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

play finds him the esteemed friend of
Philip II and the husband OF the woman
he loves.
SHERIDAN which Mr.. Sothern will
produce during his coming season, is an
entirely original play, written for him by
Paul Nj. Potter, on the life and times of
Richard Brinsiey Sheridan. Several OF
the characters are intended to suggest the
original of personages in 1.-The School Tor
Scandal and ssThe Rivals The COM
edy is in four acts, and treats of Sherl-
dams career and his elopement with Miss
Linley, prior to the production of his first
play, 1.-The Rivals. -
Minnie Palmer appeared before Judge
McAdam IN the superior court OF New
York last week and gave formal evidence
IN her action for an absolute divorce
against her husband, John r. Rogers.
She said she was married to Rogers at
Mount Vernon in May, 1882, and that they
had no children. In her complaint, which
she swore to in London February q last,
she charges her husband with intimacy
with various women. No attempt has
| been made by Rogers counsel to have the
complaint made more definite. Miss
Palmer returns to England Saturday to
rejoin the London Gaiety company.
The French company playing the pan
tomime "L'Enfant Prologue" (the
prodigal infant), has been engaged for
tour OF the United States next season. 1t
IS described as three-act comedy-drama
and constitutes an entire evening per-
Torrance. There are butsix characters and
not word is spoken from first to last,
but the spectators sit as entranced and
responsive to every emotion expressed by
the actors as if every thought and sentl-
ment were put Into words. Nothing is
/ lost and there IS not moments uncer-
! frsIT, frr nrf Of inf
probation and expression are these artists.
The second illness OF Joseph Jefferson
within few weeks will cause grave solic-
ltude among his friends. 1t is true that
he is man of temperate and correct
habits. and up to within a recent period
has been strong and well, but he has
reached time of life when the constitu-
ton does not resist disease with the vigor
of youth and of middle age, and when
great care and prudence are necessary for
the preservation of health. He is going
to give himself absolute rest at his sum-
mer home on Buzzard's Bay, and it is
hoped that this VIII result in his complete
restoration. He is an actor whom the
stage cannot spare and man whom the
world could i'll afford to lose.
GA Trip to Chinatown has been
played Sos times in Madison Square the
atre, New York, which, it is claimed,
one play in one theatre in this country.
The programme gives the following rec
ord of famous runs: The HBlack Crook, "
at Niblo's garden. Wednesday, Sep. II.
1865, 10 Saturday, Jan. A, 1868, 476 times;
Hazel Kirke.' at the Madison Square
theatre, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1880, to
Tuesday, May 81. 1881, 4s6 times;
mHumpty Dumpty,,, at the Olympic IISa
Saturday, May, Is, 1869, ass times;
"Adonis" at the Bijou opera house,
Thursday, Sep. d, 1884, to Saturday !,
April II, 1886. SOB times.
The blase tops and fopesses of New
York have a new caprice. 1t is playing
''supe" in ''The Prodigai Daughter. -
the racing melodrama at the American
theatre. The gentleman jockey and actor,
Leonard Boyne, has a levee in his dress
ing room every night, and scarcely per-
Torrance passes that some fashionable
people are not on the coaches in the race
scene. Belmont. Tiffany, Frank Beard
and Frederick Martin did it first, and
now everybody is making a fad of it.
Manager French says he is thinking OF
rigging out swell coach for his swell
"supes.s stIt's nothing to what we had
in London Actor Barnes said recently.
"There we had tons of them every night.
| 1t was perfect mania with the swells
7 over there.
Brandon Thomas comedy, "Charley' Is
J Aunt has been secured for America by
: Charles Frohman. For over year now
: it has been acted with great success in
London. Originally produced at the
Royalty, that house was found to be toe
{ small to accommodate all who wished te
' see it, and Mr.. Penley and his clever asso-
: ciates moved over to the Globe, where
some time since shop keeper brought
I suit against Penley on the ground thai
! his business was injured by the crowds
: that 1locked to see Thomas comedy. Ht
! failed to secure his Injunction, but extrs
police were detailed to keep the streets II
the neighborhood clear. Charley
Aunt'' is roaring farce. Som,
> college undergraduates are expecting tt
, entertain al their rooms a number o
young girls. The chaperon unexpected
ly disappoints at the last moment. II
order that the party may not be broker
a up Lord Babberly is induced to don tn
: garb of a woman and pass himself off a
: Charley's aunt from Brazil, where s.
l many ants come from, - as one of tn
characters remarks. Out of this devic
= grow number of scenes that are said Il
be uproariously funny.