The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31
Other interesting theatrical events in
the east are noted as follows:

applause, which she observation-disclosures.
Other interesting theatrical events in
the east are noted as follows:
son September !, Buchanan & Sins
new play, 1.-THE English Rose" which was
produced last week at the Adelphi theatre,
London, and made great success, will be
done at the Boston museum. The Ameri-
can rights of this play are owned by AL
Hayman and Charles Frohman, who, if the
Boston production proves successful, will
organize a company for New York city and
afterwards send it on tour through the
United States. The Gatti Bros, owners
and managers of the Adeiphi, who have no
interest in the American rights of 1.-THE
English Rose, " have cabled Messrs. Hay
f, man and F'rohman that it has proved ian
immense success in London.
cat the Twenty third Street theatre,
New York, Charles Frohman will, begin
ming September 8, produce William Gil
lette's latest success, All the Comforts of
Home This is farce in four acts, and is
of the same high order of entertainment as
his Private Secretary Mr.. Frohman has
organized special company for the farce,
and 1t is expected to run at the Twenty
third Street theatre until October 10. After
this it will go on the road and tour as far
west as Portland and San Francisco The
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Street theatre by De Mile and Beiasco's
new drama, which they are now complet-
ing. Messrs. De Mile and Belasco are the
authors of The Wife and The Charity
Ball They are with Bronson Howard in
the front rank of American dramatists
Their play will be in the hands of Charles
Erohman's stock company, which includes
the most successful and capable actors and
actresses that could be secured. 1t is Mr.
| ErlhmQnfc init IN lya
as important a feature of metropolitan the
atricals as any of the existing we'll known
companies. 1t will remain in New York
| through the regular season, visit Chicago
in the spring and play fifteen weeks en-
gagement, after which they will tour west
through all the principal cities to San Fran
cisco, reappearing the following season in
New York" 80
Bronson Towards successful play.
Shenandoah" will celebrate the conclu-
sion of one years uninterrupted run on
September Sth. The anniversary perform
ance was given in ST. Louis on August 25th
The one hundredth performance of the
play in Chicago will begiven, where "Shen
andoah has been presented all summer
through the most terrific hot spell that
city has ever known to audiences that filled
the theatre. The business it has done in
Chicago with the mercury almost con.
stantly lowering at the 100 mark is declared
phenomenal by all theatrical managers
Figures are more emphatic sometimes than
words, and the meaning of "Shenandoah's
great success will perhaps be more easily
understood and more thoroughly appreci-
ated when it is stated that Mr. Howard
play has, during the past eleven
months through good business and
bad, averaged $1,000 per week
and on many occasions has had receipts fol-
a single performance that reached 1890
Bronson Howard has received, for instance
about seventy thousand dollars in royalties
for Shenandoah since its first production
at the Star theatre, September s, last year
and its managers profits have been nearly
one hundred thousand dollars. The gross
earnings of the play In eleven months have
been about two hundred and thirty-tive
thousand dollars, and this always at regular
prices. The record is unparalleled in the
history of the American drama, and M
dramatist has ever before reaped such G
grand reward so quickly for his work as
Bronson Howard has in this case The
company now playing Shenandoah is thu
pick of all the talent that has at different
times been enlisted in the drama, and the
organization will remain intact for mex
season, touring the principal cities anC
playing constantly without break.