The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-04-28

$50 East Tenth South street, yesterday
afternoon and talked with a Herald
representative of early Salt Lake times,
Of her friends. her latest tour and of
the plans Of herself and of her famous
daughter, Miss Maude Adams. Mrs.
Adams arrived I'm this city Tuesday
afternoon, accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. J. A. Adams, and Mrs. Isabel NJ.
Pitts. a former school chum.
My. but I'm glad to get back to Salt
Lake" confided Mrs. Adams. You
know I was born right under the shad-
ows of the Wasatch range-at South
Cottonwood-in the latter '40s. And l
also enjoy the prospect Of again seeing
California. ] love the state and San
Francisco, where many of my earlier
acquaintances among the profession
We're made.
It's been four years now since I've
been here. and it's twice that long
since MaUde has. I expect to meet
many of my old friends here. 1t doesn't
seem so long ago, when 1 come to think
of il, since HebeT Wells, John Spencer,
Bud Whitney 3. s. Young. myself
and others appeared as amateurs at
the old Salt Lake theatre. Wells is
governor now, but then his ambition
ran TO the stage.
I remember the date Of my first
July 25 1863 in the Amber Witch
That was at the time of Julia Dean
Haynes American triumphs Philip
Margetts-all Salt Lake knows Phil
David Mckenzie Robert Neslen, John
c. Graham. Joseph Simmonds and
Henry Mayhem were among those. ]
remember who appeared shortly after
wards in The Peoples Lawyer That
play was made famous by John Z.
q 10 Cd
know Some Of the members Of the
old ranks have been thinned out since
then by death.
Hardly a Good Mormon.
Am I a Mormon now? That ques-
ton has been asked me so many times
during my professional career. Well
] hardly like TO say ] was bred in the
faith but cannot call myself a good
or not l am a member of the church
in good standing. My husband, James
II. kiskadden. was not Mormon, nor
is my daughter. Maude.
Miss Adams is to arrive in Salt Lake
i'm time to keep a three nights en-
gagement at the Salt Lake theatre. be
ginning May %. She is to appear in
The Little Minister She IS at reese
in Minneapolis and is. she informs me,
Il
to 90 on to the coast. arriving in San
Francisco the first week in June. I
shall leave Salt Lake with her, but my
mother is to remain here for awhile
and viii then proceed to her old home
i'm idaho,
1T is rather early to discuss plans
for the coming season So
know. Miss Adams has no enga cement
I have not decided myself on my plans
for fI1a int A.
fulfills her present engagement with
FrOhman we will retire for a few
weeks to the California mount.-irs
love the climate and country ver-
much.
Tour Is Just Completed.
Il have just completed a tour with
Miss Ethel Barrymore in Cousin Kate
an American written comedy that was
first produced in London. 1t is a clever
thing, and requires a remarkably small
cast There are only seven particle
pants and often but three appear dur
ing one scene. Miss Barrymore sailed
for England just two days before l
left for the west
Have 1 met many OF the Old Guard
during my recent tour? Well no; not
many. That reminds me that l met
many of our present day stars. and
others now deceased. including David
Belasco, W. n. Crane. James Herne,
Louis James. Barry O'Neill and Mayo,
during the early sos, in San Francisco.
That was at the Old Baldwin. My, but
there We're some severe critics during
those days. I wonder where they all
are now? They We're severe, but 1
guess they were doing the right thing.
] used TO know most of the critics at
that time only by nom de plume, but
DpnSmorp / know and have often won
dered where he is. Times have changed