Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-11

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Unexpectedly following Miss de Wolfe's
melancholy venture, is entitled "a Fool
and his Money"
THE SOAP MANS BLUNDER,
However angels" are not always so
unlucky with their proteges. The late
Mr. Fairbank the soap man Of Chicago,
took so much interest in Mrs Carter
that he engaged David Belasco to
instruct her for the stage, Belasco
is high priced man. Even at
that time when, having fallen out with
the Frohmans, he was IN comparative
i'll fortune, our author always believed
in himself emphatically. At the time
when he took charge Of Leslie Car
ters theatric education Belasc0 was
without friends and admirers. Yet he
charged SIS an hour for training her
The Chicago soap man was a million
aire, but he would not stand rates OF
such magnitude even for the develop
ment of his protege, When Belasco, de
claring that Mrs Garter was equipped
for the stage. sent a bill for $4,000 to
Mr. Fairbanks, the soap man cried I'm
be jggered If / pay It.. That Is where
the late lamented soap man made a
mistake. He should have paid Be
lasco's bill and taken a first mortgage
on Mrs Carter. The interest on $4,000
at most would have been $500 year, |
When she graduated Mrs Garter asked
only $50 a week for her acting. The |
difference between her terms and her
receipts Is prodigious. Within three |
performances the soap man could have |
collected a years interest on his in |
vostment. All the year round Leslie |
Carter plays TO an average OF S20o0 a |
night, OF which, probably $500 is pro- |
it, Anyway, Belasco secured YER |
dict OF 50 0O0 against the soap Mace
r&s, and in paying over that amount |
MIR. FQirbank surrendered all right 10 |
and title In our actress. She Is the |
geese that lays the golden egg for her |
Instructor. BelascO clears 100000 a /
year out Of Mrs. Carter although her |
salary In these times amounts TO 81 500 |
a week, higher figure by $500 than |
ever before was paid 20 any American /
actress, the next IN amount being Ada |
Rchan at $500 a week during the palmy
Gays OF Augustn DAILY. If the SOAP
man had stood by the bargain he
might have cleared sl00O,0O0 out Of hls
dramatic investment As Il was, he
died I'm the first week Of his prOteges
Chicago season, shocked at his error
Concerning this engagement one Of tho
Windy City papers says 'Mr Mans
field Is playing 10 light business. cause
Lent Madam Dubarry' is playing 70
crowded houses, cause Mrs Carter"
PLOTS OF PLAYS.
But TO return to out muttons, The
mcralists who pitch into intelligent
authors now have an opportunity 20
rejoice In the wholly innocuous play,
Thc only premiere on Monday night
was "Spotless Town." a dramatlza-
ton Of the Sapolio advertisement.
This is no new ingenuity. Last
year a playwright transferred Foxy
Grandpa to the stage, and compelled
Us once more TO consider a series
of witless comic pictures that We've
current in a Sunday newspaper. The
Herald has fashion editor whose busi-
ness II is TO chronicle the names OF well
known people In theatrlc audiences, a
list which he usually began by saying
Among these present" That phrase
furnished the theme for a play which
was produced by Mrs. lie Moyne, hut
which, happily, failed. II Is an unfor-
tunate matter thta our moralist dra-
matists generally have no brains while
our most brilliant dramatists usually
choose immoral themes. Mrs. Pat
explains this anomaly by say
ing that the good woman is without
dramatic interest. while the woman
with past is plentiful in theatric color.
However that may be, II is apparent !
that the story Of the Magellan is OF
more value to our players and audi
lnces than the story OF Martha Even |
the critics. who are sim for decorum,
pitched into clyde Fitch's play because.
as they said The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
didn't frisk. whereat the owner and star
Of that comedy, Amelia Bingham. de-
clared war on our newspapers with in ,
teresting but Improbable results. II Is
10 be feared that Miss Bingham will not |
make much money out Of this piece, II
Is an adaptation and clyde Fitch has
not so much success In borrowing as In
putting forth his own ideas MRS.
Johnson" was taken from the French,
'The Bird in the Cage from the Ger
man, and neither work has been so
as his original comedies OF
this season. 1.-THE Stubbornness Of Ger
lidine" and THE Girl with the Green
Eyes This dramatist by the way, has
broken down once more through over
work, and he goes to Europe this month
Tor long rest
TANNING OF HELEN.
Richard Harding Dayls's first unalded
attempt at playwriting has been scored
10 savagely by the critics that Il is
problem whether "The Tanning OF
Helen" can withstand the assault Of its
reviewers. This is not such an un-
worthy work as the newspapers pro-
n1unce q, but Davis Is not especially
popular among men. his aim always
laving been 20 please women Wheth-
.r our sisters can uphold this play. as
hey have his novels Il a question. We
Jay the theater tickets and have some-
hing 10 say IN the matter OF selection,
hough our sweethearts usually declare