Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-27

, Der OF the Mirror. That paper ssys:
| Information REACHES the Mirror from
| Edwin BOOTHS sick-roOm at the
Plsyers' Club that the tragedisns
condition IL far worse than tho
physicians bulletins and the accounts
In the daily newspapers hRvedetcfibeu
during the past few daya,
News concerning Mir. Booths actual
condition has been guarded most
xealously, and the reports OF the
progress Of tho patient from day TO day
have been marked Ivy extreme reticence
on tho part Of those In charge.
The Mirror has II upon unmistaksble
auth 9rity that thefo ~ absolutely no
hope of Mr. Booths recovery and that
there is not even q chance that he VIII
be resiorcd to the condition Of compsr.
tive strength that he oujOved before
the stroke Of paralysis from which hs
IL now suffering.
The prolongsiion OF his life IL slim
| ply u matter OF medical science, com.
bincd with the unlocked ior vitality
that the sufferer has developed. The
end cannot, In the natural course Of
thugs, be far OIL now.
Mr.. Booth lies helpless AMI pracii-
oaly unconscious Ia mis- apartment Ht
The Players. Hla left side Ia COM
pletely paralyzed. One niJeof his face
IL drawn, altering the expression
sadly. His eyes are half closed. The
only nourishment he ID able 10 takO Is
kumyss aud milk.
Itcannot be said that he recognizes
those ut his bedside. When spoken 10
he syinvtiuics raises his eyes, hut they
give no sign of recognition. AT fire.
quent Intervals he attempts 10 speak,
but he IL able 10 emit only strange In.
srtioulAtc sounds.
The spectacle presented by the he.
loved actor, stricken AMI beyond recall
a. most painful. The few NEAR friends
that have bpeu permitted 10 look up u
him as he lies on his dcath.bed cannot
speak OF II without emotion.
Mentally Edwin Booth Is dead now.
= IL Is true that his pulse beats and that
no breather, but beyond the mere SEMI
blance Of organic lie there IL nothing
The light OF intelligence will never
again shine from the huruing eyes that
flashed their tragic rays upon tie
public during the wonderful career
Of triumphs that Ia now but memory.
A Mirror reporter called at the
PlayerS Club she rtly before midnight
on Monday and was told that Mr..
Booths condition WAS unchanged"
Mr.. Booth hold, tho office OF pfcsi.
dent Of the nDted Players club during
his lifetime. Ia case OF his death, II
IN said, the honor will fall upon 10
Jefferson, who, next to Booth, IL re.
garded as the foremost df American
actors; but that gentlemsn's extreme
age aud his failing health will agitaic
the momentOus question Of who next
10 entitled to the great honor Of presid.
Ing over ths distinguished club.
STAGE roTs AND CONCERT Horhs.
Balvlnl goes to Europe next month.
Frau Materna 10 singing again In
New York.
Francis Wilson, with A. II. Candy,
his manager, will sail for Europe on
Juno /.
The Coghlans revived Money last
week. They will not come west with
Diplomacy this year
Georgle Drew Barrymore ~ stlll In
Ill health. She Left last wo,k for Santa
Barbara, Cal.
The Bostonians are rendering Robin
Hood and the Knivkerbockers at the
Garden ,heater, New York.
A Trip to Chinatown will run
all next year In New York. Its record
will 30 ahead OF that OF Adonis.
French's new A merican thsater on
Eighth avenue and Forty-second
street, New York opened last Mon.
/ day night.
Bronson Howard aud Mrs. Ho ward
reached Sau Francisco on May 8rd
from Hawaii. They will not return 10
New YORK until the fall.
A. w. Pinero's latest play, The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Ia announced
for production ut the London St.
James on the 9Th.
John Drew closed his season last
night ut Wilmington, Del, and today
he will sail TO meet Charles Frohman
In London. Mr.. Drew's next season
will begin at ST. Paul ON Aug. 10.
10 Haworth and Emily Rig'l who
wore starring together In rhe Crust
OfSociety, had n quarrel on the stage
the other night In Montreal; Miss
Rign appealed to the audience for
protection against Mr.. Hgworth's
! blackguardlsm; then the play went on
1 rs usual.
Man and Woman, which was De
Mile and Belasoo's Men and Women
under slight change OF name, has
failed Mt the London Opera Comique.
some of the London dramatic writers
attribute this TO the thester, which has
been uniformly unfortunate OF late,
rather than TO the play.
Il. III. Sothcrn W Ill begin his seventh
annual engagement under the man.
sgement Of Daniel Frohman Mt the
Lyceum theater the latter part OF July,
He Will, as heretofore, continue Mt the
Lyceum until the return ~ the rpgu
ar stock company. He will begin hli
engagement by producing Robert Blu
chanan's new play basei on the M,
and timsso Of Richard Brinsley Bheri
| lan.-ifirr0r.
Clarenos M.Dow, the son OF million
We Of Denver, who created u sensa
on by marrying Mile Price, tn,
,ncer, who was subsequently sent by
q father to the United States mill
| ~ station on Angel Island, In tn,
y al