The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-10

Tomorrow evening, and Wednesday
evening at the theatre the Chicago
Sterioptican company will give an en-
tertainment illustrating the Worlds
fair As the pictures will be the full
size of the stage the beauties of the
White City can be handsomely por-
trayed. Combined with the stereopti-
can pictures number of spectacular
effects will be introduced. This should,
and doubtless win be popular enter
tainment, attracting alike the favored
few who saw the fair and the many
who did not, yet who possess quite as
keen an interest in the big show.
Tuesday evening the music lovers
viii be in their glory at the theatre.
On that evening the Mendelssohn
Quartet Concert company will appear.
under management of the Orpheus
club Of our city. The MendelssOhn
quartet is a famous one, and their
singing will doubtless be as well APP
preciated in Salt Lake as it has been
elsewhere. Miss Cora Cowan, q well
know reader, has a prominent place
in the programme Our OrpheuS club,
composed OF some twenty of the best
male voices Of our city. will sing
several numbers. and their singing is
too well known to need comment
a notable event was the performance
of AS You Like It. by the Profess
sional Woman's League, at Palmer's
theatre in New York recently. Not a
man was in the cast. yet the perform
ance was largely attended. and was
pronounced highly artistic. albeit
some Of the voices were sadly out of
keeping With the boards. Madame
Janauschek made a great hit as
Jacques. When she spoke the Seven
Ages" the audience went wild. The
league, which is a charitable organi-
cation, cleared over 81, 500 on the play.
There is a barn storIning organiza-
ton playing the small towns of the
eastern states called the ''Latoska
company which is accredited with
using suggestive handbillS as advertis-
ing matter which would make Sybile
,Johnstone blush The advertising
matter was such that the majority OF
the newspapers refused to publish 1t.
but the manager serenity produces a
few thousand circulars and causes the
women of his company to distribuSs
them on the street Whenever the
local manager allows the show to ap-
near. and many of them Cancelled their
dates after the company struck the
town, a big house usually greets it.
l,eander Richardson is in the field
again. or viii be shortly, with a new
dramatic journal which we'll be entitled
s-I,eander Richardson's Illustrated Dra-
matte Weekly" Richardson is one of
the cleverest writer's on dramatic top
les in the world today The brightest
DAVIS the old Dramatic News ever saw
was when his hand was at the helm.
Mr. Richardson is the author of num-
Der of successful novels and plays.
among which may be numbered Nat
Goodwin's IN ,.ninee." 1t is aimed to
make the illustrations a prominent fea-
tura. and TO that end prominent ar
list will have charge of the pictorial
portion. The Illustrations will in no
wise be limited 70 portraits, but will
cover plays and general theatrical
events all over the world.
Few OF our people know that there
has been growing into a beauty and
comfort a pretty little opera house at
Murray, our near neighbor on the south
so near. in fact, that the Rapid Tran
sit electric road connects US with the
village. The new house is being cree
tel by Harry Haynes. and was design
ed by Proudfoot & Bird, architects of
our new city and county building. As
soon as the lighting is completed, the
old time comedian. Phil Margetts. sup
ported by a competent company, will
open the new theatre.
The Salt Lake Stock company have
a hankering after holiday dates and
are booked in Shadows of a Great
City" Christmas night and the two
following evenings. On Christmas af-
ternS pa a matinee viii be given when
one ca the former successes will be
produced.
The sacred cantata Joseph in Egypt
viii be given in the Twentieth ward
meeting house December 90, the pro-
eeeds TO be devoted to charity. Profess
sor Joseph J. Daynes will act as con-
ductor and Miss Kate Romney as pian-
list.
Friday evening" the lovers of the
light fantastic" will find happy oc-
casion for their likes at the Salt Lake
theatre, the event being the first ball
of the season. Saturday afternoon a
children's ball viii be given.
Stage Gossip.
1.-THE Danger Signal is being pre-