Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-24

an act from one Of the popular grand
operas.
| Lobby Talk.
| Frederick Warde has started on n
tour of the Northwest.
Massenet's sapho is n great triumph
In Paris. Calve sings and acts the
role superbly.
Manager Pitou has received dn offer
to produce Cumberland 81 in London
next spring.
Marie Jensen and Frank Tannehlll
Jr are meeting with much success In
the laughing comedy. The Nancy
Hanks.
1t is practically settled that Maud
Adams will continue to play in The
Little Minister until the end of next
season.
Richard Mansfield will shortly pro-
duce The First Violin. and a dramati-
cation of Robert Louis Stevenson's late
story, st. Ives.
John Drew will put One Summers
Day into rehearsal as soon as his road
tour begins, The play will be brought
out at Wallack's in the spring.
Olga Nethersole contemplates the
production of a new dramatization of
Rudyard Kipling's The Light That
Failed, in which she will appear as
Bessie.
Nine. Rejane has accepted an invi-
/, tation from the Emperor William to
appear at the Royal Theater in Berlin.
Nine. Sans Gene will then be acted in
French.
Mary Anderson has been offered huge
terms te2OO u week. by a London syn
dictate to return to the stage in n sing
Ing part, but has again definitely and
resolutely refused.
Gertrude Tappan, clever singer and
Sousas new opera. "The Bride Elect"
has been taken to the insane pavilion
of the Bellevue Hospital, New York.
Mrs. President Mckinley has given
special permission to John Phillip
Sousa to dedicate to her his new COM
position just finished, and which will
be called The Lady of the White
House.
John Drew's engagement at the En-
pire Theater viii terminate early In
January. He will make n tour OF the
larger cities, returning to New York
early in the spring to appear at VAL
lacks Theater
Julia Marlowe will appear at the
Knlckerbocker Theater, New York, be-
ginning January 3rd. for an extended
engagement. Miss Marlowe will devote
her first week to REVEALS OF her former
successes, and will then produce a new
play.
Nine. Sembrich has abandoned the
Idea of visiting the Pacific Coast this
season. and VIII remain in New York
until after the holidays, when she will
visit boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
on concert tour. on January LIST she
viii sing with Theodore Thomas or
| chestra.
THE Last of His Tribe" new
| melo-drnma by olive Gates and Jerome
IL. Eddy is to be given an elaborate
production in New York next fall. II
| promises to be q novelty. There is q
sensational scene in the play that is
described as hair raiser"
De Koven and Smiths new opera,
| The Highwayman, which was given at
the Broadway Theater, New York. last
Monday. has hit the town hard. What
| Is quite remarkable, there Is not n
single dissenting voice among the crit
les; and 1t is generally spoken OF as
on par with, II not better than, Robin
Hood. Hilda Clark's work is highly
commended.
on the 3rd of this month Rosslni',
|
| performance at the Vienna Opera
having required sixty-seven years Il
| reach that number Only six opera,
have so far surpassed 1t at the sam,
| house-"Don Juan" with $40 perform
anees; Les Huguenots." with 454
| 'Freischutz, '4Sl; Barber of Seville
45i; Robert the Devil" Az; "Magi,
| Flute il3 These are all older works
| During the last twenty-five YEAR
"Lohengrin' has headed the list, fol
lowed by Gounod's "Faust,"
That the drama is an educator Is
shown in many ways related to actua
educational methods. The universe
ties have amateur theatrical societies
that deaItwith classic plays ambitious
Is, and dramatic literature holds q
proud place in every notable curricu.
lum. one of the most suggestive of the
things that show the place the theatel
has In modern text books is the recen,
hiring of the Lyceun theater. London
where Hamlet is being represented. bS
the authrites of the Day Training Col,
lege. Mooriields in order that 2.O0t
students might during an evening
study that play.
The New Margaret theater 10 IN
name given the magnificent play hous
which Marcus Daily, the multi-miilion
aire OF Montana, has erected in the cit,
OF Anaconda, that state II cost near
~ Sl,OOD.OpO, ana Is said TO be the fines
constructed and appointed theater II
the United States, 1t was erected b,
Mr.. DAILY at the solicitation of his wife
for whom il was named The Margaret
II was dedicated last week by the fa
vorite comedian, DiGby Bell. and hi
company, presenting his latest success,
THE Aoosier Doctor" the new coined
Augustus Thomas, After the perform
ance a pretty scene WIS enacted upo
the stage by the christening OF IN
theater formally and tho presentatlo
OF the deeds Of the property and edl
flee by Marcus DAILY to his wife as a
anniversary gift.