Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-13

Gates.
Footiight Flashes.
Anthony Hope is giving a series of
readings in New York
Anna Held has left La Poupee and
will shortly appear at Roster q
Balls.
Joseph jefferson donated an original
painting to the Brooklyn institute
last week
Jessie Bartlett Davis declares that
this is positively her last season with
the Bostonans.
The Liars, the latest Henry Arthur
Jones success, has been secured by
Charles Frohman.
George Backus is at work on
three act comedy, in which he may
star next season.
Frances Aymer Mathews is the au-
thor of Fanny Davenports new play,
Soldier of France.
La Poupee, Audrpns opera and Anna
Held were the last enterprises of Ham
merstein They must have failed to
draw.
Charles Frohman will have a thea
ter in Chicago next season, where he
viii make new productions with Il
stock company.
In 1910 Richard Wagner wrote a
poem entitled, The Return of Bone
parte, to which music has just been
composed by Kienzl.
Some one has written play and
called 1t Evangellna Cisneros, The
new piece was produced at the Peoples
theater in New York Nov. l.
Margaret Mather contemplates re-
viving MISS made famous by the
late Annie Pix]sy. This will be an en-
tirely new line of work for Miss
Mather.
William Gillette has just finished an
adaptation Of a French farce. Hi
trip to London has been abandoned,
and an English company will give Too
Much Johnson.
Daniel Hart, the once famous min
strel, at one time one of the highest
salared and best known actors in his
line, is at the City Hospital in St
Louis broken in heath and penniless.
Sir Henry Irving has had chair of
instruction in dramatic training en-
dowed in his honor in the School of
Expression, Boston, at which Sir
Henry and Ellen Terry once read Sc
lections Of Hamlet.
Fanny Davenport denies most en-
phatically that she will revive any of
the Sardou plays this season. Miss
Davenport pins her faith to Soldier
of France, and will appear in that
piece exclusively this season.
De Wolf Hopper will appear next
spring at the Knickerbocker Theater
in The Charlatan, of which Mr.. Sousa
wrote the music and Charles Klein
the libretto. In this operetta Mr.. Hop
per will play the part of a magician
Maud Adams will be transferred to
the Garrlck theater in New York to
make way for John Drew in The Mar
rage of Convenience, Miss Adams
success in Barrie's play seems to have
been entirely unexpected by the man
agement and even herself.
Wright Huntington played William
Gllette's role in Too Much johnson,
with a stock company at the Alcasar
theater. in San Francisco, and made
quite an impression Mr. Huntington's
performance was favorably compared
with Mr.. Gillette's impersonation.
1t appears that the great divers
scene in the new Drury Lane melo-
drama, The White Heather, is not
altogether original after all, some
thing OF llt Hhlilt hlllh Ai'A' t'N-N''
done in Paris as long ago rs 1876 IN
sensational play by Jules Verne.
In Henry Arthur Jones' latest play;
The Liars, Charles Wyndham is SAID
to have the longest single speech In
any modern play II is said to con
tain over nine hundred words, a
similar objection has been made TO
MIR. Jones' latest work in ITS entirety
The Frawley company left for Homo
min on Nov. 9 for a five weeks en-
gagement. This organization appeared
in the Hawaii islands last year with re-
n1erltoble success. Mr., Frawley claims
10 have received very hattering oher
and has accepted. The company WIN
play during the holidays IN san FRAN
cisco.
In the London performance OF The
Little Minister, the pllhGlpui MAJ
| character will he PLAYED y w IN ~
| Naude while Winnifrcd Emery VIII pc
NJ ady Rahbie The part of the
~. w cider Thomas Whamond, has
| 1oor nssipned to Brandon Thomas'
| rha small mart OF Il servant VIII pc
,oEen nv n daughter Of Sir Alexander
| WcJ5enzie. who has composed the IN
| cidental music for the play
robr philip sousa's opera, The
pride Elect. will be produced IN bos-
, Tan in January. Both the lpretlo
and the music Of this new Wurk uie
s snu .pe own emanation, Few know
, IUus' nearly ali the lyrics of FL Capt.
that hea' is.,.ittan by it's composer, in
tan VT me famous Typical Tune of
Zanzibar, which was written Years years
before the opera Two weeks Ms P Sannd
III Captain was produced II we1 rn r"J the
| nacessarv to have new song lor me
n,trd az and sousa bethought him
Of his old Jingle
q NJ Harris. Violin Virtuoso' grad
-, W. ~ star Conservatory, Berlin.
nndar tutorshlp Of the world ren9whe z,
| utlu ,,oi with. also course under .