The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-24

chances which materially strengthened it.
He says the production here was strong
advantage to him In placing it on the New
York boards. and he expresses earnestly
the obligations he is under to the Home
Dramatic club for the aid rem
dered him at the baptism. 1t
Is Just year ago today since
the trial performance. The name was
changed from "Out Of Darkness to
'Friends," because in New York the for
mer suggested buried melodramas like
After Dark" Through by Daylight"
etc. The season opens in Montreal, Sept. II.
Frank Daniels, in Little Puck" will
open the theatre a week from Tuesday
evening. Until this attraction, the theatre
doors will remain closed.
One Of the coming singers of Salt Lake
and most promising one, is Miss Helen
| Shearman, who has been heard at one or
two soclsbles during the present season.
Miss Shearman's voice is full, rich mezzo
and people who have heard her will be sur
prised TO learn that she is only about IL
/ years OF age. She has received her
instruction from a lady teacher In San
Francisco, and will return there to resume
her studies. MISS Sharman's positive sue
cess in all her Salt Lake appearances has
been most charming song, Darling Kiss
My Eyelids Down. which is not at all the
light order OF chdnSon the name would sug-
gest Added to her sweet voice, Miss
Sharman has two other decided advantages,
striking personal attractions and an abso-
Lutte repose of manner in facing an audience.
We expect to hear from Miss Sharman
some day.
The vast strides Chicago is making in
musical affairs was shown not long ago
when she stole Theodore Thomas away
from New York, and has been further en-
phasized during the past fortnight by the
acquisition of the renowned Sousa from
Washington. The following paragraph Is
from the Washington Star.
Prof. John Philip Sousa Of the U. S.
Marine band today signed contract with
syndicate OF New York and Chicago
business men which makes him for five
years the director of new military band
now being formed, with headquarters in
Chicago. The name of the new company
is known as the Blakely syndicate, and the
band will be known as Sousa's New Ma
rine band.
TO reporter of the Star this afternoon
Prof. Sousa corroborated the above, and
said he would leave Washington on the 1st
OF August for New York where he would
drill the band. He stated that Colonel
Haywood had agreed TO discharge him
from the marine service on the 1st of
August, and that he would Immediately
commence his new duties.
The new band. he said, would be the
finest in the world. He had been given
carte blanche to employ whomsoever he
saw fit, and had already selected some of
the best musicians in the country. He said
the band would be composed of seventy
musicians.
1t is stipulated in the contract that all
Inn h,
Sousa, or hereafter composed by him, shall
become the property Of the syndicate
Prof. Sousa's well-known composition,
''The Chariot Race" was sold yesterday
to Ditson & Co. of Boston at handsome
figure.
Arthur F. Clarke, advance manager of
Charles Frohman's company, writes from
San FranciscoN to Dramatic and Lyric to
say that it has been found impossible to
give the frat night production of 1.-THE
Counselor's Wife, in this city. That event
will take place in Chicago. The company,
however, viii give us another call with
1.-The Lost Paradise" which is meeting
With tremendous reception in San Fran
cisco. 1t is to be hoped that the hot wave
that kept SO many theatre-goers away from
the theatre before will have subsidized by
the time this beautiful production is given
again in August.
Chicago is greatly excited, says the cor
respondent of the Dramatic Nel0s. over a
recent dramatic production in that city It
is novel melodrsma depicting Southern
life in the slavery days before the war 1t
is entitled Uncle Toms Cabin" and is
dramstized from novel of the same title,
written by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The central figure OF the drama Is an aged
colored man, whose moral character is GER
tainly above that OF any colored person
| ever met; and the comedy is furnished
by shyster lawyer named Marks, and a
corked soubrette called Topsy. There is
scenic representation of frozen river
which ia very grateful 10 this weather; but
the idea of introducing animals on the stage
is an old one though well carried out in
this play. | firmly believe that the author
has touched popular chord, and predict
for sUncle Toms Cabin a long lease OF
lie. 1t Is a very good summer play when
real negroes are not employed. The dram
atist who adapted the novel for stage pur-
poses is not named on the programme, but
l would not be surprised If the libretto was
by Harry B. Smith, while the music re-
minds me Of some Of the earlier works of
Reginald de Koven.