The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-10

waiting for it. and when his time and
patience were exhausted he turned
rather smartly into the hotel and asked
the first person he met:
can you tell me, please, the quickest
car to the St. Louis club?"
I'm not the porter" replied the con-
ceited swaggerer-
Then said Nj. Murphy. why do
you strut around this lobby as if you
Were2"
Here is hit from a New York vau-
deville sketchs
Wen says he. there are a thou
sand reasons why should not take
drink
-Indeed2' queries the soubrette.
yes" says he, but I can't think OF
one os them"
Whereupon he INDUCES
At the Herald Square theatre last
night w. A. Brady and his business
manager, Claiming Pollock, were en-
1 tertaining ali Corners with an account
OF their latest applicant for professional
/ courtesies. A lady of at least IS years
went to MI. Pollock and presented
card bearing the inscription, Mrs L
/ Brock. formerly Of the Old Broadway
I theatre The old Broadway theatre
stood. as the old-timers will remember.
! on the corner Of BrOOme street, and
/ long passed into history and was su-
! perseded by an enormous office build
/ ing For the purpose of further iden-
/ tificatiOn. Mrs. Brock brought with her
a programme of Struck by Light
! ming" a melodrama produced at the
! old Broadway theatre in 1861.
( It is hardly necessary to say that
/ Mrs. Brock got the seats she asked for,
and Mr.. Pollock saw to it that they
were the very best to be had.
The Libre Parole, Paris, says that an
| old woman who died recently be-
/ queathed $4,000 to NJ. COquelin.
/ The comedian. who did not know the
woman. win hand the money over to
! the fund for retired actors.
!
A fierce theatrical war will be waged
/ In the west this spring; the contending
/ forces are Henrietta Crosman and
/ James X Hackett on one side and E
/ II. SOtheTn, w. n. Crane and Nat
J Goodwin on the other The seat of war
; proper will be Denver, where Miss
/ CrOsman will meet the opposing forces.
/ Mr. Hackett viii carry his campaign
/ as far west as Lincoln, and then let
| Miss Crosman go it alone in Denver
/ For a long tins Maurice Campbell has
| announced that Miss Crosman would
/ play in Denver this spring, and from
J time to time the Denver papers have
/ asked the question "Where?"
Both the Tabor opera house and
! Broadway theatre are in the hands Of
| the syndicate. so. Of course, they are
! closed to this independent star. The
/ Curtis theatre, the Stair & HaVlin
house, will not accommodate Miss
! CrOsUlan's productions until after al
! terations are made next fall. Miss
! CrOsman viii play her engagement at
Elitch's Gardens, which contains a
/ beautiful theatre. IT is customary for
the gardens to put a stock company in
every summer. This season the same
plan will be followed, but the season
will be started by a weeks engagement
of Miss CrOsman and her company in
her repertory at 81 prices Her en-
gagement Will be for one week and will
open Monday, May IS. Miss Crosman's
| particular opponent will be z. H. Soth-
ern at the Broadway theatre Crane
and Goodwin follow.
1t is Violin violin, Who has the
violin?" with ". c. Clopton, who lives
at the Empire hotel in New York, and
| who charges that Jaroslav Kocian, the
/ virtuOsO. has carried away to Europe
with him a Guarnerius violin belonging
to Mr.. Clopton- and valued by him at
more than 10000.
Mr.. Clopton's story is that Kocian IA
in love with the violin at first sight, and
pleaded so hard to be allowed to use It
/ that he as permitted to borrow it for
use during his American tour, which
has just beens concluded. But Kocian,
| Mr.. CIoptOn says. sailed fer Europe on
the steamship Augusta Victoria, last
Thursday, and carried the precious
GuarneriUs with him, leaving a letter
/ for Mr.. Clopton. in which he stated that
he had become so attached to the in
strument that he could not bear the
I thought of parting with it.
Mr.. CIopton declares that he will
swear out a warrant against KOcian
and try to have him arrested when he
steps off the Augusta Victoria at Ham
burg He says: 81 do not propose to
allow any one to carry off my property
with no excuse except a sentimental
note that it has grown close to his
! SOUL
In the letter said to be from Kocian
1 To Mr. CIopton occurs the following
passage: AS the time approached for
my trip to Europe I could not bear the
thought Of parting with the instrument
that grew to my heart, and for which 1
may be willing to sacrifice ten years Of
my life Time may heal wounds, but
not the wounded heart of an apprecia-
tive soul"
Rudolph AronsOn, who has been man
aging Kocian's tour in this country,
and who is said by Kocian to owe him
money, Sald;
It know nothing Of this violin trans
action I understand that KOcian Dor
rOwed this instrument from Mr.. ClOp-
ton. but I had nothing whatever to do
with it. [ do not owe Kocian any
] money. nor does he owe me any.
found the virtuOso in his business deal
ings like the spoiled child one might
| expect, and I am not at all surprised
at this story of his having carried away
/ this violin"
/ Miss Lillian Russell against Mrs Lily
! Langtry. and write your own ticket
/ that's the way sOciety's bOokies "dOped"
| the beauty contest at last weeks horse
| show over in Boston
Miss Russell. fianked on either side
/ by William Collier and Peter F. Daley,
and with head held high like the thor
| oughbred she is, entered one of the
| boxes at Mechanics hall early in the
week, and Immediately every blessed
| Johnnie in the big building forgot all
about the magnificent beasts competing
for blue ribbons and riveted their eyes
on the more fascinating spectacle of
| this gOrgeOusly gOwned beauty.
But Miss Russell was not to win with
out struggle She had been seated
scarcely a minute when Mrs Langtry.
who is playing an engagement at the