The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-25

! Forrest. Edwin Booth. kean and Gar
rick; have they not been great. and
do not their names still live In the
memory Of the people, although many
! decades have passed since those mer
trod the boards meaning the worIdg
Their fame Will live, perhaps not for
ever, but, does not the fame Of paint
ers, sculptOrs and writer's also fade
away in the course of time2 Think OF
the happiness and acute enjoyment
those men had from life during the
time of their fame There is some
thing elating almost intoxicating. I'm
fame. even if it is not of that high
order which only the greatest geniuses
can attain"
Maud Adams sailed on Wednesday
for France.
Robert billiard Will probably return
to the stage again next season.
THE New Clown" a farce comedy.
has been secured by Charles Frohman
and he announces that he viii open
Madison Square theatre with it next
season.
E. NJ. Holland. it is announced. will
~ t'AeAA ANA HHuAA next season. Un0er
the management of Liebler & Co.
David Belasco has decided to shelye
Way Down Yonder."
The engagement of "The Sleeping
Beauty and the Beast" al the Broad
way New York. has been extended
from May "A to May 81. This added
time will give this enormously success
tul spectacle a run of thirty weeks. the
longest run in New York for many
years for an attraction of similar at
fractions.
Notwithstanding foolish assertions to
the contrary, David Warfield says: II
am with David Belasco for life" He
says that THE AuctiOneer.' during its
career of thirty-five weeks, cleared
something like $4,000. The play is to
be put on again in September in Bos-
ton, and will be produced by easy
stages west to San Francisco. salt
Lake in all probability, will be in
cluded in the itinerary.
A New York publisher has been
abroad seeking a substitute for rag
time music. He now announces that
he has secured several songs with
music of peculiar type"
Regarding Clyde Fitch's failure in
London, the New York Sun saws:
Clyde Fitch has failed again in Lon
don. 1t is an odd fact that the man
who is certainly among the most sue
cessful playwrights in America, if not
the leader, has had nothing but rejec-
ton over there. His Beau Brum-
mel went well here. and when Richard
Mansfield was acting i'm the British
capital several years ago he wanted
10 produce the comedy. But the dis
agreeable light in which it placed a
Prince of Wales made the censor re-
fuse 60 allow it. Then Mr. Fitch had
years of failure at home and naturally
such plays as were exported were un-
-avOrably received abroad. The near
EST to success was a comedy called
Gossip" which he wrote for Mrs.
Langtry, but that did not come very
near. His first great hit here was
with THE Moth and the Flame
which had gone the rounds of Ameri- /
ian managers offices for two years
and when produced by
Herbert Kelley and Efiie Shannon
placed its author among the first dra-
natiSts of the country. That never
went abroad nor did Nathan Hale
which Nat Goodwin would like to have
produced in London, but that its vii
aims were all English soldiers. He
lid show Mr.. Fitch's work in London
IN The Cowboy and the Lady" but
that was not much of a play and made
very slight success in either land. The
.hree Fitch plays since then that are
really worth while are Barbara
Frietchie," which Julia MarlOwe is
keeping for a contemplated London
debut; Captain Jinks of the Horse |
Marines" which depended greatly on
he personality of Ethel Barrymore
and which may be used within a year
Dr. so for her appearance there, and
The Climbers" which seems almost
sure 10 convince the English of Mr..
titch's ability, and soon. Jessie Mill
ward is going to produce it in the fall,
playing Amelia Bingham'S part. She
has made "A good offer 10 Frank Worth
IN to go abroad for his original role In
he meantime Mr.. Fitch has been rep
resented in London by The Last Of
he Dandies.'' of which we have had
Is yet no chance to judge, and "Sapho."
Alas. "Sapho.' IF anything could
make US forget The Moth aud the
Flame" and Barbara Frietchie 1T is
MS dTamatizatiOn of "Sapho." II is no
wonder that London baked. And it
certainly did stand on its hind legs and
howl when Olga NethersOle produced
his rubbish at the Adelphi. With this
'ecord il is hardly wonderful that Eng
ishmen ask US why we boast Of our
clyde Fitch.
Paul Kester is d case of an American /
iramatist who is in just the opposite
position. IN London he is we'll spoken /
IF. while here the kindly talk is of
what he may do some day. Mr.. Kes- /
er is a scholarly man and a hard |
worker. It is likely that he has /
slowed away something better than he I
las ever shown TO Us. London crowded I
theatre for months TO see Sweet |
Yell OF Old Drury." but il drew only
me large audience, the first, during 4
Is three weeks at the KnickerbOcker. /
,Ir Kester does not regard the play /
lighly himself. He wrote il when he 4
vas very young the is still a young I
nam for the transforming purposes /
" HOrtense Rhea, and only touched 4
{ up when Julia Nelson took il for \
london. The dramatization Of When |
Was in Flower that he /
made with Julia MarlOwe, was not a I
-er-v commendable effort. He has just 1
lad a London success with Mile. /
Mars" i'm which Mrs Langtry has had /
long run at her theatre II was un- i
avorably received at first. but has /
crown into a success. Next season we /
an Judge Of IL. Charles Frohman has 4
.rranged to bring Mrs. Langtry 10 this (
in January, opening at the i
Sarden and appearing in only Mile. /
dars." So we may be brought about 4
o London's opinion Of one of our dra- i
natists about the time London reaches /
.urs about another.
Blanche Bates has closed her season 7
n Under Two Flags" David Belas-
% promises TO star her in an entirely
lev niece next season.