Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC under the heading Dra dramatic matio and lyric it is the purpose of the NEWS to publish hereafter in its saturday evening issue a resume of events theatrical and musical news of interest in professional and amateur circles and reviews more or less critical of current dramatic and musical representations in our city without doubt the constituency of the theater and the concert hall bull is steadily and enormously growing and there is in no class clan of news read more widely today than that relating to the stage and the musical world to td furnish an entertaining and instructive class of information for its rea readers dere to encourage struggling art in whatever form it may be found and to protect the public from the tuo too frequent shams shame and impositions that masquerade in the villa of art these will be some of the endeavors deavors eB of this department during the week the record of amusements will be fully presented aud public performances for mances will be fairly and impartially critic criticized criticised ined the good will be praised and the bad slated without regard to the frowns of managers or the execrations exec rations of artists an honest attraction ampre dates honest criticism even though it may not always come in the shape of praise and aad as for dishonest ones how they view the matter no DO one thinks or carer care truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth honest judgment tempered by a kindly spirit these theme shell shall be our met mot toe tose our duty to is to the public ao 10 and the public way may rely on being informed as to the true merits or demerits of any attraction that asks for its if support utah talent to is giving a very ery good account of ef itself just now in a trip to the east the writer had haa the pleasure of seeing posing adams one of the lionesses of the hour in now new york of beholding bh edwin M royle boyle in the full tid of prosperity in chicago of witnessing ada dwyer walking away with the handsomest press botio notices of any one in her company of seeing viola pratt on live five minutes notice secure the part of leading contralto in a new york church in a contest content with thirty or forty competitors and of see ng dg mr and mrs B B young holding responsible places in the chicago conservatory and being among the principal features in a central music hall concert besides these we ran across our old friend H 8 goddard snugly ensconced with his bis wife in a harlem flat and diligently studying under mr sweet miss eldredge another utah girl a cousin of miss pratt is in new york studying elocution and the delsarto system annie adams salt lakes leading lady twenty years a 0 is in in the same company as her daughter and looking more like her sister than her mother lily snyder is in studying stu dylag under tinder sweet and she MM pratt and Mf GAUdard meet frequently in an raid kuld laft Iao gyn sy be tilo at me IA terse home fan ny i lit at the head of a ladles ladies quartette ih 16 chicago and doing pi e wen wall she and miss miro snyder it la is true can only be classed with the utah talent by adoption ion but both call bait lake home and salt laka lakis is very glad tor to coiet com t them as part of her family maudie adams la is only in her twentieth year but she has achieved a success not attained by one in a hundred lil in her profession at that age her lines have fallen in specially pleasant place engaged by the first brat of amer loah man managers algers her seasons are long and profitable her surroundings are of the highest claw olaaf and the star whom slid she la is supporting john drew draw Is a thorough thor gugh gentleman as well as an fn an artist thus far the theRin duese of mr frohman has haa kept mite adams and her mother in the same name company arid their combined salaries must amount to a very comfortable figure W we saw miss adams in the mask ball one at palmer the piece had been running six weeke but the house was packed and it was easy to see that the utah girl wab wbk a popular favorite the one asid scene in the play which has most caused her to be talked about is one where she pretends to be just a trifle tipsy it was a scene which mr fruhman says cost the author M alason no end of worry as he realized that it overdone in the slightest degree it would descend to vulgarity and ruin the piece but miss adams grappled it and came out triumphant she goes through the scene in a dainty grade graceful ful apa way with only just the fain faintest sue sua dicion of beeriness leeriness lee ss and it is all im pretty and in all probability the play which Is ol of rather a light order and would le e almost nil without uk mr drew and miss adams will be aten to in salt bait like lake during the season mies adala and ifer her mother live in a tasteful sule suito of rooms room in a private boaro boarding ing house on dia thirty acton stten just juat east of the I 1 imperial ni hotel th they wire were 1 ettory glad to see their rait bialt liike lake friends and spoke warmly of the many khadr ides 69 extended them by sat 8 lake ake people tile the young lady v is now taking les lessor sors B on the frohwein F ruh man a reaal ahle in mind a play in which she atia and her shall be central figures Therum the rumar dr published in ka versil ps era that miss Ms adaar bAdams waw waa betrothed to bet manager was laugh ngy denied ty V the young lady who said sho she only to be wedged wedded to her art mr royle boyle as an tho the h the lead ing lady in FrI friends edds 11 1 author ot of the pla play and recipient of a nig nightly litty royalty atil and one of the the principal actors in the company may be said to be on velvet this season his cifes salary is a heavy one we his royalty amounts to more mere than bronson howard received for Sarai saratoga aoa and nta own salary baldry for enacting the part of jack Is without doubt a good one we saw at Hoo hooters Hoote feis ys thoster theater Chlo chicago agop one night recently and were were ape greatly y struck with the improvements af mad ae in it since altice the ahio club firel pro it in this ot cuy it has baa beon shortened compressed and made more tone fetes throughout the ending ot of the acts acte hue has beo been changed materially and dd the best climax in the play where old otto dies in ft 0 III fit of delirium tremens cremens got half a dozen recalls the cast wahan admirable one miss fetter mrs royle boyle being the central figure fig tire she Is ft a handsome young lady a very clever a charming dresser mr hendersons Hander soaPs piano playing to is as ever a feature mr royle boyle plays with much more freedom and abandon than of old but the palm for vivid forceful acting is carried off by mr lyons lyon who aesha as the drunkard otto never falls of securing half a dozen doen calls alter after hla his death scene mr boyle and aad his bis wife invited the little party of f salt lakers in the audience behind the scenes during the evo evening ning and the lady said that she bad strong hopes of spending ber bar summer vacation with her husband at his home in I 1 a salt lake v ada dwyer has a very pleasant position in mr altous across aaron the poto macs company which followed friends l at hooleys the play clayis is a military drama of the shenandoah P held by the enemy order though it has not th emerit of either Mise awyers part to is that of a girl who dresses in boys clothes to enter the army and a very handsome boy she makes the play is doing immense business everywhere and miss min awyers press notices nearly always credit her with having made the special hit bit of the production we found her pleasantly lodged at a private boarding house on avenue where we had a most pleasant conversation over utah friends and the election miss dwyer being an ardent democrat and beaming with pleasure over the election of mr cleveland the more or less iusa friendly rivalry which forn erfy existed between the tabernacle choir and the he salt bait lake choral society bids fair to be revived anil and heightened during daring the coming winter the choral not long loag ago age seemed emed to be tottering to its fall the directors saw naw that heroic measures were necessary and steps were taken that must either kill or ours cure it in a very short timie time the decision adopted was that every member now new and old must submit to an examination to determine whether he or she ahe really had the the musical ability to entitle him or her to membership the result was that the chafe was swept away and the wheat remained at first the wheat was very ery limited in juanity qu anity but its ito quality was first class and anci presently the knowledge that anere waa baan ku the city an organization which had bad adopted ft a standard into which no one could pone penetrate who had bad not some musical attainments drew into it other people professionals and am I 1 moure who bad hold held aloof from the original fial organization for the reason that no barriers existed to keep out la a efficient members and today the choral has neatly neaily active and alert workers nearly every one of whom ina is a singer and add a reader of music the society now to be firmly established and ks as to its capabilities they alu be fully tested by the task which italian it has llian undertaken which is in to present dudley buic bucas ks cant cantata atit the light of asta asla during the holidays the work to la a sublime one full of tender boa beauties ties and equally as full p technical difficulties V very ory tow tew american societies have hav yet attempted itald it and most moat of them reg regard rd it with a species of awe as something to be assaulted and only conquered after a whole season of arduous application to those who have read sir edwin arnolds Arnold ls immortal poem it need only be said eaid that in betting it to music dudley buck caught the same game fire that inspired the author the result la IS a work which we believe nothing in the past decade of music has transcended certainly nothing in the same game class of musical writing the presentation of the light of asia has been forced to go 90 over from christmas to now new years day aad evo evening ning owing to frohman ana corn coni eddans having been booked at the theatre for christmas and the notly cation of the fact from the new york office having miscarried in the mails now new year years Is night was originally hold held for the home dramatic club but bt bust buel new ness engagements on the part of bf sev oral eral of its if members prevented their filling it and it was gladly taken by the choral people GLINTS FROM MANY jessie Bait bartlett lett davis is getting ready to star frank daniels to is rehearsing a jacw comedy minna gale haynes a does not 1104 open ull till dec 26 viola allen alien is in one of the leadin ir ladies in Ol aristocracy 9 the beautiful julia marl marlowe owe is wending her way hither lillian russets receipts in denver were for the week robin hood la Is delighting new yorkers at two dollars a head lost list monday night eav the aoth performance of babin hood P mr barcher Ba roher the wealthy ohina abid goan who is backing band denies that it has dle disbanded banded I 1 the one hundredth presentation of the amk ball takes place on christ mas ma i young and E J henley have been doing the Shaugh raun rauW in san ban francisco the gorgeous spectacle all baba opens in san francisco isoo next saturday evening ca americans abroad ts bardons is latest lay ilay will be the next venture by the I 1 ew york lyceum company willard Wll lard the talented english actor sup supporal parted by mrle marie 3 burroughs in ie I 1 now M ow at halmers palmers Pal mers now york marie wainwright Waln wright is still doing amy robeart with E leanor eleanor carty carey as elizabeth and will ingersoll as leicester I 1 I 1 rose and charles lans ans revival of diplomacy 1 has been se me Bucce that they will tour with it through tho the country the first ball of the season at the theater win wim be gt giver vIrOn on fridki friday y evest evea fag and saturday afternoon olon next toe the ushers orthe f abe house are the promo oni toni i men and women was revived in philadelphia last week with do be belle ville and mordaunt Mord auni in their original parts 19 mrs ro bernard beeres first week in america was a chilling frost front mainly due to the stupid play she chose to introduce brodu oe herself in alexander Sal salvines vinis engagement in ran francisco isoo has baa been in point ot of receipts one oce of the most remarkable in the ho history of the california theater mans boston stock company produced augustus thomas thomaa surrender last monday night louis aldrich and rome bose eytinge were in the cot cast al hayman and charles frohman paid bronson howard in ad vance fir aristocracy 00 he will probably receive A five times that much before the play to is shelved Bh elved lotta the actress to is said to have im proved in n health and at present is con can soldered out of danger it to is not likely however that she will again go on stake at least not this season the be is now in brooklyn jis he is in fast mounting to the place cocu pled by his hia distinguished father he will pro bubl be soon seen here during next year in both the lie dancing girl and Letter blair the separation of col sinn and his wife cora tauner tanner was by mutual conant sent on account of incompatibility it refreshing to hour hear of a separation in theatrical la Is circles with no scandal attached nat goodwin and harry dixey name 1 to words the other night in th the e lainas club and now goodwin has resigned from the club because th the directors did not take his view of th the difficulty the marriage of hayden coffin and adelaide A alaide do de lauw took place at cincinnati on the there to is nothing about this except that there startling lady with mr coffin at young the retime was unia of his bis visit to salt lake six weeks ago and that young lady was freely introduced here as kro mrs coffia the legal fight between mr aau agustin daly and mr W A brady over railroad scene cene in gafter after dark the mr daly claims is taken from aich spay agy under the gaslight is toy by end mr brady moans means at an says no taking it now to uie the supreme he intends court the dramatic sensation of the hour york to Is brobson howard howards a in new aristocracy he has bees been at work the ply play for or three years he H was un mp called before the curtain on the opening distinction not accorded hi him m night a sit at the the production of either saratoga Sar I 1 shenandoah doab the henrietta or the bankers daughter commissioners harry C G miser miner dr thomas C robertson Bo bertson and joel M mayx mark have decided that harry ker bell jill the variety fictor actor is insane and tho unfortunate is now how in blooming dalte asylum permanently his ate wife 1 M qweenie 1116 vasser vamer I 1 will ill administer his estate which hr acs n rapidly depreciated by reason of her husbands husband Is eccentricities charles H hoyt the author a of f many successful rul faroe list was 44 0 on W tuesday wodai last to lo the new hampshire legislature as a democrat from charlestown Charlee Charles town being the first farat member of that political faith from that district since his father served in that capacity several years ago mr hoyt came to town wednesday night and made a speech to the audience of the madison square theater the event being the anniversary of A trip to chinatown after the performance for mance the actors had a wine supper with mr hoyt mirror |