The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
The Stage.

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= Francisco. We fear she is passe.
The costumes worn by Emma Abbott
IN Semiramide, are the costliest eve
made for the part.
, Louis James is again announced tt
l star next season, with Marie wainwright
= as leading support.
! Osmond Tearle is already busyine
himself with arrangements for his star,
ring tour next season.
Tagliapietra's wife is Teresa Carreno
the celebrated pianist. She is now al
home in New Rochelle, New York.
THE HERALD is indebted to Brooks
81 Dickson, of New York, for a part
of its dramatic iottings this morning.
Josh Carlisle was to have gone with
the Emma Abbott company but the
negotiations fell through for some rea-
son.
ONat Goodwin has tried his own hand
at play writing. The result is a Howl
ing Absurdity, in which he may play
later in the season.
The Grismer-Davies Company are
playing to good business in Portland,
Or. They viii return to San Francisco
about January I'd, 1885.
1t has been cleverly said of Ristori's
| sleep-walking scene in Macbeth that she
converts twenty-five lines of the drama
fist into five-act tragedy.
Sophie Eyre is not playing at present.
She will not appear until suitable part
is found for her at Wallack's. Her
name is on the salary list, however.
c. w. Couldock is paying a visit to
Joseph Jefferson's plantation in Louis
lana. He draws his salary right along,
although the Kirke company is temper
arily disbanded.
La Charbonniere, (The Charcoal
Dealer as produced by Brooks & Dick
sons Company, has not yet received an
adverse criticism. 1t made hit at
the Olympic, st. Louis, last week.
The Milan Grand Opera Company,
after failing to play to a paying house
since it opened at the Star Theatre, Oct
%, succumbed to the inevitable at
Boston, on Saturday night. AT least
SOS, 900 was sunk in the enterprise.
Campobello's wife is the singer
Madame Sinico. On Christmas eve the
accomplished basso was in Salt Lake,
his wife was in New York. and his two
children were at the family home in the
Isle of Jersey, in the English channel.
Hazel Kirke resumes its season on
January 26, at HooIey's Theatre, Chica-
go, afterward playing a dozen of the
week stands. It vas only withdrawn
from the road because the one night
stands were found unproftable.-Er
change.
Hon. Lewis Wingfeld, of London, has
forwarded costume sketches, designed
by him, for Robson & Cranes great
spectacular revival of Comedy of Err
rOrs, under Brooks & Dickson's man
agement next season. 1t will be one of
the most costly productions ever seen
in this country.
The Salt Lake correspondent of the
S. F. Music and Drama wrote compli-
mentary notice of L. A. Cummings who
left with the Grismer-Dayies Company.
The paper prints it as follows: 1.-The
Grismer-Davies Company took away
Lou Cummings, one of our leading
amateurs, who is an elegant stage dres-
SER" - MA g1 SIS
The one hundreth performance of |
"Adonis" at the BijOu, New York, with |
Henry E. Dixey, in the title role, was
celebrated befittingiy on the 18th inst,
by the usual handsome souvenir pres
entaton. The piece is a bowling bur-
ACoN0C anu
viii run during the balance of the
season, taking to the road in 1856.
Brooks & Dickson have reduced saIar-
les twenty per cent. in their "Ristori," |
''Charbonniere," "Romany Rye" and |
In the Ranks" troupes. Mr.. Dickson
admits that all of the above companies |
(the Ristori excepted) have played to an
average of only $500 per night during
the season. E. J. Buckley of I'm the
Ranks" Co. threatens a lawsuit for the
balance of his salary. He viii not stand
a eut-down.
Elaborate preparations have been
made for RistOri's New York opening at
the Star Theatre. There is great public
interest in the event. When Legouve
first suggested that Ristori should add
:. Medea" to her repertoire, she refused,
declaring that she could understand all
passion but such as led to the murder
of ones OWE offspring. Not until
Leouve altered the situation so that the
was implied, rather than con-
before the audience, was
Ristori induced to change her decision.