The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-20

reserve my account of musical mat
tiers there until My next. I then
took short walk ION foot Of SO
miles and arrived at my mothers
home in the Malad valley. They
hsye music here too. Many organs,
q few pianos and scores of violins
and accordeons. A vely fair choir
exists in Malad City, under the d.
rection Of VIM. Williams, and a
glee club under Prof. Edward
Wocgley. The latter lately gave a
concert in which the ,tHalleiuiah
Chorus (HandeD and seven part
songs by Mendelssohn and other
equally good pieces were rendered.
GLOW does thst compare with our
city programmes Pretty good for
Country jakes,' is it not p Here re-
side the three singing masters with
whom l saug when a boy and who
aided in forming what little taste
(good or bad) have deyel ped for
music. We are having q fne time
together. Some news Of the late
choir concert has reached me. lam
pleased that the public and critics
seem to tense the excslle1cy OF Prof.
Dayne's anthem; that is as it ought
to be. I would everything else
were So"
STAGE SOUNDS
Schoolcrafe and Goes are in Eng
land.
The Danites was reproduced in
London two weeks ago.
Rhea has sailed for England. She
stars next season under the manage.
ment OF James w. Morrisey.
Wilson Barrett does not do things
by halves; his American travelling
agent will be Mr.. J. Herman, Fart
author of the Silver King.
Louis Aldrich is witheuta partner
in My Partner; he has had split
with Oarslog, and some other actor
has been engaged to play the China
man.
Salt Lake City is being overdone
in the amusement iine-so much SO
thatthe Rajah engagement, late in
June, was played to beggarly houses
The Mirror. Too true, too true,
too true.
Marie Jansen, whom several Salt
Lake gentlemen pensively remem
Der, ia nov member of Wynd-
hams company at the Criterion
Theatre in London, and has made &
hit in the new play of Featherbrain
The Tribune yesterday morning
announced that the Fife Elsler Bur
lesque company would coon appear
at the Opera House. We shall mex
expect to hear bat the Lawrence
Barrett Minstrel company appear;
at the Theatre.
An exchange AYERS that lightning
struck" a hail cut in Minneapolis
where some Of Wagnef's music was
being rendered, and the leader oil
the orchestra merely motioned tt
the man at the drum to hit more
gently in the next inning.
1t now seems to be settled thai
Mr.. Ernest Gye, of Covent GaIder
fame. ia to manage the metropolitan
Opera House next season. He hal
nightly guarantee of &1,750 from
| Vanderbilt and the other directors
so he will hardly founder upon tn,
rocks that shipwrecked Abbey.
The sensation of the hour in New
York amusement circles Ia the ap
pearance of Miss Hemst, a Geor
gis country girl, who possesse
all the electricity of an over
charged battery. She has been Civ
ing exhibitions on the stage of Wal
lacks theatre, and her displays Q
strength by the mere touches of he
fingers, have aroused the curiosit,
and wonderment of the Who'll
metropolis.
The lull which has existed for tn
past three weeks at both houses q
Amusement will be broken on tn
Twenty-fourth by the advent @
Leon & Cushmsn's MINISTRIES; fol
lowing them comes Fay Templetol
and her company In light operf
they appear In Girofe Girofia j
Denver tomorrow night. Remeny
the great violinist, is shortly ex
pected at the Opera House and b
that time the month of Angus
teeming with engagements, will b
upon US. Wallack's company, Bar
rett and Effie, Ellsler are the thre
most looked forward to.
Presidential year in the east is a
ways regarded as an off-year fc
theatricals; the Dramatic Tim
said, however, just before the DEM
cratic convention, that if CleveIan
were nominated it would make BIT
little difference to the theatres
New York, "because," argued tt
too, too sanguine editor, she
Workers all know so thorough
that Cleveland will be defeats
that there will be no excItemer
and no divergence from ii
: ordinary channels of business al
pleasure. Whereas il Thurma
Bayard or Randall we're to be Il
, man, the fight would be so strol
!, and the excitement run so high tn
= amusements would be totally 10