The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-18

ia which Annie Pixley appears at the
Theatre tomorrow night, is as clever
as anything he has yet done, and by
some it is called the best of all his
achievements. Of that we shall be
better able to judge tomorrow evening.
Miss Pix!ey, the most popular OF all
American protean artists, next to Lolita,
is crowding her houses everywhere
with the play, and is adding to the
reputation she already achieved in
Miss and other plays.
The announcement in yesterdays
HERALD that Booth and Barrett's
prices would not go beyond 50, was
greeted with satisfaction. People who
stood 81 so year ago to see Booth
alone, would be apt to think that the
other so cents was cheap for the priyi-
lege of seeing Barrett along with him,
aud there will be little if any grumbl-
ing at the rates. Last night the
tragediaps concluded their second week
in San Francisco, and Tomorrow even
ing they enter upon their third and
last. It is estimated that the three
weeks receipts will be not less than
$75 600. They receive $4,000 for three
nights in Omaha.
And so the old California Theatre is
sold, and will be known among the
temples of the drama no more! 1t
brought only the moderate sum Of
s127 600, and rumor says that it will be
| torn down and hotel built on the site.
| The California has a history around
which a good many valuable assocla-
tions cluster. 1t was opened twenty
years ago, by Mccullough and Barrett,
! with Money as the attraction. There
| Edwin Adams saw some of his palmiest
days. Booth, u,hman, Fechter,
O'Neill and many others of the great
lights have trod its histrionic boards.
II has been the scene of many notable
successes, and as many notable failures.
! Fred Bert, Haverly, Mckee Rankin
and others found there their managerial
graves. Lately, it has been conducted
4 bv AL Hayman, who has run it as q
stock company with Lewis Morrison
Jean Clara Walters and such people al
the head. Mr.. Hayman. it is under
stood, offers double the present rental
to be allowed to Keep the control.
|
Stephens class, which made a pro-
bounced hit in its public concert, ha:
finally decided On taking up the b.
hemiau Girl, and giving regular opera
presentation, with Nellie Truce Pugs
lev as Airline, Bessie Dean as the Gypsy
Oueen, Mr.. Easton as Thad0eus, Mr.
GODDARD as the Count, and probably
With Mr.. Spencer as Devilshoof. This
would make a strong cast, and with
some instruction in the acting part;
Mr.. Stephens pupils would make &
certain success. Their rendition D
Traviata and Trovatore shows thai
Balfe's music is not a whit beyono
them. The chorus OF 100 il gypsy cos
cume would alone be feature which
would fill the house.
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Conference is announced for Sal
| Lake, and theatricsls with all othe
! species of trade will boom in conse
! duence. There will be a four nights
| season at he Theatre by the HON
Dramatic Club, the great Anglo -Irisl
play of the Shaughraun being done TO
the first time by this company. o.
Thursday evening, April 5th, and re
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ing, the 9th, the railroad sensation
After Dark will be produced, and Mon
. day, the 9th, will witness a revival c
either Storm Beaten or Confusion.
At the Opera House, Margetts an
Evans, with company made up G
John S. Lindsay. Marx Milton. Nj
Bywater, Miss Chloe Pratt, Rut
Jones, and Mrs. Wilton miss Napier
aud others will give the celebrate
play, The Romany Rye, which the
. have secured from the Comedian Stock
well in San Francisco. The compan
appear two nights, the 9th and 7th.
\ New York continues to bang ava
at La Tosca. The Giddy Gusher in tn
= Mirror went to see it and puts down be
impression as follows:
New York is bad place for corps
anyway. especially in so advanced
state of decay as La Tosca. Then tb
, curtain went up, and for two acts l SO
and wondered nov clever people coul
be induced to spend their money gilG
ing oatmeal and dropping plunkei
R into porridge.
n The third act l claimed as an IL
5 fringement of scene / enacted {
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