The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-05-21
Amusement Notes.
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,any.
John Stetson has purchased from Mrs.
Dion Boucicault the exclusive rights to
Led Astray.7 This is the drama IN
which the late Charles II. Thorne. IT. and
Rose Eytinge made their great success at
the Union Square theatre, n. Y, upward
of a dozen years ago. Stetson has en-
gagged Miss Eytinge TO play the Baroness,
and direct the play.
On Saturday night the 18th, all the
members of 1.-THE Black Crook company
received the customary two weeks no
tice, and the great spectacle had Its
final performance at the New York Acad-
envy May 20. The reason fer this sudden
decision, according to the management,
is that the demand for ballet girls, is 80
great that in order to retain the present
force, contracts would have to be renewed
TO Sept. I. and such a step as this is not
regarded as advisable.
Fanny Davenport having purchased the
Dura Wadsworth house at Duxbury,
Mass, one OF the Oldest edifices on the
South Shore, has had it RACED to the
ground, and will erect on the site sum-
mer home at cost Of $4,000. The house
Miss Davenport occupied at Canton,
Penn, will be sold, but the homestead
where her father lived, and where Tor
many years the Davenport family reunited
in the summer, will be kept in the family.
Although Nine. Modjeska has but one
child, she has reared and educated five
nieces and nephews. 1t is in her Cali
fornia home, twenty miles from railway
station, that she has set up her lares and
penates, and it is about her ingleside
there that she gathers her six children.
She says that the happiest part OF her
! life is spent in Arden, - as she calls her
place, from the fact that it fuitills the
description of the forest Of Arden IN las
You Lie IT,
Beside Joe Jefferson, Mrs, John Drew
and few lesser lights, Mrs. Florence is
epoch still on the boards. She is always
clever, aud Mrs. Gilhory, with her good
heart and her bad French, her frank az
fectations, aud her fondness for ''bong-
tong; is as humorous a figure today as
any on the stage. That after acting the
same part for years, Mrs. Florence
should still be able to instill into it VI
vacity and gayety is unusual and aston
ishing, and proves her commedienne OF
the highest class.
The play in which Annie Pixley is APP
pearing this season is bright and anus
ing and well adapted to the versatile
talents of this popular and vivacious
comedienne. As Miss Blythe she is seen
as a breezy western girl and plays the
part with spirit and intelligence. During
the play Miss Pixley sings several catchy
songs written for her by Harry Braham.
Among them are THE College Drip and
''The Roof Garden. - She also intro
duces graceful and attractive serpentine
dance that always receives numerous en-
cores.
Richard AIansfeld's new play, which is
to be presented first at Chicago, is called
ssThe Great House of Marlborough" 1t
is the work of Silas Brandon, a young
American author, whom the actor first met
New York city about fifty years ago, ana
is divided into four acts aud FIVE scenes,
one of which takes place on the Battery.
The story is said to be of great simplicity
and domestic in character. Mr.. Mans
field viii appear as Jacob Marlborough, a
typical old New York merchant.
new story of the ste Adelaide Neil
son has just been discovered. 1t appears
that her friends could not induce her to
make will. Her reason for not doing
so was the feeling that such an act would
precipitate her death. Time wore on and
she received very lucrative offer to play
in America. Her friends besieged her and
| told her that it would be wicked if she
still refused to make will. She yielded
to their opportunities, but as soon as she
had signed the document she said: 81
! 1eet as II nad signed my Qealn Waffanb.'
! Within three weeks she was dead.
A Paris cable says: ''For the first time
in several years Sarah Bernhardt has ap-
peared for single performance before
Paris audience. She played "Phedre'
for the benefit of a local charity,
before an audience which packed
the house at five times the regular
price. Her representation was awaited
with much curiosity. 1t had been
said that she was no longer recog-
nizabie, that her voice had changed and
her art and power had deteriorated. She
was herself full Of apprehension, and her
emotion was apparent during her first
few minutes on the stage. In the end
she won perhaps her greatest triumph.
The audience was spellbound by her mar
velous rejuvenation, in which she sur
passed herself. Never did she or any
other actress win greater or more spon
! taneOus tribute of delight and aDpreci-