| Show j STAGE CHOWCHOW i It is slated that Henry Irvlngs vaudeville vau-deville tour netted 200000 e A c I Thomas McDermott a dissolute brother of Maxine Klllott killed himself him-self a little over a week ago by swallowing swal-lowing poison His father and sisters live In Oakland their family name being be-ing McDermott 0 0 I Weber and Fields had to pay E li Reynolds who had a five years contract con-tract with De Wolf Hopper 15000 be form the comedian was released from his contract u o During the next season Mary Man nering will star In loA Durward La I dye a romantic drama by Mrs Allen I Arthur and Victor Mapen The leading I part is said to range from light comedy = come-dy to scenes of Intense pathos and emotion emo-tion V i Mine Modjeska has signed a contract I to make a farewell tour of this country I the coming season under the management I manage-ment of Wagenhals and Kemper in a big production of King John C C e I A new cooling apparatus is to be tried at the New York theater It forces liquid 1 air through the pipes that are used for steam In the winter and Is f ex petted to make the place twenty degrees de-grees cooler S Jeffries the champion pugilist haw anew a-new play Man from tho West In which he will perform as Sheriff Jef frjes will spar to defend lonely females Hubduo villains and kill 1 a bull t N 1 When Marie Burroughs stars next season It will be In Gilbert Parkers The Battle of the Strong which has I already been dramatized 3 A e A J dress rehearsal of the Passion I Play was attended by 1000 people May 20th many Americans being presonL I The tragedy of the Cruelflxlon wan never before so marvelously represented I repre-sented It Is an allclay performance with Biblical tableaux of the scenes preceding the Crucltlxion and intervening Inter-vening Herr Anton Lang appeared as Chrlstus and his work Is said To equal that of Mayer the greatest Chrlaius that has ever been scene scen-e o When We Dead Awake Is the title of Ibsen latest play for which David llelasco has secured the t American rights Mr lielasco will present the play In New York In UK fall with Mrs Leslie Carter in the leading role u A III Katheryn Kidder sailed last Saturday for a two mouths trip through Europe m to S Giuseppe Del Puente the wellknown operatic baritone died suddenly from apoplexy at his home In Philadelphia last Friday He was 00 years oldS old-S Henry Miller has engaged Sadie Martinet Mar-tinet to Join him In San Francisco this summer tl 0 Barry Johnston has Joined a Quo Vndls company In New York city a i At the grand oponihouse In Pitts burg last week William Ingersoll essayed es-sayed Claude Melnotlo and scored heavily faT fa-T L Hammer and J C Lyon old time attaches of the Salt Lake Theater will be at the Salt Palace grounds this season both being 1 connected with tho ticket department a e Through an oversight In the account Vadls engagement at the of the Quo Grand lust Monday night no mention was made of John S Lindsay Mr Lindsays acting was excellent He has gone East with the organlxntlon i e a There is not a single comic opera prima donna booked as a star for next season save Alice Nielsen Lillian RUB sell Pauline Hall Camille dAiville and Edna Wallace Hopper are contracted for outside of the stellar realm Ot the operatic male stars Francis Wilson Jerome Sykes Fran Daniels and possibly pos-sibly Jefferson de Angelis alone remain I |
