The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-14

bigger turnout in the galleries than
usual, while the gathering below was
fair. The play was rendered very ef-
fectively the interesting episodes
which introduce Lincoln, Seward and
Captain Wilkes being specially appre-
ciated, and Mr.. Enos being recalled
half a dozen times for his very clever
impersonation of the martyred presi-
dent At the conclusion of the play
the applause continued, and when the
curtain rose the whole company stood
in a line to take the audiences fare
well. Mr.. Frawley as the Ensign, ana
Miss Bates as his sweetheart, were the
main acting hits of the night Wal
ter Edwards, who gets out of the cast
early at the Grand, was an interesting
spectator of the last act. The En-
sign is a play in which he played the
lead for a long time, and the enectlve
ship scene where the hero is about TO
be strung up brought back many mem
cries to him.
When the Frawley company's sea-
son ends in Colorado next Saturday
night, the members of'the organization
will scatter in as many different dlrec-
tions as there are individuals IN the
company. Frawley, Worthing and
Blanche Bates will go to London,
Workings home, where the manager
actor will look out for new plays and
possibly one or more people. Harry
Corson Clarke has been engaged for
BurbanlA's Stock company in Los
Angeles. as has also Wilson Enos, and
they two will HE westward; Madge
Carr Cooke says she is undecided what
she will do, a hint to the Grand man
agement here that ought not to be
lost on them. Most of the others VIII
start for that mecca of all actors, New
York. Mr.. Frawley says he has as
yet closed with no one at all for his
new company which will open the
Columbia theatre, San Francisco, in
May.
Harry Corson Clarke's favorite role
of all the many he does with the Fraw-
ley company, is that of the pork
packer in THE Two Escutcheons;" it
certainly fits him like glove, and his
makeup in the role is one of the very
best in his long list of DISCUSSES. What
makes him especially fond of the part,
however, is the fact that it was his
first appearance in it that marked the
turning point in his career-that is, his
career of recent years. 1t is just about
year since Mr.. Clarke left Salt Lake
for San Francisco very much on the
ragged seat of anxiety. His experience
as manager in Denver had ended any
thing but pleasantly; he had shared the
ups and downs with the company at
the Lyceum here and he was thinking
of cutting off for South Africa when
an offer came from Frawley to join
him in San Francisco. THE Two
Escutcheons'' was the play selected for
him to open in, and added to the anxiety
he felt over the reception he might get
from one of the most critical cities in
the Union, was the embarrassment he
experienced in the fact that Augustin
Days company, for which THE Two
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that time playing in San Francisco. The
late lamented James Lewis told Mr..
Clarke before the production, with tears
in his eyes, that he had absolutely
hungered to star in the part of the
pork packer, but just when the best
chance of his life came to him, DAILY
took the piece off because the young
girls role was too kittenish for the
advancing years of Ada Rehan. That
was the sole reason why Frawley got
the play for San Francisco. AS every
one knows, Clarke made the hit of the
piece and the San Francisco papers
gave him some great notices. He says,
however, that dearer than any press
notice he got was the greeting he re-
ceived from Mrs. Gilbert, Days famous
old woman. She saw the performance
the first night, and after the theatre
she came I'D to him in a restaurant
where he was eating supper, and
though she had never met him she
crossed the room, put out her hand and
warmly congratulated him on his de-
lineation. Clarke says he had no fear
as to what the papers would say next
morning, after receiving such an adj
vance opinion.
Mr.. Clarke also said it was one of the
most curious things in the world how
various audiences viewed the
'Escutcheons" In New York it was
not go, in San Francisco and in
Honolulu it was one of the greatest
successes in the repertoire In Salt
Lake Friday night he says the whole
company from Frawley down were
paralyzed at the chilling way it was
received.
1t takes just $40 costumes to repre-
sent the Mascot and Willard Weihe
is turning prematurely bald worrying
over the possible chance of their being
delayed en- route or of their arriving
so late that the inevitable alterations