The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-24
OF Daniel Frawley, who also fills three
nights next month.

/ OF Daniel Frawley, who also fills three
nights next month.
| Some interesting people are numbered
ia the cast which presented Jess OF the
! Bar u at the Grand last week. One
/ Of them is John L. Saphore, VINO plays
/ the imbecilic old father. To be sure,
mis- is not great performance II is
not even good. But that is the fault OF
the part, which offers nothing, is moth
ing and can be made nothing.
Saphore is a veteran of the stage.
/ He is nearly % and has been an actor
fer forty-four years. most of the time
| in stock" His first appearance was
/ on May l. 1857, at the National theatre,
Philadelphia. then owned by John
Drew. father Of the present Drew.
/ whose prodigy he was. Among the
people Saphore has appeared with,
often as stage directOr-and this IN
formation may be taken as authentic
are, OF were, Edwin Forrest, E. L. Dav-
EXPORT Edwin Adams, Edwin Booth,
John Wilkes Booth, J. w Waliack, ".
E. Burton, Lucille Western, Joseph
Jefferson, Julia Deane Hayne, Char
lotte CushmaE, Mary Provost, Maggie
MitchelI-most of whom have since
passed away. The old man believes
American actress. He recites many
interesting "reminiscences of the stage
as if existed two-sc0re years ago.
Albert Lang. who plays Quigg, the
villain. claims the distinction of having
started Blanche Walsh in tragedy.
That actress, who at one time appeared
under Mr.. Lang's direction, had a
"hankering' for comedy roles. Lang
would never hear Of her entering that
line Of business and by persistent argu-
ment convinced the young woman that
she was best fitted for tragedy. She
afterwards thanked him for the de-
termination which to her had seemed
so cruel. Lang went OF the stage
twenty years ago at the Boston mu-
scum. He has appeared with Edwin
Booth. John T. Raymond and Modjeska
and for number Of seasons preceding
her death was stage manager for Fan
/ ny Davenport. He assisted in staging
for her "A Soldier of France a play
which, when the curtain first assembled
; on it, represented 1900, and which
failed in a night.
The poet Iariatn of Jess of the Bar
, q" playing under the name of Marley
is a brother of Tim Murphy. He bears
a striking resemblance to the noted CO.
median.
Is Blanche Bates to marry? dis
patch to a San Francisco paper from
Detroit, Mich. where the actress is rap
Idly convalescing, declares that she is,
and that her husband is Frank Wor-
thing. The dispatch says:
Frank WOrthing, who plays the lead
ing male role in Amelia Bingham 5
company, is now here, presenting The
? i CE1fu1 bore IN, the cr~aprrocr,,e A. ca III
, that Miss Bates and WOrthing are en-
? gagged, and it is just possible that this
week may find a happy little marriage
in one OF the private rooms at the
; Grace hospital. In any event, wnen
; THE Climbers company reached De-
; trOit Sunday night, Worthing sent mis-
baggage on to the hospital while he en-
tered a carriage with a bound and 10
the jehu called out sharply, Grace
hospital"
In a few minutes ne was at the bed
side of Miss Bates, where there were
affectionate greetings and the two
; ia ked just as long as Miss Bates ply
) / stefan would permit. Monday morn
|, ing WOTthing was there again, and
) again in the afternoon and twice every
| day since. WOTthing was asked today
! / the reason for his tender solicitude and
. he blushed guiltily.
, Casey is dead. There are a whole
, lot of the clan of Casey dead and
, alive, but this particular Hibernian
; ought to have mention made of him.
/ because he is the ma1 who helped
, more than anyone else to make De
> Wolf Hopper famous. He was Casey
at the Bat
, Wherever the elongated comedian OF
Wang fame is known and has been
: seen, Casey of the baseball incident is
' as well known. For seventeen sea
> sons Hopper has recited to untiring
: audiences the story of Casey's futile
; sWipes at the elusive baseball In
; London, as well as in America the
/ story made the same bOisterous hits.
No benefit performance of the
Lambs GambOls was ever complete
? without Casey, and if the comedian
thought that surely this particular
Y year the public would have tired of il
= the audience straightway disbursed
him of the idea by declining to let the
show go on till their dramatic taste
= had been slaked by Casey.
1t was left for the Hibernian's
= demise to disclose his identity. he
[ was John Patrick Parnel CahiH, q
former baseball player He was a
J. it was among the men who used IL
cheer his prodigious batting achieve.
ments that he died last week 1t lacks
g only three years Of being twenty that
a Hopper then at Wallack's theatre in
!. Prince Methusalem," first recited the
= poem. No less person than Archi-
a bald Clavering Gunther called his at
d tentiOn to it, and so Hopper believes
Y that the novelist and the baseball play
r er did as much to bring him into fame
e as any of the roles he has played dur.
l. ing long stage career.
=, The announcement of the revival o
k THE Wedding Day by the Salt LAX
e Opera company for Thanksgiving aft
e ernoOn and night was attended with
r general expression of satisfaction
d When the curtain rose on the last nigh
e of the scattered engagement it was be
e fore as large a house as the first ha,
k been. It's success was beyond all doub
r. the most gratifying Of the engagement
p the company has sung. The revival
q I coming on the best day of the year 70
t. financial results, win mean two packe
e houses. The cast will be the same
with Goddard. Spencer. Piper. Graham
Miss Clark. Miss Ferrin and Miss Dwy
1t er in the leading roles.
d The tabernacle musical season open
m tomorrow night with the appearance
% Of Miss Lucy 0ulu) Gates for the frs
y time in public since her return fror
T. Germany. The event is of more tina
e ordinary interest. Besides the man
Al intimate acquaintance and fast friend
m Of the young woman the public gen
orally is curious to hear the vote
which belongs 10 the most finished AZ