The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-26

I excused myself to my wife and went
out and hailed a cabman. l called him
'cochant' and gave him twenty francs,
explaining that as a stranger 1 had a
duty to perform in calling him Co
chant. He replied in good English
You can call me 'cochant all day long
at twenty francs a whack.'
Following is the programme for the
band concert at Fort Douglas at $50
2. m. today:
America
March, The Floral Ball" 49, Sherman
Overture, Martha" ......... Flotow
Selection fr. ''Lurline" .... Wallace
Waltz, The Silver Rhine" .Meissler
American Dance, '.. ..Bendix
Medley, THE Metropolis" $50. Dewitt
Hail Columbia
Always ready to cater to the pleas
ure of the public. Garfield Beach Of
fers today an entertainment consisting
OF gems from the "Mikado," popular
songs and an arrangement of pro-
gramme that will certainly give thor
ough enjoyment to all who may attend.
Miss Truax, Miss Howard, Miss Dean,
Mr.. Blakemore, Mr.. Richards, Mr..
Thomas, Mr.. Ashworth, and other
members of the Mikado Opera company
are down for their respective songs,
/ duets, and special features, making the
entertainment one that will be long re-
membered. There will be no charge
whatever and certainly Garfield is en-
titled to large attendance today.
LONDON, July 25.-An agreement
was signed on Thursday by which Mr..
(N1.a1 4Io rcS,.
of the royal opera at Covent Gar
den on a salary. At the back of Mr..
Grau is a committee of subscribers,
headed by Mr.. Earl de Grey and Harry
Higgins. Both of these gentlemen are
the real powers behind the throne as
they were even when Sir Augustus
Harris was alive and managing the
royal opera.
z. S Willard will open his Ameri-
can season in Boston on November 16.
Henry B. Irving has cancelled his
American engagement and will remain
in London. Mr.. Irving was led to this
step by the fact that the contract of his
bride Dorothea Baird, with Mr.. Tree,
has not vet terminated.
Mr. Tree is considering a proposition
made by Charles Frollman to make a
tour of the United States which will
extend from October to February.
May one NLduS fTduCiS IlOpSJ Ids
been remarkably successful from
financial point of view in her manage
memt of the Court theater.
Robert Hilliard, who is spending the
summer in London and Paris, has, for
the past week, been appearing in
one-act curtain raiser, entitled, 1.-The
Littlest Girl" at his house. Lord
Francis Hope, who is devoted to his
wife. is nightly to be seen attending
affairs in the front of the theater.
The correct attire for gentlemen at
fashionable garden parties consists of
the regulation long frock coat of dark
gray. The newest waistcoats are dTab
and cut double breasted. Gray gloves
are universally worn. but necktles
NAV be of any color consistent with
good taste.
It is probable the piece, or its inme-
date successor at the Haymarket,
under Cyril Maude's management, is
the new comedy on (which Conan
Doyle and James Payne have collao-
grated. DR. Doyle is now at his coun-
try place in Surrey. Two acts and the
prologue are already completed.
F. c. Bernaud and NJ. Lehman have
elaborated upon a new comic opera
in which George Grossmith will prob
ably appear uDon the termination OF
his extended provincial tour. The COM
poser Is Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
Most of the leading West End thea
ters are now closed, the st. James and
the Lyceum following suit tonight
The music halls are consequently
reaping the benefit and the principal
ones. notably the Empire and Alham-
bra, are doing a tremendous business