The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-11
rbs Fortunes Of Melville and
CaSSelli.
vaPLEsoN COMES TO GRIEF
easselIi Dead and Melville On the
Wane -M.plesOn Follows AD-
bey-Ke Grand BaHd Stand
The Excelsior Music,
Etc, Etc.

GASA AA 1900
;nnression behind them than Enc
lia MelvjlIe and Tom Oasselli. The
nresence in Salt Lake of the Kiralfgs
vho were old friends of the last
canned aud Professor Krouse, WIS
introduced him into the Melville
company, recently brought up th'
tvo names in a conversation tC
uhich a HERALD reporter was az in
,erested listener. Inc following par
tcnlsrs will prove interesting to the
MANY who still hold Melville and Cas-
sslIi ia reRaem brapce: Emelle Melville
Vas born in San Francisco something
ike thirty five or thirty-six years sgo;
her frst experiences on the stage
we're gained as singing soubrette 10
the California Theatre, whea the
spleudid stock company OF that house
was headed by John Mccullough;
leaving here, she travelled some time
in Australia, starring in sOubrette
roles and musical wetGngeS through
that country; Mr.. Mark Croxail re-
members to have seen her in Mel
bourne in 1855. Ia 1879 Professor
Krouse and a Mr.. Kennedy organized
the Emelie Melville Opera Co., IN
San Francisco, vito Melville st the
head. and Gfsoie Piaisted, Lilly Post,
Max FRI emau. and Alonzo Hatch as
support. Casselli was doing the song
and gymnastio d1nce bus ness at the
Bella Union, and was brought by MIR.
Krouse into the company to play the
BsiIlie in the Chimes.
The organization was at once I'M
mensely successful. particularly from
the time Melville and Cssselli began
to appear together. Melville bad in
the meantime married q Mr.. Derby,
who was, and is still, a stock broker
in San Francisco; he always opposed
her stage appearances, and the trip
to Salt Lake which the company took
in January 1881, is said to have been
taken in the face of his remon>
strances; their success here on that
occasion and again, several months
later when they called en- route On
their trip eastward, are generally re-
Numbered; 30 also is the t7Gsco the
Company made in the east, and their
fnI going to pieces in Albany, New
York. 1t is not 80 we'll known that
when Melville and Casselli returned
to San Francisco, there iwere many
Suspicious Whisperings concerning the
relations said to have existed between
the two, nor that San Francisco
aWoke one morning to find all sus-
picions verified in the fight of the
two on board an Australian steamer.
Mr.. Derby at once obtained divorce;
Ossselli left q wife in Sacramento
who mourned his loss in q more
private manner.
In Australia success at fret
attended their every appearance;
but whether society at the antipodes
grew kaueamish when the California
mails began to come in, or whethsr
the pair began to lose any of their
power of attraction, is not known;
certain it is that bus, ness commenced
all at once 10 fa,l steadily Of; while
it was on the wane Oasseli suddenly
died. victim 70 the consumption;
this took place about eight munths |
ago, when he was somewhere near |
the twentyrthird or sWenty-fourtn |
year Of his life. Melville since then
may be said to have had little or no
s1ccess; she has cont lued on the |
stage and is singing in her old roles |
a. the present time; she ia SAIL to be |
badly managed, however, and to |
have lost all her old attractiveness; g
lew years and her charms and
Tiumphs will be things of the past,
ScO she will only be remembered as
another one of the many to whom
1ne Stage has proven q fatal snare
and plttall.
MAPLESON'S TROUBLES.
The unprecedented success of his
San Franci;co engagement, the
$4,000 he was known to have
cleared Gle in that city, and the s., 900
ne certainly took rom this, all
f fiT. 70 nave bsen insufficient to
o o,us over the em6arrassments OF the
?; So Nh Lhpressario. The ether night
a ~ Ne" York, sitter the close OF his
- rs season, he was attached at
oiiS SUI ILL., VI me Bank Of the Metrop-
~ 2llf = win which concern he is SAID
f fF 70 IN 'he red" TO the extent of
Ivy Ivy OK SIX thousand dollars. Re.
aTtT luis time all his costumes, prom
S eoIS and scores have probably been
'OiG u BY the sheriff.
MapeSOn, as we understand hoo
no or4 accustomed TO form his com
p paule8 Tor this country under q
fbo S'sAVes from the stocsboIders If
va w. academy Of Music, New York.
W Wogae his performances have al.
III! Sto peen given: this guarantee
n nT p1 stockholders have us1sIJy had
viii lag" .l good, something thew did
one b we less reluctance that each
Seasn maS hee stall for the oDeratic
bowVonrdln the academy. This wear.
ina %TSe5' having their imcginstions
fi9t silF "a by the report of ticket
which CO.. ioas speculating, etc.,
all Of v zane from San Franc:sco3
newsn "nlch Mapleson insists were
pnerdpaper sensationaIisn, H.