The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-07

part in their performances, is six feet
four inches high and weighs 315
pounds.
The second is the Frenchman, APP
ollo, the graceful and daring wire
walker. He was specially engaged in
Europe by Mr.. Fulgora for this COM
pany and will be seen for the first
time in America.
Horace W. F. Benner, the descriptive
baritone; Namedo Bros. direct from
Winter Garden, Berlin, grotesque aero
bats; Sharp and Flat, manufacturers
of musical comedy. introducing their
latest novelty the Electric Concerto"
Ford and Francis, the sensational oper-
attic travesty duo; Tom Mack, the unc-
tious minstrel comedian and monolo-
gist, and Clayton and jenkins, in the
Jay Town Circus, make up the remain
der of the show.
Rhea produces her plays of Jose
phine" and Nell Gwynne' at the
theatre Wednesday and Thursday
evenings. The former was done here
several seasons ago when William
Harris made quite an impression by
giving a faithful picture of Napoleon;
who plays the Corsican conqueror this
season the advance announcements do
not show. OF Nell Gwynne," the new
dramatization of the life of Charles
Seconds noted favorite, a New York
report says: The dramatist has done
his work well, and no better person
could have been chosen than Rhea to
fmpersonate the famous actress, who
conquered kings and foiled the plans
of justices and courtiers. In the
dramatization, the story has been fol-
lowed closely. In the part of the Orange
Girl, who afterwards becomes the great
and powerful actress, Mile. Rhea has
but added TO the laurelS she has won on
former occasions. She makes the part
that of a lively innocent girl, whose
one desire is to become an actress
When, through the favor of the king
this wish is granted, Nell Gwynne,
becomes the favorite of the hour She
uses her power to defeat the schemes
of a lord chief justice and others in
the court, who wish to further theil
own ends through the down fall of
the kings. The consummate art of the
actress is shown in her scene with the
king in the first act, and in her i'm
personation of the lord chief justice
A shrug, turn of the hand, the lift
ing of an eyebrow, convey her mean.
ing better than words, and these. the
little things in acting, which Rhea
understands so well, give her the
position of one of the foremost actres.
ses of the day.
The Lyceum will present a triple bill
for the coming week. "A Strange Fam
ily' will be the first; then follows a
speciality bill. in which Miss Tayne,
the Russells'. Mr.. Post, Weiner, May
Ashley, Zetta Wallace and others will
appear; "the whole to conclude" as the
old play bills used to say, with the farce
of Casey. the Fiddler" Mr. Post, of
course, assuming the title role.
Ned Royle, author Of Friends and
Mexico has arrived in the city, and
with his wife, the well-known actress
Selma Fetter Royfe. is enjoying vaca-
ton with his parents in this city. Mr.
Royle practically lives on a wheel, and
in scorohing over city roads and
country lanes. tries TO forget that
there is any such place of torment as
the stage. In conversation with a
Herald representative yesterday, Mr..
+, Royle said the past season had been
one of ups and downs in the dramatic
fofession-nrincfpally downs. 1t was
probably the worst from money
standpoint that the country had known
for years, and he felt to congratulate