The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-14

IN me Royal Chef, a
fore been ignorant. She wound 1t I'D in
this fashion: Whatever people NAV
say about Victor Hugo as a novelist
we must admit that he was a master of
English"
Moriz Rosenthal, the great Austrian
pianist, has been selected for a much
coveted engagement by the Boston
symphony orchestra. 1t is as first So
loist of the season with that incompar-
able organization in New York CITY.
The date will be during the second
week in November. Rosenthal will play
with the Boston orchestra also i'm Bos-
ton and Philadelphia. He has been
booked for six appearances with the
Philadelphia orchestra III Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington; for two
appearances with the Chicago orches-
ira in Chicago and two appearances
with the New York Symphony orches-
ira at Carnegie, New York. In all
seventy-five concerts have been ar
ranged definitely. and negotiations are
on by which this number soon will he
! increased to 100.
Congressman Frank c. Wachter of
Baltimore has a laugh like the roar of
! who is travelling with him in Germany
| says that laugh broke up the perform
ance in a theatre in Nuremburg
All went well until a trained dog be-
gan to perform amusing tricks Con-
gresham Wachter sat up and took no.
tice. His eyes twinkled and a grin
overspread his face. Then his mouth
opened and then his companions saw if
coming and fed.
Then came the laugh-explosively hi
lariously and irresistibly contagious.
'Haw. haw, haw, haw, haw, haw,
Haw, haw, hawp'
The audience turned as one man and
gazed at the congressman. Then all
began to laugh with him-good, sound
German laughs.
Girl uSherS, in black skirts and white
aprons, Joined in. Members of the or
chestra echoed the sound until they
could not play
Finally the trainer of the dog be-
came infected. The curtain was rung
down to stop the uproar.
x
A man with all the colors of the rain
bow in his face stood before Daniel Y.
Arthur the other day as a candidate for
a comedians position in MARRYING
Mary" He was politely turned down.
Mr.. Arthur turned to his wife, Marie
Cahill, who is to star in the piece and
said
'I guess he looks on the wine when it
is red
81 should judge, rather" remarked
Miss Cahill. that he looks on it when
It is red, white and blue"
x x
On one of his early concert tours of
the west, before the famous vioIinist
EdOuard Remenyi was thoroughly Ma
miliar with the railway routes of the
-v,ffA tot@ L. 81.
concerning the best way to reach a
town in Illinois.
&C. B. & O. replied the hotel clerk,
without looking up.
Remenyi was quite dazed, but his
sense of fun carried him through
All" he said, gravely; then I will
go d. A. T."
What does that mean?" he said,
looking UP this time.
well. what did you mean?" demand
ed Remenyi.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. of
course"
"Ah! I meant day after tomorrow"
Breese Stevens, who attends to the
business end of Dwight Elmendorf's |
travel talks, has recently returned from
England and has brought back another
story at the expense of the English
at is very unusual declares Mr. |
Stevens. for an Englishman to take a
drink of straight whisky. Almost in |
variably he dilutes it with the inevita-
bic soda, and on the rare occasions !
when he does drink raw whisky, the !
English call it taking it neat One |
morning shortly after my arrival, |
happened to go into the cafe. of my no. |
tel just as an American friend of mine |
walked up to the bar and called for |
large drink of whisky. The barmaid |
poured it out and handed it to him. He |
threw MS head back and was about to |
toss it off when the 'Sissie' at the other |
side of the bar exclaimed, My word, |
you are not drinking ii neat, are you? |
Well said my American friend, you |
can gamble that l will do my best not |
to spill any of it.. -
It is a curious fact that the best act
ing bits of an emotional sort are posi- /
lively incOherent when put in colo |
type. The actress fills in so many gaps /
when reading a speech of this sort that |
you don't realize how little has been |
required to thrill you-nothing in fact |
but earneStneSs, cumulative power, and |
the force of repetition. Here, for ex-
ample, is the monologue from "Zira''
which placed Margaret Anglin in the |
first rank of American stars one nighl |
last autumn:
Every word that she said was true
every charge she made against me just
I am what she called me, a cheat and
a thief. / am Hester Trent. / know