The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-21
formances of minstrelsy that has
been seen in this city.

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very entertaining event. The story
Of the piece is founded upon the we'll
known tale of John Alden and Miles
Standish, and the proxy courIship of
the latter and affords excellent op-
pOrtunities for good vbices. pretty
costumes and handsome stage pic
lures. Costumes for the forty chorus
people have been ordered from the
coast, together with full stage set
tings and scenery. Mr.. Lask, of the
Grand, is staging the production,
while Prof. Krouse has charge of the
music.
The cast, as completed, is as fol-
lows:
Priscilla. Observation-Disclosures Mrs. McNally
Resignation. Mrs. Martha Royle
BARBARA .............
Mrs. Jennie Hawley-Woodrow
prudence. Mrs. Newman
Faith. ............... Miss Stopper
Jno Alden. Mr.. George Piper
Hatebad Higgins. Mr.. Jno. Spencer
Governor Bradford. ...........
..............M Mr.. De Witt Jennings
Squanto.. ......Mr. Geo. Westervelt
The chorus comprises the following
well known vocalists:
Miss Della D'aynes, Miss Ella Derr,
Miss Mabel Cooper, Miss Eva Win
burg, Miss Allie Bishop, Miss Kath-
eryn Sinclair. Miss Bessie Edmunds.
Miss Louise Savage, Miss Nellie Pen
rose, Miss Eva Musser, Miss Edwards,
Miss Lulu Penrose, Miss Alice Nc
Laughlin, Miss Laura Patrick, Miss
Ethel Pike, Miss Bette Naylor, Miss
Edna Dwyer, Miss Phyllis Young;
Messrs. Doxey. Whiteman, Sloan,
Murray, Scheid, Ames, Pike, S. w.
Ames, Foster Edmunds. Dunbar. Ora
ham, Mack, Hanson.
The piece has been rehearsed for
couple of weeks. and those VINO have
heard it say it contains more tuneful
and catchy music than many of the
numerous operas which have been
given on our theatre stage.
The Salt Lake Minstrels, with Sam
PHrla among the leading end-Inen,
have been rehearsing night and day
in preparation for their performance,
to be given early in May, for the ben
eft of the Young Ladies Aid society.
They applied for the dates at the
theatres that had already been Sc
cured by Priscilla" herself, but as
these canot be had, they will defer
their appearance until afterwards. or
else make overtures TO the Opera
house management.
Eliason's third soiree de magique
will be given at the Grand Opera house
this evening. Mr. Eliason has COM
pletely recovered from his attack Of la
grippe and has prepared a most inter-
esting and varied programme. His
tricks and sleight-of-hand work in parts
one and three will be novel and varied,
including experiments with cards-the
duck hunt, the following of
a wedding ring. the magic laundry,
the crystal casket, the flying case, the
modern pyramids of Egypt, the mex
haustible punch bowl, the magic wine
glass, the accommodating hat, the be-
organ pipes, or magic sup
per with a bill of fare more extensive
and tempting than either the Temple
ton or the Knutsford. Part second
will be his marvellous twenty minutes
in spirit land and the entertainment
will finish with the beautiful illusion
After the Ball" for the first time in
Salt Lake. This is one of the most
and perfect of all Ella
sons attempts in this line, and in it
he will be assisted by Mrs. EHason.
who will appear in a new gown espec-
ally made and designed by Helen
Windsor, of New York. This enter
tainment will be the last but one of
lengthy tour outside of his native
state and has had several advantag- |
eous offers. The music will be fur
lished by Willard E. Weihe and the
orchestra of the Grand Opera house. |
The usual popular prices will prevail |
No one should miss this delightful and |
performance of mirth, |
music and mystery.
Caprice Howard P. Taylor's free
ide idyl, in four acts, will be pre-
iented by the stock company at the /
5rand Opera house next week Much |
are has been taken in the prepara-
ion for the production of this play,
which abounds in love, interest and
loneSt comedy. The story of a young
ountry girl who is loved and married
" a young artist, who seeks to make
lady of her, and whom she leaves
because she is incapable of receiving
he polish he would give her. goes
way to school, and four years after
meets him in his own home, under an
ssumed name, and after he has
earched America and Europe for her.
together with this, there are two love
tories of comedy nature that en-
wen the plot. This play was formerly
he property of Minnie Madden. +
merica's distinguished ingenue, who
etired from the stage on her marriage
nth Harrison Grey Fishe, the editor
f the New York Dramatic Mirror
iiss Madden kindly loaned the piece
} Miss Bateman, who has played the
art of Mercy Baxter with great sue
eSS throughout the east and west. 1t
; a piece of excellent parts and will
how the company off to excellent adj
antage. Howard Kyle will play the
ather, Jethro Baxter, farmer;
Wright Huntington, the young artist.
Ter, Wally; Cecil livingstone, his
-iend, Harry Woodtlhorpe; Isle
eigh, his mother. Mrs. Jerome Hen
erson; Florida Kingsley, the daugh-
r. Edith; and Madge Carr Cook, the
idow, with an eye for number two,
NINA Watson. The smaller parts will
2 in competent hands. Special seen
y and effects have been prepared
nd the production will be up to the
gh standard of the house Such a :,
lay as Caprice following a season ,
farcical comedies, will be a great
and tears intermingled
re the elements that make a success
IL emotional drama and as in Shore
cress,' THE Old Homestead" "Es-
eralda." Young Mrs. winthrop"
Id "Frou F'rou," they are so SPLEEN
dly blended, so in Caprice" is the I
lthos and pathos of the story care t
lily worked out. The first lct of I
Caprice takes place. in a summer I
mp in the Adirondack Mountains. ]
he second is an autumn scene in the I
arden of farmer Baxter's home. The 4