The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-16

Miss Bertha Bayliss appeared to be fright
ened when she first came on the stage, but she
quickly recovered herself ard finally took the
house by storm with her singing. The applause
she ELECTED was terrific Everything she sang
was encored with a hearty good viii, and she
received handsome bouquet of roses
| Miss Bertha BayliSS certainly has good rea-
son to feel 1attered over the reception accorded
her last night by the people of Council Bluffs -
ut is said that Miss Bertha Bayliss has re
! ceiVed fiattering offer from the managers OF
| the Bostonians, and will probably accept it,
"Of the performance itself it were only kind to
say but little. Miss Bayliss, in the role Of Lady
Eleanor made the hit of the evening"
Miss Bertha BayliSs as Lady Eleanor was
| the favorite singer with the audience Her fine
stage presence, her handsome face, her magni-
| ficent soprano voice and the manner in which
| she manipulated it all won her rounds of ap-
plause. To her belongs the credit for the first
encore. 1t occurred in the second act when she
and Mr.. Treynor sang the beautiful duet Tell
Me Once Again few moments later she re-
celVed another hearty encore after singing d
solo entitled Happy Day"
1.-The matinee yesterday and the evening per
formance of the 'Smugglers of Senovton'' at
Boyd'S opera house was weel attended. Miss
Robinson, the composer received several ele
CANT floral tributes from admiring friends Miss
BayliSS made a decided hit by her singing.
While most of the principal parts were fairly
well sung, II must be conceded that Miss Bay
lisS was the star in every sense of the word. In
the speaking part she was trltie weak, but
when it came to singing she was at home, and
acquitted herself in manner that would be q
credit to professional
Council Bluffs paper thus thanks
Omaha and ignores Salt Lake:
I'VE extend to our sister city our hearty
thanks for sending US so rare and sweet voice
as that of Miss BaylisS. May we hear her many
good time and often
E'She has acquired her present attachments in
her profession under the instructions of Madame
B. 3. Young. Aside from her voice, Miss Bay
lisS has MANY personal charms, and took the
audience completely by storm at every perform
ance of the opera
ANNALS OF ADJUSTMENTS.
Exit Carson" has been dramatized.
Modjeska comes to the Grand July 1.
Geraldine Ulmar goes with McCaull next
season.
Augustus Days company play at the
Grand early next month.
Wyndham will venture to America again,
despite his hard luck last time.
Lewis Morrison in ga Celebrated Case"
opens the Bijou theatre, San Francisco, of
which Jack White is manager.
Polk will do a ''Silent Partner in San
Francisco on the oath. The piece has an
immense plot and should do well:
The last song composed by the late Wash
ington Irving Bishop. ''The Watermill,"
will soon be published in the SUNDAY
HERALD.
Kelley, Miller, Cayvan and the rest of
that gifted company passed through Ogden
the other night westward bound. They
come here in August.
Nat Goodwin was booked at the Salt
Lake theatre last week, but with his Gus
tomary business regularity, he passed by
without so much as saying ''by your leave"
There has been an immense amount of
talk during the week of crystalizing the
chorus which sang at the tabernacle last
Tuesday night, into permanent organiza- |
ton, but thus far, it has only been talk.
Every lover of music will trust something |
else may come from it.
The managers of New York arranged Tor |
a benefit to the JohnstoWn sufferers
to be given simultaneously IN all
the theatres of that city. 1t was proposed
to sell 1901 600 tickets at 81 each, the tickets
to be good at any theatre, and to permit the
police to sell the tickets.
Emily Lytton, who has been playing the
role of the adventures with the Little
Lord Fauntleroy'' company, has been re-
engaged by T. Henry French for next sea
son to play the same part with the No l
company at an increased salary. Miss
Lytton is now in Chicago acting as under
study for Dearest in the company playing |
there.
Emma Nevada received an anonymous |
has since been published
warning her that theatre at SpezZla, |
where she was to sing, would be destroyed |
by dynamite. The engagement was not
and she went to Barcelona but
men were arrested in the Spezzia Opera
house with dynamite bombs in their posses
sion shortly after, and confessed their in
tention to blow up the house.