The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-03


mark. In London Little Mary passed
its one hundred and fiftieth perform
ance at Wyndilams theatre two weeks ,
ago Here the career or the play was
cut short in Providence after vain at
tempts on the part Of Mr.. Frohman 10
r5pularize il. MY Lady Molly" a big
London success was shelVed after a
trial in. Boston and a two-weeks' stay
at DAYS theatre IL New York. a
Princess of KensingtOn." on which
John G.. Fisher avished a vast sum of
money. succumbed after a short and
unproftable tour. Lady Rose s
Daughter" did not prove acceptable,
and is now but memory. IAN English
Daisy" also suffered severely, although
some claim that its value was reduced
TO a minimum by it's American adapta-
ton. THE Light That Failed in
which Forbes RObertsoE achieved a rep
/ utation abroad, was scantily treated.
and as for Henry Irving's production Of
Dante" the public would have none
OF it,
/ One Of the tasks set for himself by
\ kirke La Shelle, manager of half a
dozen successful companies. is to drop
J in on one Of them about once a week
or oftener, and note how the perform
anoe is given. He never tells any one
/ when he will be there. He is not al
either. For instance a few nights aCo,
he was discovered in the gallery of the
Manhattan, looking at The Nirginian."
To the ordinary auditor, the perform
ance seemed a model of smOothness
I and artistic perfection. But, hardly
had an OficiOus usher passed the word
! around that the chief" was in the
| house, before La Shelle was on the
stage, directing that a rehearsal should
be held the next morning. at which
half a dozen points, which-he had Jot-
! ted down or a leaf Of a note book. Were
f, TO be gone over until slight imperfec
tons he had detected We're eliminated.
1t Is this constant vigilance which keeps
all Mr.. La Shelle's presentations up to
the edge" no matter how long they
may run.
When William Norris first thought
of going to America his friends said
the man to see was Charles Hoyt the
well known American playwright who
was then in London. They gave him
To understand or al least from what
they said he got the impression. that
to play i'm the United States without
first seeing Mr. HOyt, would be like
making a tour without a manager or
advertising.
He soon secured an introduction. Mr..
/ Hoyt was Just what he had pictured
hat shook Norris hand until he
I thought he had taken at least two fin
gers, and was what Norris would have
called a typical Yankee. He had a
rugged. amusing bluntness. and an ut
ter disregard fon the conventional.
When Norris asked what was the pos
sibility of getting proposition in one
of his American companies Hoyt
thought he was joking
You" he said smiling "in my COM
panies? Why, you are too nice 1
have no nice parts. l want a comedian. -
Norris told him mildly that he could
sing and dance.
"Sing and dance?" querried Hoyt.
But that won't pay your passage. boy.
Take my advice and stay where you
are
The next time Norris met him was
in st. PauIs. Nh Hoyt was going
through with a guide, and Norris hap
/ pened to catch sight of him and went
with him through the cathedral. The
guide was the usual guide-Only n lit
tie more so. HOyt was getting mad
der and madden. Finally they stopped
before the tomb of Lord Nelson. The
guide cooked his eye at the ceiling.
: kissed his hand at the epitaph. and
: started off like this: Ere, sir, lies
; the tomb of the greatest naval era
Lord Nelson. The sarcophagus weighs
? forty-two tons Hinside a steel recep-
; tacle, which weighs twelve tons, is the
: leaden casket Theoretically sealed,
| weighs two tons. Hinside that, sir, is
the mahogany casket, and"
{ At this point Mr. Hoyt could hold in
no longer. shut up, you blatherin'
cuckoo," he yelled. You've got him
safe amt We? If We ain't-if the gen.
tleman gets out-telegraph at my ex-
pense."
In about four weeks Norris arrived
in New York under his own auspices.
Hoyt was then in San Francisco. Nor
ris sent him the following unpaid mes
Il sage; Nelson escaped. Wants to
sing and dance" In exactly one week
Nh. Hoyt gave him his first position
in America.
Louis James once wrote to Edwin
Booth asking his opinion as to the real
or feigned madness OF Hamlet The
great actor responded: 1.-THE subject is
as you know one of endless controversy
among the learned heads. l have been
. questioned so often about it that I
usually find it safest to side with both
parties in disputes over the matter
Yes. confess 1 do not consider Ham
let mad-except IN craft. My opinion
may be OF little value. but it's the re-
! suit Of many weary walks and talks
! with him for hours together in the
) wings"
. Blanche Walsh has d country home
! on Long Island and is occasionally
bothered by tramps. One day a small
! thin specimen of a hobo honored heI
with call He told a hard luck story
which would have brought tears to the
eyes of a Japanese idol
And do YOU call yourself a mani
demanded Miss Walsh.
No. nam. not entirely. Just now
I'm only an outline. All / need is q
little film in"
And he got it too. after that admis-
sion of his incompleteness-
Thomas w. Ross, who plays the title
role in Checkers. cOnfesses that he
+. never was in a betting ring but once
! in his life. And then 1 did not bet.
. he said. with a smile when talking
about it yesterday. 1T was enough
for me TO see the agony of suspense or
] the faces of those who did" How vel
he observed the effect Of that suspense
: Is shown in Checkers every even
! ! nag. when Mr. Ross. as the hero. is
Y waiting 10 know whether '.Remorse'
e viii come in FIRST and save him from
] ruin or not. IT is enc of the strongest