The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-26

ery interest, and that is its sole drawback.
The gallery attendance is the managers
nsrgin of profit, and with patronage
United to the down stairs gathering no
,lay can hope for an extraordinary
ongevity.
We enjoyed very pleasant talk with
Mr.. Stod1 dart one afternoon. He had come
Town to the theatre to attend a rehearsal
If Mr. Royle's play-being friend OF the
author and an admirer of his new work,
which had been read TO him In New ork-
He was full OF warm and kindly interest
,or the production, and said he thought
'Out of Darkness" was a very promising
md clever play. Salt Lake, he said, was
ike home to him; the people made him
EEL like there was something more between
hem than the mere relation of player and
audience. This was his eighth or ninth
risit and the city was always oeauti1ul 10
aim. Speaking of the illness OF Miss
Brooklyn, which prevented her appearance
On the last night of alabama" Mr.. Stod-
Tart said il was somewhat risky for com
,sny to be travelling with only one under
,tudy. We asked him what would happen
he were to fall sick. "Oh," he answered
With one of his grim smiles, we old-tlme
,ctors never get sick-in my day people
acted if they were able to stand up. I've
.een old John Parselle, bless his memory,
lave to be supported from his dressing
room to the wings, and when he heard his
sue il Strengthened him up like an old war
aorse, and he went on the stage bold as
warrior. He was on the boards over nifty
Fears and he never disappointed an au-
Hence once in his career. / have done so
arn
vas first playing with Charlotte Cush-
mani had to have an operation performed
IN nv throat, and had l gone on 1t would
have been impossible for me to speak"
Referring TO old time members Of the
profession with whom he had been asso-
.iated, Mr.. Stoddart spoke with emotion
IF old Charles Fisher, at whose funeral he,
Jefferson, William Winter and Couldock
lad oficisted as pail bearers only few
lays before. "Poor Fisher" he said. "He
,ad tciled all his life 10 earn a competency
with which TO spend his last days
n the little English village where
ae was born. When he retired from
Oaly's company ne went back with his
,oung wife, but everything had so changed
hat ne couldn't content himself, and he
started back TO America, :.only to die as
ae landed" Fanny Morsnt, that grand
actress who appeared here as the countess
IN the ''Danicheffs,' was living near Provi-
ience. She retired from the stage long
igo Poor Annie Russell. another of the
famous family with which Stoddart has
been so long associated, will never act
again. In ali probability she will never
ca We her room again. She has undergone
,eversI severe operations, and she is now
,sr TALLY paralyzed. 1t was one OF the
,sddest cases IN all his experience. MIR.
Stoadsrt said Annie Russell was the most
r(,ted girl in her particular line that ne
"a ever known. Just as she was stricken
5oI,n she and her husband were hopefully
building on her next season, Wish sne OK
pecred to star in play OF ner nuspahu >.
That she would have been STRONG success
40 one can DOUBT .or;oa ,b;r.r
go Hesrs ago from Edinburgh, and he
b.sn never returned TO his naIl'e Country
80 Heis sixty three years OF age, out
!. strong and hearty and looks ss though
rs was good for another quarter u ecu
turv. For years he has 1onoweo farming
ION the side" but lately ne nas Iounu.
lie most other Democratic grangers, that
,hara ..was nothing in it, and he has
trsded RS New Jersey farm for New York
6ats Unlike too many others In Tue pro
fe,sion he has not been securing gooo
..Iarv for wears with nothing to show for
II and II he were to be called 10 aorro"
to make his final exit. his wlls, MS unmar
ried daughter, and his son, laWyer-"no
comprise his whole famIy-"ouiu HUI 10
eft without q competence
Maurice Barrymore on the stage ]" one
Of the most witty, winning and enchenting
men one could wish to meet. MS iasci-
hating mowers are not eXerted on ladies
Lone lint il is q fact that those OF his own
sex are lust as irrisestibly drawn towards
HIM. He is the best gong !lluslrAlion Vi
the term universal favori1e' humor
Iavs he earns 1850 week, anu lnat ne
mead. another $3.50 to come out even: HOW
.ve- that NAV be he is q genial, hearty,
handsome Bohemian in whose presence no
nne could stand FIVE minutes without reel
ing drawn towards him. he Is sporting
man essentially. His tirst thought after
retting of the stage Wednesday night was
10 come to the telegraph editor OF LIE
HE4ALD for the news OF the HALT it1s itt
mons fight which was coming over the
wires. and he staid up TILL s
n,clock to get the last word
from Minneapolis. Barrymore looks
,hout thirtv-eiGht He is the husband OF
George Drew Barrymore, VINO MADE
great hit last season with crane: de Is
q so the writer of several strong plays, IN
Guiding one especially strong called Ma
iesda. . and he is just putting the finishing
touches to another. Barrymore accepts
with easy good humor the verdict on ms
"Reckless Temple" the play which he
brought out last season, but still insists
mar it will go and says Salt Lake shall
bee him in it yet.
"Charley'' Harris, the great original
Tucker. has been in Salt Lake several
times before, but we didn't know it, and as
he himself says it is supposable that he did
not eminently distinguish himself. He ap-
pesred years age with Willie Edcuin in
!sDreaman and two or three seasons back
with Minnie Madden in "Featherbrain."
he has found his opportunity in Gala
hama and he makes the most of 1t. He
says he does not play the part for laughs
n least that is secondary with him-he
plays Tucker just as earnestly as he can,
ana succeeds in getting almost q half plain
tive interest aroused in him which few
nther actors on earth could do with the
nart. Mr.. Harris went out in Salt Lake
society q little under Barrymore's protect
inp wing, and he enthusiastically says
there are more pretty girls here to the
souare foot, than any other place on the
Lords universe.
The full cast OF Mr.. Royle's "Out of
Darkness has been made up and is given
below. Rehearsals are going forward
almost nightly, and the present expecta-
lions are that the play will be done Friday
night and Saturday afternoon, Angus:
md s. The event is exciting widespread
interest. and already several swell theatre
parties have been made up for the occasion:
marguerite Otto of Metropolitan opera
-Haus OTTO cher father. a sot----B. S. Young
ssHsrold Hunting director OF the Metro
politan opera house-----------J. D. Spencer