The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-20
DRAMATIC
"Billee Taylor" by the Juveniles
this Week.
IMPROVEMENTS AT THE THEATRE
Jim the Penman" Once More-TaIk of a New
Opera Gouse-The Home Club and
Hazel Kirke"-Notes.

IldLel hlTkc -NUUeS.
OThe next thing at the theatre after Page,
McCallum & Kimball's three ringed circus
tomorrow, will be the sBillee Taylor ju-
venile opera performance on the Gath, and
following that the big Equine Paradox
horse show on the 2Sth for three nights.
People who have attended the rehearsals
say the juvenile performances of "Billee
Taylor will be the cutest and cleverest
things since the juvenile ''Pinafore" produc-
tlonsof several years ago. Mrs Williamson
who has had a long experience with iuve-
nile opera in Colorado and elsewhere
seventy live children well trained, drilled
and costumed to do the maids and sailors
chorus, and the popular poiicemen's chorus
from the ''Pirates of Penzance" will be in
troduced by chorus of boys The soloists
have been carefully selected and will do
full justice to the light and charming music
a. matinee and night performance will be
given.
The theatre is not letting the grass grow
under its feet since it made the contract
that put it into the Silver circuit. Manager
Burton leaves to might for Denver to make
contracts for re seating the whole of the
lower floor with new upholstered chairs
and refitting and papering the parquette
and first circle. Besides this gas will be
abolished and electric lights employed all
through the house. The entire interior
will be redecorated and repalnted, the slant
OF the seats changed, new stalls probably
adfIpI a alf = hot
the line OF sight will be improved, the stage
apron cut off so as to allow of greater
seating capacity. The work of improving
Will begin Immediately and be pushed
as fast as the heavy list of attractions will
allow, and the management assures US
there will be no cessation till the theatre
has been made the handsomest and most
modern temple Of amusement in the whole
OF the mountain regions
Mr.. Burgess has not as yet settled on any
plan of action. His benefit netted him $3.50,
but his losses by the fire were
such that this will only be q
slight help to his needs, and as he
himself expresses 1.-THE has to get up and
rustic" There is little probability of the
Walker being rebuilt, as the Walkers hav-
ing been in the silver circuit themselves,
hHoH IudG any uOuSc INCLUDED Gner0ln, mas
1t all their own way" and any new rival
house would simply have to stand with
closed doors-and the Walkers are too
shrewd tinanciers to lay out capital where
there was so poor prospect of return.
McCourt's head is pretty level when he
says it will take 100000 people to support
two good houses, and where managers have
to depend as they do here, on companies
bound for San Francisco to keep their
houses open-it can be seen that there is
not enough traffic for two, and the one in
cluded in the circuit that comprises the
houses on both sides Of it's the one that
is going to win.
But Burgess is man we would all
like to have with US, and we all
hope he may light on something
congenial to his tastes and abilities. If the
Ogden house were nearer completion no
better manager could be found for it than
be- and there is even now faint rumor
abroad that he has been spoken to regard
ing the management of that new temple of
the drama.
The Home Dramatic club have com
menced to lay out their plans for heavy
fall and winter season, opening with the
fair and conference in October. They
have made an ambitious lunge for starter,
as to what terms he would come out here
and play Dunstain Kirke in "Hazel Kirke."
Randall's New YORK bureau is to conduct
the negotiations, and, whereas, nothing is
known as yet OF Mr.. Couldock's engage
ments, it is certain the Home club could
offer him sum stiff enough to tempt
him, and then put the piece
on for a weeks run with the
supporting cast they could give it, there
would be no risk Should they fail in Sc
curing Mr.. Couldocl, they are negotiat
ing for several heavy melodramas, which
will be put in immediate rehearsal
In summertime the villains smile,
Is utterly devoid of guile,
The leading lady swings at ease
In hammocks hung to catch the breeze
And does not think the villain vile.
He fans and fiatters her awhile
Just like the leading juvenile;
TITS plain he does not quite displease
In summertime.
How could she drop her naughty style?
How did he cure his chronic pde? IS
Why is he prone to hold AMI squeeze
Her soft VIII T. hand beneath the trees?
Love all the world will reconcile
In summer-time.-4NilT0
Nothing better illustrates the fact that
New York is without any overtowering
dramatic success of late seasons than that
'tJim the Penman'' remains one Of tho
PRINCIPAL things in the renartoru of tho