The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-16

New York's latest queen of comic
opera
Paderewsd recently celebrated his
thirty-sevent birthday.
Beerbohn Tree is to play Sherlock
Holmes in a play by Conan Doyle
1t is said that Corinne lost $50, 600 in
Lillian Russelrs old opera, An Ameri-
can Beauty
The Bostonians are heading this way.
They were in ST. Louis last week,
where their new opera, The Seren-
aders, was almost as great a go as
robin Hood"
Mirror: Marie Burroughs may re-
appear in a play upon which she has
been studying. and which may be tried
in New York before her departure for
Europe in the spring.
Sir Arthur Sullivan has promised TO
write a secular cantata for the Leeds
musical festival next October. The
subject he has selected is said to be
The Vicar of Wakefield"
tombstone Bennett, the mannish
actress, combines professional and com
mercial pursuits by drumming for a
mems furnishing goods manufactures
daytimeS and appearing in vaudeville
theatres evenings.
Pittsburg paper says that two of
the three stock houses in that city have
been closed up and the actors dis
charged. Among those whose services
were retained We're Walter Edwards,
Hugh Ward, Hugh Ford and Jessie
lett.
Mirror: Mrs. Leslie Carter will make
her debut in Shakespearean parts dur
ing next season. An elaborate revival
of THE Winters Tale" is promised by
Mr.. Belasco, Mrs. Carter appearing in
the characters of Perdita and Her
mione.
Lawrence J. Hanley is well known to
be an actor of irregular habits and so.
when he was too i'll with fever to play
in St Louis. the management an
nOunced to the audience that he was
drunk. He is resentfully suing for
damages.
Chronicle: As a general rule. Sarah
Bernhardt holds that an actor or
actress should retire from the stage at
the age of 90, although she confesseS
that she has seen many who should
have disappeared at the age of %.
Others should never have been born.
In Cincinnati the other day, Sousa's
new march, THE Stars and Stripes
Forever was played. The result was
a demonstration that actually shook
the theatre. Mr.. SouSa wrote this new
band composition on shipboard coming
back from Europe last summer. The
inspiration came upon him as he neared
the American shore 1t is said that
there has been nothing so good in pa
triotic music in many years.
The report that Verdis health has
been seriously affected by the recent
death of his wife, is denied Madame
Stoltz, who has recently spent several
days with the aged composer at SAINT
Agata, writes to an Italian journal to
reassure Verdfs admirers and friends.
She says that notwithstanding the ter
rible blow of his wife's death, he has
shown great strength of mind and a
beautiful resignation. The general.
state of his health is satisfactory, and
his mind is unclOuded-
From the east comes the announce
ment that this will be Walter Jones'
last season in extravaganza. The
starring bee mas got into his bonnet,
and John Philip Sousa, it is said, has
almost completed a new comic opera
for the Casino favOrite. The opera is
to be called Her Majesty" and Jones
is to have a character which will en-
able him to display his natural powers
to his utmost ability. Messrs. Klaw
and Erlanger who have Mr.. Jones IN
der contract. are willing to take him
at the new venture, his tour to be made
under their management.