The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-03

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They seem to be having the same
worry in London regarding a present
lack of interest in the playhouse that
we are feeling here There mas oeee
2. falling off in attendance, and no one
can explain it. And yet they come
TO the same logical conclusion that we
do. SAYS a writer in The King:
IF managers produce good plays
DeoDIe go to them in spite Of such
Disadvantages. The only thing which
really has any appreciate erect I'D
keeping people away from the theatres
is the lack of interesting plays. Man
ayers are always hunting round Tor C
cult reasons to explain their failure 10
attract the intelligent classes. They
seldom can be got to understand that
these classes are quite ready to go 10
the play, If the play seems TO them
to be worth seeing. They went to The
second Mrs. TanqueFay, and they went
to The Admirable Crichton'; they are
going now u Lefty and Little Mary,
putting up with the exorbitanU seat
prices and the necessity OF changing
their clothes flor, after all, one does
no like to be conspicuous. so it really
amounts to a necessity If you go 10
the stalls or dress ciTcle), and the
painful noises made by theatrical or
chestras, and all other drawbacks, Just
because they are amused and intev-
ested and taken out of themselves
Let managers keep this fact before
them and determine to get hold OF the
best plays they can. and the dress
question win settle itself.
Ernest Lamson. who is successfully
starring in Young Tobe Hoxie. -
played the red-headed Lem Dunbar in
york State Folks" for so long shat
many are disposed to think that he
is the same in everyday life. The
other day a minister. who had seen
him in the character several times, was
presented 10 the actor.
You are not the man that I saw in
York State Folks p
ssThe same" replied Mr.. Lamson.
The minister looked at him in amaze
ment for some time and then remarked:
Doesn't ii injUFe your health TO use
that preparation?
What preparations" asked Mr..
L.amson.
THAT which you use to color your
hair black. The last time I saw You
il was very red and you had fTecklcs
or your face as large as hen eggs,
replied the minister.
Mr.. Lamson laughed and took a wig
out of his trunk to show him the real
red head.
So
Louis James tells this one: a friend
OF mine. q clergyman. told me- faat
upon one of his trips through The
west almost every man he met ana
spoke with used profanity, but finally
he found one man who talked 20 h:m
for twenty minutes without using an
oath As they were about 10 separate
my friend shook hands with the stang
er and said:
You don't know how glad I am to
have a chance to have a talk with a
man like YOU. You are the first man
I have met for three DAYS who could
: talk for FIVE minutes without swear
in~."
shocked at this deplorablc state of at
fairs that he instantly and ianocentiy
calculated;
We'll. III be damned
George AIDE. in the early days of his
. career. before the Fables in Slang
had brought him fame, called one morn
ing in Chicago upon a Sunday editor,
on a mission from q theatrical man
/ ager.
Il have brought you this manuscript
-. he began, but the editor. looking
up Al the Tall, awkward, timid youth,
Interrupted.
Just throw tho manuscript in the
waste basket. please he said. I'm
very busy just. now. and haven't time
to do il myself
Mr.. Ade obeyed calmly. He resumed:
Il have come from the theatre,
and the manuscript I have just thr0Wu
in the waste basket is your comic farce
of The ErTing Son, which the manager
/ asks me To return TO you with thanks
Z 70.
1 dertaker. to be read at funerals
Then Mr.. AIDE smiled gently and with
drew.
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Viola Allen dislilSes being interviewed
Still Viola Allen has beer, interviewed
/ in spite of her determination never 10
/ trust her views % the earnest young
fomnnticists Of the press. One Of thess
exceptions 10 her rule occurred recent
| Is IN New Orleans. where the setres.
Was appearing IN her revival 81