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Show Davis, goes into the Savoy theater. 2?iw Tork,' next week", where the "first d 'am by this successful young writer is expected ex-pected to score a hit. Laura Blggar will probably begin a starring tour in -"East Lynne" this week. r ' Maude Daniels, the ' sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank. Daniels, Is seriously ill with scarlet fever.. .: -, . . '.. "Nancy Brown;" the musical comedy built about a popular song,. is going. to be taken to Australia. - ; E. H. Sothern Is contemplating a tour In the -production of Percy Maekaye'a "A Canterbury Pilgrimage." Florence Reed, daughter of Roland Reed, has been playing with much suc-cess.ln suc-cess.ln vaudeville, but Is ill with malaria ma-laria at present. ' Kyrle Bellew Is .to appear next season in another dramatized novel called "An Amateur Cracksman." From all accounts, . Klrke LaShelle has another big hit on ' his hands in "Checkers." The dramatization of the Blossom story was given In St. Louis, the home of the author, and it made an unusually good Impression. - . ,-. "We note that poor Hamlet Is having bis troubles these stirring times. Recently Re-cently In Washington a etudents commission com-mission had him on trial for his sanity and decided In the affirmative. Later along comes the junior law court of an Iowa school and tries the 'melancholy Dane for the murder of Claudius. While , we are at it. would it not be better for a real court to get after some persons that we have seen play "Hamlet?"' . ( . ghaijt TnrATrru : " . "Fir r.Igan's 'Ball' presented 'by the . fame company which made such a decided de-cided hit here last October, will occupy the whole of next week at the Grand, ' with Wednesday and Saturday matinees. mati-nees. Gallager and Barrett , are the chief fun makers. Of all the farce comedies com-edies that have come and gone during the. past decade the're are only a few left. Notable among these is Finnl-T Finnl-T gan8 BalL' The one chief reason for -.ts wonderful success aside from its own . peculiar merit has been the even ex-. ex-. cellence of the companies which have invariably presented it... The- cast will include dainty Fannie Trumbull, the Tossing Austins, the Bancroft sisters, 'all of whom have proven their peculiar abilities the past season, several of last ; season's favorites and an augmented chorus of pretty and shapely girls. A dramatization of Count Leo Tolstoi's Tol-stoi's masterpiece. "Resurrection.'" .wil" . be .presented at the' Grand theater for . three nights and Wednesday matinee, : beginning Monday, April 6th. v . V IJ( Rae Bronson will present a pew j plJA entitled "California" at the Grand the'ater on April 9th, 10th and'Uth.-. J 7e iw'ron8T Mrs. Appleton, Frank "Vatese's new play, will close its initial ; engagement at the Grand with perform-; perform-; ances this afternoon and evening. It ; has made a pleasant impression and in ' the hands of a professional company should make a success on the road. '-i ' SALT LAKE THEATER. ' ' - v ' ' The return engagement of "Corlanton" Is (announced for three nights, -commencing April 2nd, at the Salt Lake Theater. .Since last seen here this play hajr made a complete tour of the larger Pacific coast cities and returns with the -indorsement of these added to the high encomiums already showered upon It by the critics of Utah. During the early part of this season, so much uncertainty un-certainty existed as to the part of Zoan that it could never be authoritatively sard before the performance who was to essay the role. The leading woman now is Miss Helen Boyer, who played the part continuously and with wonderful wonder-ful success for several months. So signal sig-nal has been her success that the papers pa-pers everywhere the play has been presented pre-sented have declared that "Corianton" Is presented by a cast of uniform excellence. excel-lence. Mr. Either continues successful as Corianton. A great betterment is said to have been made in the company , by.' the addition of that talented young actor, Alfred G. Swensen, to the cast. He has the part of Shiblon. while Walter Wal-ter Persival now plays Seantum. . . Miss Ellen M. Stone, the Christian ' missionary held in . captivity by Bulgarian Bul-garian bandits, will lecture, tonight at the Salt Lake Theater. .- ' V T, sale of seats for Mrs. Charles , 7Virrf&s lecture on "Wagner and the liayreuth Festival" began this morning. NpTES AND OOSSIP l OF STAGE AND PLAYEES. Miss Millie Price, who was a beauty sensation in the old. days of the Koster & BiaT Music hall in New Tork, announce an-nounce that she will return to -the stage next season. ' Miss Price has had two. marriages and as many divorces, and comes back to the boards thoroughly thorough-ly equipped for action. . -, - . The announcement that Richard Mansfield will desert the syndicate theaters the-aters next season .and play the Independent Inde-pendent houses is denied. 'It Is claimed that Mr. Mansfield's tour for next sea-eon sea-eon has already been booked by the syndicate. i The tour of "Liberty Belles, under the' management of Frank Hennessy, comes to an end this week. I w' Henry Miller, in his new play, "The Taming of Helen," by Richard Harding |