Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-24

eo.clal Correspondence
New York, March 2o-rhere was
.otblng wildly exhllarating or delirl'
"usly successful in the crop OF sprlns
,,ays which reached town on Monday
The last night of winter, although It
drought four changes of bill 10 Broad
nav. brought only one success, and that
was that perennial old laugh-maker'
"charlsys Aunt" which was played in
one style at the Manhattan by Etlenne
clrardet and a special company. Thos,
,,bo went to see Richard Mansfield as
anon Carlos" at the New Amsterdam
..us away profoundly bored while at
,Se Majestic, his Majesty devil
,sbly bad dramatization OF the devil
was presented with music. songs and
,.v lyrics from Miss Blanche Ring to
asaden the fun. and down at the Madi-
.on SQUARE u new play called the
.creater Love- demonstrated just
.ow much serious damage one lady
syamatist can do to a historical charac-
%, ike Mozart. Miss Ivy Ashton Root
sc the woman, who IN this instance
,aM violent hands upon history and tn,
sarous magician. TO do her justice
.he probably fully intended to present
Mn In a most lovable light, but wild
snd erratlc as musicians are generally
conceded to be on the stage; If they ara
~ ne made reasonable at all, they mus,
occasionally display at least glimpse
nj horse-sense. In the new play every
body works but Mozart. And there's
,he rub. When the hero Of play can't
rise TO an occasion now and then ana
assert himself it's all over with tho
nlay's chance of success. Sacrifices are
ali very well In their way. Old Herr
Won Barrie in the Music Master" for
Instance, is always making them--but
while there is always a motive for his
renunciations In THE Greater Love-"
moor old Mozart Is compelled by the
authoress TO make sacrifices for no
earthly reason. The consequence is,
that long before the end Of the second
act the audience has voted him fool
OF the first water. And you couldn't
blame them, for although Miss Root
has written into some OF the scenes
a good deal OF poetry and some charm
an audience TO see their hero being
scared all the time by women with
whom he doesn't even have the COM
mon decency 10 fall In love. II was "a
Mr.. Howard Kyle that the task OF
making this impossibillty In one GER
tain sense like human being, fell, and
n he failed to make Mozart anything
more than conventional stage puppet
the fault was the playwrlght's rather
tina his. The honors of the perform
ance really went to Miss Beverly Sit
greaVes, who played the role OF tn,
Roman singer la Mandini with charm
intensity and power.
The season Is so rapidly reaching rs
Tag end as far as new productions are
concerned that the maagers are already
beginning to make their announcement
for next year--a sure sign that they are
all out Of novelties for the immediate
future,
The management OF the New theatre
which Is backed by syndicate OF null
t-millonaires, after many frantic de.
malls, now announces that Heinrich
Conrled is TO be the manager in charge
OF their new enterprise. Only as lately
as last Sunday, | heard one of those
directors declare that the New
theater while Il was going tc
make no claim to being a national
Institution, was going to devote itself
before all else to the hettermept OF tn,
American Drama. and under no cir
cumstances would q stage manager OF
German or any other foreign extrac-
tl0n be employed All the same. Con
red is the man who has been chosen
just to show how little most of the
men who are backing this enterpris,
Know about the practical side OF stag,
affairs was shown by the offer which
they made to Mr. Bran Stoker, the lat,
Sir Henry lrving's business manager
to come to America at his own terms
and make productions on the same
scale OF magniicence that he had fol
sir Henry. AS a matter of fact Mr.
Stoker knows less about stage man
agement than any other branch of tbs
players art, Irving was always his
own stage manager and his faithful
lieutenant for more than a quarter o.
century was Mr.. II. J, Loveday or
the stage Mr. Stoker had no more e
say than the veriest super. His spec
Rlty was to attend TO the business enc
OF the company and TO stage manag,
sir Henry In private life.