The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-19
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On March % Seidl testimonial will
be given at the Metropolitan opera
house. for the benefit of Mrs. Seidl. The
seats, most of which have been sold for
some time, are 81 apiece.
T. Daniel Frawley will open his
Washington stock season the first week
| in April, with a revival of '"Trilby.''
His new leading lady, Mary Van Buren,,
is said to be very beautiful.
Jean de Reszke has abandoned the
! idea of his conservatory of music and
will have a new opera house in Paris
instead. This building will include a
theatre, where debutantes will take
their chances.
Mrs. F'iske has abandoned Mazda
for the present, and has revived two
short plays in which she has already
won favor-"Love Finds the Way and
"a Bit of Old Chelsea Later, Mrs.
Fiske will revive ''Frou Frou.'
Clara Thropp, a soubrette, is now
starring in Ibsen's play, "a Dolls
House. Duluth paper says: Miss
Thropp will also sing, in her inimitable
way, My Honolulu Lady and Kipling' S
world famous barrack song On the
Road to Mandalay.
William Archer, the London dramatic
critic, says that the American drama.
and American actors are steadily
growing in favor in England, but that
this account among English actors.
Manager Piper has lately contracted
for the appearance at the Theatre this
season of Stuart Robson, Marie Bur-
| roughs, Herbert Kelley and Effie Shan
| non and Frohman's "On and Off" COM
pany.
Charles Dalton, the leading man of
| the Sign of the Cross company, is a
young English actor who has created
many we'll known roles in London. Mr..
Dalton first studied for the concert
stage, but was encouraged to become an
| actor by Edwin Booth.
Maude Warrilow, who will be seen
as Stephanus, the boy martyr, in '"The
Sign of the Cross" at the Salt Lake
theatre, is said to look SO much Ike a
boy on the stage that one is compelled
to glance at his programme now and
then to make sure that it reads miss
instead of master.
The following is from the Baltimore
American:
THE current issue of the Dramatic
Mirror has four excellent pictures of
Miss Jennie Remark gracing it's front
page. The Mirror predicts great sue
cesses in the future for Miss Remark,
and says critics of discrimination have
alluded to her as the young Clara
Morris On the conclusion of the reg
ular season at the Lyceum, Miss Ken
mark will leave for summer season in
the west"
A musical journal says that the fad
in New York society of having noted
artists to sing at private entertain
ments is a costly one. Madame Sem
brich receives about 1000 for an even
ing's work of the kind, Emma Eames,
Calve and Lii Lehman, from $1,000 to
ST. 500; Van Dyck, from $1,000 to $500,
while the De ResZkeS get from 50, 600 to-
So 900. 1t is said that DR.. and Mrs.
Seward Webb started the fad about
ten years ago with a musical evening
which cost over $1,000. Here, in France
and in Germany the artists so engaged
are treated as social equals by host and
guests. But in England this is not so,
and the same journal says that some
of the greatest artists have refused for
this reason to sing even before the
queen.