Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-18

uloil ANluI III llllH country 10 OIHdnlLllk
chain OF Yddish theaters and has
already secured houses I'm Boston AMI
Chicago. lie has q long lease Of the
Grand theater In New York and expects
TO get possession of houses In several
other large towns, It Is his intention
TO give rWo or three performances In
Boston every week With a company
headed by himself and Mrs. Adler.
Charles Frohman has arranged with
Henry Arthur Jones to write q play for
Virginia Harmed FOR production next
October Mr., Jones, who has not been
In America for years, will personally
look after The production, lie Is anx-
lous TO make the visit and has received
and accepted Invitations TO lecture at
several colleges With this play MIR
Jones returns TO domestic drama, as his
work was first shown In Saints and
Sinners
Miss Blanche Ring has closed three
weeks special tour as the head liner
In the principal vaudeville houses In
New York, Pittsburg and Brooklyn, and
has begun to rehearse the leading fem
mine role with Frank Daniels I'm Ser
geant Brue." She Is to lmpersonate
| Lady Blckenhall, a smart London So
| ciety woman, who Introduces Brue, a
| policeman suddenly wealthy, into the
| fashionable set. This Is tie piece I'm
which salie Fisher has the leading
singing part.
Ada Rehan will conude her season at
| the end Of March and In April vii sail
| for England where she invariably
! spends the summer She IS to have an
| Interview with George Bernard shaw
| In reference to her production Of capt
| Brassbound's Conversion" and will re-
I turn 10 this country late I'm September
| to resume her tour under direction Of
| the Shuberts When abroad during the
| hot months Miss Rehan generally re.
| sides at Stratford- Avon. whore she
has a cottage and where stands the
| Shakespeare Memorial theator, which
| she dedicated,
Students Of Stanford university are
| To present Ben Jonsons comedy. "Ev-
| cry Man IN His Humor" first acted IN
| 1898, and which has not been staged for
| some 30 years. There IL living IN Lon
| don an old actor named Hermann VIZ
| zen who relates Of having taken part I'm
| a performance Of Every Man I'm His
| Humor' 40 years ago, Aside from
| this there Is no record TO show that
| Ben Johnsons great comedy of Eliza
| bethan times has been presented since
| the time when Dickens acted the part
| of Robadll before the London OF the
| early part of Queen Nictorla's reign
| There is no record 20 show that Il has
| ever before been given In America,
either on the professional or amateur
stage.
II has come az last--Frenzled Finance
| IN dramatic form has found It's way TO
| the stage. TO be candid number of
| productions within the last few years
| have looked like attempts TO inject fren-
zed finance into the drama, but the en-
| terprise In question Is the first 10 be
| built around the reigning craze for
water stocks and getting rich quick
| william A. Brady has accepted from
| Kellett Chalmers comedy, called "A
| Case OF Fren2led Finance" and will
| give It 20 the world about April 1.
! Douglas Fairbanks at present with
| "Fantana," and formerly with 'The
! PIT" win originate the principal char.
| acter. that OF Tom Dawson, an enerRet-
! lc bell boy with q mind full Of schemes
for attaining q fortune without attend
ant perspiration.
| Cigarette, or Gig as he was more IA
| milarly known, the biz bay horse that
| was used by Blanche Bates In tho New
York revival OF Under Two Flags."
and had since been carrying actresses
OF all sorts IN the incline In the play.
met a tragic death on March al me
! Columbia thenter In Brooklyn, where
! he had been holding forth with the
! American stock company. A careless
| propertymon left two buckets OF bran.
| TO be used In the stage storm, near the
| horse'e stan IN the stage. Gig IN some
way got at the buckets and emptied
| them. After that he ala not care 10 eat
but took 20 drinking He drank one
pail OF water and followed u by an
other lie died before the veterinary
who was called, arrived 10 attend him.
/ Gig was valued at $500 by his owner
He was rented out TO stock companies
! for S35O a day