The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02

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edy to be done at the Grand this week.
The story reads as though it might be
convulsingly funny, and with Edeson
as the life insurance man Ga part which
he created) with Miss Warren as the
fearful statue brought down to date,
/ and with Miss Cook in one of her prize
shrewish parts, the cast ought to be
/ an excellent one. The new soubrette,
Miss Henry, viii make her first appear
ance.
The story on which ''Niobe'' is found
ed is as follows: A statue of Niobe
! belonging to an art enthusiast, Tomp-
kins, and which he believes to be the
veritable petrifaction of the one time
wife Of Amphion and queen of Thebes.
/ is insured by him in a company of
which the president is one Peter Amos
/ Dunn, who for better safe keeping re
moves the marble goddess to his home
Electric lights have just been put in
the house and the wires crossing the
feet of the statue, the current brings
Niobe to life, much to the establishment
of Peter Amos. His family are at the
theatre and he is at a loss to explain
/ the presence of this beautiful creature
on their return. But he remembers that
q. Governess who has sent her trunks
( in advance is expected in day or
two, and he hits upon the idea Of dress
ing up Niobe as the governess and in
( PRODUCING her as such. Here the COM
plicationS begin. Niobe, who is all
tears, breaks down and weeps on the
breast of Peter Amos, whom she in
slsts on calling Petramos on the slight
est DroVocation, and the discovery of
her in this attitude awakens the jeal-
ouSy of his wife, who is egged on by
her tart elder sister Helen Griffin, who
is in reality the head of the household.
Much is made of the humor to be
drawn from the contrast of the man
nerS and customs of 5000 years ago
and those of the present time. Every
effort of Petramos to get himself out
OF the original prevarication puts him
deeper in the mire, but after a series
( OF varied complications he tells the
truth at last and the art enthusiast is
glad to take back the living Niobe in
place of the statue
Ada Dwyer Russell surprised her
friends in Salt Lake by dropping down
on them from New York on Thursday
morning, and then surprised them again
by setting out for the metropolis Friday
evening. The reasons for her 6jgfhtnir1e
changes of locality are that she had NOT
been in New York a week before she
received three good offers to join prom
lnent companies-one of them by the
way came from Ned Royle. who wanted
her for his new comedy Zone pi1,s
One Equals Three" With hundreds of
professionals walking the streets. Mrs
russell rightly says that she was more
imam fortunate. The best of the
three offers came from the redoubt-
aole Jacob Lift. the millionaire
PROPRIETOR of I'm Old Kentucky" and
The War Of Wealth. who wanted
Mrs. Russell to create the part of a
Spanish woman in a new play based
on the Cuban troubles. called THE
Last Stroke, which will be first tried
I'M st. Paul on the 23d The offer
made by Lift was so particularly
tempting. and times are so especially
hard, that Mrs. Russell after confer
ring with her husband. made I'D her
mind TO accept: but a veto was Inter
posed from an unexpected quarter.
Little Lorna who was a veritable phe-
momentum in Salt Lake, refused to be left
IN New York: not a nurse could be
found in the whole metropolis whom
she would allow within a rod of her
AS rehearsals wait for no man. Wo-
man or child either Mrs Russell
made I'D her mind. after two weeks
despairing efforts-during which Lorna
depopulated several fashionable flats
that the only course was to bring hen,
back to her grandparents and her
cOntraltO aunties. and to entrust her
to their hands for the winter. The
child had no sooner entered the front
door of the Salt Lake home than she
commenced the Little Eva act and
has been simply angelic ever since. So
she remains here while her mother.
tore herself away and hied back to
New York. The scene of the parting,
it may be imagined was not "a pleasant
one to look upon. Mrs. Russell saws
Hal asks to be remembered to all
Salt Lake friends, and that he is i'm
mensely suited in his role in the great
production of Sans Gene
1t had been the intention of the
Lyceum people to put on My Partner
for the coming week but when they
found the owners CBartley CampbeHs /
estate) wanted a royalty of a hundred
dollars, the management decided on
doing THE Fringe of Society in
stead. The cast will be as follows:
Oliver Ormonde Edmund Hayes
Captain John Hartley. Wallace Munro |
Cavendish Conway. NJ. P.
Observation-Disclosures Harry Corson Clarke |
Earl of Huntingford. John J. Williams |
John Ca servant. Leon Henry
Mrs. Ogden Darcy. Charlotte Titteil |
Mrs. Georgiana Henderson. .......
.-.-..---.-. Emily Lytton
Violet Durward ........ Ethel Ferguson
Natalie "a servant). Nellie Drury
Rumor has it that Wallace Munro.
who has been doing Juveniles and
heavies at the Lyceum. has received
his two weeks notice and that his
place win be filled by Dewitt lem
nings. who has found new favor with
the MANAGEMENT since his good work
in THE Matrimonial Maze
Following is the programme for the
concert to be given at the post amuse-
ment hall by the Sixteenth infantry
band at $50 p. m. today:
Star Spangled Banner"
Overture. "Madchen An Der Spule."
from mariana" Cby re-
queSD Observation-Disclosures. Wallace
Religious Fantasie. Gospel Hymns
...'........ ................. Robinson
ORCHESTRAL.
Serenade. La Belle Espagnola."
------..---..--....-.. Tobani !
Medley. Memories of the Ball"