Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-13

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whose answer May rival manager
would be glad TO learn. Hungry eyes
are on her everywhere, as her asionlsh'
ing box Office records are made known
in these lean theatrical days, and The
man who could tempt Maude from her
allegiance to Frohman, would have
secured gold mine indeed. But FROM
man was the man who discovered her,
who gave her her opportunity who has
helped her win her present fame ana
fortune and very properly, ner heaft
remains true to Charles, and VIII DO s0'
indefinitely.
If the Salt Lake girl ever felt In.
clined TO go II ON her own hook ana
to turn IN her name and her talents
as the basis OF a joint stock company
The Maude Adams Incorporation
limited or unlimited, as she might pre-
fer, could be put uDon the market ana
It's shares sold at a premium any mo-
ment that she might decide The assets
would be simply her name, and her
power TO attract the public. The capt.
tai need only be limited TO her own
taste and fancy as TO what per cent OF
profit she would feel satisfied with.
Certainly her services would return an
earning capacity OF 10 per cent ON half
a million, or per cent on million,
and build up comfortable reserve be-
sides
Some such thoughts as these fioated
through the minds Of a number Of Miss
Adams Salt Lake friends, az they sat IN
a box at the Montauk theater In Brook
lyn the other day, and saw the sort Of
audience she was playing before, II
was a Saturday matinee but the crush
was suffocating, even though II was the
sixth performance OF the week. and the
prices ranged from $3.50 downward
There could not have been less than
$4,000 In the house, and there. may nave
been more, we wereiassured that TINS
was simply a duplication OF the busi-
ness she was doing everywhere. Fig
ure seven performances a week on
such O box office showing, allow 40
weeks for the season, estimate that
Frohman walks off with at least three
quarters of the gross reckon that MS
star and his supporting company with
all other expenses, cost him half his
share, and II can still be seen that hf
retains enough to enable him to Keep
a whole pack Of wolves from the door.
What Maudes individual cleaning may
be out OF the lump, Is a secret known
to but few, and they guard II we'll. That
her share Is no bagatelle, Is evident
from a good many facts, foremost
among which are, that she Is known to
be an independently wealthy young
woman today and that she Is content
20 90 on under the same management
season after season. How other man
ayers view her good luck, with Broad
way a theatrical graveyard and the
road everywhere strewn with the bones
OF dramatic ventures may well be iln-
aglned. In passing II may be observ-
ed that the simeon has been very ten
der OF Frohman. He has had one or two
failures, Il IL true--"Iittle Mary among
them--but besides Maude Adams. he
has Gillette In Admirable Crltchton,'
'srhe Other Girl" at the Empire, and
Ethel Barrymore In Cousin Kate,
three attractions which are drawing
enormously at home while his London
ventures are said to be as prosperous
as ever.
Maude Adams comes back 10 the
stage, giving the impression that she
was never IN better form. Her voice Is
stronger, her tones more Intense, her
face more animated aud her step more
bounding than ever. A snatch OF a
song In "rhe Pretty Sister OF Jose, /"
rendered In a beautiful contralto tone
,l., al hl a.. ttHh ~
know she could sing land character
istic Spanish dance, both Illustrate the
truth OF this statement, The play N
not In itself especially wonderful, but
Maude Adams makes II So Her acting
IL simply electrical in its effect on her
audience, and at one point where she
goes down on her knees despalrlngly
for the lover who has apparently been
killed In bullhght, and In later scene
where she watches by his bedside,
dreadlng the approach OF dawn, lest II
should show her the mark OF death ON
his face-the audience was simply so
deeply affected that Il could not ap.
plaud. Nothing that Miss Adams did
either In 1.-THE Little Minister or
'LAiglon" certainly proved her pow.
ers as her work in Mrs. Burnetts play
has done. She Is admirably supported
by "A rare company, her loading man be-
ing young English actor named
Ainley, handsome as an AdQnls, and
reminiscent In his acting Of Maurice
Barrymore In his youthful days
In her bandbox Of a mansion on
Forty First street Just of Fifth ave.
nue., Miss Adams passes an existence
as nearly deal-that Is when the eXig-
encles of her life allow her to be I'm
New York-as IL would be possible for
any mortal to pass. This little three
story house, located IN a quarter whore
foot frontage runs into figures that
would make even salt Lake real es-
tate boomer gasp forms one Of the
answers to the question whether or not
Miss Adams shares any OF the golden
shower that her talents cause Ia de-
scend upon FrOhman She owns the
place outright, and besides that has the
deeds TO a fine farm on Long Island
and beautiful summer home In the
Catskills The city home is presided
over In the absence OF IT'S owner and
her mother (Nrs A. A.. Adams who Is
en- tour with Ethel Barrymore By
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both daughter and mother and by
Maudes grandmother Mrs. Barney
Adams OF the we'll known Salt Lake
family, Grandma" Adams as an IN
the household alfectlonately term her
is nearly so, but che is as bright and
hearty as many a woman 30 years
younger On sundays, when the en-.
gagements OF her daughter and grand
daughter bring them anywhere within
30 or 100 miles Of home happy re-.
union takes place FOR tho day nj least
and the three Adams ladies' with Mrs
Pitts, and possibly an intimate lady
friend or two give Themselves up "a
the delights Of days visit Indoors, NJ
night, or early next morning, the two
actresses are on the wing again "a
Join their companies, and the lite
household Ii broken M ag lln, only t.
be happily reunited the next time the
dates on the road are In favorable
conjunction.
Several old Salt Iaise friends, among
whom the writer had the good fortune
TO be included, recently assembled un.
der Miss Adams charming roof for an
Informal afternoons visit. and ex.
changed with her "reminiscences of the
theatrical days IN Salt Lake when she
was a child and heard from her own