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Show Hjj 1 Dramatic. H I jr j n Hl'j ffi .Tames H. Lewis, familiarly known as "Daddy," IS n! IS! ias through some peculiar method known only to HI h m quasi amateur managements been forced to resign J jnj his position as stage director of the "Corlanton" Kifr i HI aggregation to make room for the only Bowers, H$k I who, not satisfied with butchering the part of Jawf1 1 ! Ii Shiblon now aspires to wrecking the whole pro- II 1 duction by giving it the benefit of his lack of ex- 1 perience in this most important position. "Daddy" H Lewis has made a host of friends and well-wishers S I during his brief stay in Salt Lake, and his ability gun 'pi 1 1 as stage manager has been proven beyond perad- HfffiJ'p t venture; in fact, it has been conceded by press and Bfjf ! ' public that he was the right man in the right Bjjkffi! t , place, and to his efforts is due the present smooth HIiif! HP running of the performance as well as the rapid mHk1j 1 advancement of the amateurs associated with the IHf' : j production. If Charles Roy Bowers really aspires BJfPII ij to t tlie stage management from the hands of BWfjM j so capable an artist he would be rendering the HHf :j public an unqualified kindness by handing the role BHflfj ; j of Shiblon to some one with at least a suspicion of HnP';j I talent to fill the role which he has so completely rlHwi I I murdered since the opening performance. The un- Irllihii ll merited removal of James Lewis from the stage Hh ;M managment looks like a case of either blinded Hn Sii1 favoritism or hypnotism of unusual merit. EHijjIi. Hfalifr j Neil Burgess in his own peculiar impersona- mffPff ; 1 tions, will op.en at the Salt Lake Theater in "A I a Country Fair" September 5th and 6th with his , f company of artists. jl There is enough tragedy in every day life with- m out parading it behind the foot lights, and the old injunction to "laugh and grow fat" may be I I followed by everyone who witnesses the coming j performance of "A Country Fair." ; Mtfjli . Liebler & Co. have announced the full cast of laj ; 3 the productions to be under their management this lwi I I season. IflLirll 0nr Ada Dwyer wil1 be wiUl Kyrle Bellew in ImPIiII I "A Gntlonian of France," according to the New HJ j 1 York Telegraph's story. Iffif I, JWf With Duse this year, the following old Salt silt 191 Lake favorites will appear: Emilia Varini, Gug- HyfljJSJ lielmina Galliani, Angllita Civani Pagano, Mario USttHlH Civani Pagano, Italia Dal 'Este, Maria Brioschi, Hjlilj I j a Oceania Rosaspina, Ida Campagnano, Modesta H J I I Bergonzio, Alaide , Geri. Carlo Rosaspina, Dante Ujljj&l I Capelli, Ettore Mazzanti, Ciro Galvani, Antonio BK I Galvani, Lucio Corradini, Livio Pavanelli, Luigi HPra ' 3 Chiesa, Carlo Serbolisca, Alfredo Geri, Egidio Fag- Rm 1 1 1 gioli, Frederico Ambragi, Luigi Bergonzio and HiffL J Papoleone Bianco. Bfigf 1 1 These have been household names among our Bin!' I 9 music lovers for several seasons past, and we are HggRJ: I S glad they have signed for another season. HPifl I MS a j I I Chicat, writing of our erstwhile favorite Vic- luf I fj tory Bateman, in the New York Telegraph says: Hfl i jR "Victory Bateman is making another effort Kit ':. H to get a vaudeville specialty that will please. Not n t? jl long ago she was at Keith's with "W. S. Gilbert's HI, i Ii 'Sweethearts,' .and now she offers at Proctor's HI kel : m t Twenty-third Street house a series of imitations. HUff U " "She starts in with a recitation supposed to be HpjfT delivered by Ellen Terry. Then she gives another HH I f recitation supposed to be by Olga Nethersole. In Hni I ( the windup she is supposed to show up Mrs. Fiske. B J ill Tt cannot De said that Miss Bateman is particular- B 1 i In y naPPy n her endeavor. B 1 i tfSS "The recitations are long-winded and given B I Ulm with n0 Srt great dramatic force, while her ges- HHmSB tures and vocal work are the same in both. She I draws more of a contrast in the Fiske number, and succeeds in suggesting Mrs. Fiske if she does not j portray her. Mrs. Fiske had such marked man- j perisms that it would be difficult to imitate her without more or less suggesting her personality, but Miss Bateman gives little more than a suggestion. sugges-tion. "She was ill at ease and after very nearly knocking over a mirror she did succeed in overturning over-turning a lamp, to the very evident disturbance of the property man, who, from the entrance, sought to rescue the light giver. Miss Bateman has the advantage of a well-known name, but her offering will have to be better before she can hope to gain success." Henry Miller, who has the reputation of being one of the most rigid disciplinarians on the American stage, occasionally "gets his nose out of joint" through the obtuseness of some of his people, peo-ple, and leads them a merry chase at rehearsals, but withall Is the most clever instructor in dra matic work behind the footlights. The clever actor ac-tor met with a rude shock not down on the bills just before the close of the fourth act of "Camille" at the Columbia theater, San Francisco last Thursday Thurs-day evening. He accidentally ran against the Fitzsimmons fist of "William Courtleigh, and when the curtain descended it was found that his nose was sadly fractured and had to be dressed in splints for the following night. Edith Fassett, wife of J. Lester Wallack, driven to distraction by domestic and financial troubles, crossed the divide by the illuminating gas route in New York City last Tuesday in the bathroom of her boarding-house, at 253 One Hundred Hun-dred and Twenty-sixth street. It Is reported by George C. Tyler of Liebler & Co. that arrangements will be made to introduce Eleanor Duse to the Pacific coast this season. As Mme. Duse has never been on the Pacific coast her management is sanguine of an enthusiastic ovation ova-tion awaiting the talented artist upon her introduction intro-duction to the land of the Golden West. Daniel Frohman has returned from the Old World and announces that he has secured everything every-thing on earth In the line of stellar attractions with which to entertain the public during the coming com-ing season. Among the real good people whom he has brought is sweet Mary Mannering, whose Parisian costumes are said to be the acme of perfection. per-fection. The Savoy, in New York, will open with Robert Edeson in "Soldiers of Fortune," and during dur-ing the coming season all of Frohman's celebrities will fill dates on the Pacific coast. Richard Mansfield will bring a new leading woman wo-man back to this country when he returns to make his production of "Julius Caesar," The lady in question Is Dorothy Hammond, late of the Terry contingent, and is said by many critics to be a young woman of great dramatic gifts and considerable consid-erable personal attraction. She will assume the role of Portia. Miss Maud Hoffman, the lovely California actress, is cast for Calpurnia in the same production. Virginia Harned commenced rehearsals In Arthur Ar-thur W. Pinero's drama of "Iris" on the 25th, which Charles Frohman will produce next month at the Criterion theater. "Corianton" has played its string out in Salt Lake for the present season, and hies for fields green and pastures new in the effete East Success Suc-cess to it "The Chinese Honeymoon" passed its one hundredth hun-dredth performance In New York last Tuesday evening. To those who know the circumstances, Bastol to the Basti tvrb a new role last Sunday, |