The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-26
DRAMATIC And LYRIC
A Light Week at Hand--A Lively
Season Beyond.
BERNHARDT AT CLOSE RANGE.
The Choral Booming-Is Mary Anderson Poor2
Jessie Bartlett Davis Retorts-
Goodwin's Rebuff-Notes.

concert Tuesday night, the week will be |
barren of events, and silence will reign |
along the corridors of the old house till |
Tuesday of the week following. From |
that time on the dates are well filed, as
the following list shows. 1t will be noticed |
that Roland Reed has the misfortune to be |
booked against the June festival nights, |
but Manager Burton, who is now in San |
Francisco, where Reed is playing. will |
probably induce him to change off to other |
dates or to cancel. Milton Mobiles, May 5, 6 |
and z; "Men and Women" and 9;
"Walfs of New York. IL, IL and ID; Rich
ard Mansfield, is. 10 and 90; County
FAIR 81, % and %; Liliputians, 25, %
and %; Home club, 80; Leavitt, June 3;
Cellar Door," 4; Roland Reed, 5 and 6;
Twelve Temptations, and 81 "Shen-
andoah," IL, II and 10; Thatcher's min
strels. Is, 16 and II; "Barnes of New
York; is, 10 and 20.
Charley Ingalls,, of the Union Pacific,
who is detailed to escort the crowned heads
and notables in the various walks Of life
over the road, had the honor of doing the
grand for Sarah Berhardt during the past
week. He left her at Ogden to wend her
l.
nights only prior to sailing for Australia.
Charley and the train conductor sat down
to dinner Wednesday evening in the act
ress' private car, ''the Coronet'-the same
palace on wheels that was used by Patti
and Langtry in their tour across the con.
tinent He describes her as full of livdi-
ness and grace, and looking only about forty
years of age, though Charley thinks she is
really nearer fifty. She speaks little or no
English, and when she asked Mr.. Ingalls, il
he would have more soup, she had to do it
through an interpreter. She was sur
rounded by her favored collection Of dogs,
and one of them, the 5000 spotted dog,
Charley says is the finest specimen of the
canine species he ever gazed upon. Her
company number about forty, every one Of
them from Paris, and none of them speak
ing word Of English.
Mr.. Michael Leavitt still persists in III
forming eastern reporters that his Sal
Lake opera house will be open the coming
fall. This is rapidly approaching the fool
ish. Mr.. Leavitt went away from Salt
Lake perfectly convinced that the money
couldn't be raised here to start an opposi-
ton theatre, and where the money is com
ing from-as even Mr.. Leavitt didn't claim
to have it himself-is one of the hidden
mysteries of this life. We note, too, that
Mr.. Leavitt is in trouble over the lessee-
ship of the Broadway theatre in Denver,
and were we to hazard a guess we would
say that AL Hayman will be the next land
lord of that house. If he gets it, Mr.. Hay
man will have circuit of his own, reach
ing from Boston and New York clear
across the continent.
Some one has sent Jessie BARTLETT Davis
copy of the Tribune, wherein it is stated
that she has been married for Gig hteen
years TO Will ]. Davis, that she has son
fifteen years of age, and that she never
sang in public till after her marriage. The
singeris justly incensed at this perversion
of the truth. She writes friend in this
city: "You can wager this is the work Of
some mean person, and l wish you would
say so. l have only been married ten years
and my boy is only seven. Also, l had
quite reputation before l ever met Mr..
Davis. AS l am only twenty-nine years
old, this article gives me credit for being
much smarter than l am"
The Players club people, or at least some
of them, take the ground that no slight
whatever was meant to Mr.. Goodwin in
dropping his name from the proposed list
of new members. One of them said yes
. terday:
"a great many of US. in fact most of us,
are very fond of Mr. Goodwin, in the sense
that we like to go to the theatre and laugh
heartily over his antics as comedian; but
comedians are very apt to be as funny of
the stage as they are on it. and the Players
is distinctively not funny club. Men like
Goodwin, Dixey and others are full of hu-
morous anecdotes that are apt to set the
table in g roar but seriously disturb the
serenity of such serious assemblage as
usually congregates at the Players
MIR. Booth himself, for instance, never
laughs: he objects to laughter, and the
presence of Mr. Goodwin in his club would
4 seriously shock him. That is the whole
trouble; and now that the atmosphere OF
the club is further clouded by the recent
death Of its promoter, Lawrence Barrett
any sort of laughter would be more dis
souant than ever. There are other places
than the Players for funny men; for in
stance, the Five AS and the Lambs, pro.
tessional pauper clubs, which rely on pub
lie benefits for existence, and in which, Of
course, popular comedians are welcomed
with open arms. And that is all. "-Journal
This is somewhat ingenious and rather
f1attering to MIR. Goodwin's powers to pro
woke mirth. But we imagine he will searct
In uvain for any trace Of comfort it may
contain.
The revelations regarding the condition
Of Mary Anderson Navarro have fillet
sctors and actresses on this side with
establishment 1t had hitherto been sup
posed that she was in first rate fnancia
situation, but the giving up of her sitting
room at Bournemouth, and combining hel
living quarters and those of her husband Il
small bedroom would seem to indicate
otherwise.
There is, however, a suspicion amonl
.fhose wel-informed here that SAVING
money has become a monomania on thu
part Of Our Mary. For some years past
she had cut down her personal expendi
lures and, in fact, those of her family, tc
the smallest limit consistent with living
at all.
who had supposed young Navarro to be
man Of wealth, though 1t may be that b,
lives in his present frugal condition t
please his wife. At any rate, the Who'll,
subject is a painful one that may before
long bring out some startling develop
ments; at least it Is so intimated by those
who are in the secret of this extraordinary
ehair.-JournGl.
Two benefits are talked Of at the Sal
Lake theatre for the month of May. On,
IS rouser to be rendered Messrs Fred ant
Sid Clawson, who will shortly leave on mis-
sions to England. The drum corps. TN
Mandolin and Guitar clubs, both gentle
mems and ladies', and the Amorita club
with which the Clawsons have been so in
timately connected-haye the matter il
hand and the Home Dramatic club has con
y scented to give an act from some of thei
recent productions.
The other affair is rumored benefit b
the veteran, Phil Margetts. who is shortl
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