Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-09
SUCCESS or 1nf NEW YORK SEASON
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I rs said to have been one of despair, ar
the tenor was determined 20 sing mat
evening If he was IN condition to even
approximately do justice to himself.
farm denial is made that his indisposl-
ton is other than a stubborn cold,
/ which but temporarily incapacitates
his vocal organs. 1t is declared to be
not case OF breakdown
The tenor = Illness has cost him dear
~ thus flr-Sl0,0 1000. lie was pro-
grammed TO sing four times when he
was unable to do so, and $500 a per
fulmanCe is his salary, The loss Is MS
for, although he is guaranteed a GER
tain number Of performances, every
time he fails to appear when the oppor-
tunity is offered the warranted total
Is decreased by one.
Grau expects De Reszkc to sing three
times next week IN Faust" "Gotter.
dammerung" and Romeo ct Juliette,'
and at least twice the week following
in "LAfricaine" and "De Meister-
singer"
BLANCHE BATES HIT.
1t Is most pleasant TO be able to rec
ord that the most pronounced success
IN New York Just now has been made
by our old friend, she Of the Frawley
days at the Grand, Blanche Bates, IN
Dave NJ. Potter's play Of Under Two
Flags" Equally pleasant tidings 1t VIII
be TO Salt Lakers to know that the
company Will be sent to the coast In
the early summer. The play Is founded
on Ouida's novel Of the same name, but
barring the picturesque character OF
Cigarette" played by Miss Bates, and
Berthe Cecil, played by Frank Carlyle,
there is little in 1t to which Ouida could
lay claim. Mr.. Potter has done
wonderful piece Of work In building up
totally new play around these two
characters, and what he has not used
Of the book, amounts to stroke OF
genius, Miss Bates fine acting In the
part of the impetuous child OF the
regiment, the sand storm on the desert,
simply marvellous piece of stage
mechanism, by the way, and Miss
Bates dash up a mountain side on the
back OF her pony-man fashion-in
fact the whole productlon-are quite
the talk Of New York; the Herald to-
day gives the production whole page
illustrated; It is running at the Garden
Theater at 81 per ticket, and bids fair
TO run on indefinitely.
MEETING THE AUTHOR,
| had the pleasure Of meeting Mr..
Potter, the author, the other day quite
Unexpectedly. | was in Mr.. ALI Hay
mans inner office, talking with that
gentleman over Zaza," In Salt Lake,
the big box-oftlce reports, and warm
.F xVlggh had
Just reached him-lha size of one
cheering him for the tone of the other
when the door opened quite uncere-
m0niuusly, and a gentleman plainly
dressed, broad and smooth faced, with
a shock Of hair fast turning white, but
that still gave him no appearance OF
age-bustled into the room He was
introduced to me as Mr.. Potter, the
author of "Under Two Flags" and !
TO him as a western newspaper writer,
who had just pronounced his play TO be
the best thing going on In New York.
He smiled with as much evident graft
fication as though such praise were not
the commonest thing in the world to
him, passed a few pleasant remarks
about Blanche Bates. and then plunged
into the kick" that had brought him
up to the managers Office. II was the
lack OF advertising, he protested; there
wasn't enough lithographing abroad TO
satisfy him and he had actually just
met a friend who had told him that he
really didn't know that his play was
on the boards u couldn't help feel
INK that Mr. Potter's friend had been
"guying" him. and that the author had
just enough guilelessness In his COM
position rot to be aware of 10. Mr..
Haymsn received his plant good-hu
morcdiy. As one that every manager
hears so often from authors and ac-
tors that 1t falls on his ears like n