The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-05

MA4NNL - IN ILL., ~ HE
raising the knife above the head Of
the helpless wretch.
At this moment Grizzly Hank, the
village desperadO, rose in his seat
''Pardner." he said. addressing the
villain, Il reckon this is the place whar
i was 20 git up an offer to be one OF
three men to take We out an hang We,
but / back out"
Here he threw a five-dollar gold piece
on the stage.
"Thar's the money We gin me fur
agreein' 20 make the spiel" he eX-
claimed. Il weaken. pard. / didn't
know what an Internally bad actor he
was. Go ahead an kin inn
At somebody's tea last week Miss
Elsie De Wolfe and Augustus Thomas,
the playwright, met for the first time.
After congratulating him on the great
success Of "The Earl OF Pawtucket."
Miss De Wolfe. who opened at the
Madison Square theatre in Cynthia
last Monday night. exclaimed: And
hope you realize how awfully sorry i
am to turn you out. Mr.. Thomas. But
my contract was signed weeks before
there was any thought of producing
your play there and as there was no
other theatre vacant. of course
II understand laughed Mr.. Thorn
as. "ln spite Of our great financial sue
cess we couldn't keep De Wolfe from
the door"
The Amalgamated Association Of
Press Agents, at "a recent meeting held
in New York. unanimously adopted the
following declaration of principles:
''The waste basket should be abol-
ished. 1t gathers germs Of disease.
Hell hath no fury like a journalist
scorned
DE Quincey's Confessions Of an
Opium Eater should be found in every
library.
The smoke nuisance. so-called,
should not be abolished.
When all else fails, lose a diamond.
In times of great trouble, use the
telephone. 1t is easier to pour your IN
nermOst consciousness into a receiver
that naturally rubbers than into the
cold, deaf ear of "a city editor.
Always write Exclusive or Not
duplicated in your city at the begin
ming of every typewriter story. It
fiatters the editor, and some day he
may believe you.
Let the public understand once and
for all that the newspapers are run for
your benefit and not for theirs.
IF you don't like the way your CODY
is treated, insist that the name of your
attraction never again be mentioned,
but keep on sending in your matter just
the same. That cows the editor and
makes him fearful that without you his
paper would never get to press.
Never be prepared to prove the truth
of your stories. That looks like prep
aration and makes the editor suspi-
ci0us."
! Dramatic Critic William Winter Of
/ the New York Tribune, the Nestor Of
| the profession, continues to view the
stage with a troubled and dissatisfied
/ eys as this brief editorial from a re-
/ cent issue Of that eminent journal
would indicate:
THAT great actor. John Gilbert, who
looms larger and larger as he recedes
I in the vista of the past, wrote these
words: I have no sympathy with those
/ persons who regard with Indifference
the state and prospect of the legitimate
drama j cannot regard with apathy
a branch Of art which appeals directly
/ TO the most earnest and ennObiing i'm
pulses of humanity, which, in its graver
/ forms, Is auxiliary to moral refinement
and IN its lighter. to a healthy impart-
ment of satire or of mirth. Let us hope
I that spectacle, sensational and bur
lesque plays are coming to their last
days. and that the time is not far dis
I tant when the great public viii have
/ something to listen to-
The time seems TO be as far distant
as ever"
Will William Gillette ever play
Hamlet? 1t viii take a Sherlock
Holmes to find out. Again has the date
for his assumption of the part of the
melancholy Dane been set back on the
clock Of time
Charles Frohman sends word from
London that instead Of Mr.. Gillette
producing Hamlet" next autumn. as
announced, he viii appear in j. NJ. Bar
ries 'The Admirable CrichtOn." This
| turn of affairs is spoken Of as an ''un-
usual combination. giving Mr.. Gillette
a chance &c create a role "as unique IN
I its way as Hamlet"
! Poor Hamlet" thus made TO take a
back seat. will. it is declared. follow
| ''The Admirable CrichtOn." Nothing is
said about the possibility Of another
chance for an unusual combination"
coming along. and thus RELOCATING the
tragedy, so far as Mr.. Gnlette's roper
toire is concerned. to place still far
Their into the future
"The Admirable Crichton" Is said to
/ be a really admirable comedy II has
had six months Of more than ordinary