The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

atlarge. AS playwright Mr.Noples taxes q
leading place among native writers OF com
edy, drama and melodrama. His plays
have all been successful, and as much as
any other American dramatist he has sue
eeeded in producing successfully purely
American plays. dealing with American
themes and introducing typical and tangible
phases of American character.
Mr.. Mobiles and his wife Will APP
pear at the theatre Friday ana
Saturday evenings of this week,
presenting during their engagement two
Of Mr.. Mob as plays. "From sire to Som
will be given Friday night. This Is ro-
mantle melodrama, whose characters come
from western mining camp. Mr. Mobiles
performance of Alfred Armitage is charac-
teristic of the man, and entirely unlike any
one else. The great charm of Mr.. Mobiles
acting lies in the naturalness OF ms
method. Saturday night Love and Law,
will be given. In this play Mr.. noble VIII
be seen in mis- inimitable characterization
IF Felix O'Paff, and DOllie Noble as Rltta
the street singer.
A novelty in social circles will be the
approaching merchants Carnival which
the Ladies' Guild of st. Pauls chapel have
in hand for the Grand Opera house on the
evening of the Both. The design IS TO have
each young lady represent by some device
of costume, some one business house OF the
city, the business house to furnish the get
up" and of course TO receive all the attend
ant advertising connected with the scheme;
thus Miss A bedecked in ribbons will
repre- sent q millinery house, whose name
will be emblazoued on her robes; Miss b
will appear for a fur house; Miss Z fora
hardware firm; Miss D. in the act of being
DlstanCed will represent a local newspaper,
IyNvv.y hn let A n
characters will take place, and the effect Of
so many varied pOrtrayals should have
decidedly novel effect
A feature of the Gilmore tabernacle festi-
val which will be almost as great an at
traction as the band and the lyric stars
themselves, will be the grand local chorus,
which is now making fine progress on Gil
more's Choruses under the direction OF MIR.
Evan Stephens. The list of the foreign
uotables appear i'll Mr.. Giln0re'S adver
tispment to-day, and THE HERALD has OBJ
Sained the names of the local singers, to
eive in Dramatic and Lyric this morning.
The list is given to place on record so no
stable an assemblage, and to snow the pub
lie that the 400 or 800 singers advertised are
flesh and blood lunged realities, and not the
myths usually claimed and never produced
by the average travelling manager. MIR.
stephens states that a few names of those
who were not present at tho last rehearSal
could not be found. They will receive
their proper numbers at Monday nights
meeting. The whole chorus will number
about one hundred and fifty sopranos first
and second), seventy contraltOs, seventy
five tenors and one hundred bassOs. The
quality is excellent, as well as the guam
tity Mr. Stephens says: sit is absolutely
necessary that all attend every rehearsal"
Crowned With the Tempest ~ from
Verdi's ''Ernanif-was learned at the last
meeting and it promises to be one of the
most interesting of the choruses. 1880
sharp is the time of rehearSals.