The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-21

>Ss@ The choral society
has adjourned, after authorizing Mr.. Ste
phens TO choose a committee to confer with
him on the topic of worlds fair pilgrim
age in 1893. The concert is thing of the
past till autumn's breezes blow again, and
our music professors shut up their port
folios, and with sigh see the youths and
maidens under their care throw Czerny to
the winds and fit away to the cahons or
the lakeside. Only at the churches Will the
harmonies of the organ and the choir hold
sway: and it is pleasant to think that once
week at least, il the grand old taberna-
Gle we can still hear something OF the strains
that have made the past season so glorious.
Speaking of the Choral committee and
the Worlds Fair, Mr.. Stephens has named
Secretary Gillespie, of the chamber of COM
merce (as ardent worker for music as
for pickle factories), MIR. Vincent, Mr..
Spencer, MIR. Piper and Mr.. Whitney.
They will hold conference this week. but
we do not opine that they can arrive at any
conclusion so far in advance. II is about
two years before the contest will come off
and aside from any question of expense,
it would be impossible to obtain any assur-
ance from $50 singers That could be tied to.
A considerable element of the choral is of
transient character, and If this contest
were entered, it would be necessary in or
der to meet the trained bodies of Welsh and
German societies who would probably com
pete, to have more than years constant
rehearsing on the selections to be submit
ted. The plan would be to send out six or
eight choruses of very different order, and
to require each body of singers competing
,Hnr hat aferfat ha ,,1I Cd f1x-
haphazard. AS for the money part of the
affair, it is not probable that $50 singers
could go to Chicago and back, remaining
ten days, for less than s35, 900, and unless
the railroads are moved upon by a spirit of
generosity such as has not been entirely
common in the passive fear the question
of expense alone would finally dispose of
the matter.
George Thatcher, one of the brightest
lights Of minstrelsy, and his company of
comedians, singers, specialists and dancers
will appear at the theatre Monday and
Tuesday evenings. There have been few
such minstrel attractions before the public
since the birth of negro miulstrelsy as that
now found under the leadership of Mr.
Thatcher. He provides such well known
and popular comedians as Lew Dockstader
late proprietor of Lew Dockstader's min
~.
Coleman, Jay Quigley and George Lewis.
In the interest of those who delight in the
sweet melodies and delicious harmonies of
minstrelsy, MIR. Thatcher has secured such
singers as R. j. jose the tenor; Raymond
Moore the ballad singer: II. w. Frillman.
the eminent basso, and Thomas Lewis
baritone. The selections rendered by this
Quartette Of talented yocalists are made the
more enjoyable by the introduction of a
large pipe organ in conjunction with the
orchestra. Thatcher is sure of great sea-
son in Salt Lake.
Billy Mestayer, well known in Salt Lake
appears again on Wednesday evening in his
own musical extravaganza, entitled Grab
Bag" Mestayer SIS Butte, Walter Jones as
Sudden and Theresa Vaughan as Vera Van |
Vetchen, an opera singer. are the leading /
features. With such capable people the |
one night OF ''Grab Bag should be well |
patronized.
The coming season in New York will be |
. very busy one. The new productions an
nounced at the various houses are Lady |
Bountifui" st the Lyceum, "Jane" at the
Madison Square, Lillian Russell in ia /
Cigalei' at the Garden theater, Audran's 1
new comic opera, Miss Hellyet," at the
Star theater: Alabama at Palmer's the
Paradise Lost" and diplomacy at the |
Twenty-third Street theater, sNioben at /
the Biiou, THE Solicitor" at Hermann's
thester, the LeopG.ds at the Park, Francis |
Wilson at the Broadway theater, Abbey & |
Grau's Italian Opera company, with the !,
Deretzka brothers, at the Metropolitan
Grand Opera House, and Sara Bernhard
in a new play at the new Fifth Avenue
theater.
We have had horses in "Shenendoah,
donkeys and bloodhounds in "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and asps in Cleopatra, F" but it has
remained for Mr.. Brady to give the stage
its first octopus. This entertaining Great
ure will be seen in the play entitled the
s.Bottom Of the Sea-" at the theatre on the
25th. An octopus in the act of fastening
its suckers upon a human form should
make quite . thrilling stage picture,
and as the bills say that 10
an actual occurrence. and as bills
never lie, we do not doubt that
AaSietE WIN rush a. one man to see the