The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-05

continued today the narrative Oh MS
business relations with N. K. Fair
banks and Mrs. Leslie Carter, seeking
to establish the validity of his claim
upon the wealthy Chicagoan for $6o,VOO.
The story which was told a jury in the
supreme court of this county had an
interesting auditor in the person OF MI.
Fairbanks.
Belasco related the incidents of the
first theatrical tour of Mrs. Garter, in
which w. R. Morrison, one of Fair
banks lawyers, appeared as checking
the accounts of the company with
Manager Ed Price. He also teStl1led
that Morrison gave him verbal asSur-
ance that Fairbanks would
Make GOOD ALL DEFICIENCIES
and nav him Belasco) for his services.
P PES coaching Mrs. Carter (and of
This part of his duties the witness gave
the Jury a, graphic description, freely
Illustrated by gestures and facial play)'
Relasco acted as stage manager, prop
erty man and all around utility man
He thought he detected in Fairbanks
a. growing disposition to shirk the re
snonsibiHty he had assumed IN rela-
ton to the Garter enterprise. Letlers
which he addressed to Fairbanks re
mained unanswered for long time,
and some of them are still unanswered
When the pay, 1.-THE Ugly Duckllng'
was taken up the witness testified ne
was particularly anxious it should sue
coed in Chicago. where all the princl-
pals lived and where Mrs. Carter had
also resided
To this end he gave all his energies
and all of his time, except that which
was given to the writing on Men and
Women" for Charles Frohrnan- This
latter work, however, took his attention
for only two or three days in the week.
VERY HIGH.
Belasco testified that his services in
training Mrs. Carter from July, 1889, to
March. 1891 were worth $50 1000, and
that on revising "The Ugly Duckling'
and experimenting Its production he
had earned an additional $4,000.
The latter part of the day was oc-
cupied in the cross-exarnination OF
Mr.. Belasco. In the course of this
process Belasco related that on one oc-
casion. following an interview with
Mr. Fairbanks at the Office of Mr.
Willard, Fairbanks business manager
here. Mr.. Allen. counsel for Fairbanks
T
Belasco) was rehearsing Mrs. Carter
and that Allen, in a brusque and insult
ing way, said: Sufficient money has
been sent you now until the curtain
goes up. Fairbanks is a damned fool
I won't allow him to put up any more
money, as he has put enough money in
this damned theatrical enterprise.
To this Belasco replied in effect thai
Fairbanks was getting off much
cheaper than others who had embarked
in like enterprises. He said Mrs. Car.
ter was
NOT THE ONLY PERSON
he had developed for the stage, testi
flying that other of his pupils had beer
Robert Tabor and E. H. Sothern.
Counsel for Fairbanks read what pur.
ported to be a letter from Allen, Fair.
banks counsel, to Belasco, in which
reference was made to a loan of 81 800
and contract in which Belasco was
to agree to return the advances made
by Mr.. Fairbanks, but Mr.. Belasco sai6
he was not quite certain about its cor.
rectness. Belasco said he knew Mrs
Garter only as a partner with Fair.
banks in this theatrical enterprise
that he knew she had no money an6
she believed if he recovered a Judgment
against her (she being made a party t.
the suit Fairbanks would discharge it
AN affidavit made by Belasco ani
another made by Manager Ed Price
on March 6, 1891, in Colorado, were read
in which both Belasco and Price swore
that Belaseo was the sole proprietor
of THE Ugly Duckling" company
Several letters from Belasco to Allen
calling for funds, acknowledging re-
| ceipts of checks and giving encourag
ing news about the company's pros
poets, were also read. The court ther
adjourned.