The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-02
ELIZABETH, QUEEN Of ENG
LAND.

- ~H J0GLs dSO. Hu6u tue IHmO2!
!, Julia Dean Hayne came to Salt Lake
. CITY, our dramatic author, Edward
w. Tullidge, Esq, proposed to thi,
eminent lady a new dramatic pro.
I gramme for tue sIage, himself to be
. the author and she the actress. The
following letter from her begins their
'' professional relations
e E. ". TpJidge, Esq
Dear .Sir-At anytime your leisure
, may serve, shall be most happy of your
2 acquaintance. Though an authors own
genius Is bis best prompter as a con-
genial subject for his pen, yet such as it
Is, my advice is at your service. Trust
ing shall soon have the pleasure Of per-
sonallV thanking you, 1 remain,
Yours truly,
JULIA DEAN HAYNE.
Thursday noon.
The dramatic views thereafter laid
before the eminent actress we're as
follows: Mr.. TulIidge said: There has
long been the talk in the profession OF
the revival Of the legitimate drama.
and Mr.. Chsrles Kean has attempted
1t by his great scenic efforts Bot
this can only partially succeed. What
we need is new series OF great his
torical plays, beginning exactly
where Shakespeare leit of. Were
shakespeare living be would soon
revive the legitimate drama with 8
new series Of his great plays which
would become as immortal as those
left by him to live as long as the race
endures. Madam" said the author,
Elizabeth Cf England is the first OF
that series. Shakespeare lived too
near her, even after her death. He
could not and dared not write
Elizabeth in the lifetime of James
Stuart, King Of England and Scot
land, and the son of Mary Stuart.
whose mother must have come irto
the plsy in Der subject, if not in per-
son, and Elizabeth and England to-
gether must execute her. This is the
reason Shakespeare did not leave to
the world an Elizabeth. Had be done
81, it would probably have been his
masterpiece, and we should have had
a gorgeous play of the greatest queen
that ever lived, for the Elizabethau
age was q gorgeous age and
the dramatic reproduction Of the
age and its characters would
have afforded the opportunity for the
sublimest Shakspearean poetryas well
es the grsndest dramatic construction.
We shall never be able to fully
realize what Shakespeare's Elizabeth
would have been, but we do know
that she would have been the Pro
testsnt Queen of England, an i'm {
perial heroine, and thoroughly Eng
hsh in her genius and character. OF
course, madam, it is impossible for
me to write Shakspeare's Elizabeth; Il
but | propose to give to you a dra-
matte effort limiting Shskspearean
ideal of the great Protestant queen.
Mrs. Hayne, you must haze an Eliza '
beth of England, even if you have to !
sit down with the author and help
him write it. Elizabeth in London Q
will give to you the sceptre of the
stage" o
Julia Dean Hayne was struck by L
TulHdge's bold and novel views, but q
at the time NOS quite prepared q
to start her future by undertaking j
an entirely new series of great Q
historical plays from the pen OF an
unknown author of Salt Lake City. a
She advised Mr.. Tullidge, however, q
to write for her a test play OF the c
El zabethean period before going fur o
Their into the work. This he did, and Il
Eleanor DeVere" was produced, o
Queen Elizabeth being brought into v
the play. Our citizens, many OF them, a
will remember what q triumph c
Eleanor DeVere" was, both to the i
actress and the author. "Mr. Tul- 1
lidge," said Julia Dean HGyne, the Q
morning after the performance, c
write for me Elizabeth of England, Q
and | will play her in London" I'M
mediately the author went to work
and wrote the first draft of "Elizs- Il
BETH" but 80 great was the strain J
upon the authors mental powers in a
the production of the play, that he =
was thrown into a violent brain o
fever. To recover himself he 9
made professional trip to .
New York. taking his play Q
with him expecting soon to meet q
Mrs. Hayne east and to 60 with her O
to London, but the lady tarried in the e
west longer than her fret intention L
and when she reached New York G
Rgtori's play of Queen Elizabeth" 0
in the hands of Mrs. Lander Grams 2
lated from the Italian) was just IN |
nounced as the sensation of the open g
ing season. But Tullidge's "Eiizs- .
beth" was designed for London snd o
Mrs. Hayne authorized the announce. b
ment that she purposed to make her u
debut in London in the great Protest q
ant play of the imperial heroine OF Il
and to challenge her play L
sgain,t that of RisEori who then c
ruled IS queen of the stage. The q
design however was not to be fulfilled Z
in consequence of this eminent II
American actress dying just previous C
to the time of her intended visit to
London.
Mr.. T. a. Lyme has recently read +
Mr.. Tullidge's play and he pro. =
DDulCC5 IL klOat pASGASh-S~
worthy OF a Charlotte Cushmsn. de
says that for dramatic power some OF
It's passages are equal to anything IN
the English language, and forecasts q
grand triumph for the author, If ever r
this great Protestant play OF Eng :
lands once idolized queen reaches the :
London stage in the hands of an &C :
tress equal 20 the part. This being {
tbs case, Mr.. Lyme prophesies that 1t
Will be said in England, "And this
great play Of England's queen was
born st the base Of the Rocky Noun
tains." Next Sunday evening, at the
Liberal Institute, the veteran TRACE
dian OF the west will read the play for
the benefit of the author, when he
will show to the public the dramatic
power and quality of Edward Tul-
iidee's Elizabeth of England"
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