The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-08

viii open a preliminary season at the
| New Grand theatre on Wednesday
/ evening at popular prices-25 cents and
80 cents. A minstrel and vaudeville
| performance will be given this week
for the four nights and matinee.
SMALL TALK.
Ed Scarce, a former Salt Lake sing
er, is in the chorus of "Florodora" at
the Casino. New York.
Viola Allen begins her fourth season
as a star in Hartford, Conn, Sept. 16,
playing In the Palace of the King
! One of those mistakes attributed to
/ the composing room made the name of
81 Goodfriend, in advance of Mrs.
Danes Defence" appear as S Poor
] friend in the theatre programme dur
! ing the Salt Lake engagement. Mr..
| Goodfriend was wild. mis- friends
shrieked with laughter.
Four notable attractions of the sea-
son have been well launched in the
past two weeks. They are Otis Skin
ner in Francesca da Rimini.'' William
I Faversham in "A Royal RIVAL. j. II.
| Stoddart in Tine Bonnie Briar Bush
and James *. Hackett in Don Caesars
Return" me.
Rostand's play "samaratine,'' recent
| ~ produced in Rome. is said to be a
| failure, due largely to the condemna-
ton of it on the ground that it is sacri-
! legiOus.
Marie Tempest has produced her
version of Becky Sharp" in London,
where she appeared last week in the
! title role with great success, according
| to the cable dispatches from there.
More reliable reports will be awaited,
1 however, as the cables are not as au-
thentic in matters theatrical as they
might be.
Olga Nethersole is said again to be a
very sick woman, and to have aban-
doned all intention of returning to the
stage in the near future. 1t was re
Gently announced that she had bought
from Clyde Fitch the rights for Eng
land and all Europe in his dramatiza-
ton of ''Sapho," and intended to act
in the play in Paris. g.
Mark Smith, who, for the past three
seasons has become a big favorite for
! his clever enactment of the role of
! 'Zaza's" theatrical partner in Mrs.
| Carter's company, is to return to his
| old love, the comic opera field, this
year. having signed as one of the sup
porting company with Lulu CHASER.
! In order to make her new theatre in
Paris thoroughly democratic, Nine.
Bernhardt is reported to have insti-
| tuted a new scale of prices there, rang
/ Ing from ~ cents DOWN TO ~ cents. VI
| course, the divine Sara does not appear
herself at these prices She is at pres
/ ent coaching a new actress. Mile. Par
~, for a revival of Camille.
Charles B. Hanford, who will be
| seen this season in an elaborate re-
! vival of 1.-The Tanning of the Shrew,"
has spent his summer in writing his
| "reminiscences of Edwin Booth. The
j work will appear this fall in a lead
I book
/ form. MIR. HanfOrd was a member of
! Mr. Booths company for several sea-
/ sons, and when the Booth-Barrett
combination was formed Mr.. Hanford
continued as leading man.
Stage fright and consequent exces-
/ sive emotion is given as the cause of
Lucie Maniera's death in France the
! other day. The young lady was max
J ing her debut in new play, and was
/ so wrought up by the occasion that
/ she played distractedly. through the
| first act. and was in such nervous
! state that the stage physician advised
/ her to retire. She went on for the sec
/ ond act saying: I'm unsuited for this
| business and will retire from the stage
forever after tonight" 1t was a
/ pathetic prophecy, for she fell dead on
the stage before the second act was
concluded.
A w. Pinero, the English playwright,
| is said by those acquainted with his
| habits, when beginning the building of
play locks himself in his study, gives
the key to his servant, and for period
even though 1t is six months at a time
is never seen by even his closest
| friends. Though it cannot be said that
he is Initiating Pinero, Augustus Thorn
as also retires to some secluded place
when he wants to work, deciding on the
locality only a few hours before he
goes away There he takes good care
he viii not meet any of his friends on
the way TO the railroad station He
works hard for six months of the year
and spends the remainder of the year
in or out of the city in travel and rec
reatiOn. meanwhile manufacturing
plots for the next seasons plays.
Miss Helen Bertram is to star this
season in a new opera entitled THE
: Embroidered Belt" by Durham and
Minkowsky Curtis Durham Is
young New York newspaper man, who
has written several clever books. Gia-
como Minkows<y is a young Russian
composer who is making brilliant rec
ord in this country. His "Smurglers
OF Bayadez" was given successfully
by the Bostonians. and his rank among
( musicians is very hish. He has tried
his hand at Journalism, and has been
the musical critic Of some of New
York's largest 5aiIies for the past
three years. MinkowslSy recently mar
ried IN American girl whom he met
in San Francisco while his opera was
being performed there. The courtship
was very short. and the principal we'd
ding present was the gift from the
brides mother of sufficient San Fran
cisco real estate to make the young
people Independent for life.
Laura johnson. the Kentucky actress
who was said to be almost starving in
London month ago, is stu in needy
circumstances there. and the efforts of
her friends to aid her have so far met
with little success. Sir Henry Try-ing