The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-25

ueuuJely announces that the VIII
bur-Kirwin company viii occupy the
Salt Palace AL through September, d
satisfactory arrangement having been
made with Miss Kirwin by the terms
of which she viii change the company's
dates in all places TO be visited on its
tour OF the northwest.
Under the first contract with Man
ager MulVey the palace would have
closed next Saturday night. but the
new arrangement prOlOngs the com
pdAy stay a salt -. Ne four weeks
st1d prolongs the season of the popular
resort by the same length of time.
But II means more than this Il
means that this town viii have SUD
ported a theatrical company for a con
tlnCouS term of sixteen weeks, with
two matinees each week. making a
total ct l2S consecutive performances.
not to mention the Sunday concerts.
which have been feature for the past
eight weeks or longer.
such a record has never before been
within hailing distance. It has not
even been thought of seriously, except
possibly by few doomed tO-dis-
appointment stock managers, whose
overnight anUcipationS were iuvarf-
ably destroyed i'm trials short and bit
ter. To add 10 the remarkable it is
70 be remembered thar during the ma
Jor part of the season the Wilbur Kir-
Win company has played the same
Dill through one week At the end Of
a fortnight the management discovered
lhag 10 was really possible to do BUSH
ness Wllnout making two changes in
that period
For next year he is thinking o. an
Otuef experiment. He wants a regu-
larly employed company of actors at
the palace. If he retains the manage
ment 10 be visited for short enga ge-
tileHI Is by STOCK. stars on plan sim
llar 10 that in vogue at FIitch's oar
an he .H.,e
nave nad many notable stars at Dopll-
lar prices this summer Blanche Walsh
among them, and Mr.. MuIvey is ambi-
t tious 20 lfy something of the kind on
the people of Salt Lake Whether or
not his contemplated plan viii reach
any tangible state is vet a ouesriOn
nut he has been greatly encouraged bv
the reception Of the summer oDera or
SeLHIzdlIoh ana possibly there viii be
an dIlhou ncement from him at no dis
Iant date of great local interest.
The local theatrical season VIII omen
next Friday evening with an attraction
which Manager FS-per considers m
strongest on his list-the FmDire The
IRE company in Mrs. Danes Defense -
Ihis is FrOhman's favorite oreaniza-
Ion. II IS embelliShed in Dlsv. per-
sonnet and accomplishments with the
very bet thai a well-stocked market
can afford. The play itself has been
lauded To the skies. In London. where
II was originally produced il created
an unusual degree of criticism and dis
cussion all of the highest favor. After
q run or one season across the water
MI tTOhman nut it into the FmDire
tnreatre in New York. and there. also
il ran fer an entire season and proved
bigger financial success than auv of
the Empire Company's other vehicles
1t was finally withdrawn in order 10
allow the revival OF Diplomacy" as
EFonmdn now makes a rule to close
this one of his New York houses each
season with revival of some standard
play.
Charles Richman and Margaret An
Gin. HhO head the cast. scored tri-
umpnS IN the New York production and
again ON the Pacific coast. which has
not before been visited by the En-
plre company in five years. Its stay
now, for two nights and matinee is +
only too brief.
The story of Mrs. Danes Defense"
deals with the fortune of Mrs. Dane
Young woman who takes up her res
idence at Summing Waters. an excIu (
stVe country community. about twenty
nVe miles from London. She is recog- /
nlzed Dy one James RiSby as Felicia
HlndInarSh, a young woman whose reD-
utatlon was seriously scandalized Z
through Irritation with a married
man in whose family she was govern
eSS, on account of which the wife al
forwards commits suiciCa Mr.. Risby
uty. but afterward fegretting the COM
motion he has aroused. retracts his .
statements He fails TO satisfy one
lady. however, Mrs. BulsOm Porter IA
very o-hcious woman. who pushes her +
inquiries To the point of sending a de-
tecuVe 10 Vienna in order TO confirm +
the scandals concerning Mrs Danes I
former life. The latter'S position be
comes an exceedingly painful one for
she has won the love of Lionel Carte~et 4
of rss-H
a distinguished English jUrist
The lattec's sanction TO his sons mar /
rage is Withheld until Mrs. Dane shall
have cleared her good name The de
tecuFe discovers the truth OF the story
regarding the young WOman'S past life +
bet on his return ne is so deeply in I
uuenced by her a-~ealS and wOmarIv /
charms that he declares she is not the /
woman Moved by a purpose TO punish /
Mrs Bulsom Porter for her vindictive-
ness and 20 remove the stigma from
Airs. Dane beyond all question a suit /
Is threatened unless Mrs. Porter shall
apologize.
Sir Daniel has been furnished with
2 story which purpoTts to be that of 4
MIS-. Danes early lie. In an interview .
with her he questions her i'm regard TO /
certain details which were not quite +
clear Though intended purely for her :
own good. the pointedness and incisive- E
resS of his questions place her uDon a +
NerlJaole rack, and cufminate in "a
scene Of powerful and enthralIinc in
Jerest. in which the young woman con
fesses that she is Fe'icla Hindmarsh. f
and appeals to Sir Daniel not 10 part
her from his son. Through the infl- /
erce Of Lady Eastney, with whom Sir f.
Daniel is I'm love, the truth is not made {
public and an apology is eEtorted from 4
Mrs Bulsom Porter
l.. II. Carruthers who has been in /
New York an summer as Manager Aful- .
VeY representative returned homo
Thursday He states that this VIII be
tne tafSest season, theatrically, ia the
history or the country; that big at
fractions win DE larger and more nu-
merous than ever and that every. man.
ayers prospects are bright
one of the great attractions which
VIII nnish It's second season in q blaze
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