Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-15

Y II is 20 an actor To play to
western audiences" said Mr..
Farnum i'm his dressing room
between acts of THE Vlrginian. Thurs
day night. 1T is simply beautiful to
face a throng like that one out there,
and to note how every point is taken
up. / love AN audience that Is not
afraid to laugh out when It sees some-
thing that amuses It, or TO. applaud
when It feels like IT, This Is a peculiar
ity of the west and / have always no.
tlcod It IN Salt Lake It is like western
hospitality. You can feel Il in the air
IN fact, Of an places I'm the west, | best
love Salt Lake, Denver, and Los Anga-
les. The audiences there seem more
responsive, freer heartier than any
whore else we have played"
Mr.. Fanum gave a number OF REM
inlsconccs OF his experiences with THE
Nirgnian,' 0nd Of his regrets at laying
by the part of Denton in Arizona" IN
which he made his first big SUCCESS. In
cidentally hp narrated a little Circum-
stance very pleasing 10 the dramatic
writer OF the News" zone of the first
places ! intended calling when reached
salt Lake, said he, was at the Office uf
the Desetet News for feel something
OF debt 70 that paper, since it was
the suggestion Of the News that
brought The Vrglnan' to my atten-
ton. 1t was on our last visit here with
Arizona After We had LEFT the city
the Saturday News reviewed the pee
Torrance and the writer incidentally
EtuIa1 that 90 AAfufnVfe tNfTrtrft,Ip4.f
ever dramauzed. az It ought to be. the
man for the title role was Farnum
The clerk ot the hotel sent me this
paragraph, 1 had never read The VIZ
ginlan,' but / bought a copy at once
ana read II three times. | became Inn
pressed with the character, and laid the
matter before MIR LaShelle az soon as
reached New York A few weeks later
| was playing with a stock company IN
Buffalo when / received a telegram ask
ing me If | was free to take the part
of The Nirginian' You can depend on
It that ! got 10 New York as quick as
the cars could carry me, accepted the
part .rehearsed it., and the rest you
know"
The closing performance Of "The Viz
gnian' will be given at the Theater
this afternoon and evening. Last night
was a repetition Of the enthusiasm OF
the. first, both Mr. Famum and Mr..
Campeau securing any number OF plau-
dts for their rarely artistic work Mr..
Campeau's Trampas win live as his
Tom IN "Pudd nhead Wilson" and his
IRONY IN Arizona have done Few ac-
tors have TO their credit three sucn
cameo Ike, vivid appropriations,
II kingmaking and star.makng may
he spoken of as more or less parallel
achievements, II Is fair TO allude 10
kirke La Shelle as a modern Warwick,
for by means Of three recent dramatic
trumphs Of his he has been able to ele-
Vate three clever actors from the ranks
TO proud cminence iu the stellar hrma-
ment These are Lawrence D'Orsay In
THE Earl of Pawuckct, "Dunstan Far.
mum, In 1.-THE Nirgniau," and Thomas
w. Ross, IN Checkers" with these
may be- mentioned the relncatuution of
Digby Bell who has come into his own
again as a. star in THE Education OF
Mr., Pipp" lu each of these cases the
men were engaged for the leading roles
OF the respective plays and the plays
were put on with no word or thought Of
the creation OF % new star the promo
ton coming later as "a result OF Mr.,
La Shellc's fairness I'm recognizing the
strength Of The various roles and the
individual success of the men who were
playing them. The latest OF Mr.. La
Shello'S players tD be put i'm line for
similar good fortune rs Guy Bates Post,
whose success as Steve i'm THE Nir-
gniaW during the two past seasons
has entitled him IN Mr. La Shelles
opinion, To- a fun reward OF merit In
response tO "a wire from Mr. la Shelle,
Post caught the first train eastward