The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-07

open on the 24th, probably with local at
traction.
John S. Lindsay, who has been i'll fol
some time, is around again, and will re
sumo his elocution school tomorrow even
ing.
Frank Daniels Little Puck' continued
to make him mint of money up to the
time he closed his season, and it is good fol
several years to come.
! A. w. Pinero received over $500 royalties
for ''Sweet Lavender" at the Baldwin.
The receipts will reach nearly eight thou
sand two hundred dollars.
! Margaret Mather and Eugene Tompkins
are looking for a new play in Europe, and
if they succeed in finding one it will be
added to the lady's repertoire next season.
Before Mr.. Richard Mansfield closed his
season at the Globe theatre, London, the
| orchestra attached to the house presented
him with a massive silver shield bearing a
! bust of Shakespeare and an inscription
stating that the gift is in recognition of Mr..
Mansfelds efforts to elevate the standard
Of music in the theatres.
l met Charlie Bowser at the Madison
Square theatre last Friday. He tells me
that he opens on July 10 for preliminary
season of two weeks in Providence, i'll the
successful farce-comedy, CHECK" Mr.
entirely rewritten by Mr.. Hubert, and in
its present shape great things are expected
from it.-EIchGnge.
The intimation in the dispatches that
Neil Burgess was severely i'll was the first
news people had received of the affair. He
spilled some gasoline on his coat while
doing some cleaning. After finishing he
threw the cloths he had been using into the
fire, when the flames shot up so quickly
IL, ~, +ol fo
a shawl around him and smothered the
flames, but not until he was badly burned
on the arms and legs.
John Jack, wife and child's entertain
ment in the lGrando pera house last even
ing, was attended by very melancholy
gathering, who looked around on
each other with something of the same
sentiments of Little Jack, There's only a
few of US left" The best feature of the pro-
gramme was the "School for Scandal" Sc
lection. The attendance was only what
was to be expected from leaving the show
in the hands Of an obscure and fast-fading
Liberal sheet to ''whoop up"
Henry Irving has made advances to
Joseph Jefferson to come to London and
play in rip Van Winllle'' at the Lyceum
theatre. Mr.. Irving says it is his ambition
to place rip Van Winkle'' upon the stage
in a manner suitable to its poetic and
dramatic interest, and with MIR. jefferson
as the star it would be a revival of I'M
precedented brilliancy and success. 1t is
said that Mr.. Jefferson has thus far Tt
sisted all applications, saying he is too lazy |
to cross the ocean.-Atd.
It is announced that Signor Tamagno. |
the tenor, will accompany Nine. Patti on
her coming farewell tour, which will be in |
augurated at the big Auditorium in Chicago !
in December. Tamagno, however, will ap- !
pear only on the diva'S off nights, when |
Signorina Clementine de We're will take her |
place Nine. Scalchi will be the contralto |
IF the company. Tamagno, it is said, will |
receive s., 900 performance, and Signorina |
le We're $500 per week. What Nine !
Scalchi is to receive is not announced.
Digby Bell realized upward of one
six hundred dollars from
lhe testimonial benefit given recently
FOR him, and that sum is con
sidered amply sufficient to start star
ring tour in farce comedy. But Digby
will make mistake if he carries out his
There are three reasons why
ne should not be his own manager. We
nave more stars than audiences; Digby
Bell is by no means u strong enough favor
tie to stand ON his own merits, and further
more 81 900 is rather small sum to start
End Critic.
1 met Christine Nilsson, Countess de
while Twas walking the other day
n the boulevard. Woe is me! How dire
ully has the once lovely Swede changed
or the worse. She has not faded but she
las fattened. Her facets broad her features
leavy, and the expansion of her cheeks has
diminished the apparent size of her once
ustrous blue eyes. Her bright fair hair
ione reminds the spectator of her former
harms. The winsome songbirds of the
,ast quarter of d century are one by one
Osing their notes and their plumage as
letter to the St. Louis Post
liSDHtch.