The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-28


Colonel Clopton gave him. This per
fCrmance was not so sensational as
when Nero fiddled 'There'H be a hot
time IN the told town." while Rome
burned. but 1t is mentioned TO prove
that Kocian, and ali the Deutschland s
passengers, preserved their good hu-
NOR. Under circumstances rather try
ing. Commodore Barends, her COM
Enander, assured them the snip was IN
10 danger, and, believing him, they
we're more than patient-they were
jolly
on board the Deutschland were Nine
Schumann- Heink. Edouard de Reszkc.
L. Harrison. DR.. Joseph Jan Svatek,
kVcian's uncle. and many other agree
able people, who helped TO while the
tedium of sticking in the mud.
The only sad fact is that the Deutsch-
land has on board Sl213.OOZ In gold
bars At the rate Of 3 per cent, rough
~ the current rate of interest in Ger
many's money centers now, the ship s
delay cost somebody about 500. The
exchange problem is being mighty
closely figured at the moment.
'Well read" gentlemen, with heavy
minds, are az present expressing them
selves, leadenly. but plea singly, on the
chaSte but archaic subject Of a ma
tiOnal theatre" or. at any rate of Il
ia the New York American and Jour
nal Do not imagine that I have the
slightest intention of leaDing into the
breach and saying things. Let things
come Let EN- all come. There is one
point. however, that is worth discuss
ing It is our national drama 1t is
lot futile point You see, a national
theatre really needs some sort of ma
tOnal attraction. And that is why it
is a good thing to just glance at our
national drama, assuming that we have
one. dare to say that the only ma
tiOnal drama I can find. after severe
cOgitation. is that beautiful. fin and
classic commodity known as musical
comedy.
Frederic Ranken and Raymond Hub
bell have left for Buffalo. where they
VIII meet Fay TempletOn. who is there
with the WebeTfelGs company Hub
bell is responsible for the music of
The RUnaways,' and Ranken has al
most entirely rewritten the book Of the
play The two viii travel with the
Weberfelds company all this week ana
coach Miss TempletOn in the role which
she viii assume in THE RunaWays."
Miss TempletOn replaces Dorothy
DOrr In the role Of Josie May, the comic
opera prima donna. who. in the new
version, turns jockey at the finale Of
the first act. Rankeu has so rewritten
the part that il is expected to dom
mate the whole play.
Although she appears in jockey cos
tune Miss TempletOn will not appear
on horseback. The possibility OF her
making an entrance on horseback was
seriously discussed by Sam Shubert
and Ranken, but the idea was rejected
because suitable horse could not be
found.
The revised version Of The Run
aways' viii be put on June 10 and
Miss Templeton win play her role for
the first time that night. This win
give her one week Of rehearsals in New
York. besides the benefit she is expect
ed to receive from the coaching Of
Ranken and HubbelI
There viii be two other new faces in
the cast at the Casino on that evening.
John Gilbert replacing Al Fields, and
Sol solomon appearing in a part espe-
eially written for him by Ranken-
Fields viii not leave the employ Of the
Shuberts, but viii play some vaude-
vile dates before beginning rehearsals
for the production which the Shuberts
VIII make next fall. The role which
Ranken has written for Solomon is that
Oe a jockey. Solomon Is almost as
diminutive as Arthur Dunn, and the
two viii be seen together in several
songs and one speciality.
1t is estimated by Sir Robert Giffen
that the number Of women who are to
be deprived Of %he chance of marrying
Herr Kubelik is 81, S91, 472.
Nile. Daniela Deronda. the Syrian
contralto, has been decorated by the
sultan with the Order Of the Jerusalem
Artichoke- A portrait of the gifted
artist, with artichoke. appears in the
last number Of Home Prattle.
NJ Prosper UkhtOmsky, the Bessara-
bian pianist, has purchased a cattle
run in Arizona. He finds the work
of a COW puncher admira bly, suited to
keeping his hand in
During his recent tour in the United
States the Chevalier BOlesas Simpanki,
the One-eyed Armenian violinist. re-
ceived offers Of marriage from no fewer
than seventeen miliionairesses. The
rival claims having been referred to a
plebiscite Of readers Of the North At
lantic Hairdressers' Gazette, an over
whelmfng majority was returned in
favor Of Miss Edna McAsser, the Ore
gOn oil queen.
Nile. Obbia Bohotle, the SomaH
mezzO-s soprano, has given $4,000 for
her new motor car. With a generosity
that cannot be too highly commended.
Mile. BOhotle has engaged a destitute
English composer as chauffeur and ae-
companist.
Miss Mamie CachaIot, the New South
Wales prima donna, who is so well
known for her pronounced imperialis-
Tic views. has bequeathed her larnyx
TO the British museum
n Sevcik, the Bohemian maestro.
when not engaged in training prodigies,
devOtes all his leisure to the eIucida-
ton of COptic palimpsests.
Sir Charles Stanford has purchased
a motor bicycle, which he rides with
the soft pedal down.-Pmch.
Puccini is recovering steadily from
his accident, and the doctors assure
his friends that ne viii be perfectly
and completely restored. The broken
leg viii have TO be in splints for
month longer.
Some valuable manuscripts Of Pales-
trina have been tolen from the Church
of ST. John Lateran in Rome Among
the missing documents is the original
score Of the 'Improperia,' first per
formed in 1860 before Pope Plus ".
Felix Motif lately conducted at
karlsruhe Bach's ''Aatthaus Passion
unabridged. There was an interval
F,ar no