The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-03


men and women have fallen in love
with One who could play the role
best Of all is Mrs. Potter. She has not
only the graceful figure, but she has
that bohemienne nature refined and
toned down by her social experience
and there is a. Fascinating insouciance
of manner about her which is dis
tinctly her own. But Mrs. Potter is
starring at the head Of her own COM
pany now and would not consider 1t
an honor to undertake ETrilby' unless
the remuneration offered was very
high Mr.. Palmer must have some
body who will bring out in the acting
what was so distinctly charming in
the book, or the play must be a fail
ure and perhaps kill the popularity of
1.-THE book.
Ut was sad news that Mr.. John W.
Norton, the Wel-rklOWn manager of the
Grand opera house, st. Louis, has been
fatally injured in a railway wreck near
indianapolis. Mr.. Norton's career in
the Theatrical world is an interesting
one. He was born in New York City in
1843. He entered The dramatic profess
sion at an early age, but the first inn
portant role he ever played was Oc-
taVius in the cast which included
Booth, Barrett, Davenport, and Frank
Bangs. when Booth put on Julius
Caesar in New York in 1871. He also
came west. in 1873 as Lawrence Bar
s+ett's leading man, and played with him
in a tour Through the south. Mr.. Nor
ton was the first manager to recognize
the budding genius of Mary Anderson,
and in 1876 she made her debut ON the
professional stage under his auspices.
His kindlieSt TecOAectiOnS have always
Been of her, his famous protege and
cyfr1 Trrll. ,f
bridge Wells, England. By a strange
coincidence, with the news of Mr.. Nor
TONS accident, came a telegram an
nouncing the serious indisposition of
Mary Anderson, at Brighton, England.
Stage Gossip.
In spite Of Oscar Wilde'S uncon-
scious humor as a writer of moral cpl
grams, his Ideal Husband" is a sig
nal failure.
London has eighty music halls, the
largest seating 5000 people, and nearly
all are very profitable to their owners.
"Alrs Well That Ends Well" has
been recently produced in London by
the Irving Dramatic club. This play
had not been performed in London
the stage of Sadler's Wells.
The part of "Taffy'' in Palmer's pro-
duction of ''Trilby'' will be sustained
by Burr Mcintosh.
'.Charleys Aunt is being played
eight times a week, and is in its third
year.
One Of Mr.. Days fixed immovable
laws is that no husband and wife
shall appear together in play.
The Carl Rosa Opera company will
make a special feature Of Sir Arthur
Sullivan's Tvanhoe" this season.
Weber, who died seventy years ago,
received only $4,000 for five of his
operas. For ''Freischutz" he received
less than $4,000, although it is one of
the most popular and profitable operas
ever written. This is a mere bagatelle
that Strauss, Sullivan or Mascagni
would refuse in scorn for one of their
smallest works.
Augustin DAILY will present the 1.-TWO
Gentlemen of Verona in New York
this season. It has only been played
once DeLOte III America ana IHdC was
when ATodjeska produced it in Boston.
a writer INDUCES in the following
comments concerning Calves perfor-
nance of "CavalIeria Rusticana" in
Paris the other day: 1.-The Calve Mas
cagne passion thunderbolt crashed
down and Tapped the stage dry of its
predecessors, rifting the audience on
its way. 1t was like a Ouida novel
after a Munro or Saturday Weekly
story. like a midsummer tempest after
spring sunshine, like real passion after
simple Irritation There's action, mo-
ton. concentration, intensity! The
whole thing is over and done with be-
fore you know it's begun, just like a
cyclone or WhirlWind.'
The "Emuire of India Exhibition is
another creation of the fertile brain
of Imre L,iralfy, author of Venice in
London" Nero and other stipend
Gus productions which have been Won
ders of beauty and stage craft, AT