The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01
The dramatic agencies receive some
queer epistles. Here is one of them.

/ queer tplSliSS' I1tie IL SIit VI lHSlll'
YOUNGSTOWN. n. j.. Aug. il.
Can you place me with some good
Co. at a sallery OF 10 dolls. I'll take 8
and eXpensis, wire ticket and sleeper
right off to place ware they open at.
Clos contrackt with best managers of
comDanys. 1 have two new suites for
wardrob, I don't want no Shakspeer
plays l like farce commedy, and have
! good face, fgger and voice, and use
Donaldson Guide, don't mentshun me
! to no manager what amt solid for
/ wont go. l am good to do anything
from a sailor lad to the principal aktor.
'Youres in fraternity"
Louis James has secured a new play
entitled ''Marmion." an adaptation
from Sir Walter Scott's famous poem
! of that name.
Marie Wainwright will revive THE
Love Chase this season.
Laura Biggar and Burt HaverIy are
going to star in Hoyts "A Trip To
Chinatown"
The divorced wife of pugilist Corbett
/ is going on the stage.
/ Charles Heyt's new baseball play has
/ DCCH I'll loICuCQ Il0hdh way SO1ls
/ What a waste of splendid advertis-
/ ing material it will be if, as it is said,
/ Henry Irving refuses to use his title
4 on his coming American tour for the
/ people of this democratic land dearly
1 love the sound Of a title.
John Drew and Maud Adams are at
tracing large audiences at the Bald
win theater. San Francisco, in H. A.
| Jones new four-act play, The Bauble
/ Shop
The character who was made up to
represent the great Chicago pork
/ packer, P d. Armour, in Jacob Lit S
production of The War OF Wealth.
has been cut out on account of objec-
tons raised by Mr.. Armour, who
threatened proceedings against Mr..
Lift.
Robert Downing paid A Frigina
81, 500 for the musical score to be used
in his new play of Helena"
The heat in Chicago was so intense
the week before last that .'Trilby''
fell off $500 in receipts in one night
Hermann is about to give America a
real specimen of the Indian fakir Alb
dull Kehle is a pure Oriental and an
importation from Calcutta He has
come for the express purpose of as
sisting Hermann in his new Indian
mystery, Ybi Kiokion, the vanishing
man.
Nellie Boyd of "Fanchon" fame. is
the owner of raisin vineyard near
Fresno.
F. H. Sothern will wear a red wig
and a putty nose, long and sharp, in
his new play, 1.-The Prisoner of Zenda."
the affections OF the matinee girls by
this unpoetical makeup.
Salvini proposes making a tour of
Mexico next season.
Lily Langtry delivered an address at
the opening Of the new Lyric opera
house at Hammersmith, London, and
was frequently interrupted by enthusi-
aStic applause.
Minnie Palmer will return for an
other American tour.
Sothern is said to earn between $780,
000 and 100000 a. year.
C. T. Dazey's great American play.
The War of Wealth. deals with
events which have transpired within
recent years in New York, the hero
being a financial magnate of Wall
street.
The first American appearance of j.
H. Stoddart was made at Burton's
Cha her ofro
Anthony Absolute, in 1854.
Mrs Potter will don eleven. different
gowns in THE Queens Necklace
"a Pair Of spectacies.., the comedy
with which Mr.. Hare will inaugurate
his first American tour. has the dis
tinction of being the only modern play
presented before English royalty and
repeated by command of the queen.
In regard to the present aspect of
comic opera affairs. Nym Crinkle says:
1T is clear case Of glut. Of fifty
librettos examined forty dealt with
mythical islands. where a car load of
chorus girls were shipwrecked and the
other ten were still being examined
with view of finding out what it was
they dealt with OUTSIDE the costumes.
To cab these jingling professions
operas is very much like calling Mark
Twain'S inimitable SmartneSS criticism
The women in comic opera sing with
their slippers and act with their petit
coats. The men who go to see them
hear with their eyes and judge with
their appetites.
1t is rumored that a reconciliation
has taken place between Mrs. Potter
and her husband.
Sir Arthur Sulivans latest comic
opera. success, 1.-The Chieftain,' will
have its first American production by
Francis Wilson and company at Alb
bey'S New York theatre, September g.
Joseph Jefferson will begin his sea-
son in October.
Eugene Sandow; the strong man,
recently gave an exhibition before the
German Emperor in the royal yacht
Hohenzollern, at Cowes.
Oliver Byron has copyrighted a
four-act drama entitled "A second
Hand Wife,
Lillian Russell expects to appear
very soon in an operate version of
Peg Wellington"
Gillette's "Too Much Johnson" has
repeated its eastern success in San