Show DRAMATIC CHITCHAT Footlight Flashes Here There and Everywhere Roland Reed is still running on his Cheek in Chicago Tonight is the last night of the season at Dalys New York Lawrence Barratt is playing a six weeks engagement in New Orleans Minnie Maddern and AY J Scanlan Peekaboo are both playing Chicago McKee Raukin Tack Langrishe and Dan Morris Sullivans Mirror of Ireland are doing Portland Oregon LAfricaine is the latest spectacular The costumes are said to be Remarkably brilliant beautiful and brief Jean Clara Walters and Annie Adams are cast in Twins now running at the Baldwin Theatre San Francisco Kate Castleton has a new song of the For Goodness Sake order called She Dont Know Chicken from Turkey Mrs Langtry is playing The School for Scandal in London Let us see Didnt Mrs Langry play something very similar to that in the United States Or was it Freddy The Ogden News facetiously asks why should Ogden not enjoy the festive facilities facili-ties of a firstclass Opera House Why should the News propound such an insolvable insol-vable conundrum The Odd Fellows of the city areprepar ng a special programme for their anniversary anni-versary celebration which will take place in about ten days Much of our best local silent will appear Jenny Lind who h ic not sung in put lie since 1862 now pi 1 r jes to raise her voice in Norwich England for the sake > of raising funds for a childrens infirmary there of which she is the foundress Last week the managers of the Bijou Theatre Boston presented to their patrons pa-trons as each one entered the house ar order for a souvenir in the shape of a pho tpgraph of the audience taken by electric light The Bush Street Theatre San Francisco Francis-co was shut up for a week for actual purification pur-ification after the departure of the Adam less Eden Company A week of the Adamless Eden would contaminate Hades itself The DEMOCRAT last night printed a dispatch dis-patch that Patti would receive 68000 for her twelve performances ending in Chicago Chi-cago last night The Herald this morning put it 168000 and the Tribune 6800 The DEMOCRAT is correct The story telegraphed from Chicago to the DEMOCRAT yesterday afternoon that Patti would break with Mapleson and not fulfill her engagement in New York is denied this morning Even tho Associated Associ-ated Press delights to lie about Patti Bairds mammoth minstrel outfit got the cold shoulder at Logan at which place the people evidently have more sense than dollars At least they had sense enough not to give up a dollar to see such a snide affair as Bairds mammoth mam-moth Patience is all serene again The entire company has voted that the distribution dis-tribution of the fund was fair and honorable honor-able and that genius has had its pro rata reward It was a base soul that started such a miserable squabble What are finances compared to operatic glory anyhow any-how howThe The Chicago Opera Festival closesthis evening with Lohengrin The Festival has done some good work and the immense im-mense hall and reasonable prices brought grand opera within the reach of the masses Lohengrin tonight will be the grand climax of the season with a chorus of 200 voices and an augmented orchestra The methods of musical critics in Paris as represented by their course toward liss Van Zandt are as follows For some reason or othervarious stories are told that accomplished singer fell under their displeasure They thereupon charged her in the public press with being intoxicated in-toxicated on the stage She left Paris and fulfilled brilliantly an engagement in Russia On her return they organized a clique to hiss her and have been persecuting perse-cuting her ever since Let Miss Van Zandt who is an American come home She will be judged here by her art Charlotte Cushman had a foot of her own in size and generally wore fours but could crowd into threeandahalf on a tight squeeze One night soon after recovering from a severe attack of inflammatory inflam-matory rheumatism she was wearing a pair of shoes much too small for her Darting behind the wings between the scenes she snatched them off and threw them as far as she could exclaiming Ye gods 1 Somebody lend me a pair of slippers or Ill go on in my stockings I What number do you wear asked a I young actor ready to help her in the emergency Oh never mind the number num-ber anything from five to twenty I she replied The Wages of Sin came it was seen md in a boxoffice sense it conquered I Whatever may be said of sensational I lays it seems to be a fact that the melo Irama can fill the Salt Lake Theatre while the legitimate can go begging that Oliver Doud Byron or a thirdrate nigger minstrel show can crowd the house and actors of the merit of Sheridan hardly expenses The Wages of Sin is a pay melodrama of the weakest type it has neither plot construction nor language of of it appears like a dramatization one Beadles worst dime novels and the moral if there be one is of a villainous nature Such emotional and sensational laptrap must soon have its day and then it will be laid away on the shelf let us hope forever The retirement of Miss Marie Van Zandt from the Opera Comique leaves the Parisian field practically to Emma Nevada There has been a constantfeud between these two ladies both of whom were pets of the Pars public Emma Nevada is corsdered little short of a wonder in Paris where a robust quality of voice goes for little throw but where feats of vocalization them into ecstacies Arditi claims that in this sort of thing Nevada is without a the stage She will probably like peer all upon Paris pets devote herself practically practi-cally to the French capital for the rest of her life To become really an American she would be obliged to take a course pet of the emulsion of coo liver oil and latten up a little |