The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-02
stage Gossip.

We have good reason to believe that
Henderson's great spectacular piece,
ALADDIN Jr.,'' will be seen here short
ly, after all.
Henderson's 'fAlladin Jr." Is on its
way west. and played to the biggest
house of the season at Kansas City,
opening November 49,
The two clever Irish comedians who
were here with Lottie Collins some
time ago are starring in a new play
called Hot Tamales. -
Stuart Robson has made great sue
cess Of his new part in the new play
THE Interloper.'' and he is said to be
as funny as he is in .Bertie. the
Lamb"
Edith Chester, who was a member of
Rosina Vokes' first company to visit
Salt Lake, died in London on Saturday
last She was only lately married for
the second time.
William Gillette has a new comedy
entitled "Too Much Johnson" in which
he plays the part of Johnson, a Wall
street broker. che play is said to
cause lots of merriment.
The regular winter season at Days
has begun, with Miss Ada Rehan as
Viola in Shakespcare's Twelfth
Night" Following will be revived: "a
Night Off" and The Tanning of the
Shrew"
Fanny Rice's new play. "A Frau's
Frolic,'' is an adaptation from the>Ger-
man of Three Pairs of Shoes and in
the cast will appear Eva Rudolph. Emil
ly Wakeman. Geo. r. Edwin and B. Nc
Donough.
Rose Coughlan begins her annual
tour in New Yory city Dec. 5, present.
ing for the first time on any stage her
new play. ITO Nemesis" Her support
includes Frederick de Belleville, Harry
Jewett, Fife Shannon and Maxine
Ellicott.
Thanksgiving Day is regarded by
managers as one of the most profita Bile
days of the year for matinees. Every
theatre in New York gave a special
matinee last Thanksgiving afternoon.
Hoyts "A Milk White Flag cele-
brated its fiftieth performance lately
with handsome souvenirs.
The San Francisco Examine says
that AL Hayman has lost control of all
his San Francisco business, including
that of Portland and Denver He has
been succeeded by Harry Mann, who
will be president of the Hayman COM
pany. Some of Haymans methods
have made him very unpopular in the
west.
Professor Herman's stage effects,
tricks and properties were seized on a
writ of attachment November II, at the
Columbus theatre, New York City.
The attachment is sworn out by julius
j. Frank, an attorney, who looked after
Herman's interests in 1891, when he
specialized disastrously in a Brooklyn,
hon t,-o n 11-loo al. = -
magician still owes him $4,000 for his
work.
Ten years ago De Woolf Hopper was
playing at the Board street theatre.
Philadelphia, in John Philip Sousa's
"Desiree," ard t was his first appear
ance on the comic opera stage. On the
Of hat eventful debut,
Nov. s, he was I~cking the monster
Broadway theatre, New York to the
doors in his latest success, DIR Syn
tax
The daughter of the late Edwin
Booth, in her sketch of his life. lately
published, tells of his great admiration
for the German stage system, under
which the best of actors play all kinds
of parts, important and unimportant,
and of Mr.. Booths expression of his
doubt of his own ability to act Horatio
or Gufldenstern properly.
Steele Penn[ understand you have
finally sold your play.
Will Write--Yes, and I got a good
price for it, too,
Steele Penn-How did you succeed in
doing it?
VIII Write-I went to London and
sold it to an American manager to take
back home with hin.-Chicag Post.