Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-02

ana making preparations To DC out on
the road all season
Oscar kirkham OF Provo, prom
ising young tenor, who has been In
Germany something over year has
now settled In Berlin, and In studying
With Felix Schmidt. Miss Gates brings
very good reports OF him.
We are going 10 have Beauty and
the Beast next week az the Broadway
theater. Birdie Sutherland, an Eng
fish beauty OF the comic opera stage,
was brought over to play the title role
She came and she went She shed the
light OF her c0untenance on the stage
manager chorus girls and boys, for one
rehearsal only, then decided this cli~
mate wouldn't agree with her or
course there were ugly rumors OF dis
agreements between manager and
Beauty, which were very skillfully sup
pressed before these gossipy Sew York
newspapers could get them In print,
Miss Sutherland took a return
steamer for. London, without CIV
Ing many reporters chance
10 interview her. Viola Pratt Gllett
IL 10 be the Beast but 1t wouldn't
require any great stretch OF the lmagin-
alton 10 fancy her as the Beauty.
Every theater IL filled these days 20
Its utmost capacity. Especially is this
true of the matlnees. The wen known
matinee girl" and isn't she well
known IN New York? has induced her
brothers and male cousins to Join her
--of course the mother, or aunt Is al
ways In evidence. But now, the young
man Is as prominent as the young girl
in the audience, and the fayorite actor
or actress, ~ greeted heartily. and
sometimes pelted with the violet cor
sage bouquet or long stemmed rose,
The matinee Is certainly Il great fea-
rure of the New Workers. amusement.
Some visiting friends asked advice
about which matinee 10 attend, one day
last week, as they were pressed for
time They were told to begin with
the Broadway theater, where the Cas-
lie Square Co. Is giving "Tannhauser.
II not successful TO proceed down
the Canyon" and get tickets
wherever they could. Seven the
aters were entered before they sue
ceeded In getting even admission,
STANDING room only" was the sign
at every door The sidewalk in front
OF the "knickerbocker, where Irving
and Terry are playing has the appear
ance Of bread riot from the time the
box office opens until sunset, but alas.
only the wealthy can get in.
The annual flower show Is on at the
Madison Square Gardens Yesterday
was Chrysanthemum day, and such
sight Never was there a grander dis
play OF those most beautiful of autumn
flowers Roses, orchids, palms and
cactus were there In profusion too,
but the chrysanthemums eclipsed any
thing ever seen In that beautiful cre-
alton. They had also a side show of
fruits and vegetables, but We're so IN
ferior compared TO what we have at
home, l viii not even mention them,
Immense crowds gather nightly at
these exhibitions.
Sunday night at the Utah Tavern"
the Relief Society held their meeting,
and II was almost like stepping into the
dear old Eighteenth ward chapel to see
so many familiar faces. w. G. Spence,
wife and daughter, Mrs Julia Taylor
and daughter Lucille, ]. j. Mcclellan
your fine orRanist. classic of counte-
nance as ever, Mrs. Alonzo Hyde and
daughter Beatrice, Mrs Lucy p. Young
Miss Lulu Gates Mrs. Sears and Miss
Ruth Wilson and Miss Mary Young
recently arrived from Salt Lake II
was truly gathering Of the Utah
clans, and the evening they enjoyed
tyae a ay,nnrah ma JANET