Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-20

appear IN boys role II has been dee
cldod by Charles Frohmnn that sho
SHAH appear next season IN tho
new j, NJ Barrie success, Peter Pan
This whimsical comedy, which " said
20 be half fantnay, half nightmare, ana
wholly fanclful creation Of tho Meth
or Neither Land, viii IN all probability
open the season nj the Empire ncSt
year
Mrs, Brown. Potter In ON the verge
Of nervous collapse IN London The
closing Of On Barry at the savoy
saturday nlght marks also the close
of her career as actress managcress
The venture proved terribly disastrous.
II cost practically every penny Mrs,
Potter possessed, Her loss " estl-
mated at 100000, n IN now said that
Potter morlgngod hor beautiful homo
on the Thames mt Mnidcnhoad ADD
verslty has brought this brilliant no-
tross to the verge Of nourAsthonia She
Is absolutely discouraged,
sa1ssssast
Nine Modloskp N no believer I'm the
movement for the creation NJ national
theator IN this country Twenty years
ngo Nine, Modlosl,a wrote tho first AR
ticlc that appeared urging the founda-
ton OF u national lhoater here, She was
interested To hear of the present cf-
forts In thRt direction, II know the
United states better now than | ala
them she Raid land | would never
urge such a thing now, The conditions
that exist here would make n national
thCntor impossible Ana don't believe
that II VIII ever come to pass
From all tho cable accounts II would
appear that Willie Collier has scored "A
genuine success I'm London IN Tho
Dictator" Tho notices ought 20 please
the plays author Richard Harding
Davis, particularly In Wow Of the rap
that the London critics gave clyde
Fltchs otter own way" Mr.. Collier
ana the members Of hla company all
came IN for praise for their clover per-
fdrmNncos, "rho Dictator was an.
nonnccd FOR only four wcokg but II Il
proves to be one Of those few American
plays which win real success IN Lone
don lls run win In all probability be
extended,
..s,s.--,
Nine Duso, according TO tho Paris
correspondents is weary " her old
repertoire, I'm reply to q question
whether, during her forthcoming en-
gOgomonl there, she would appear IN
"CUy0lnN1 Rusllcoun,' she said thAt
whom she unprecedented Slnlu22n the
role wOs llkr nm echo from her own life,
but that now she no longer feels IN
touch with the pOY And The Dolls
llo POP was the next question, y
have done with that too" and An-
tony ana Cleopatra ~ has also
passed. unl NJ my lifo"
IN other words the Noiroos has aban-
doncd those roles because she can NO
louoor ro0l IN touch with them and the
critics are asking what the Italian ne
uogs win attempt next and II her fu-
urc performances VIII dopicl only
those 'onoations she IN experiencing nc
the momCnt
During n recent matinee Performance
OF "Fuu Fruu" AT me- california iho0-
ter, San Francisco, the largo audience
composed principally Of women became
frightened N the presence OF n tnlnt
odor Of smoke which hnd blown IN
from the ladies' dressing room Just on
the foyer. A rustic OF excitement SWEEP
over the audience, ana many loft OF
mndo ARRANGEMENTS to leave the thea
ter hastily a Hcpond wave OF excite
mcnt caused by the ringing Of n bel
nearby caused stampede which woulf
have resulted IN much danger had u
not been for the GOODNESS OF Miss Mar