Show I STAGE CHOWCHOW In the current Mirror appears a portrait por-trait of Jgnnz Padercwslcl by Ernest Uaskell that Is a decided novelty 0 There arc moro Quo Vadts companies com-panies than there used to be Trllbys o o s I Viola Pratt will probably go bath to the antopidcs Ilughoy Wardc will remain I re-main there another year O U 0 Companies arc closing their season by the score each week o e o Brigham Royce who used to be a utility man with the Salt Lake stock companies picking up such crumbs as fell from the theatrical table has become be-come one of the prominent players of the land The last Mirror In presenting a new portrait says Brigham Royce IK I pictured above as Prlncu JCugcn In James K llarketts new liluy The Prldo of lennlco at the Criterion theater Now Yoi It Mr ROll was a Chicago boy prominent In amateur work in Ihe days of tic Histrionic society of tho Windy City laving forsaken the study of law for the MIURO he began hiM theatrical riner ten years ago with Lincoln Lin-coln J Carter then an obiciiro actor md manager 110 had the honor of sMiplnjj wllh coolie and Barrett and uflf playIng play-Ing wllh various rompmles l he was featly acknowledged aa us fill In Westem stock companies appearing In Udnei Pueblo ripple Creek Portland and Silt iike J CIty lo say nothing nr towns through oloiido Plait and Cnlitornhi This sperloiipo resulted In placing to Ills credit n arty Iwo hun < lred role embrnc Ing all sorts form utlllly to Ipwl Mr 1 loyce has plai in support of Madame Modlpska t Murle Vnlnwlphl Roc I Coch Ian Oils Sklnnor and AJarle U uou nand n-and has hold leading Position In prominent promi-nent stock eompanipn notably the Salisbury Salis-bury compajilfs In Svra uso pulTnlo and lrIIW JlII p and l the I Vrawley eompanv In i San Vranclpeo of which orsanlxatlon lie was u ehni ter member Mi 1 HOMO produced pro-duced the llrst outdoor perform nuo ever ssa = seen In San Francisco when AJ You sutro auuu I laRn at Like It WiltS played on tho HItht5 r e erratic whose Harry Corson Clarke adventures form a very strikln coin terpart to Richard Mansfield pCCCIL dlllos comes back to Salt Lake City the coming week Mr Clarke Is Almost stage the oft Lake as well known in Salt delineator lie has as on An a character his days Wi n but few During ew equals stock the Grand the regUlar actor at delight clientele always took Iarloular In observing Clarkes various changes here wits I Ills most recent appearance in Broadhursts What Happened M ° Jones In which he will be seen again this week The play is a laughable farce and altogether tho Performance the good as any will be almost as of a the course Grands patrons get in year Mr Clarkes romantic marriage m Francisco to a society girl of San well remembered the lady accompanying accompany-ing him on his last visit to Salt Lake o o was occupied at I Every Inch of room the Grand matlneo and evening performances per-formances yesterday The play could easily have run a week longer but and Seattle bookings between here claimed the time John S Lindsay was engaged by Manager Klggn for the role of < hilo the part which was made sn much like that of a Dutch comedian by the man who has heretofore played It Mr Lindsay goes north with the company 00 9 Harry Corson Clarke has made more money this season than any of his stage career IIe will be Joined hereby here-by Mr Clarke who comes from San Francisco for the purpose Mr and Mrs Clarke will receive as always n full proportion of social attention while in Salt Lake Maude Adams will sail for England i May Dili > taking the ocean trip for her health and returning almost immediately l immedi-ately 9 Howard Kyle delivered an address April 10th to the graduating students or the National Conservatory of Dramatic Dra-matic Art a Blanche Bates walls for England on hn Bth of May She will divide her summer holiday heaven England and JYanro and will return to America In the t autumn Owing to a difference of opinion belwoon Manager Ltirkolt and MKs rates the artrrsK will not ipp uv with the t summer stock company al Washington Virlnry Batomans vaudeville engagement engage-ment at St Louis IR said to have been the longest ever played in that city lasting sis 1 eeks Miss Batoman has been engaged by Manager Gumpcrtz to play leads until May In productions of the Merchant of Venice ThaI Tha-I Charity Ball and other plays i o e Nearly every theatergoer Jn Sail Lake will remember Jessie Izett who was a great favorite in the last day of the Grand stock A Ptt burg correspondent I cor-respondent has the following to say of her appearance with the Grand Stork company In The Amazons Jessie Izetl who scored a hit In this play last year as Lady Tljomasln Eclturbcl makes her reappearance in the stock company after nearly a years absence The large audiences In attendance have given Miss Izctt mom cordial greetings the I play not being permitted to proceed pro-ceed until she has made a speech and bowed her acknowledgments Miss I Tzctt will be cast in the leading feminine femi-nine roles until the return of Tjlzalo I Hudson Collier on May 12th Thomas W Ross another member of the Grand I stock appeared In The Amazons as the Earl of TIN nwayes |