The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-02

the direction of Mr.. Careless for their
benefit. Miss Sherwin sang the part
| of Josephine. She finally reached Lon
don, and after hard struggle, won
success and is now on the top round.
Mr.. GorlitZ, who it must be said, did
not have his Wife'S faculty for making
friends, has never been heard of in
Salt Lake since, until now that he
comes up smilingly as the man closest
to the artist who makes more money
than any performer the world has ever
produced.
John Drew seems to have made the
success of his starring career in The
Squire of Danes and Maude Adams,
as usual. comes in for good share of
the praise accorded the production.
The World critic attended the closing
rehearsal Of the play, the night before
its production, and discourses in this
chatty fashion about the Salt Lake
girls work:
In all of Mr. Drew's plays, until
1.-The Squire of Danes was reached
Miss Maud Adams shared the stage
with the star in the long scenes that
long as they WERE seemed all toe
short to the actors admirers in the
orchestra chairs and boxes. They
and the one was as sweet and loving a
sweetheart as the other was a high
bred but ardent lover. In the new play
Miss Adams is married and Mr.. Drew
makes love to somebody else-to a
pert and straightforward little Ameri-
can girl, impersonated by Miss Agnes
Miller, who takes advantage of her
leap year opportunity and proposes
marriage to the tutelary saint in claw
hammer and patent-leathers, who, up
| to that moment, had been preventing
the rest of the fair sex from making
fools of themselves. But Mr.. Drew
still takes great interest in Miss
Adams. and bends his polished ener-
gies to prevent her falling in love with
another felloW-which Miss Adams is
| wilful enough to want to do, although
it is q most improper thing, since her
undivorced husband is still wandering
around in this mundane sphere. So
Miss Adams occupies the stage a great
deal with Mr.. Drew and has her usual
important and lengthy role.
This exquisite young actress-the
youngest leading lady on the American
stages invariably very nervous on a
first night and shows her perturbation
even at a dress rehearsal She requires
considerable time for dressing, in the
doing of which she has the assistance
of maid, but when she gets into one
! of the gorgeous color arrangements
that she wears in the role of Mrs. Den
nant and fits out of her dressing-room
between two tremendous balloon
sleeves that give her costume an am
phora-like effect, she is not as serene
in soul as her outward appearance
would Indicate In a moment you will
! see her pacing up and down the stage
near the entrance through which she
will go on, and the hand carried fire.
quently to the forehead and the finger
pressed to the lips, while her eyes rest
on the floor, tell plainly Of the nervous
strain that the fragile-fgured young
| woman is laboring under. But, helloi
/ There is her cue, and the next moment
! she runs upon the stage and is en-
gagged in a lively scene with her fairy
! godfather. the dashing Mr.. Kilroy, i'm
personated by Mr.. Drew, and nobody
would ever think that this was the
same trembling. doubling creature
that he saw a moment before behind
| the scenes.
The sixty-third anniversary of ]. H.
Stoddart's professional debut was cele-
brated Thursday evening at tho
Academy of Music in New York where
this sterling veteran has been acting
the part of Joe Aylmer in The Sport
ing Duchess since last August. AT the
conclusion of the performance Mr.
Stoddart held a reception which was
largely attended by his numerous
friends in the profession. incidentally
A NJ Palmer, under whose manage
ment he acted for SO many years, pre-
scented him with loving cup. On one
side olf the cup a relief figure of Mr..
Stoddart's head has been engraved,
and on the other side is the inscription.
This weeks Mirror has a very pleasant
sketch of the grand old man. of the
stage, with an admirable portrait.
In an interesting talk about Law
renee Barrett, to the Mirror Stuart
Robson says: 'When Barrett died the
New York Tribune sent a representa-
tive to my house at Cohasset to get
my "reminiscences of him. Not long
afterwards [ met Edwin Booth at the
Players. After shaking hands with
me very cordially, Mr.. Booth said: I
want to talk to you about Barrett In
giving your "reminiscences of him in
the Tribune, you didn't qualify your
praise, as others have done, but stated
boldly that Lawrence Barrett was O.
great actor. Why do you think SOP
My reply was: Any man who can play
three parts better than anybody else
is a great actor. Barrett played five
parts better than anybody else-Cas-
sius, The Man O. Airlie, Gringoire in
The Kings Pleasure, Yorick, and the
LancioOtto in Francesca da Riminl.
What do you think?' Mr.. Booths
answer was: L think he was unmis-
takably a great actor He then told
me of an incident that I don't think
has ever been published. Mr. Booth
had no idea what sick man Mr.. Bar
rett was until the night before he took
to his bed. When he arrived at the
theatre Booth advised him to go home,
but Barrett declared that he'd pull
through all right. Booth thereupon de-
clared point blank that if Barrett acted
that night he wouldn't, as John A.
Lane could take Barrett's part. When
Booth entered his sick room the next
day Barrett motioned to him not to
come near the bed, pointing to his
mouth to indicate that he might have,
some contagious disease, and didn't
want Booth to run the risk of CATCHING
it. The tears welled up in the eyes of
Mr.. Booth while he was telling this
incident. In fact, he took Barrett's
death so much to heart that I'm sure II
shortened his own life.''
LONDON Feb. 1.-Business at the lead |
ing theatres during the past week fell off !
somewhat in nseQuence Of the death of |
Prince Henry of Battenburg, and the nov |
city of the week was at the Duke of York; !
theatre The play turned out to be a dire |
failure
Forbes Robinson has abandoned the idea
of a revival of 'Othello' at the Lycerm
for version Of Coppee's Pour la Cou-
rome"