The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-10
StaEe Whisners.

From all accounts Lillian Russell is
having very poor season of it.
1t is said Augustin Days company
played to nearly $4,000 in Philadelphia
last week.
Digby Bell appears to be meeting
with success in his new operetta,
Nancy Lee
In "Ferncliffe" Miss Warren will be
seen for the first time in distinctly
leading role.
That interesting melodrama, "The
Shadows of a Great City, will be put
on the road again about the holidays.
In "Ferncliffe" Mr.. Edwards will
play the part of the hero for the first
time; he is usually cast for the heav-
les.
Louis James is doing an excellent
business through the south under the
management of Wagenhals and KEN
per.
John Drew and Maud Adams are
crowding the Empire theatre, New
York, and promise TO do so for months
to come.
Grace Henderson, after several
years absence from the stage, re-
appears this week in New York in In
Sight of st. PauPs."
Frank Daniels is starring again,
Last Monday night he appeared in
New York for the first time in a new
opera called The Wizard of the Nile"
Edwin Hoff, formerly of the Boston
ians, and a great favorite in the part
of Robin Hood, has just been re
leased" by Lillian Russell, who found
his salary too high.
The success of "Trilby' and the de.
mand for the play in cities where ii
has not yet been given is so great
that Manager Brady will place two
more companies on the road.
James j. Corbett's theatrical season
will open about the 1st of December
He is greatly pleased with his part in
"a Naval Cadet" and Manager Brady
promises an elaborate production.
The Bostonians were so successful in
Denver that they have cancelled other
| dates to return there at the end of this
month. They would do an immense
business in Salt Lake, but they are
at outs with Al Hayman and will
play in none of his houses.
Irvings production of Macbeth"
has not set New York afire. The seen
cry, staging and accessories are said
Miss Terry are generally roasted for
their conceptions of the Thane of Cav
dor and his bloody minded spouse
Humanity" William A. Brady's
massive melodramatic production, in
which Joseph Grismer and Phoebe
Davies play the star parts, is still run
ming at the Columbia theatre in Bos-
ton. This attraction promises to be
one of Mr.. Brady's most profitable
enterprises.
There is a joke in THE Shop Girl"
that very soon is likely to be sprung
on the unwary right and left Come
dian Hicks says to Comedian Gross
NTH: DO you dine anywhere Thurs
day." Grossmith replies: mo, why?"
Then, says Hicks, You'll be awfully
hungry on Friday, won't you?"
j. K. Emmett left a large fortune,
but the fine tombstone that surmounts
his grave in the Albany Rural GENE
terry has not been paid for. At AL
bany, the other day, the Empire Gran
lite company brought suit against the
dead actors son to recover the price
of the stone. No defense was made,
and judgment was given by the court
in the plaintiffs favor for the sum of
$1,002.
lney nave ADVANCE sales 1Or opera
in New York that amount to some
thing. Abbey, Schofel and Grau's
Italian opera company opens there on
the 18th. The subscription list was
opened the other day and before it
closed $4,000 in cash had been laid
down. This is almost enough to pay
the seasons expenses, and the addition
al nightly receipts will be nearly clear
profit.
Mary Anderson has written her
"reminiscences which, under the title Of
"a Few Memories" will be published
next year by the Harpers. Meanwhile
the North American Review has Sc
cured the privilege of publishing three
! chapters from the advance sheets of
the book. the first of which appears
| in the number for the current month
under the caption, THE Girlhood of
an Actress"
BY many, Pauline Hall is termed
"The Queen OF the Bicycle" She was
| absolutely the first woman rider in
America, having imported an English
machine in the year 1880, and being
! ever since an ardent devotee of the
wheel She carries a Columbia bicycle
with her and rides every day, fire.
| quently making from seventy-five to a
hundred miles. Miss Hall advocates a
short skirt as the proper costume for
lady bicyclists.
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