The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-01

beauties was brought into full relief
by Mr.. Drew and his admirable COM
pany. But it was vastly depressing as
we'll, and doubtless many found them
selves wishing that the mournfu old
ghost of Sir Jasper could have been laid
away without being i ~ exhibition:
there was a sort of Vieu g-tFe--- clains
! effect about the last act that ather
tOCGk the poetic taste of the three pre-
ceding ONES out of the mouth. Mr..
Drew's support was admirable. Isabel
Irving in the charming role created by
Maud Adams was as truthful and inno-
cent as the authors ideal could have
been; we confess however to a feeling
of regret that we could not have seen
Miss Adams in me role. Had it been
written especially for her, it could
| hardly have better suited her dainty
style. Mr.. Harweod, Mr.. Byron and
Mr. Hoslstns were each excellent. and
Mrs. Annie Adams was carefully ar
tistic in her elderly role.
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Manager Burton announces that
holders Of tickets for this evenings
I performance can have their money re
funded on application at the box Of
flee.
Mrs Annie Adams, who, as her many
Glidden. received several old acQuain-
tanceS back Of the scenes last even
ing, among them being John s. Lind
say, with whom she played so often on
the Salt Lake stage quarter of a
century ago She laughingly said in
| reference to her marriage that very
little had been said about the event
for the reason that her daughters
| manager thought the impression might
get out that Maude was the Miss
Adams who had ventured into matri-
mony. As she was on the eve of her
starring tour, such an impression
might affect business Mrs. Adams-it
is impossible to call her anything else
said that Maude was hard at work re-
hearsing and that her opening in Bar
rvs The Little Minister" would occur
in Washington a week from next Mon
day evening. She heard from her daily
and her last letter, instead of giving
any information about the progress of
her play, was devoted to lamenting
that she could not do Dolly with Mr..
Drew in Salt Lake and San Francisco,
her two homes, as she often calls them.
Mr.. Barry had given her the benefit of
several rehearsals. In October, when
Mr.. DreWs new play "a Marriage of
Convenience" viii be put on, Mrs
Adams will join her daughters com
pany. The two have been spending
! the summer on Wonder farm 40 lovely
tract of 65 acres, located in the center
of Long Island. Mrs. Adams and the
other members of the Drew company
will remain here several days and then
proceed to Denver.
| The sympathy of Salt Lake will go
out to Mr. Drew in the bereavement
| he has sustained, and especially in
view of the strain to which he must
have been subjected last evening. In
/ the death of Mrs. John Drew the
American stage loses a lady and an
| artistic who has long been one of its
! chief adornments. Her name was al
most a household word throughout the
| land and has been SO for two genera
1 tons. She was one of the few remain
| ing famous actresses of the old palmy
| days. as 10 Jefferson is almost the sole
remaining actor. and her name has so
! long been linked with his that it is i'm
possible to think of one without the
| other. Mrs, Malaprop WAS her most
| famous delineation. She Was last seen
in that role here in October, 1888, when
she appeared in a, company with her
other son, Sidney, producing at the
same time THE Road to Ruin" He
and Mr. John Drew are her only sur
viving children. her gifted daughter.
! Georgia Drew Barrymore having pre-
ceded her to the great beyond 1t was
the GROWING pride of her career that
! she lived to see her granddaughter,
Ethel Barrymore. ON the road TO fame
as an actress, having been recently en-
gagged to support Sir Henry Irving
Miss Barrymore is now ON the Atlantic
on her way to fill her London engage
ment and Mr.. John Drew's wife and
children are also abroad.
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Ada Dwyer Russell opened in the east
on Monday night in ''Pudd nhead VIII
! son."