The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
STAGE Notes.
Annie Russell is slowly recovering.

Annie Russell Is slowly recovering.
Frederic Robinson, of the Madison
Square company, is seriously i'll.
The Kendalls open in San Francisco to-
morrow night and call here on their return.
Herr Bandmann is expected at the thea
tire one night week from tomorrow even
ing.
Nat Goodwin in his new play, ga Golden
Nine" comes to the theatre Immediately
after conference.
Next season Fanny Davenport will play
three pieces of Sardou's-"Theodora n"La
Toscan and Fedora"
Edwin Booth won't play in Washington,
but he had special trains run from there so
as to reach his performances in Baltimore
Madame Patti is reported to be suffering
from a severe cold, the result of being
blocked up in a snow bank near Denver for
fifteen hours.
Friedrich Warde is playing to immense
business on the coast and pays Salt Lake a
visit the last week Of this month with an
entirely new repertoire.
James O'Neill will revive 'The Dead
Heart" next season, playing Robert
Landry in Henry Irving's version, and
shelving monte Gristo" for a time.
The Booth-Modieska season closes May
at Louisville. Madame Modieska rejoins
the company as soon as her swelled ankle
will permit; meanwhile, Minnie x. Gale is
playing her roles.
William Gillette, the playwright, is re-
ported to have made another success in his
new farcical comedy, "All the Comforts of
Home which was produced at the Boston
Museum on Monday night.
M. Nicolini, son of Sig. Nicolini, has been
engaged for the Grand opera house, Paris,
and will appear in a gorgeous costume that
will astonish Paris-a present from his
stepmother, Madame Patti.-Mirror.
A theatre patron makes the timely sug-
gestion that on opera nights boys who sell
books Of the opera should be supplied with
libretti of the nights following, so that
people could have a chance to look over
the plot during the day.
A child was born in the auditorium of
the Metropolitan opera house during the
performance of heavy Wagner opera,
and the little fellow is doing nicely Some
one suggested that he should be given the
name of the opera; but as 1t was Scooter
dammerung," the parents obiected.-Mustc
and Drama.
1t is said that young Navarro thas re
quested his father, Jose f. de Naqarro, to
negotiate with Abbey & Grau so as to get a
release for Miss Anderson from the con-
tract she has with those managers. At any
rate, it is felt that there will be no suit in
the matter.-Jol1ndi.
Sybll SanderSon, young artist of San
Francisco, sang the leading role of ''Esclar-
monde'' for the hundredth time in Paris
last month, without missing single per-
Torrance. Jules Massenet, the composer
of the opera, in letter to Louis Lombard.
goes into raptures over her work. He says
the young girl has an extraordinary voice,
and extols her originality and dramatic
action.-MiTTOr.
Emma Abbott's remarkable presence of
mind was recently exhibited at the Acad-
envy of Music, Richmond, Va. While COM
placently singing, Nearer, My God, to
Thee" there was a sudden stampede for
the door, occasioned not by Miss Abbott's
singing of the moss-covered chestnut, but
by an alarm Of fire. The mature prima
donna continued to sing, however, and as a
large portion of the audience was asleep, a
panic was averted. The cause of the alarm
was the combustion of lot of rags, and no
damage whatever was occasioned. Unkind
suggestions have been made that Emma 8
wonderful exhibition of nerve was due to
the fact that she knew all about the rags.
- f1,fe;n mud Drn1nd