The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-18

agine so Chesterfeldian an exhibition
a. a COUrtmartial. even on the stage.
In another place DARCY goes into
transports Of JOY a t discovering that
man whom the girl iIe loves admires
very much is her brother. and not a
sweetheart. Here is good comedy for
Miller. But in the act following, the
playwright, either for lack of time or
a lapse of memory, seems to have lost
sight of the incident. Here he has the
girl discover that a picture d ATCy is
carrying is of his mother. taken years
agO. and not his sweetheart. Then it
Is Pamela's turn to rise into the sew
enth heaven of delight which she pro-
ceecs TO do II most artistic manner.
This repetition reminds one Of the
un-neWnesses Of d Arcy' and the sew
eral almost absolute reproductions in
the play Of scenes in other plays. in
action at least. All through it breathes
of Nathan Hale The soldiers ca
rOusal suggested nothing eIse-nOthing
original, in fact The prologue of
- adame Sans Gene" was once ~ idly
before the eye, and the soldier charac-
ters OF the piece, as a whole, are as
Oid as the prOverbial hills.
When il comes to "reminiscences there
are few theatrical me. in the country
who can indulge in more of them than
A R. WILDER, who was in Salt Lake part
of last week on his way 10 the coast.
Mr.. WILDER is the pioneer of popular
priced attractions in this country 1t
was back in 1882, in December, that he
put on performance at 10, 20 and 50
cents.
We were out then with a COMPANY
my partner and T." said Mr. WILDER.
playing a farce called .NIuldoon's Pic
mic In those days mana gers paid all
the comp2ny's expenses and pretty fair
salaries at that. We had with Us such
Il -
are TO star under Hammerstein this
season in Sweet Marie Maggie Field
Ing. viii Mayo. Joie Sutherland Dave
Marion, little Emma Rice and a mum Der
of others. who drew all the way from
$50 each I'D, besides expenses.
wen, we had been going through the
east at standard prices with Indifferent
success for a good while. and finally we
began to lose money. I heard about
this time OF a performance having been
put on by HIS Peoples theatre COM
pany at low prices. We were al dis
eouraged, and II struck me that we
should make such venture. The boys
said they would stand by me, and we
went u9 - Toronto first and eventu-
ally got back 10 St. Louis. playing at
10. % ana sc cents. and making money.
We played week in St. Louis 10 So 600
a the standard theatre IT was an ex-
penslNe company, out we found that a
novelty could make longer stands
since then I believe. popular priced
attractions have always been in vogue 90
Mr. WILDER, thirteen years ago last
month. brought a dramatic company
here and played piece called 'Esea ped
From the Law. which was written
originally for JanausChek- tt will sur
prise some OF the younger generation TO
learn thai the now famous Julia Ar
thur headed rhe company, and also to
learn than the same Julia Arthur has
many times played under canvas when
she was drawing her salary from Mr..
Wilber-
II remember the performance at the
salt Lake theatre very distinctly" said
M Wilber Bishop Fl. 3. Clawson
was then manager Of the house, and we
formed a friendship that viii never be
broken Other members Of my com
pany az thar time were Jack HUFFMAN.
now stage manager Of tne PittsburE
stock company. and " F. Volcott. who