The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-09
and Cbespians Sunday Deus and GOSSIP



ond star to appear during the Cum
Local play-goers win extend warm
Welconle 70 Mr.. FraWley and his all
star band, who begin an engagement
OF a week at the salt Lake theatre to-
morrow night. ia view Of he excellent
reputation which this organization en-
I joys ana the somewhat remarkable
nature OF the repertoire offered. it viii
De surprising il a magnificent business
| does not result. Mr.. FraWley has de-
veioped habit of breaking theatrical
records this season. His San Francisco
engagement of nineteen weeks, which
/ came 10 close about a month ago,
! proved not only the banner season for
MIN IN the Bay Guy. but established a
new marx for the Grand opera house
the '3rgest theatre in the far west.
OF the repertoire 10 be presented there
/ IS much that is favorable to be said.
I Two of the plays on the list are absO-
1 lutte novelties here. and the others are
I drawn from the most pronounced sue
CeSSeS OF recent theatrical history The
! engagement viii open with Madame
4 Sans Dsne. the great work Of Vic
! toTIen SaTdon. The previous preSenta-
! ton Of this play in salt Lake. some
years ago by Kathryn Xidder and her
/ company, is recalled with pleasure. As
] the washerwOman-duche Kathryn
/ kidder hrst came prominently to public
1 attention.
Tt is said that as Madame Don't
/ Care Miss Mary NanBuren, the new
| leading lazy of the FraWIev company
\ has also found her great opportunity
/ .Eir. F'raFslsSl plays Napoleon This may
! surprise his Salt Lake friends who re-
/ member him only in juvenine roles but
! what VIII they say when they learn
! that he also plays Svengali in ''Trilby. ="
/ and that he has been accorded mucn
/ praise for his Characterization l. each
/ instance?
/ HOytian hUmor win reign next Tues
! day and Wednesday evenings at the
! New Grand theatre, when "A Stranger
/ in New York win appear. The
/ stranger is a bright, rolIickiog COM
! edy- satire on everyday life as viewed
/ in the great metropolis, 1t is written
/ in Hoyts best Vein, brimfuI CT witty
/ filings and funny and complicated
/ scenes, sparkling music and a host of
novel vaudeville features.
/ There are few young men connected
| with the stage today with brighter
/ prospects than Mark F. Swan author
/ OF Browns In Town and W hose
/ Baby Are YOU" which closed its mag
! ni1cent week at the Grand last even
/ ing Mr.. Swan promises to hold up the
/ HOyt end of theatricals, and have a
/ place second only to Hoyt before his
career is ten years older.
/ Swan IS not a name that butts into
/ the dramatic column with "Sickening
| regularity in the words Of AIDE, be
1 cause he possesses a retiring DISPOSE
! ton, quality with which so many
/ theatrical people enjoy only a formal
/ acquaintance. He is a product of In
! diana, an. until Is was a scaTlet-haired.
/ bare-fOOted HOosier, with a sore toe
and one suspender around the old home
stead. Quite enough schooling had
| been pounded into Marks young head
at the age of 13 and what he learned
/ after that came from observation and
/ an infatuati0n for books
! Speaking the other evening of his
! stage life. Mr. Swan remarked: My
/ earliest recollection is holdings tools
F.. for q stage carpenter down in Missis-
/ siDpi. L liked a good show better than
( any Of earth's products, and I guess
] that's the way 1 got started
/ Growing up in a green room he finally
/ took to vaudeville. in which he
4 toured with his Wife. brother-in-law
I and others. The brother-in-iaw con-
/ Guided to leave him and keep the piece
/ they We're then presenting.