The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08
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lance.
Mr.. E. H. Sothern begins an engagement
at the Grand opera house Thursday, pre-
senting his successful productions of last
season, Lord Chumley' and 1.-THE High
est Bidder" MIR. Sothern has made rapid
strides forward in his profession the last
two years. Season before last he made his
first appearance as star in bright little
comedy called 1.-THE Highest Bidder" and
made a very pleasing impression by his
neat, careful and well-rounded work. Last
season he came well fitted with play,
Lord Chumley," written for him by
Belasco and de Mile, authors of 1.-THE
Wife," and at once was, received by the
public as a standard attraction. This is an
astonishing position for young man,
barely thirty years of age, and it proves
that he has been strongly imbued with
common sense as well as talent. for his
prosperity has not run away with him. He
is still spoken of by his former associates
as Eddie" Sothern, and is the same quiet,
studious, frank, good-humored and retir-
ing fellow as of yore. In the times before
he came under the management of Daniel
versity Of the profession, and notwith-
standing that he is now accommodating
wealth in so rapid a manner that it might
easily turn his head little, he is still the
friend and associate of those with whom
he struggled along before the days of his
good fortune came upon him. During the
the engagement Mr.. Sothern proposes to
revive his first starring venture ''T he
Highest Bidder There are many who
hot ~,
Chumley," and that and feeling of kind
illness toward the play which started him
upon his present career of prosperity has
led him to this decision. sLord Chumleyn
will be done Thursday and Saturday nights
and 1.-THE Highest Bidder" Friday and
Saturday matinee.
"Ah," said Mr.. Warner, manager for E.
H. Sothern, "how small the world is,
especially the theatrical world. When
Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall, the eminent
English comedians, arrived in New York,
Mrs. Kendall said to Daniel Frohman, their
manager, 81 want to go to the theatre to-
night, where shall we go?" Come to my
theatre, the Lyceum," said Mr.. Frohman.
who is playing!" she asked ''E. H.
Sothern in Lord Chumley,' said the man
ager.. Mrs. Kendall was amazed. 'Do you
know" she said, "that l saw young
Sothern in his cradlew | was not so very
old at the time myself, but can remember
the Sothern baby as well as one of my
own" She went on to tell of q. A
Sothern, Lord Chumley's" father who
play in London. So she went to the
Lyceum and saw Sothern's son. Il trace
the father in every tone, every gesture'
she said. ''Well,' said Mr.. Frohman, 81
have another surprise for you, who was
the manager of the Haymarket when you
first played there-your first London APP
pearance" Blackstone" said she. "Do
you see the other comedian in 'Chumley.'
That is Buckstone's son."
The Choral society resumes its sessions
tomorrow night, and without doubt there
will be large attendance. Mr.. Stephens
idea is to hold only one more meeting be-
fore the summer adjournment, and to make
that q semi social, semi-musical affair on
the quiet, to which the members shall have
the privilege of inviting friends. At the
meeting tomorrow night the first of Bee.
thoven's works, "Twlne Ye the Garlands, u
viii be taken up for practice.
George Reed Cromwell, the great Crom.
well, who has many imitators but he rivals
in his peculiar field, will begin series OF
entertainments at the Grand opera house
commencing Monday, June 10Th. His col
| lection of mammoth pictures, of natural
scenery and works of art, is very large
and interesting, and his exhibitions OF
them are Invariably devised with skill
Cromwell has been good deal of a .'globe
trotter' in his days, and he speaks from
personal knowledge in his descriptive
entertainments of many Of the objects re
presented. Cromwell was the first L
utilize photography and the oxv-hydroger
light in the illustration of lectures, and hi.
remarkable success during the pas
twenty-five years has produced many
would-be imitators, but he stands to day
entirely without rival. He is distin
gushed as traveller, an artist, u musician
and poet. Each entertainment is illus
trated with nearly one hundred hug,
pictures which are produced will
a realistic effect.
Manager Frohman sits in his Office il
New York and knows to a mathematical
nicely just how his various companies ar
running, what the receipts 60, and how th
pieces are hitting the audiences-no matte
in what part of the world they are bein
enacted. He is kept apprized of everythin!
by telegraph, and he directs all his agent
the same way. Thursday night ats o'clocl
the agent in charge of shenandoah" re
ceived dispatch telling him TO announc
the London Gaiety company from tn
stage after the third act, and he obeyed tn
letter. Mr.. Frohinan was notified VINE
the company left San Francisco tina
Odette Tyler, the leading lady, was too il
to act in Sacramento and other Californi
towns. Mr.. Frohman wired that sb
must get well in time for Sal
Lake, and the last thing before tn
curtain rose on Thursday evenin