The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-31

tract whose terms he considered about
lifted the niceties of the case, Mr.. Led
by which the representative of Miss
King was to go down on the salary list
as publicity promoter.
This was something new on Mr.. Led
erer. He confessed it and attempted to
dodge the issue, for what need had he
Of Mr.. Mckay? Did he not have his
sunny brother Jim to fence with the
dramatic editors and smile upon the
picture supplement men2 But Mckay
was obdurate, and said, mo me, no
Blanche" and the manager had to
capitulate
The opening now is less than two
weeks off, and Mckay has not yet re-
ported for duty.
It happened not many miles from
Chicago, says the Musical Leader Of
New York. A German band was dis
pensing pennies worth Of sounds in
front Of a downtown resort. Attracted
by the acOustical symposium, a
stranger asked the name of the piece
they were playing. Vat screamed the
leader, in horror, you know vat dot
piece not is? Colt in Himme1. vot
dense ignOrpotami. You dOnd know
vat piece is dOt?'' MOI don't re-
Piled the individual. thoroughly cowed
and ashamed of his ignorance. ''VeH,
my trent, dot piece is Die Nibelung.' "
We'll, what is Die Nibelung' % tACh,
du heber. dOnd know vat is Die Nibe-
lung Boys, voundnt you got frozen?
He dOnd know. even not vat is Die
Nibelung! Vel. my trent, Die Niebe-
lung is piece of Wagner" And
who is Wagner persisted the strang-
eT. 'Mein Colt! Mein Colt, poysI
Hear dot. He is a mar. vot knows even
not vat IS Wagner. der man vat made
der palace cars Mein Colt, Go away
and get job in der foolish asylum
A rumOr that Sullivan. Harris &
Woods were to direct a season of Ital-
ian grand opera. has Travelled so per
slStently up and down Broadway that
this firm had begun to believe it them
selves.
'Sh-sh,'' ran the whisper. Have
you heard the news? Sam Harris and
PADDY Sullivan have gone in for the
Mlttenthal thing. DagO music, sure"
Now the truth has Outed Ever since
this theatrical firm moved into its new
oHlces II has been besieged by small
armies or Italians, clamoring for some
lnlng-eVen the philOlOgist, Sam Har-
RS, could not tell what.
yesterday they learned that the Of
noes they now occupy were formerly
rented to the Barber Asphalt company,
winch, in the natural order Of things,
employs hundreds of italian labOrers.
Inc unWelCOme visitors were merely
new recruits seeking employment.
sullivan, Harris & Woods are graft
ned 10 learn the reason of their sudden
popularity among the foreign element,
ana when Theodore Kremer hears the
news in London his sigh of relief is ex-
pecued TO thunder across the Atlantic
like a tempestuOus storm.
After the
Mhlch bound him to Blanche Walsh. Al
tred Hickman seems to have wasted
niue time in again jumping into the
matrimonial net, for, upon what seems
excellent authority, the comic opera
Tenor IS reported to have been married
lasI SUNDAY TO Leslie Mayo. a show girl
OF the Nancy Brown" company.
Ihat Hickman had been most devoted
20 MISS Mayo was an open secret in
lne Nancy Brown organization
w hen Miss Mayo's grip required trans
portauOn Hickman was ever ready TO
carry 1t; il rude Clubmen besieCed the
stage door OF the BijOu theatre. again
1t was Hickman who cried, stand
I DacA' villains, as Miss Mayo made her
Therefore, the various members Of the
company were not surprised to hear
report that Immediately after last Sat
urday's night performance Hickman
and Miss Mayo went to Jersey CITY.
where they were married by a justice
OF the. peace Following the ceremony.
The report goes. the pair departed i'm
mediately on the Overland Limited for
San Francisco, where they are 10 take
part IN J. G Duff's presentations of the
DAILY $ theatre musical productions. The
majority of tn company had departed
the night before.
Lillian Heidelbach is in demand. Herr
Conried wants her for the METROPOLITAN
next season In fact, he has signed her.
Slgnor MontegriffO wants her for the
Terrace Garden for the remainder Of
this season. In fact, she is under con-
tract TO him. But she sings not. neither
does she act at Terrace Garden. She
says she IS in III health. The i'll health
developed after Conried took her on.
Slgnor MOntegriffO, who thinks he
needs the services of the singer. is tear
ing mis- hair and uttering strange Oaths.
He says. by Garibaldi. he'll sue if his
singer doesn't come back to Fifty
eighth street.
Miss Heidelbach is described as a
'prima donna who is destined, in the
judgment of good critics, to make a |
furore in grand opera. Beautiful.
shapely, young and the possessor Of a J
glorious voice, there is a future for her /
which. it is alleged by disinterested |
persons, Herr Direkt0r COnried is try
ing to hold for his own ends"
Speaking generally, there is not in /
The entire profession of music today a /
position at once so important ana con
spicuous as that of the musician to 4
whom is entrusted the selection of the !
music programmes Tor the ensuing 1
Worlds fair. 1t is prodigious task. i
viewed merely from the executive side /