The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-01-22

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on hand. - She was to have appeared in
Ali Baba'' last summer, but there was
some misunderstanding and she has sued
David Henderson, manager Of that spec
tacle, for breach of contract. Miss Ricci
formerly lived in St. Louis.
Great preparations are making at the
Star theatre. New York, for the annual
engagement of William H. Crane, which
begins Jan. 80, with the production of
ssOn Probation, - an original comedy by
Brander Matthews and George FL. Jessop.
The play is in three acts and the scenes
are laid in Paris and Switzerland, afford
ing opportunity for lavish scenic display
which is not to be wasted. The cast of
the play is as follows: Jonathan Silsbee
of Chicago, U. S. A., William FL. Crane I;
Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, Adolph jack
Senior Pedro Oliveiray DuareZ, George
Backus; Benjamin Cox, Harry Braham
Eugene, William Herbert; Lady FRANKIE
Brooke, Miss Hattie Russell; Sonora
Oliveiray Duarez, Anne O'Neill; Miss
Mary Marlowe, Amy Busby; Mrs. Har-
mony, Mrs. August Foster; Miss Sadie
Harmony, Gladys Wallis.
Charles Frohman says that the new
Empire theatre will positively open We'd
nesday evening, Jan. %, when the new
play, 1.-the Girl Left Behind Me-" by
David Belasco and Franklyn Fyle, will
be presented. The seats and boxes for the
opening performance will be sold at auc-
ton at the Standard theatre next Tues
day afternoon, beginning at 4 O'Clock.
The regular sale will open at the new
theatre next Thursday morning. The com
pany includes William Morris, Nelson
Wheatcroft, William Thompson, Frank
Mordaunt, Thomas Oberly, James Bar
rows, Orrin Johnson, Cyril Scott, Joseph
Adelman, Theodore Roberts, Frank La
throp, Arthur Hayden, and Miss Sydney
Armstrong, Odette Tyler, Edna Wallace
and Katherine Florence. The play viii
be produced under the stage direction Of
Mr.. Joseph Humphreys. The action
takes place in the Blackfoot country
Montana.
William Gillette's new spectacular play
''Ninety Days." to be given at the Broad
way theater, New York, Jan. 30, is to be {
handsome scenic production. AS the
action takes place in New York, Alexan-
drla. Cairo, on an Atlantic steamer, or
an iceberg and in Newport villa, it Of
fers rare opportunities for picturesque
variety in the scenery. The play is di.
vided into eight tableaux, as follows: A
mansion of Fifth avenue, New York; {
landing at Alexandria, Egypt; interior O.
an old mosque, Cairo; a boat on the IRA
waddy river, Burmah; grand audience
chamber in the palace of the king, Thera-
waddi, viceroy of Bah--Mo, Burmah
deck of an Atlantic steamer; on the ice
berg, and grand ballroom in the Van Du
senton villa, Newport, r. |.
Fannie Mittens WiIlett, is dying Of can
Ger at 229 East Fourteenth street. Shit
was born in Columbus, KY, and is abou
81 years old. She is the only child of the
late Edward WilIett, of St Louis. Sh'
played with John Mccullough, Lawrence
Barrett and Frederick Warde. In tsDa
mon and Pythias' she took the role 0
Calentha and as Julia in 'sThe Gladiator
she met with marked success. She is sait
to have been the handsomest LADY O.
Lyons'' ever seen on the American stage
Miss Willetts played with Clara Morri:
for five years and was engaged for thi
season. Five months ago an operation
was performed. which was unsuccessful
and later the disease was pronounced
cancer. Now heart failure has set in anC
paralysis of the tongue. Der physician
say death is but a question of q few days
j. W. Norcross has been engaged b,
Manager Charles Barton to produce hi
English racing play, s'The Outsider, ,
which will be seen for the first time il
New York Jan. 30. The four horses to b
used in the big racing scene have been il
training several weeks, and Mr.. Bartol
says they are now stletter perfect il
their parts. a number of special5ies vii
| be introduced in the stable scene, anon;
the artists being Lillian Price, from tn
London Music Hall, and the Martil
brothers. acrobats.
The Twentieth Century club of Chicag
lately met and listened to an address o.
"Plays, Players and Playgoers, by Els
Willard. s'The public says that play
should instruct,'' said Mr.. Willard
.'Another section says they shoul
amuse. They should be both amusin
an instructive, but above everything the
should be pure. Players should be de
voted to their art. Though the reward
slow it is no less certain, and brings wit
it more absolute joy than is to be derive
from cheaply or ignobIy won success
Playgoers will no longer accept dia
monds, dresses, and divorce as substitute
for dramatic art, and they owe it to them
selves to keep the stage as clean as posi-
bic and to make their protest an emphati
one"
Modjeska is Justly indignant becaus
certain Chicago bill posters have paste
skirt dancer Lilly Clay over her, leavin
nothing but the name ''Modieska, ,
which does not belong to Lilly. A Chica
go citizen, however, says: 'Modiesk
amt got any kick comm. Yer ought t
see Pauline Hall's face on Clark and Indi
ana streets. Ointment stickers weighing