The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-21

25, 600 population, in Salt Lake, for in
stance, would not have to pay any tax,
as the manager of the local theatre
would already have been assessed for
it: Z the attraction, however, moved
on to a town of less than %, 900, Ogden,
for instance, it would have to pay a
tax OF $40, or a. pro rata amount Tor
the fraction of a. year dating from July
l. 1888, and this amount would enable
it to play all the smaller towns of the
state: if it moved across the border,
however, into Idaho. it would have to
pay another yearly tax, and so on Tor
each new state that it visited. The rul-
ing looks to be a lucky one for the big
attractions which play only in cities OF
q, 600 population and over, as they es-
cape taxation altogether.
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The announcement by Charles F'roh-
man that he will try Maude Adams for
a week as Juliet during next season
moves Alan Dale of the New York
Journal to say:
The idea of presenting little Maude
Adams as Juliet must have come to
Mr.. Frohman as an inspiration in the
silent watches of the night 1t oc-
CURED to him in London, and, as far as
can see. it is the most interesting
thing he achieved there. In the yards
OF interview that he spun there was
just that one line that captured me:
81 shall present Maude Adams as Ju-
liet." Nothing else mattered much; it
was the usual prolific record. We need
girl Juliet-one that looks young and
is young: one that is thin and active.
and pretty and captivating Miss Ad-
ans will give Shakespeare's exquisite
tragedy the flip that it deserves. 1
swore once that I'd never see il again.
That was just after Mrs. Potter hurled
herself at the role and gave her unique
idea of a summer girl Juliet, with
Narragansett Pier manners, Asbury
Park coCuetries and Long Branch
clothes. 1t was novel, but decidedly
disappointing. In the potion scene you
felt that she drank morphine cocktail
or an antipyrine julep, because she was
so distinctly new-fangled. l thought
that l should never care for Juliet
again. But 1 hereby promise to smash
every engagement into smithereens on
the night when Miss Adams assumes
the role. We shall all declare before
hand that she hasn't the requisite
strength (Which is the ox-like way of
alluding to such a part), but we shall
so to see her just the same. She will
be fair, sweet, and, of course, win
some" and if she doesn't take her poi
son melodramatically and chew up
Lady Capuiet'S best bedroom furniture,
she will, at any rate, charm and reas-
sure US during the lighter portions OF
the play. The potion scene is all very
Wei. but when it is made the one cpl
sode for which every Juliet saves her
self up it becomes rather nuisance.
Mr.. Faversham, it appears, is to be the
Romeo, but Romeo won't count in the
least. A dummy would DO just as well.
Miss Adams in The Little Minister
showed US how utterly unnecessary
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could have made that piece a failure
he would have done it. But he couldn't,
and Maude Adams triumDhed.
Mark Thall, speaking in the San
Francisco Call of the actresses he had
been instrumental in introducing to the
public. SAYS:
"Then there is Maude Adams, who is
coming here with the Frohman COM
pany, and whose success has been al
most phenomenal. When l was as
sistant treasurer of the old Bush street
theatre, Charles E. Locke being man
ager, she was a pretty little girl, living
here with her mother. They were Utah
people and their real name is Kiss
kaden. Mrs. Kisskaden did not intend
Maude for professional life. but I per
suaded her to let the little girl take
an engagement with Fritz Emmett,
who had Just returned from Australia,
under General Barton, since the man
ager of the Bijou in New York. I could
see the talent in the child, and she
justified my opinion of her on her~very
first appearance.
'.She was the sweetest, most charm
ing, most. childlike child that l ever
saw on the stage, and never grew rude
nor spoiled with all the praise that was
given her. 1 have watched her career
with the warmest interest, and when I
hear how well she has fulfilled the
prophecy which I made concerning her
in her childhood l cannot help feeling
particularly glad that 1 persuaded the
mother against her will to let her little
daughter appear in public
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Phil Margetts and his two daughters,
Minnie and Mrs. Mulhall, of Z. C. NJ.
l., with Mrs. R. B. Margetts, returned
from very pleasant trip of two weeks
to Preston, Bear Lake, Soda Springs