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

VIII play the stranger in A Stranger
IN Ne" York Charley Meakin of this
to"u -pes out as agent for the revival
OF -Pudd' nhesd Wilson this season.
Our Old friend. Victory Bateman. is
uolns leads IN stocks at Jersey City
and making money.
'Queenie Ferguson. a Salt I,sI1er viii
pfoDaoiy 90 with the LiebIers this wear.
howard Kyle is going to STAY with
NaJhan Hale but under the new man
anSement of Clarence Bruno. The story
on Broadway was that his former man
aser' WILKINSON. grabbed the manu-
script and tried to do him out of the
play while Howard was at a summer
resort, but the actor won out in the
courts
There is d new comedy drama out
called Utah It is after the order of
ay Down East / only saw the pa
per but scenes were depicted there thar
! DO not remember having seen in Salt
Lake. 1t is largely imaginative.
sam schubert, the youngest man
aser IN the business, takes possession
OF the Casino on Jan l. It's a lucky
atTe besides.
In conclusion. let me say that the
Grand has the best line of attractions
Tor this season it has ever had. We
open up Sept q with Two Married
Men,. a farce comedy. and from then
on things VIII be booming.
The New York Herald has the fol-
loving criticism of The Mormon
Wife which is described as a play
CO Utah life on the hand bills and
which now holds the boards at the
Fourteenth street theatre:
At the Fourteenth Street theatre
TINS week you may get an ASA Ssina-
ton by the death angels a 'kidnap-
ing OF a Christian child a great Op-
Grafton scene, view Of the great
Mormon temple Mormon mar
rlage,' and incidentally, a horse show
ms all in the way of The Mormon
Wife and described as comedy. sensa-
life
There is no use trying 10 elaborate
on the actually. The Mormon Wife
IS all that YOU would guess it to be
and more L is a four-act claimant.
ldSnloned with view TO satisfying the
seasons, for the first act is set for New
Years there is d June act. an August
act and finally, an October act To
attempt 80 describe in detail the enter
talnment would be in the nature of a
robbery committed upon the amiable
Sh0Wmen VINO are responsible for this
opening attraction. At the same time
II We're unfair to dismiss The Mormon
Wife without a respectful reference to
although 1T was August on the side
walk Of the Fourteenth Street theatre.
and the audience-that Is, the gallery
part-leaned TO the shirt waist il was
sno1vy-Nesther when the curtain rose
A little boy said at regular intervals.
Mamma, and occasionally he varied
this by bleat for Papa A perspfrv
lady in tight-fitting gown answered
TO the first call but papa was hard
TO md Finally he came. With hin
he brought an angular lady. whom he
was. at some pains to introduce to his
Mormon wife You may imagine that
the persplry lady did not take kindly
20 this arrangement Nor did the audi
ence. As q matter of fact. Da-Da's
second choice was at q bout "a hundred
to one on the Fourteenth street bet-
ting The original mamma departed.
leaving the gentleman who had S0 sud
denly embraced MOrm0nism IN me an
Joyment OF his strange choice.
w hen tGe original mamma left she
took with her the little boy. Shortly
thereafter the little boy was abducted
By Mormon friends of papa. ana a
trusty eN-friend of the mamma ser ont
on the trail. Presently he returned
ha- SAID he. a cleW TO the boy. and
ne neid up a number ~ hat which he