The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-12
acquisition to our already strong nu

acquisition TO our already strong rlu-
steal forces.
In the Twentieth ward assembly
rooms on Tuesday evening a farewell
complimentary entertainment Will be
rendered two weN-known Salt Lakers
who are about to leave to fill missions,
John f. Sharp ard Fred Brain. MT
Sharp IS the young gentleman whose
fine baritone voice has attracted q
good deal of attention. and before ne
returns ne will take course of study
under an eastern teacher. Tuesday s
programme is a strong one, including
a selection by an Orpheus quartette, q
song by Miss Savage. a reading by Mr..
Spencer, a solo by Mr.. Goddard, q
piano solo by the young musician Of
whom so much has been said. Arthur
Shepherd, an organ solo by Prof.
Daynes, sundry remarks. etc. Adrnls-
sion viii be free.
Ho for Paris,
This viii be the rallying cry with
which Director SteDhens will call his
singers, Old and new, about him this
fall The Nashville exposition idea is
abandoned, owing to a lack of funds,
and lack of management from the
exposition nanag ement but Mr.. Steph-
ems says his aim now is to take q
picked chorus to the World exposition
in Paris in 1900 He is full of enthusi-
assn and confidence over the idea, big
as it is, and to the end that he can get
his chorus in TRIM. he viii at once be
Sin thorough work of reorganization,
wedding out and adding to. Dead and
useless members of the body harmonic
n7ill be looDed off; old members .(ef-
| ficienf ones) who have dropped away
from the choir Will be urged to return
The best new voices TO be found in the
nf rtr Y
out and included in the choir member
ship. Work is to commence at once.
and Mr.. Stephens has called his sing
ers together for preliminary work to-
morrow night.
Yellowstone air evidently agrees with
the professor. Success to his nerve.
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A number Of dramatically inclined
young people met at the studio of Miss
Ruth Eldredge, over Daynes & Coal
ter'6 music store. last Wednesday even
ing for the purpose of organizing a
dramatic association. They have form
ulated a constitution and bylaws and
will be hereafter known as the Salt
Lake Amateur Dramatic association
| They Ihaye already started a small
| literary library and design to study the
drama and higher English literature
| The society has employed Miss Ruth
E,ldredge to direct their stage work
| and VIII give public performances from
! time to time to help defray their eX-
penses.
The names of the members are as
follows: Misses Annie Calder. Ethel B
Ferguson. Alice Calder, Ella Erney and
! Leonda Pratt, Messrs. G. w. Meakin, j
| Y. Young, Bruce Rogers, Theodore
Mack, Alfred Swe4son and Andrew
Mack.
Their first study will be the beautiful
play, Harvest" doubtless remem-
| bered by the patrons of the Grand with
; great pleasure. It was performed there
about two seasons ago, with Will Inger.
sol in the cast.
London, Sept. 1.-THE theatrical sea
son has fairly bloomed and the frs
nighters are overwhelmed with a sur
felt of farce comedy and melodrama
! One of the annual feats of the Londor
! theatrical year is the Adelphi melo-
drama, to which thousands of theatre
| goers look forward to as the milestone
of the season. 1t was inaugurated or
| Thursday night. Its greatly discussed
| play is interviewer with the battle o.
Waterloo, which its authors, Haddor
Chambers and Comyns Carr, at the
| last moment christened with the catchy
title, 'In the Days of the Duke Il
is a romantic melodrama of the more
refined sort. in which there are a mum.
! Der of important but intense situations
The heavy act of the play, on which
great anticipations had been built, /.
an elaborate presentation of the bal
! in Brussels on the eve of the battle
handed down to fame by Byron ant
Thackeray. No more dramatic episode
of history for stage depletion could