The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-24

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expects to produce a dramatic version
of Richard Carvel," with a well known
star in the title role.
The James Kidder-Hanford combina-
ton will open in New York at the
Grand opera house in "A Winters
Tale" early next month.
Miss Hobbs, the play in which Miss
Annie Russell is meeting with such
great success, was originally written by
Mr. Jerome for John Drew.
Nine. Modjeska will open at the Co
lumbia theatre. San Francisco, Monday
liSnl, III a new pay Ny rN~l4iiSOh -
entitled, Marie Antoinette."
Herbert Kelley and Efie Shannon
are to have a new four-act play by
Mildred Bowling, founded upon Black
more's novel Lorna Doone.
A very effective new patriotic song
by Lavinia Pascoe Oblad has just been
published, entitled, THE Heroes Who
INo,I oh fO,. Erraa10y,o opd, old GLORY
Jacob Lift will send cut company in
Days melodrama THE Great Ruby -
this season. He has succeeded in Sc
curing a number of the original peo-
pie.
Lillian Russell is the latest acquisi-
ton to the Weber & Fields, company,
and will have prominent parts in the
new burlesque pieces they are shortly
to produce.
| Cissie Lotus, the mimic. who has
lately appeared at Weber & Fields
| Music hall, has signed contract with
Richard Mansfield to play leading roles
during the coming season.
A young English contralto, Miss Clara
Butt, has recently come to America,
and will make her debut with Nine.
| Nevada at the Metropolitan opera
| house. She is said to be more than
six feet tall, and to possess a fine voice.
Miss Butt will make a tour of this
country, under the management of Mr..
Charles L. Young.
"Yon Yonson," which was such a
great success at the Grand last sea-
son, will. again be seen at that theatre
early in November, with Mr.. Arthur
Donaldson in the title role. The per-
| Torrance is said to be better than ever,
owing to a number of specialties which
have been introduced, including q num-
Der of Swedish folk songs.
A Mrs. Prentiss, representing an
'anti-stage league" came to New York
the other day for the purpose of re-
| forming chorus girls. She took an office
/ in the heart of the Rialto, and sent out
| 200 letters. But eighteen girls respond
ed, and of these, three expressed a de-
sire to leave the stage forever. Mrs.
| Prentiss is not discouraged, however,
and says that they have reformed Chi
! cago burlesquers, so will do likewise in
/ New York. The girls are offered situa-
| tons as clerks, cashiers, etc, at an
average salary of about Sc week. =
Colonel Henry NJ. Kidder has presents
! ed to his daughter Miss Kathryn Kid
der of the James Kidder-H anford com
bination a number of pieces of jewelry
of Grecian design contemporaneous of
] the period of THE Winters Tale,''
which she will exhibit in the dual char
acters of Hermione and Perdita in
| Wagenhals and Kemper's big produc-
| ton of Shakespeare's comedy The
/ jewelry is the product of the Paris
branch of the Chicago house of Spauld-
ing & Co, and was especially made for
Colonel Kidder from designs by NJ.
Codmer, the well known archeologist.
In Wagenhals and Kemper's big pro-
duction of 1.-The Winters Tale" which
will be seen here during the current
season, Louis James will play Antoly-
Gus. Charles B. Hanford will be the
King Leontes and Kathryn lKidder will
essay the dual roles of Hermione and
Perdita, the two characters hitherto
identified with Mary Anderson. Miss
Anderson was the first to break in or
tradition and double" these charac.
tiers in Shakespeare's comedy, an6
Kathryn Kidder's assumption of two
heroines will be watched with keen in.
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