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Show AMUSEMENTS. Everything indicates that there will be a verjijarge audience at the theater this even-ing"Bjjtne.s even-ing"Bjjtne.s the tableaux ..f living statu-unBBntcrtah.ment statu-unBBntcrtah.ment will be under the - aSa: ' r u . of BP organization, Hrff-r". the n.TTBBI PJFn,e take part areMiss Fannie Lincoln, soprano; Geo. D. P'yper, tenor; R. C. Easton, tenor; H. S. Goddard, baritone. The sale of seats f r Mile. Rhea's engagement en-gagement will open at the box office tomorrow tomor-row morning. Thursday aud Friday evening even-ing the classic nlay of "La Czarina" will be" rendered, and Saturday matines and night the society comedy entitled "Gossip" will be the bill of fare. The matinee of "Jane" drew a fair-sized aud ence, considering that matinees, as a tule, are not very well attended. The audi-t audi-t nee at night was large and the applause ws as frequeut and good-natured as characterized char-acterized the p e ,'ious performances. On ard after May 19th Burton Stanley's opera company will hold the boards at -oiidemui i. For the opening week the chi'm'-"- op?ia, ''The Mascott," has been r elected and oiight to prove a good bill. iomorrow night the Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra will give their first concert at the Theater. A coterie of clever instrumentalists instrumental-ists and soloists will render a well-selected programme. The Francis Wilson Opra company begin be-gin a five-nights' season May 23rd. '1 he W. C. T. U. benefit comes off at the Theater tonight. Romeo. side LIGHTS. Mus'c and Drama has the following to say of a former Utah boy: "Mortimer Snow presents a picturesque appearance as Valentine in Faust at the Grove-Street Theater. If it be true that 'a thing of beauty is a joy forever,' there is no end to th'j delight which the beautiful Snow affords." W. C. Crosbie, the comedian who is well known in Salt Lake by old time theater folk, has been engaged for the cast of "King Kaliko," the i v comic opera by Frank Du-pree Du-pree aud Frederick Solomon, which has a first production at the Broadway Theater, Xew York, June 1st. Rhea will not play California this season. Salt Lake is as far west as she will go. From here Mme. Rhea will go east to Duluth and there close. Al Hayman appears to be never satisfied. He has just added two more theaters to his coast circuit, the Taeoma theater at Tacoma and one which is being built at Seattle, and still he sighs for more. Stockwell's theater, San Francisco, will be opened July 7th by Augustin Daly's Co. This new house was formerly the Powell street theater but it has been remodeled and altered in such a manner as to put it beyond recognition. Ida iddons has been engaged to head the Fay Foster burlesque company next season. The Du Rsll brothers will also be members of the company. Mr. A. L. Dowler is the new manager of the Cmique at Butte City, which re-opened last week. Gilberts A Cellier's comic opera, the "Mountebanks," will be produced for the first time in America at the Baldwin theater, San Francisco, next September by the Lillian Russell Opera company. Mr. Arthur Hornblow contributes a very interesting article in LttUe, Popular Monthly for April on "Representative American Dramatists," a number of answers by prominent prom-inent American playwrights, "As to the Future Fu-ture of the Dramatist in America," are reproduced. re-produced. Augustine Thomas, author of "Alabama." says: "American humor is distinctive dis-tinctive American auditors want it. The English Writer doe not understand it. The American author must be depeu dej upon to furnish it." Americau audiences are largely composed com-posed of the young misa with gentleman escort and without a chaperone. This element is absent from the European audiences, consequently a subject may be accepted a moral in its tone there, which would be offensive here. The Frenchman cannot write for our young women. The time is fast coming when the great American market will belong exclusively exclu-sively to the American writer. A striking contrast to the above is furnished furn-ished by William Gillette, but as Mr. Gillette confines his work to adapting; his matter of fciet style might be overlooked; he writes: 'Wl strikes me that there is entirely too much talk on this as well as upon everj' other subject. Opinions as to Ihc future of dramatists, or the future of anything any-thing else, I consider valueless." Numerous other authors1 ideas arc given which mostly go to show that the future prosperity of the American playwright is uery bright. The first two theaters in England were called respectively the Theater and the Curtain, and were built outside of London in 15T6. ( Shakespeare was 12 years old then.) Before that time it is interesting to know that plays were presented chielly on Sundays and saints' days, and from then until now this has been one of the ; nn - pal grounds of contest between the precisions or puritans and their opponents. Exchange. We arc pleased to note that the Actors' Fund fair turned out to be an unprecedented success. It must be a source of pleasure to the New York Dramatic Mirror :o print the financial result of the enterprise it so zealously zeal-ously Championed. At the start when the project was first announced, the promoters had many enemies to cope with, and he it said to the credit of the M irror that itionght right and left to crush down the adverse I feelings which existed in the minds of many who should have lent their aid to such a worthy affair. With what result the earnest efforts of the Mini T h:ire been rewarded with can be gleaned from the figures which are here given: Cash subscriptions GO,040.H. Sales of season tickets, (8.9U0; -on'.raets for sonve: e r book, 9000r total, 77,'.t!'' 64; -sides ku a good many thousand- 1 ar wo-th of o ds were donated, v. h ii ( i o d ui duri g the - n f e fa r 'l ni? i a handson e ' ' g b I s: of the pro.es, ion WJj f g t ..e . r j C must feel rather sore over the result, the Mirror deserves cred f for its energetic work in behalf be-half of the a o and actresses in general and in the c a f the funds fair in par. i ular. Rose Cogbiafl is meeting with sue: ess in her new play entitled "Tlie Cheque Book," written for her by Charles Codeian. Richard Mansfield s receipts at tae Bald-lieiJiiai. Bald-lieiJiiai. Francisco, for the first -. e lfc. - 1 fl Hi a v,'. H Pr " the e. iV PFV. ? :BBH sleascd to all iBP'' -MB as well as new oneaSBfVV0- ,3f SmJ yf '?Jmve dollar invest-nie,vo invest-nie,vo Lake Pullic. JWl", - y& |