Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-21

comes back 10 her native town
next Monday night Her stay
win be buel, the demands from
other cities allowing her to give
us but three performances, but
as far as can be judged by the over
whelming demands at The boxoffice, her
home coming win be made a memorable
event
The News" has been flooded during
the week, with requests that the dra-
matte editor print In the Saturday IS
sue, an authoritative answer TO such
questions as the date and place OF
Miss Adams birth, whether the house
IN which She first saw light is still
standing where she received her edu-
cation, when and where che made her
first appearance on any stage, how long
she has been a star, with a small host
OF other questions more or less per-
sonal, to which no attention WIN be
paid,
Most Of the inquiries, however, are
decidedly pertinent especially as Nir-
ginl0 city, New, and San Francisco
has each been claimed as her birth
place, and the widely advertised FIRST
appearance" has been said to have
taken place on the stage OF the salt
. Lake Thcater the Bush street thea
ter. San Francisco, and the old opera
house In Virginia city
The facts that follow were given the
News" in the course OF an interesting
interview with Mrs a. a, Adams Kis-
kadden, the "senoth' OF the old Salt
Lake stage, and the mother of the gift
cd actress whose career is IN question.
Mrs Adams Ohis is the name she re-
talns on the STAGE and she Is seldom
called any other), is In Salt Lake, the
guest Of Mrs. Isabel NJ. Pitts, and is
awaiting the arrival Of her daughter
whom she will accompany to the coast
after the Salt Lake engagement
"You may say once and for all said
Mrs. Adams, that Maude made her
first appearance on the stage Of the Salt
Lake theatcr. was there she added
with laugh, "and ! ought 10 Know
Maude was just 10 months OLD, Ihe pay
was the farce of 1.-THE Lost child ana
the date was the fan Of 1879. The the
ater files would tell the precise time. |
well remember the occasion. / had APP
peared in the tlIst piece and was dress
inc a 20 home. lived then at the old
stephens house. just below the city
nan, Mary. our nurse, frequently used
10 wrap The baby up and bring her over
10 Tho theater.and we would walk home
together This night she arrived with
Maude, and we were on the point Of
leaving the theater when a commotion
arose over the fact that the bnby In the
farce uThe Lost Child" was I'm a tan
rum, ana could not be taken upon the
Nape. fl had made one entrance and
The fine was approaching for It's second
entrance If was only three months old,
nnd whom Phil Marqetts. Mr.. Graham,
Mr.. Malben and Harry Horseley APP
pealed Ia mo 40 allow Maude 10 be sub
stnuted remember well telling them
that Nlaude was 10 months old, and the
audience would bp sure TO see the dif-
ferenre. There was no time. however,
10 debate A and Nfaude was placed ON %
traV and made the entrance. The audi
once no sooner saw her than they set
nm n roar which so attracted the child
tbat gho put mn one hand and waved Il
nj Inc audience. which set the house
via again she was horn I'm Nayem-
ber 1872 ana thls event. as have said,
tnoi, nlnne io tho fan ~ 1879"
The bouso whore Miss Adams was ,
horn was Tho ola Adams homestead,
hunt bv her grandfather the late Bar
nahas Adams his wife. Maude's
grandmoher IS SIN alive, hale ana