The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-01

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The coming theatrical season
promises 10 be an unusually hopeful
one. Some splendid bookings are down
for the Salt Lake theatre right up to
next June, whilst Manager Rogers has
S5epassed himself in his choice of
- s and players for the Grand
d ra house season. The future OF
t6Ne old Wonderland theatre is envel-
oped in more or less mystery, though
some alterations have already taken
place and an opening is predicted for
next October.
Gille ties most amusing comedy of
TOO Much Johnson" seems to be
proving that a good thing is a good
thing everywhere, as the same sue
cess that attended its production in the
east has been repeated in the west.
Mr.. Gillette, who takes the part of
Billings, a man in perpetual hot water,
IS said to be a bright, clever actor,
whose conception of this particular
character is both intelligent and in
tensely lauehable. The too much
johnson of Ralph Delmore's is an
other characterization very highly
snsken Of also the Mrs Billings of
Ma Id Haslam. The entire cast, from
aIISaccGunts, is an exceptionally strong
one. Their engagement at the Salt
Lake theatre for two nights is booked
for September 16 and Il.
The Madam Tavary Opera company,
sn conjunction with Mr.. Charles Bur
ton, have signed an important docu-
ment, whereby their appearance at
the Salt Lake theatre, some time dur
ing the early part Of March, may be
fully relied upon. This will be a rare
pleasure for Salt Lake, as grand opera
IS q class of entertainment that
through its infrequency in our city
has become a high class novelty.
The Leigh Sisters. whose Trifby
dance lately created a furore in New
York. VIII be featured with Canary
and Lederer's Passing Show" which
CORES here October Il and 10.
At the conclusion of the Manhattan
Beach engagement Of John Philip
Sousa and his concert band. the or
aseaizatiOn viii resume its tours. and
Before it returns to New York again
for q long engag ement. will have
played fifty-fiYe consecutive weeks, an
achievement never before ACCOMPLISHED
by any other musical organization in
this or any other country
llHne band makes a jump in a special
80 over tho Pennsylvania railroad
q 1000 miles TO St Louis from New
York, and after playing a six weeks
engagement at the st. Louis exposi-
ton will make an S00-mile jump to
Dallas, where it is engaged for the
Texas State fair. from Dallas the
band will tour en- route TO the Atlanta
exposition, where it is the principal
musical notwithstanding Houston
New Orleans, Montgomery, Birming-
ham, Memphis, Nashville, Evansville.
Louisville, Cincinnati, Lexington and
Knoxville.
After q six weeks engagement at
Atlanta the band viii tour northward
through Washington, Baltimore, Phila-
delPhia and New York and viii start
5ahJnediately for the northwest. Among
the larger cities that will be visited
on the coast tour will be Denver. Salt
Lake, Los Angeles. San Francisco
Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria
Tacoma, Spokane, Helena, Butte. Then
the tour viii take in the principal cities
from MINI eapolis to Chicago and Pitts
burg to New York
Sousa viii be present at the prOduc-
ton of his opera in both New York and
Boston and viii tour with the band
through New England and the Ca
madam provinces. reaching New York
in time to pen the season Of 1896 at
Manhattan Beach on June Is.
The most delicate piece of mechan-
ism NUS have its motive force and
its minor parts all adjusted TO its pur-
pose. The watch can have hut one
handspring, one lever. one balance
beel--though its smaller parts may
oHtnumber its main pieces. And thus,
while d given musical instrument alone
IN maSterful hands may be d source Of
- leasure, in an orchestra ii must be
N3rfOrmed upon with reference to the
other musical values that make up a
symphonic whole. All the groups-the
strings, the wood wind, the brass wind,
the percussives-must be so graduated
that melody results.
As it is in mechanics, in music, and
in fact in ali matters of assembled
forces and effort, so it is as pronounce
eddy in the play \ company of actors,
TO give the most artistic results. must
be graded il Intelligence, in personal
ny ana III force, IN order that the story
they enact may have verisimilitude.
Boucicault once remarked Of a pre-
sentation of one of his plays il Lon
don by company picked from several
notable organizations, that it would
have been far more satisfactory had
the cast beer made up wholly from
any one Of the companies whose more
prominent members were assembled
for the event And this has been true
OF other occasional presentation that
have employed "all-star'' casts. Casual
curiosity may be satisfied in the pre-
sentation of a play by actors each of
whom is a prominent figure alone, but
art has never yet served by such an
assembling. Perhaps the most remark
able effort Of this kind in stage annals
was the reduction at the Metropolitan
opera house. New York, of "HamIet''
sn May, 1883. for the benefit OF. Lester
Wallack In this. Edwin Booth was
the lHamlet; Lawrence Barrett. the
Ghost; Frank Mayo, the King: John
Gilbert. the Polonius; Joseph Jefferson.
.he First Grave Digger; w. j. Florence.
the Second Grave Digger: Rose Cough
Ian, the Player Queen; and Modjeska.
the Ophelia, while the other parts were
taken by celebrated players, all even
in the crowd Of supernumerary figures
were seen actors and actresses of stel-
lar note. As an unprecedented group
ing Of great players this event was a
success; but as a performance of
t.fiamlet'' it was SADLY OUT of artistic