The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20
SALT LAKE HERALD SUNDAY. sEPTEMBER 20 1896.

the gentleman made another success.
Even ALI Hayman, his personal rep
resentative, found it impossible to I'M
lock the Frohman bosom and rifle it
of this important secret Harry Rock
wood, who is Frohman's financial man.
said the royalties on the piece-and
large royalties, too. by the way, $500
to 81 coo a Week-were paid regularly,
but to whom he did not know; the col
lector was an utter stranger to him.
who brought an order for the money
from Mr.. Frohman each week. No
body in or around the F'rohman offices
knew anything about the man.
The Madame Sans Gene" company
closed a. very prosperous three weeks
season in San Francisco last night. 1t
will be seen here week after next.
Aside from Napoleon, the chief figure
is Catherine Hubseher, the laundry
girl who married Lefebre and shared
with him his honors when he became
marshal of France and Duke of Dant-
zig. The scene of the prologue is in
GATHERINGS laundry in Paris during
the French revolution. The street with
out is filed with Skurrying soldiers and
revolutionists. Catherine is engaged to
Le6ebre, who is a sergeant in the army
and one of her customers is Napo.eon,
who is obliged to ask Catherine for
credit Nineteen years elapse between
the first and second acts, and
Napoleon is then at the height
of his power His sisters be-
come angry at Madame Lefebre, and
the emperor orders ner husband to di-
vorce her. She pleads her own cause
so we'll that she secures a high place
in Napoleon's favor. Kathryn Kidder
essays the part of Catherine Hubscher,
Harold Russell is the marshal, and
Augustus Cook is the Napoleon. The
cast and the stage settings are the
same as in the original production.
=
The town is being thoroughly billed
with Lost Paradise" printing, and
Mana ger Rogers looks for an suspicious
opening for his season a week from
tomorrow night. He was somewhat
asitonshed on Friday to receive a let
ter from a Chicago party warning him
that he must not produce 1.-The Lost
Paradise without the payment of roy
atty; inasmucdl as MIR. Rogers at that
moment had in his pocket a, letter from
the owners of the play informing him
that it had been sent by express, and
that the charges for one weeks roy
atty would be 1885, he hardly knew
what to make Of the warning" Need
less to say, the rehearsals will not be
stopped on its account. There will be
several changes in the personnel of
the company, but none of the main
players will be affected.
Walter Edwards leading man, has
arrived from Denver, feeling in excel
lent health after his successful season
there.
The Lyceum theater has put in a bid
for the combination business, and dur
ing the coming season many road COM
panies of a superior grade will be seen
there at popular prices. The regular
season will open October 5, when Bris-
tots Educated Horses will appear for
one week. This is said to be the best
troupe of performing animals on the
road and the only one which has ap
peared in the first-class theaterS
throughout tine country. They filed a
two weeks engagement at the Column
bia theater, San Francisco, last season,
and played at the Marquam Grand at
Portland, and the Oakland theater,
Oakland. Other attractions booked for
the near future are Schilling's min
strels. Isl Perkins" the Corinne EX-
travaganza company. julie Waters in
side Tracked" and the Logan and
Hamilton company.
New York is full of unemployed act
ors, and how half of them are going to
get through the winter is a puzzle.
says a New York paper. The other
day [ had a. talk with Bob Stevens,
who is now in the agency of Colonel
Allston Brown. Said he: There are
far TOO many people in the profession.
Where they come from or how they
get in it is a mystery. There will not
be half the companies ON the road this