Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-12
Arthur Crispin's Dramatic Letter From
Greater Gotham.
Financial Success OF Mrs. James Brown Potter and Kyre Beew
away Down East" and Other New Productions
Promising Future OF James Young

Incidentally that same play was the
means of putting Smyth q Rice into the
position they now occupy among our
successful managers. To Du Souchets
credit be It said that he has never Tor
gotten the service rendered him by Per-
lSins, and the play which he Is now
writing for him will represent his very
best work as II is practically labor
OF love. And, by the way, If any one
should ask you to designate the sue
ceasor of Charles II. Hoyt. just mention
the name of Harry A. Du Souchet, and
you will not be far from the truth.
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Mrs. James Brown Potter is pecul-
lar sort of individual, as also Is her
business and artistic associate, kyrle
Bellew, but no one Will claim that they
are not both artists OF the highest type.
That the dual alliance has never been
accepted with any enthusiasm in this
country In n reproach to us rather than
reelection on their ability. They have
won recognition everywhere else, al
though In many eases 1t has been pre-
cedod by hard fight, Their recent ex-
pericnce In England serves to Illus
tratc the determination and lndomita-
Bile pluck of this pair
When they concluded to invade Lon
don. there was scarcely a manager who
did not predict disaster for them. At
the start 1t looked as though the man
ayers were right. too. for while several
OF the newspapers praised their work
az artistic in the extreme their plays
We're not liked, and the dear public ir-
ritatingly staid away from the theater.
This was so even after they had pro-
duced Charlotte Corday," their piece
de resistance. But Mrs. Potter and Mr..
| Bellow stuck 1t out, with the result that
they are now doing almost the largest
business in London, although they are
located at the Adelph, one of the worst
houses in the British metropolis, 1t
would seem, for their entertainments.
IL recently came out in a semiofiicial
way that Mrs. Potter Ia a rich woman
and that she has determined, as soon as
she shnll feel that her powers have be-
| gun to wnne, to retire from the stage
and live upon her income It is there
fore only fair to assume that Mr.. Bel
lew Is equally well equipped with this
worlds goods. Their artistic pathway
has not been strewn with roses maybe,
| but they have achieved more than a
majority of those whose destiny has
! been cast in pleasanter lines, and that
is. aftor all, the supreme test.
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Speaking of London, IT Is amusing to
| read the stun that is cabled over here
for our consumption. A short time age
| the following appeared in one Of our To-
cal papers. ostensibly from its special
correspondent, whose name was signed
| IN caps"
There is nothing very remarkable
about the cast OF Mr. Beerbohm Tree
three act version of Julius Cesar
Mr., Tree will play Antony and Mr.
Louis Waller Brutus. Casslus is a no.
body you have ever heard OF. Mr. Frank
lyn MacLeay. The women in its are Mis-,
Lily Hamburg and Miss Evelyn Mil
lard"
Ignoring for the moment the fact
that the cast as given is particu.
larry strong one, II is enough Ia make
u horse laugh to hear that MIR. Frank
lyn MacLeay is a nobody we have even
heard Of. Mr. MacLeay Is Canadian
who was, after his graduation from
college, Il pupil ana later on an assist,
ant Of the scholarly James Il. Murdoch
II rs my impression that up to the pres.
ent engagement with Beerbohm Tree he
has never been in any company save
that ~ Wilson Barrett. where he ros,
through all the grades to the position
Of leading man.
~ nobody that we have ever heart
of indeed
lie has received magnificent notices II