The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-24

ner: he discharged me FOR ineoupetea-
cy.'
Miss Turner looked at the actor.
sghast for 3 moment and then. burs5-
ing into laughter. exclaimed: Wei,
you'll do: I'll engage you-s
And she did The tour Vas net q lesE
enc. the company returning TO New
ewing to Miss Turner'S III health. and
Nh. Richmond once more found himself
at liberty"
For the first time in his American
career Sir Henry Irving has reduced the
Price Of his seats wdom s. TO $3.50 foT
his road tour. When Irving first camo
to America his productions were or
such q scale OF magnihcence' ana ms
company contained SO many high-pficS4
artists, that the public cheeFfully paid
So "A seat. But times have changed
since Their. 4 number OF American
producers now stage plays on a scat3
/ a. extravagance which has put the
original Irving productions quite 10 tIv
blush. and they have done this Wltaout
raising the 81 tariff fer seats, Al the
present time there are nearly a doze a
attractio before the public when
/ must have cost almost double the
amount which Sir Henry was accas-
lfemed 70 spend upon Few production.
] Tssen- TOO. in former times the English
actor always had Miss Eiien AefIy =
an associate star. Therefore IN rsauS-
/ ing his prices Sir Henry has shown
only common sense, and as result ms
engagement in Philadelphia promises
| TO prove a big financial success
/ DeWolf Hopper goes under the man
a-e-oent or the Shuberts and William
! \ Brady in the spring. and there IS
some talk of his bringing out a ne"
comic opera by Melville Baker of B0s-
lton. the incidents of which are rounded
on the recent happenings iT Belgrade
II may - called a Runa HaN King o.
a King in Spite of Himself The run
| scene in It is where the three minis
ters are taken out by conspiratofs and
subjected to q dose of tar and feathers
Their re-entrance fresh from TINS eA-
rerierce eught to be funny
Frederic Bond, in Chase's bill next
week, claims all records, long, short OF
middle, for his repertoire Of plays and
parts.
Mr. Bond is further distinguished by
the fact that at one time he was tins
principal member. comedian and "cyno-
y
company here Mr. Bond endeared him
self TO the laushter-loving public dur
ing those sultry summer days by hi!
performances of the various parts II
the bright comedies then presented
Best Of all was his Adonis Evergreen
That prodigaI parent immortalized II
My Awful Dad"
Afr. Bond IS really in earnest wheI
he lays claim TO having committed u
ruemory mores parts than any othe
American actor. He has been IN har
ness for twenty years, part Of the un'
with the Augustin DAILY company, late
with the Frohmans. afterward witt
several stock organizations. changing
plays every week and sometimes often
er. and finally, for FIVE years past. n
has been staging and playing a ney
play every week during at least fit,
weeks in each years. 1t viii be seen
Therefore, that ne has had the oppor
tunity. at least. There can hardly b
. a doubt that his claim is warranted b.
the facts. MIR Bond thinks he has per
+ fccted his memory TO the last degrees
and ne offers any odds against peopl
I who have developed their retentiV
j faculties by the hundred and odd mem
CRY systems prevalent. He declare
that like John T. Sullivan, another Re
cord clainler for his repertoire, h
"absorbs2 parts He does not bottle
with sitting down faithfully and Per
| sistently, and learning line after linz
and cue after cue, but, book in hRn'
"a he attends rehearsals and behold. whe
the first night arrives he has the pal
down pat" He cOnfssses that ono
in a while he has to do little wing
, ing" which is the word actors emplO
to describe their method Of tackin
: their parts upon the scenery in the Fl
frances and exits they use in the pia,
f enabling them TO snatch has;
glimpses. and upon rare occasions
has Struggled his lines upon the stag
and, hidden behind a book or under
a newspaper, or sometimes in his het, }
has gone through long part withol
n