The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-25

the artistic creation OF my own brain.
You shall not -mutilate il. That would
be sacrilege.
And so this experienced manager,
after vainly endeavOring to reason with
this hotrheaded, impetuous, inexpe-
rienced playwright. decided not to
throw good money after bad. of with
the play, he ordered. In its present
shape it is a failure, and ! viii have
no more of it." So The Adventures of
Francois has been withdrawn and
LangdOn Mitchelis the author. is de-
pTived Of royalties which would prob
ably have amounted to s15,G0) during
this season.
Mr.. Mansfield viii travel with a
much longer train than when he was
playing repertoire. The forty suits of
armor cannot be folded and made COM
pact. so that each suit win be provided
with a special crate. The armoriaI out
lit. therefore, viii very nearly ill a car
The six papier-mache horses used in
the tableauX of the battle Of Agin-
court viii eat UP more room than they
would hay if they were alive.
Then there are the crates for the
furniture. the battle flags. the pixies,
shields. helmets, picks. battle axes and
the sOldieTy. The calculations are that
the production viii require a train of
ten cars. There viii be two baggage
carloads of trunks, including the per
sOnal trunks OF the players. which will
go to the hotels, and the costume
trunks, which win so to the dressing
rooms; two siXty-foOt baggage carloads
of scenery, a carload of armOr in
crates, a carload Of properties and fur
nit ell p
company and Mr.. Mansfeld's private
car.
This IS what William Winter Of the
New York Tribune says Of Joseph JEFF
ferson in rip Van Winkle'':
Perhaps the perfection of Joseph
Jefferson's acting is seen in the wierd
and beautiful interview with the
ghosts The situation is surely one Of
the greatest ever devised for the stage
and the actor himself created il. Mid
night or the highest peak of the Cat
skills, dimly lighted by the moon No
one speaks but Rip. The ghosts cluS-
ter around him. The grim but stately
shade of HendriCk Hudson prOffeTs a
cup of drink to the mortal intruder al
ready daZed by his supernatural sur
rOundings. Poor Rip. almost shuddeT-
y
full of his quaint nature, pledges the
ghosts in their own liquor Then sud
denly the spell is broken, shouts of
goblin laughter resound over the echo
ing mountain, the moon is lost in strug-
Cling clouds. the spectres glide away
and slowly vanish and Rip Van Wrinkle
with the drOwsy, piteous murmur,
Don't leave me, boys" falls into his
mystic sleep.
A search through newspaper files,
old programmes and several books de-
voted to the stage and its people re-
veals the somewhat astonishing fact
that Julia Marlowe, although a young
woman, has appeared in no less than
thirty-three different roles. The COM
piete list, in chronological order, is as
follows:
Chorus singer in a juvenile produc-
ton of "PinafOre.' Sir Joseph Porter
in juvenile production of ''Pinafore,
Suzanne in The Chimes of Normandy"
Page in The Little Duke" Heinrich
in rip Van WinkIe,' Rips sister in
Rip Van Wrinkle" Maria in Twelfth
Night Balthazar, Romeo's page, in
Romeo and Juliet" Stephen in The
My~ene in "Pygmalion
and Galatea," Parthenia in 'IngOmar."
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet" Viola in
Twelfth Night" Julia in THE Hunch-
back. Pauline in THE Lady of Ly-
Ons," ROsaHnd in LAS You Like It"
Galatea in "PygmaIion and GaIatea."
Beatrice in Much Adoo About Moth
ing" ImOgen in "Cymbeline," Charles
Hart in 'ROgues and Vaga bonds, >"