The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-06
Stage Whispers.

Mabel Bert is playing with Henry
Miller in New York.
Louise Thorndyke Boucicault has
enlisted in the vaudevilles.
Goodwin's last Clyde Fitch play,
Nathan Hale" has been shelved
Nine Modjeska has done so well in
New York that she viii play a return
engagement.
AT a recent sale in London a Stradi-
varius violin dated 1929 was disposed
of for e610, or $2,964 so.
Hermann Sudermann's next play will
be fiery drama in verse, called THE
Three Heron Feathers"
Henry Miller has a new play, 1.-THE
Master in which he gains praise, but
the play does not seem to be a success.
Rose Eytinge and Francis Hodgson
Burnett arc collaborating a. play on
the subject of THAT Lass o. Lowrie's."
Black Patti and her troupe of so
troubadours will make their first ap-
pearance in this city towards the end
of the month.
Madame Albani made her Australian
debut at Sydney two weeks ago last
Thursday evening, and was most cor
daily received.
The Salt Lake Opera company meets
tomorrow evening at o'clock to con-
slider the Logan and Provo dates to be
filed with Said Pasha."
Clementine de We're, the American,
has closed her concert tour of this
country. She is under contract to sing
in Italian opera in London this spring.
At the peace jubilee in Boston, 1862
Nine. Parepa Rosas voice was dis
tinguishable above 1900 singers, an
orchestra of over 1000 instruments,
and in a hall where the audience con-
sisted of 10000 people.
One song of Schubert's, "The Wan
derer," brought it's publishers, be-
tween 1922 and 1861, upwards of $4,000.
By Schubert's request, he was buried
near Beethoven. both lying together in
the cemetery at Vienna.
San Francisco Call: The Columbia
is in for another week of shall We
Forgive Herr" and has my sympathies.
The melodrama is objectionable mush,
and Marie Wainwright would do her
self prouder to be in vaudeville.
Sir Henry Irving has just reached
his 60th birthday. 1t is 80 years since
he played Bob Gassitt in the late H.
J. Byron's Queens theatre in Long
Acre; November, 1871, and October.
1874, were marked by his memorable
first appearance as Matthias and as
Hamlet his Louis XI dates from
March. 1873. and it will be 90 years at
the end of next December since he be-
came ruler of the Lyceum theatre.
AdeIini Patti has been in Paris at the
Continental hotel since the death of
Nicolini and is living in retirement. All
her concert engagements have been
Cancelled and she will not be heard in
public until late in the spring, when she
will give a concert in London and sing
in the various English provincial cities.
When she leaves Paris she will go to
Craig-y-Nos. She was to have sung in
opera next month at Monte Carlo.
Henry Miller and his company got to
in the big snowstorm, but
the baggage and scenery did not, and
'Feartsease" was performed that night /
in modern costumes and with make |
shift scenery. The audience was good !
humOred and indulgent. The bad wea-
Their played havoc with travelling COM !
panies throughout the whole sweep of /
wind and snow. In one western in !
stance a company footed it five miles |
over a hill because a railway tunnel I
was chol;ed and reached a theatre III |
time to keep a $500 assemblage-
a nice little story of the stage credits !
Sir Henry Irving with a bit of repartee |
calculated to cause a. smile. One day an /
aspiring genius suggested to Irving the |
dea that, as scarlet was in former days /
IN certain countries an emblem OF |
Hamlet should be attired in /
red in place of the conventional black. |
Some one at Irving's elbow said: mo.
surely meant black, for /
does he not say: And what would
become of my inky cloak, good moth
er?'" Irving thought for a moment;
hen he said, with his characteristic /
Infection: -you-forget-th
night have been red ink in those days
Victor Maurel, whom the Berlin pa
pers style Mr., is shortly to be heard
at the Royal Opera House in Berlin,
and that will mark his first appearance
in Prussia. He, like Sarah Bernhardt,
always said that he would accept
nothing but Alsace-Lorraine as COM