The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-20
GOSSIP OF THE STAGE.
The Coming Week Will Be a
Quiet One.
EN- GROWERS LATEST.
Ned ROyIe Leaves for Chicago to Begin
Work.
What the Players are Doing-The Pro-
gramme for the Tabernacle Choir
Concerts in the East-Three
Bands at saItair Today.

line theatre VIII remain closed during
the current week; to use the pc. term Of
the dramatic correspondent, the theatre
will be dark 1t will remain dark I'M
til 'Urania,'' which is described as a
spectacular marvel, puts in appearance,
the same being due September z.
The last two nights of last week were
given over to melo-drama, ssThe Wolves
of New York, - which nearly deserved
being qualified as lurid. There was a
lair attendance the first night of the en-
gagemeno, but last night empty seats
were exceedingly plentiful.
Much interest attached to the play from
the fact that genial Leonard Grover COM
posed the play under the shadows of our
inspiring mountains. In the shady aisles
of our pleasant streets, within the sound
OF the merry babbiing Of the little streams
that flow everywhere, 'The Wolves of
New York sDrang from the active brain
OF the playwright. And l was about to
say, / wouldn't have expected 1t. In
mildly poking fun at Mr.. Growers
play, l may do him something
Of an injustice, for while un-
der no circumstances is the story
clear. and while the scenes are too num-
erous and are jumbled together, still the
production in the larger cities with forty
people in the cast instead OF sixteen, the
play managed TO hold the attention of in
telligent people and to receive very fiat
tellng press notices. The play should
have come TO us before it YVES so badly
worn, before the cast was so reduced in
numbers. Leonard Grover, jr.. son of
the playwright, did not have role nearly
as well suited to his abilities as that of
the Private Secretary, in which he
first starred.
Sitting well down to the front in the
parquette was country couple of ver-
dant hue at the performance of "Charity
Ball. The imam person. after the
manner OF his sex, wishing to air the in
formation he possessed, and having heard
that Franklin Fyles, the playwright, was
in the city, remarked, 1.-THE writer of this
play is in taouwn.''
stYou don't say so, - fiuttered the dam
sci, whats his name?''
''Sourdew, - complacently answered
the rustic critic, and then he wondered
what the people around him were laugh
ing at.
Speaking of Sardou, cannot under
stand how that man OF genius could have
been guilty Of writing a play as weak as
Americans Abroad - Sardou is noted
for the powerful, fascinating interest in
the themes of his plays. Compare them
with the play where the whole story lay
In the wish o. a ''real SWEET American
girl to be loved for her ssownty ownself''
and not her money, and playing poor to
accomplish this end. This play is so
cleverly disguised in the hands of Daniel
Frohman's company that it is for the
moment entertaining, but it is disap-
pointing to think of afterward.
Our playwright, Edwin Milton Royle,
departed for Chicago yesterday. After
week IS stay viewing the White City he
viii embark on the new season with
Friends. y Mr.. Royle expects to carry
his play to the coast by the northern
route and after an engagement in San
Francisco viii return by the way of Salt
Lake. playing at the Salt Lake theatre in
November. The many friends of Mr..
Royle, who witnessed the initial produc-
ton OF the play here under the title OF
"Out of Darkness, - will be very glad to
see Friends, to find the difference be-
tween the first performance, given by our
own clever Home Dramatic company,
and that of company especially selected
for the play. Likewise to see what i'm
provements Mr.. Royle has made in the
play itself.
Mr.. Royle is accompanied by his wife,
Selma Fetter, who takes the leading role
in the play.