The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-12

slaught on the methods of the trust +
by publishing weekly supplement, ,
which is distributed through the mails, /
and which is devoted entirely to the /
showing up of the deeds and misdeeds |
Of the trust. The pages of the Mirror |
proper are silent on the burning ques-
ton, for the reason it is alleged, that |
the American News. company is afraid !
of libel suits and has warned Mr. Fiske /
that it would not circulate his paper !
il he printed attacks on the gentlemen |
composing the trust. Francis Wilson
and Minnie Maddern F'iske, theewifes OF
the editor OF the Mirror; Richard
Mansfield and probably z. S. Willard
are among the Independent stars who
are "bucking's the trust and Who have
in consequence been barred out of the
big chain of theatres controlled by it.
Richard Mansfield, who couldn't smell
a fight without being in the thick OF it,
showed his feelings towards the trust
or the syndicatesthe other night in the
following speech, delivered from the
stage Of the Fifth Avenue theatre:
THE actor is no longer his own mas
ter. The condition under which his
work is done today is a very different
one from that which formerly existed,
not to say q very bad one; and it may
be that 1, with other entirely worthy
City henceforth, and possibly out of the
United States, by the unfortunate, cir
cumStanceS Which control and dominate
| the dramaticsart in America today.sBut
if we are permitted TO return-as [
sincerely hope we may bel expect to
present to you another new play"
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The Mirror supplement make the
somewhat surprising statement that
Fanny Davenport's company will dis
band, as the result of an Improbable
| tour by that actress, over a route
mapped out for her by the trust. Miss
Davenport first decided to fight the
syndicate, but later compromised with
| it.
B. B. Young and his wife, Madam
NfazzucatO Young, have been induced
to remain over in Salt Lake one night
on their return from the coast, and
their recital is booked for Monday
evening, the 9th, at the Congregational
church. The programme will be SINH
lar in character to that given by Mr..
and Mrs. Young last year in the same
building. Admission rates will be so
cents.
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Especial Correspondence.
New York, Dec. S.-The New York
dramatic season of '97'9S, although not
very many weeks old. has proved re-
markable because of the success of
two new dramatic stars, Miss Maud
Adams and Miss Julia Arthur, both of
whom have been drawing very large
! houSeS-the former in an adaptation of
Barrie's Little Minister" and the lat
ter in Mrs. Burnett's stage version, and
q very poor one it is. too, of "a Lady
of Quality" straWs which indicate that
the wind of popular favor is filing the
sails of dramatized novels. Miss Adams
is extremely popular in New York be-
cause of her sweet and winning person.
atty a quality which possesses a far
higher value here than even the high
est forms of mimetic art. Miss, Ar
thur has beauty and art at her COM
mand, and has Had a wide experience
on the stage-one that has ranged from
barn storming in the west, to playing
with Sir Henry Irving in London. Other
financial successes of the season thus
far are THE Swell Miss Fitzwell," with
May Irwin in the chief role, and Hoyts
"A Stranger in New York"
London, Dec. 11.-Louis NJ. Parker's
new comedy, The Happy Life" which
was produced in the Duke of York s
theatre last Monday, is likely to be
more popular in America than in Lon
con, for the Americans monopolize the
virtue in the piece, and the vices are
allotted to the English The comedy
is based on an Improbable MOTIVE its
dialogue is brilliant and the setting at
tractive, which ofershadoWs its i'm
probabilities.
, Decidedly the most interesting spec
! tacle which the English dramatic field
affords this season is the fierce rivalry
waged by the representatives of Amer
lean managers TO secure the successful
Every London and provincial drama
fist or manager who floats a play hay
ing the signs of popularity finds him
self in the position of an auctioneer re
: ceiving the bids of transatlantic COM
Detitors.
The two most enterprisnig bidders il
this field are Mr. Lester, the English
! representative of Charles Frohman, anC
A. L. Sutherland, who is something OF
l a free lance.
Mr. Lester and Mr.. Sutherland en-.
gagged in an amusing, race to Birming
ham last week to attend the first pro
duction of a new Irish melo- drama
'Soggarth Aroon" Darling PriesD
with view of securing it-for America
, should it prove suitable. 1t is said tt
f; be q reminiscent of Boucicault in it:
I atmosphere, and unQuestionably viii
kindle the enthusiasm of Irishme1
wherefore it should appeal to the large,
! section of American citizenship o
1 Irish descent
9 An American guest in London is San
l dy DingWaII, who came over recent!
to secure some live melo-dramas 70
4 Jacob Lit, and who carries back
= brace of plays for the approval OF hi
: principal.
The English press, particularly Thu
: dramatic papers, are bestowing consid
: cable denunciatory comment upon Wha
they are pleased to term "Frohman'
b. dramatic trust" American trusts ar
: a subject of great solicitude on TIN
= part of the British and here, where TIL
= drama holds a much larger place il
: public interest than it does in America
- managerial movements are esteemet
:, correspondingly important. This ten
dency to the organization of a theatri
cal trust, which the English think the.
had discovered, Dres&ges of, in tn
= mind of certain critics, the downfall o
. drama in the new world as an institu
r ton conservative of art.
There is another side to the story pu
q forth by London representatives of tn
q American managers. They attribut
+ the opposition to jealousy of Englisl
4 promoters because of the inroads whicl
+ american attractions are making.
y An enterprise from across the waite
Z which also attracts much common
: from the London newspapers is tn
7 Barnum g. Bailey circus. In this cas-
the comment is entirely and quite en-
: Enthusiastically friendly. The heart o