The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-25

''Charity Ball, - ''The Wife, '.White
Roses" and "Old Heads and Young
Hearts,"
Ben Stern will be Fanny Davenport's
personal manager next season.
Lew Rosen has completed another COM
edy in collaboration with Eduard Hoist.
louis James and his new wife, Annie
Hendricks, will spend the summer at
Kansas City, Mo.
Bessie Bonehill, the London music hall
singer, is engaged for an eight weeks
tour of the Pacific coast.
William T. Carleton will not be in the
Lillian Russell troupe next season, but
Will head company of his own.
The latest rumor floating from Boston
Is that John Stetson will star Ruth Car
penter in Featherbrain' next season.
The Chicago theatres are doing SO
enormous business that every manager
is confident of becoming CrnsGs by fall.
Kate Field says that Edwin Booth cast
vote for Abraham Lincoln for president,
but never voted before that occasion or
after.
The Bostonians are reported, June Z,
as doing light business in robin
Hood,' ct the Garden theatre in New
York.
Stuart Robson is going to revive ''The
Comedy of Errors Tor next season. He
has not been seen as the Dromio of SYRIA
cuse for seven years.
James W. Harkins, IRIS, new melo-
drama, 1.-THE Land OF the Midnight
Sun, - viii be brought out at the New
York Fourteenth Street theatre in the
fall.
Sol Smith Russell is to go in for old
comedy next season, stalking his fame and
fortune on 'sThe Heir at Law thus
challenging comparison with Jefferson S
Dr.. Pangloss.
Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and her
daughter, together with few friends,
viii sail for Quebec in the Allan liner,
July q. Their season opens in San
Francisco in August.
After number of failures the Theatre
Iibre, Paris, has made a success with q
new two-act comedy by Georges Courte-
line entitled 's6oubon Roche,' an ex-
ceedingly indicate but original piece o;
work.
James J. Corbett has beer SO over
whelmingly Iionized in his native city,
San Francisco, as TO move tee veteran
dramatic critic of the Cal to declare thai
muscle had come to be considered greater
than mind.'
Colonel Henry Mapleson will go to vi.
emma shortly to hear an opera comique
the American rights to which he has Sc.
cured by an option. If it pleases him, h,
viii bring it over for use next season bS
the Mapleson and Whitney opera comiqut
company.
Augustin DAILY, it appears, will no
bring his company back TO America TO-
some years. His new playhouse in Lon.
don is now ready for occupancy, anS
when they are not there his players are Il
be taken on tours to Paris, Berlin, Vienn;
and, perhaps, st. Petersburg.
Hoyt has new play on the stocks. 1
is to be called s'The Milk White Flag''-
why, nobody knows. 1t is quite evident
however, that it is to be something yer,
different from his farce comedies, for it i
the first of his dramatic productions I,
use the definite, instead of the indefinite
article IN the title.
The play that Edwin Gordon Lawrence
director Of the Lawrence School of Actin;
of New York, is TO star in the comm,
season. is a refined Indian meIodram
from the pen of the well known author
Emerson Bennett of Philadelphia, TO
many years connected with the Ledqe
and Saturday Night. The scenes are lai,
during the revolutionary war.
In q recent suit in the London courts 70
the infringement OF the copyright of
play founded on HEast Lynne, - the fac
was brought out that Mrs. Henry Wood
the author of the novel, never received
penny of royalty for any OF the man,
dramas founded on it. The English COPY
right law does not protect novelist from
theatrical "adapters. +"
Rosina Vokes and her husband, Ceci
Clay. have retired to their home in Devon
sn,ra. where Marius-whO has taken Fe
lix Morris place-is their guest and is a
work on their new plays for next year
They will retain "My Miliiner's Bill, ,
ga Pantomine Rehearsal'' and 9Th
Circus Rider, - but otherwise their roper
toire will be quite new-except for a pos
sible revival of Finn in a Fog whic
the Vokes family made so popular year
POO. The other pieces will be, to a larg
extent, Marius' adaptations of littl
French pieces as Dejazet used to max
famous.
Minnie Palmer worked in an advertise
raent for herself when Booth died. Sh
cave it ont that she was awfully solicit
Gus about the great actor in his last mo
meuts. and is said to have called at th
PIavers' club repeatedly on the night b
died to inquire for him. 1t is deeply in
feresting to know, adds Chicago paper
that Miss Palmer that was, Mrs. Roger
that is. will wed a London manager, on
who handled her business in EngIan
5uring the past season.
The play that Eugene Feilner of Bosto
bas written for James O'Neill is calle
stDon Carlos de Seville.' The Don j
the dissipated son of an illustrious lam
fly. He awaKens to a realization of hi
wasted past, to atone for which he make
n number OF heroic and pathetic sacrj
fees. The yolitical wars ia which Spai
is involved give him an opportunity t
redeem himself and the conclusion OF th