The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02
At the Broadway theatre "Paul Jones"
s drawing good business.

At the Broadway theatre "Paul Jones"
is drawing good business.
Steele Macksye has gone off by himself |
for three months to write play.
doctor Bill'' is running at French's |
New Garden theatre, New York.
Belascot and De Miles "Men and
Women is an unqualified success
Our own Whitney thinks MASTER OF
Woodbarrow," Southern's new play, better
than ''Chumley.''
The gross receipts of "Crystal Slipper
will not reach seven thousand dollars, put
will be very near il"
'sAll the Comforts of Home" Gillette's
new piece, is described by the critics as
amusing and bright but not brilliant
The sum realized by the sale of Richard
Mansfield's collection of antiquities and
curlos, last week, is given out as sly, 5U
In Syracuse, N. Y, last week the Rentz-
Santley company gave performance Tor
the benefit of the sufferers at the Leland
hotel fire.
Sol Smith Russell seems to have dropped
1.-THE Tale Of d Coat" permanently Tor ne
is giving his Whole attention to "A Poor
Relation
Jo Haworth is playing the part of Cap
tain Bradley in the neat little curtain
raiser, "a Man of the World" done here
by Maurice Barrymore,
The latest fraud in New Yorkis female
fakir, who advertises that she can remove
wrinkles, and all the ballet girls IN town
are said to be besieging her.
This is by far the most successful season
in every respect that Roland Reed has
ever known. His new comedy, LEND Me
Your Wife, is tremendous success.
! 1.-the Lillian Russell, as she is now
called, has uscored an immense success IN
| slIl nho 10 nov
call her the greatest comic opera favorlte
in America.
John L. Sullivan, actor, celebrated his
thirty-second birthday last Friday by CIV
| ing a special matinee at the Haymarket
| Chicago Rosina Vokes and many OF the
members of Lawrence Barrett's company
| attended.
Miss Rose Eytinge has opened a school
of stage training in New York, and should
| find plenty OF pupils. She is not alone an
able actress, but she knows the technl-
calities of the stage very thoroughly, from
first to last.
A huge spectacle, 'Claudius Nero" is
on at the Nibos with eight live lions on
the stage roaming at villa wire netting
being let down between the audience and
the stage. the New York Herald says
Barnum is mot in it'' and should retire.
Mr.. Hoyt's "Trip to Chinatown slumped
in Frisco erich as he is in Apologize
expressions" says one of the critics, "Aoyt
must feel that any apology he might offer
for A Trip to Chinatown would be worse
than useless. Cheap, fimsy, trashy, are
among the adlectives used to describe 1t.
The Salt Lake contingent who tarry in
New York were invited to the Players
club the other evening, and just missed
seeing Grover Cleveland, Booth, Jefferson,
Florence, Kendall and General Sherman,
all of whom are members and had been
dining at the club and listening to Cleve-
land tell funny stories.
John L. Sullivan says he " don't want to
appear egotistical,' but he hopes some day
to be as great an actor as Booth or Mccall
Tough. He doesn't study as none OF the
great actors did, he says, and he don't
think he has started out too late, for there 5
Sarah Bernhard over thirty before she
amounted to anything.
Sardou's cleopatra which has just
made phenomenal hit in Paris, with Sa-
rah Bernhardt in the central character,
will have its first American representation
at the hands of Fanny Davenport at the
Fifth Avenue theater on December %.
Nine. Bernhardt herself will not be seen
in it unit! March in this country.
Last week at the Grand opera house in
Cincinnati Mr.. Stuart Robson produced a
new comedy by A. d. Gordon, entitled SIS
Marriage a Failure." Mr.. Robson has re-
Gently added to hisarepertory "She Sroops
to Conquer" which he presents at matt
ness only, with "a little More or Less
Lord Fauntleroy'' as double bill.
"Shenandoah's' two weeks in Boston, al
the Globe theatre, proved enormously sue
cessful. American plays are having 6
boom just now Daniel Frohman's
Lyceum company in ''The Charity Ball,
, played at the Hollis Street theatre, last
week to upward of sl1, 1000, the largest
weeks business ever done in the theatre al
the prices.
Amelia Glover is quoted as saying thai
''to attain success In skirt dancing the
dancer must not have the slightest suspi
cion of embonpoint. She must, above al
things, possess not only the quality Of
being able to kick artistically, but must
also use SMILE bit of gesticulation, ar
undefinable something such as French dan
, seuses use in their art.n Many women thai
are not skirt dancers possess the quality Of
being able to "kick" artistically. Blu
s'kicking' is luxury which only the sue
cessful actress can indulge in. The ranl
and file cannot afford IL.