Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-28

ialt Lake during next season. Follow
~ are some excerpts:
Charles Frchmans first production
III the season win be made at Atlantic
ily os Monday. July 50, when he viii
resent for the first time IN America
Je successful musical play The Little
hernos The leading role win be
llayed by Hattie Williams. whose DASH
ng manner beauty aud clever qualities
ls cdmedienne has won her d stellar
ositioD.
John brow returns from abroad early
ext month 20 begin rehearsals on Ills
House N order" by Arthur Vs. PlnerO.
Nr Dvw Is now in London. though a
sreatof part OF his vacation has been
spent on the continent His season OF
MS AZ the Empire theater, New York,
o september
Dear, delightful peter Pan returns
10 tho "'never. never. never Land Bon
september. when Maudo Adams begins
her season IN the charming and Nop-
lerfully successful j. NJ. Barrie play.
Miss .tdams viii make % short tour.
afterwards returning % New York.
where she appeared an last season,
Ethel barrymore Is resting IN Maine.
She witl be seen during the early par.
n the season To- "Allce-Sit- Blythe
Fire De play by J. NJ Barrie IN which
She male so great q success in New
York.
Ednh May has again taken her posi-
lion as the idol Of al London Her
succcsS In the Belle ~ Mayfair is
the greatest she has ever known n
Engand. and the coy little Vaudeville
theatcs U.s. crowded at every perform
snce The American visitor 10 London
u greatly in evidence Ia Miss Mays
apIlauhing audiences
WILLIAM Gillette. who is now cruising
IN his housebolt the Aunt Polly goes
on tour this fan In his own play. "Clar-
tee 10 which he scored 80 marked a
triumph last season. His leading w0m-
an will be Marie Doro.
n the latter part OF August al Wal
lacks theater, New York. Charles Fruh-
man veil produce the American play.
The 5ndge and the jury II was
Vriiter by Oliver MoroscO and Harry
p. Courel'. and Is described as being
an unusuily strong and picturesque
piece
william II. Crane opens his season
al the SAVOY theatcr New York. IN
"The Price ~ Money" q new play BY
Alfred sutro. author OF The Walls Of
Jerlcho." Mr.. crane returns from
abroad early next month.
The Ficisstudes Of life before the
footights were perhaps never more
ably spresented than iu the recent
career iof the O.pheum stock company
which Is Tow an organization Of the
past When II comes TO the iutcrprpta-
ton Of a happy go-ucky existence
there were some actors IN that COM
pany who fully lived up 10 the saying
that Prtor folk generally are an I'M
provIdtnt lot.
There probably has not been a better
stock ! company Of the popular
price grade west Of the Missouri
liver than the Maclean-Mayall aggre-
gaiiCn, for Il H. a very good leading
man who can command 1925 n week
during the summer months. Neither
do many managers nay man $50 a
week usually for a i0-lne part like
some Of those played boy Roy Clement
and ether members OF the company
But in spite OF good salaries, some
members OF the company could, or
would not llquldate their board and bed
bills, printing accounts and other oh
legations. They were good fellows while
the pay checks came IN, but when they
ceased TO materialize there were pos
sibly three out Of the entire company
who had any money at all.
The little knot from San Francisco
especially took for their text that old
adsge regarding ealing, drinking and
Icing merry. aud lived lp TO II 20 the
letter the sequel is .thdtnearly all had
10 borrow money to get out Of town,
In this respect the career Of p. @.
Macl.ean. the manager Of the company,
he with the hypnotic tongue, Is most In
tetestng. The san Francisco calamity
found him and his faithful English bull
terrier Spike. fleeing before the flames
and tIamping 10 san Jose That night
MacLean secured a Sob as night hotel
clerk Tor his board and Spike gnawed
d bone from the kitchen. Two nights
later ethe man who played the heaV-
les" negotiated enough 70 carry him
on the cars TO Oakland. and IN due sea-
son ne appeared In ogden travelling on
q refugee ticket Al ogden he secured
o. weeks work playing with a minor
travelling organization. lie appeared
nightly there. and every afternoon he
was In Salt Lake negotiating for
chance TO bring a company here. He
rot the ear OF some OF the directors of
the Orpheum and the rest was plain
sailing The company he promised did
not materlalize. but he made GOOD
with what he At lsst secured, after
much frantic telegraphlng.
As soon as he got on his feet again.
NacI,ean showed By his actions that he
Was a "spender" Each week his SAL
,rv was exhausted before e was due.
But taking no thought Tor the morrow.
he continued 10 order clothes ana
charge items right and lefL with an me
abandon Of a millionaire Even when
the engagement al the orpheum ter
mated. the majority " the troupe lived
no retklessly as ever For instance
they went TO Bingham on a guarantee
of $500 from the manager 81 the house.
This they collected. and before leaving
that festive camp. they visited a gam
hlinrhouse where q fascinating wheel
and a little ivory ban absorbed that
500. and every dollar that could be
borrowed. They came back 90 salt LAKE
broke" 4 local pooiroom also was
several hundred dollars the richer ow'
ing 10 the presence Boo town ot the Or
rhcum stock company.
To cut a long story short, most
Of the company have left town
through the good-htariedness ~
friends Z. C. Maclean is now
believed 20 be IN Denver as he
LEFT his old companion Spike, IN hook
here. for the price ~ O. railroad ticket
W the meantime he landlady has ac'
ouired experience 10 The sum OF $780,
some extra members of his company
,ti. some male admirers around town,
various sums advanced AS temporary
loans. a local printing nrm some bills
We, 10 be collected ana several others
a. mourn rs loss
whether Spike VIII ever sac his mas
tor again Is a question. as there are .
Ia, of people in salt Lake who would
Ike 10 own him in lieu of monies nom
forthcoming.