The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-20

was another one of 'Maude Adams
successes. Even the bunch of newspa-
Der critics appleuded heartily.
The local critics, while not inclined
to express themselves as to the thor
ough excellence of the play, were uni
form in saying Miss Adams had scored
another personal and emphatic success.
At the close of the evening the actress
said. briefly, to your correspondent that
she was delighted with the reception of
Quality Street and felt assured that
1t would be one of the popular plays of
her repertory.
THE house was packed by an audi
ence that Was as fashionable as it was
numerous. Every seat in the theatre
had been sold long before the curtain
rose, and hundreds clamored for ad-
mission who could not be accommo-
dated"
The Cincinnati Enquirer's representa-
tive wired: "Maude Adams scored an
other one of the 'Maude Adams sue
cesses' tonight at the Valentine theatre
in the initial performance of Quality
Street The house was sold to the door
long before the curtain rose The first
act was a bit 'talky' and when the
curtain went down Miss Alams received
rev calls and much applause. mainly
because she was Maude Adams. and
Toledo people are very fond of her for
her past successes. But whsn the cur
/ tain went down for the second time she
/ had completely captured the audience
/ by sheer merit of both play and actress
Then 1t was Maude Adams aud her
usual success.
! William H. Thompson. the WHY car
/ dirai of Annie RusseIrs "A Royal
/ Family" was in court at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Thompson is the husband of
Isabel Irving, but the latter had a
| predecessor when Thompson belonged
to stock comp any in the far west. In
! those days the mother of Miss Irving
/ predecessor loaned Thompson some
| money, and, presumably. the actor felt
little sympathy for his mother-in -law,
/ for he never paid the debt Well. then
came the divorce and Thompson came
east to make q reputation and win a
new wife. But the wise mother-in-law
secured legal judgment for the amount,
and though many years have elapsed,
that judgment held good. So Thomp-
son was arrested in San Francisco and
/ hailed to court, where he swo~e that he
had no money with which to pay the
claim. Upon being questioned he said
/ that he only received $125 a week from
4 Charles Frohman, that ne was indebted
| to Mr.. Frohman for money loaned. and
that he never drew his salary at one
time for that reason. When asked how
much money he had in his pockets Mr..
! Thompson counted it and announced
the sum total as S7.35- But when the
old familiar question as 70 his occupa-
ton was reached Mr.. Thompson's true
genius came into play He modestIy
answered, Il am a mere player" He
was discharged and the debt is still
unpaid. Mr.. Thompson deserves credit
for trying to get out of the rut of con-
Ventional theatrical humor.
1t is remarkable fact that almost
every so-called leading man." who is
! usually unable to speak the mother
tongue correctly. and whose chief abil-
tty lies in the fact that he is a good
ta;lor's subject, receives twice the sum
paid to the man whose work as the
cardinal in "A Royal Family was one
OF the distinct artistic performances of
the year. And yet leading men are so
rare, apparently, that Maude Adams,
Bertha Galland and Mrs. Carter will
act vis-a-vis this season with actors
imported from London.
Miss Mile James, who plays the
hoydenish Simplicity johnson in Low
er's Lane" went to a wedding the 9TH
er day in New York. 1t was the mar
rage of step-sfster- From this sim
pie circumstance may be extracted a
story of the queerest matrimonial mix
up since the time when Nero. by a
series Of entanglements. became his
own stepfather.
The wedding Miss James attended
was that of Miss Mayhem Slaughter
the youngest daughter of Marie Vain
wright. the actress. The bridegroom
vas Frank Sheridan. an actor. Miss
James is the daughter of Actor Louis
| James by his first wife. Louis James
second wife was Marie Wainwright. Sc
that Miss Wainwright is Miss James
aJepmotheT.
Miss Wainwright. however had beer
: previously married to a stockbrokel
named Slaughter. who is Mayhem:
, father. Mayhem and Mile stepsis-
tiers. played together until Miss Vain.
wright secured a divorce from Mr.
James. Then Miss Wainwright mar.
: ried for the third time. and-here i.
one of the remarkable tangles of stag,
life-her third and present husband i,
Franklyn Roberts. the actor. who play.
, the villain in Lovers Lane" He i.
the stepfather, twice removed, of Mis-;
James. and the stepfather of Mayhem
Slaughter, who was married.
Despite these involved family rela
: ticns. Miss James is on the most init
; mate terms with her stepfather. twic,
removed: with her stepmother Mis-
Wainwright. and with all the others o
the happy family.
Henry Norman. the basso comedian
of jefferson De Angels company. tell
; a good ,dOry at the expense of Eddi,
Foy, for many years the reigning ia
vorite here in the days of the Hender
son extravaganza The story is -
characteristic of Foy that it is WORT
retelling.
All who are familiar with Foy's per
: formances know that he possesses
e voice ofsuncOmmon htfskineSs-in fact
Foy is never able to sing songs, but i
! obliged to talk them colloquially Will
: the orchestra supplies some kind o
, rhythm. One night his voice was husk.
: u such a degree that he could scarcel.
! make himself audible, and as "A conse
: ! quence his song went for nothing an,
!, he gained little or no applause. II
came off the stage Tuning with rage.
Mr.. Norman, who shared the sta
dressing room with Foy. attempted I
! sOothe him. why. Eddie. perhaps it
> the fault II the acoustic properties o
I the house"
! THE WHAT" asked Foy.
/. ''The acoustic properties" repeate'
5 Norman
r Where is that id property man? ?
2 burst Eddie in towering rage. He
E always drunk or forgetting something.
2 The property man. hearing that Fo
- was in a rage about some MISSING
2 properties. hid himself in the fly gal
\ lery and did not venture forth for tn
rest of the evening. Foy meantime in
2 stituted a hunt all over the place 70
s the missing acoustic properties"
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