The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-16
THE DRAMA IN NEW YORK.
New Religious Play by Young Cali
fornian Is a Success.

fornian Is Success.
NEW YORK, Dec. lj.-Last Sunday
afternoon Madame Schumann- HeiuE
gave her second and last song recital
of the season at Carnegie hall. pre-
senting programme containing scv
cral compositions not heard in recent
years. such rs the beautiful Gypsy
songs by Brams. etc. Following this
appearance Schumann- Heink left for
tour which for the length Of time she
will be away VIII embrace more con
ccrts than has ever been attempted
by any vocalist Of note, Commencing
at Providence r. L.. the ground GOV.
cred will he through the South as far
as New Orleans, into Texas, thence
through Kansas to Colorado thence TO
the coast. singing in cities in Utah,
Montana Washington. Oregon. after
which she VIII go to California, giving
ten concerts in as many days. one of
which viii be in the great stadium of
the Stanford University in Berkeley
She VIII then return East. and viii end
her tour in New York. Thus far this
season she has sung i'm forty concerts
and her receipts have been nearly $40
600. a figure which is rarely reached,
even by artists of distinction for
whole years work, Mr. Henry Wolf
sohn predicts that Schumann-Heink' 3
earnings for the season viii be at least
$l25,ooo, sum unequaled by any con
trato
"Thc Light Eternal" described as
powerful love story Of early Rome.
had its first metropolitan presentation
al in" Majestic theatcr last Monday
evening. This is the drama which re-
Gently had trial on tho road with
temporary equipment and proved so
promising that Henry Miller and Lee
Shubert closed the tour until an ade-
quatc production could I've built and
New York opening found The play
has been staged under the immediate
direction of Henry Miller. who has had
in his hands Martin " Merle. a
young Californian. * the author of
"The Light Eternal. He wrote the
play while q student AT the Jesuit Col.
lego ut Santa Clara, Cal. II was pre-
sonted first by the Young men Of the
school and attracted sufficient attention
for stock company in San Francisco
10 seek ~ Tor professional produc-
ton The play ran twelve weeks at
the Majestic theater in San Francisco
and was then presented with success
throughout the Pacific coast country.
II opened for q return engagement of
four weeks at the Majestic the Mon
day night preceding the great earth
quake.
with tho persecution Of the early Chris
tians bv Diocietian Gs q background.
The horrors Of those davs arc but light
lv touched upon. a love story being the
authors principal concern. Tho play
deals with tho love Of Marco Ealer-
ious, n Young Christian. for Artemia.
who does not know his religious belief.
When she learns from Carvinus. a suitor
for her hand and a son Of the prefect
Of Rome, that Marco has become n
Christian she feels that nc has won her
hv trickory and she signs her death
warrant When too late 20 be Of avail
her love reasserts itself and she at-
tempts 10 save her lover from the
arena The big scene Of the play repre-
sents tho throne room of Diolectian
and deals with the cndeavor 20 foyce
Marco on his knees before the altar OF
Jupiter. The company which is pro
ducing ''Thc Eternal Light is headed
by james Neil and Edythe Chapman.
At the Keith and Proctor houses.
among the innovations recently intro