The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-04
Theatrical Gossip.

Arthur Beresford. distinguished Eng
lish baritone, is in Chicago.
Nm e. Emma Albani has received a
superb diamond decoration from the
sultan.
MADAM ne AIodjeska will spend the COM
ing sum, uer on her ranch in Southern
California.
George q sould will expend $50. 900 in re-
embelJishin3 and altering the New York
Grand Opera house.
In Athens. Ga. no operate or other
performances permitted in which women
appear in abbre Waited Skirts
Estelle Clavto has written play for
Lolita, which til at popular actress pro-
poses to produce L ext season.
Edgar Selden is a work on a new Irish
comedy which will be produced next sea-
son. IT has not yet been named.
Minnie PaImeris til mixing of becoming
star again next year N ner old and only
very great success, my sweetheart
Henry e. Dixey viii = RELIABLY star next
season in. new version OF ms Ola play,
which will be called 'sAdonis the
London has forty-three theatres and
1S9 music halls, with a seating capacity
of $50, 900, giving employment TO l2,uUU
persons.
Cyril TYLER. the wonderful boy soprano,
will soon go to England, where he will
sing only at private entertainments ana
residences.
Ada Dyas came over from London the
other day on the Campania- She played
successfully with Irving IN his production
of Lear" at the Lyceum.
The ballet girls of London have formed
q union and they announce that they
mean to enforce their rights by resort 10
regular trades uniOn tactics.
Edward "Evangeline'' Rice's latest
extravaganza, 's1492, - Is booming along
merrily at Palmer's New York theatre,
where it is booked Tor a ran.
Most OF the English critics declare that
many of the epigrams in Oscar Wilde s
new play, ga Woman Of No 1mpor-
tance.' are frightfully strained.
The boasts Of singers aud the pomp Of power
And all the fstic art our thoughts engage,
Await alike the inevitable hour
The path of bruising leads but To the stage.
1.-THE Rivals'' will be given IN the
United States and England next season
BY a company composed OF Mrs. john
Drew, Mckee Rankin, Mr. and MIS-. sid
ney Drew and other well known actors
Miss Fannie Stenhouse, a well-Enown
contralto, is in Chicago, and wIll be
heard shortly in a special role on the pop
uiar concert stage. The Young lady IS
the daughter OF Mrs. Il. E. n. Stenhouse
Frederick Warde's manager describes
that pondarOus ana amiable actor an a
sspiscatorial sportsman Other men
are Just plain fishermen. Mr. Marde
has a sumner hut at White Lake, Suih-
van con- y
Mr.. Alexander Salyini and his manager.
Mr.. W. NJ. Wilkinson, Will sail Tor Eu-
rope early in June. Mr.. Salyini's next
season opens in September, when he will
present a new play entitled 1.-THE Son OF
Porthos. -
Samuel p. Cox was reported SO i'll at
the BostWyck hotel, Williamsburg, that
his life was despaired Of Efforts will be
made TO remove him 10 Weisbaden, KY,
where the invalid thinks hIs recovery viii
be certain
Joseph Jefferson, whom the Cincinnati
papers reported not long ago as dying, is
ia perfect health and viii make another
tour in Grip Van Wrinkle. - Among
other ailments claimed for Jefferson was
cancer. He Vehemently denies this al
Fiction.
The summer cast of Ali Baba will re-
main practically unchanged, everyone o.
the old fayorites being retained, includ-
ing Louise Kissing, Ida Mule, frankie
RAYMOND, Ada Deaves, Bessie Lynch
Nellie Lynch, Edwin Foy, Henry Nor
man, Joseph Doner, Jack Guilmette and
the rest.
Mile. Rhea has sailed for Europe. She
intends to spend q part OF her holiday
abroad scanning authorities IN Paris Tor
points in regard to the scenery and cos
tunes of ssThe Queen of Sheba.' The
mis- en- scene, however, VIII be provided
from the studios and costume rooms OF
New York, Mile. Rhea believing IN the
superiority of domestic products.
Stuart Robson has alEas been noted fol-
his persisteney. When a boy he stuck to
Robert Toombs. n. c., until the latter
secured him position as page in Con-
gress. When g young man he was an
eyesOre TO the Baltimore theatre man.
ayers until they were forced to take him
on as a utility man in their stock COM
pany. and during his partnership with
Crane he is said to have had his own way
in everything through his persistency.
Miss Ellen Terry finds that answering
requests for her autograph takes up sc
much of her time that she has determined
TO try to turn that time to profit fOl
somebody. She has hit upon the idea OF
establishing an autograph bed' at q
hospital, and SO, in reply to many pretty
letters she receives from ladies', the sigma
ture is sent and with it request for few
pence toward the autograph bed. Miss
Terry last week had the pleasure OF send
ing $50 as first installment to hospital
in the neighborhood of her residence al
Earl's Court, London.
The title of Charles H. Hoyt's newest
play is 'sThe Milk White Flag Nobody
knows what the title means excepting,
possibly, Mr.. Hoyt. This piece will be
produced in Boston at the Museum anc
will be seen in New York early in 1905
after the run of "a Temperance Town, y
which is to succeed "a Trip to China
town. when that piece has run its pre-
posterous run. Present indications are
that the "Trip will last for couple o.
wears yet Its popularity at the Madison
Square theatre does not wane.
Information comes from London that
Miss Lottie Collins is having well known
London dramatist prepare for her sketch
in which she Will show her versatility as
an actress as well as her cleverness as
vocalist. She will sing character song
with eight strongly contrasting verses
only one of which viii be devoted tc
esTa-ra-ra, - which classic she viii here
after sing only as an encore. Miss Col
Inns is under contract with the Boston
howard Athen9um Star Speciality COM
pany for an American tour, beginning in
New York the latter part of August anC
extending to the Pacific coast and return.
Nav Robson's artificial leg will get hel
into the same trouble some night that
the French one armed tenor, DuDrez, go1
into with his artificial arm. One night
in the second act of s'Traviata, - at the
Grand opera in Paris, Duprez in giving
his final adieu to Vioietta threw his false
arm upward with more force than il
could staad, and the consequence was
that it became dislocated. One of the
springs broke. and the spectators were
amazed to see the limb going around like
windmill. If May leg would cut NJ
such trick II would require all the fire
To- he for ~.