The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-10

1t looks as though novelties would
] be scarce in New York next season. The
Empire theatre will open on Aug 80
with William Gillette in TOO Much
johnson. On Sept. Mr.. Gillette will
appear in Secret Service
An English newspaper says that Mr..
William Gillette is studying Conan
Doyle's manuscript of Sherlock
Holmes" to discover whether the role
of the most popular detective of mod
ern fiction is suited to his require
ments. The writer thinks that Gill
lette was cut out" to play the part
and thinks his expressive immobility'
and graphic calm particularly fit
him for it.
Jennie Hawley's successor as under
study to Jessie Bartlett Davis next
season will be Belle Chamberlin.
Music and Drama says that .The
Little Minister netted Charles Froh-
man something like 100000 on the en-
gagement, and that Maude Adams did
not share in the profits, but her salary
was small fortune in itself.
Blanche Bates was compelled to re-
tire from the cast of "Chattanooga'' in
Chicago, on account of the heat. She
was Frustrated one morning at rehear-
sal.
Michelena, Emma Abbott's favorite
tenor, and popular singer with pa
irons of the opera here, is now singing
with stock opera company in Los An
geles.
Belle Cole. who has been singing
abroad for some years, is about to re-
turn to this country, owing to the ill
Leonard Grover, author of "Our
Boarding House." and an old soiourner
in Salt Lake, has taken a. lease of the
Park theatre, Brooklyn, and will open
on Aug. 20 with a high-class stock COM
pany.
Sims Reeves, the English tenor, who
is now in his 18th year, has decided 70
retire to private life For nearly so
years he sang in public, and of late had
peen prominent as a teacher.
John Glendining, who originated the
part of The Laird in "TTilby," and who
was seen here in the part, is now tour
ing the English provinces with a play
called Upon the Waters
The theatrical year now closed. says
the Mirror, has been remarkable for the
number of deaths of actors prominent
at the moment or formerly distinguish
ed. Among those taken from the thea
ire of this country during the wear
were Mrs. John Drew, Thomas Keene.
Joseph Proctor, Thomas Whiffen. Car
RE turner, Joseph W. Shannon,
Charles I. Parsloe, w. J. Seaman
John Wild, Margaret Mather. Charlotte
thompson, Harry Meredith and MANY
others. Some were stricken at the time
OF their greatest usefulness to the
stage; others had retired from activity
and looked back upon honorable and
useful lives. 1t is doubtful if the nee
rology of any year has included the
names of so many actors of note as
may be found in the record of the past
twelvemonth
The plays with which Henry Miller
will tour the Pacific coast next season
are ''Heartsease,' 1.-The Master" and
"A Marriage of Convenience"
1t speaks well for the theatrical taste
of Los Angeles that Modjeskas two
weeks there with the local stock com
pany in support yielded SIS. 900 in re-
ceipts. Mary Stuart" .Adrienne.''
Magda" and Camille were the PLAYS
Clarence Eddy, the Chicago organist,
was Kissed while performing in Paris
lately, some people in the audience
taking that means of testifying to their
sympathy with Spain.
Lewis Morrison is meeting with de-
cided success at the Alcazar in San
Francisco. His Frederick the Great"
is in its second week and he will soon
essay ''Richelieu' and East Lynne"
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Cures Headache, Nervousness, Erup
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and other druggists.