Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-01

closing OF tho season very happily yes
terday by sending out 10 the stock
holders In the corporation checks for
two dividends. one the usual quarterly
" one per cont. the other an extra Hpe-
clai OF two per ccnt.a total Of three dol-
lars per share. Nothing could better
demonstrate tho fact that our people
have been enjoying prosperous times
during the past your than this RECORD
Of our leading place OF amusement
When money 10 scarce the thcatera are
the first places TO suffer- when u Is
plentiful. they nro the first places to
be benefited. During the past year
big houses hayc been the rule rather
than the exception at the Thcatcr, and
M the contracts made have carefully
looked out for the interests OF the
proprlctors Of the house, the stockhold-
crs feel the result by receiving six
per cent return for the year on their
Investment. Mir. Grant In whose
hands the large majority OF the stock
rests. Us certainly To- De congratulated
that the popular old house ~ returning
to the records OF the hnlcyon days
Salt tnlors who wish Henry Mnler
well IN his venture Of bringing go cN-
penslye a company across the cunu-
ucnt, will De glad 60 learn that HE
third week Ia San Francisco, which
opened last Monday nlght, began oven
more auHplciouly than the nrHt In
fact the chronicle says that though
many people arr out OF town. they VIII
return for the pleasure of seeing the
Miller company. The play brought out
was Hopes Adventures Of Lady ur-
uula" and Of Miss Anglin and Mr.
Ailller'a work thu Chronicle remarks
THE Adventures of Lady Ursula VIII
prove even more popular than '"Ihc
Liars" u WINS given hy tho Henry
Miller company last night ut the Coz
lumba Thcatur Go another brilliant
first night audience. and clever and
witty a. Henry Arthur Jones' play was,
this romantic comedy uf Anthony
Hopes ~ not only much more uttrnc-
tive thomc. but 10 10 even more akllltully
put before the public and u productive
OF much more delightful cnCct. II IL
a question if after Tho Prisoner Of
Zendn." this piece does not so FAR 20
make Mr.. Hope the most promising of
English drnmntsta. II IL very high
class work; Il ll much higher class
than anything Mr.. Pincro has yet done.
und II IA Tar ahead 90 tho work OF the
other writer's for the stage In London.
And Il appeals 20 All classes N pco-
pie, for sympathy goes with daring ana
purity IN charming Girl. and tho lit
Tie element ~ tragic possibility BE- "a
most striking Introduction. While there
are many plays Ia which young woe
men play men. and. necessarily, much
che same point ana rc1sonluE are used,
Mr.. Hope has made IL an Ho fresh and
virlle that he has placed himself IN the
way Of becoming nH popular IN this
higher range on The stage as In book
FORM There was not q dull momont
IN oil the performance last night oven
little walt which told against Miss
Anglln'n first entrance us the boy could
only be- regretted. aud was forgotten In
"a minute. The two figures that came
out were. OF course. Miss Auglin and
Henry Miller For 'he first who has
most ~ the play, ~ was quito trl-
umph. Her playing o; tho boy was an
her own. ~ was spontaneous and save
that once in ri while. looking ut her cN-
PRECISION and listening 90 her voice one
had "a shadoWy rDmlnlEcvnCc of Ado
lhide Nelson IN similar situations, there
MI suggestion Of any other uctress
ended. Her comedy was dniutv always.
ana the scene ~ the duel made the uu-
dlcnce quito serious. Facllc In her
movements and gestures. u seemed an
natural, Every variation of feeling or
mood was slngulnrly true. There was
no nunnrcnt study OF pose or attitude
no sign OF staglucss, ana rarel~ does
one sec n young actress 20 apparently
absorbed IN part, Miss AnRlin n not
one NJ those who rely upon personal
attractions. She has those but II is
the temperament that tells and holds
her audience tll they believe she ~ not
acting but real. Miss Anglin n already
a much better actress than many who
are leading companies IN New York.
Henry Miller " ftlll the best lover on
the stage. lie has developed the
strength Of HIS serious netting, and he
gave finely solf-conttollcd, refined
performance of Sir George Sylvester.
But nobody Gun catch an audience by
impressive expression Of love ms he
can. ana that an the more. since he had
20 show II by lnucudow as one Of Mr.
MIXERS hits last night"
Private letters from tho East state
that Frawicy's Washington season was
n losing one and that few. II any of his
people. have received their salaries.
Harry Corson Clarke, who Is at New
mort for the summer is one Of the
mourncra.
A note from Governor Wells 20
friend says New York is now theatre
enlly dead and that the roof garden
shows seen there during the summer
would be ronHtcd 10 turn II over they
venturcd into salt Lake.
The success Of Nat Goodwin and
Maxine Elliot IN London, and the gem
tfnl movement OF our EaNhllHn cousins
towards everything American IN art
impol HILLARY 1911 In the New York
Press 10 say;
our cousins now regard ua No their
comrades IN art. For the FIRST time
In his history they have accepted Nat
Goodwin as an actor They have en-
gnged Ada Dohnn fOr nrury lane. They
are calling for Mrude Adams.
The change ia bepcnClal to ~ rs 20
them. MH. Brown Potter has made
her mark In London when Mrs, Les
lie Carter carries "Zazn" 20 England
she should elcctrify Junn Bull
Probably We shall now begin TO coli
lcct some OF the money we have paid
10 England for our entertaln'ncnt Dur
ing their various seasons with uH Mr..
and Mrs. Kendall earned for their per-
sonal profit $500 800. Henry Irving +
income during the last American tour
amounted TO 10000 and during the
preceding tour he put $4,000 into his In
side pocket,
Henry Arthur Jones has earned
100000 out OF US. We have paid In