Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-27


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automobile races now, but the play
wright or stage carpenter who aspires
to excel this particular scene has cer-
tninly got his work cut out for him. SO
great has been the plays success here
that Manager Rosenquest has cancelled
an other engagements for this season.
the play itself, or course, Is merely n
more or less mediocre msodrama.
Rother better than the average sample
OF popular priced performances, IL any
thing but stu not startling by any
manner of means except IN Its one
great scene.
At the other end OF Fourteenth street
another Carter. Mrs. Leslie. has been
breaking all the records for box Office
receipts al the Academy OF Music In
"Adrea." During her first week OF
segen performances with $3.50 as the
highest price for seats in the house,
Mrs, Carter pisyeG 20 over s93, 900. This
week whea she r. revlvlng "zaza." the
receipts promise 10 be even Target A
good deal Of surprise has been express
81 tkat Mr. Relasco should have allow
ell his prlncipal star TO play at cheaper
prices nj the Academy OF Music thar
she ever has NJ his own theitcrrrthe
Bejasco. But there Is quite an inter-
eating little story back OF this move.
TWO Years ago, when Nj. VaAsco
found that nearly all the principal the
alters In the county were closed against
MN. Manager II. q. Gilmore OF the
Academy went TO him and told him that
he could have all the time that he
wanted at his theater. Then ont OF
gratitude, Belasco promised Gilmore
Mra -. 81.
weeks engagement at his house The
move Is proving an enormously profit
able venture for both the managers.
Evidently outside OF New York there
Is very little demand for the plays OF
George Bernard shaw Next week Mr..
Arnold DAILY. who has been on tour
playing Candida" and you Never Can
Tell" by far the cleanest II not the
cleverost OF the Shaw comedies, an
nounces that he will close his season.
He declares that he Is closing because
he finds II impossible to get the book
ings which he wants. BE this as Il
may. the Shaw craze never did amount
to much outside of New York. and now
II seems 20 have collapsed entirely. Mr..
Daily is now looking for play by an
other author.
There were very few persons who wit
messed Miss Bessie Abbott's successful
debut Mt the Metropolitan Opera House
Saturday night In La Boheme," who
remembered that she was In any way
concerned In the making OF a song
which created quite a furore In both
musical and unmuslcal circles, some
nine or ten years ago At that time
Miss Abbott and her sister were team
OF banjoists and after hearing them
one night in vaudeville theater, Man
ager Il. II, Rice engaged them TO appear
In his extravaganza. Little Christo-
pher,' at the Garden theater During
the rehearsals he discovered that these
young ladies could sing even more
charmingy than they could play. So
he handed them a song which had Just
come out, and ordered Miss Bessie 10
sing Il as a solo at the first perform
ance. II made not only the gipl's fame
but the songs. II was called II don't
want to play In your yard" and
would have seemed almost fitting II In
answer OF the plaudits of the big au-
dience last Saturday night II Miss Abb
bolt cou' 0nly have favored them with
the old iIiar strain. or course II
would h hooked Herr Direktor Con-
ried and uld have knocked the tradl-
tlons OF The Opera House sky high; but
It would have tlckled that audience al.
most to death just the same.
1t is n rather significant fact showing
how the wind Is blowing In these latter
day th"atricals that Mr.. Weber for
the first time In the history OF his fam
Gus little music hall has abandoned. his
Tuesday matinee. The actors In par
tIcular are bewalling this decision on
Mr.. Weber's part. The Weber music
hall was always a fav orite rendezvous
for the stage and operate celebrities on
Tuesday afternoon, as no other theater
gave matinee on that day, the actors
and actresses used to flock there IN
such throngs that at last things came TO
such pass that the management had
scarcely any seats left for the regular
paying public. The consequence was
that Mr.. Weber found his company
tired out by an extra performance
without any additional box office re-
ceipts to act rs a balm for their tired
feelings. Since its first night the new
skit, "Twlddle- Twadde" has been Inn
mensely improved, but Marie Dressler
remains the life and soul Of the per,
Torrance.
At the other theaters this week the
bills are as follows: At the Empire,
Peter Pam" at the Belasco. 1.-THE
Girl OF the Golden West;" at the knick.
erbacker, "Mlle.' Modiste;" ut the Hud
son, MAN and Superman" at the sa-
voy. THE House of Silence at the
Lyceum, The Lion and the Mousse"
at Days. THE Fascinating Mr.Vander.
velt:" at the Garden. "The Galoper;"
ut the Biiou The Music MASTER" at
Fields. Julie Bon Bon" at the Ca
sino. 1.-THE Earl and the Girl" at the
Criterion, ce-sit-by-the-flr at the
Lyric. The Babes and the Baron" at
the Star. 'The King OF the Opium
Ring" at the American, Confessions
OF Wife" at the Murray Hill, Hap
py Hooligan;" at the New Amsterdam,
"Forty-five Minutes from Broadway"
at the West End, Buster Brown" at
the Hippodrome, "a Society Circus"
at the Majestic, "Cashel Byron's Pro-
fession;" al the Madison Square. De
Vries In "a Case OF Arson" and THE
Braisley Diamond" and at the Metrop-
oils, THE Street nger"-Copyrigh