The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-23
THE STAGE.
Dramatic Events Everywhere.

Inc uan McLean. VINO recentI
Ishot at Queen Victoria, represent:
| himself to be a brother-in-law OF
| Augustus Harris, lessee of Drur,
Lame. r1s ba
| John J. Mackay, of Edouini
| Sparks Company, is lying danger
| ously i'll at the Creighton House
Boston. His disease is pleurisy of
the heart. ds a.N .rrr. ~
Mrs. Well, formerly Lizzie Nc
Call, has been committed to Jail in
Brooklyn on formal accusation of
numbering her husband. who died
recently.
The New York Tribune remarked
not long since that if ever the true
history Of Booths Theatre should
be written, somebody other than
Edwin Booth would suffer.
John e. Owens, who starred the
country for time in THAT Man
from Cataraugus," has been fitted
out as star and accepted the posi-
tiOH of old man in "ESmeralda" at
the Madison Square.
Mrs. Langtry has written to a
friend in New York that she will
accept no offer from America for
next season, and that if she contin-
nes her stage career, for the present.
it will be in England. l q
The receipts of the Strakoscb
Opera Company during two weeks
at Booths Theatre, New York,
amounted to within fraction of
$27, 000 Calculating $4,000 for
Gerster, this leaves neat little pro-
fit for the manager.
There is a possibility of the "Pas-
sion Play" being produced in New
York yet. Salvini Morse, the
author, has induced several wealthy
Calitornians, who witnessed the
play in San Francisco, to regard
with favor a joint stock company
for its production in the metrOpoli-
tan city.
Haverly says he has the site
picked out for theatre in Boston,
and that he is determined to have
one there. He says there is a
theatrical idea which is not worked
there at all, and that a great deal of
money is waiting for hia in the
execution of it.
Mr.. Leonard Grover, author of
"Our Boarding House." has written
play entitled 1.-THE City" espec-
tally for Nat Goodwin and his wife,
Eliza WeatherSby. The play is a
melodrama, the comedy parts being
in the hands of the great comedian
and his wife. Goodwin intends put
ting it on in Boston next June.
Charley Backus, the greatest bur-
lesque artist on this or probably any
other continent, has been i'll for
some time past but recently re-
turned to his place among the San
Francisco Ministries to aid in the
treatment of the s'Patients." This
play will be superseded by new
parody by Backus on the Sights OF
London"
"Apajune" by the California
Opera Company at the Bajou Opera
House, was a pronounced failure;
the reason ascribed was the lack of
rehearsals. There are many pretty
things in the score but the ibretta
| is dreadful. The company has con-
solidated with the Haverly's Comic
Opera Company, excepting Miss
Emelie Melville and Tom Casselli,
who were not included in the trans
fer.
"The Curse of CAIN" the new
Californian production by David
Belasco, was presented last week,
with admirable scenic and mechan-
ical effect, at the Baldwin, San
Francisco. Though the first produc-
ton suffered somewhat from lack of
rehearsals, it was a decided success.
Mr.. Dickson, of Brooks g Dickson,
was so sanguiUe of its making a hit
that he engaged it for production in
New York just from seeing the
play rehearsed.
Madame Patti has on several oc-
casions lately spoken of her inten-
ton to come back To this country
next fall. But one of her leading
traits of character is fear of death,
and she has a great dread of the
ocean. Nothing but the absolute
necessity of money induced her to
come to America and when she gets
safely to the other side she will
stay there. Signor Nicolini says so
and he ought to know. Patti sails
for Europe April 9Th in time to keep
her engagement with Mr.. eye of
the Royal italian Opera, Cosent
Garden.
In spite of the tremendous man.
ner in which Mr.. Keene, the young
tragedian, is being handled, there is
reason to believe that his merits
are sufficient to make him the COM
ing man. He is steadily growing in
public estimation, and his gain is a
SURF Une. All the time that Mr..
Keene was playing in stock COM
pany, his abilities were unrecog-
nized. 1t remained for a shrewd
business man to discover them, pat
the player on his feet, and compel
the cOuntrv To racopnizn him DC an