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Show tization of Colonel Savage's novel was produced pro-duced for the first time on any stage at Ithaca, N. I, last Monday a week. The play scored a success and the star, Minnie Seligman, made a hit. Jas. T. Powers is presenting "A Mad Bar- j gain" on the road with great success. "Joseph Grismer expects to give the "New South" its initial New York production Christmas week. Phoebe Davies (Mrs. Grismer) is having six new handsome gowns made for the occasion. Frederick Warde and Louis Jams are scoring successes on the road, which proves that public appreciation of toe legitimate i still alive. They represent the best type of stage work, and it would have been difficult to have found two actors who would have paired better. Their success is well deserved. de-served. "A Temperance Town," C. H. Hoyt's latest, lat-est, promises to rival his other pieces in point of success. lie patronage. An attractive programme is being arranged, and among the novelties to be introduced is an electric fountain. Miss Helen Shearman is studying music in 'Frisco. Her mother denies the truth of any engagement having been proffered her with the Lillian Russell Opera company. Signors BUtolfi and Mantinelli are delighting delight-ing the guests of the Knutsford with their delightful performances upon the mandolin, banjo and harp-guitar. Sam Park is busily engaged composing several now songs. 8am denies that the minstrel company is non est. Its quiescent state is caused by the continued absence of Nat Brigham, who is expected to be in Zion on the 1st pros. Mrs. Nellie Druce Pugsley, Salt Lake's favorite soprano, has refused the position of soloist in the new Congrsgational church. Comic opera has resumed its former supremacy su-premacy at. the New York Casino. The "Fencing Master" is its present attraction . Narwale de Sperrati, a young Italian tenor, has arrived in New York. His special claim to consideration is his ability to sing high F. Incidents of the early revolution form the theme of a new opera, entitled "The Continentals," Conti-nentals," which will be produced in Boston PATTI ROSA. The brightest, jolliest and most fascinating fascinat-ing comedienne of the present day is popular popu-lar Patti Rosa, and her continued success in her line of stage work is a source of gratification gratifi-cation to her legion of friends and admirers. Her appearance at the theater tonight will be welcomed by the usual overflowing house to which shhe is accustomed, and the announcement announce-ment tbat she will be seen in ber brightest play, "Miss Dixie," and will be aided in its presentation by the best company of players she has ever had will lend additional interest to her engagement. engage-ment. Patti Rosa, always Winsome and captivating, is in better form this season than ever before; it is an accepted fact that she sings better, dances better and pleases her patrons better than at any previous time in her career. She has a supply of new songs with which to regale her auditors and her own efforts combined with those of the company of which she is the directing spirit will afford dbe of the most delightful performances per-formances seen in inauy a day. Jolly Joe Cawthorn and Maurice D'Arcy are among the number who assist her in her entertainment. entertain-ment. Schilling' MSntirels. This company play at the theater next Tuesday and Wednesday. The first part is something new in the minstrel Hue, and is tcken from the opera of the "Pirates of . "After Dark" is now playing in the Sound circuit, and playing to standing room only. John Drew's success in New York has been so great that he will remain iu that city several months. Pauline Hall has made a failure as a star in "Puritana," having lost over $10,000 in its production. Her home has also been mortgaged to meet current expenses. Over 100 actors have arrived In Gotham in one day, flat broke, from stranded companies, compan-ies, and still we have persons desiring to tread the boards for a livelihood when the stage is overrun as it is. Edwin Royle's "FriendR" Is being played to good houses at Horley's, in Chicago. Of "Tberese Requin" Mrs. Brown-Potter says it is not an immoral play. She says the stage is for those who are already educated and cultured, who can pay their money to see representations of the different ways of living and take their choice. Miss Agnes Huntington was married the lth to Paul D. Cravatc, a New York lawyer, j i Augustus Thomas new play, "Surren- der,'Ms to be produced in Boston the 21st. E E Sol Smith"s Russell's venture" next spring ( will be with a piece by A. R. Haven, called "An American." It will Illustrate the life j of Abraham Lincoln, and Mr. Russell, by his height, thinness and complexion, may be able to portray the ex-president ably. j Felix Morris will leave Rosina Yokes' j company after this season and go on his own j account. He should make a success, for he has been almost as prominent in Miss Yokes' company as herself. "Ali Baba" is scoring a triumph in St. Louis. The memoirs of Tomaso Salvini are in press. December l. Pedro Mascagnl needs to pray to be delivered de-livered from his friends. During a recent visit to the Exhibition in Vienna he was nearly torn to pieces by admirers. His cigar was snatched from his mouth, his clothes torn, and doubtless, both the stump of tobacco to-bacco and the rags of his garments are now religiously adored in secret by ;hoe who secured se-cured them. We obtain some comfort from the fact that the "twenty lovesick maiddns we" are not confined to America. Paderew-skl Paderew-skl has cut his golden locks, and that, we suppose, will save him from the mad maidens. As for Mascagni, let him write a few more operas and he will be saved, too, for his later works tend rather to cool the ardor of his friends than increase it. The Metropolitan opera bouse of New York is not to be rebuilt for operatic purposes. pur-poses. The new Sullivan opera, "Haddon Hall," just put upon the English stage, is not a notable success. Neither the libretto nor the music is up to the mark of former operas. Penzance." The scenery is very elaborate and the costumes of siik, plush and eatin. ! In this part cf the performance many now features are introduced, -which are a pleasing departure from the old-time minstrel first part. Ia the second r art there are some pleasing specialties among them Olivette, the shadowgraph'ut, who does a novel and taking turn; G. II. Edwards, the comedian; ths Narrapansett quartette; Crandall and Clark, expert tsujoisrs; Sully and Nealy; Charles E. Schilling, and the Leonder brothers. Tho company is composed com-posed entirely of artists, and gives an entertainment enter-tainment that is first-class from beginning to end. Little Tuesday appears with the "Still Alarm" company which opens a three nights' and matinee engagement at the theater commencing next Thursday evening. Tomorrow mqrning in Dr. Ut tor's church will be heard Mrs. Marie Smissaert, California's Cali-fornia's favorite contralto soloist. Mrs. Smissaert will be the guest of Mrs. Greene during her sojourn in Zion. Another prizefighter has determined to enrich en-rich the state with his geuius. Jack Mc-Auliffe, Mc-Auliffe, having won a championship battle, is now the star of a specialty company that will be seen in Chicago November 27. That exclusive section of New York sc- ciety which- seeks employment of leisure hours in other than intellectual pursuits, the satirically called Four Hundred, has organized organ-ized a vaudeville club for its entertainment, the members of which will deport themselves them-selves in imitation of the people of the variety va-riety stage and concert hall. Vulgarity will return to its level. " The Baroness Blanc, one of the noted society so-ciety beauties of New York, who caused somewhat of a sensation in London a few years ago by the remarkable success she . made in some amateur performances given for "sweet charity's sake," and who was advised ad-vised at that time by H. Labouchere, the distinguished editor of Truth, to adopt the professional stage, has at last decided to follow that advice. She has an adaptation ' made of one of Dumas recent Parisian successes, suc-cesses, which has also met with favor on the English stage as "The Fringe of Society," but which will be known on this side by the more appropriate name of "Deception." The Orpheus club is progressing admirably. admira-bly. Prof. A. II. Peabody may 'well feel proud of this society, and it is to be hoped that the much talked of public concert will occur this season. Miss Mattie Royle will be the soloist at St. Paul's church tomorrow morning. Monday, December 26, with a matinee, has been decided upon as the date when the Choral society will give its rendition of Dudley Dud-ley Buck's oratorio, "Light of Asia," at the theater. If the rehearsals are a criterion, the society's interpretation of this work will be boih artistic and novel. The society wi'l be assisted by the Symphony orchestra. The musicians' union meets tomorrow noon. ' The principal topic of discussion will be band rates- and : the - advisability -of giving a benefit concert. All the musician of this city and Ogden are on the membership member-ship roll with the exception of the theater orchestra. Will Ford of the Howells club is now a soph at Ann Arbor, and Will Smedley is at Brijant & Station's in Chicago. What will become of the Howells? t The Banjo and Guitar club is progressing admirably, and its public appearance is anxiously awaited. A meeting of the Symphony orchestra will be called for next week to take up active work on the "Light of Asia." The Congregational church organ is now complete and the dedicatory exercises will be tit-id Thanksgiving day. An elaborate programme is beiutr prepared and the opportunity oppor-tunity will be afforded of judging this magnificent mag-nificent piece of workmanship, which is pronounced pro-nounced the best west of Deuver. A reorganization of the Harmony Glee club is couteniplatesl, in furtherance of which a meeting will be called during the coming ' week of its old members. , The tabernacle choir is showing a marked improvement in its advancement, as was evidenced in the rendition of the musical selections at the funeral of D. II. Cannon Sunday last. What has become of the idea of sending this choir to the World's fair? Lizzie Aunandale, the well-known contralto con-tralto who was for several years a leading member of the late Emma Abbott Opera company, is engaged at the Tivoli, San Francisco, Fran-cisco, playing Nancy in "Martha." The ushers of the Salt Lake theater are arranging ar-ranging to give a grand ball at this popular place of amusement the 2d or 3d of December, Decem-ber, with a children's matinee. This is their initial hop, and is certainly worthy of pub- Elwyn A. Barron, the dramatic critic of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, has written a one-act one-act drama, "Out in the Storm," which was given i ts initial perf ormace Monday last in Chicago. Its favorable reception by" the public and generous treatment by the critics of the prets are friendly evidences the author should not - esteem lightly nor be quick to forget. The piece will be played with "Glorianna" as a curtain-raiser. San Francisco theater goers have succumbed suc-cumbed to the charming Julia Marlowe who is interpretine Shakespeare's roles at the Baldwin. Little Tuesday of "The Still Alarm," has also a share of the public's favoritism at the California, playing to packed houses. Charles H. Hoyt has turned ont an aston-shlnir aston-shlnir nutnbar of stage -production and has never known a failure in his peculiar line. Maud Granger played a successful engagement engage-ment in Bob ton the past week. The "Old Homestead" is right at home at present, for Denman Thompson is presenting present-ing it over the New England circuit at present, From all accounts Thomas W. Eeene is coring the success of his career this season. His production of Richard III has drawn forth high praise and he ia doing an excellent excel-lent business everywhere. "My Official Wife,'1 A. C. Gunter's drama- |