The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-19

prove worthy of your interest and
rendition.
If it be possible to prepare the pro-
gramme SO soon (there will be much
printing of parts to be done). 1 would
like the evening of February 81, 1898,
it being the seventh anniversary of
the first concert given in the taber-
nacle by the choir under my direction.
If we find that it will be impractic-
able to get the music ready in time,
a later date can be selected.
Sincerely thanking you all for the
compliment you have paid me,
l am your fellow worker,
EVAN STEPHENS.
London, Dec. 1o.@The Christmas
theraticals at Blenheim will include
two playlets written for the occasion
by Mrs. Malcolm in which the Duke
and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady
Randolph Churchill will have parts.
Christmas pantomines will absorb
the attention and the money of London
theatre goerS and the theatrical man
ayers throughout England the next
fortnight In London alone there will
be SO pantomines staged for the hoh-
day season. The two chief attrac-
tons will be presented at the
Durry Lane and Garrick theatres.
"The White Heather" which has been
drawing enormous houses at the Drury
Lane, will be temporarily Withdrawn
to make wav for THE Babes in the
Woods
The story is to be practically burles-
que from the old nursery tales brought
up to date The most elaborate scene
is to be valley of orchids wherein the
players will be costumed to repre-
sent all sorts of flowers.
Charles Cartwright, who has toured
America with Olga Nethersole, is
planning to take an English company
to Australia within month for q
season of nine months The Grand
theatre in the suburbs of Islington has
been the scene of the remarkable play
in which Mrs. Potter figures as. Chariot
Cordray and Mr.. BelleW as Mart, which
he has often been seen in the United
States, but never before in England.
The supporting company was valu-
able one and the public was quite
enthusiastic over the play.
One of the most notable embodiments
of real life on the stage which has been
permitted by the British censor is a.
curtain raiser entitled "a New Leaf"
by Herbert Garnley, running at one of
the theatres. The principal parsonage,
Lord AHnerly, is a gentleman who has
SoWn a generous crop of wild oats and
sits down to reflect one evening after
his return from one of the night club
institutions, peculiar to London. While
soliloquiZing on the virtues of his mod
est little wife, and his own unWorthi-
ness to her, his apartment is invaded
by Tottie Evans, a lady of the demi-
monde who endeavors to blacknail him.
His wife being about to appear upon
the scene the lord retires to the shelter
of a screen and while thus secreted,
hears his wife and the woman eX-
change "reminiscences which reveal
them as old comrades in vice.
In the denouement his lordship for
gives her ladyship because she had
decided to reform and embracing they
resolve to lead better lives.
Pussy the old fox terrier which
has always accompanied Sir Henry
Irving on his travels, recently fell
through a trap door at the Manchester
theatre and was killed.
Clement Scott has contributed an in
terview to After Thought on the stage.
Mr.. Scott has had an almost lifelong
acquaintance with the personnel of the
profession and his position as dean of
the London critics gives his views i'm
portance. Seeing the advance recep-
ton of his article Mr.. Scott requested
the editor not to print the interview
which he refused to do. Mr.. Scott in
the interview said it was nearly i'm
possible for a woman to remain pure,
who adopts the stage, adding that the
freedom and openneSS behind the cur
tain renders it almost impossible for
woman to preserve that simplicity of
manner which is her greatest charac-
ter What is infinitely to be deplored
is that the woman who endeavors, to
keep her purity is almost as a neces-
sity fore doomed to failure in her ca