The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-04

ture son-in-law is founding. Miss
Cotton is willing to accept Dick at his
| face value. but the mother is obdur-
ate, and insists on his producing
mother before marrying her girl. Dick
and the major start out on a search
for the formers mother Both of them
become involved with the music-hall
girl, tricky little Maybud, and Miss
Cotton confronts them as the artist is
doing some high kicking for their edi
fication. The search for Dicks mother
ends satisfactorily, and he proves to
be the baronet's son after all, and wins
his bride and is happy Manager
Charles Frohman has provided a cap
ital company for this funny play.
bringing here the same players that
appeared during the New York run.
notably Thomas Burns, AdolDh jack
son, Jacques Martin, Frank Baton.
Z. Soloene Powell, Walter Smith, J.
w. Ferguson, Stella Zanoni, Meta
Maynard, Clara Baker Rust, Ella
Mayer, Nellie Martineau and others,
AS a curtain raiser, "Chums, one
act farce, will precede THE Found
ling"
President Joseph F. Smith and wife
and Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Spence have
just returned from a trip to New York
where they passed a pleasant business
anu III LIlSHt- LII COIlNcISdtlOu
with MIR. Spence yesterday. he gave
an interesting account of an informal
musicale participated in by Utah peo-
pie, which occurred at the residence
of Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillett on Thirty
sixth street, on the evening of March
25. Mrs. Gillett, hearing of the presence
in New York of Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
and Mr.. and Mrs. Spence, sent out
word to such Salt Lake people as she
Onf11d nd Y-,-a %
ering at her home on the evening
named. Those present were President
Joseph F. Smith and wife, Miss Do
nette Smith. Leah Dunford, George d.
Piper, A. E. Kesier, president of the
eastern mission, D. j. Watts, w. c.
Spence and wife. Dewitt Jennings,
Daniel Dull and Mr.. H. S. Krouse and
wife.
A delightful musical programme was
rendered as follows:
Down by the River" ....
............M Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillett
Der Wanderer" Observation-Disclosures.
............M Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillett
Last Night" Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillett
Lullaby from the Storm King.
.. Mrs. Viola Pratt Gillett
Duet, "Oh, That We Too Were
Maying. Mrs. Gillett and Mr.. Piper
Piano selection. ...... Mr.. H. S. Krouse
Recitations, THE Negro Funeral
and "Old Abe" ................
Mr.. Dewitt Jennings |
Duet, Mona" Observation-Disclosures.
1900. Mrs. Gillett and Mr.. Piper |
'Hosannah" ..............,.. Mr.. Piper |
Mr.. Spence says the house where the |
affair took place is a large mansion |
filled with other occupants who as
sembled in a crowd at the foot of the /
stairs, and expressed the utmost aston |
ishment that such an aggregation of
talent hailed from benighted Utah. He
further says that Mr.. Krouse is build
ing UP a large class on the piano in
New York, that Mrs. Gillett devotes
her time to singing in churches with
occasional concert engagements, and
that Mr. Pyper sings as well as ever
That gentleman was about to leave
for Nashville to take charge of the
Utah exhibit at the worlds fair. when
Mr.. Spence left New York.
@ @ g
T. D. Frawley is in Paris and he
sends the following letter from that
gay center to the San Francisco Music
and Drama:
II arrived here Sunday night and am
simply carried away with Paris Spent
the afternoon yesterday in a drive
through the Bots de Boulogne. There
is no use in talking-the Partisan wom-
IN simply look like beautiful flowers
Their gowns are so dainty, their hats
so pretty, and they wear them so well.
Purple seems to be the prevailing fash
onable color for wraps, and the ac-
eordeon-p plated skirt has been decreed
The fashion here for spring. The Par
sian style of hair dress is pretty. They