The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
Notes.

The Liberal circus is the next theatrical
attraction.
Bob Slavin has been engaged by the
Howard Athen2um.
Minnie Palmer is back in America, with
her husband, hustling John Rogers.
Old John Jennings has bobbed up again,
this time in one of French's companies.
R. G. Easton has come down from Logan
to swell the forces for Tuesdays benefit.
Wilson Barrett and his entire company
return to England during the present
month.
Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett will
probably play three months engagement
in New York next winter.
Hermann is passing rather dreary
summer in New York, looking after the
two theatres he is building.
Maude Harrison will do Marie Bur
rough's parts with Palmer's company, in
GLIDING the heroine in Saints and Sin
ners.n
Crane is peculiar Individual He
skipped back to New York without playing
Salt Lake, the biggest theatrical town in
the west.
Alice Dunning Lingard is to come to this
country next year, bringing her own Lon
don company and appearing in a repertoire
of society comedies.
Miss Lisle Leigh played the child in "Our
Boarding House, when it was brought out
twelve years ago, and Miss Sarah Alexan
der played Annie on the same occasion.
Mime. Etellza Gerster, who recently came
forth from her long retirement in Bologna
to make her temperance in grand opera
at Covent garden in London, failed to make
u favorable impression. She sang ''Aminar
in ''La Sonnambula,n but her once superb
voice seems TO have left her for all time
Verdi is reported from Geneva to be in
excellent health, and although his white
hair and flowing beard give him a veneer
able appearance his eyes are full of fire.
He will not admit that "Otello' is his last
work, and says there is no telling what he
may do yet, if the inspiration comes to hims
Mrs. Mckee Rankin kitty Banchard)
produced her new play Sara" and intro
duced her daughter to the stage at the same
time, the other day, in New York. Wea
sorry the play was not more of success
Stree Rankin's desertiou OF her, Mrs Ran
kin las been working like Trojan, and
she has had the sympathy of tue whole
profession.
Sol Smith Russell, who usually spends
his summers on hia farm in Minnesota, is
now in New York, and will remain there
until the production of his new play, BY
Is, for which company is now being en-
gagged. Mr.. Boucicault has stopped all
other work, and is devoting his entire time
to finishing tho play.
! Mr. and Mrs. Kendall will make their
reappcarance at TIE Fifth Avenue theatre
on October 10, in Pinero's play, s.The
Squire" Ii was this play-which IN itself
was merely an adaptation of Far from the
! MGdding Crowdn-that made Pinero's
fame, and was originally produced by the
Kendals at the St James theatre in Lon.
don, where it ran 10 nights. Hardie, tn.
author of the novel, and Pinero had a great
/ fight over the use that the dram atist uu :
doubleday made of the novel, and without
permission.
Long Threatening comes at last.n Grace
| Hawthorne has given warning and saC
| "one-two-thIeeTi at suitable intervals
several times since she went to London
and now the papers say she has said
make ready" and Will shortly say got
and then whizz across the United States
and Australia Poor Miss Hawthorne
She tried sincerely, patiently, desperately
to be great American actress. Failing ir
that she made as conscientious an effor
for recognition as good second-class star
and, failing III that, she went 10 London ir
the hope Of shining upon America with the
reflected light CT an English success. She
mas nau Tue SnfeWdest ana most persistent
of dramatic ''hustlers" for an agent, ha:
been manager of the Princess theatre
which was oncs Wilson Barretts own. AM
has had dramatic opportunities galore, ever
the one of presenting "Theodora'' in Eng
lish, in England, for the first time; but sh,
has not been able yet to write her name OF
any material known to the records of fame
She is a pathetic example of the ambition
for high place which has only commonplace
qualities and infinite perseverance at it
back. Examiner