Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-02-10

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.Gs 49,
, most people know. furnishes the
lhretto to which Verdi wrote Ira
yiata. and no one could appreciate like
Verdi iust what sort OF music was
BAKER, a noted reader and reciter who
which the play IL crowded. Again in
Raust al the Grand. The adapter OF
the play has chosen his incidental music
from GounOds sublime opera OF Faust,
and the telling way In which somo Of
the beautiful airs from the opera were
distributed through the play and rem
dered by Prof. C0lemans orchestra,
HEIGHTENED the effect enormously In
deed II took off some Of the rough
edges Of what was occasionally very
uneven acting.
THEATER GOSSIP.
Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry
open In Chicago Monday night.
The Frawley company closes its San
Francisco engagement next week.
And stu another! Paul Leicester
Fords successful novel, Janice Mere
dlth." Is TO be dramatlzed.
Friends" Ned Royle's play, has
been running successfully all this week
at the Alcazar theater, San Francisco,
"Ben-Hur' Is in It's eleventh week
IN New York, This artistic and mas
slve production il drawing an extreme
| ~ large attendance, and the advance
sale is constantly Increasing.
The Nance O'Nel company sailed
| from Vancouver Yesterday for Austria
| ia, that Is II nothing interviewed. Nc
| Kee Rankin will cable his Salt Lake
| friends through the News the result
Of the opening. and how the Antlpodes
regards his star.
Anna Held is getting quite respectful
attention from the papers In New York
now She can put those paragraphs in
her scrspbook with some different ones
she was treated 10 before Anna Held Is
shrewd. She has changed her tone
TO suit the new condition OF things
Miss Rose Coghlan and Miss Minnie
selgman will be the bright particular
stars OF The Great Ruby" the Eng
fish melodrama originally produced In
this country by the late Augustin DAILY.
and which is 10 be revived in the
spring.
Il. ]. Morgan. the original Ben Hur In
that big production, retired from the
cast in New York last week and was
succeeded by Emmett Corrigan, the
young actor who has appeared In the
role for several performances when
Morgan was out of the cast. II is said
that the change in leading men, IL
anything, was for the better.
Maude Adams will appear In 1.-THE
Little Minister" all through the re-
naming four weeks Of her engage
ment in the Criterion. Mr.. Frohman
has decided definitely that II will not
be necessary 10 present her in new
play IN New York this season. Next
season she Will have something new 10
offer, and viii be seen also as Rosalind
In "As You Like It."
The Ladies' Literary society announce
a pleasant feature for next Tuesday
evening. 1t consists in the first APP
pearance here OF Mrs Bertha Kunz
Baker, a noted reader and reciter who
has made a specially during the past
season Of selections from Cyrano de
Bergerac. She comes with some strong
recommendations, and the fact that
she appears here under the auspices Of
the Ladies' Literary society Is in itself
q sufficient guarantee. The Fort Wayne
Sentinel speaks thus OF her reading:
with none Of the accessories OF the
stage, Mrs. Baker gives her render
ing Of "Cyran0 de Bergerac" all the
finesse Of a dramatic production. Be
yond this was that lighting up Of
the finer literary qualities Of the play
that no stage presentation could show"
Irvlng's future was early predicted
by Charles Dickens when he saw him
as Digby Grant. says a writer in the
National Magazine, and IL Is the close
and appreciatye interest taken In him
by the famous literary minds OF his
day, that has kept Irving In such close
touch with the writers Of English liter
allure. Tennyson was not satisfied with
his pOeUcal laurels alone, and IL was
lrving's creation n King Philip that
won the heart OF the laureate.
Eyes. I played AS separate parts, TO
be quite exact. In that three years al
Edinburgh, after the good old days at
Manchester, and that would be some-
thing Of task even today"
Sir Henry Irving seemed quite at
home on an American stage, and II Ia
not difficult TO discover the reason
In his close associations with Booth,
Barrett and other American actors.
Your own Charlotte Cushman gave
me an important suggestion in my
early days. When playing in Meg
Merrilles' with her. I handed out the
bag OF broken crockery TO represent
gold. She was TO throw 1t TO the
ground contemptuously. but she in
sisted that instead OF giving out bags
OF gold 10 beggars, the money should
be given In separate pieces" Early
In his career he dreamed Of an Amerl-
can tour and with II came Meg Mer-
rifles" and her bags Of real gold. AS
ISOLATED with this apostle OF realism on
the stage; first tasting success under
the management OF Col. Bateman, an
American; is II any wonder he seems
10 belong as much to US as to England?
Yes, ! have known what II was 10
be poor and discouraged, and my old
friend used to say, We'll. old fellow.
the day will come when you will have
more than a sixpence In your pocket
The story which Mr.. Irving tells Of
the suit Of warm Undertaking given
him by Joe Robbins on cold Christ
mas 10 keep him from actual suffering,
Is gem In stage annalg and reveals
something Of the extent OF his expert
ences and early struggles In winning
fame.
MUSIC NOTES.
Francis Wilson Is producing "Ermine'