| Show THEATRICAL CHITCHAT Musical and Dramatic Notes from All Quarters KATIE PUTNAM will play in Butte next week ffcKEERA1KIX will be here about the middle of June AUNTY WHIFFLES we understand is i undergoing a revision BUnT CORK opera will delight its lo era at the Opera House about Conference time EMMA NEVADA was advertised to make her debut in Lucia last night in San I1 ran cisco ADAMLESS EDEN is between here and San l E ranClSCO They have no return date in bait Lake THIS is Pattis last western tour and Salt Lakers have probably heard her sweet voice for the first and last time MODJESKA whose delightful acting is well remembered by Salt Lakers will make another American tour this season IN theatrical parlance this has been rather a cold week at the Theater Gorlinskis concert was the sole attraction attrac-tion CONFERENCE datesApril 2d 3d and 4thhave been booked at the Theatre for John A Stevens He plays Passion Slave and Unknown PECKS BAD BOY will be at the Sal Lake Theatre May 12th His pa and ma and his confidential friend the grocery man will also be along As Patti was crossing the ocean the captain of the steamer asked her as a personal favor to forego her singing while on board as it caused the ship to list EMMA NEVADA when a child was fond of wearing astounding combinations of color and it is said that she never tool kindly to stabbing dry goods with a needle nee-dle PATIENCE was an immense success at Brigham City This afternoon and evening the company play at Logan Mis Thatchers home and an ovation will surely greet Miss Patience TIlE rumor comes from Boston thai Edwin Booth has firmly resolved upon quitting the stage forever lIe will playa play-a series of farewell engagements in the larger cities of the country SARAH BERNHARDT has been at it again This time the story goes that she spends i her spare time embroidering a white shroud with skulls crossbones and other cheerful mortuary emblems MLLE RisE is said to have made a will directing her body at death to be cremated and half the ashes to be deposited de-posited in her native Belgium and half beside the remains of a friend buried out in Nebraska I IN a concert at Austin Nov March 17 1877 Emma Nevada sang and played Listen to the Mocking Bird while a I gentleman whistled as the mocking bird from behind the curtain The local paper pa-per said the effect was sublime NEXT week promises more attractions composed of local talent The DEMOCRAT is gratified to note the popularity and success suc-cess which our home talent have already achieved Salt Lake should certainly be the musical center of the Rockies MADAME RISTORI will play in Salt Lake the 10th and 11th of next month The contemporary and peer of the great Rachael pronounced by the critics the greatest actress in the world in her line will doubtless be a great attraction to the lovers of the legitimate ACCORDING to a musical directory recently re-cently issued in London there are 4500 persons and firms who earn their living by the trade or professidn of music and 5000 more through the country outside of London This exceeds schoolteachers governesses artisans and clerks TilE benefit tendered by our citizens to Miss Ida Hitchcock will we believe be as largely patronized as it is thoroughly well deserved The programme is a splendid one and will insure an evenings excellent entertainment to all who may attend The Opera House should be crowded on this occasion UNCLE Toms Cabin is a problem in theatrical business no man can solve It doesnt matter a bit about the talent employed em-ployed in it Managers generally tell the advance agent If youve got thoroughbred thorough-bred bloodhounds and donkeys in your cast Ill make a date with you If not you cant come It has been on the boards a quarter of a century IN the great drama of Victor Du rand which has not yet been played in Salt Lake there is a humorous element in the shape of an AngloAmerican dude who is not a lay figure carried in merely to create a laugh but takes an active part in the history of the play and is the man who finally unravels the mystery This drama is meeting with great success in San Francisco NEWCOMBS photograph of tho U Faience ience Company attracts general atten ion The twenty lovesick maidens ire certainly as pretty as a picture virile the background of heavy dragoons represents as gallant and fierce a set as ever wore the Queens red or made a harge upon a dinner table The grin on Fred Clawsons face came nearly smashing smash-ing the camera COL McCAULL of New York is nego iating for Gilbert and Sullivans new He is not at all concerned Japanese opera Ida and ierned at the failure of Princess work by Gilbert and Sul that asserts any ivan will if properly cast and mounted The numerous admirers > rove a success and Kul librettos of I Gilberts masterly will be glad to ivans charming scores hear this opinion from an expert SALT LAKE lias musical talent of a crea ive order The Heir of Lynne something some-thing in the style of light opera is the of our title of a work in the hands of two amateurs Some parts of the production merit considerable ire said to possess should remember that but amateurs heavy work We light opera is really would suggest something less ambitious to our embryo Gilberts and Sulhvans sensible DANIEL FROHMAN expressed a idea the other day when he said to a western manager Business will be as bad or worse next season than it has been his Personally I am inclined to think hat business will pick up in May Good things will do well but bad plays and bad actors will have to go to the wall It used to be Lets go to the theatre That do they play Next season the question will IMS What do they play sit good If it is good lets go The pub i are slowly getting educated above the level of poor plays poorly played and have no to money throw throwaway on trash BARRY SULLIVAN the Irish tragedian was playing in Richard HI som years ago at Shrewsbury in England When the actor came to the lines A horse I horse I My kingdom for a horse Someone in the pit called out Wouldn an ass do you Mr Sullivan Yes responded the tragedian turing quickly to the interrupter please come around to the stage door THE DEMOCRAT confidently expect good things of the Careless Grand Orchestra Or-chestra next Wednesday night In num bers and quality it is the equal of any similar organization in the west and from the known ability of Mr Careless to handle an orchestra we look for a beautiful and powerful interpretation oi the different numbers We have nc doubt that Salt Lake will furnish the orchestra or-chestra ample encouragement in their work IN Much Ado About Nothing Misj Terrys delightful impersonation of Beatrice Beat-rice is said to be a foil Irvings Bene dict It is said that nothing could be more harrowing than the Benedict oi Mr Irving In airy grace in bubbling gayety and in spontaneous humor Miss Terrys Beatrice is a matchless representation re-presentation The inconguity lies in the possibility presented that such a wholly charming figure as Terrys Beatrice should love so deathly a personage as Irvings Benedict JUDGING by the number of agents for the Ida Hitchcock benefit several thousand thou-sand tickets ought to be sold Commencing Com-mencing this evening tickets will be for sale at the following places The drugstores drug-stores of Moore Allen Co Roberts Nelden and Godbe Pius Co the bookstores book-stores of Parsons Brothers and W F Raybould the D R G and U P city ticket offices D 0 Calders music store the jewelry stores of Joslyn Park 0 L Eliason and D J James the Walker and Metropolitan hotels and at the counting rooms of the DEMOCRAT Tribune Chronicle and News The Opera House box office will be open Wednesday Thursday and those holding tickets can I secure reserved seats by paying twenty I five cents extra FCALCIII is styled the Patti of contraltos Her voice is original and altogether unlike un-like that of Trebelli Tremelli Cary or Phillips and distinguished by a peculiar sweetness and power It has a timbre which is capable of bringing tears to the eyes of people who hear it The vibrations vibra-tions of it are like the sound of an old Guarnerius under the touch of a virtuoso Her magnificent voice combines with great power a marvelous flexibility and her trills and runs are as clear and distinct dis-tinct as could be expected from any soprano so-prano In the opinion of the best musical musi-cal critics of Europe she is today the most distinguished of living contraltos and her eminence is due to quote the words of a recognized London authority to the fact that in addition to the possession posses-sion of the most remarkable voice that has ever been heard since Alboni she is a perfect artist in the use of it and restores re-stores in her execution the almost lost art of pure Italian vocalism EXPKESIDEXT ARTHUR owns to his fondness for the stage and goes to almost everything that is worth seeing He generally takes a box though not always President Grant never did when he could help it He much preferred being with a party of good fellows right in the midst of the crowd General Sherman is perpetually perpetu-ally stagestruck When he lived inV in-V he was the most familiar figure fig-ure at the theatre generally surrounded by four or five pretty girls who repaid his kindness in the coin with which the English Eng-lish duchess bought the butchers vote Sunset Cox knows all the actors and sees them before and behind the scenes John Sherman cold as he seems has a weakness for the ballet He is an extremist ex-tremist He wants Hamlet or Black Crook William Walter Phelps is a liberal patron of the theater John Logan goes very often and is a much better student of Shakspeare than he is 3f Lindlav Murray Senator Becks stalwart stal-wart form is seen to shake with merriment merri-ment often in front of the footlights ngalls goes to the theater and wears his impassive critical look through the most thrilling scenes Mr Lamar prefers pre-fers tragedy and opera Sleek Senator Gorman is a constant spectator and his corpulent colleague Mr Groome spends many an evening Mr Randall attends he theater rarely but is in evident good spirits when he does |
