The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-23

the Worlds fair is well remembered,
heads the ladies. while ]. Aldrich Lib
hey has given way to George Lyding
as leading man. "Amorita" opens the
engagement and the Grand Duchess
will be given the latter part of the
week. Matinees are booked for both
Wednesday and Saturday. The COM
any carries its own scenery for both
operas.
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The advance agent of 1.-The Gay
Matinee Girl company arrived in town
yesterday and proceeded to the Lyceum
theatre where he had a contract signed
some months ago by Manager Maltese
for the week opening tomorrow night.
The agent was somewhat nonplussed
tC find the building Theoretically sealed
with Manager Maltese only a faded
memory about the house. BY dint of
some hard rustling, the agent arranged
with the owner, Captain Paul, to open
the doors for the coming week, and his
company, which is in Seattle, was tele-
graphed to come on prepared for the
opening tomorrow night. There are
some 10 or 20 people in the cast, head
ed by Ned Monroe and Billy Hart, and
Miss Fernia Melrose, Alice Hamilton
and Myrtle Franks.
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Mascagni is at work upon a new
opera, to be called Iris says the Lon
don and China Express. The work will
be purely japanese in character, and
Mascagni. in his new music, has en-
deaYored to reproduce peculiar tone eff
fects of japanese instruments. He
spends the entire day in the celebrated
instrumental collection of Baron
Krauss. The problem of presenting to
the public a score containing music that
will be attractive to the European ear
and lose nothing in Japanese original
ity hes proved a real physical torture
TO Mascagni.
The plot is as follows: a simple,
charming, sweet-tempered young girl
is left with an old, blind father. The
girl appears. leading her BLIND parent
in the garden, where he murmurs his
morning prayers. while she waters the
flowers. The prince of the neighbor-
hood, hearing Of the charm and purity
Of Iris, by his orders Tsikomati alb
ducts her from her home and conveys
her to a house of i~ll-repute, where her
brOken-hearted farther finally discovers
her. Believing that she has entered
upon her new life voluntarily, he pro-
unce a curse upon her. She is at
last free from her terrible surroundings,
a fugitive, still pure, but near to deaths
door. The curse is upon her. and upon
the steps of the temple, where she has
taken final refuge, amid the solemn
music of priests and tolling of bells,
Iris sings her last song and dies.
Mile. Cleo de Merode, when she re-
turned to Paris and told of the incon-
siderate way in which the American
newspapers had treated her. told the
French reporters that the only eompen-
satiOn she found for this harsh con-
duct was the great appreciation of the
public and the more highly profitable
admiration of society, which paid her
large sums to dance in its most eX-
elusive drawing rooms. If Nile. Cleo
ever danced in any drawing rooms here,
says Il New York paper, they must have
been of a most exclusive character. as
reached the public. As a matter of
fact, she was probably never asked to
dance in private. although she says $500
was the fee paid for a few steps by the
New York millionaires. She told the
reporter that these sums, with her sal
airy. had brought her American earn
ings up TO S24, 900. They were some
what more than one-third of that sum.
At least she received that sum and her
thrifty mother is known to have scat
tered it with no great recklessness.
Mr.. Owen and Miss Beardslev, the
bass and soprano whom the nrDheus
club have engaged for their first sub
scrlption concert Thursday evening
mex at the Congregational church. are
expected to arrive from Denver early
in the week. The house has been sold
out to subscribers. and that portion of
the public which did not sign the lists
viii find itself barred out. The pro-
or.ar ", mo &c aCranffn1Tvr o hfrh HclaCc npa
and viii be as follows:-subject to one
two slight changes.
Club. Three Fishers .Goldbeck
Owec, Revenge, Timotheus
Cries CAlexander's FEAST. Handel
Miss Beardsley, Recit. and Cavstina.
All tardai trOppOs,"
20 luce al quest anima'
from opera Linda Di Chamou-
nix") ..Donizetti
String Guirtette-
Club. (a) Evening Calm" II. Gurland
Obligato by Mr.. Owen.
% "A Cradle Song" Paine
Duetto. ~Qual voce:" Ql Trova-
tOre) Verdi
Miss B~eardsley and Mr.. owen.
String cuintette.
Song, -Barcarolle," .Tosti
Miss Adelaide B~eardsley.
Songs, (a) Old English melody,
The Carrier Dove"
CD Old German melody,
I'm Sheltered Vale"
Mr.. Owen.
Club. THE Sound of War Falls on
Ny Ear" Parry
male chorus from opera 'Blodwen")
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We augur i'll from the fact that the
Russell, jeff De Angels and
Fox combination. in which
Pruette IS the baritone. came west as
far as Omaha turned around and went
east. This does not look much
like that attraction at least, regarded
Salt Lake as the western dramatic
terminus.
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The members of Salt Lake Dramatic
company, under the stage direction of
Miss Ruth Eldredge are rehearsing