Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-06

astride his broom, to come and sing.
Next day the hall was packed, and
the road between 1t and the home OF the
singer was lined with amused specta-
tors. waiting for Ludovic. He came,
dressed as he had been the evening
before In his fisherman's cap and jer-
sew rode through the town on his
broomstick, and sang better than ever.
When he awakened he was furious
with Picquard, but his anger dropped
when the management of the theater
engaged him to sing on excellent terms
AT his debut he was a failure. owing
to nervousness--there was no Picquard
at that time-and his engagement was
very short one. But Ludovic was
pucky and intelligent. Picquard had
taught him that he had a voice, and
he worked hard to train Il. He sang
his way up the ladder, and he is to-
day one OF the most popular singers
OF his kind IN Paris The name which
he has taken Is Mayol, and It Is the
fisher lad OF Toulon who created" the
huge successes Viens Poupoule and La
Mattchiche. and earns a prlncely in
come in the Paris cafe concerts.
1t Is seldom that the leading charac-
ter In a piece Is played by four people
at the same theater but that Is what
has happened at the London "Vaude-
ville," where THE Catch OF the Sea-
son" Is running. The part OF the he
rome of this musical comedy was writ
ten originally for Ellaline Terriss. who
is the wife Of Seymour Hicks its au-
thor, but when the piece was first put
on. Miss Terriss was Ill. and could not
a IA ~ N,
her place. Miss Dare played the part
for while, but then Ellaline Terriss
recovered and took II UP. Soon after
ward, however. Hicks plans necessitat-
ed provincial tour for THE Catch of
the Season." so his wife had to leave
the London cast again, her place be-
ing taken by the younger sister OF Zena
Dare, Phyllis, who has played the he.
roine ever since. Now she has been
obliged to withdraw, owing to q prior
engagement for one Of the pantomlmes,
and Madge Crichton, who played Three
Little Maids" IN America, has taken
the part. And still the tuneful piece
runs on. 1t has now been played at
the Vaudeville" $40 times, but shows
not the slightest sign of waning popu-
larity.
Victorian snrdou's Tremendous ener-
not the slightest sign Of tagging, In
spite of the fact that the famous play
wrlsht is now well on toward his 18th
birthday. A London actor-manager
who saw the Grand Old Man Of French
drama, In Paris the other day, declares
that he found him apparently as hale
and hearty OF any Of US not only capa-
bic Of working from ten in the morning
until six at night but actually doing II:
and in every respect a long way from
DR. Os'er's lethal chamber for the 40
and odd.
But the most interesting piece OF
news regarding Sardou which this vlsi-
tor disclosed to me was that the doyen
Of French dramatists Il writing n new
Scrap OF Paper" II Is over 40 years
since his famous comedy Of that name
took both French and English speaking
playgoers by storm. and now he IL hard
Mt work on another piece on the same
lines, At present three acts Of II are
complete. and sardou exrects to finish
the last one before long. but the fact
that the piece IL under way has been
kent a profound secret, and only few
~ Sardou's intimate friends knew about
II.
The veteran playwright hasn't vet de-
cided on name for his new play. but
In II he gives n new and surprising
twist 10 the story Of "A Scrap of Pa
per-" His comedy OF 40 wears ago was
OF cource, concerned with a shred of
m nor whose discovery would reveal his
heroina's past IN an Undesirable way.
Now there Is again q tell-,ale SCRAP"
which IL an evidence NJ hv-gona folly
on the Part OF LADY, hut this time the
heroine wants 10 end the rnIaefro d,,c,,