The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-10

| having become thoroughly familiar
with the French language by reading
Trilby, we are convinced that she is
more inSouciancy than chiccy.
Stage Gossip.
Mrs. Potter and Kyrle Bellew sail
for England in May. but not to Solay
For the future they have decided to
tour only in America Their reasons
for going abroad just now are for rest,
and clothes. Mrs. Potter will continue
on to Paris to hold solemn conclave
with Worth, whilst BelleW tarries in
London.
On January Goth, the Whitney Opera
company in De Koven and Smiths
Rob Roy" celebrated Scottish
| Night" The Scottish societies attended
| decorated with plaids, whilst the men
drank Scotch whisky between the
acts.
Walden Peil Roser who for a, MUM
Der Of years has only been known by
his stage name of Walden Ramsay, has
retired from the theatrical arena. For
some time he was a member OF A. NJ.
/ Palmer's company, and was in the
cast of The Bankers Daughter" His
| last appearance was with Richard
Mansfield in the autumn. He is now
| lecturing in New York drawing-rooms.
Marion Lea will not return to Eng
land with the hendal's in the spring,
but will remain in America to act.
Although Miss Lea is an American
born, she has never acted but one
season in her own country, whereas
she has been prominent on the London
stage for more than eight years.
Marie Wainwright purposes a brief
tour of the principal Canadian cities
in March, with her new play 'Daugh-
tiers Of Eve
A large number of tickets have been
sold to pupils Of the high schools in
San Francisco for the Warde and
James performance of Julius
Caesar
John S. Norton manager of the st.
Louis Grand opera house, who was
injured in a railroad disaster last
Monday, died the next day. Zelda Seq
uin Wallace at one time a leading
operate contralto and well remem-
bered here with Kellogg and Carey,
was seriously injured in the same
wreck.
If anybody ever disputed Jesse Bart
lett Daviss right TO have her name
inscribed on the everlasting page of
fame, then let that dispute forever be
stilled. A brand of cigars has been
named after her. The nicotine inhaler
can choose either the Lillian Russell,
the Agnes Booth. the Langtry, or the
Jesse Bartlett Davis cigar
AT the Carnegie Music hall New
York, Jan. 9th, a chorus OF four hun
dred took part in the performance of
Hadyen's oratorio, THE Creation
Eleanor Barry has entirely recov-
cred from the serious indisposition
which compelled her to retire from
the stage while at the height Of sue
cess as leading lady in the 'samI of
Posen' company. She has been of
fered the leading role in Jacob Lift
new production at Philadelphia, on the
9TH inst, The War of Wealth.
Mr.. T. Daniel Frawley leaves shortly |
for San Francisco, to see what the
prospects are for a season in that city.
Amy Leslie has been specially en-
part Of Twister in The American
Girl" Miss Leslie was for several sea-
sons with the Calhoun Opera company, |
and came west with "A Turkish Bath |
A Philadelphia judge very properly
sentenced a young man to two months |
in Jail for shouting Fire. during a |
matinee performance at the National. 1
In the third act of "Gismonda," Miss
Davenport wears a girdle which is |
said to hold $4,000 worth of precious
stones.
"Rebellious Susan is still having a
lively run at the Lyceum, n. Y. The
fun, romance and immortality of the
play, furnishes a bonne-bouche for the |
public, if large audiences indicate
anything.
The two most interesting stage pro- |
auctions promised for the near future, |
are Paul NJ Potter's dramatization of |
'Trilby," which will be given at Pal |
mer's in February, and c. T. Dazey's
new American play entitled 1.-The war
OF Wealth." which Manager Jacob Lit !
will present at the opera house. Phila- |
delphia, on the 25th inst, for the first |
time on any stage Mr.. Palmer is |
tiA5 q A1eNA ioooAi3 lIll1C GuuedNOI1ng
to find an actress possessed of such a |
foot as might conform with Trilby's. |
The services of several active chiropo- |
dists have been engaged to join in the |
search made by the latter-named |
manager.
The French and English writer's are
having it all their own way this sea-
son, and American playwrights make
but a poor showing on our stage. For
instance, Henry Arthur Jones hasI
three of his pieces playing in America
simultaneously. Sardou also, before
"A Woman's Silence" was withdrawn.
The Fifth Avenue is filed nightly with
his 'GiSmonda," While the Pitou pro-
duction of his great Napoleonic play
Madame Sans Gene" has had clear
time reserved for it to the end of the
at the big Broadway theatre
In New York.
Countless writers have offered the
cries respecting the why's and where
fores Of the marked depression in the
theatrical business of the present sea-
son. Those who have sought amuse-
ment through the medium of the the
atre this season have drawn a, finer
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