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Show H B Kyrlc Bellow's drama, "Baffles, the B ( Amateur Cracksman," In which he will B appear at the Salt Lake theater on B j Septemberl, 2 and 3. was written by E. B J ' TV. Hornung and Eugene Piesbrey, who H used an a foundation one of the B sketches published In two volumes by B I Mr. Hornung under the titles of "The B Amateur Cracksman" and "Raffles" B respectively. The authors go to daring B lengths, seeming: to argue that crime la B a disease and that criminals arc Irre- B 1 i sponsible. The detectable adventure B of the Melrose diamonds Is tho on? B ' wisely selected for presentation of this B argument and to give the stug-e an cn- B tlrely new character In Raffles, the B t gentleman-burglar-phllanthroplst. For B conflict of forces the authors furnish H( I 'a specialist in crime who rivals Shcr- j ( lock Holmes. This is Cape. Bedford. Hl I the detective, in the person of E. M. B( Holland, whose last time in PInkerton Hj pulse was as Capt. Redmund In "Jim, Hl 1 the Penman." Raffles and Capt. Bed-j Bed-j ford have It nip and tuck throughout B the play. B t B Much disappointment will be felt by B theater-goers because of the cnncella- B ! tlon of the Barrymore engagement. Miss I Barrymore was booked to appear here in "Cousin Kate," on August S, 9 and 10, but Manager Pyper received a telc-B telc-B i gram on Friday informing him that owing to the state of her health she B could not come. She has been playing in "Cousin Kate" and "Carrots" with j great success in San Francisco. B B Frank Daniels opens his season next month In St. Louis In "The Office Boy." He will be here late in September. H . B Charles TV. Meakln, son of John P. B Meakln of Salt Lake, has been engaged B to serve on the business staff of Henry TV. Savage and will have charge of the press work for "The County Chalr-man" Chalr-man" company. Mr. Meakln has been in the service of Frederick Wardc. Mrs. , Brunc and Paul Gllmore. Last sea- son he was business manager and i press agent for Charles B. Hanford. H 1 Howard Kyle will star under the j management of James K, Hackett In a j new play by Louis Evan Shlpman. H c A young woman tripped Into the tcn-derloln tcn-derloln in New York and glanced nerv-ously nerv-ously around. Then she leaned over the rail and whispered to Sergeant Shibles: "No, you needn't be bashful," said the sergeant, "you can't shock any one j here." The young woman seemed re- lieved. "Well," she said, " I don't know what I'll do. I'm an nctress. I have 1 Eome lovely tights, white, blue, pink, nnd all colors, I've landed a fine job 1 for fall. I had tho tights dyed. This I morning I put one pair of the fullest j I baby blue on the back of a chair. It was warm and I opened the door. Then I felt sleepy and went to bed. When I woke up those tights were gone. Do i you think you can find them?" H , Sergeant Shlblc-s looked sympathetic ; nnd said he'd try. The young woman fcald she was Miss Minnie Stahl. Two ? sleuths went out and they gathered up Hl i 200 pairs of tights of all sizes and col- ij ore. The young woman was sent for.. but she couldn't pick out hers. Chl- V cago Tribune. Charles Frohrnan has engaged to nro-duce nro-duce a piay that Barrl. the novelist, H' is writing, In which Miss Ellen Terry will play the principal character. H Xlrke L Shelle is on his way home from Europe. He will be managerlally in the field next season with all his , successes of last year. These comprise "The Earl of Pawtucket," "The Vlr-ginlan," Vlr-ginlan," "Checkers" and "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush." I Wilton Lackayc has gone to his Long , I Island cottage for the summer with f ' his wife and little son. Mr. Lackaye is the ilrst actor to receive an offer ' from a political organization to stump I the country In the interest of a Presl- .1 dentlal candidate. His long tour al- 1 ready booked with "The Pit" made his ' acceptance of the orfer quite impossible. 11 ' '' The title of the comic opera in which j Mme. Schuman-Helnk Is to appear next ' I season is "The Right Girl." " E. H. Sothern's tour with Julia Mar- H lowc will begin about the middle of September. . . . , Toby Claude goes into "Tho Chinese i Honeymoon" for its run at Manhattan f Beach. The Bostonlans have concluded inelr j season at the Colonial, Boston, with fly- lug colors. Business .had been bad a ! ) part of the time, but luck turned the m I moment they put on "Robin Hood," and , the capacity was tested at every per- fonnance of that opera. The company , has gone to Atlantic City. H ' '! "Keep your sents, please, ladles and ' . gentlemen." said a theatrical manager, ) "there is no danger whatever, but for i ! some Inexplicable reason the gas has 11 1 gone out." 1 i ' I Then a boy shouted from the gallery: J v "Perhaps it doiVt Uke the play." ' ' Robert Edeson 13 keeping open houpe i i at Sag Harbor. Hi i l ' .; i The talented Miss Stevens, who made 1 ' -sj everj'body suddenly sit up and look sharp by the first five minutes of her ;.l acting in the role of Miriam in "Mary l ' 41 ot Magdala," has been engaged for the 1 I' stock company her cousin, Mrs. Flske j V Is organizing in New York. Brilliant J - this yoHas woman still in her toons, we believe. Chicago Chi-cago Record-Herald. The title of George Ado's new comedy, com-edy, "The College Widow," has been In his mind for nearly si dozen years. He originally contemplated using the material ma-terial it implies for a book of sketches. Maude Adams is to appear next season sea-son in a four-act comdy of English rural life by Israel Zangwlll. There Is an how-to-be-happy-though-marrlcd tone to one of Pete Dalley's Jokes in the minstrel part of "A Llttlo of Everything," at the Aerial gardens. Miss Templeton, as Mrs. Knight, says: "What a charming husband you are. So tender after years of marriage." "Who wouldn't be tender after twenty twen-ty years In hot water?" replies Billy After. Chicago Chronicle. DIgby Bell will continue In vaudeville vaude-ville next season, having signed contracts con-tracts which will engage his services for more than a year. Though Henry Irving had for several years given an immense amount of time, money and energy in reviving tho plays of Shakespeare, and lived In tho land where the great man was born and burled, he had never, up to a certain cer-tain time, visited the far famed place by tho Avon. Finally, after many years, and at tho suggestion of a famous comedian friend the two actors betook themselves to tho scenes now notable as being the former home of the greatest of all playwrights. After going over the places made familiar fa-miliar by printed story and tourist accounts, ac-counts, they were returning to their hotel ho-tel In the late afternoon, about the time that the laboring class of the vicinity were returning from their dally work. Meeting one, whose dull countenance betrayed small Intelligence, Sir Henry said to his friend: "I'm wondering what opinion that stolid appearing Individual has of tho i immortal bard I'm going to try to ilnd out." Then, accosting the man, he asked: "Can you direct me to the home of Mr. Shakespeare?" "I can that," said the man, "but he ain't there now he be dead these mony year." "Indeed!" said Irving, "and do many people come here to visit his grave?" "They do, Zor," was the countryman's country-man's reply. "And why do they?" asked the actor of the man born In this famous vicinity, vicin-ity, and who might be supposed to know everything pertaining to the history his-tory of the poet. "Because," said the man, In a somewhat some-what hesitating manner, "because well, I think it was because Mr. Shakespeare Shake-speare writ summat, Zor." "Ah," said the actor, as if in earnest quest of Information, "and what did he write?" "I don't know for zhure, but I think, Zor, it were the Bible," said the countryman coun-tryman in reverent tones. New York Clipper. ft a Encouraged' by her success in "Twelfth Night." Viola Alien will continue con-tinue to appear in Shakespeare next season. Her production for next season sea-son will be "The Winter's Tale," In which she will appear as Hcrmlone and as Pcrdlta. Margaret Illington has been selected by her husband, Daniel Frohrnan, to be leading woman of the new Lyceum j theater stock company next season. She will be seen first In a new play by Pinero. ' In the voice1 trial Mr. Savage himself has one voice. The three others are his technical director, his grand opera conductor con-ductor and his contractor. It requires three of the four votes thus provided to decide for or against an aspirant, and where it is impossible to reach a conclusion con-clusion on this basis on tho first hearing hear-ing the singer is required to come again at another time, when it Is supposed his or her Increased confidence may bring- about an afllrmatlve decision. Contracts have been signed between Isanctte Comstock and James K. Hackett. Hack-ett. Miss Comstock will star under Mr Hackett a management, beginning nen season. Miss Comstock has been lead-15S lead-15S W0Vvlth Joseph Jefferson, John Hare, Sol Smith Russell, Otis Skinner Henry Miller and William Collier Comstock is to begin her starring tour Tho manacer of a Chicago theater who was unable to comply with all t), details of the new flreprooflng o rdh Uce n ne'e thntPMVC ,t0 the 'Council Sm-mitteo Sm-mitteo tnat his house was nerfectlv safe, to allow them to place a stell nan on the stage, fill ,t th oil? set ? ft'1 chaIn"nt --fine Word is getting around that there Is hope for the new dramatic season-at S38 lrU'ar comedians and musl-isews. musl-isews. For tho present value of the heater Is coming at last to be deflnlS-ly deflnlS-ly understood by comedians-nit so much as an amusement for tho public as on adJuncL t0 commerce l PUjJIte Volnted out In these columns "come weeks since, thrifty players have "ion? .been earning tidy little sums by advertising adver-tising special brnnds of uhamniicii? Vmi their (alleged) favorite cigareues on the SLaS?' Whl.Ie the hal8 and shoes as wi various other elements of a star's wardrobe are frequently paid for by the naertlon of a statement of their maker In the regular theater programme Now comes an astute critic of mnt ters theatrical with the suggestion Sat juut as there are thousands of waiters In hotels who receive no wages from the proprietor, but depend for their income in-come on a generous public, so a similar arrangement enn doubtless be made bv irrl', m;inasers with certain members of the r companies, the understanding being that they arc to receive no salaries, salar-ies, but may make contracts with leading lead-ing industries in advertising their wares In the different lines of their S3f an songs for a consideration. With such a fertile suggestion offered gratuitously to theatrical managers' it would .seem that the future of art in America is assured. Mary Anderson's devotion to the London East End poor continues unabated, una-bated, and she not only treats them to dramatic recitations, but sings for them also. Her latest appearance was at a concert given at tho People's palace, pal-ace, Mile-End road, In support of Father Fa-ther Bernard Vaughan's East End club for girls and boys. The Immense hall was packed with an informal and appreciative ap-preciative crowd drawn from every rank of society. The principal artists wore Mme. Albanl. Mme. Do Navarro Na-varro (Mary Anderson). Gervase Elwes and Mr. Santley. Albanl was resplendent resplen-dent in diamonds. Including a tiara. Those were worn with a gown of palo blue satin adorned with Beige lace and having touches of white chiffon about the bodice. Miss Mary Anderson looked very sweet In a soft white frock, Inserted Insert-ed with cream lace nnd made with her favorite long wing sleeves. Her Interpretation Inter-pretation of Tschaikowsky's "None but the Weary Heart." with "cello obllgato, was specially delightful. She looked almost too prettj to be compatible with her Intensely virile and dramatic rendering ren-dering of the murder scene from "Macbeth" "Mac-beth" which followed later. Lovely baskets of roses, red and pink, were presented to Mme. Albanl and Mme. De Navarro by a falr-halrcd child In white. . Emile Brugulere, composer of "Tho Three Kings of Korea," which the Bos-tolans Bos-tolans will produce In September, enjoys en-joys distinction In several ways. His home, In Monterey, Cal., adjoins that of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, nnd he and the novelist were great friends. Last week Mr. Brugulere was made a knight by the King of Portugal In recognition rec-ognition of his musical ability in setting set-ting music to the Shelley poem "I Arise from Dreams of Thee," and tho Browning poem "Life in a Love." Another An-other opera by Mr. Brugulere Is "Baroness "Bar-oness Fiddlesticks." He was born In San Francisco and a thing unusual with composers is amllllonalre. A popular author, who has lately turned to playwriting, has not succeeded succeed-ed In Impressing managers with the availability of his productions. Not long ago, thinking to get some useful pointers from the current drama, he made an observation tour of the theaters. thea-ters. "Well." he remarked to a friend at the end of the evening, "I seem to be the only man alive who can't get a poor play put on." Harper's Weekly. e Stanislaus Stange and Ludwlg Eng-lander, Eng-lander, who wrote "The Two Rosea," In which Mme. Frltzl Scheff will star ithls season under the management of Charles B. Dillingham, have Introduced a quaint novelty. Instead of having their contralto an old character woman with a funny, cracked voice, she must be a genuine contralto who really can sing. Miss Alta Yolo, who was formerly for-merly soloist with the Duss orchestra and with Sousa's band, but who last season sang the role of the young widow wid-ow in "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," has been selected to sing the rather unusual role for a light opera contralto. James K Hackett's liking for Winston Win-ston Churchill's books Is personified In the statement he sends out that he Intends In-tends to have "The Crossing" dramatized, drama-tized, the work to bo Intrusted to Louis Evan Shlpman, with the understanding that tho play Is to bo ready for a production pro-duction about November in Washington. Washing-ton. Grace Van Studdiford has not been engaged by Weber and Zlegfeld to succeed suc-ceed Lillian Russell In the Music hall next season, ns reported. , George Thatcher, the veteran minstrel, min-strel, who has Just been engaged by Henry W. Savage to play the role of Sassafras Livingston In the Western "County Chairman" company, received a telegram from his wife tho other day, saying that her uncle left an estate worth $100,000. Nevertheless, he says he will play Sassafras Livingston. 4 It has been decided that the Iroquois theater of Chicago shall be renamed the "Vaudeville theater." A sign bearing bear-ing those words appeared on the west wall of the playhouse recently. It Is said that the alterations, which have been carried on secretly for many weeks, have Included the tearing out of the marble stairways, which were tho pride of the owners. b "Ben Hur" is about as well known on the stage as In the library, and now another of Gen. Lew Wallace's classical novels Is to be dramatized. "The Prince of India" is being made into a play, and will be put on the boards early next season. An elaborate production of it Is promised. "Ben Hur" was directly responsible re-sponsible for the writing of "The Prince of Indlo." When Gen. Garfield was President he read "Ben Hur" and was so Impressed with It that he is said to have offered to make Gen. Wallace Minister to Turkey If he would write a story with scenes laid In the Holv Land which Gen, Wallace never had "visited! The offer was accepted and "The Prince of India" was written. The basic Idea In the play, as In the hook, Is the lovo of the Greek Princess Irene for the young heir to the Moslem throne. Tho Wandering Jew is also one of the characters char-acters In the play. The dramatization is being made by J. I. C. Clarke, and the production will In all probability be made at the Now Amsterdam theater New York. Joseph Brooks Is associated with Klaw & Erlanger in this enterprise. enter-prise. The flnal scene in "Salammbo." the new play which Stanislaus Stange has written for Frederick Warde and Kath-ryn Kath-ryn Kidder, Is said to equal In Intensity and suspense the great tragic moments of the Sardou dranias. It pictures the death of Matho, killed -by the tortures of the frenzied mobs of Carthage and that of Salammbo, who, compelled to witness the sufferings of her lover, dies of a broken heart. |
