The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25

for herself and her managers. Frank
Daniels, too, had a successful season
with The Wizard of the Nile" and
cleared between S25, 600 and $50, O00
Francis Wilson probably made an
equal amount with Half a King"
while De Wolf Hopper did much bet
ter with Ell Captain The BoStonians
with The Serenade' no doubt cleared
$4,000 or $40, coo.
The foreign stars who visited Amer
lea last season were not particularly
SUCCESSFUL: but il is likely that Beer
bohm Tree, John Hare and E. 5. Will
lard each went home some $4,000 or
$4,000 richer than when they landed
here Singulariy enough, THE Sign of
the Cross which was such frost
at the Knicke-bocker, proved a good
money maker on the road, and the
managers are going TO send it out
again next season. So, you see, that
the theatrical season of 1867 wasn't
such an awfully bad season for some
stars and managers. alter all, even if
we make pretty large allowance for
the inevitable manageril "wehoppers. I"
g . s
London, July 24.-After his disastrous
attempts on two continents to infuse
the breath of popularity into The
Seats of the Mighty" Beerbohm Tree
has hit upon an undoubted success in
Inc silver Key.
The play is another pretentious dis
play of the romantic school, with gen.
tlemen in buckles and wigs and laces
and many fine phrases and much gal
lantry, as was the i'll fated THE Seats
OF the Mighty" Yet it pleased the pub
lie, which is the final test The seats
have attained unusual figures, and Mr..
Tree will probably make the play his
mainstay for next season.
The Tree of Knowledge" which
George Alexander is to produce at the
St James, will be a return TO the prob
lem play. The heroine will be a woman
with a past whose tribulations are to
be portrayed by Julia Nelson, who
shone long time in The Second Mrs.
Tanqueray." The situations of the play
are undoubtedly strong, and the final
act is said to be particularly effective.
Anthony Hope Hopkins, in response to
question by the correspondent of the
Associated Press, as to the report that
he was engaged to Miss Ethel Barry
more, who is now playing in Secret
Service" in London, said:
There is no truth in it whatever
The papers have had me engaged TO
several young ladies, and I could not
marry all of them, even if any OF them
would consent
He was asked if he would write a
DOCK on america after his return from
the reading trip in the United States
next fall.
Not if you treat me we'll over there
he replied. Indeed, l will be there too
long to write my impressions. I under
stand that no traveller ever writes a
book who stays in country more than
week, and 1 will be in America three
months at least
William Gillette is staying at the Isle
of Wight for a few days for the ben
eft of his health. Although somewhat
recovered from his recent attack of i'll
ness, his friends are exceedingly anx-
ious about his condition. Anna Held,
who is now a stellar attraction at one
of the leading music halls where she
shines by no means so conspicuously
as she did under more shrewd manage
ment in the United States, is booked
to return to the other side for the next
season. Oscar Hammerstein engaged
her during his recent visit to London,
to play the heroine's part in La Pou-
pee" a French play, which has been
one of the recent successes at the
Prince of Wales theatre.