The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-21

Marietta Smart, the star of ga Mad
Love company, which apears at the
Grand, three nights and Saturday matt
nee, starting next Thursday evening, is
not Only a good actress but an artist
with the brush Her water color paint,
lpgs are given a prominent position at
me Annual Art exhibit in New York
Clty. Miss Smart is very fond OF paint
Ing, ana all her spare time is devoted
y artlstlc work. Her home in New
lork Clty is veritable art gallery;
here are BITS OF japanese life, beautiful
Cathedrals. Her friends believe that
~ IS only matter Of time when she
VII be one of the hest artists. Miss
smart has pictures now in the National
and Tate Gallery in England
There is a romance ia every Norwe.
gian landscape and Miss Correlh in her
beautiful story of ''Thelma' has not
allowed an opportunity to Slip BY.
lnelma " VIII be presented at the
Lyric. this week. The entire company
will be in the cast. The dranatist
opens the play with the first meeting
of Thelma and Lord Errinpton outside
the cave at the Bonde. In act second
the Viking gives his consent TO the
union and Sigard In attempting to
shove Lord Erlngton of the cliff falls
on bImsef. In the third act Thelma
and Lord Errington are living happily
Inelma's mind, with the aid of Violet
We're, the Music Hall Girl II the
last act the reconciliation of Bruce and
Thelns takes place and the play closes
with the burning of 5he ship
Another house will be added TO the
OEpheum circuit today when the ST
t'aul Orpheum will throw open It's doors
tor the season. The house, which will
give Il performances each week, is
Tnder Iler tbs management of Jules F
sor. Mr. Bistes has had most lovely
Time; In getting the handsome new
vaudeville theater out OF the hands of
the builders aud decorators owing TO
delays IN getting the steel and other
material.
Maude Adams opened her season in
Peter Pan - at rochester, y. Y.
"The squaw Ma" is said to be
great success in Australia. Charles
Waldrop, an American actor, is olav-
ing Mr. Faversham s role.
Nat Goodwin is rehea.sing uew
play called The Way of a Gentle,
man, which he is 20 produce in New
York before long.
E. Il. sothern tainted on the wav to
the railway station in New York re-
Gently, from exhaustion due to hard
work at reheprsals. he was revived !
and took train 10 Philadelphia with |
Miss Julia Marlowe.
Arthur Pryor is the possesso- of A
miniature flag of our country which |
was gwen to him by the late Gen. John !
=. logan On the occasion OF his. play |
ing Rocked in the Cradle OF the !
Deep as . trombone solo. r. was this !
silk flag that inspired Mr. Pryor 10 |
write his superb The Triumph OF |
Old Glory, which is q feature of his /
band concerts this season.
Chsuncey Olcott tells Of a weI.to.
do Chicago man who went iuto a hard /,
ware store in that citv and asked for a
pound Of nails. The package was mad .
up and the price, nickel, handed 10
the merchant when the customer asked /
II the purchase could be sent to his /.
house. The merchant assenred srd /
calling boy hardcd tie parcel with a
dime and SAID Here, Johnuy, take
this out 20 oIr. Blarl; s house '''
What said the customer "are
faIle tba rsycS o,-5G, 'aS Guy ." o'iiis I"
Why, certainly" 7" said the ner.
chant. - wouldn t think OF asking !
him 70 60, so fa; f9E nothing -
Well, said the meanest man in 1
Chicago, "if YOU would Just as soon
give ne my nickel I viii take IL ont /
myself, and you viii save 5 cents "
To Americans OF the present genera /
ton Adelaide Ristori is only 2 name.
To those OF an older generation she IS !
a memory. SAYS the Chicago Chronicle. !
To these latter the news of her death
will COME as a surprise, because most |
OF them proba bly, deemed her dead .
long age. The public maintains little /
interest IN its dramatic favorites after !
they retire from the mimic stage. Rem. /
iuiscence is evoked only when the veter-
an living in retirement makes an exit
from the stage Of human life. Thus
the death of Ristcri will awaken many
memories in those who were fortunate
enough 70 have seen her
She was q very great actress. not Of
the universal genius which makes come
dv as well as tragedy its OWE but in |
which appeals most strongly TO the
dramatic instinct and genius IN cey.
tain roles she was admittedly uuex-
celled Even Rachel, in the estimate
OF those competent 70 judge, fell be-
low Ristori in the true conception of
art upon the stage
They were not, strictly speaking, con.
temporarles. Ristori 5 first visit Ia this
country was shortly after Rachel left
il for the last time. But their profes.
sional lives overlapped enough SO that
Judgment OF their respective talent
could be formed. That Judgment was
that Ristori excelled Rachel in every
respect save IN the one theatrical ez.
sential OF making herself prominent in
the public view. Ristori was NOT a
good advertiser She WAS, however
incompatible as an actress
She was also most admirable as p
woman-a womanly woman in whom !