The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-04

is to have the contests Wednesday aft
ernoon and evening and Thursday
evening" October and 6, and to wind
up with big concert on Friday, the
It'll. DR.. Parry came across the water
with Professor Talnlage, and is des-
cribed by that gentleman as a most
companionable man and one of decided
and striking intellectual force.
De Believille has just married Dor
orthy Chester, a Denver lady, who, like
himself. is a member of Minnie Mad
dern Fiske's company.
The following amusing anecdote of
Mrs. Siddons is told in the last Mir
ror:
One memorable night during the en-
gagement of Mrs. Siddons, con-
tretemps of a iudicrous nature oc-
CURED, for which no part of the audi
ence was anSwerable. The evening was
excessively hot, and Mrs. Siddons was
tempted by torturing thirst to avail
herself of the only relief to be obtained
at the moment. Her dresser, therefore,
dispatched a boy in great haste to fetch
a pint of beer for Mrs. Siddons, at the
same time charging him to be quick, as
Mrs. Siddons was in a hurry for 1t.
Meanwhile, the play proceeded, and on
er he looked about for the person who
had sent him on his errand, and not
seeing her inquired, Where is Mrs.
Siddons?'' The scene-shifter whom he
questioned, pointed his finger to the
stage, where she was performing the
sleeping scene of Lady Macbeth, re-
piled. There she is To the surprise
and horror of all the performers, the
boy promptly walked on the stage close
up to Mrs. Siddons, and with total
Inconsistencies of the improperly he
was committing, presented the beer.
Her distress may be imagined. She
waved the boy away in her grand man
ner several times without effect. AT
last the people behind the scenes, by
dint of reckoning, stamping and call
ing in half audible whispers, succeeded
in getting him off with the beer, part
of which in his exit he spilled on the
stage, while the audience were in an
uproar of laughter, which the dignity
of the actress was unable to quell for
several minutes
1T gives some idea of the over
crowding of the dramatic profession"
says a theatrical newspaper in Lon
don, ito state that more than 200 ac-
tresses applied for quite a minor char
acter in the new drama at the Adel-
phi"
Miss Cecilia Sharp is soon to leave
for the east to take a years instruc-
ton on the piano. Those who know the
young lady accomplishments will con-
slider this almost another case of
gliding the lily
Professor Bicknell Young contem-
plates another western tour this fall
and expects to give another song re-
to1 in off q will he most well
come should he so decide.
Mr. E. Nj Scrace, well-known in local
musical and dramatic circles as the
possessor of a good bass voice and of
considerable talent in the dramatic line,
left last evening for Philadelphia to
continue his musical studies under
Zobanaky.
E. T. Stetson, he of Neck and Neck
memory, is playing the negro,
sam2son. in THE New South in
New York. Stetson is we'll remembered
by the old-timers here for the thrilling
realistic hanging scene he introduced
in Neck and Neck" He is now very
old man.
orrin johnson is playing in a stock
company in Columbus, Ohio.
Madge Carr Cook is playing in the
stock company in Denver, headed by
Blanche Walsh.
"a Widow Hunt" which has been
turned from a comedy into sort of
musical farce, will be rendered in Provo
next Saturday evening, by the clever
Company which has been so long re-
hearsing it. Alex Campbell, Hugh
Dougali Walter Meeks, Aleck Piper,
IL min
Boyer and Bessie Edmunds are in the
cast Mr.. Piper is stage manager, and
Spencer ClawSon, jr., accomDaniSt. A
very bright entertainment is assured.
and it is likely to be seen in this city
later.
Henry Miller opened his second week
in San Francisco, last Monday night in
THE Master" He was opposed by the
Frawleys in 1.-THE Rajah;" by the AL
cazar company in THE Butterflies"
and by -Mignon" at the Tivoli.
Frawley. has borrowed" Blanche
Bates from Augustin DAILY for an early
fan engagement, when his company re-
turns to, San Francisco. She will have
a great reception, for if all reports
sreak true. her absence has been keenly
felt in the F'raWieY company.
Miss Jennie Remark closed her
season with the Omaha stock company
last month, and will begin rehearsals
at the Lyceum theatre, Baltimore, at
once. Miss Remark lately played the
role Of Marguerite in Faust in
Omaha, and was pronounced by the
critics to be the best Marguerite ever
seen on the local stage.
Nine. Sarah Bernhard has ecceDted
the Invitation of the Maharajah of Ka-
purthaia to go out to India. She will
appear at Bombay, Calcutta. Colombo
and Pondicherry, and will give special
performances in the palaces of the In
diam rajahs. Among other entertain
ments which the Mahajarah of Kapur-
thala has in preparation for the golden
voiced Sarah is a big tiger hunt, in
which his visitor will take a leading
part.
rip Van Wrinkle" and the Chimes of
Normandy" and Nell Gwynee," has
just been made chevalier of the Leg
ion of Honor by the French president.
If anyone has any doubt as to the
success of the forthcoming national
eisteddfod. from an artistic standpoint
a glance at the competitive entry list
up to Sept would be sufficient to re-
move it. At the eisteddfod of 1885, the
entries were numerous. but this years
list nearly doubles them. 1t is esti-
mated that the competitions will aver
age six to each class. This will neces-
state considerable preliminary work on
the part of the eisteddfod adjudicators.
as only three contestants, for any num-
ha,. will he r1eru7irfe0 f0 anOear in tha