The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-21

Salt Lake. June 20
Dear Old Hal:-The season has gone
out, and what you will do for diary
leaves now, heaven knows. But what
/ have 1 send You, since you keep on
urging me to set down all that's going
on and to forward it to you religiously.
Here is the list for the full week, two
nights. THE rest is silence"
Monday, midnight.
was the first person on hand at the
box office with the dollar and half to
secure a ticket for John Drew; when
/ got down to the theatre tonight, ac-
tually the doors wer'nt open, and not
till then did it occur to me that 1 was
making a fool of myself. But l always
did have a craze on for Drew, and 1
was once guilty of hanging around the
stage door after the performance
merely to see him come out and walk
on the sidewalk like an ordinary NOR
tai. But that was when l was sew
eral degrees younger. l am older now,
and So alas, is john Drew 1t came
as a shock to me tonight that the
bloom is wearing off the peach; I'M
deniable crows feet have stamped
themselves around Johns orbs OK
eyed Drew. we girls used to call HIM,
and there is something of the careWorn
about his acting. 1t seemed to lack
the freshness of the old Ada Rehan
days; or, it may have been the play,
which is a dreadfully disappointing
mass of -podgery. Imagine all
that structure reared on such
foundation as that nonsensical story
OF the marriage; a marriage into which
the husband had been forced and at
which neither the husband nor the
wife had seen each other. Such plot
might do for Gilbert & Sullivan, but for
a so-called legitimate comedy it is eX-
asperating. But when dear little
Maude Adams came on, she spread
such an atmosphere of freshness, of
blitheness, of naturalness, of artless-
ress over the whole thing that play
and author were alike forgot, and one
thought only of her wonderful art.
Really this girls progress is startling.
II may shock some to say it, but to me,
her hysterical scene tonight was Mary
Anderson over again, in her Comedy
and Tragedy John Drew is said to
get $500 a. week; how much, 1 wonder
does Maude Adams receive. She is a
marvel, as time will tell
Wednesday. midnight.
Drew stepped back into his old place
in my affections tonight. l suppose it
must have been the play, for there is
as much difference between Chris
topaler Jr." and 1.-The Squire of
Danes" as there is between a hollow
pumpkin and a juicy ripe watermelon.
This is a play that is a tTavesty. He
was the Drew of old tonight, and not
for a long, long time have l enjoyed
anything as ] did his role of the
Squire TO the woman who so sadly
needed his services. And Maude
though she had a, rather silly role, a
woman who carried her affections
about as she did her workbasket, ready
to beStow them TO anyone and every
one on a moments notice. was so
delicate, SO dainty, so true TO life, that
one forgot her part in watching her
art. 1t was all a treat, rare one; a
fitting wind up TO a. season, which
gave US '.Pudd' nhead Wilson, per-
ennially green spot in all my dramatic
memories. MARGE.
The season went out with John
Drew, and not a, thing has happened
to disturb the silence reigning at the
theater and the Grand The Lyceum
has profted a little by the lull, and
considering the heat, the attendance
at the performance of Fun on the
Bristol has been good. For the COM
ing week Manager Gates announces
a production of ''Muldoon's Picnic, -
with Post as Muldoon and John VIII
Aans as the Picnic Miss Sayne's en-
gagement has ended and she leaves
for New York Tuesday. Next week
carnival week-Manager Gates will in
troduce Peyton's comedy company OF
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