The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-23


= lard in repertoire; Monday, Fri =
= day and Saturday matinee, "The ,
= CARDINAL; Thursday, ''Tom =
= Pinch; Tuesday and Saturday, =
THE Professors Love Story; =
= Wednesday night, David Gar =
= rick =
Grand TheatTe-Dark.
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S. WILLARD, the Mansfield Of
England, fills the entire week
0 at the Theatre. The attrac-
ton is the most notable Of
the season A little over nine years ago
Mr. Willard visited America, and this
city was fortunate enough to be in
cluded in his Itinerary At that time
he presented "The Middleman." that
intense drama founded on the discov-
cry Of the glaze" method Of making
pottery.
IL was grand presentg ton, as those
who witnessed it can well remember
This season Mr.. Willard brings a reper-
tore OF great plays, one Of them brand
new.
The Cardinal is from the pen of
Louis n. Parker, and is founded on the
life Of Giovanni de Meiici. that re-
markable figure, cardinGl at Il. pope at
~ and the last sovereign Of the church
% reign over the whole of western civ
llization.
The picture that Mr.. Parker has civ
en- or Giovanni de Medici is an excel
lent one. It is not with Leo Y. against
whom Luther launched his thunder
bolts that Mr.. Parker deals. but with
the cardinal at the age of "a. while his
predecessor, the Della Revere Julius
I'D was stin in the papal chair. A
great deal is known of Leo X. and Mr.
Parker's view of him as a gentle. kind
" man. devoted to literature and the
arts, and not incapable Of something
Ike treachery TO attain his end against
an enemy, is justified by history That
he was a chaste man in an age when
chastity was "A quality not easily dis
coverable in the courts Of church or
state is generally allowed. that he was
an abstemiOus man. giveI to imposing
lasts upon himself, but not upon others.
Is Known to be the case. He was also
mighty hunter. who delighted in the
pleasures Of the chase even after his
elevation, lover Of shows and pa
geants, and practical joker VIII
" loved his hugh. It is such a un,tr
acter that Mr. Willard viii irnpersOn-
ate tomorrow night
The interest il the play centerz a bo,,+
the confession of murder made nv
Strozzi to Cardinal de Medici. The
cardinals brother, GUiliano. is accused.
tried and convicted Of the crime. while
the prince of the church is rendered
powerless in his behalf through the Sc
crecy the church imposes upon those
who heer the confessions Of penitents.
The daughter of the murdered man is
bet-Othed to GuilianO. and desired as a
vile by the real murderer. The first
three acts are devoted to efforts of the
cardinal to induce StrOzzi TO reveal his
culp4bility. ilaSmuch as the honors
and distinctions gained since the com
mission of the crime would insure mis-
forgiveness at the hands of the Roman
authorities. Failing IN this method the
cardinal has resource to strategy. and
by assuming madness leads Strozzi to
make an admission of his crime in the
presence Of the Roman minister of jus
tice. The whole Of the last act is Civ
en- up 20 he direct development of this
denouement which gains added inter
est from the fact that the solution is
in no wise apparent until almost &C
complisked
The other plays Of the repertoire are
too well known to require further com
ment than their announcement They
are The Professors Love story" by
J. NJ Barrie and T. ". RObertsOn's
masterpiece. David Garrick," The lat
ter win be seen only once during the
Week-Wednesday night-but II is spO-
ken of as one Of Mr.. Wizards greatest
Representations.
salt Lake friends Of Blanche Bates
viii he shocked to learn that she has
lost her luxuriant growth of hair ow-
ing TO the severe attack of typhoid
fever, through which she recently
passed Now Blanche wears a wig
and the New York Telegram tells the
following amusing story of what OC-
CURED 60 Blanche ard her wig;
Te actors IN The King of the
Opium RING at the Third Avenue
theatre nearly tainted Thursday after
noon when they saw Lillian Russell
Blanche Bates and another actress
sail into the proscelEum box. Later on
they had an experience from which
they haven't recovered yet
The audience. absorbed in the Mott
street mefodrama. noted the diver
sion on the stage, but were. unable To
divine its cause, for the Broadway art
lists were seated behind the box cur
tain Invisible from the front. but
plainly in view of the stage
The villain, the oppressed lady. the
ingenue-au the company acted di-
rectly at the mysterious box, or craned
their necks in the same direction from
tia wings between cues
Ii was a very warm day or u might
not have happened. Miss Bates has
lately recovered from typhoid fever
During her illness the painful aeCes-
sits. arose of shaving off her luxuriant
hair close Jsp % the scalp.
Since an ambitious actress cannot 90
about with her head as bald as an
on on. 0Iiss Bates has worn a wig.
The heat in the box grew nore. op-
pressice Us the plot Of The King OF
the Opiupl Ring" thickened. Miss Bates.
secure from the public gaze. and count
ing on the discretion Of hsr friends on
the stage. bCthOught her Of an expe-
dent which was common enough in the
eighteenth century but has fallen into
disuse since people stopped wearing
wigs She took of her counterfeit Golf
fure and held ID in her lap.
This coOk place between the acts.
When the curtain went up ans the
persons on the stage 1Eehe1d a BALD and
shiny bn}b beside the abundant golden
locks OF Miss Russell they almost for
got their lines. The "rubbering" from
the wings was redoubled ard for