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

Harry Emery and Katie Putnam are
bending their steps this way again
The demand for Paderewski seats in
San Francisco exceeded that ever wit
i messed for a Patti event.
Jesse Bartlett Davis, who was report
ed critically i'll last week, is very much
better and has rejoined the Bostonians.
Odette Tyler has resigned from 1.-THE
Gay Parisians" and viii spend the rest
of the season on a plantation writing
novel.
The Tabernacle choir is receiving a
great many applications from people
who wish to take the California tour
under it's wing.
| Prof Krouse will render at the
Grand this week a new march written
by Mark S. Clayson in his honor, called
! Young America
The many friends of Madame Mod
jeska, an admirable woman and g
charming actress, will read with pleas
ure in the Mirror this week that she
is recovering from her serious illness
( in Cincinnati.
j. NJ. Barrie's new play. which Il. S.
Willard was to have produced at the
Garrick theatre London), will be done
Ut oOlAAC OL4lCL 44OQSCs 4dls w illcJlQ
clined the piece owing to the central
figure in it being a woman.
W. A Brady will produce next sea-
son a spectacular comedy drama, en-
titled "a Bowery Boy" Charles 3.
Ward. composer of 1.-The Band Played
On" and a well known Bowery ditty
writer, will be featured in the cast
Miss Kate Romney, Mrs. Julia Tay-
lor, d. r. Lyon and John James have
charge of the arrangements for con,
cert to be given in the Twentieth ward
meeting house on the night of the 25th.
Such a committee guarantees a good
entertainment.
"The Last Stroke "a new play by 1.
N. Morris, will be produced by Jacob
Lift in St Paul on February g. The
cast will include Frederick de Belle
vile, John T. Sullivan, Joseph T. Kill
gour, Samuel Edwards, Edgar Forest,
Walter B. WoodaIl, Otis Turner Ada
Lowell. r. A. Roberts Will stage the
play.
Patti recently declared to a jour
nalist that she had been offered a mil
lion francs for another farewell tour
in America, embracing forty concerts
but she refused. She intends to spend
six weeks in Nice, singing during that
time at four representations at Mon
tie Carlo, and in the spring she returns
to Craig-y-nos, in Wales, for the good
fishing in the neighborhood, of which
she is passionately fond.
Wilton Lacl1aye has refused all the
advances made by A. NJ. Palmer to
star him next season in "Trilby" or in
some other play under Mr. Palmer's
direction. Lackaye is now consider
ing which Of three new plays he Will
use as a star next season. The an
nouncement Of who will handle his
business interests next season will be
made shortly. Meanwhile his tour,
which will begin in the autumn, has
been booked solid by w A. Mcconnell
in only the principal cities.
In the great church scene of the
third act of 1.-THE Heart of Maryland
Maurice Barrymore is compelled to
stand tightly bound while MRS. Leslie
Carter and John e. Kellerd indulge in
q catch-as-cateh-can wrestling match
This is q humiliating position for a,
leading man, and particularly for
one who was the amateur boxing
champion of England, and who was
once wounded in defense of a woman.
mo" said Barrymore, apologeticaily.
the other day, I'm not an actor i'm that
scene. I'm merely Exhibit A.
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