Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25

NEWS or THE LONDON STAGE
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Special Correspondence,

Special Correspondence.
T ONDON, Feb 15.-There Is a lot
Of interest for theater-goers in
a payroll which has just come to
light Of the old Queens theater
which used to stand in Long Acre, but
which disappeared years ago from the
list OF London playhouses, This pay
roll Is dated 1867, at which time the
present Sir Henry Irving, his famous
Comrade, Ellen ferry; Sir Charles
Wyndham Toole, and Lionel Brough,
ali were members of the company at
the Queens. Oddly enough, according
TO this record, Sir Henrys 81 airy at
that time was only e2;lS4 or about
Si3 a week. whereas the present Sir
Charles Wyndham was getting Sl5, and
Ellen Terry, S2b Lionel Brough, who
must now be receiving at least 5000 n
week from Beerbohm Tree, was then
drawing $3.50 Toole was by far the
best paid member Of the company with
a salary Of nearly 800 week, or about
what a star Of today would end
on motoring. Another familiar name In
this payroll is that Of the former Miss
Hodson, who for many years has been
the wife Of Henry Labouchere, Nj. r.
II seems that she got Sl5 a week at the
Queens In 81.
Hugo Gorltz, Padere Yskis manager,
IL authority for the rather surprising
statement that owing to unfair treat
denk received by them in Berlin, six
If the greatest musical artistes OF the
twentieth century, including Pader-
ewski, decline 10 accept engagements In
the German capital at any terms. Cor
lit2 says that when Paderewsh played
at the Philharmonic hall In Berlin
opponents Of the great pianist .tamper-
ca with members Of the orchestra. lie
declares that the horn deliberately
played out OF tune, and when an encore
was given the conductor spent most
OF the time In sneezing. SO Paderewski
has refused to visit the kaiser's capital
again. declining a recent otfer OF $500
for two concerts. Gorlitz says that
since PaderewsN was insulted the two
De Reszkes also have declined offers
from Berlin and that Melba, Caruso,
and Nubelik all have received such I'M
fair treatment from musical critics In
Berlin that nothing viii induce them
to visit tho city. Apropos OF Paderewski
an account has just come to hand Of a
graceful little act which the pianist
performed in Auckland, New Zealand,
during his recent tour a concert which
Paderewsk had advertised at Auckland
having been abruptly abandoned, 80
lnuslc-lovers who had Travelled long dis
tances to attend the recital went TO
"Pad's' hotel and made a kick. AS soon
as the pianist understood their errand
he had the whole party up into his pri-
vate apartments where he played sew
eral selections for them and insisted
on all hands having supper with him
afterwards
George Bernard Shaw having been
resdiscovered I'm the United States re-
Gently the go-ahead managers Of the
Court theater who also are going to
produce plays by Ibsen, Breux, Mae
terllnck and W. b. Yeats during the
spring season have decided to devote
quite a lot Of attention to the author OF
Candida" John Bulls Other ISLAND
is TO have two weeks run beginning
next Monday. The skit, How He Lied
to Her Husband" which Shaw wrote
for Arnold DAILY and which has not yet
been seen I'm this country will form
part OF a triple bill at the Court before
long and bit later you Never Can
Telr Is to be revived. incidentally
Shaw has been having another go AT
the rival for whom he has so eminent
a contempt-the late William Shake
speare, In lecture delivered at Man
chester the other day Mr.. Shaw de-
clared that Shakespeare was snob.
HE was born a snob, lived a snob and
died snob," asserted the author OF
Arms and the Man" His one dream
was to get enough money to go back to
Stratford TO buy back the property OF
his bankrupt family, and get back
their coat-of-arms DO not suppose
that Shakespeare was n democratic
character. He had no religious belief
and his philosophy was that evil is
greater than good" Mr.. Shaw also
complained OF the want Of sympathy
for the democracy IN Shakespeares
plays They are crowded" he said
with kings and mobiles. and the men,
bers OF the lower classes are always
servants"
The play in "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" In which Bottom, the Weaver
Snug, the Joiner, and their comrades
take part, is called TO mind by a the
atrlcal performance which has lust
been given IN the little English village
OF Hildenborough, Kent. The piece