The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-09-18
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paly,s company is playing in Boston.

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Daly'g company is playing in Boston.
Lillian Russell is storming San Francisco.
ACROSS the Potomac is in New York this
week
Fanny Davenport will play only twenty weeks
this season.
Fred Solomon has written burlesque on
robin Hood. -
While in an Francisco Kitty Blanchard Sc
cured 4 divorce from b er husband Mckee Ran
kin.
Fay Templeton is in Paris and says she in
tends to stay there. No dissatisfaction here.
-E.rQ1ll11e9.
Bronson Howardis finishing .Aristocracy'' in
the Adirondack mountains. lie VIII return to
this city, accompanied by the manuscript of
the play on Oct. i. Mirror.
Otis Skinner, who is making pedestrian
tour OF Switzerland, soon sails for New York TO
join Nine Mocje ska's company in which he is
TO be featured the coming season
The five hundredth performance of "Sinbad'
in New York vas celebrated by souvenirs con-
sisting OF photos OF Louise Montague attac he'd
20 bunch of grapes-the pictures, not the glrl.
William Broderick, Emma Abbott's favorite
basso, who has been especially engaged to play
the title role in THE Fencing Master is en-
thusiastic over the music, which he says is
charming.
Mr. William Gillhas completed a new comedy
Tor Miss Annie Pixiey and called it Miss
Blythe OF Duluth. IL will be brought out next
month in Boston. The incidental music is
being arranged by Mr.. Jesse Williams. Miss
PiXley has Shelved poly Mindless the oper-
eta she presented at the Fourteenth Street
theatre last season. g
Miss Flnayson. recently of the Bostonians.
has been engaged for the queen in the revival
OF .'lolanJhe. . which Mr.. DiXey will produce at
Palmers theatre next week. Mr.. DiXey will.
of course, be The Lord Chancellor. Miss snyder
viii be the Phyllis, Miss Wallace he Iolanthe
and ir. Waiter Browne the oerephoa.
Wang is getting ready to celebrate his 450th
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present run al the Broadway tneetre, on the 3D.
of next month, when appropriate souvenirs will
be distributed The National insurance asso-
citation which is to meet this month in New
York, Will occupy 4OJ seats at Wang Sept. y
few nights since Joseph Jeferson's niece,
Miss Hester Wentworth Of Chicago, assisted
the veteran actor To entertain q number OF
friends at his cottage in Buzzard's Bay, Mass,
al which tex- President Cleveland an hon
Ored guest. Mr.. .IeffersOni is said to have danced
like q school boy. and showed none of the sew
enty odd winters that have passed over the
veterans mead.
LotIa will begin her season in Toronto Oct.
in a new musical comedy called ''Clytie /" in
the course OF which she appears as German
peasant girl, school girl and French ballet
dancer. The company will include j.. j..
Hachett, Charles CowleS, Viii Manderville
I. A. Hall, Hudson Liston, Maud Hosford,
Sarah McVicker and Dickie Martinez. Lotta's
season will last forty weeks. and the company
will visit all important cities from New ork to
san Francisco.
Louis James ana Frederick Warde made their
initial appearance as joint starsia the National
theatre last Monday night in Julius Caesar. >
Mr.. James played Brutus and Mr.. Warde, Marc
Anthony. Their work was very acceptable to a
good sized audience which manifested its ap-
proval by demanding frequent curtain calls and
insisting a speech from both. The COM
pany is rather weak, but considering the per
Torrance TO be the first this season the snort
comings We're comparatively few.
Many lives were saved by ruse at Bella,
Italy. on the night of Aug. II. the theatre in
that city was found to be ON fire during per-
Torrance attended by large audience. The
stage manager returned to the stage after an
examination OF the fire that convinced him it
was serious, and asked a prominent actor who
was just going on to simulate sudden illness as
soon as he came into the view OF the audience.
The actor did SO. The audience rose in sym.
pathy and excitement and the stage manager,
rushing forward, hurriedly said that the per-
Torrance would have to close for the night.
The curtain rung down. the doors were
promptly opened and the ,2U0 persons FASTENED
out. Just as The last of the audience were
leaving the flames burst through the stage and
they saw the real cause of their dismissal. The
theatre was destroyed, but not a life was lost
lkiiTOr.