Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-17
THEATRE GOSSIP.

Florence Roberts has been making
some interesting experiments with a
pedometor. Its tell tale record reveals
the fact that during a performance OF
"zaza,' she travels fraction over four
miles, while upon the stage And yet
Miss Roberts is a successful star, and
not mere walking lady.
Norman Hackett, the talented young
leading man with James and Wardo
will again be seen with these distin-
guished actors upon their forthcoming
engagement here, as Clitus I'm Alex
ander the Great" Mr.. Hackett bears
the distinction OF being the youngest
leading man on the American stage and
his success IN the past few seasons with
Louis James, Madame Modieska, Fred
ericl< Warde Kathryn Kidder and other
stars has placed him I'm position for
stellar honors It being the idea of
Wengenhals and Kemper, managers for
James and Warde, to make n star Of
him in the near future.
"Ben Hur" runs both this week and
next at the Broadway TheateT in Den
yer The opening days advance sale
brought in $4,000, while Richard Mans
fields advance sale for the first three
days only ran $4,000, The manage
10 $4,000 for the two weeks. In Salt
Lake they are betting on an average of
$4,000 a night for the five nights.
Week after next the Grand will have
production of "Trilby' and 'The New
Magdalen," both played by Miss Jessie
Shirley.
We are to have another "sapho," this
time at the Grand, rendered by Lillian
Mason, who comes early in November.
Robert Edeson Is I'm San Francisco
with his Soldiers of Fortune"
Richard Mansfield has secured the
rights to George II, Broadhurst and
Justus Miles Formans decentralization
of THE Garden OF Lies"
The New York Herald styles Willie
Golfers new play Are You My Fa-
ther" fiat failure.
One interesting feature Of the pro-
duction of Dorothy Vernon OF Had
don Hail." In which Bertha Galland Is
starring, Ia the Elizabethan age, which
Is depicted In the play In customs and
characters There are such grande
danes and court gallants as Shake
speare sketched from life, including the
vain, vigorous, vindictive Virgin Queen
herself role in which May Robson
has the eccentric character of her ca
reer Mistress Dorothy herself IL a
red-hared, self-willed young woman,
with the true Vernon temper. only n
little less celebrated than that OF the
Tudors themselves.
Miss Maud Hoffman, who was the
leading woman In Manshelds company,
* now I'm London and was recently con-
graduated by the king and queen for
The clever way In which she essayed the
role OF the heroine TO the Cardinal de
Medics OF y, $. Willard The perform
ance was q brilliant affair and st.
James theatcr has never before held
finer audience, with King Edward
and Queen Alexandra occupying the
royal box, surrounded by numbers OF
he jeweled nobility.
For the second time, Robert Taber,
The American actor, Is about to try
management In London.
James X, Hackett has entirely re-
staged The Crisis" the play IN which
Miss Isabel irving viii star this sea-
son. He has another play, The From
tersman' for himself and win send
but Miss Irving In THE Crisis"
The official censor viii not allow
Madame Duse to make her first APP
pearance In London in DAnnunzoa