The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-02
ALE SALT LAKE HERALD. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 1898

| course. the main attraction will be the
great Eisteddfod at the tabernacle
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but
the other places of amusement reckon
| that there will be enough people in
town to give each of them a chance.
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''The Cotton King" will be presented
in the theatre Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday evenings. 1t is meio-
drama by Button Vane, and one which
was presented last year at the Adelphl
theatre, London. 1t ran all last year
under the direction OF W. A. Brady IN
| this country, and was one OF the sue
cesses of the season. Through the
friendship existing between Mr.. L. A.
! Cummings and Mr.. Brady the piece
was secured for the initial performance
of the New Empire Stock company. 1t
is a thrilling piece from start to fnish
and the scenery and stage etfectS are
all said to be new.
Mr.. Weihe is now conducting the
closing rehearsals of 1.-The queens Lace
Handkerchief, and he says he is con-
fident that the first rendition, next Sat
urday afternoon, will show that the
company is prepared to keep up to the
standard it created in ''The Mascot,
Patience "The Chimes" and Said
Pasha" One hundred costumes have
been made, and special scenery is be-
ing prepared for the production, while
the chorus of 40 voices has been select
ed with a view to the difficulties of the
score, which are by no means few. The
principals are Miss Savage, Miss
Fisher, Mrs. Brown, Mr.. Goddard, Mr..
Spencer, Mr.. Piper, Mr.. Campbell and
Mr.. Gill. The dates of the productions
are Salt Lake, Oct 8, 10 and IL; Lo-
gan, II: Provo, II; Ogden, 10.
The advance sale opens Thursday,
and the popular scale of prices will be
adhered to, 25 cents to all parts OF the
house being the matinee charge.
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The lines of care and age were very
perceptible in Fanny Davenports face
the last time she was seen in Salt
Lake, and it was not an entire surprise
to read that she had succumbed to the
destroyer On her final visit here,
which opened with two old plays in
her repertory, Fedora" and La
Tosca,'' there was great falling off of
public interest, but all the old time
enthusiasm revived when she gave US
in the same week "Gismonda,' the
magnificence of that production told
that her wonderful brain had lost none
of its cunning, and that she was still
as great a producer of plays as she
was an interpreter Of them. Without
doubt her end was fastened by the
cares incident to her determination to
cut loose from Sardou, whom she al
ways accused of bleeding her by his
royalty charges-and by the failure
which greeted her attempts to produce
a play by an American author In her
efforts to push this production she is
said to have lost an immense sum.
Miss Davenport first came into note
as leading woman in Days Fifth Ave
nue. company; play books of Sara
toga,' Divorce" "Pique" and other
great plays brought out there in the
early '70s have her name in the orig
inal productions. She was one of the
beauties of the stage in those days. and
as gifted as she was beautiful. Since
her breakdown in Chicago her hus-
band, Melbourne Mcdowell, has been
playing her repertory with Blanche
Walsh in his wife's roles.
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Mr.. Mulvey's house opens for the sea-