The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31

this week The theatre will be dark
and silent again for another week, the
next attraction being Hopkins Trans
Oceanic Specially company on June
] and g. Mademoiselle Rhea follows
on the 10th and 18th, her play of the
Empress Josephine remaining the
principal feature of her repertoire
Camille Jennie Remark
Madame Prudence ........--..-.
................M adge Carr-Cook
/ Nichette. Sarah IruaX
! OLYMPIC. Nina Gleason
/ Nanine. Helen Henry
i Armand Duval......H Coulter Brinker
Mons. Duval Charles w. King
! Count De Varville. .... Brigham Royce
| CASTOR Mr.. Blakemore
| Gustave. Charles Z. Lothian
Mr.. Rogers announces Camille" for
next week, and above is given the cast.
1t will be seen that Mr.. Brinker has
deserted the Lyceum forces and gone
over to the enemy. and the chances
are that he will remain at his new
post during the four weeks that the
season lasts. Mr.. Rogers had hard
work for time to fill Mr.. Edwards
shoes, and he at first made overtureS
to Harold Russell. Nothing short OF
three figures as a weekly stipend,
however, would tempt that gentleman
to desert his vine and fig leaf on
shady North Temple, so Mr.. Rogers
returned again to Mr.. Brinker, and
this time with success. The argu-
ments he employed we do not know,
but they were probably those which
are not often used at Mr.. Brinker S
former abiding place. Miss hennark
should make a good dame aux Camel
las, and the support is fair. A feature
of it will be the appearance OF Man
ager Rogers, who does thinking part
in the gaming scene. No flowers.
James T. Post, the comedian, who
now has charge of the revivalS at the
Lyceum, announces another comedy
for this week in 1.-Two of Kind, with
himself and Jean Weiner as the two:
Miss Sayne, the two Russells and
Nellie Drury also take part. The piece
is advertised about town with some
very handsome Autographs, and with
out doubt it will appeal to the same
sort of clientele as that which found
so much to laugh at in ~ and L.
A New York correspondent sends the
following entertaining letter concern
ing John Drew, who with Maude
Adams, soon appears in Salt Lake:
John Drew's extraordinary popu-
larity is not to be accounted for by
conventional reasons. He does not
drink, his intirnateS say, he has no
genuine love for tobacco, he does not
play cards, he has no taste for horse
racing or yachting, he is not a club
man in the general sense of the term,
he does not give dinners or suppers,
he eschews the Rfalto, does not con-
sort with his brother actors, and
could not swear good round oath If
he tried. Probably there never was a
young man better fitted for the posi-
ton of Sunday school superintendent.
The writer has known John Drew for
years without discovering a single
vice in him. Mr.. Drew is a devoted
husband and an affectionate father,
and he always goes home to his tea.
John Drew is an anomaly. There has
never been any suspicion of scandal
attached to his name, yet he is a
supreme favorite with the ladies'; he is
the beau ideal of sap-headed young
fellows in the Calumet club, and yet
he maintains the honest friendship of
the cleverest men in the country; he
is at once dandy and a good fellow.
The hiatus between fashionable So
ciety and the stage is appalling, yet
John Drew is no less welcome in the
boxes than in the Players club. We
have no actor like him in these particu-
lars No other country except England
has d player that resembles him. John
Drew is the young Henry Irving of
America.
Yet there was a time when this sue
cessful comedians future presented
melancholy problem. He began his
professional career in his mothers
company at the Arch street theatre in
Philadelphia. Curiously enough, the
actress with whom his subsequent
success was identified commenced her
histrionic efforts at the same time and
on the stage. Ada Rehan and John
Drew both were about Is years old
when Mrs. Drew put them into active
rehearsal for the serious work of life.
The eminent comedienne had hard
work with her young pupils. Ada Re
han was full of mischief, so was John
Drew, and between them both Mrs.
Drew went through a bad quarter of
an hour. Several times she discharged
the insubordinate redhaired Irish lass
and took her back again. On more
than one occasion she laid her son
across her knee and spanked him
soundly. Mrs. Drew's patience was so
sorely tried by the pranks of her son
and Ada Rehan, that she was at last
glad to get them out Of her guardian
ship and safely under the sterner con-
troll of Augustin DAILY. Here the young
actors had to obey rules, and, deprived
of mischief they studied dramatic art
so assiduously that within short
period Ada. Rehan became the leading
woman, and John Drew the leading
man of the foremost comedy company
in America During the latter part of
his engagement John Drew earned $3.50
a week. while the salary of Miss Reilan
at that time was $780, At present MIR.
Drew receives $500 week from Charles
Frohman. and by the terms of her new
contract Mr.. DAILY, it is said, pays Ada
Rehan 5000 a week. These salaries are
large, but both actors are worth the
money. John Drew is the most success
full investment that Charles Frohman
ever made. with the exception of
Shenandoah"
Editor Dramatic and Lyric:
Salt Lake, May %.
1 have grievance against the Salt
powerful column to help me to air it.
been able to by filing my complaints
at the box Office. l refer TO the mouse
nuisance. am one of those who never
miss a first night at the theater. My
husband and l have paid more money
TO indulge our love of the drama than
for any one other thing outside of our
household expenses. But find my en-
joyment seriously interfered with by
noticing mice running across The aisles
and under the seats every time 1 visit
+t,o I am for from n l1-,,o