The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

sented in the pennsylvania cities to
fine audiences
MAZDA Caigen and Frederick Pauld-
ing are still doing well in Texas.
Maurice Barrymore will play Charles
Coghians part in "A Woman OF NO
Importance"
Mile. Rhea is to play an extended
engagement in San Francisco at Stock
wells theatre.
Alexander salvini is now called "the
only legitimate successor of the famous
Charles Fechter.
Wilton Lackaye will Join Palmers
stock company next week taking
Maurice Barrymore's place.
Lolita is resting for the winter in
California. She will resume her theat-
ricaI career next season.
NJ. B. Curtis is still in Boston, but he
has not completed negotiations with
john Stetson for his starring tour
Margaret Mather and her husband
are prominent figures in Chicago. Miss
Mather says she will never act again
Lithographing has become such a
fine art that it is almost impossible
sometimes to distinguish a Autograph
from a photograph.
Minnie Madden Fiske with Hester
Crews, was well received in Boston
last week. The play will be heard in
New York in February.
New York has six schools of acting.
Boston four, Philadelphia three, Chi
cage three. San Francisco two. Cleve-
land one and Baltimore one.
AS Sol Smith Russell has none of the
vices which too often absorb the for
tunes of successful actors. bis credit
a ccoJ1rt sc Sfea div incre2 sing
Stuart Robson is having so much
success in THE Comedy of Errors,
that he will use that play exclusively
during his New York engagement
besides this an olio bill of excellencies
viii also be presented In the thea
torium the stock company will appear
in the anu ling comedy THE Book Ag-
emit
Chauncey Olcott received an ovation
in Buffalo the city of his birth, Mon
day evening, November 81 This was
Mr.. Olcott's first appearance before his
old friends as a star.
Manager Augustus Pitou will have
four companies on the road next sea-
SON Chauncey Olcott in '.Aavour-
men," The Power of the Press
Struck OIL and q new melodrama by
William c. Hudson
My Footlight Husband" is the title
of a new book written by Alan Dale, of
the New York Evening World The
story is terSely told, wholesome and
interesting, and is free from what
might be termed Objectionable matter.
The third edition is now being printed.
A new prina donna has appeared to
delight the lovers of opera Miss
Eleanor Mayo daughter of Frank
Mayo, an actor, possesses beauty, dra-
matte talent, and a voice of unusual
power and sweetness. At present she
is the newly discovered favorite of the
New Workers.
This seems to have been a souvenir
week all over the country. E e. Rice,
in Boston, for Venus Charles Froh-
man for the Councillors Wife" at the
Empire theatre New York; Charles
Me-" in Boston; Edwin Milton Royle,
in Portland for Friends" and Fife
Ellsler in st. Louis, are all giving
souvenirs this week.
This bids fair to be a season of comic
operas. OF the new plays produced the
majority have been failures, while
among the comic operas only one has
Algerians. Venus" Princess Nico-
tine" and 1.-THE Rainmaker of Syria"
are successes; prince Pro Tenn" is a
failure, and 1.-THE Maid of Plymouth"
is still undecided
Irving's presentation of the "Mer-
chant of Venice" is said to be exactly
the same as it was several years ago,
even the scenery being an exact copy
of that usd during a former visit. Miss
Terry is the perfect Portia, and makes
the most possible Of that beautiful
character. During their opening en-
gagement at Abbey'e theatre, New
York, the theatre was packed and
there were ten curtain calls.
A production of "As You Like tt"
put On by the Professional Women's
League, of which Mrs. A, NJ. Palmer is
the president, New York city, lately
was a great success The piece was ac-
ted entirely by women, the scenes
were shifted by women, the orchestra
was feminine. and women as ushers
were directed by Aunt Louisa Ell
dredge The performance was artistic
and pleasing in every way, and demon
strated the ability of women to act
in male roles. The league netted over
81. 500 by the production.
A specially attractive and novel per-
Torrance will be given at Wonderland
for the week commencing Thursday
next. a troupe of genuine Southern
darkies will give a first-class minstrel
performance on the Biiou stage and
the management has offered a. cash
prize to the best dancer. Here is a
chance to see the genuine article which
can only be given by a darkey, espec-
tally when anything is in sight"
Buck and Wing dances, Virginia Es-
sence. etc, in true Southern fashion,
will be the style in competition and
Gus Heege wrote lyon Yonson"
when he was showed up in the pine
woods of northern Wisconsin one win
ter. 1t was hard winter for actors,
and Hefge's company disbanding in the
pineries, he was glad to get employ
ment in a lumber camp. He came out
Of the woods in the spring with $50,
a strong constitution, the Swedish dia-
lect and material for the play which
has made a fortune for himself and his
manager. He went to Sweden for
color for his forthcoming play and
Travelled in the Storage returning.
The horse run in In Old Kentucky
is one of the strong features of the
play. but it is attended with more or
less danger. owing to the fact that
horses cannot be depended upon. A
short time ago. in Brooklyn, Laura
Burt, who plays the heroine and rides
the favorite mare to victory, came very
near ending her career as an actress.
She had finished the run and rode back
to bow her acknowledgment of the APP
plause, when the animal became scared