Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-24
spoolal correspondence.

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ONDON, Dec. 3-Honry Arthur
Jones pald On response to toast at
- banquet this week that the enter
tainmeut at nlne-tentho OF Tho most
fashionable London theatcrs Eas rank
tom-fooery. Some Of hia own failures,
he said, had been due to his effort TO
meet the demand for tom-foolery, but
others had been due to the lack OF prop
erly trained actors. Thereupon Beer
bohm Tree, lecturing to the students OF
his Academy OF Dramatic Art observed
that mr. Jones admitted to having
stopped to the public to conquer II.
Might he not have tried to learn how to
get the strength 10 command IT, ana
went ON 10 imply that II the good Mr.,
Jones had written better plays he
would have had fewer failures.
OF course this reference TO failures
ioggled the chip on Mr. Jones shout
der and the result was a retort yes
terday that adds to the galety Of ma.
tons There is vast difference, my
dear Tree writes Mr.. Jones I'm let
ter which was evidently sent round 10
the newspapers nc the same time, be
tween complaining Of ones own per-
sonal position and complaining OF the
position that ones art occupies In pub,
lie esteem.
"You and /, my dear Tree, have had
too many failures and too many sue
ccsses 10 set an extreme value upon the
one or the other
III | have an occasional failure. please
credit me with little Of the conspicu'
Gus fortItude and philosophy that you
have so often shown on similar ooca-
slons. But, as II happens, during the
past season. English playgoers have
given me no opportunity for playing
the martyr Facts and figures are at
your service
brew" By Oscar Asche and his COM
ShrCE," by Oscar AsAche and HIS COM
pany most Of whom are graduates from
the Benson school, has given rise 20
the usual amount Of disturbance IN
critical minds whenever a daring ac-
tor lnterprets Shakespeare for himself
instead Of eCcOrdlng TO he conventions,
The different reading given to the play
by Ada Rehan and John Drew has been
held up to Mr.. Asche until he has evil
'cntly become a little nettled, and has
called attention In an Interview TO the
fact that according TO Shakespeare's
own stage directions, the play nearly
approaches rough-and. tumble farce
and Petruchl0, Instead OF being a fine
gentleman who was playing the part Of
q bully, was indeed a thIck-skinned adj
renturer who only wanted 10 marry
money, whereas Katherine was more or
less o cat with a reputation for shrew
shness, not only IN her own household,
but throughout all Padua,
George Edwardes has been so much
Encouraged by the long run OF THE
Duchess OF Dantzlg." which he brought
out as an experiment that he Is making
arrangements FOR putting light opera
once more on permanent basis In Lon
Ion. When Miss Evie Greene returns
rom her American visit she viii APP
pear In a new opera by Mr. Andre Mes.
ager the composer OF "Veronlque," the
title OF which Is to be la Pompa-
lour." The book win be by Mourier @.
Duyal and Captain Basil Hood. NJ
NANI INll Ihl MNN lluf hN|l ~ lllMNN llllH
nressed by the successful adaptation Of
his mime. Sans-Gene,' for the llbretto
II 1.-THE Duchess OF Dantzlg" that he
ras accepted a commission from Mr.
'dWardes TO write a book for new
opera TO be produced IN England, and
Dr. Hugo Felix viii be the composer
No little surprise has been occasioned
by the announcement OF the withdraw.
4 Of Herr Arthur SchnitSler's new play
the House OF Delorme," before the
arst performance Of Il had been Civ
m at the Little Theater In Berlin. Be-
FORE the rehearsals were AZ an end, the
company struck and refused 10 per-
iorm the parts assigned TO them In the
drama. They did this on the ground
that II was immoral, Actors and ac'
iresses as n class are not popularity
credited with being more squeamish
than the theater- going public on this
score. but IN this particular instance,
lt was their own profession that was
dlscredited The principal incidents Of
the piece take place In the house or q
famous opera singer who under the
eyes OF her mother carries on half
dozen lltrigues simultaneously On
the ground that vice wears such a hid
eous mein, II needs only to be seen to
be hated, the author declared It a high
ly moral play. But the company dldnt
see II that way.
The recent matinee performance for
the benefit OF Mrs, Edmund Phelps
has called public attention to the mel
ancholy fate Of that once popular ao-
tress who AZ CT, after 80 years OF hard
and conscientious work on the stage,
found herself reduced to actual want,
She made her debut at Portsmouth, and
eight years later obtained her first Lon
don engagement under the management
of her famous father-ln-law, Samuel
Phelps. No breath Of scandal was ever
raised against her She played her part
well both IN public and private life. and
Il was 10 pay tribute to an honorable
no less than TO a distinguished career,
that several Of the most distinguished
members OF her profession rallied TO
her support. IL Is pleasant TO be able
to record that the benefit procured her
substantial sum-
Admission to the theater al Bay
reuth viii be free to all after 1918, II
success attends an appeal which is
about 10 be made by the Wagner as
scciatlons OF Germany. WagnerB
lO0dth anniversary occurs In 1913, and