The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-23

THE story is told Of an aspiring youth !
who sneaked out one night
from the shelter of pa
ternal guidance and broke into
the business. When not engaged /
in rustling props or pouring into the
ready ear of the stage papa the delec-
table information that the coachman
mad earned his salary for the morn
ing, and was at the front door with a
Yehlcle awaiting the arrival of my lord
to convey him to his destinati On-When
not thus engaged, ne filled in cOmpOs-
ing advance agent SOnnets on the man
ner in which his Henry had startled
all Dakota, and his refusal of an offer
10 underSTudy Billy Blake. These uSu-
ally found their way into the parental !
living place and great was the JOY
thereat
One day a missive, scrawled on the
last half of h cigarette paper. reached
home. 1t read: Dear Father-AIeet
me outside the city tonight with shoes
and blanket. I have a hat"
Ihere IS an astounding difference be-
tween the experience of this misguided
young man and that of America
most versatile actor late of Los An
geles.
When his company entered upon its
season at the Burbank theatre, It was
With every indication of prosperity.
True, nobody went ahead to stand off
the electrician for border Hghts-and
make the public wise to what they had
been missing for tWenty-one years. But.
neutrality-suspicious. the company started
out with re grande flouTishe'' and
from the accounts which bedevilled the
typos of the Los Angeles papers and
bore heavily down on the wires the
southern coast town was at the feet of
Jne matinee idol They had to nut
weather strips under the doors of the
Burbank theatre to keep the money
from rolling out Every man in the
cast was clipping coupons. The star
himself was doing a Monte CristO stunt
with John D. Rockefeller still sewn I'D
IN the sack and holding his breath.
Then the sickening thud. The bot
tom dropped, with more suddenness
and a good deal more severity than a
Wild cat mining stock on Black Friday.
The actOT-manageT had made all his
Preparations to leave for the north.
He had even bought his railroad tick
cts. when without warning bunch Of
creditors swooped down on the box Of
( fee and demanded their pay. Among
them were the job printers, the light.
comedian and the character man. The
/ upshot of the intrusion on the actors
quietude was his arrest on complaint
( OF MeSsrs. Giblyq. and Shaw the middle
/ of last week
! But the threatening future was
/ turned into happy sequel by the dis
/ covery that Mr. Cummings owned val.
/ ia bic real estate in NSan Diego and a
/ dog kennel in San BernardinO. He will
/ make a flying trip TO this place, it is
/ said, and convert ali his property into
( cash and viii soon have paid his bills
/ Mr. cummings considers his arrest an
! outrage.
! Here is how the Dramatic Mirror
! sizes no the all-impOTtant proposition:
/ Decidedly the most colossal piece of
/ aSininity-yet revealed in the man
! agerial search for circus" attractions
/ is the announcements of the plan to
/ present Sarah Bernhardt and Maude
/ Adams in Romeo and Juliet the sea-
/ son after next. II only needs the cast
/ ing or William Gillette for the nurse to
! give the finishing 5ouch to the farce.
/ 1t seems more than probable that
! this extraordinary hiStriOnic com bina
J ulon viii never come to pass and that
! a year hence the whole thing will
! and forgotten advertising scheme: for
! although Sarah IN her second half-cen-
) fury has shown signs of elderly alb
/ Surdity (as in her Hamlet and her
/ PmladelphobiaD ,. it is not likely that
( she viii so far forget the dignity Of
. her past career as TO capeT before US
/ IA the guise OF a English
s Romeo to an ingenue Juliet
I Indeed. Sarah already has cast a
: shade of doubt herself over the pro-
! posed transaction by saying in Lon
/ don interview that her appearance will
/ depend upon her ability to study the
/ lines in English Satisfa ctorily. This
/ qualification would seem TO imply that
I while Sarah has not lost her taste for
J free advertisement she has not entirely
/ lost her common sense.
/ Once more Planquett's perennial
/ Chimes of Normandy" is to be heard
! in Salt Lake. It VIII be interesting
/ to witness its rendition by the Wilbur
/ Xirwin company for various Tea sons.
/ One Of these is that the production Of
u the opera by the Salt Lake Opera com