Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-21

I The Frerchman. thinking to help his
| friend OUT of a distasteful marriage
| the aunt has arranged for him. claims
| to be the wife. The complications in
crease from this time on, until no one
| member of the cast understands the
| situation. All is finally dlsentangled.
| however, to the complete satisfaction
| of the players and the public. The
| Nancy Hanks IL an entertainment that
does not entail any supreme mental eff
fort to follow the plot but 1t is none the
| less interesting for that. II Is spiced
with some clever music and panto-
| mine.
The New Grand is TO be opened again
next week after considerable OF a sea-
| son of closed doors. the attraction be-
| ing The Frank Readick Dramatic COM
pany in a repertoire of plays which
| Will be as follows: Monday evening,
| Don Caesar DE Bazan; Tuesday
evening, Brand oflCain, and Wednes-
| day evening, Vendetta. In addition to
the people required to present these
| plays, there are in the organization
four operate stars who sing appropri-
ate music during the performances.
| one of these Is Miss Rosalia Southern,
| who II n sister of Alice Nelson, lately
| here with the Bostonians. on Monday
evening during the performance of Don
! Caesar the best airs from Mariana
| will be given. This piece should be
particularly attractive Mt this time, as
1t is a Spanish play The engagement
| will be for three nights and Wednesday
| matinee.
In Hoyt's A Texas steer, which al
| ways draws crowded houses and which
! will he seen at the Salt Lake Theater
| Friday and Saturday, and Saturday
matinee, May 27-S.
The evolution of A Texas statesman
l n ~ L.. 4Nta.U Il
/ terfully. The play has lost none of its
old time popularity and should keep the
| Theater crowded during the engage
ment. There is less eXaggeration in A
! Texas Steer than one Is accustomed to
meet in a Hoyts play, and more natur-
| al fun, more Imaginable, droll situations.
| Having been elected toCongress against
his wish, Maverick Brander. a Texas
| Cattle King. Is transplnntcd with his
| family, including a lovely daughter, to
| Washington. At the Arlington hotel
| the whole action takes place.
| The Congressman within a few months
becomes popular and learns the sweet
ness of being in office. The family sooh
| acquires the manners of good society.
! The young officer, who courtec the cat
! tie Kings daughter In Texas, but was
| ashamed to appear with her on the
streets of Washington soon finds out to
| his SORROW that italian counts and Eng
llsh lords are ready to marry the girl
he lost on account of his stupidity. The
Congressman is roped in by lobbyists
into various land grants and railroad
! schemes, ana committee comes up
| from Texas to Investigate his course.
The next election being near at hand
the Congressman Is frightened, but the
| Texas steering committee Is well taken
| care of. The Congressman Is assured OF
his election and Is in a fair way To be-
! come senator. The play Is full of COM
| ,aa1 1a IA ter mr. Incidents
pithy sayings, and it Ia acted capitally
by Katie Putnam in the part of Bossy
Maurice Freeman as Maverick
Brander, Will II. Bray in his old part
the minister TO Dehomey. the Bison
| City Quartet, VIM. j.. Walcott. Ben r
Cook. Lester L. Pike. Harry C. West
Frank A. Girrard. II. b. Emery, Ma
dine Winston. Julia Graves, Mrs. w
II. Bray, Gustave Neaville and Chas
| II. Stevens.
on Thursday and Friday evenings
neXt.and Friday afternoon, a May Fes-
tival will be given in the Fifth ward
meeting house, the same being under
the auspices of the ward Bishoprlc.
The three entertainments viii consist
of dancing and choice program, while
from booths presided over by young
ladies' of the ward organizations, re-
freshments will be served in such n
pleasing variety as to meet the de-
mands of all who may attend. The
hall win be deliberately decorated. and
all in all n good time Is expected.
During the week, voting contest
for queen of theFestival has been going
on and it has now assumed very
spirited phase and promises to remain
so till the close of the polls on Tues
day night. Last nights return of the
ballots put Miss Teenie Stanley in the
lead with i2S votes. The others stand
as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Grihiths,
2S4: Miss Lottie Marcroft, 1871: Miss
Matte West, 116; Miss Julia Littley
81; Miss Janet Littley, 10.
An entertainment that promises to he
most delightful Is being arranged by
Mr.. Nat NJ. Brigham and Mrs William
Iglehart for rendition a the CongrcGa-
| tiunal church,, and will be given Thurs
day next. 1t is designated Ivy Its talent
ed authors as an evening of Southern
| Song and Story. The musical part OF
the program will be made up entirely OF
negro and plantation melodies while
| the literary portion will he drawn from
negro character sketches, written By
such well known authors as Joel Chand'
Ter Harris, Ruth McHenry Stewart
| and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Read
ings from these authors will be given by
Mrs. Iglehart, while the musical mum
bers will be entrusted to Mr. Brigham
assisted by Miss Edna Dwyer, Mis-:
Miriam Henderson, and Messrs. Ash
worth, Best, Patrick, Christopherson
and Willis.
FootliGht Flashes.
The Triumph Of Death has beei
dramatlzed
Eugene w. Presbrey is finishing an
other play for w. II. Crane.
Robert Downing is to give the aren
scene from The Gladiator in TIL
| vaudeville thdaters,
The new japanese comic opera. Tn
i, Coreans had run Of one week at tn