The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-01

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with Madame PATHS signature at |
taehed, win be sent to Mr. Grau, and
when he receives it he will begin &C
tive preparations for the tour, which
he is confident win be a great success,
as competent judges say that PATHS
voice is as good as it was in the days
when she electrified the world with
her wonderful singing.
The story Of Peggy from Paris" is
another satire in Mr.. AIDES character
! istic style In a programme note the
1 author says: This effort is supposed
to deal, more or less directly. with the
/ strictly American habit of paying
/ homage to the foreign artist" The
principal role has nothing to do with
/ Peg Wellington or any other Peggy OF
/ stage fame. She is an American girl
/ from Hickory Greek, Ills. She Is the
I daughter of Captain Alonzo Plummer,
I the village Pooh Bah, and has been
I educated in Paris, where her vocal
fame has spread over the artistic
| world. Her American nativity is not
known outside OF her immediate fam
lily. She Is engaged by a Yankee i'm
pressario for a great operate produc-
| ton under the impression that she is
a Paris stage divinity who viii cleo
trify American audiences. She plays
her part in French dialect, initiating
the imported artist until near the
close, when she has had enough of the
isilIy honor, casts the mask aside and
l declares America, is good enough for
her. The piece opens with a scene in
the Hickory Greek hotel, introducing
the family and childhood friends of
Peggy in an old fashioned party, with
characters as rural as in any pastoral
drama Later they appear in scenes
with Peggy. There are many touches
of real sentiment wherein the famous
Peggy betrays the true heart of an
American.
OF that locally popular star, Blanche
Bates, the Dramatic Mirror of recent
date says:
1.-THE stage career of Miss Bates is
worthy the attention and emulation of
all young women possessed of stage
aspirations, and is particularly worthy
the consideration of those mistaken
persons who expect to be carried 20 a
place of distinction by sensational
means AS a child Miss Bates ap-
peared occasionally with her parents
in Australia and California. Then she
deserted the theatre for the school
room and remained there until she had
received a very sound education. She
returned to the stage at about the time
of the revival of the stock company
system, some ten years ago, and
played small parts through one season
at the little Lyceum theatre in Den
, yer under the stage direction of Wal
ter Clark Bellows. Subsequently she
was a member of the -FrawIey
company and the Daniel Frawley COM
pany on the Pacific coast. where pres
; entity she became a great fayorite as
a leading woman.
, THE first important appearance oil
; Miss Bates in New York was in The
!. / Great Ruby at Days theatre. She
Won popularity in a night Then aft.
er few appearances in other produc
tions came her brilliant success a:
, Madame Butterfly, an impersonatior
: that VIII long be remembered by play.
, goers. Next she won equal success a;
, Cigarette in Under Two Flags, and
; now she is the charming Yo San il
l The Darling of the Gods
Miss Bates has had the good for
: tune never to have made a meteori,
' success She has advanced steadil.
? and surely by means of her amirabl
= talents, her devoted study and he
= constant effort"
!. Thomas jefferson, who is starring
in RIP Van Wrinkle" gleefully tell
= ! the following story:
= A negro entered the reception room
= of an uptown hospital with that timi
3 air Wnlcn marks MS race Wnen IN I'm
4 accustomed places. Ambling UP [
= the desk he announced that he wante
' TO see a patient named Armand
Y Johnson"
= The man at the desk put a auestio
p to him.
8 I'm her husband replied the nt
:, gro.
le well, we only allow two visitors &
y a time and two husbands have a
= ready gone UP to see her," replied tn
!. clerk.
- Then, I'm her brother replied tt
- negro unabashed.
'All right. you can go up; but sen
. down one of those husbands sal
the clerk with grim smile.
IL Joseph Haworth has retired from t
We role Of Cassius in Richard Mansfield
er production of Julius Caesar" now
Boston, and on Feb, Is he will crigina
ne in America the principal male role
VI Prince Nedledorf, in a dramatizatil
70 of Tolstois Resurrection" at t
n Victoria theatre, supporting Blanc.
Walsh In speaking of this importa
change in his eaffairs, Mr.. Hawor
he said: Il leave Mr.. Mansfield with t
r greatest reluctance. He gave me Il
or Opportunity to play in New York