The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-17

tn4nS 10 complain Of. Sometimes We
entertain the thought that perhaps the
newspapers would be more honest il
they were not so kind.
Stage Gossip.
Two productions by home talent will
ne gwen az the theatre the latter part
OF the Lenten- season, one u drama, and
the other an opera.
Have you seen that little fellow around
town dressed in 8 white sweater and al
ways ready with a cordial how are
you?" when you chance 10 meet him.
Ihat is Mr.. Lask, the stage manager of
the Grand.
The good business done at Wonderland,
quite proves the fact that there is a field
IN Salt Lake city for q cheap-priced the
ater Very well filled houses during the
past past week have much enjoyed Monte
CriSto."
;, Another. postal card from Brigham
/ Royce, who left here with the Warde-
James combination, states that he played
with Marie Burroughs in San Francisco
curing her season there and then joined
MI Frawley in Portland
Mr.. Moffat's play, Reunited" is al
most ready for production ana the author
/ is very hopeful for its success. Miss Clio
menla Pratt will play the leading female
role, 1.-The Spy of Charlottesville. and
those who have seen the lady perform in
numerous past productions in our city,
90 not entertain any doubt but that she
I VIII reflect credit both upon the play and
herself in this character.
The opera which will be given by home
talent in the near future is a very pretty
and tuneful one, and will be made the
most of by the company selected by Prof
I hr1u Ist TO present it. It deals with the
WelI-knoWn story of Miles Standish and
John Alden and the proxy cOurtship of
Prlscllla. The company selected will
/ comprise the following WelI,Inov,n vocal
lists: Mrs. McNalIy. Miss Martha ROVE
MISS Phillips. Mrs. Jennie HawIey- Wood
row. Mrs. Newman, Mr. Robinson Mr.
fyPer, MT. John Spencer Mr.. Geo Yves
terIelt, Mr. Dewitt Jennings. The whole
PRODUCTION viii be under the direction of
Messrs. Whitney, Lask and Professor
James O'Nein received a card from an
adnlrer the other day on which was
G Teften Novem 5G6n Edward Mccullough
O'NeiIl." i'''s ii'e
Miss Georgia Cayvan has been quite i'll
IN Paris, and is now in London 1t is
believed that she viii not star as soon
as she intended.
Lott, I4ottie Collins has gone back to singing
"Ta-ra-ra Boom decay
one of the daily papers whose musical
views and reviews are studded with tech
nicalities speaks OF the music of a recent
comic opera as '.at least fnoffensiye.
Perhaps this critic, like many of the
public, is ready, for variety's sake. 10
hear little offensive melody.
Charles H. Hoyt is contemplating
comic opera.
Oscar WiIde's new play, r'The I'm
portance Of Being E n est" IS a rat
ting farce, in which he throws all his
own dramatic theories to the winds.
Mr.. Irving has decided to produce an
English version Of Nine. Sens Gene
at the Lyceum theatre, London he
himself taking the part Of Napoleon.
an experiment which viii be awaited
with no small curiosity.
Bessie Bonehill is no longer a star
OF her own account. She is at present
a member of the Little CHRISTOPHER
Columbus" cast at the Garden theatre.
New York.
Paris, in default of an interesting
native play, is talking about one of |
Sindlng's gloomy Norwegian tragedies. |
The Father Sinding is the man
who believes that the sexes are eter-
nally at war, and that woman newt /
ably triumphs because she is cunning
and heartleSS. Paris wouldn't have
much patience with his philosophy, but |
this play has a bloOd-curdling mad |
scene. remarkably played by Philip |
GARNER. who was here with Bernhardt, |
and it has made sensation.
Mr.. Mansfeld's production of ''Napo- |
leon at Nashville, Tenn. met with |
some unpalatable comments. The /
4 m eYsioan nf that Nfrx- OH orc
the play as unworthy of his ability. ]
and criticised Mr.. Mansfield's work in |
it as careless. The affronted actor
from his private car addressed a letter
to the newspaper, saying that he was
i'll on the night in question, and that i
he rose from a sick bed in order that
his audience might not be disappointed
and declaring that he would not here
after visit Nashville.
How is this for the scenario of an up-to-
date nelo-Gra ma.
Act L-Coast of Africa, where every
body is shipwrecked. Canpibals are about
to get on the outside OF the entire party,
when hero hypnotiZes them. CannibalS
prmediately begin 10 form living pictures
he shipwrecked people escape in a fly
ing machine, which happened to hang
IN tree.
Act lin the flying machine. William
attempts 70 throw hero overheard;
Heroine stabs william with a hairpin and
luiets him temporarily. while hero man.
ages to land the machine.
Act III.-FootbaIl ground. Introduction
IF college songs and yells. william
tackles hero and tries to make a touch
Down. Hero is battered and bruised, but
heroine rushes on with Lightning Lini-
nent and william is tin-foiled again.
Act IV.-Hero and william draw straws
or the heroine. William wins. Hero dis
covers that in his early life william has
ived in Hoboken, and threatens to ruin
lin by disclosing that fact if ne does not
enounce his claims to heroine. William
'uccumbs rather than endure the dis
race Usual ending.
This thrilling plot is placed at the dis
,osal OF some budding American
lramatist.