The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-16

| OF the three plays Her advocate - Tom
my Atkins and The Fool of the
Family" produced under the former man
agement, only the first was partial sue
cess, while the latter was withdrawn
after a brief run of three nights. Mr.
Sedger will shortly revive THE Gay
Parisienne" and is now engaged in find
ing a company for the piece.
The new comedy by Robert Buchanan
and Charles Marlowe, authors OF The
Strange Adventures Of Miss Brown" IS
where it will shortly be produced. The
play is called ''The Romance of the
Sleep Walker" and the cast includes
Weldon Grossmith, May Palfrey, NJ A.
David James. In the new comedy Mr..
Grossmith is to play the part of vul-
gar little SnOb, who is unexpectedly
brought into contact with certain memb- rs
of the upper class and who falls in
love with a titled lady. The scene OF the
first act is laid in a florists shop, which
conveniently provides rendezvous Tor adj
sorts and conditions of men and women.
After the termination of the run OF
The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown
last Saturday night, the Ferry theatre
was closed until Friday evening, and Mr..
Kerr and his company were buSlly en-
gagged in rehearsing "Jedbury Jr.," which
was then produced successfully ana
which promises to have long run
The comedy Mrs. PonderbuTy's Past
which was withdrawn from the Avenue
room for the production of the New
Bar Maid" will next Monday night, Feb
ruarY II. be transferred to the Court
Mrs. John Wood will at this time be
added to the cast. After months OF delay
and frequent announcements, work mas
in the Haymarket. The plans include a
theatre, the same size as the Lyric, and
a hotel which combines the advantage
OF cafe and residential chambers.
11,- Of N1rrr- /
gagged in excavating for the new founda-
ton
Sir Arthur Sullivan has been appointed
conductor of the musical festival to be
held in Wales in June. This is the festi-
val which the late Sir Joseph Barnaby
would have conducted had not death,
unfortunately, interviewed.
A large dinner viii be given at the
Queens hall, buckingham, on the night
of Friday, February Is, by the colonel
and officers of the queens Westminster
Viscount Wolseley. The function viii be
an important one, as all officers interested
in the volunteer movement IN the Lon
don district are invited to the reception
which is to follow the dinner.
A great interest has been manifested in
the collection of relies at the Carlyle
mansion in Cheyenne row, that 1T will
be continued during the months Of Feb
f'iiary and possibly March. Many dona-
tons of relics have been received and
they will go to make up nucleus Tor a
permanent museum at the house
The cast of the new opera by Gilbert
and Sullivan at the Savoy theatre, in
cludes Rosina Prandram, Florence Perry
and William a. Owen and Rutland Bar
rington. Walter PassmoCe Kenntngham
and Scott Fischer. a special entertain
ment has been entered into with Nine.
Won Palmay, the VienneSe actress who
made her debut in England last summer
in Der Vogelhandler,' when that opera
was produced at Drury Lane.
1t is announced that Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnet is shortly to publish an
historical romance which deals with the
time OF Queen Anne and is entitled "A
Lady of Quality
The business at all the leading theatres
continues good. Wilson Barrett is doing
a phenomenal business with '@The Sign
of the Cross at the Lyric. 'Trflby''
continues to turn away money nightly
and 1.-The Prisoner of Zenda'' still draws
crowded houses. The same holds good of
the Adelphi, the Criterion, the Royalty,
the Shaftesbury with "a Woman's Rea-
son. and the comedy, 1.-THE Late Mr..
Castello'' are doing fairly well.