The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-30

tum, and who has lately seen theuf is
to play him often You would he sur
prised to see the change that five
months OF Romeo and Juliet" Much
Ado and Hamlet" night after night.
has made in the performances Every
one speaks his lines now easily ana
naturally, as though he We're at home
in verse. Every one wears his COS
tune as Familiarity as if they were
ordinary clothes. and every detail of
the action goes as surely as il would I'm
q modern play and with no touch OF
stiffness Shakespeare has taught
the TO play Shakespeare. The re-
Vie IS IN London have been saying
the same thing of the Benson com
pany. which acts Shakespeare the year
round, giving a dozen or more of his
plays They have even estimated that
in q year the ''Bensoniansr speak more
of Shakespeare English than they do
OF their own.
All the advertising matter OF The
Heir to tho HOorah." the new comedy
which Kirke la SheIe is producing al
the hudson theatre, bears, sort
of q trademark. the picture of a plump
rosy, baid-headed. understanding infant.
me reading matter OF the bills doesn't
say so. but the implication is-or at least
an aStute Gerry agent so accepted IL
that the said infant plays a part i'm
the comedy. So, having absorbed the flii
strength Of the Implication the Gerry
man came around 10 the Hudson theatre
to deliver friendly but portentous warn
ING He saw Manager Harry b Harris
You know you can't put kids Of thar
age on the stage the Gerry man said
warilN. What's the use of making ms
come ND here and stop it the opening
How old does the kid have to be to
be beyond the Gerry limit2' demanded
Mr. Harris.
Ten with permit: sixteen without
ms un.s seventeen placidly re
..V-Jaf 49, ia s,,-.,,to.,7,a c. -
kidding exclaimed the Gerry man
pointing TO the picture OF the cnerubic
infant; seventeen what? Seventeen
seventeen years. III bet you a hun
dred 10 ten on it
Where did YOU get it2 Out Of the
Ll-lnpGtian show? Where was it born.
1t wasn't morn at ALL" pIacidIy re-
Germany and Beverly Sitgreaves uurScd
and r2othered il tin she was teu wears
old She dug II up the other day as a
mascot 20 play the Heir
The Gerry man looked panied hut
shadow
When Charles b. Hanrord's cou7DaDv
recently played at the soldiers home I'm
LeaVenwOrth. Kan. % number IF The
veterans gladly Offered their services. as
extra people on the stage. The play for
that night was Don Caesar De Bazau'
When the costumes were am donuad and
tho stage almost ready for the curtain To
=" "5 one old soldier looked group OF
cavaliers over and then GruDted-
Did the Spanish dress like that2~
He was assured that the costumes were
correct and then gruuted-
'Humph, No wonder the Yankees
licked EN- 50 quick"
Nine ReJane recently occupied Z. stage
box an matinee performance OF THE
Wizard OF or The next day Fred
stone. or ''ScarecrOw' Stone. to give hin,
ma popular coEuOmeu- received tho fol
lowln; enthusiastic tribute to his genius
"a an eccentric comedian, which hc has
translated
Allow me to address YOU my thank
Tor . performance extraordinary I'm it's
vtYaclty. paHtOmimG and makc-ur- T have
never seer a comic artist more serious
and conscientious In his art. r-Dar par
ucular marks your talent is the great
abundance OF comic and fantastic effects
and inventions