The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-19
stnge Gossip.


been written by Henry Guy Carleton
People are rushing to the Star thea
ire, New York tc see and hear Rip
Van Winl1le'' as Joseph Jefferson pre-
sents it
Owen Fawcett has withdrawn from
Mrs. John Drew's Comedy company,
and joined Daniel Frohman's Comedy
company
Nine. Dumonthier, French actress,
has just passed her one hundredth
birthday. She has been on the stage
seyenty-four years.
Chauncey Alcott is successfully fill
ing the place of the lanented Seaman
in tMaYourneen." Manager Pitou is
well pleased with him.
Lewis Morrison has added a quartette
Of singers to his presentation of
Faust" New electrical effects will
be added at an early date.
Clara Morris is playing successfully
in Chicago, her. repertoire being Cam
ile," Article AT and THE New Mag
dalin,'' as well as other plays.
Sol Smith Russell is now using "A
Poor Relation" in his New York en-
gagement April Weather. a play by
Clyde Fitch will be put on about the
first of December.
Fanny Davenport gains much of her
excellent stage management by her
personal supervision. She attends to
the perfection of all the dtails in the
elaborate rehearsals-
1t is whispered that Florence st.
John, under the management of Marcus
r. Mayer, viii return to this country
next September with her own company
and appear in comic opera.
Fanny Rice will try a new piece
~ aet,a 30
Miss Innocence Abroad" If the play
| is a success she will use it in place of
her long popular "a jolly Surprise"
During a recent tour through Ger
many Henri Martean, the French vio-
linist, was presented with miniature
gold violin studded with brilliants, a
fac smile of his famous ''N1aggini.'
NJ lancer, a Vienna manager who
is directing the European business af-
fairs of Duse, has offered TO manage
tour Of Germany, Austria and Hun
gary for Alexander Salvini next sea-
son.
Roland Reed will play but one en-
gagement in the vicinity of New York
this season, and that will be in Brook
llyn, when he viii present Lend Me
\ Your Wife" beginning with Novem-
/ Der 20
Leander Richardson's new melo-
drama, Under the City Lamps" has
in it a little nine-year-old girl who
gives very clever imitation of Mag
gle Cline in Throw Him Down Nc
Closky.7
Henry Guy Carletan says the plays
he engaged to write for Tim Murphy
and Charles Frohman are nearly fin
ished, and that he has contracts to
write plays for Stuart Robson and Nat
c. Goodwin.
William Norris has resigned from
Charles Frohman's forces. His place
in 1.-The Girl / Left Behind Me- COM
pany Will be taken by James Wilson
November 18th, when the company
opens in Boston.
The name of 1.-The City of the Golden
West" is the most pleasing of the
many titles suggested for the mid
winter fair at San Francisco. The
originator is Thomas Houseworth, the
veteran photographer.
Thomas w. Keene has a leading lady,
! Miss Florence Rockwell, who is but
16 years of age. She supports him in
such plays as Romeo and Juliet. I"
Macbeth" "Orthello," Richard III, -
1.-THE Merchant of Venice" and erich
eliu"
Philander- Johnson of the Washing
| topical song called 1.-The Monthly Pay
ment Plan which is said to be above
the average as to text and to have a
rhythmic swing in the melody which
is very pleasing.
Henry E. Abbey. has purchased the
sole right to produce in the United
States and Canada Victorien Sardou' S
latest play. Mime Sans Gene" 1t
was first produced at the Vaudeville
theater. Clyde Fitch has been chosen
to adapt the play.
| John H Russell, proprietor of Rus
sells comedians Of City Directory
of j. Wesley Rosenquist, David Hen
derson. of Chicago, proprietor of Hen
derson's Extravaganza company, a
strong partnership surely.
The contract between De Wolf Hopper
and Della. Fox ends. May l next Miss
Fox viii then leave the company and
will make her appearance next as a
star about September 18th at the New
York Casino. Her manager will be
her brother-in-law. Nat Roth
The new ''Superba'' is a perfect dream
of faryland with its beautiful scenery,
elegant costumes, lovely girls, funny
clowns, great specialties and wonder
ful tricks There are two grand trans
Roses and Genius of Amrrica"
There is a rumor to the effect that
Gounod left among his unpublished
works a typical opera entitled "Maitre
Pierre the hbretto is by Louis Gal
let The work is said to have been
offered to the Opera Conique, and to
have been rejected as unsuitable.
A company of wealthy Englishnaen
are contemplating a reproduction OF
the Court of Honor at the Worlds
fair in South Kensington, London
With it a theatre is to be built in
which America, . the theatrical SEN
Sation of the exposition season, will be
given.
Commodore, the largest of the lions
Exhibited at the wigwam,- San Fran
cisco, was taken by his owner, Col )nel
Boone. to the Elite gallery and photo
graphed a few days ago. The spec
tacle of an uncaged lion posing in an
lopen gallery must have been somewhat
startling.
The silver statue of Ada Rehan which
was on exhibition in Montana's min
ing building at the Worlds fair will
be exhibited in New York, Philadelphia,
Bostn and Brooklyn, after which ii
1 viii be taken across the water and
shown in the principal cities of Europe
and Asia
Mrs. Kendall seems to have acquired
a taste for characters with bad morals
lher latest creation is the role of a Nj
hilist plotting against the Russian gov
eminent, in a play called 1.-THE Silver
She'll The shelf ia question beins
a dynamite bomb encased in silver ane
for the express purpose of killing The
5Czar.
Frederick De Belleviile joined the
| Ooghlan company in Cleveland, o.
Nov. 6. Mr.. De. Relleville has been en-
gagged to play Count Orloff, in Dip
llomacy.'' the Tart he originally played