Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-05
Special Correspondence.

Speclal correspondence.
New York, Sept. 1.-THE theatrical
season in New York is now UNI
der full Roadway, although TO be
sure. all the places of amuse-
ment are not as yet open to the public.
This situation is due to the labor trou-
bles which have retarded the progress
OF new theaters as well as holding
back the work OF reconstruction UNDER
taken upon a number of the old ones.
Last spring II was thought we should
find ourselves at the beginning OF the
fall term 40 oversupplied with temples
Of the drama that only the very fortu-
nate few of our, managers would be
enabled to profit from the necessary
diffusion Of public patronage But as
a matter of fact there are actually
fewer theaters now in readiness than
there were last year at this period, in
asmuch as neither the Empire nor the
New York-both OF which were going
at the opening OF the last fall and win
ter seasons In any condition TO be
made use OF The newest productions
In town are at the Broadway and DAILY
theaters, In the first mentioned of
which "a Princess OF Kensington' was
made known on Monday evening, while
at Days the imported "Three Little
Maids" came to town on Tuesday even
Ing. On Thursday we are TO have
william Collier IN Personal" at the
Biiou and the other attractions of the
year will fall into line rapidly there
after
PRINCESS or KENsINGTON.
"a Princess of Kensington' Is more
in the line of legitimate comic opera
than any OF the musical pieces we have
encountered ON Broadway during the
past few seasons Its comedy Is legiti-
mate and genuine, entirely without the
element OF horseplay, and It's music.
while tuneful and lifting, is OF really
high grade. The piece bears a general
Gilbert and Sullivan works, OF which,
however, 1t Is by no means an lmita-
ton. The principal members OF the
company are James I. Powers and
Miss Cecil Engelhard. Mr. Powers,
whose brisk and sportive humor has
long been familiar to American audi
ences Is we'll placed In this piece as a
comic sailormnn who finds himself
mixed up ineseveral kinds OF matrimo-
Mai entangements greatly to his own
discontinue and the delight of the
other personages as well az the spec
tators. Powers' new song called AT
the Seaside" "A merry duty descriptive
OF strange summer resort happenings
VIII be widely sung and Whistled.
Miss Engelhard who plays the leading
female part In "A Princess of kensing-
tom Is making hT first appearance In
America. where she VIII undoubtedly
become a favorite OF much more than
the ordinary quality She X an ex-
cecdingly pretty ana CLASSY" girl to
look at and she sini;s with rare charm,
at the same time fulfilling all the other
requirements Of Il first rate prima
donna. The now pecr IL staged with
the free handed mlniflcence that has
given distinction "a Mr.. Fishers other
productions, The Silver slipper" and
"Florodora"
THREE LITTLE MAIDS.
Three Little Maids" which Is
brought to New York from London by
Charles Frohman and George Ed
wardes Is about the regular thing In
English musical comedy, with the one
great advantage however, that IL em-
braces the services OF q. T.. Huntley,
n comedian who has made "A great rep
utation for himself In the old country
and who, to judge from the almost
continuous uproar Of laughter and APP
plause at Days on Tuesday evening.
Is In a fair way to repeat the process
here. Mr. Huntley Ia an original IN his
WY His speciality IL the deIineation
OF the type Of gentleman's son who