. E. E. Kidder is writing tho new play for Sol Smith Hussell. He has two acts already finished aud Mr. Russell is highly high-ly pleased with the play, considering it the bet he ever had. He will begin preperations for its production as soon as the present season closes. Poor Julia Marlowe, who so recently passed through a critical illness, is said to be breaking down again. It is likely tlitit ut itin n!f-tA cf h,T- I M ' ! u iImI n (l i ri. an ever popular comic comic opera and conies here this season much brightened bright-ened up. The troupe carries over fifty people. PLAYS AM) I I AVKHS Hrif CioiHlp of tho H k Condaoied for Oar Ksuclnm. All actors will be interested to hear that there has been unearthed somewhere some-where in the East a large daguerreotvpe of Edwin Forest, takeu whim he was about thirty-five vears old aud showing I his face at its best. All other portraits of Mr. Forrest now extant were taken at a later date, and this is eminently valuable to lovers of the dramatic art as illustrating 01m of its great men in the tide of time, ere the burdens of his proffesion had lined his brow. It is to be hoped that the daguerreotype will be presented to the players' Club, .or some other organization, where it may be preserved and admired by this later generation of actors. "La Dame do Challant," the new play which Bernhardt will produce in New York on her return from Australia, Austra-lia, is by (iiacosa, a celabrated Italian. It is a prose tragedy, and its action takes place in France during the reign of Francis I. Its story is partly historical histori-cal and is said to be very interesting. Excepting tho engagement of the Home Dramatic company at the Salt Lake theater in "A Messenger from Jarvis Section." on Monday and'Tues-day and'Tues-day nights, the week has been produe-duclivo produe-duclivo of nothing noteworthy in the theatrical line. The borne company was assisted by the (iilberts, and made quite a hit. Conference was still in session, and it goes without saying that they had crowded houses. It seems superliuuus to attempt any criticism of this home club. Tiie.y are careful students, and more than that, they play for the love of it. Their pro- , '. ..... ... 1. . .1 ..1 mictions are always nnisueu ami ariisui; and it is saying very little to say that few cities in the country can boast of a company of amateurs of such uniform excellence and cnpable of producing such artistic work as the Home Dramatic Dra-matic club of Suit Lake City. tiik annul, sociktv. (uile a nui'iher of spectators were present at tiiu rehearsal of the Choral society at the Tabernacle on Monday evening. Tho society will continue to tnect in the Tabernacle, thanks to the courtesy of the church authorities. Another enjoyable event on Monday evening was the betielit to Kiiuliay Mc-(jregor, Mc-(jregor, the Scotch violinist, The pro-gr pro-gr nine was rather long, but the eu-tliusisrn eu-tliusisrn of the audience never Mugged. "SI HAW'KAKK TII(:1!S!, V .W.I1T." On Thursday night "St Hunkard," an alleged vankee comedy was given at the Salt Lake theater," It had been well advertised and the house was tilled to overflow iug. Hut if "Si I'lunkard-' is a yanken comedy. the . Yankee Yan-kee must, have a strange idea of the nature of the stu'T that make men laugh. It has neither wit. humor nor plot, and is as dreary as the tomb. It held tile boards for only one night and it is well that it was so, for even tho proverbial good nature of a Salt Lake audience ciould scarcely endured another an-other night with cipiinimity. WONliKIM.AND AMI 15I.!of Til EATOKII M. Wonderland continued to sustain its excellent reputation during the week and day after day gathered together Its scenery, however, is unimportant; in I fact, its success w ill depend entirely on 1 the company interpreting it. ! The notorious (jeorgo T. Balloon L'lmer is stranded in Seattle.. His scenery and out lit are in hock and his company are destitute and unable to get away. Ulmcr's debts throughout ttie slope must amout to a considerable sum by this time. lie .haunts the saloons day and night in s 'arch of an angel. The general opinion is that the game is up with "thcyoungedefeudcr of his country.'' Mr-. Langtry has made another failure, fail-ure, for a change, in ' i.ady lienor." written by Charles Coghlan. Even the calcium light presence of Tummy, accompanied ac-companied by a dook and dookess. was insufficient to save her, aud at the close of the play the audience went peacefully peace-fully homeward, abstaining with kindly unanimity from any demonstration calculated cal-culated to crowd the mourners. The I jilted States Marine Hand, having hav-ing obtained the requisite permission, commenced a concert tour at New Haven last Wednesday and will vUit twenty-eight cities, liuibhing their season sea-son at Washington Jlay 1st. They will not. cross the Kockies, nowever. The band numbers forty-eight performers and has for its director the, celebrated musician, John Philip Sousa. It was while Lawrence Harratt was performing the duties of caii-boy that lie first learned to read. He used to beg the ends of candies from the property-man and take them to his dingy little room, where he woidd lix them oil lacks nailed into the floor for the purpose. pur-pose. 'J hero he would nightly teach himself to read out of a dilipidated the opera is told without unnecessary waste of words. In the first act a company com-pany of amusing eollegiates is shown on the deck of an ocean steamer. (Ion-era! (Ion-era! Knickerbocker's daughter V'olet in in love Alvin Harry, au energetic young American, but her father wants her to marry an English nobleman, one Lord Dolphin. Violet's bosom friend, lioliie Dimple, and Alviu's college chum, llufus Leady, determine to aid the young couple in their love affairs aud the college boys and girls, who ate represented by members of the chorus, also lend their assistance. Disguised Dis-guised as hobgoblins, the college boys endeavor to harass and frighten old Knickerbocker iu the first act, and they impart an air of meriment to the action of the entire opera. The linale of the first act is made exceedingly effective by the showing of a panoramic view of New York harbor and lower bay. The lirst "scene in the second act is the interior of Knickerbocker's villa at Newport, and there Alvin Harrey appears ap-pears disguiseed as Lord Dolphin, while Kulus appears as a counterfeit presement of Teddy, the Irish valet of Dolphin. Knickerbocker is about to give his daughter to the fraudulent Dolphin when the real Dolphin and his valet come on the sceue, and the audience audi-ence sees four Dromios. Alvin is ordered or-dered out of the house, but not dismayed dis-mayed by defeat, disguises himself as the Great Tycoon of Japan, and is received re-ceived at a lawn party by Knickerbocker, Knicker-bocker, who, not perceiving this repeated repeat-ed deception gives him Violet in mar-raige. mar-raige. Then the disguise is discarded. Alvin takes Violet, old Knickerbocker proposes to Miss Hurricane, a comical old maid, and the neonle on the stnwc. gagement she will again be compelled com-pelled to retire from tho stage for a time at least. She returned to her work sooner than was advised by her physicians. physic-ians. A new succeM was presented at the Madison Sipmiv, theater, New York, on Wednesday night. It was Augustus Ttiomas' "Alabama," a charmingly natural piay of Southern life. It is en. thiisiastirally spoken of by all the critics and said to be the most truly representative Aniericau piay ever produced. pro-duced. George Wilson and Frank McNish, the minstrels, indulged in a little pugilistic pugi-listic argument in the Hotel Carlton, Ibill'alo, the other night. McNish claimed back salary, Wilson denied it and McNish put up his dukes, staggering stagger-ing Wilson with a right bander' Mr. Silence and Fun has left the Wilson show and will join pugilist Hob Fil-sinimons. Fil-sinimons. l'est and homo comforts are rapidly restoring Tragedian Thomas W. Keeue to perfect health. A friend who saw him at his residence at Castletnn Four Corners, S. I., tho other day, says: "In mental brightness and bodily vigor be is as sound as he ever was, aud the muscles of his throat, which werj partially par-tially paralyzed gome time ago. have been almost completely restored to their normal condition." Mr. Daniel Frohman of the Lyceum theater. New York, will begin early in April t he lirst of a series of annual revivals re-vivals of old comedies, the lirst being " )ld Heads aud Voting Hearts." The play is admirably suited to the abilities os the Lyceum theater company. For thn (irt limp in tha hisOnrv us thr nliv AH Hen Web, and Hen Abdallah in sword contests, the 1'. T. Harntim Arab contingent in realistic scenes of their wild life, introducing savage rites, dances, music and all that makes their odd life so attractive, Kern the glass engraver. Leavit the juggler and the wax flower makers who can be seen making the (lowers that will be given away on Friday of the week of April 'JO as souvenirs to the ladies. This indeed makes one of the largest dime shows ever presented and they will no doubt do a monstrous business during the coming week. Jo JeirroD's Lncunlo Rnyly. Eugene Field relates a characteristic anecdote of Joseph Jefferson. When he returned from his triumphal engagement engage-ment in London a number of New Yrck swell determined to honor the actor who had made so great a stir in England. Eng-land. Accordingly a splendid dinner was given to Jellerson, and all the con-spicious con-spicious representatives of Gotham swelldom where there. It befell that on the verv tnorninir of thn dnr wi.nn ami tlelignteu immense audiences, ine I .' ossilied woman was the main attraction I in the curio hall. The stage show was 1 ' tip to the standard. The Khcinharts made a distinct hit and the "Irish Jubilee" Jubi-lee" as sang by Minnie and Leo at once caught tho popular fancy aud threatens to become cpiite a craze. ATTRACTIONS NKXT WKKK. Next week promises to be a notable week in amusement circles. Pretty Elbe Ellsler comes to the Salt Lake theater on Wednesday night and plays a two-nights engagement. On Wednes- this great banquet was served Jefferson's Jeffer-son's son. Tom, married a very' pretty and estemable girl who had been a member of one of the spectacular ballets. bal-lets. So during the banquet one of the guets(a very swell personage) referred to a newspaper i;m ;;i which Tern's prospective wedding was mentioned. "Ves. it is true," said Mr. Jefferson, "Tom was married today." "Hut. it is not true. 1 suppose that he married a ballet girlV" inquired the aristocratic person. "Yes, it is true," answered Air. Jefferson, laconically. "Ah, I did not suppose you would allow your son to marry a ballet girl." said the other. "And why not?" asked Mr. Jefferson. "His mother was a ballet girl." The aristocratic party lapsed into a yjociUc ousjsjjence at once. in this country, it is to bo staged and costumed for the period in which it was written. It is probable that Rhea, who is ambitious am-bitious to succeed in many ami ader.e rol 'S, will put aside "Josephine" after this season for two new ones: "Czarina," "Czar-ina," play in which Kachel made a grand success in the last of her career, of which Khea has secured the original French manuscript, and which she is having translated for the next season's presentation. Also a new character to the stage, that of a young French Jewess, which will be named Judith. In the former she will portray the character char-acter of the wife of I'eter the Great, aud in the latter that of a modern Jewess, which has been pronounced admirable by several prominent rabbis of the country to w hom it has been outlined. and in the audience are made happy. Dumas' Littla Joke. Denver News. The French are always original. Alexander Dumas has conceived a clever and ingenious way of helping young and unknown dramatists. In the midst of his own successful career he stops to look down on tho mass of unknown tjilers beneath him and reaches out to them a brother's hand. He says the power of reputation is so omnipotent with managers that the works of unknown authors do not even get a hearing, much less encouragement. en-couragement. He believes that works of tho greatest merit pass unnoticed. Like the authors alluded 10 iu Sidney Grundy's "Silver shield," it makes no difference that they are known for failures, so long as tiiey are known, I have a striking illustration of this fact V i-s mil-1. I v b jonnson s iiciionery. "Thou Shalt Not." Wm. A. Brady's latest venture was produced at ihe I'nion Square theater. New York, Monday Mon-day evening, tho verdict being that it is I immoral and destitute of merit, and is! ' not expected to succeed. As the novel was dramatized by that moral freak, Max Freeman, it would have been a surprise were the verdict otherwise. David Henderson intends to produce a spectacular piece in Chicago May J.llh, which will completely eclipse "The Crystal Slipper." There will be 225 people in it, and 4."i0 costumes are being manufactured for them. Most of "The Crystal Slipper" favorites will be in the cast. It will be presented here during the year. W S. Cleveland is not yet HO years old. Ten years ago he was bill poster, usher, janitor, scenic artist and general factotum at the theater of an obscure ( )hio town. Now he owns and manages three large companies and will have four or live on the road next season. The telegraph operators in Washington Washing-ton have started a subscription-list with a view of raising a money testimonial to Li..ie Annandale, late of the Emma Abbott Opera Company, and it is expected ex-pected that all the operators throughout through-out the state will subscribe. A Hifctrtonlo Tramp. Mnrlc anil Jirauia. Zoe Gavton has finally reached New York after having w alked at least, so she says from San Francisco for the fulfilment of a $2000 wager. Miss Gayton's story should be taken with considerable salt, for no 0110 here seems to know anything of the bet in question and carefui Inquiry will no doubt disclose dis-close the fact that during her journey she had frequent assistance from passing pass-ing trains. Miss Clayton, who claims to be an actress, loomed up in this city about a year aud a half ago, aud, not C'IIh Ellalnr. Eftie Ellsler will be at the Salt Lake theater on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Of her play "The Governess.'" an exchange says. Eftie Ellsler, Cucle John and Weston were given a most hearty reception last night. It was like old times to see I'nclo John and Ellie on the stage together, and there were lots of the old-timers to bid them welcome. wel-come. They appeared in "The Governess" Gover-ness" a very oretty domestic drama. There is a good bit of human interest in it. The company makes the n ost of it. Miss Ellsler's part is emotional, being full of sadness and severe trials, but she comes out all right. Mr. F:iis'ier has tno part of a tramp, which he plays to perfection. Ho shows the true and faithful actor, by playing the part as though it were the star part. Frank Weston, an all-round actor of far more than ordinary ability, does some very clever work, and so do other members of the company, notably Miss Hadley anil little Kene' I l 11 Mulle Wanli a Divorce. Ida Mulle, the Cinderella of the in my mind now. I know of a drama-tie drama-tie author in this country whose peputa-tion peputa-tion is singularly associated with failure, but he is known, aud so he gets hearing after hearing. Dnmas' plan is this: He has writen a plav, signed it with a fictitious name, bad it copied in au unknown ami tin-literary tin-literary hand, and sent it on its rounds nniong the managers. His plays are naturally in great demand and bring not less than $i.000 apiece. There will lie nothing by which to identitiy the play except the literary style. He has published all these facts and offers the play for nothing to the manager who w ill detect it and accept it. He hopes by this ingenius means to secure a reading for hundreds of manuscripts that would otherwise pluugo pereepi-tately pereepi-tately into the managerial waste paper basket. Heath HI1I1 liar-rant. The past three weeks gave a rich harvest to the grim destroyer abroad in the theatrical profession. Scarcely had KKFtF. Fl.T.SI.F.R. day evening "The Governess," a beautiful beau-tiful domestic comedy-drama, will be given, aud on Thursday evening her latest aud most brilliant creation, "Miss Manning." On Friday and Saturday nights "Lit-Ue "Lit-Ue Tycoon" holds the boards. This is |