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

4 MISS KATE
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season for the first time in Twelfth
| Night" playing Viola, a character that
should suit her well. During the early
part of the season Miss CrOsman will
| produce Mrs. Sutherland's Joan O. the
Shoals" and Mr.. HaZeltOn's new play
which is nearing completion.
1t is quite probable that during his
New York engagement Mr.. Arthur By
/ ron, who is to be starred by Wagon
halls q kemper, viii appear in a series
of special performances of one or more
/ of Bernard Shaw's published plays.
! negotiations to which end are now be-
ing made by his managers.
Maude Adams new. play, written by
>. NJ. Barrie, is to be called Quality
Street" This title has just been de-
cided upon by Mr.. Barrie and Miss Ad-
ans. and the manuscript delivered to
her. Miss Adams has returned to New
York. and Mr.. Barrie viii arrive il
I New York during the latter part of
! September in time for rehearsals of the
new play.
/ Marie Bates viii be one of the most
! important members of the company
+ chosen by David Belasco to support
/, Warleld, his new star. In The Auc-
! tioneer' she viii have another of those
inimitable character parts which she
made famous in the "Chimmie Fadden''
days, following up that success by
/ still greater one as the tipping Auntie
Rosa, in Mrs Leslie Carriers 'Zaza."
/ Kathryn Kidder has signed a con
/ tract to tour as a star this season I'M
der the management of George H.
/ Brennan and James 3. DelCher, in a
new play by Glen MacDonough, enti-
/ tied Molly Pitcher" The piece is
+ founded on incidents in the life of the
famous revolutionary heroine. and will
INTRODUCES the battle of Monmouth
: where Molly took her husbands place
/ and loaded and fired a cannon.
/ Frank L. Perley objects 10 more than
one e in the name of Frederick Ran
+ ken'S book, and viii have it THE Chap
erons, instead Of The ChaperOnes.
/ as given by some photographers. Mr.
/ Periey gives as his authority the Stand
+ ard Dictionary. which is fast coming
T TO be accepted as the authority Mr.
! Ranken suggests that Perley is not
such purist as he pTetends, but that
the real reasons for the change laws IN
the fact that he discovered the orig
/ inal spelling of the title contained thir-
! teen letters.
The BOstonians viii present Robin
Hood. The SeTenade" and THE
Nlceroy' till they put on their new De
Aoven and Smith opera, Maid Mari
an in Philadelphia. Nov. l. The new
members of this company are Allen
Hincl0ley. basso Of unusually power
ful voice, Allen Parr and Vernon Stiles.
tenorS; William Med Darlington a
young baritone. and Gertrude thinner.
a lyric soprano Of great promise. The
organization viii number seventy peo-
pie.
CLYDE Fitch has sold his pet play.
Major Andre to George Alexander
Tor production in London this fall WI
nam A. Brady owns the drama for
america, and plans to do it in New
] ork during the coming season. Many
who heard this play claim it is one of
the strongest ever written by an Amer
lcan author. Fitch put in three years
work on it and considers 1t his master
piece.
William A. Brady writes from New
1ork have Just produced Foxy
Grandpa, a musical farce written on
the adventures Of that old. gentleman
as shown in the cartoons in the New
YORK Herald and other important pa
perS for the past two years. Joseph
Hart and Carrie de Mar are the stars
and the attraction has scored the most
phenomenal instantaneous success
nave ever had the pleasure of expert
eneing."
Frank Mckee has received e scenario ;
OF "Gr2ustark, George 8. McCutch-
cons novel IN a dramatic version of
which he plans to present Mary Man
nering in the future as the Princess
4etive- The completion Of this play
viii be expedited as much as possible
consistently with a painstaking and
careful dramatizatiOn Of the story. The
time Of its presentation has not yet
been fixed. Miss Mannering may be /
seen IN one OF three or four other plays
cldes to place her before the public N I
-Graustark."
Louis James, who is to play Cardinal I
Wolsey TO the Katherine of Madame 1
MCdjeska in Henry VIII" has re- /
neWed his contract for another FIVE 4
years with Wagenhals & Kemper. IN I
der whose management he has been /
since 1892. His association with Mod
Jeska is to be for the coming season 1
only, plans for his subsequent tours .
Delng already under consideration 4
That he VIII acquire new and greater +
fame from his assumption Of the crafty f
all-powerful cardinal is an opinion of
ms manaSers very generally endorsed +
by both press and public. The Nodes f
ka-James tour viii open in Montreal I
on Sept. 90
Last season Chauncey Olcott had a 4
persistent admirer who attended the /
performance OF Garrett O'Magh-' I
nearly every night in New York Some I
times she was seated in an orchestra /
chair, sometimes she was conspicuous I
in an UPPER box. and at other times F.
she Was in retirement in the rear. room
of the theatre On every possible 0c- /
caslon she was On hand TO drink in the
melody of 8ir. Olcott's songs. and to /
gaze to her hearts content on the 4
handsome comedian IN the center Of the /
stage Unlike most of the feminine ad-