The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-09
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n NE Tcek agq rOdgE the newspapers
~ printed the glad intelligence that
at last hope was entertained for
The recovery of James A. Herne.
1Wentyrfq5ds hours later his obituary
was reade He lived to the ripe age
OF 63, b.4r his death IS none the less a
nard 2Iow TO tneatricals in America.
IneHe are tes-5 old salt Lakers VINO
kneW Jim Eeruc ia earlier days and a
b cGsf of others who knew him In his
later ana greater days Among those
VINO Law claim to both pleasures is
T1tah's veteran actor Phil Margetts.
lit was way back in the days If the
Deseret Dramatic association that
Horne first came to salt Lake. he
came as star With Lucille weston.
not 2 great while &fter Mr. MargeItS
and the pioneer stock company had
opened the salt Lake-theatre- As was
customary ip those times, the star
drew his support from the g1Iaxy of
local celebrities, and for one week
crowded houses Witnessed Herne and
the stock company i'm RIP Van VIM
1Sle. In the early los ne returned
with "The Child Stealer" and ."Oliver
Twist" and two or three other plays
were done before AR Herne made his
way to The golden west The next
time he came he presented his own
piece, Hearts OF Oak" or "Chums."
as it was later called. Salt Lake never
saw him again until four years ago,
when his Shore Acres" made so deep
and lasting an impression that play
goSr- have hungered for his prOduc-
tions ever since
~ consider Herne the best all-round
actor America ever produced, re-
rr -rSed Mr.. Margetts, upon hearing Of
h4s death How wei do 7 rem ember
those productions Of the old stock
company WIN Herue at is head. His
Btu sykes was a masterpiece and his
Rip Van Wrinkle. in my opinion, VIZ
not even second TO JefersOn's. He was
the greatest student Of human nature
that ever trod the boards.
..B'rom the very first time we were
associated with him in the salt Lake
theatre. we all realized that there was
EO-lethIug wrong with his lungs /
predicted thai the trouble would sooner
or later carry him on. He too, seemed
10 feel chat lung trouble would be his
undOiug, but never for a moment did he
allow any fear he might have enter
tained to creep into his work. Nor
would he speak of it. There was at
times a certain TOughness in his voice
that could mean only one thing, but
IL was far from his intention to allow
his friends to re conscious Of it.
Mr. Herne was taken III in Chicago
about nine weeks ago. while playing
in Sag Harbor," the last of his works
presented here. He went back to New
York at one and took to his bed,
from which he never arose The cause
or MS death was gwen as acute DIou-
chitis and pneumonia. Until a very
short while before the end, it was be-
lieved he was Improving. but his long
fight against death was futile, He eX-
pired at his beautiful New York home
sunday afternoon surrounded by his
wife his three daughters and 5-year-
old son. Two Of the girls had been
summoned to the bedside from san
Francisco. where they were playing in
Sag -Harbcr, svhen their fathers con
ditfon was pronounced critical
In the one week that tho Wilbur Kir-
win opera company has occupied the
stage Of the salt Palace theatre the
public rs hid some opportunity to Oh
serve the methods OF the organization
and the management and to become a'c-
customed to the palace as a place of
amusement Few organizations have
visited salt Lake and made as sInaQy
friends I'M so short g. time The cOE
pany seemed to win 1avor from the
start. Large houses were the rule and
not a single performance last week YVES
SHINY attended. which is the best DrOoi
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