The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-02

strong took his ideas for "The Heir TO
the Hoorah - from a story written by
her husband. Harry Dam, and called
1.-The Transmogrifcatlon of Dan. ~ The
La Shellc estate, in making answer, as
scrts that the ideas in question were
used in "a Texas Steer and other
plays and that upon them no one author
can establish a monopoly. Which raises
the interesting question as to whether
an author owns an idea that he gets if
somebody else has ever got IT before
him.-Chicago Tribune,
"Peter Pam is TO be cosmopolitan.
MaUdc Adams has made of this Barrie
elf the most loved of all stage crea-
tions. London has already taken him
into its heart. And now that Charles
Frohmau has successfully accomplished
this he is going to take Peter Pan -
and the lost boys across the seas and
wtth Tinker Bell TO guide them. AZ
ready preparations are under way for
the presentation OF the play in austria
liza. Miss Adams is now playing IN Bos-
ton 10 the largest audiences ever known
in that city; so large in fact that the
management is being besicgcd with re-
quests Tor extra matinees. On his ar
rival in London Mr.. Frohman will at
once begin arrangements for the pro-
dmction OF Peter Pan in Paris 1t
Will be played in English and if the time
can be set for date after the close of
Miss Adams season in America there
is probability of her playing the
part in the French capital However,
before Mr.. Frohman reaches London
" Peter Pam viii have been revived
at his Duke of York s theater in that
city, while another company win have
opened at Manchester for a fortnight IS
engagement before touring the pro-
vinces. i'm the meantime Miss Adams
Will 20 to New York during the holi-
days for four weeks engagement at
the Empire. whore Peter PAN ran
all last season, Following this she will
60 on tour and reaching the Pacific
coast, will iuaugurate q new theatcr in
San Francisco in the month of June.
FRITZ Scheff. the prima donna, got
her first glimpse of a professional foot
ball game at New Haven, when pre-
senting IN lie Modesto in the college
town, last week When the match was
over. some one asked the singer what
she thought of H. 81 don t sec whv
people Pay to sec il. - she answered
- You can see worse scrambIes for moth
ing any day all over New York in the
cable cars
On the occasion of his brothers s bcne-
fit Edwin Booth was standing behind
the scenes when a character actor, who
had been giving limitations Of noted
actors, was about to respond to an en-
core.
Whom do you initiate next?" in
quired Booth
''Well. - was the reply. 81 was going
TO represent you in Hamlet s soliloquy, |
but if You look on / m afraid I shall |
make mess Of it.
"Suppose ] initiate myseIf!' re
marked the tragedian. and hastily put
ting on the other actor S wig and but |
toning up his coat he went on and de |
livered the welI-known lines.
Next morning the newspapers stated |
that the limitations ruined the perform |
ance. the personation Of Edwin Booth |
being simply vile enough to make that |
actor shudder had he seen it, Toledo
Blade.
Harry 3. Smith author of the libret-
tos of many Of the light opera and mu.
steal comedy successes Of recent wears,
announces that he was married i'm Bos.
ton recently TO Miss Irene Bentley,
who is playing at the Colonial theater,
Boston, in "Tbe Belle of Mayfair. -
John Drew is announced by the
Lambs club as one of the stars who
have volunteered TO take part in the
of the benefit for Henry
Clay Barnabee. to be given in the
Broadway thcater, New York. Dec. II.
This will be the first time Mr.. Drew
has appeared at a benefit for many
seasons. Victor Herbert has also pro
missed to aid in maki1g the affair sue
cess,
New York theatrical manager has
paid Mrs. Fvn Mater Stilwell of Brook.
lyn 900 for the dramtic rights of
her Laura Jean Libbey work, says the
Chicago Tribune.
''Parted at the Altar "Iovers
Once, but Strangers Now, " "He Loved
but Was Lured Away" "a Forbidden
and some thirty others of
the novels of this prolific writer will he
produced upon the stage, The whole J