Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-04
Notes.

house did not experience the auhplc-
,,us onening which would otherwise
have been realized. The attendance
az the first presentation here of Rose
mary was very satisfactory, but had 1t
hsen generally known that but one
,,erformnnce would be glven,the capac-
,ty of the house would have been
severely tested. A more disappointed
lot than those who had purchased tick
cts for the second nights performance
would be hard to find, not that they
would have been particularly delighted
with the play. but because OF the fact
TINT John Drew and Frohman's COM
pany Of players are an attraction in
themselves sufficient to make their APP
pearance an occasion for big turn
outs.
Rosemary Is not what could be called
an ideal play. Its authors, Messrs.
Parker and Carson, certainly succeed
ed In making a novelty of it, but 1T has
NOT proven of the kind that meets with
universal favor, as the novelty is OF
the far-fetched order and beyond the
ken and appreciation of the average
theater-goer. In the last act an au-
dirnce is treated to a condition which
rarely occurs; the extending of the ac-
ton of play over space Of fifty
years, practically two generations,and
having the sole survivor of a passion
ate love story recount the fate Of all
the others connected with 1t at date
fifty years later than the original in
cldents and al n time when the OBJ
iect of interest in the first three acts
is mumbling, decrepit nonogenarian
in whom no interest can or would be
expected to center. The fourth and
last act of Rosemary is truly an ac-
tors act and in 1t Mr.. Drew gave his
admirers glimpse of an unknown
quantity as to his versatility, and II
can be said that had II not been that
the interest was as much conferred in
the fate OF some of the other charac-
tiers Of the play, his clever work in this
act would have been vastly more APP
preclated.
The salt Lake Theater will be closed
again until September END, when the
lights VIII be turned on once more
WITH Yales Twelve Temptations as
the attraction. This production was
seen here some time ago and played to
good business, 1t has been greatly
enlarged upon and brought down to
date and is one Of the largest spectac-
ular attractions on the road.
After this attraction. others win
come uitener ana tne season can then
be said to have fairly opened. Com
mencing with the evening of Septem-
Der 2Sth and continuing five nights
with Saturday matinee will he seen
the great Carson fight as done by the
NeriscOpe. Every feature Of the great
contest will be almost as vividly por-
trayed by this wonderful machine as
the original contest and it will be an
art study in addition to the interest
that will attach to the ''picturing" of
the fight.
Following this attraction will come
The Heart Of Maryland. David Belas-
GOES great plav concerning which so
much Is being said at this time. a
San Francisco paper says:
TT is triumph of stage craft and
the master hand of David Belasco is
everywhere in evidence. In dialogue,
situations and denouemeut he has ex-
ercised the prerogative of talent pc
cullarly his own. The characters speak
and act as actual men and women did
during the times of the civil war. The
play Will he presented by a company
OF great merit. in fact nearly every
member Of the cast is widely and fav-
orably known. Mrs. Leslie Carter as
Maryland Calvert is said to be marvel
ously forceful and artistic in the as
sumption Of the role in which the
higher emotional possibilities are
grasped with an earnestness and inten-
sity giving ample evidence that she is
entitled to take place with the greatest
actresses OF the day. Aside from the
technique Of acting in which she "a
highly accomplished, aside from her
own graceful personality. which Is
naturally great factor in stage work.
her artistic temperament In all moods
or character, her sentiment. In comedy,
IN emotion, in passion she yields read
~ n q ts... L..
posed and she may truthfully he said
10 be the coming emotional actress of
the day"
=. Ihe company engaged by Manager
McfarVie for the stock season at the
,,.,i which begins September Goth.
VIII soon begin to arrive and active
fehearsals will he begun. The needed
repairs which the house has received,
tpSether with an entirely new COM
Mthy' should go long way towards
making a successful season of the
present one not but what the regular
season Iast year was for the most part
u success. but there are those who are
always elamorinR for change and II
y Tor this and all other classes that
Mnhager MeGarvie viii work to please
during the present season.
An Eastern exchange publishes the
contributed list of methods pursued
w prominent dramatic people in the
PREPARING of different roles for the
stage Among others the following
rom Maude Adams, who is now re-
neaVslng for her forthcoming starring
Interest: wa
l ike to get quite away by myself
,uere am sure no sound can disturb
ne and then, with not much light in
Wy room-Just enough for me to make
OUT the printed words of my part
uleaill over what the character would
E,ein Ike were she n real girl as / am.
nm, mat If, OF course. merely the beginning.
ne actual learning Of the lines Is not
20 difhcult as the theater-g oer might
MINK The dramatic action, the seen
NY me words that have passed before,
we behavior of the other plnyers--all |
Fhlloate what is to be said.
Dhe naturally has to feel n sym
pathy for the role. Some OF the parts
! nave played with MIR, Drew seem to
" Ike real friends, and as / look at |
,,otographs Of myself, In various com
.ules feel l am glancing at my half |
busters. MAUpE ADAMS"
The following pretty little tribute |
vas paid the late Mrs. John Drew. by |
me famous tragedien. Louis James, a !
lew weeks before her death:
owe all I know to dear old Mrs. |
party OF convivial souls" She taught |
me my letters in acting: how to add, |
subtract, multiply and divide. the |
tuiiments ana maps of art--wonderful |
Oh enchantress."
MT. james has the pratty Gift Of saw