The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-15

. eSIp-iA ltlill- MI ft Green VIOLA
. MIR. J. p. Olsen, cello; Mr. Chris
Jesperson, bass; second piano by Air
| j.. j. Mcclellan. Mr.. Fred G. Graham.
/ tenor viii sing a number.
A uumber of other fine selections
are to be given.
PRESS AGENTS PROMISE,
+ Salt Lake has not contributed largely
/ TO the stage, though many natives Of
/ this city have achieved fame and Pc
\ sition i'm other walks of life. IL re-
manned for Maude Adams, the modest
little Salt Lake girl 70 so out into the
/ world and seek laureis in the dramatic
/ armament. She has indeed been sue
/ eeSsfUl beyond her years. She has
/ risen to the top of the dramatic ladder
/ IN a single day, as it We're. Seven
Z years ago the name of MaUde Adams
( was scarcely known to theatre-g
beyond the clinical of the Empire the
I atre Of New York, where she was lead
/ ing lady for John Drew. Today she
I is the best known actress in the
United States. She is known not alone
( to these who frequent theatres, but
{ to the reading public in general
During the past six years more than
( l2,300 columns In newspapers have
/ been printed about this remarkable
/ young woman, This Of itself speaks
( volumes for the interest she excites
I from the public. If she were not an
interesting character little would be
Z said of her That she is talented in
many ways, ana a young woman of
[ beautiful personality, is self-eYident,
Those who know Maude Adams best
are quick to understand the reason
( of her popularity. The theatre-gOlng
public OF salt Lake viii soon have the
1 opportunity of seeing Miss Adams
Z in
this city. She is making her first trans
I continental journey as a dramatic star,
and every place she appears she is
greeted by audiences that an the the
atres completely, She win present
during her Engagement here the play
IN which she began her starring ca
reer-"The Little Minister"
Comparatively few persons Zgho have
seen Mrs. Leslie Carriers marvellous
performance Of 'DU Barry have the
slightest idea Of the amount OF work
required TO prepare for the impersOna-
ton of the milliner girl Jeanette
Vauherneir, who dazzied Louis XIV of
France just as he was tired of almost
everything in the NVorid-and partiCu-
larry of the beauties OF his own court
at Versailles.
Mrs. Carter c0nfesses that "DU
Barry" is the hardest, longest and
most trying role she ever has attempt
ed. 1t took her nearly four months
to memOrize the lines of the part, all
of one summer spent in her Shelter IS
land cottage.
She AYERS further it rs the longest
role any actress Of modern times has
essayed. The average part in $50
Ciety' play consists of about 1000
words; the popular melodrama of
these days allots about 1890 words TO
the leading part, the principal parts Of
the present day musical comedies con-
tain about $500 words. The part OF
La Du Barry, as compared with some
Of the most prominent leading roles OF
the successful plays OF the past two
decades, is unQuestiOnably the longest
During the FIVE acts of the BelascO
play B1rs. Carter rs called upon to
speak over 10000 words besides the
great amount of business her part
demands. Ten thousand words would
make rather d formidable afternoons
reading i'm a novel None Of the chief
feminine roles of plays of recent pro
ducti0n has contained within a couple
OF thousand words OF the number MIS-
Carter speaks every night. When
-CyranO de BergeTac" was first pre-
scented IN this country much newspa-
per space was devoted to the fact that
RoXane was compelled TO utter 5000
words during the action of the piece.
Juliet speaks 1900 words In the
Shakespearean romance. while Portals
part in The Merchant of Venice" rs
100 words longer. DeSdemona i'm
"Ojhelio' and Ophelia in Hamlet"
each has e. 900 words and the roles Of
Camille" and Carmen are but little
longer Most of these roles. however,
are not of the sort generally termed
strenuous as is Mrs. CaTteT's part
i'm David BelasCO's play, and the aC-
tresses who portray them seldom are
victims Of oveFworl-
one would naturally suppose in view
of the great strain on the nervous sys-
tenn Mrs. Carter soon would collapse
under the remarkable drain upon her
physical strength, but she blithely
goes on week after week, playing
every night under most adverse con-
ditiOns. such as would cause most any
other artist of like temperament no
end of W0Try and Inconvenience. but
Mrs Carter knows no such things as
these. and never Is so happy as when
playing ~Du Barry
The Grand theatre viii be dark I'M
til May 30, when Mr.. Erwin Blunkali
win appear in "Sbamus O Brieu' for
four nights and Wednesday matinee
This PLAY is a beautiful story of the
Emerald Isle and ab0unds in heart
interest and comedy.