The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.

The theatre will open the fall season
Sept. d, when John Drew. assisted by
Isabel Irving and his own company,
presents Rosemary for The first time
in this city. The engagement will be
limited to three nights. and Dingley
tariff rates viii prevail on each. Price.
however. is no object where John Drew
is concerned.
Aaude Adams host of friends in this
city have been anxious to know when.
where and W what plays her season
opens. The answer is Sept. IS. in the
city of Washington, and as for the
plays. the following paragraph from an
eastern paper supplies the informa-
ton.
Charles Frohman has selected the two
PLAYS which viii serve Miss Maud Ad-
ans in her coming starring season. One
is J. NJ. Barrie'.s dramatic s ion of his
novel, The Little Minister" The play
is q comedy, all the tragic incidents in
the book having been eliminated. The
second play is a dramatization of An
thony Hopes "Phroso," made by Ed
ward Rose and H. Y. Esmond. The plot
and incidents of "Phroso." relating as
they do TIC the conflict between island
ers in the Grecian archipelago and their
Turkish masters. have contemporary
interest.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Russell leave
Salt Lake Tuesday for New York. to
begin work for the fall and winter sea
son. Mrs. Russell ada Dwyer) has long
been engaged for ''Puddinhead Wilson
by young Mayo, who viii essay the role
his lamented father made famous. Mrs.
Russell viii, of course. play the part of
Roxy, il which she made so strong a
success last year. The role is one which
Mr.. Mayo always intended she should
create, and its hts her admirably Mr..
Russell has not yet settled on what he
viii do; he has received several offers
from theatres where stock companies
will occupy the whole season. but ne
has deferred acceptance until he got
upon the ground and looked the field
over: his, preference lies in the direction
of a pars with a travelling company,
rather than with the trying work of a
stock organization, in which the bill
changes every Monday night. Still. he
realizes that the whole trend Of tseat-
ricals this year is towards the stock
system. and he may be found located
for the season in some old established
house in one Of the large cities. trying
his hand at anything from THE Dukes
Motto down to ''All the Comforts of
Home" Success and Auf Weidsrsehen.
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The work Of remodeling the New
Grand theatre as the Grand opera
House is hereafter to be known. is near
ing completion, and everything viii be
IN good shape for the opening night,
Aug. 80 The Faust Musical Comedy
company, which is billed for that date.
is at present filing q two weeks en-
gagement in Butte. Speaking of the
performance of the Faust company, the
Butte Miner of Aug. 10 says the per-
Torrance as a whole has never been
surpassed by any company in that city.
The London bell ringers and the Risley
acrobats ere spoken of as having COM
pletely captured the house.
Manager McGarvie is still in New
York City. completing his bookings. and
viii not return until the latter end Of the
month
Another Salt Lake song bird has
taken TO wings and sailed off TO new
climes. Yesterday mornings train bore
Miss Mabel Cooper to New York. where
she will remain for some time. studying
and cultivating the beautiful voice with
which nature has endowed her Miss
Cooper is best known to the public as
a leading member of the tabernacle
choir, and as the lady who played Ka-
tislla at the lake some time ago, and
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