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Show ' NV V Ml'olF 1,1,1 "",st of thotn kept tlieir place WA VV; :-V'6 ', rly. J hoped that the shower ffiXWOW ,: t(' B'iKht soon ps. rfSHf V"Vi5 f Vi "V-'l" 'j! ltosal''l. ''!' anil Touchstone had tlf-Y 4 J A "L:i'',h ',,' i jt come on tbe utace, ami tried to go Iff jV-','lJj' TL ' if;. Ml?) on with their scone, but tbe coufusioo ltV' i"sier ' "t was l,)0 prei4t 8I"' tll0V clu0 to vfX 'Viv - tirY '''l''' '(? tree truuk ami wailed for the tun to V v"7 'n !L 'ftiS i.-S ; vM hiiiw again. Koialiud with her doublet YNfHl ?V-Jl and her "gallant curlle-axo." Xjy.,i'p.-,i' V1 f ' 1 ' '" Der h,iherdeM drf, am! jSvSv'V''" "j"' N . P r 1 Touchstone, in bis motiey garb, looked 'iZf ai?'v -V1 f r I Jill liilili I "oue ,ne 'eM picturesque an tba ram J VvLaT-f wjji f J ' a 4 i ' "round tbtiiu, till some hub, wilh a vj-'--' i I ' I kind heart, no doubt, hut no HMthetio but must of tliom kept tlieir place bravely, and hoped that tbe ihower 111 1 tr h t soon pass. Rosalind, CeliB and Touchstone had just come on the stage, unit tried to go on with their scone, but the confusion was too Croat and they stood close to a big tree trunk and wailed for the mn to shine ac:nn. Kosnliml wilh her doublet and buo and her "callaut curlle-axo," Celia in her slicphcrdt'in drtxn, and Tuiii'listone, in bis nuitiey gurb, looked none the tsa pictimq(i an tba ram fell around tlitou, till soiuo one, wilb a kind heart, no doubt, but no iiMtlietia 1. .1.. ti u,.....v..r ..t..-L. The past week has been an unusmlly excellent one in tbe dramatic lino for the laie season and tho Sail Lake theater 1 lias been crowded uightly. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights "Tho Twelve Temptations" held the boards. It is au excellent spectacular; tilled with sprightly dunces; pretty and graceful girls and sp.uiallies of the highest order of merit. Tho pit co is pure and wholesome; the wit is clcau and the dances without unsavory suggestion. sug-gestion. "Jilt. IlAltM.S OK NKW YOliK." Thursday and Friday nights and this afternoon "Mr. Karnes of New York" walked the stago and be will be there again tonight. The play is a ..trong one and has attracted largo audiences. Tho company, however, is not the best and the pice, on the whole, has been rather a disappointment. It has, however, many good points. Several of the caste are really good and the scenery is tine. THE WKEK AT WONDKKLA.ND. The week Wonderland has kept up the usual staudard of excellence and the curio ball and theater havt been crowded daily. The management promises a good list of attractions for next week. COMINU ATTKAOTIOKS. Monday and Tuesday nights of next week Thatcher's Miusirel's will be at the thsater. W. A. Mestaysr, author of several of the bestf arcial comedies of late years, will appear with bis own company of farce comedy stars at the Salt Lake theater next Wednesday evening, June 514th, for one night only in bis latest uocessful productin, "The Grab Bag." It is a musical extravaganza in three acts, full of bright specialties, catchy longs and witty dialogue. On Thursday, June 21th, the old time French melo drama, "The Bottom of the Sea" rearranged and adapted by William A. Ilrady will be tbe attraction at tbe theator. W, UJUUIIl llll, TT 11,1 I J'l ,MH UU1. and umbrellas and the picture was spoil-. I. In ten minutes t ie ram had stopped njd the people went back to iheir seats. The play was liuished before be-fore tbe storm began again. The complete, cast was as follows: Hanished Duke, D. 11. Hafkins; t'oul'er, Frederick Frs.ier; Amiens, Hubert Wilkie; Jaipies, Frank Mayo; Oliver. T. D. Sullivan; Jaipies Dubois, J. It. ilocth. jr.; Orlando, Maurice Harry more; Le Heau. Sidney Drew; Silvinus, Charles L. Dickinson; Adam. C. V. Couldock; Charles tho Wrestler, William Mul-doon; Mul-doon; William, Charles S. Harris; Rosalind, Rosa-lind, Hose Cogn lair, Celia, Viola Aliens l'ho'bo, Maida Craigen; Audrey, Agnes Booth. Pill? Florence was E inharaeeed, Cbli'diM Post. Hilly Florence, the actor, when last in Chicago, related with no little unction unc-tion the following tile, w hich be declared de-clared had never been in print; "It occurred to me a numoer of years ago," he said. "I was on my way with my company from New York. On tbe train I had struck up an acquaintance with a pretty little Miss just entering her teens, and it was not long before we became fast friends, although al-though neither of us knew the other's name. "Just before w rolled Into Chicago I caught her looking Intently at me, and I asked hor what she was thinkiug about. She blushed as if detected in a guilty act. but upon my repeating tbe question she said, hesitatingly: "Nothing very mucb, sir. I was only thinking bow much you lcoked like somebody." "Who is it?" I asked. "Ob, 1 don't like to toll you," she replied. re-plied. I Ugain asked ber to tell me tbe reason. " 'Because.' she replied, 'he is not a nice man. He is only au actor, and his name is Billy Florence.' " Ooulp ef the State. Charlei Frohman will return from Kuropo about the end of this month. Among other things be will bring the scenery models of "Jane." which is a great London success. The play will have its first American representation it IIia Mtrliunn Mmitm thuHtAr in Antr. INDElt TnHUKKKNWOOU TBEL', 'As Vou Like It" la tbe Open Air as Hra. ateveae' I.awa at Caetla Folat. The first act of "As You Like It" on Mrs. Stevens' lawn at Castle Point, N. V., on Wednesday was almost a perfect performance, a living poem, a personified personi-fied picture. Tbe other acts were hurried hur-ried through amid tbe pelting rain in part, and in part with vivid lightning illuminating the scene and violent thunder deafening tbe audience. The Stage was the green sward with a bunch of theatrical battle axes set up forty paces apart to mark the limits of the players' ground. Great trees were all about, with their leafage leaf-age tremulous in the faint breeze aud with the intense sunlight of the hottest day of the year sifting through tbe foliage either in golden shafts or iu broken glistening beams. Behind the battle-aies were screens of evergreens set up to serve as what are called "tormentors," "tor-mentors," the sides of the proscenium arch behind which the players make their exits aud entrances. All else was as naturo made it and as Shakespeare conceivod the sotting of his beautiful pastoral play. 'Tba side scenes were great trees. The players' seats 1? ere huge lengths of bewlv cut tree trunks. The background ust. "The Solicitor," another London success owned by Manager Frohman, is announced for production atllerrman's theater in September. Al. Hayman and Cbarles Frohman are credited with a clever stroke of business in lellinir "Madame Ilellyet" to Mrs. Leslie Carter. Mr. Hayuiau has already advanced I000 on the opera for au American run. The com-posur com-posur has been unsuccessful in this couutry for years, aud Mrs. Carter is not supposed to have made a very good investment. The mayor of New Haven. Conn., appreciates the importance of his position posi-tion and has thundered forth a proclamation procla-mation in priut as to what direction vehicles shall take on certain streets on the day of exhibition of Barnum and Bailey's oircus. His honor must have met the press agent or the ghost of Phineas. Amelia Glover who will be still one of the features of Kussell's comedians in "The City Directory," will return shortly from Europe, bringing with her a trunk full of new and airy dresses and a repertoire of the newest and latest dances. Jennie Stetson is prostrated in New j York from the severe thumpings she has received in repeated stagfl tights with Annie Ward Tiffany, who has been too realistic in her punishment. Miss Tiffany should meet John L. Sullivan Sul-livan in the fair-scene. was a vast, geutiy-uudulating green iward, dotted with haycocks, and finally enclosed by the greenery of the treetops. And thus fiOO persons, mainly beautifully beauti-fully dressed women, were entertained by a score of talented players, costumed cos-tumed to harmonize with tbe beautiful scene, and playing the parts of a bewitching be-witching comedy, as if the genius of the occasion iulliienced them all alike. The ' audience was disappointing in size, but It was exceedingly interesting. It contained con-tained al least live women to each man, and most of the women wero young and many of them wero fashionable. At one side of the spectators' stand aud hidden behind the screen of greenery, green-ery, was the ocbestra. The blare of the trumpet sounded a call such as in stage laud heralds the approach of a kin, Fnolllflit Flaihae. How very popular these aerial flights are getting to be with the iheAtrical profession! Now is is Charles, or, as the Kansas City Times has it, "Char-lev" "Char-lev" Frohman that is taking a "Hying trfp" to Europe. It is announced that Mrs. Ray Hamilton's Ham-ilton's plav will be called "The Ham-mertons," Ham-mertons," "evidently a jungle upon the namo of the distinguished family whose skeleton in the closet is to be niade to rattle." Professor Herrmann had a half-page "ad." iu a Chineso newspaper of San Francisco. It looked liko a mammoth wash bill, but he says the Chinese must go to his performance. A western exchange says: "The ladies la-dies of the Basilisk Opera company wear some very handsome clothes." Isn't this rather an innovation for a burlesque company? It costs Satnh Bernhardt nearly $1000 to get, her (logs to Australia, and yet people who ought to know, declare lhat there is a lightness in the money market. Henry Irving will be the guest of Augnstin Daly during this summer. His trip is absolutely for pleasure. Exchange. Ex-change. Tbe Dlekey Hire! Says. That the man who smiles last docs not always laugh best. That Mrs. Langtry is going to marry an Fmglish gentleman. That Delia Fox has captured New York with her Wang performance. That plays may come and plays may go, but llarrigan's Fourllundreirshows symptoms of going on forever. That the season approaches when tho thespian will blow in n't his shekels in emulating the gilded aristocrat. That Robert Mansfield thinks it was so very kind of Byron and the other iellows to suggest his new play. That the animal actors who have been appearing in our realistic farm-yard dramas will appreciate ths summer rest. Sunday dinner at the Saddle Rock. and almost instantly there approached the Orlando of the day iu the person of a mau who has been called tho best Orlando Or-lando of his time Mr. Barrymore. Mr. Couldock, the veteran, as Adam, was with him, and tho effect was strange when tbe handsome young noble and gray-haired servant began to talk together. to-gether. The two actors seemed uot at ail "made up" as to their faces; afterward, after-ward, close at hand, it was seen that they had a little green paint on their faces to give the required coloring color-ing to their complexions, but neither they nor tho other actors and actresses who appeared later exhibited any marked mark-ed sign of the bolder treatment of eyes and mouths which are rendered necessary neces-sary by the foot lights and other accessories ac-cessories of in-door performances. In another minute Mm KoseCoghlan appeared with Miss Viola Allen, as , Rosalind and Celia. Miss Coghlan wore a Marguerite costume of soft cloth, delicatoiy tinted with pink. It was a few minutes after 8 o'clock when Mr. Barrymoro nnd Mr. Couldock, Coul-dock, as Orlando and Adam, stepped from the screen of evergreens at the left of tho stage, aud the play began. Tbe first genuine excitement w as in the wrestling .scene, which was excellently presented by Mr. Bnrrymore and William Wil-liam Mnldoon. Mr. Muldoon lifted the actor from the ground and swung him around his head a few times to show what lie could do if ho chn.se, and then allowed himself to be stretched on the ground. The play went smoothly till iust after the song in w hich Hearer is bidden to come hither with the promise that he shall see no enemy but winter and bad weather. Then, as if the weather had felt itself challenged, tho audience saw the pouring pour-ing rain beyond the stage, and in another an-other instant felt the pouring rain on tlieir heads. Many of the people left their scats aud took refuge under trees, |