The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-19

under Klaw & changers management.
the last place IN which it would APP
pear in New York would be the Man
haitian theatre. From an excellent
source II is learned that Klaw & Err
LANCER viii have the play rewritten.
the religious element cut down and
the scenes built up. AT present there
is no one great scene in the play. and
this lack will be supplied.
After the play has been gotten into
shape on the read IL win come into
New York. Bean has been Informed
| by Mormons In New York that IL
would not be well TO bring the piece
here at present, as there is a strong
feeling against the religion and its
devotees, as a result of recent hap
penings and of newspaper attacks.
The real story of the mismanage-
ment OF ''Corianton," as told by a men,
| Der OF the company. is an interesting
/ one.
| The management was so decidedly
off-color, so the story runs that in
Denver Peter McCourt demanded
I guarantee of the first 81. 500 that came
into the box office on the week and so
/ per cent of the gross after that. The
Boyd theatre in Omaha did precisely
the same thing. and the Willis Wood
in Kansas City followed suit. Al the
latter place the $500 was made up
1 only at the Saturday matinee, the en-
! tire week up TO that time having net
/ ted less than the guarantee. Mean
while, reports were being sent in to
klaw & Erlanger at every stand:
Production great; management bad"
] nd Nv a f~k from
! the syndicate saving it would not book
4 "Corianton' east of Kansas City unless
there was a change in the management.
There was no change. The company
disbanded
The principal fault, according to the
company. was the lack OF paper. In
variably the Autographs arrived too
late TO be of any use in town, and the
| lithOgraphing was not of the right
kind at that. There was not a single
| pictorial piece of advertising except
the three-sheet of Joseph Haworth.
which became so familiar TO Salt LAX
/ ers.
This sort of thing, with a company
whose weekly expenses were s.. 600, of
which sum HawOrth received $500 per
week, bankrupted the venture, OF
course
But the Deseret Dramatic syndicate
has not entirely lost heart, and ar
rangements win be made, it is said.
70 increase the capital stock and re-
produce ''Corianton" under experienced
management. Efforts to that end are
now being made.
Although they play at different
houses and in commercial opposition to
each other, there will be very friend
F! ly reunion in Salt Lake this week Of
Warde and James and Robert Fitz-
simmons, the actor blacksmith fighter
Fitz is a jolly old character in the eyes
of both Mr. Warde and Mr.. James, and
| a good deal of theatrical fun orig
mates among the three. While playing
in Victoria. B. c.. some weeks ago. a
| package neatly tied found its way to
the stage entrance addressed to James
and Warde. When opened it revealed
| two iron horseshoes and note. The
/ latter ran: Dear Lou and Fred:
got in here ahead of you and took all
the ready coin away with me, but I
leave you these. They are yours to
hook Affectionately, Bob
The horseshoes are made in each
| performance of "The Honest Black
/ smith," but this particular pair is cher
lshed among the belongings of the
| Shakespearean duo.
A new Mansfield story that is apt to
go the rounds is related by a theatrical
man at present in Salt Lake. 1t was
| during one Of the terrible rehearsals of
Julius Caesar" in Chicago recently.
Mansfield, before he finally engaged
Barry tombstone. had about a half
dozen different actors rehearsing the
part OF Cassius, for the reason that the