The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-06

The Choral Society are rehearaing
the Phantom Chorus from La Som
nambula.
The Skating Rink has paid its
mu .icians over $500 during the
past season.
Patti opens the operate season in
London on the goth inst. at the Co.
vent Garden.
The Home Dramatic Club are en-
gagged in making up casts to eight
or ten new plays.
An amateur opera company from
Salt Lake will probably visit Ogden,
Logan and Provo in the near future.
Emma Abbott's advance sales In
Topeka, Kansas, were 81, 100, and
the city was vastly proud OF its mu-
steal taste.
The interior decoration Of the
Theatre is progressing slowly; the
effect when finished will be elegant
In the extreme.
Baron Rudolph, one Of George S.
knights plays, was written by the
first of American dramatists-the
author of The Bankers Daughter.
Lillian Russell cabled the Bijou
theatre that she would sail from
England on the Gallia. The Gallia
arrived in New York bat brought
no Lillian.
Sara Jewett, after discouraging
season at the Baldwin, has given
up the engagement; it strikes us as
very queer management that would
attempt an opposition to Mapleson.
The lobby at the Opera House is
handsomely hung with elegant
paintings and portraits. It Is a
pleasant place to Ioiter in between
the acts.
Jeffreys Lewis has sailed for Aus
traiia after q disastrous season in
San Francisco. On the night when
she played l. Article Al at the Cali
fornia, the supers struck for wages,
and the trial scene had to be played
without spectators or jury.
An Uncle Tom Cabin company
follows the Knights at the Opera
House. The cast has two Topsys.
two Unc'e Toms, double blood
hounds, double donkeys, double
Marks, and will be the frat of the
kind ever seen in the west.
Those who would gain an idea Of
the mammoth proportions Of to-
morrow nights concert should con-
suit the Stephens programme pub
lished in another column. The
excellence of the numbers and the
objects of the entertainment ought
to draw out prodigous audience.
The Specially Company now per-
forming at the Theatre is without
doubt the best that has ever visited
Salt Lake. Nearly every feature Is
new and entertaining, the sketch by
the Hughes, being the only thing
that time has not changed. Vain
rata, the st. Glars, Dutch Daily,
and the Irish Four are ali inimit-
able in their various lines.
Are we to have the Kiralfys and the
great spectacular ballet Of the age,
Excelsior? They played fer weeks
In New York and Chicago, and are
now running in San Francisco to
houses almost equal to those that
Patti drew; the stage effects, spec
tacles and the army of ballet girls
are all said,,to leave every other effort
of the kind in the shade A mint OF
money awaits their coming TO Salt
Lake.
The performance of VietOrine,
good as 1t was in many respeets,was
marred by some very bad stage
management; the curtain ones de-
scended several moments late, and
again came down in the middle OF
one Of Miss Adams speeches. Miss
Anderson had long sscene where
che was supposed to listen to a con-
versation without herself being OBJ
served, yet she stood almost on di.
rect line with the other characters,
most of whom stared directly at her
without being aware OF her presence.
We are glad to be placed right on
the Leavitt-Rentz>Santley af-
fair. Mr. N. B. Lesvitt's brother,
now managing the Spe .ialty COM
pany, explains that the veritable
Rentz Santleys is one OF the best
troupes on the road, and that it will
appear here some time in June; the
other coneern-which we cannot
think of without shudderiDg-is
managed by Mr.. John Jack, who
bought the right to use the name
"RentZ Santley" in small towns,n
in the original company's route, and
who bound himself at the time to
hire only strictly frst'c class people;
he has broken his contract in both
instances, Mr.. Leavitt says, and
will be prosecuted to the full extent
when caught within reach of the
law.