The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-02

from this country to begin his regular
London season. Miss O'NeiI has mar
with great success the past two seasons
in Australia and is on her way 10 Lon
don from the Antipodes.
The London critics seem to have
joined a united anvil chorus regarding
Paul WesteE's new play. "AIademo5-
selle Mars" The Clink Of hammers
have it that the piece is really a think
disguised imitation OF "Sans-Gene %
and that il viii not do. Lewis Waller
as Napoleon. is about the only thing
in the piece that is praised.
Muriei Wilson Of Tranby Croft per
haps the most widely advertised beauty
of London society. is said to COntem-
plate going on the stage. She mas
acted 81 amateur theatricsls. and the
report that she would take 20 the arr
professionally has often spread about
This time it has il that she VIII make
her debut IN London this spring as
Peg Womngt0n.
Manager Frank Perley has secured
the dramatic rights 10 When Knight
hood Was in Flower for next season
and viii send Fife ElIsler out I'm thar
piece after Miss MarIowe aband0ns r.
Manager PerIey also announces his in
tenuOn 20 revive The Fortune Teller
Victor Herbert's comic opera that in
troduced Alice Nielsen to staIdom I'M
der Perley's management.
London is having nearly as many
2 = re- . Z "a
thOny Hopes 'PiikeTt0n's Peeraga-
and Paul Kester's "MademoiseE
! Mars were fiascos, and last week
brought three more Mixed RaT4-
/ ticns was a hOpelessIy poor version Of
Sardou's ''DivorCons." Julia Nelson
and Fred Terry had a disaster with
I THE Heel of Achilles" at the Globe
THE New Clown" at Terry's was not
favorably spoken of.
ApTOpOs Of the appearance Of William
Gillette in Hamlet next season. The
/ London Mail observes: There has
! beer d certain amount Of ast6nishmeut
at the idea OF the ultra modern Ar!eri-
F can melodramatist attempting the
/ greatest character i'm an imaginative
drama, but it may at least be assumed
! that Mr. GilIetta'S reading VIII have
+ tho advantage of freshness and origin
atty
/ An interviewer tried to get some ma
/ terial from Richard Mansfield.
! You have had a long and remark
( able experience. Mr.. Mansfield" he
I said Cant you 'remInisce' a little
/ and give me few Anecdotes
Yes, I have had some experience 90
admitted the distinguished actor. "hur
t ] hope that 7 have not yet reached she
/ anecdotage.'
Olga NethersoIe is preparing to reap
! pear on the stage after a long illness
and win make her new start i'm Lon
I don. She says she has secured a IVES.
/ End theatre. and viii produce Clyde
/ Fitch's version of "SaphO.' She argues
/ that If Gabrielle Rejane was allowed
/ To produce "Sapho' in London. she
/ may. UupTejudieed people realize that
/ the French woman used an artistic. de-
/ cent play. not "a coarse exhibition of
/ woman and shameless discussion of
/ vile subjects to interest the curious
At the end Of his regular season BIr
James Hsckett VIII double 10 with
his wife. Mary MsnneTing. in q JOINT
tour of the country in Camille" Niss
Mannering recently played Camille
in San Francisco, and her reception
was so cordial that IL was decided Cd
I make the tour. IT. HackaCt viii DIaE
Armand The tour VIII open iu Wash
ington in Nay. under the direction 0
Mana ger Frank Mckee. All the prin
Cipal cities between New York 4nl
! Chicago VIII be visited. including on.
and two-night stays in each.
Here is burning news from London
King Edward has set the seal Of dis
approval on comic operas iu which
kings are burlesqued. His majesty ii
reported 70 have said that ire Urnin.
o. royalty into ridiCUIe OF contempt d
not beneficial TO loyalty. The sing ha
taken exceptions to Kitty Grey
musical comedy. because there IS q ga
imaginary king in tho piece who loaf
, around greenToOms ana devotes his al
tention 10 pretty actresses. All O.
/ which suggests an effort ON the part O
the king 10 live down a few "IlyTian
/ regulations of the most distant past
Later word is To- the effect thar d
King Edward suggestion the 1bnoy.
Gus character has been stricken fror
the piece.
Friends who recently visited GeOrgL
Cayvan at a private sanitarium 0
Long island. where she has been con
fined since last October, report TIA
the once brilliant actress is physic5
: and mental wreck. ald il is believe
that her only relief VIII come Wit
death. Few actresses were more Is
+ teemed in their day than Miss CayvaI