Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-07-22

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doors, and took in the biggest o. the
attractions now running IN Chicago.
All Of them seem e. be making money,
especially the grcat spectacle VI
A mprica aud the play Ut The Girl |
| LnO Behind Me. lie has booked 100
! nights for the Thontef, and
secured some Of the foremost ~.
fractions now playing, among
them being Afisloumcy, which
comes next week the Lyccum com
pany, which plays In AUGUST, The Girl
/ Left Behind Me, aud Umnia, the
mammoth spectacle. Nlf. Burton says
he has been able 10 adjust his bookings
20 that all the attractions are distributed
through the months ut better Intervals
than ever beiOre,sO that the continuous
runs which prove unpr Jnlabls by
causing too great drain on tue pub.
Ito purse, will be avoided. lie made
ME headquarters at FrOhman's anu
Eayman's, and says both those man.
ayers, while expecting an col" season
Tor 1898, think New York and Chicago
will mold up well enough to more
than oiiset tue depression IN the West
Mr.. Barton has transacted n great deal
of nuanciai business In New York Tor
various Salt Lake enterprises with
which No. Connected, aud his yer.
diet Of the Il lhncisl situation, rendered
nttef lOokiug over thc ground ia a
number Of cities, Is that salt Lake h
stfIngor, better Oh anu In all ways
more Rdvantagcously situated than
any other place hu has Visited.
Bronson Howarl, whose Arlstocracy
comes 20 the rnOatrr mex week, has
uten writing plays Tor the public Tor
twenty-five year.. lie said -O himself
iu a speech he was obliged O. make ht
Palm, ~ theatof In New YORK, hen
AtislDcwcy was first Produced there,
lat fall. ihe AVERAGE thuntaf uocf
would hardly think that he Time
would pass NJ awi'ty. 4. seems uut
yesterday hen tho Bankef'-
Daughter was he theatrical rage aud
WIS being prgtentvd ia the eastern
theAtefs. Bu. this was neAfly twenty
Yeas ngo; dufiug thee twenty yoars
bronson Howard has 1seu the mort
persistent plOiuer VI ali OF our native
dmmatisls. lie hos been constantly
vt work. lie has during this ,ims PIE.
trutcl two or three plays which were
IN gold, and lac has also given a.
tnruu comedies which have not been
equaird In fine writing or dramatic
construction during this period. These
are Tue Hunfiota, Shenandoah aud
Aflst0cEaoy, the latter his latest pro.
duoll0n, which We are u sec here next
week.
While bronson Howard T. the mo
skiliul, the most conspicuous, ANA tlc
Tes' prosperous OF nil American dttm.
Atitts, hS IL ut the same TIM, the
slowost worker. lie cannot writa fact,
aud II IA said That he cannot think last.
Over two years elapsed alter he pre-.
fsuted the Henrietta, until Shunan-
duah came forth, ana now II has taken
him over uifee years to write Afis.
tncracy. Darling this interval SariOu
Fmuce's greatest playwright, has
turned out two or three dramas anu
English writer's like Henry Arthur
Jones, Robert Buchanan, George IL.
Sims aud Henry Petit have each
turned out halt dozen. Those
ttudious writer's and commentator,
who are watching zealously the drvel.
opment aud advancement Of the stage
In this country, have deplored Mr.
Howard's dilatOriness and have cen.
Eured him Tor what they have teTmei
~
Mr.. Howard TotoTts that ho II neither
lazy nor pfocastinator. Hsadmits
that he In slow. lie realizes that no ia
looked upon rs Ameriua's foremost
dramatist, and he oudeAvurs 10
hold such n position by the
strength, skilfulness aud brilliancy
Of bis future productions. He Ia rot
vain nor cgutistical, but he knows
hlnaanlf knlFpF than anu al her man a gt.N
he knows that he cannot produce good
work without patient thought and n
prolonged effort. He feels that hasty
work would be- unsatisfactory 20 the
public anu would accordingly tend to
ann the luster Of his hard earned
fame.
MIR. Howard received from Shenan.
doah u fortune; probably far more
money would have come TO him had
he written play every six months,
instead OF one play In two years and n
half. 30 IL Ia with Aristoctacy. This
comedy viii bring him another for.
tune. IL n said that Mtasrs. Al. Hay.
man aud Charles FTohman paid Mr..
Howard nearly 100000 royalties ON
Shenandoah. THIS l. not niggarily
compensation for two years labor.
MIR. Howard's income from tho royal
ties OF Arist0ofacy have already as.
sumed Importance aud the indications
are that 1t will bring him In another
100000.
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Nearly every name IN the A ristocfacy
list IN notable one; aud nearly every
one has Its special admirers In thu
city. In the list are Maurice Barry
more, Frederick Bond, WIN. Favor.
sham, S. Miller Kent, J. W. pigoit.
Neil Warner Bruce McRae, J. II.