The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-25

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and nights without food or drink He
also says he will do the Trilby act
making well known ladies sing Ben
Bolt the feat Svensali accomplishes
in ''Trilbv."
OF Cummings performance in that
city a Denver paper says: Drs. Axtel,
Blaine and Hall were on the stage all
the while as a committee. and Pro-
lessor Cummings performance was pro-
nounced by them to be genuine The
doctors were unable to awaken three
out of four sleepers, though thew
dashed water in their faces and stuck
pins into their bodies. Finally, they
watched closely Professor Cummings
severest test when he out two sub
Jects into a catale9tic trance and
thrust hat pins through the fieshy part
of ones arm and through the cheek
or the other. The men did not finch
under the severe ordeal and after it
was over could not tell what had been
done TO them. The doctors. TO whom
hyDnotism is a recognized power hot
more wonderful than many other hui
man phenomena, stated after the Ter
romance that Professor Cunning is a
hypnotist of considera BILE power par
ticularly when his subjects are as sus-
ceDtible as were those employed yes
terday. Certainly the entertainment
given is highly amusing one.
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''Pique" is almost too we'll known in
salt Lake to need introducing: it is an
original comedy-drama by Augustin
DAILY and was produced by him at the
Fifth avenue theatre New York, in
the early seventies. The play made a
great success, enjoying one of the.lorg
est runs ever made in this country.
The part of slabel was played by
Fanny Davenport and so successful
was she in it that after the expira lion
OF her contract with. DAILY she started
out as star with 'Pique" as the fea-
ture of her repertoire. This play and
part also launched that admirable ac-
tress, Jeffreys Lewis. in the stellar sea.
The cast is very heavy and will be
as follows:
Matthew Standish Walter Edwards
Arthur Standish, his son. Howard Kyle
Mr.. Raymond Leasing 49,. Hugh Ford
Or. Gossit ...-.-.-.... Harry Robyat
Sammy Dympl ........H. d. Blakemore
Thorsby GIL ........Thomas W. Ross
Rasmonev Jim, tramp 49,. -.
go 800. Frank 3. Hatch
Padder, his mate ......Jack Williams
CAPTAIN oe Police ........ Walter Owen
Mabel RentreW Victory Bateman
Mary Standish 49,. ......Jessie lett
Lucille Renfrew Agnes Rankin
Aunt Dorothy -. Margaret Marshall
Mother Thames -. Margaret Marshall
Polly ...----.---. Little Nina Cooke
Arthur. child -. Little Nina Cooke
kaltch .---.- Annie Miftiin
Sylvia, maid. 49,. Elsie ReaSoner
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a London letter to a New York paper
says: Sir Henry Irving, whose mask
and posing as Napoleon in Nine. Sans
Gene" are said to be wonderfully fe-
licitous. may next take up the role of
Richard II, in Shakespeare's play,
which has not been acted since Edwin
Booth laid it aside late in the los He
took it uD first in 1873, and it was. l
think. the last new part he ever studied.
His stimulation of the pride and weak
ness of Richard, and his expression of
the Dathos of his downfall were ad-
but he made no attempt to
produce" the play. with a harmonious
picture of the epoch, as Irving would.
character, too. would be sure
Of splendid embodiment if Irving
acted il
The play is comparatively early one
IF Shakespeare, and seems to have |
been played frequently in his time. al /
though its subject was rather risky:
)ut il was not touched after the Res |
-Oration until 1851. when Nahum Tate's /
altered version. The Sicilian Usurper,"
with the scene and every name (
hanged. was acted and Immediately |
for those were troublous
lines, too, and dethronements could /
lot be safely talked about in public.
Maeready acted Richard II. as early |
n his career as 1872, cat Newcastle), |
Ind Edmund Kean in 1915 appeared IN
version. which was a
Iueer tumble of half a dozen of the
,lays. Macready's Richard II seems to
lave been q very fine performance, but
n the DAYS of his leadership he never
lcted it till his farewell engagement at
he Haymarket theater. The play was
lot done again until Charles Kean pro-
luced il at the Princess theater, in
S57, with gorgeous pageantry in the
Gene cf Bolingbrolse entrance into
london, and i has ever since been
by all but Edwin Booth.
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The Lyceum re-opens Monday night
nd viii again make a bid for public
atronage with Town Topics" the
arce-c comedy which proved one of the
trougest successes of Manager Gates
ntire season. The old business will
robably be duplicated. Among the
are such well known artists
$ William Kellar, William NJ. Mack.
Ohm Queen. John W. World, Joseph
harrington, William Nelson, Frank
averly, A NJ Miller Beatrio~ Nor
IAN. Nellie Sennett. Lylian - ckler.
.uella Miller. Elise Nugent. Laura
Freda Peel and Mamie
velty.
It is reported that shortly after
fenry Irving returned to England from
is last American tour he met Wilson
Jarrett. The latter. who always bore
considerable resemblance to a turkey,
as more ruffied up than usual by the
nancial success of his scriptural
ramas.
At one point in the conversation Ir-
ing. using his well-known elocution,
aid.
We'll. Wilson. what are you going
give us now2"
Il have The Sign of the Cross and
he Daughters of Babylon and Ham
l. said Barrett in his most sepul- {
lral voice.
aN Hamlet" remarked Irving.
Yes said Barrett: do you think
ou are the only man who can play
amlet?"
.No-ah-but I think-ah-that you ,
e the only man who cannot play
amlet."
Rose Coghlan. in a recent interview
herself of course-grew
confidential and almost ,
irst genuine success she said in a c
cont i,,sar-x-iaxt- rt1ofad r