Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-05
Observation-Disclosures Letter
New York Season Now In Full Swing-Ned Royles
New Play Undoubted Success-"Wzard OF or"
Great Run Dramatic Notes.
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derives nourishment from the head OF
MS walking stick and Is hopelessly
vapld and brainless. He works along
me same lines as those followed by the
elder Sothern In hiH portrayal OF Lord
Dundreary and might perhaps be best
described as a Sothern up to date
HIS work is altogether delightful and
VIII undoubtedly be the talk of the
town as soon as the public has had
time enough for It's full digestion Next
20 Huntley In the centerlng OF interest
Is Maggie May, lively and spirited
niue English soubrette with a voice
so Dig and resonant that one In almost
amazed al its Issuance from so fragile
ana diminutive a source. Miss NAV
mas struck responsive chord in New
York favor and so In n lesser degree
have several of her associates in the
organization. One Of the stately girls
IN Three Little Maids Is Maud Hob
son, who is making her third visit
10 America. Last year Miss
Robson was over here with
Weldon Grossmith, whose visit was not
productive OF larger increase of can
ital than he could conveniently handle
and Miss Hobson took this condition
70 heart. In fact she told us she didn't
ike us nj all and would never. never
come back TO our shores any more
no matter low ptfully we might plead
But here abe Is again--which shows
that after ell. the lady has forgiy.
ing ana k,rdly spirit and wouldn't
really harm us for the world.
A WONDERFUL RUN.
What promises to develop into one
OF the most wholly marvellous runs on
record In America, Is going on az the
Majestic theater where THE Wizard
OF ca" Is In It's eighth month OF un.
DISTURBED prosperity, Even the very HOT
weather we encountered for time
early IN the summer, had no effect IN.
on the nosrtrity OF the Messrs. stair
a HAVING theater. whlch In addition
20 BEN 3 the project of western man.
ayers, IL supplied with an attraction
OF western origin. Not so many years
ago New Yci kers used TO smile with
superior incredulty when people talked
to them about stage productions from
other PARTS OF the country. But Henry
w, savage and the Messrs. Hamlln and
Mitchell have stepped In from time to
time with such overwhelmingly sue.
ceseful results that the old story has
oespn TO show signs OF falterng The
exier.e nee of THE Wizard of or" has
the extravaganza was first presented
at The Majestic there was no Thought
that II would run beyond the end Of
May and series of engagements was
booked FOR II In other cities beginning
with the current week Then as Il be-
San to be apparent that the public In
interest was not to fall on, the task OF
Inducing theater managers to cancel
their col tracts for The Wizard" was
taken up. The matter was finally ar
ransed uron the basis of keeping tho
entertalnmept along indefinitely In New
York and m ng Its place elsewhere
With THE Babes In Toyland." the
latest of the HamlIn- Mitchell spectn-
Giles The managers OF theatefs where
this change las been made, are guar-
nntecd thai ,he receipts OF THE ,labes
In Tuyland' shall be quite MS large as
the estimated taklngs OF "'rhe Wlznrd
of Oz, which makes IL possible though
not probable, that the change may be
expensive. But the advantage of a
heightened New York run Is manifest
not alone In direct financial sense.
but In the matter of prestige, In which
both the iheater and the company
management VIII benefit Immensely.
DREW AND soTHERN.
An illustration OF very marked
charge OF habit on the part OF the
metropolitan public Is 20 be afforded
presently when John Drew, after two
or three weeks at the Herald Square
theater. wi be transferred to the En-
plre without changing his play and II
II. sotherr. who Is 10 follow MIR. Drew
at the Herald SQUARE xiii In due course
proceed 10 the new Lyceum u isn't
so very lcng ago that the mere thought
Of breaking In upon an established
theatrical run was regarded as suicidal.
Nowadays the thing Ii done
as the occasion may arise. with
out exciting any particular com.
rent II Is a rather odd coincidence
that Mr.. Drew was the central figure