The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-14

part, Biddy Roman, will fall to Mar
garet Marshall. Anderson, the scene
painter, has made elaborate prepar-
atoms for the production. Monday and
Tuesday evenings receipts will be
shared with the kindergarten society,"
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The Lyceum has booked for next
Friday and Saturday nights the Eunice
Goodrich vaudeville company. The or
ganization includes, besides Miss Good
rich, who does the Loie Fuller serpen-
tine dancing, with some new effects,
Mr.. Charles McFadden, the plowboy
| whistler; Mr.. Edward B. Kelly. the
monologue idiot. and other attractive
acts. The latest Edison projecting ap-
paratus for the production of moving
pictures, the ''vivescope,' will be ex-
hibited at each performance, showing
pictures that have never been seen
/ here before. There is also a juvenile
! person of Politics Baby" who does
upto-date songs and dances.
A letter from Hon. Heber J. Grant
to the editor of this column gives an
interesting account of a dramatic per-
Torrance which he recently witnessed
| in far away Juarez, old Mexico. The
| fiourishing Mormon colony of pioneers
; there, almost isolated from the out
Z
mon pioneers did in falling back on
Shakespeare for its amusement. The
performance which Mr.. Grant saw was
a presentation of "Othello" under the
stage direction of Miles p. Romney,
formerly of st. George, who assumed
the part of the dusky Moor. Philip
Hurst of Fairview was the Iago: Jun
ius Romney, St. George, Cassie: George
a. Mcclellan, Payson, Roderigo; Will
lam A. Clayson, Payson, Brabantio;
Ernest V. Romney, st. George, Lodo-
vico; Alonzo Taylor. Levan, Montana;
E. A. Clayson, Payson. Duke of Ven
ice: j. H. Martineau, Logan, Gratiano;
Mrs. Emily E. Snow, st. George. Des-
demona; Miss Ann c. Romney St
George, Emilia. AS the older pioneers
used TO do, the actors rounded off the
tragedy with a farce, and "A Quiet
Family" was produced. with characters
by William A. Clayson, Sarah A. Clay
son, Samuel E. Mcclellan, Nelly Tur-
ley, Josephine Haws and Lily Burrell.
Mr. Grant says the renditions were sur
prisingly good considering the facilities,
and speaks higly of the enterprise of
Mr.. Romney in providing entertain
ment for the people. He also praises
the brass band of the place, led by
John J. Walser, formerly of Payson,
an uncle, by the way, of Prof, J. ]. Nc
Clellan.
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The Raymond excursionists who
passed through the city Thursday, sent
to the press a card expressing their
acknowledgement of the courtesy of
the first presidency in throwing open
the tabernacle, and their thanks to
Prof. Mcclellan for the rare treat he
afforded them in the brief organ re-
cital he gave for their benefit. The
programme performed by the professor
was as follows:
Selections from 'Lohengrin" Wagner
adapted for organ by the performer.)
CaVaieri2 Rusticana -.-.....- Mascogni
Spring Song -.-........... Mendelssohn
Andantes from Sonata Pathetique..
...................... Beethoven
"Oh. My Father" Observation-Disclosures.
Arranged by Mcclellan
Doxology.
Fanny Davenport and her husband
remained at the Knutsford quietly rest
ing till Monday last. They then went |
on to San Francisco, where they con- I
tinued to rest the remainder of the !
week. The San Francisco opening oc-
ours tomorrow night, and without |
doubt "Gismonda" Will score a great |
impression. During a conversation one
day Miss Davenport expressed herself /
as follows:
THE woman who keeps house on |
Monday and irons on Tuesday, sweeps !
on Friday, bakes on some other day, |
and bundles up the baby and goes Wis
iting the rest of the time has less !
actress. An actress days are all alike.
In the first place, each is only frac-
ton of a day, for she generally break
fastS when people are taking their
lunch. One hour of the day she must
devote to bathing and dressing, an
other hour to exercise of some kind,
for embonpoint is her bette noir. You
can't play leading roles if you weigh
200 and your waist line creeDS up I'M
der your arm pits. There are walking.
Delsarte antics, stupid pulleys and
a dozen other things,
equally tiresome-as a remedy but it is
only eternal vigilance that makes any
IF them effective, and going without
every blessed thing to eat and drink
hat you enjoy. There is her mail to
ook after-the same struggling aspir-
ants for histrionic fame who desire to
'ecite before her or to have her secure
1 position for them equally as good
as her own; from managers as OBJ
lurate and devoted to their own friends
Is political chiefs; the autograph fiend,
he photograph collector, who knows
ne could purchase her picture, but
would prize it so much more highly
S16 gave II 10 MIN, the dQN6TIlSSTS
# nostrums and lotions, soaps and hair
bleach. and effusions from that sort
# people who seem to have nothing
o do but open correspondence with
very noted individual. In fact, it is
llways. same daisies, same every
hing"
The New York papers of late have
lad a great deal to say about the
heatrical trust" referring to the COM
ination of the big theaters all over the
ountry, with Hayman and Frohman
t the head. The design is supposed
o be to book various attractions, and
o fix the terms on which they Will
e played by the theaters in the COM :
inc. The first to buck the combi-
alton has been no one less than Fran
is Wilson, who will now see what he
an do with theaters outside Of the
indicate. He would, we regret TO say,
are very poorly if he came west.
this and other current top .
IS, The Herald's New York dispatches ,
{ last evening say:
There was little else talked Of in
heatrical circles yesterday except the '
Iayman syndicate" break with Mr..
'rancis Wilson. Every one was inter-
sted and had something to say on the 4
ubject on one side or the other Here,
here the interests of the so-called
syndicate" managers are so numer- I
Us, but few eX parte opinions could
e CLEANED.