The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-26
STAGE GOSSIP.

! Siby1 Sanderson, the brilliant Califor-
1 MAN, has many friends abroad, and in
France the most profound sympathy
has been expressed for her by the press
III general. Miss. Sanderson's illness is
most pathetic. In full youth, soon after
/ a greatly desired marriage, ON the eve
of creating a new role in her profession.
/ she was stricken with paralysis, and
| the chances are that she will never re-
! cover the use of her limbs.
The New York Herald gives an old
! faVOrite here the following handsome
notice:
The announcement that Mr. ]. H.
! Stoddart would make his debut on "the
! continuous stage" at Proctor's theatre
! yesterday, was sufficient in itself to
! crowd the theatre. There are few actors
on the American stage better known or
! better liked than this veteran faNorite
| and of the many parts that he has
played none brings out more perfectly
the delicacy of his art than the little
trifle called lone Touch of Nature
His reception yesterday afternoon,
though on a stage that was new to him,
was a welcome from friends, and quite
an unusual demonstration was made
when he came on the scene. At the
conclusion Of the play he was recalled
again and again.
Stoddart is still actively before the
public, but old man Couldock, the other
grand old man" of the stage, has re-
tired for good and all. He is now so
deaf that he can hardly hear at all, and
for that reason he seldom, if ever, Wis
its the theatre. The Mirror of last
week contains an excellent portrait of
the old actor, and a chatty interview
with him, in which he says he is at
work on his autobiography. He also
says:
'As for Maud Adams, I played with
her mother before she came into the
world. Mrs. Adams was a member of
the Salt Lake City Stock company-or
the domestic company rs it was called
by the Mormons-when I played there
in 81. Fifteen or twenty years after
ward met Mrs. Adams here in New
York and Maude was a little slip of a |
girl. Her success in The Little Min
lister has pleased me highly"
Oscar Hammerstein, who built five |
New York theatres and ruined himself |
by building the last, the huge Olympia, |
is to be rendered a monster benefit by |
nearly all the available talent in New
York on Wednesday evening next. The |
affair viii come off at the Madison
Square Garden. The New York Life
Insurance company now owns the
Olympia, having taken t in under fore
closure of a 5000, 900 mortgage.
Maurice Grau's preliminary an
concerning his season of
grand opera for 1889 is to the effect
that the opening performance will take
place at the Metropolitan opera house
New York, on or about Dec. II, and
that the engagements already made in
clude Calve, Games, Schumann Heink,
Jean de Reszke. Van Oyck, Salignac,
Bispham, Albers Edouard
de Reszl.e and Plancon.
Edna Wallace, the dainty little comic
opera favorite, who recently obtained
divorce from DeWolf Hopper, has
been Frustrated in New York with the
neat, which brought on a severe hem
)rrhage. of the nose. The trouble be- ,,
gan on Tuesday night, when, ordinary
'emedies proving insufficient to check
he flow of blood, physician was called
n. and the patient placed under the
of morphine. Last night Miss
Nallace's condition was reported to be
much improved.
Lulu Chaser is paid $3.50 a week to $
ing Javotte in the revival of ''Erminie'' {
It the Casino, in New York.
VIII Ingersoll is playing in stock
in washington, the same in
WITCH Jim Barrowsa is e.. gagged. a