The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-26

George K Fortesque has been heard
from. He win leave Australia nexi
month and remain all summer in this
country. Fortesque was we'll known tc
theatre goers as Catherine, in Rice's
Evangeline' company
Lewis Morrison says that "Faust'' is
more profitable than ever. Steele Mack
aye has invited him to originate the part
OF Columbus in SsThe World Finder,' &c
be produced at the Worlds fair. Morri-
son is considering the offer.
The New York San remarks that the
now famous brass coal-scuttle which
serves Robert L. Cutting, Jr., as armor in
one act OF ssNy Official Wife, is not to
protect him from the gallery. 1t Is de-
manded by the.author.
The sporting play fThe Prodigal
Daughter, - was trs lsfered from Drury
Lane theatre stage ii London to the
Chatelet, Paris. Arrangements have
been made to produced the play IN New
York next month.
A handkerchief carried by Modieska in
Henry VIII, is one of the rarest pieces OF
old Spanish lace in existence. 1t is said to
have once been the property of Queen
Isabella, and Modjeska has been asked to
exhibit 1t at the Worlds fair.
1.-THE Crust of Society,"" which is Great
ing such sensation everywhere this sea-
son was originally played forty years ago
in Paris, and It's revival in London by
Charles Wyndham last season, with Mrs.
Langtry III the cast, created quite a
ripple.
According TO the Sun, the present dra-
matte season IN New York is likely to be-
come proverbial for its long runs at the
leading theatres The stock companies
have never as a whole. given the public
better work, and She plays are exception
ally strong and wholesome.
There is a movement among the theat-
rlcai managers who visit Kansas with
their attractions, to compel the owners
OF the theaters to keep their houses clean.
Ii the reform can be enforced, and if the
men who control the amusement circuits
IN that state can be persuaded to introduce
some talent on the stage that has devel-
oped since the flood, the dramatic stu
alton in Kansas may be materially
ameliorated.
e. h. Sothern is an American actor and
was born in New Orleans. 1t has been
generally believed that he is an English
man, as his father, who was a great actor
himself and;constantly on the road, sent
him to England to be educated. He re-
turned to America at the age OF eighteen,
and when he first essayed to adopt the
stage he was roasted in the most scientific
manner by the critics, who now see in
him remarkably clever comedian.
These plays and players entertained
Philadelphia play goers last week: Chest
nut street opera house, De Wolf Hopper
IN HWang;' Chestnut street theatre,
Rl1!oyt's "A Texas steer;'' Broad street,
Digby Bell in ''Jupiter;' Walnut street,
n. G. Goodwin in ga Gilded FOOLS
Park, 'Gloriana'' until Friday and "a
Shining Mght'' for the rest of the week;
the BlJou, comic opera and variety; Ma
tional, Dangers OF a Great City;'' earn
cross opera house, minstreisy.
When Lottie Collins sails for England in
a few days she will take home a small for
tune with her, the result Of few weeks
WORK. William Rich offered her $40, 600
for what she had saved this season, but
the of1er was laughed at. Miss Collins
hrst received $500 a week. Her salary was
raised number OF times, and for some
weeks she has received 81 600 every Sat-
urday night The star and her husband
live on $50 week, and that admits of
some profit. WHAT'S IN name? is an
answered in this case. Miss Collins can t
sing; she can't dance; she is not beauti-
ful; out her name brings her 81 900 every
seven days.
The landlady in the Ole Olsen company
recently adopted hoop-skirt, whichsh
through the window after Ole. The skirt
caught in the frame and came off. Catch
ing up cloth banner that was hung in
the wings she hurriedly reappeared, caus-
ing wild excitement and Vociferous ap-
plause. Altogether she concluded she
had made a hit and contemplated contin-
uing the piece of business, but when she
discovered that the banner was lettered {:
Matinee Inside; Doors open at Up. m. -
she tainted.
An 'sold subscribers rises to ask the
New York SIN what has become of negro
minstrelsy. The decadence of this once
favorite form of entertainment is signifi-
can't OF the changes wrought by the
whirlgig of time. The picturesque
darkey of negro minstrelsy owed much
of his popularity to the war of the rebel
lion, and the further that struggle is left
behind the less attractive he becomes.
Much ingenuity has been exercised to
maintain his place. First came the fe-
male minstrel, then the white minstrel
and sundry other innovations. But all in
vain. The negro minstrel does not inter-
est the present generation.
Stewart Robson played in Worcester.
Springfield and Providence last week, Sol
Smith Russell in Boston. Annie Pixley in
st. LOUIS, Annie Ward Tiffany in Louis
vile, KY; Lewis Morrison in Milwaukee,
Clara Morris in Syracuse, Auburn and
Binghamton, n. Y; Wilson Barrett in
Cincinnati, Fanny Davenport in st. Paul.
John Drew in Chicago, Nat G. Goodwin
IN Philadelphia, Modjeska in Sioux City,
Des Moines and St. Joseph, Julia Mar
lowe in Boston, Mile. Rhea in Harris
burg, Lancaster and Reading, Pa: Den
man Thompson in Utica and Troy, Marie
Wainwright in st. Louis, Frederick
Warde aud Louis James in California
towns, and De Wolfe Hopper and Digby
Bell in Philadelphia.
A successful play writer in this country
nowadays makes as much money as the
forty-niner did who owned gold mine.
Bronson Howard fifteen years ago was a
reporter on the New York Herald, doing
space work at IS column. Today he is
worth over $500, COO, made altogether from
royalties on his plays. Shenandoah
alone has netted him S10O, 600. DeMille
died independently rich few weeks ago
from play writing. David Belasco went
to New York penniless ten years ago and
his plays have already made him rich
man. Augustus Thomas, who is not vet
thirty and was a reporter on St. Louis
paper, has had the same experience with
his g Alabama. Sidney Rosenfeld,
Harry B. Smith, William Haworth, j.
Cheever Goodwin, Grattan Donnelly and
Clay NJ. Green are all making good liv-
ing oil their plays. Sardou, the French
play writer, has made several millions off
his plays. Yet when ne first went to
Paris when a youth he was so poor, it is
said, that he lived on bread and coffee
and slept in an attic.
Wonderland.
1t is a surprise how the enterprising
management of this popular resort can
give such attractions - they are offering
at the low price Of admission asked. In