The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-28
The World Outside.


A decidedly unique occurrence of the
past week in New York was the per-
Torrance of THE Musketeers" for the
benefit of the Womans Professional
League. The unique part was that the
cast was composed entirely of women,
including such well known names as
! Marie Wainwright Gas Richelieu),
Grace Huntington las the Duke of
/ Buckingha1O. JEANNE Winston Gas
Porthos), Maude Banks Gas d'Artag-
nam, Sarah McVicker (aS BonacieuX),
I Mary Hampton las Anne of Austria),
MAZDA Craigen (as Lady de Winter
and Bijou Fernandez (as Constance).
The performance attracted the widest
interest, and is said to have been very
$500 richer in consequence Maude
Banks made a dashing D'Artagnan,
and Marie Wainwright was Just like
a man. all but voice. All the perform
ers were ~iven unstinted praise and
applause for their work, and the per-
Torrance is probably the only one of
its kind ever given in New York. 1t
was the most talked of event of the
season in theatrical circles.
The following, from an eastern paper,
tells of the arrangements made for the
new Zangwill play:
George c. Tyler of Lieber & Co. has
completed an arrangement with James
A f1eTHe. the dClOr anu uTdindllSl, du-
thor of Shore Acres" and other noted
plays, to stage the production of Is
rael ZangwilFs Children of the Ghet-
to" which will be first presented at the
National theatre, Washington, next
September. and commences a run at
the Herald Square theatre in New York
in October.
Mr.. Herne's consideration for this
service viii be $1,000 the largest sum
or. rlaiH nj oft N
country or abroad. Mr.. Herne and Mr..
Zangwill, who will come to this coun-
try from London early in August, VIII
work together in preparing the piece
for presentation. The company will be
rehearsed eight weeks. Mr.. Herne will
go to London in July to make a study
of the Ghetto" of that city, where all
the scenes are laid, and its people.
This play will be remarkable for its
heart interest, its bright comedy, as a
character study and for its atmospheric
detail, and will be the first dramatic
effort in stage history to present the
Hebrew in a considerate light. Every
character will be a Jew, and the story
will be entirely Hebraic The principal
feature of the plot is founded on one
of the ancient laws of the Talmud.
The leading role of Hannah will be
played by Miss Blanche Bates, who
made a most noteworthy impression on
New York theatre-goers this season as
the adventures in The Great Ruby"
and as Miladi in support of James
O'Neill in The Musketeers.'
. Charles F'rohman has made some ar
engagements in London for the bringing
over of Maude Adams and her entire
Romeo and Juliet" company. If Miss
Adams feels equal to the task she will
probably be seen there for two weeks
during the latter part of June. 1t is
supposed that Mr.. FrOhman has cabled
Miss Adams that everything is ready
if she cares to come, but that she has
not yet fully made up her mind. Glenn
ent Scott, in letter on the subject to
the New York Herald, says:
London eXpectantly waits. We want
everything good in London, and from
all accounts, Miss Adams is an actress
whom we must see sooner or later. Of
course, Juliet with all our memories
to the full with recollections,
is a great ordeal for a young actress"
Sarah Bernhard has appeared in
Paris as Hamlet and has made a great
success of the part. The Figaro says
she interprets the part as Shakespeare
designed it, especially bringing out the
fact that Hamlet was a young man.
Edmond Rostand, author of "Cyrano
de Bergerac," says that Bernhard has
never done anything greater or finer |
The idea is most certainly a startling
and it is hardly possible |
that it will become a fad in this coun- |
try. Imagine Leslie Carter or Mrs. |
Fiske playing Hamlet. or Maude |
Julia Arthur and Annie Rus |
sell, alternately essaying Romeo or Jul |
let, according to their mood The stage |
would surely be turned upside down. |
Not alone are women of the profession |
taking the laurels of fame away from
the men, but they are appropriating the |
male parts also,