The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-17
GLIMMERINGs.


E. H. Sothern is doing Hamlet with
great success. His wife, Virginia Har-
ned, is the O.helia-
Colonel W. 4 Thompson has re-
ceived a proposition TO lake COlIamarini
and the Boston Lyric opera company
TO Manila for a season. 1t is hoped ne
will accept
At last the Chinese war has been
made the subject Tor a stage presenta-
ton. "A Little Tragedy at Tien Tsin''
it is called, and who but Brady would
get hold of it? There is one act, and
1t goes with a new drama
Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry
Will begin their American season in
New York next September at the
KnickerbOcker theatre with an elabor-
ate presenta ton of "COTiOianus.'
Helen BeStram's -TaTantella," rem
dered in the second act of Klaw & En-
langer's production Of Smith and De
KOven's opera, Foxy CUTLER" Is
spoken of as one of the most dramatic
efforts heard in years. The motive of
the composition Is the old Corsican Ie-
gend that one bitten by the tarantula
shall dance forever:
Clyde Fitch now has four plays run
ming in New York, these including a
revival of Barbara Frietchie, in which
Effie E1lsler is appearing, and three
new plays, The Climbers" given by
Amelia Binghams stock company;
Captain links of the Horse Marines, "
with Ethel Barrymore in the leading
character, and Lovers Lane," the new
play w. A. Brady is producing. In ad-
dftion, his "SaphO," Nathan Hale, ~
being generally played.
During a recent engagement at the
Great Southern theatre, Columbus, o.,
the treasurer took in a $40 bill upon
which was written: THE last OF
$40. OOO. and signed Riley Grammar, the
WelI-knOwn bOOkmaker. The bill was
paid out in the course Of business, and
fell into the hands of a business man,
who at once communicated with Gran
nan, who is now out on the San Fran
cisco tracks, and negotiations are in
progress now for the return Of the
marked bill to Grammar, who, since he
set it afiOat on the sea of business, has
made another fortune, and is anxious
to get the marked bill back again.
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These views on the theatrical syndi-
cate are attributed to Sara Bernhard
by the Chicago Tribune:
'I do not believe that the drama is
deteriorating, or that the public taste
demands anything but the highest For
a short time the problem play at
tracted notice, but 1 believe its day is
over; it could not live. AS for the the
atrical trust 1 hear about here, viii
say that ] think it is abOminable, and
all honor is due TO those who fight Ii,
as it seems to me il is a, direct menace
to the drama, destroying personal free
dom of action, without which art can
not exist. Such a thing would not be
permitted in France. 1t would be alb
soIutely impossible. If it is persisted
in here it must affect the future of the
drama in the country"
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A letter from abroad relates the very
odd circumstances under which Nine.
BlauveIt, the American soprano, made
her re-entTe on the London concert
stage at st. James hall Saturday af
ternOon, Jan. u. Early in the morn
ing one of LOndOn's famous fOgs set
tied over the city, rendering it neces-
sary to light the street lamps as early
as 9 o'clock. By noon it was unusually
thick. Going from the Hotel Russell
to St. James hall, Mime. BlaUvelt lost
her way and was over an hour cover
ing a distance that would ordinarily
take ten minutes. When she came on
the stage to sing, the letter states, the
fog was so dense in St. James hall
that she could not see her audience,
nor they her. SO she simply sang to a
bank of fog without a greeting. The
applause that came out of the fog bank
after she sang, however, demonstrated
that she had not been forgotten by her
London admirers.