The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-11

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apprenticeship under capable mana
ger and stage director
Personally, Salvini is a charming fell
Iowa delightful companion and a dra-
matte enthuSiaSt-and the bad news
from his home in Italy has awakened
a lively sense of sympathy among those
that know him here.-Mirror.
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The sad death of the brilliant Du
Maurier will revive interest in 'Trilby,
which perhaps was slightly on the
wane. The same company which pre-
sented the play here en- route to Aus
tralia minus Wilton Lackaye, will visit
US one night, a week from Wednesday
next, on its way east and Mr.. Lack
ayes role, that of Svengali, will be as
sumed by we'll known actor, Mr..
Kent. Edith Crane is still the O'Far-
ren.
Augustus Cook, whose virile and
vigorous portrayal of the Emperor Ma
poleon in Sans Gene" is one of the
distinct hits of the rendition. is the
husband of a favorite actress in Salt
Lake, Madge Carr Cook The fact,
however, would never be known from
any allusion ever made by either, for
the reason that they are in a condi-
ton not at all strange to the dramatic
profession-living apart. No divorce
was ever obtained; it is a simple case
of separation. During the recent run of
Sans Gene" in San Francisco, where
Madge Cook is also playing in the
Frawley company, the two frequently
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tered at the same hotel-but IL ~ only
met as the most distant sort of
strangers.
The dramatic writer of The Herald
has received a handsome volume, en-
titled Famous American Actors of
Today" edited by Frederic Edward
Mckay and Charles e. L. Wingate; II.
Y. Crowen & Co., New York, publish
ers. A partial list of the contents will
show the richness of the material and
the uniqueness of the sources.
Joseph Jefferson, by Edward King,
author of Joseph Zalmonah," 1.-The
Golden Spike" and other novels; Nine.
Janauschek, by Philip Hale, critic and
essayist, and Boston correspondent
Musical Courier; Edwin Booth, by
Henry A Clapp, critic, essayist and
lecturer of Lowell institute; Mary An
derson. by John D. Barry; Lawrence
Barrett, by B. E. Woolf, musical critic
Boston Herald; Nine. Modjeska, by
'Shakespeare's Heroines on the Stage"
and Shakespeare Heroes" and Bos-
ton correspondent The Critic; Dion
Boucicault. by Vance Thompson, critic
of New York Commercial Advertiser;
Fanny Davenport, by Jay B. Benton,
Boston correspondent New York ORA
matte Mirror; J. Lester Wallack, by
julius Magnus. dramatic manager,
dramatist and critic; Richard Mans
field, by William Henry Frost of the
New York Tribune; Julia Marlowe-
Taber, by Edward Fuller, author of
Forever and a Day" and "The Com
planning Millions of Mem" John Gil
bert. by Stephen Fiske. editor Spirit of
the Times: William Warren, by Mrs.
e. G. Sutherland dorothy Lundt,
author of the play "Mars'r Van Mrs.
Vincent, by George P. Baker, assistant
professor at Harvard college,; Rose
Coghlin by Frederick E. Mckay, editor
of Theatrical Tidings; Maggie Mitchell,
by Luther L. Holden. dramatic critic;
Lolita, by Deshler Welch, editor The
Theatre; and Sol Smith Russell, by
William t. Adams (Oliver Optic). au-
thor SOldler boy SeLIGS- LOdLS
America Abroad Series etc.
The volume makes a concise ency-
clopedia of dramatic biography, but
tbe authors have laid themselves out
TO be entertaining and it is fui! OF
agreeable anecdotes and piquant bits
of stage gossip. The portraits are care
fully reproduced and add great value
"a the biographical details. All lovers
of thea trical art will find it a repository
of most interesting information
Two of Salt Lakes most popular
workers in amateur and seml-profes-
sional circles have decided to locate II
nest1,res new for a time, if not FOL
good and all. Mrs. Jennie HaWleS
woodrow. one of our leading con
traltos. has gone to San Francisco
where her husband now makes ms
beadouarters. and this morning MIS-:
Tnlia Dean leaves for New York, WITT
view to entering the dramatic pro
fassion. She bears several letters o
ir,+rodlction to Frohman and othel
Nev York managers, and if on no othel
| account. the fact that she is the niece
| of the renowned Julia Dean Hayne !:
SIRE to obtain her hearing.
A Herald dispatch from New Yorl
Anna Held, the French singer, wa
served yesterday with papers in sui
brought by Long Island milkman
The demand is for s64, alleged to b.
due for milk delivered at the hotel TO
Miss Held. When Miss Held arrived
in New York she requested her man
ager to provide her every other da!
with forty gallons of milk for bathing
n1rnoses. Mr.. Seigfeld made con
tract for the quantity at the rate
90 cents a gallon. Miss Held had uset
100 gallons. when she says she dis
covered that it was not fresh AM
lacked the creamy quality essential
She declares that she ordered tn
dairyman to cease serving the milk