Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-06


Anna Held's "Poupee" is not sue
cess
Hlda Clarke has made pronounced
hit in ",'he Hlghwaynnn."
1.-THE Devils Disciplc." Bernard
shaw,s play, has apparently pleased
New York.
Louis n. Parker will be the English
udapter Of lie Chemineau" for
Beerbohm Tree.
Maude Adams is said to be drawing
crowded houses at the Empire theater
in THE Little Minister"
Tho scenery of "a Paris Doll' was
attached at Chicago last week to satis-
fy a claim from Buffalo.
Julia Marlowe is getting columns o.
praise in the Chicago papers in For
Bonnie Prince Charlie
M Sarcy does not speak very highly,
nor very gently OF Gillette's Secret
Service" which has been produced in
Paris.
Nine. Mathilde Cottrelly has been
engaged by the managers Of 1899" to
stage that opera at the Casino in New
York.
"The Highwaymar," De Koven and
Smiths new comic opera was produced
successfully at Newhaven, Conn, last
week.
The condition of plays In New York
appears to be ominously suggested by
the statement that Suthern has gone
back to Lord CHUNKY" at the Lyceum.
Charles Coghlan is going to star in
n play written by himself The piece
is an historical one and the action
takes place IN England during the
reign Of George ".
Acton Davies in the New York
Evening sun says: "a Soldier Of For
tune can scarcely become popular
feature Of Fanny Davenport's roper
tory. The piece Ia deliberately staged.
"when l have a new role to essay"
says Lillian Russell, II first learn the
music, write the part several times, at
| tend n few rehearsals to learn the cues
and then have it forever"
Alice Nielsen, prima donna of the
! Bostonians, has recovered from the
| severe operation recently performed
in Boston, and will retoin the COM
| pany this week at Washington.
Melbourne MacDowell does the best
! work in his career as Cliohet, the
/ Jester, in a Soldier of France. His
| death scene is spoken Of by the Bos-
| ton Herald as "a Eae piece of tragic
acting
Eleanora Dusc's health will compel
her to remain in Italy during the
winter. 1t is said. She is reported
/ 10 contemplate 8ll aIIftAi aAlGt ia t9ei
! lin in the spring in the "Antigone of
sophocles."
Nat c. Goodwin was served last
week with papers in suit projected
| by one Stanislaus G. De scissors of
| Boston, who wants $4,000 for play
manuscript said to have been sub
mitted to the commedian.
! one of the most interesting additions
| to the Donizetti Museum at Bergamo,
/ 4. a.. V,,p NHeprfat nf linda
! al ChamouniN with, ON the title page,
| in Doni2etti's own writing, his words,
Dedicated to the Empress OF Aus
tria."
A new operetta, and n one-act mu-
steal farce almost finished, have
been found among the manuscripts of
the late Franz Won. Suppe. The
be completed by u Niennese musician.
| The work Is described us being in
Suppe's best style
Rudolph Aronson's Mariquta, Span
ish waltz, Is being danced by Louise
Allen in the third act OF The Man
From Mexico. now touring the country
| with much success; and MIR. Aronson
has lust completed, for orchestra, the
Lady Graceful dance for Mile. Cleo de
Merode.
Mr. Robert Downing, the American
| traEedian, has been offered $1,000 a
week to appear in the arena scene
from The Gladiator at the Pleasure
| Palace. New York city. to he followed
By sixteen weeks over the different
| vaudeville circuits throughout the
United States. Air. Downing is serious
~ considering the ACCESSIBILITY of ac-
Ocpting the engagement.
Fanny Davenport ably sustained her
position as the foremost of American
theatrical producers" by the mag
nlfcent setting she gave her new play
at the Boston Theater oct. 20. There
was much mystery concerning this
play. and the secret was well kept
It's name, a Soldier of France. was
known to those who visited the Boston
Theater for the first tlme when they
looked at their programs, The subject
OF the story proved TO be Joan of Arc
IT is divided into Ave acts.
The triumph of Puccini seems to he
complete, his opera La Boheme, being
produced In many of the cities OF
Europe and always with pronounced
success. II Is having the same vogue
that was accorded to Mascagnl's
Cavallerlu Rusticana, and later tC
Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Germany and
italy unite their suffrages in favor OF
the new composer, and II IL quite GER
tain that La Roheme viii he heard In
this country ere long. II has been In
tImated that it viii be one OF the fea-
lures of the program OF Walter Dam
rosch's coming operate season.