The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-04
looks wistfully toward Carmen" and

! iOOhS NlSlAully toward carmen duC
! '-Mignon."
When "A Milk White Flag was play
ing in Chicago earlier in the season
; Charley Hoyt went over to see Sandov
one night and got in just after the cur
/ tain got down, the drop curtain depict
ing the picture of the histrionic muse
/ between the busts of Shakespeare anC
4 schiller, with history just recording the
/ placing OF laurel wreath on Schiller:
/ GROW. Hoyt looked at the curtain, and
turning to his companion, said: "DC
/ You Know what that makes me think
! Oh! Look at Shakespeare's eyes, he
seems TO be saying, What are you do.
ing with my wreath?''
! 1t is predicted that :'CharIey's Aunt
will make Salt Lake play-goers laugh
pretty hard. 4 correct idea of it's mirth
provoking powers will be formed Thurs
Jay evening: when its first production in
theatre.
All over the coast it has had q. great
run and OF the profits $4,000 have been
weeks.
There is no question that it has made
/ i.ondon laugh for nearly three years and
y SUI remains the most popular piece in
the English metropolis
In New York it ran all through last
! season and is still running 1t is con-
coded TO be the funniest comedy which
I5otham has laughed at in decade.
Boston had it for five months and it has
Just completed a four months. engage
ment in Chicago. 1t is being played in
russia, Paris, Italy, Australia, South At
RIGA and Berlin.
Brandon Thomas. the author of erhar-
leyS Aunt appears to have struck a
comparatively novel idea A novelty is
what audiences, and more particularly
H.,
them novelty and they will flock to the
theatre if the novelty be amusing or in
teresting. Mr.. Thomas, from all ac-
counts, has given them an amusing nov
city, and having done so the reward has
proved exceedingly great in a financial
way a faint outline of the plot will
give suggestion of the series of mirth
provoking situations and complications
which must necessarily follow the anus
ing point from which the author starts.
a couple of young fellows have invited
their sWeethearts to take tea with them
In their apartment at college, the enter
tainment to be made quite proper by the
presence of a very wealthy widow VINO is
at that moment on her way from Brazil
to visit her nephew, an Undergraduate in
the same institution. When the time for
tea arrives, the young fellows learn that
The widow has missed connections and
VIII not be able to reach the college I'M
til a couple of hours later.
They don't want 10 give up the pleas
ure OF their SweetheartS' society and
they don't know that the girls will not
remain unless properly chaperoned. In
this extremity they persuade a chum to
impersonate the widow. He consents to
do SO for a time and the tea continues.
Before the tea is over, however, num-
Der of people appear and the disguised
and unhappy youth is forced to submit
TO a number of introductions, being cal
led by his fellow conspirators Charleys
Aunt.
Now, as this aunt IS known to be
worth several millions, suitors appear at
once and make violent love to the dis
guised Undergraduate. Fresh compIica-
tions follow rapidly and the audience is
kept in constant state of laughter.
For three nights, commencing Thurs
day, Nov. q, the attraction at the the
atre will be one that is new to the peo-
pie of this city. The Kendalls, husband
and wife, great tavorites of London,
Eng, which is their home, will make
their first bow before a Salt Lake audi
ence. They will render for the opening
night Boucicaults old comedy. "a Scrap
of Paper" the next night, 1.-The Second
Mrs. Tanqueray' and close the engage
ment with Ohnet's The Ironmaster.'
They are pretty high toned people and
have been before the public for many
years in standard plays. They live in
great style in England and have the en-
ire to the highest society. Socially. they
have been very much 1.-THE thing"
Mr.. Kendall lives and works quietly
and temporarily. He enjoys himself
with an emphasis on the self-yet is he
the most modest of men with but a