The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-12
try Fair opened there on the 9TH and hit the
nuhlic very hard

try Fair opened there on the 18th and hit the
public very hard.
Samuel French, head of the great play pub
fishing house of French s. Son, has retired from
business. His son II. Henry French, will carry
on the firms trade
The precise date of the Home Dramatic visit
TO the Park has not yet been selected, but it
will occur before the 25th. The club will go out
on the Utah Central and return by the same
road early next morning.
w. j. Burgess leaves Salt Lake very soon for !
good and all. July 1 ne takes the post Of as !
| sistant manager of Boyd's opera house Omaha.
| Mr.. Burgess is strong favorite here and Salt
| Lake will regret to lose him.
| E. H. Sothern has long been ambitious to play
David Garrick, character in which his distin-
guished father made one of his most striking
successes. In all probability the young come
| dian will be seen in the role next season.
The ''Sam1 of Posen' company broke up in q
row last Saturday night week In Philadelphia.
Salaries were behind and the company in such
bad Shape that Manager Holmes, of the Arch
street theatre had to bring them on from Gin
cinnati to keep his house open.
The knights of Pythias have made arrange
ments with Mr.. John S. Lindsay to present
Damon and Pythias'' at the Salt Lake theatre
! on the Goth inst. Mr.. Lindsay will be sup
ported by the company which he has recently
taken through California and other places on
| the Pacific coast
The theatre was again crowded yesterday
afternoon, and the Mandolin and Guitar club
receipts of their two concerts Will amount to
close upon $500 gross. AS their expenses will
not be heavy, they will have a very substantial
net, as recognition from the town of their
taste, skill and enterprise. The shadow panto
mime at the matinee, was greeted with roars of
applause by the youngsters.
Mrs. Adele Chretien has retired from the
, dramatic ana musical department Of the E:r-
dnai1aer, which she has so ably presided over
for the past eight years. 1t is understood that
the position of critic will be dispensed with
hereafter, and that the theatrical work on the
paper will be detailed to the local staff. To our
mind the columns of the Examiner already SUI
fer somewhat by the change.
Tomorrow evening the Men and Women"
company begin three weeks engagement in
3 Chicago They will then jumpto Salt Lake for
three nights, and open in San francisco May
IL, putting in one or two nights here on the re-
/ turn. There are Twenty-Five people in the COM
pany, including DeBelevile, Frank Mordaunt,
NJ. a. Kennedy, Leslie Allen, Sydney Arm
strong, Maudie Adams, Odette Tyler and Miss
t A. A. Adams-one of the strongest companies,
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9 The William T. Carleton Opera company
: closed their season, which has lasted for sew
> enty eight consecutive weeks, last Saturday
J., evening at the Chestnut street theatre, Phila-
g delphia. The company will rest for four weeks,
and will then begin a spring and summer season
9 in Washington, to last for eight weeks. From
q Washington the company will proceed to Buff
. falo. MI. Carleton has retained the services OF
u his winter company for the summer season. An
entirely new repertoire will be given.-Dranadtic
n NeocS.
Geraldine Ulmer, recently the prma donna in
: the London production Of La Cigale," was
t married on Monday at st. Georges church in
n that city to Ivan Caryl, young Belgian COM
g poser. The wedding was a magnificent affair
: The interior Of the church was adorned with
5 flowers and shrubs. The presents were costly
and plentiful, and included large silver card
case and gold clock from the Lyric Theatrical
!, company. The newly-married couple will
n spend their honeymoon in Paris, after which
n they will reside permanently in Hampstead
! Music and Drama.
n There is no special feature at Wonderland
this week; it is all feature; there are seventeen
: highsalaried people TO be seen there during the
II coming week, and the amusement they ought to
be able to furnish should be tremendous. For
the benefit of the ladies it might be said that in
!, the curio hall the wax flower workers will be
4 making souvenirs to be given to the ladies on
> Friday April 24th, can be seen. The rest of the
a programme is as follows The Phoites in
pantomime, The Arabs Ali Ben Deb and Ben
IS Abdellah. The strange couple, Sassarce and
e Lucifer The wax groups, life size, of the as
t sassination of Marat byCharlotte Corday and
+, guillotine scene. The Althea sisters, and
y Kern, the glass engraver, Leavitt, the juggler,
and some new cosmoramas.
4 And so, after week, 1.-THE Canuck'' has to
v leave Niblo's probably at last to strand in the
or unknown waste that has seen so many theatri-
q cal wrecks this season. But we must do the
justice to Niblo's of saying that it has more
If plays in its particular waste than any other
10 theatre OF the country Ingenious Mr.. Com
= stock puts down the sudden stoppage of the
play to a severe attack of the grip upon the
portly person of Mckee Rankin. AS a matter
of fact Err. Rankin is as well as he ever was in
l. his life. 1t was mainly his treasury that was
sick; it had the grip very badly during its career
la at Niblos. "a Lucky Man" is the rather en-
couraging title of the farce-comedy that will
lie take its place. The hacker of it will be lucky
man. indeed il he gets out alive.-JOu7naI