The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-06-04
DRAMTIC GOSSIP.
Things Theatrical Throughout the
Country.

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east from San Francisco mex
season.
sFEsmeralda" still holds the board.
at the Madison Square and PLAYS II
GOOD houses. There will be NJ
Change Of bill there till fall, at any
rate.
J. F. Hagan has been re-engaget
TO play "Dunstan Kirke" in one o.
the Madison Square travelling com
panies next season.
In view Of the dull prospects fol
the summer, San Francisco mana
gers are discussing the ACCESSIBILITY
of reducing the prices of admission
to seventy-fve cents for dres:
circle seat.
Two of the Madison Square
Theatre companies will play Haze
Kirke" during the entire summer
one on the Pacific Slope and the
other IN the east and Canada.
1t is now said that Salvini will
not come to this country the coming
season. Mr.. Amberg has received
letter saying that Mr.. Chizzola
has been unable to make arrange
ments with him.
Steele Mackaye, author Of "Hazel
Kirke," has indefinitely abandoned
the project of building a new theatre
| in New York and will devote him
self to railroad inventions.
"The Professor" will close its sea
- 41oo XHin1cOr
York. 1t will then have been
PLAYED 362 times. 1t will reopen
September 18th, at Baltimore, with
a reorganiZed company.
Edwin Booths daughter is lying
very sick at the Hotel Brunswick,
New York City, of pneumonia. 1t
may cause change in the date of
Booths departure to England. His
intention was to leave on the 31st of
May. He may not now leave until
June 18th.
The rehearSals Of the Living
Age" are progressing very satisfac-
torily at the Union Square, and
there is a strong likelihood of the
play being a success. The scenery
will be very elaborate and striking.
Marston has been engaged upon 1t a
long time.
Alice Dunning Lingard, has just
closed very successful comedy en-
gagement in New York, and has
gone abroad for the summer. She
is to return in September and re-
sumo her professional duties. Alice
has now concluded that comedy is
her forte.
BY September the Madison Square
will have five new plays ready for
mounting, each of them specially
ordered by the management from
some acknowledged dramatic author.
From these five one will then be
selected for immediate production.
and the others will be put away to
wait, some Of them, no doubt, for
years.
Mr.. VIII Comley, of the Comley-
Barton management, is sOrely beset
with difficulties of a most distress
ing character, of late. Besides the
suit for damages, brought by Cath
arine Lewis, for alleged breach of
contract, he is harrassed with suit
for divorce, instituted by his wife,
who charges him with adultery,
and names the woman.
The contract was signed last
Thursday for the production of Gil
bert and Sullivan's new opera,
founded on 'The Princess" Its
first performance will take place at
the Standard Theatre, New York.
on October 1st, with DOyley Carte's
company. Mr.. Gilbert is personally
to direct the rehearsals there, and
Mr.. Sullivan is to conduct the first
night. The rights to the opera will
be sold entire for other cities, with
the agreement that Mr.. Sullivan
will conduct, on the first night, in
each place. Mr.. StetsOn has already
secured the opera for New England,
There has been considerable gossip
the past week over the mysterious
departure of Tom Casselli on the
same steamer with Emile Melville,
as he had been prolific in his as
sertiOns that he had no intehtion of
going to Australia just at present.
He secured passage at the last mo-
ment, under the name Of Shapscoat,
and went on board disguised as an
elderly gent. 1t is said that Mr..
Derby, Emly's husband, recently
grew suspicious of Casselli's IN
firing devotion to the fair l11'tnlG
donna, aud the two gents quarreled.
Emily took issue with her husband
and is reported to have left him.
Casselli, though quite young, Is said
to have a wife in England.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg now
lets it become known that she will
not get married, but will star
another season, OF get up English
opera, or do something to make
money and get a fresh batch OF full
some laudations of the American
pTinlG donna. The marriage adj
vertisement was worked Gd flG1LSeGnl
during the past season. Every pro
vincial newspaper teemed with the
0ccount OF the forthcoming event.
They seemed to think it was a
circumstance that ought to shake
America to its centre, In that
thought Miss Clara Louise agreed
with them. She is said to have
been overwhelmed with congra-
tulatory letters. For some reason
the marriage arrangement fell
through Just as her season closed.
And then Just as her new arrange
ments We're made for next season,
the report Of her virgin resolve not
20 marry IS circulated. COngratul-