The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-24

that the reports that he had promised
the members of the company to return
them TO New York at the time he no.
titled them Of the closing of the house
were erroneous. The closing Will work
a severe hardship on most of the COM
pany, as it is TOO late to secure other
engagements, and some of them had
brought members of their family. here
prepared TO spend the winter.
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Under the Red Robe which we are
to see in Salt Lake before long, is now
running in San Francisco With success.
1t viii serve to reintroduce to US an
actor Who once made q big hit here,
but who has not been west in recent
years. We refer to William Morris. the
original of the hero in The Lost Para
disc
This IS going 10 be an operate winter
unless all signs fail. Not only is the
Salt Lake ODera company, headed by
Professor Weihe, hard at work on the
Chimes OF Normandy" which it viii
produce Thanksgiving day and night,
but the tabernacle choir or a select
chorus therefron, directed by Professor
Stephens, is seriously considering the
plan oE giving some standard operas
like Martha" and the Bohemian Girl"
around the holidays. Besides that there
is a company in the field at work on
musical farce comedy, TO be given IN
der the direction of Professor Reid. the
author. In the three companies are to
be found the brightest amateurs of the
CITY, and il is TO be hoped they viii all
have good sense enough to arrange
their dates in harmony and steer clear
of conflicts mr. Weihe says he has
picked his chorus from the best musical
forces the city affords and that it will
be stronger than either in "The Mas
COT or Patience"
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THE Chimes viii serve to introduce
a new local singer into amateur opera
Miss Sallie Fisher. She will assume the
part OF Cermaine Miss Louis Savage
interpreting that Of Serpolette- Both
are soprano roles, but each is in strong
contrast to the other. Miss Fisher spent
a year in Paris studying music and has
not long been home. Several years ago
she appeared in local opera entitled
"a Dress Rehearsal" and though she
was cutie young. her rendition Of the
French maid showed she possessed I'M
I doubted talent
Under the genial influence of cheap
I rates, the attendance at Louis James
matinee yesterday afternoon took a big
! .-Spartacus" was the bin. and it is a
pleasure to be able to state that star.
] players and play were all accorded q
( vastly better reception than that given
"a Cavalier Of France. Indeed, IN
( .-Spartacus'' Mr.. James does some
really noble work, and Miss Emerson
and the other players lent him good
support The night house fell off con-
{ sfderably in attendance. the inevitable
J of 11n n
/ the tai! end of a crowded theatrical
week.
over the threat that Frohman and
Hayman have decided to wipe San
/ Francisco off their dramatic map, Petite
! Robertson, the dramatic critic of the
( Chronicle thus soNloquizes:
( Quoth Al Hayman,
''Nevermore.'
The worst has come. Our doom has
been pronounced. Disgruntled actors.
! disappointed actresses, disguised prize
/ fighters have hurled the epithet of
/ "j-y" at us, and we have not wept.
+ But when Charles Frohman and al
! Hayman, twin rulers of the theatrical
destinies, declare that they viii never,
Z never speak to us again, the moment
/ trickle down our cheek They do admit
we have check And both have sworn
that we shall never see their shows,
their stars. their posters or their press
agents any more. forever. even II Grape
I should be tied in q bow on the doorknoh
! Of Al Hayman & Co. QneorpoFated-)
It is sad. We are to die dramatically;
but with our last dying breath We
( swear we are not guilty We never saw
those great stage productions which
the New York verdict pronounced ar
tistic successes. and which Mr. Froh-
man says he sent here. He has been
deceived. He must have sent them; but
somebody must have embeZZled the
production and sometimes filed the
cast with bricks before they came 10
I the Baldwin. The names of the plays
have been the same, the beautiful and
touching pictures on the posters have
| been the same; the adjectiveS used by
the press agents and bill-StickerS have
been the same, but-We never saw the
New York production. Yet we have
sometimes showered money into the
box Office, even when the scenery had
rips and holes and dirt all over the
elegant drawing room walls and the
palaces and castles had fallen into
I cureleSs ruin through rough handlins
on cars and setting up on queer stages
in one-night stands We have applaud
ed, even when the encourage OF tbs
king or prince regent, or the society
leader consisted of two male supers
unshaven, in hired dresses that did moi
fit, and two ladies of certain age in COS.
tunes Of impossible periods, posed il
frightfuily uncomforta bic attitudes OF
marble steps that sadly needed wash.
ing We have encouraged third rat
actors in their vain effort to live VI
to the great New York casts as an
nounced in the advertisements. But w
never saw. except in The Heart ol
Maryland the great New York sue
cesses.
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Ben Stern. Fanny Davenport's man.
ager, thus wires The Herald regarding
her new American play, whose author
is still unannounced. and the title o.
which was not known till the house
/, opened:
Boston, Oct. ga Soldier o
France Fannie Davenport's new play
IN FIVE acts. the title Of which wa: