The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-05-13
THE DRAMA In NEW YORK.
End Of the Theatrical Season In the
Metropolis at Hand.

NEW YORK, May R-Ihis week
marks the beginning of the end OF the
winter theatrical season. All this Is TO
be expected, for in the spring the public's
fancy lightly turns to Coney Island.
were driven from their country months
ago, and who have since been battling
for living here under most adverse con-
ditions, are preparing to return home.
gave performance Sunday afternoon at
the Princess theater: The Abyss" was
chosen for the occasion. This drama. by
the Russian author. Folomaejeff. has al
ready been presented here, and is known
for It's morbid strength and dramatic
force. The ability OF the artists is recog-
nized.
Joe Weber has added another burlesque
to his bin at Weber Music hall. This Is
a short one. This time the Fays. NEGRO
mancers and mind readers. have good
naturedly lampooned under the name
OF The Fakes" 1t is the habit of one
OF the Fays to proceed down the aisles
ly answered by, the partner of the stage
In The Fakes" Mr. Weber assumes this
duty while Marie Dressler performs
stunts in mental telegraphy back of the
Arnold DAILY. who is presenting George
Bernard Shaws Arms and the Man" at
the Lyris has added ed to the 9ill ,sbs by II re- =
Yorfs candida" frenzy in which Mr..
DAILY amused people last year.
York appearance OF the season In
"Happyland" Monday evening. This time
| he came to the Majestic theater, which
recently passed into the hands of The
original company, including Marguerite
Clark,
The annual benefit arranged by the
Actors society occurred at the Hudson
| theater Monday afternoon. Among those
| taking part were Henry Woodruff and
William Roselle, in one,aet play;
| n playlet. Eugene Jepson. in a one-act
play; Sam Bernard. Clara Bloodgood and
Harold Heaton in sketch by Harold
others The fund will be sent to the
theatrical sufferers in San Francisco
Nine. Sembrich gave a song recital at
proceeds of which were devoted to the
needs OF the members of the Metropolitan
| opcra-house chorus and orchestra, who
! lost many of their personal possessions In
| tho San Francisco fire
During the week the season of music
concluded Its course AT the Hlppodrone
gave a concert, the principal feature Of
| which was Programme of the Nations: y
The Girl in Waiting the new play In
which Virginia Harmed VIII begin her
! tour under the Shubert management. Is
| the dramatization OF a novel by Archibald
| Eyre. The complications OF Its plot are
so original that they ought to furnish ma
| terial for a capital modern comedy. An
Miss Harnod's use is THE wooing OF
Eve" written by j; Hartley Manners, one
OF the s16hG5s ps oi nges niTs will return to
| "Fantana" at the beginning of next sea
| son, but Will have now vehicle before
Robert Smith and Raymond Hubell has
made a record almost unique In the his
tory OF American theatrloals. 1t has been
playing without the loss OF a single night
| since September 1904. when II opened at
| the Garrick thentcr, Chicago Since that
| time It has had $50 performances In New
York and nearly 200 In Chicago,
| Although he now appears under direc-
| ton of the Shubcrts, Arnold Daily has by
no means relinquishcd the managerial de-
| tails connected with his company Mr.
| Daily in fact, is the busiest, as he was
| the pioneer, of the actor-managers In
| America. James X Hackett. Richard
Mansfield and Henry Miller are about the
| only other examples In America Of class
| that completely dominates theatricals In
| England.
Paula Edwardes, who spent last summer
| In Egypt is expecting TO devote her com
| ing vacation TO wandering about japan.
Realizlng that tho success OF the lively
college play. brown: OF Harvard In In
| which Henry Woodruff Is starring at the
Princess theater. is due not little to the
| splendid all-around work of the company,
| Henry Miller has re-engoged every mem
| Der OF the organization to support Mr..
| Woodrufr another season Each of the
| twenty parts I'm Brown. of Harvard Is
| acted by college graduate, most OF them
| young men nnu WoIneH WHOSE sSlooi ud
| are but few years past. and they enter
| into the performance with all the spirit
| and enthusiasm which memory OF their
| under graduate days reviyeS.
| Louis Mann and David Warneld are
| about the only two comedians who ever
| entirely recovered after they had con-
| tracted the dread disease OF German COM
| edy, Even Mr., Mann and Mr., Wnrheld
| cling to dialect parts, although they vary
| the matter by giving us Frenchmen. Jews
| and Italians. Loe Weber. Lew Fields
| Sam Bernard and the Roger Brothers
| stick to their lost, however.