The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-17

serve win have a new version of Peg
Wellington. as well as a new play by
J. NJ. Barrie. The last named, II sue
cessful. viii be the feature of her rep
ertoire.
It is stated that Victor Herbert viii
go to London with the Alice Nielsen
company Although an IriShman by
birth and European raised, Herbert and
his work as composer are compare
lively unknown in England
Mile James, daughter of the ira
gedian, Louis James, is obtaining col
umns of space in the New York papers
because of her remarkable perform
ance of a 10-year-old waif from the
orphanage in Clyde Fitchs Lovers
Lane" She is a young woman of p in
private life. but in the frOckS and
braids of Simplicity Johnson she does
not look to have entered her teens
a Philadelphia. business house has Sc
cured the gold statue of Maude Adams
which was exhibited at the Paris eX-
position, and has II on daily exhibi-
ton in their book department 1t is
proving d great card for business
Mortimer Snow is member of the
cast of Brady's revival Of Uncle
Toms Cabin" He plays George Shell
by. According to this, MIR. Snow has
left the stock company in which he
owned a half interest.
The indictments against Harrison
Gray Fiske and the Dramatic Mirror
for alleged libel, obtained in New
York court in 1898 by the officers Of
the Theatrical trust" have been dis
missed at the instance of the complain
ants. The action grew out of the Mir
rorS crusade against the trust s.
methods, but was never brought to
trial.
Another book-play, "To Have and To
Hold has been produced and, like
many of its predecessors, has failed to
make good. The New York critics de-
clare it is far beneath the talents OF
such artists as Isabel Irving, who
plays Jocelyn Leigh, and they say Rob
ert Lorraine, the London actor VINO
was specially engaged for the leading
male part. was positively weak There
/ is talk of revising the play.
KyrIe BelIew is to return to America
next season to make a starring tour
under Liebler & Co. The first play in
which he will be seen is a, dramatiza-
ton of Stanley ]. Weyman's "A Cen
tleman of France" by Harriet Ford.
The Lieblers have secured the rights to
the book and Miss Ford viii begin
work right away
A thrilling experience attended the
christian" cOmpany'S stay at Lex
ingtOn. KY. last week. The Phoenix
hotel, at which the company was stay
+ ing, took fire and burned to the ground.
/ There were many narrow escapes, Lila
! Vane, who plays Glory Quayle, being
/ taken from a three-stOry window.
Uncle Dick Sutton is about to erect
( a new theatre at Butte. It will be OF
brick and stone. The entrance viii be
! shielded by g. wrought iron canopy
and the lobby will be Wainscoated in
/ marble, with a tiled floor and hand
sOmely decorated walls and ceiling
/ The seating capacity viii be about
| 1000, and the stage will measure 45Xl-
/ feet. An automatic fire ,eXtinguishine
! apparatus will be installed.
Klaw and Erlanger evidently are vel
warranted in promising that the Ma
/ G. Goodwin production of The Mer-
chant of Venice will be a. nemOrabi,
one-proVided Goodwin can stand tn.
great test about to be made of his yer
satility. With Maxine Elliott. hi
beautiful wife, as POrtia, and such PEG
pie as Annie Irish, Effe Ellsler, Au
4 brey Boucicault, William COurtleigh
Maclyn Arbuckle, Vincent SerranO an
/ w J. LeMoyne in the cast, the reViva
should be truly great.
It is the intention to produce the pla,
in the principal cities of the country il
May making the tour similar to tina
of The Rivals" which was under tn
same management Goodwin himsel
VIII have played from lie Blanc i