Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-14
snncInl correanondenee.

Special Correspondence.
New York, Nov 9.--This is week OF
important events in New forKs
amusement matters presenting no less
than four new plays with star PER-
formers appearing in them in the lead
Ing metropolitan theaters. These stars
include Maude Adams, Forbes Robert
son and Gertrude Elliott, Arthur Byron
and Grace Van studdiford. 1t win not De
necessary to inform the reader that the
foremost OF these attractions and the
one In whom the interest of the COM
munity was most deeply centered was
Miss Maude Adams who on Tuesday
evening, made her re-entree here after
a prolonged period of absence from the
stage by reason Of nervous collapse due
to overwork. one wouldn't have thought
Miss Adams q recently recovered inYa-
lid, noting the undiminished force and
spirit of her acting in this instance.
There was no uncertainty In the ring OF
her voice, the sweep of her gestures,
| the command of her carriage or the IN
tensity of her emotion in the almost
| tragic climax of Mrs. Burnetts play,
THE Pretty Sister of jose Miss
| Adams bore her auditors with her up
on the light ripples of laughter charac-
| terizng the earlier portions or the
drama to the great pillows OF passion
| at It's end. She was received with ire
| mendous enthusiasm which arose al
most to a frenzy at the finish. There
has rarely II ever been so great tu-
mutt of acclaim In a METROPOLITAN play
house as that which, following the fer
vent burst OF welcome when Miss Ad-
| ans stepped upon the scene marked
the furously bestowed appreciation OF
the crowd when the curtain finally
came down.
"The Red Feather" produced yerS
lavishly 10y Florenz Zlegfeld Jr., al
the Lyric theater with Miss Van stud
dlfurd at the head OF cast embracing
Thomas Q, Seabrooke, Elise DeNer'
and others Of note, Is pure comic operi
without the modern rough and tumble
comicality with which we've been mad,
familiar, Perhaps indeed little NOR
humor might not be amiss and II VII
presumably be added as Mr., Senbrook
builds up his part with repetition. III
has been In the company for shor
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the original first night out O
town to take the place o
James II, sullivan, whose work had no
met with the approval of the manage
ment SO he hasn't had the advantage
Of long study and preparation, bu
nevertheless he has made n very IA
vorable impression at the Lyric, Mis-
| Van StuddIford's handsome physiqu
and quite delightful singing and actln
have won for her renewed favor her,
and little Miss Devere, by a very snap
py and brisk performance OF ilirta
tious French milliner has score
strongly. 1.-THE Red Feather has
well deVeluped story devised by Charlie
Klein graceful lyrics framed by char
les Emerson Cook and an ambition
score composed by Reginald deKoyer
1t is apparently well liked.
The stage adaptation Of Klplng'
"The Light That Failed with Forbe
Robertson and Gertrude Elliott as tn
pivotal figures, Is perhaps rather Eng
fish for the general American tastes
but is nevertheless an interesting pla
we'll played, Mir. Robertson mas gaine
materially In poise aud authority sine
he WAS last IN America, when, truth {
tell, he didn't impress his audience
very deeply He is now cunvincn
Motor and there can be no doubt as
the result of his engagement from a
artistic point Of view Miss Elliot
who was somewhat immature In On
development of her talent althoug
even then very beautiful eirl-whe
she went away to Europe some year
ago. has rounded into the possession &
entirely worthy gifts aside from thos
OF mere physique in which she fairl
, | rivals her handsome sister MAXIM
{ "The Light That Failed Is drawin
| large audiences at the Knickerhocke
. where II wil remain for some weeh
TO come.
[ From Chicago comes the news IN,
e Eleanor Robson has captured publ
Il recognition In the most unequiyoci
p way by the charm of her lmpersoni
r ton of the heroine OF Znngwills "Mer'
% Is Mary Ann" Reducing all this
!. cold fgures.-and, as they say, hgur,
r. don't lle-Mlss Bohson's opening aud
( ence at the Garrick theater In the III
(. nois metropolis represented on
about $500 In the box oflic
Il by Friday night the reccip
" had mounted to $l,l00, ana for q
y two Saturday entertainments the hou
l. was sold out These hard facts tell
Ir story all the more eloquent for the re
L son that In the FIRST place Mr.. Ian