The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-08


Wilton Lackaye will star next sea-
son.
De Wolf Hopper is a great go in San
Francisco.
H. S. Goddard. the we'll known bari
tone, will sing at the service of the
Congregational church this evening.
ga Man in Love" is the name of the
new play which Anthony Hope and
Edward Rose have written for John
Drew.
Francis Wilson is undergoing the
novel experience of being sued for
$500. The claim is for royalty, and
is made by Sydney Resented.
''The Social Swim has never been
done in Salt Lake before. 1t is one Of
Marie Wainwright's plays, and Mr.. In
gersol played in it with that actress
an entire season.
Blanche Walsh has purchased the
exclusive American rights of A. E..
Lancaster's poetic play. Romeo S
First Love" This would indicate that
Miss Walsh was afflicted with the
starring fever.
Madame Modjeska's Thanksgiving
day receipts were very large. They
were $1,146.50 in the afternoon and
81, $50 in the evening. The latter fig
ures are the largest known at the Wal
nut Street theater since the house came
into the hands of the present manager
Sullivan's 'Ivanhoe' was produced at
the Royal Opera house, Berlin, on No
vember %. The emperor and empress
occupied the royal box. At the con-
clusion Of the opera the emperor sum-
moned Sir Arthur Sullivan to his box
and congratulated him upon his work
Mirror.
Paderewski and Sousa are blazing
their way westward and southwark.
Both will pull up ait Salt Lake in the
first week in March, and the greatest
musical festival in Salt Lakes history
will be inaugurated. 1t is understood
excursions will run from Butte and
Helena for the event.
Frank Mayo was once asked to re-
cite what he considered the best thing
he had ever spoken. He hesitated a
moment, and then recited the Lord S
prayer. His wonderful power of die
ton was such that when he finished
there was not a dry eye in the room.
The wife and daughter of Count Leo
Tolstoi were present at the first per-
Torrance of the counts dramatized
work, 1.-The Power of Darkness" at
the Alexandra theater, st. Petersburg.
The countess sent a complete set of
Tolstofs works to the leading actress
the following day. The Russian dra-
matte critics are not enthusiastic over
the play.
Towards the middle of this month
Frank L. Perley, manager of the Bos-
tonians, will go to st. Paul, Mimi, to
meet that organization, and decide
with Barnabee and Macdonald whether
the next production by the Bostonians
shall be a comic opera by Strauss,
Millocker or Cellar. The Bostonians
have the American rights to all three
of these works, and each opera has
made success abroad.
Francis Wilson has just received a
fiattering offer from prominent
Mexican, who proposes a tour of that
country by Mr. Wilson in 1.-THE Chief
tan" either during the latter part of
this or next season. Mr. Wilson s
previous engagements, including the
one with the JeffeTson-Crane combi-
nation, beginning early in May, make
it impossible for him to entertain the
proposition.
John Drew, Henry Miller, Nat Good
win, Sam Sothern, Chauncey Olcott,
Agnes Booth, Mary Hampton, Grace
Kimball and Katherine Gray are en-
thuaiastic horseback riders and like a
canter in the early morning wherever
they may be playing. Charles Froh-
man, Cyril Scott, William Faversham,
Kryle Bellew, James A. Herne, John
stone Bennett and Odette Tyler ride
bicycles with regularity and despatch.
Last Monday evening, Olga Neither
sole made her first metropolitan ap-
pearance under the management of
Charles and Daniel Frohman She
appeared at the Empire theatre, pre-
senting on her opening night Dumas
Demise" The second half of the week
she will appear as Frou F'rou, and
later on will be seen in Romeo and
Juliet" Camille and Carmen" Miss
Nethersole's tour SO far this season has
been in every respect her manager as
serts, an extraordinary success.
The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch saws:
cit seems too bad that the adjective
poor should be prefixed to the name
of Eddie Foy-a comedian who, up to
two years ago, could attract by his
own peculiar talents, as large an au-
dience as any low comedian on the
stage. But to tell the truth, Foy has
reached that stage where over and
over again he is spoken of as poor
Eddie f'oy.' This has not come through
any degeneration of his art, for he is
just as funny now as he ever was, but
a combination of misjudgment, mis-
management and i'll luck. When he
rowed with Henderson two years ago
and went off on his own hook, he made
grievous mistake-one which has re-
suited badly for him and his old man.
ager. The first season he did not do
SO badly, but this year has been a dis
astrous one in several ways. The re-
suit is that his organization is consid-
cred shaky, and the rumor has even
crept out from time to time that it
was to disband,'