The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-23

with one of the special matinees each
week.
Hattie Williams has a big feather in
her cap right at the beginning OF her
starring career, for there never was a
more phenomenal musical play success
than The Little Cherub" at the Cri-
teriOn theatre, New York, has turned
out to be. For three solid weeks of the
hottest weather imaginable, this dam
ty and Notwithstanding production
has drawn capacity audiences. There
hasn't been a night when the Criterion
wasn't packed TO the doors, and on
many nights hundreds were turned
away from the box Office. No
greater or surer tribute to the merits
OF a show could probably be secured.
Miss Williams and her seventy asso-
ciate funmakers have made the Cher
ub'' one of the most positive delights
of the early theatrical season. and if
next spring doesn't find them all at the
same stand still reveling in the same
volume Of popularity, several theatri-
cal prophets will have to take in their
signs.
Nine. Melba. after a most successful
season at Covent Garden, is spending
the summer quietly at her country place
d few miles out Of London. She will
| ,
of December TO fill her engagement
with the Hammerstein Opera company
| in New York. AS usual her personal
business will be in the hands Of c. A
Ellis of Boston, who has been her
manager since her second season in this
country. She contemplates no extended
tour this year. but will make a few
concert appearances with the Boston
| Symphony orchestra and with her own
company, combining herself TO the east
| ern section of the country.
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Reports have lately been current I'm
/ the newspapers that Paderewski has
changed his plans and will give a num-
| Der OF recitals while in America next
winter. This is a mistake. He comes
| to America IN the end of December for
! seven concerts with the Boston Sym
phony orchestra, playing with that or
! ganization in Boston twice, New York,
/ Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
| Washington. He will return TO Europe
! in the latter part of January, where
an extensive tour has been planned.
! Next year. in 1907-19OS. he will come 10
America in October and stay the whole
| season. giving from 100 TO 125 concerts.
under the direction of c. A. Ellis Of
Boston.
Ben Greet announces that he will in
/ augurate his fifth consecutive Ameri-
/ can tour early in October, when the
/ Ben Greet players, famous for their
! Shakespearian performances, will re-
turn from England, where they are now
| giving a series of open air plays. IN
| Guiding appearances at Oxford. Cam
/ bridge, Carisbrooke Castle. Chatworth
Hall and the Crystal Palace, London.
Henrietta Crosman's company this
! season in the comedy "All-of-a-
! Sudden-Peggy" is Edward Mackey,
| Ernest Stallard. J. r Crawford. Addi-
son Pitt, John Marble, g A. Chanos.
Kate Meek. Ida, Waterman, Jane Mar
bury and Ann Warrington.
Ida Vernon has been engaged by Har-
! risOn Grey FisSe to support Mrs. Fiske
! this season as q member of the Man
haitian company. Miss Vernon who has
been a favorite with the present gen
| Grafton of theater-goers as an actress
! of grande dame parts, was even
greater favorite of the past generation
the better class OF plays. and is soon
to celebrate her fiftieth anniversary as
an actress. a point so seldom reached in
any profession that ii is always nota-
BILE while it is matter of special in
terest when related TO a favorite player
Miss Vernon was born in 1S43 and made
her debut at the Boston theater in
September, 1856, as one of the little
Blossom Fairies in "A Midsummer
sixty years Of age, Miss Vernon is still
alert and energetic. her originally
striking beauty Is by no means lost In
her years, and she is a distinguished
figure both on and off the stage.