The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-09

But what win I do for another
SHOVE" inquired Mark, aghsst at the
proposition
Cant you write one2" replied his
relative. Mark had written a couple of
twenty minute time-fillers-
Believe [ will." was the rejOinder
and Browns In Town was the result.
Mr.. Swan finished il in q week The
play was first written for six people,
then eight and some revision and ad-
ditions by himself brought il up TO its
present standard. 1t was a money
maker from the start, but the young
author believes he has a greater sue
cess in Whose Baby Are You" He is
travelling with the company only for
the purpose of watching the piece
The management is left in other hands.
Mrs. swan is playing the lead in
Browns In Town
John D. Spencer of the Salt Lake
Opera company waited nearly a score
of years to play the role Of Gaspard in
the Chimes of Normany.'
''The only time I was ever stage
struck" said Mr.. Spencer the other
evening. while dressing for the part.
was after seeing somebody in GaSpard
in the castle scene. / was simply mad
TO play it and While the Chimes have
been produced here perhaps fifty times
since / have made 1t a point not Go
miss q. single performance. OF course 7
came a couple OF years ago, when the
local company decided to produce the
opera. and can truthfully say that il
is a pleasure rather than work to get
into these miser toys. l certainly have
derived more satisfaction from the part
than from anything else I ever played
Those who are familiar with Mr.
Spencer'S stage v OTk can say also that
his GaspaTd is the most finished char
acteT he ever presented. And that is
saying not a little.
3. B. Young returns to Salt Lake
his old home. Monday. Dec. II, and viii
be heard in the Theatre in song recital
The programme 10 be presented By M
Young shows the full development of
the ballad from very ancient times. The
first part of the programme consists
of old ballads; the second, of more an
cient ballads and the third the most
modern form of this kind Of music. the
whole closing with a new work COM
posed by the celebrated American
writer. Chadwick upon SCOTS Loeb
invar."
Georgia C'ayv7n, who for many
years. was Daniel Frohman's leading
lady in the Lyceum stock company. is
a complete physical and mental wreck.
/ Physicians entertain little hope for her
recovery. Miss Cayvatl was falsely ac-
tIStA Two Years ago Dis CtB-4--e LltlttIl
in a divorce case and although com
pletely exOnerated, the actress grieved
intensely over the notoriety and il hast
ened her collapse She is now in San
ford hail, a New York private sauitar-
ium, her friends being restri cted from
seeing her.
Miss Cayvan is well ~emenbered by
[ Salt LakeT theatTe-gOeTS for her work
/ in Charity Ball. Men and Women
1 and Lost Paradise" She was a par
( tfcIar friend of Maude Adams, who be
gan really her theatrical career as the
/ factory girl in the last named drama.
| The many friends of Willard Foster
| in this city will read with pleasure the
/ reports that are coming in of his great
/ success as an actor. One day last week
| Mr.. Clarence Bennett, the star of the
/ Mercy stock company, fell and injured
| himself so that he had to go TO the
| hospital. His place was taken by young
/ Foster, who, according to the Emporis
| (Kan) Gazette, did the heavy work
put upon him in a most extraordinary
manner. They opened the week witt