The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-25

poser sat down. ana having heard OF the
situation from the mother promptly i'm
provise7 few lines Of an air which he
sang the words.
Don't YOU think that it's time
For you TO go TO heS
You curly headed little boy2"
His hostess. struck by the melody. said
az once. Well il that's one of your
Yankee. Consul melodies las gcing to
make q hit. It's got such a wonderful
swing to IL"
DO you think so. said Robyn prompt
y, Jotting the note down on his cuff.
Ana Blossom promptly wrote some wards
10 TIT his melody. and the first COPY of
the song was sent with RObyn's compli-
ments to the three-year-old Kid.
-
That somewhat hackneyed expression,
the biggest success IN years" Is. how
ever, ably deserved by GeOrge AIDES pic
torial comedy, The College Window.
Theatre, New York city, at every per
Torrance. Not in recent years, at least
nave New Workers so unQuaifiedly ap-
proved or comedy. and the run OF The
College Window viii doubtless continue
until well into the summer. The per
sonnet OF the company remains the same
Dorothy Tenant, Gertrude Quiniau.
Amy Ricard. Ida Mcmillan, Frederick
TrCesdell. Edgar L. Davenport Stephen
Maley. Frederick Burton. George r. Bry-
ant Edwin Holt Thomas Delmar and
bers.
What shall we wear AT "Parsifal?' has
6een the prevailing question wherever 81
has been announced that Henry w. Saw
age production of Wagner sacred mu-
slc-uraha IA English would give a serie.
OF performances As the evening per.
torrance begins at $3.50 o'clock either Il
Is necessary 10 put on evening clothes be-
fore o clock which custom has made for
such dress in this country. or it is neces,
sary 10 dress between the first and sec
ond acts, in addition TO dinlag, which Is
rather q difficult proposition.
Ihis whole question has already beer
settled IN Boston and In New York, where
II was regarded quite the proper thing tc
wear evening clothes throughout the
whole performance, even If traditioE
was violated by so doing. precedent
was established for this in 1898 in LOndor
When at CoYent Garden performances Oi
Wagner Sc Ring were given without
cuts These performances began at +.&
in the afternoon. and great was the puz
Element Of London society 10 know what
20 do. The cue was given by no less per
son than Queen Alexandra. who was then
the Princess OF Wales. She had it off
cidlly announced in the Court Journal that
d would be not only proper, but necessary
for all those attending these performances
10 20 in evening dress.
Al the first performance the Princess
or Wales and her husband, the prince
were driven through London at 4:l5 IL
the afternoon of a June day in full even
ing dress, and London had the unique eX-
perienee OF seeing all the leaders OF so
clety go through the streets in broad day
light similarly attired. Only when tins
( late Queen Victoria gave her morning
drawing room were such scenes possible
in London, but the precedent made theI
has been observed ever since. and has
been brought over to this country with
much success.
A Portland. Ore, policeman who has
the real spirit of western hospitality
90 70 r,rr nh
iels company during the run of Charles
Is. Dillingham's production Of The
: ONCE Boy" in the northwest metropolis
last week. One OF thecharacters ir
The Office Boy is a policeman The
! copper" is on about ten minutes
Leavitt James assumes the part. About
ten minutes before his cue Mr.. James
rushed 10 his dressing room and found
to his terror that the police uniform
had been sent 10 a tailor and that the
tailor had failed to return it. Here Was
a predicament. police uniform was
most necessary. Frank Daniels re-
! spOnded with suggestion, send for
I a policeman; there's one in front Of the
house" The suggestion WAS hastily
acted upon and the officer whose duties
( compelled him 10 stay at the theatre,
was hustled into the dressing room, anc
/ after learning the state of affairs. read
! lily consented TO lend his garments foi
} ten or fifteen minutes. There was not
a hitch in the evenings performance
and while the blue uniform, severa.
! sizes too large Tor Mr.. James, was max
/ ing its theatrical debut. the owner was
resting easy in a suit OF silk pajanas
/ back in the dressing room.
( SaitO. the Japanese actor who has q
minor part with Louis Mann in Charles
B. Dillinghams new production, The
q Second Fiddle" appeared unusually
! glum prior to the opening performance
/ one night recently.
! What's the matter, Seito?' asked
Mr.. Mann. noticing the melancholy eX-
! preston of the Jap.
+ For an answer SaitO exhibited q
( newspaper, which gave an account OF
q serious Japanese reverse in the wal
! with Russia.
THAT settles it." said Mr.. Mann
walking toward the stage manager. An
actor TO act well must be in good s3ir-
! its. II appears that in order 10 insure
/ the complete success of this produc-
! ton we will be compelled TO establish
! a press censorship. Who brought thai
/ paper i'm here, anyhow"
Eight years d star in a limited ter
] >
! that's the boast which MaUde Ad-
! ans could make were Maude Adams
vain, which she is not, says the Chica-
( go Inter-OceaR. 1t has been eight
years since first she tried walking
alone in The Little Minister" and al
no time until last season had she ever
/ appeared as a star west of the Missouri
: river or south Of the Potomac and Ohio
rivers. About the LIST of May last she
began her initial stellar tour to the
! Pacific coast. She made during her Pa
| cific coast tour the most favorable i'm
! preston that any star has made in that
I section for many years. From q fnan-
! cial point of view her tour surpassed
/ all others who had preceded her. She
was given ovation after ovation, and
/ in many of the places where she APP
/ peared the theatres were not large
! enough to accommodate the demand
/ for fc