The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-04

greatest success, The Little Duchess
described as a comedy. with music by
reginald de KOven and Harry B.
Smith. As the Little Duchess, Miss
Held has better opportunities than
ever before 70 show her capabilities as
a coincidence
Lovers Lane celebrates its second
anniversary n Columbus. o. Feb. :,
when the company viii be given a ban
quet by Clyde Fitch. Those members
Of the original cast sim playins-and
there are several-have only lost i've
weeks during the past two years No
other play in America equals this rec
ord for almost unbrolzen continuity Of
performance.
Kirke La Shelle is now devotinC most
of his time TO preparations Tor his
forthcoming production of a dram
atization Of Henry Blossoms well
known book. Checkers" II is said
| that no less than loo actors have writ
ten TO aim TO say that they have read
/ the publication and have been told by
their friends that they are especially
suited TO the title role. Nr. La Snelle.
however. has already reached his own
conclusions
Il never heard a stage manager say
a word that was not respectful and
courteous in the old days" said Louis
James 10 an interviewer. ''The stage
! managers patience was Just as much
| tried then as il is now, but I can tell
/ YOU that if any of them had spoken TO
women on the stage as some of them
/ do today they would have had a stage
I brace over the head so quick that eX-
I plantations would have been impOs-
/ sible-'
/ When John c. Fisher was in London
/ last summer completing his arrange
/ mentS for the production IN this eOun-
4 try he held several interviews with
/ Leslie stuart, the composer.
/ Come down TO the country with me
l and spend the night at yOuC house"
/ was one invitation Mr.. Fisher received
! from the composer.
My house.'' exclaimed Mr. Fisher,
/ in surprise.
4 call it that" said stuart. Il paid
4 for the place with the royalties YOU
sent me from 'FIerOGOra-
An inscription I read in the ed
I Baldwin theatre. san Francisco" says
Albert Mahar Of The Princess Chic
company. lis very true in many cases
in The theatrical profession II reads.
/ 'Apeilg the rich keeps actors poor
ar. James T. Galloway. the we'll
/ known character actor. is again play
} ing Uncle Nat i7 James a. Herne's
/ cOmedy-drama. shore Acres Mr..
3 Galloway has been identified With this
part fo- SO many season that people
take It for granted that ne CaN Go
nothing ciSe but play Just such parts,
I Yet il is IN light and eccentric comedy
( work that Mr. Galloway is at his best
Mr.. Galloway Was prOtege of the
late John T Ford and for number
/ OF years a prominent player in Joseph
Jeffersor's company 8Ir- Galloway is
also directing the stage for shore
Acres"
Frohman has OF late years cello
1 brated Christmas by sending to his
friends various Naude Adams caIen-
I darS This years production is q re-
markedly artistic effort The cover is
adorned with Miss Adams latest pho
/ tOgTaph. and the other pages are filed
with her portraits in costume and out,
! covering her stage career from The
Masked Ball. to Quality Street and
Juliet.
Mrs James A. Herne has won her
case against the Liebier company and
was awarded 81 coo damages by a jury
in a New York court last Wednesday
The case arose over the presentation
Of ''Shore Acres" iE pONsllar price
houses. a step that was opposed by
! Mrs. Herne.