The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06

tunity to give them a public greeting
before their return to the east. Their
three one-act sketches have been de-
cided successes on the coast, as they
have been elsewhere, and while we
shall not see them in vaudeville sur
roundings, they will not suffer on that
account, and between the sketches
Irene Franklin, who is returning east
from her coast tour, and who is de-
scribed as the queen of vaudeville,
will render several variety acts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Royle, with tie others
who support them, among whom is the
well-known actress Mamie Dupont,
will appear in three original pieces,
1.-The High Ball Family" which the
San Francisco Examiner calls better
than Captain Impudence,'' Miss Wal
let of Wall Street" and the famous
Captain Impudence" itself, a conden-
sation of the play of Mexico"
MIR. and Mrs. Royle appear two
nights, Tuesday and Wednesday, and
as the result of the election in many
states and local precincts will be known
before the theatre is over, the figures
will be announced between acts. a
pleasant way of ascertaining the cleo
ton news, for ladies especially, will
thus be provided.
Following the Royles, on Friday and
Saturday, comes the Smyth & Rice
= Comedy company in what is said to be
a most highly successful and thor
oughly mirth-provoking production of
a new comedy entitled The Old Coat"
by w. H. Allderdice, lieutenant in
the United States navy. The play was
presented not long ago in New York
City, from whence the most compli-
mentary reports concerning 1t ema-
nate. The piece is supposed to supply
an abundance Of fun Of the fast and
furious order. and to furnish enough
ludicrous complications to cleverly hold
the interest and attention from first TO
last. One paper is quoted as saying OF
1t: "a sparkling breeze of fun" an
other - gale of hilarity;" and third,
"a cyclone of merriment." The Smyth
& Rice Comedy company is an organ
ization which ranks among the best in
this country. It was employed in the
original production of My Friend
From India in which it held the at
tention and applause Of Broadway in
New York City for more than six con-
secutive months, and achieved in it the
greatest comedy hit of that theatrical
year. The personnel of the company
includes many artists of high standing,
who are well and favorably known in
this CITY. They are: Frederic Bond,
the popular comedian who has many
friends here Edward S. Abeles, John
Ward. John Maher, Joseph Adelman,
Frank Perry, John Finn, Helen Reimer,
Nita Allen. Minna Adelman, Clara
Hathaway and the quaint comedienne
May Vokes.
Not so very long ago Mr.. Charles
Frohman in speaking of the growing
intimacy between the English and
American stage-of the presentation Of
English plays upon the boards of New
York-ventlred a prophecy which has
.4rNT1 ant
ness.
For years" Mr. Frohman said, eve
have been drawing on London for our
theatrical supply, producing here the
successes of the English theatres.
The tide is surely turning" added
the New York manager, land mark my
words London will shortly be looking
to New York, not New York to Lon
don, for its theatrical material. We
have been largely dependent on the
English market. But the center of
theatrical trade is changing; it will be
located here, and New York will be the
producer of plays that London will af-
forwards take"
The most illustrious instance of the
truth of Mr.. Frohman's prophecy was
Secret Service" which Gillette, the
author, brings to Salt Lake next week.
It's success in London was greater even
than in New York, where it is styled
o o @
Speaking of the new play which he is
now evolving, to be written around the
character of Sherlock Holmes, Mr.. Gil
lette recently said:
1T viii be months before I actually
use a drop Of ink on it It is my be-
lief that no audience will sit for three
hours and patiently watch Sherlock
Holmes or any other character simply
detect. 1 shall have to create an alb
solutely new story. preserving only the
salient features of the character as a
theme. None Of Mr.. Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes stories are capable of stage
representation. They are immensely
clever and all that as stories but they
have no love interest to speak Of and
are otherwise untitled for straight tran
sition to the stage. Mr.. Doyle, you
know, has already tried to dramatize
them himself, but without success. The
fact is that the name OF Sherlock
Holmes is about the only thing that
can transfer from the stories TO my
play, so far as / can see now
However" added Mr.. Gillette, facet
iously, If I see that the play is not
going 20 be entirely successful. 1 shall
give Mr.. Doyle as much credit on the
programme as if I had used his ideas
exclusively
Under the Dome" wound Va yester-
day to. a matinee hardly up to the
Grand's afternoon average and to a
good turnout at night MIR. Lincoln J
Carter is q very good compound taker
at intervals but when the emanations
of his genius tread too closely upon
one another's heels, as in the case OF
"The Heart of Chicago and Under
the Dome" one of them is apt to suf-
fer. So the attendance last week, while
more than fair, did not at any time
reach the eXuberant figures of the week
previous.
The newest thing in farcical produc-
lions is 'The Air Ship" which Mr.
Mulvey announces for all the coming
week at the Grand. The author, ]. NJ
Gates. devised it to make theatre-go-
ers merry. and that is its only object
1t is said to be q clever up-to-date spec
tacular musical farce comedy, posses
sing original ideas, new songs, dances
and specialties. Special rev scenery
\ which is not common with farce com
q edies. has been painted for each act by
n. Young THE Air Ship" contains
three acts. The second act shows the
office of the inventor used as head
quarters for mayor, chief of police
Superintendent of Sunday school, a de-
tective agency and a matrimonial bu.
reau In the second act Dawson City
in winter is shown, and the flight of {
real air ship, a new phase OF stage re-
alisrn The air ship contains members
of the company After getting all The
gold in Klondilke and husbands for al
the pretty girls the air machine re
turns, landiog in terrific thunder