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Show AMUSEMENTS. At the Salt Lake theater, the Howard How-ard Athenaeum company, commencing commenc-ing Thursday, Jan. 15. and running three nights and Saturday matinee. An exchange says: The Boston Howard Athennrum Specialty company made a great hit on their opening at Hooley's last night. The house was crowded with an audience that was put in good humor at the beginning and maintained a high state of pleasurable feeling throughout tho entire performance. Messrs. Rich and Harris, tho proprietors, proprie-tors, introduced two attractions entirely en-tirely new to the American stage. Dutch Daly is still with the Howard Specialty company. He is no relation to Pete F. Daly of "A Straight Tip" but ho ie equally funny in his own peculiar way. Kate Davis' welcome face is among those that will receive a cheery greeting greet-ing at the Marquam on Thursday night, the 8th. She is one of tho features of the Boston Howard company. Interesting; Newt of I'lay and I'lnyer. Helen Dauvray is in London. Henry E. Dixie was 82 years old last Tuesday. J. M. Hill has purchased Ship Ahoy, the comic opera which H. Grattan Donnelly Don-nelly and Arthur Miller produced. It is announced that Hoyt & Thompson's Thomp-son's farces will he produced at the Standard theater, New York, hereafter instead of at the Bijou. August Pitou's traveling stock company com-pany will open in New lork March 1(1. 'I he first play produced will be "Tho Power of the Press." The "Merry Monarch" will travel next season with another comedian playing Francis Wilson's part. Wilson will play in New York all season. Fanny Rice, who leaves the New York Casino company May 1, has not docid-ed docid-ed what she will do next season. She may star in farce-comedy. Lillian Kussell will begin her first season under tho management of T. Henry French, in La Cigale, nt the Garden theater. New York, next October. Octo-ber. Carl Streilman and Attalie Clairo will probably be members of the company. com-pany. The Dramatic Mirror announces that Minnie Palmer will open in a new play called A Milo a Minute, uudor the management of II. S. Taylor, at Newark, New-ark, N. J., January 20. Comedian Charles Coote and Lizzie Derious Daly will be in the company. The Dramatic News says: "Pearl Eytinge has secured a divorce from Dr. Joseph W. Yard. Several years ago Dr. Yard secured a divorce from Pearl, after much trouble and exponse. A few years later he remarried her, and they went to housekeeping and were happy for a while. They soon hnd a falling out, and have now been scpa-ted scpa-ted soma five years." A company which was playing "She" stranded at" Detroit the week before Christmas. Most of the peoplo hadn't a penny. Rosina Yokes was playing in Detroit at the time. She quietly paid the hotel bills of the stranded actors, bought each of them a ticket home, and a little extra money for contingencies. And she didn't tell the newspapers about it, either. |