The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-04

pHtny and sorrow
Another poor fellow gone to his ac-
COUNT
Richard Mansfield has been playing The
Scarlet Letter" during his engagement In
Philadelphia and the critics have been
hearty In their commentator of his por-
trayal OF the character OF Dimmesdale.
Lew Fields Is proud of the fpct that
twenty-eight years ago he worked on tho
stage with his partner, Joe Weber, for S
n week apiece and did twenty-six turns
day at that He was boy OF 10 at that
time and despite tho arduous work of
twenty-six turns n day he managed to
continue for two years a common school
education at the hands OF his father and
elder brother.
Today he has the distinction OF having
been offered n larger sum TO appear In
vaudeville than was ever offered any oth-
er man The contract was brought to him
In New York few weeks ago for him to
sign Offering him $4,000 a week for forty
weeks-twcnty weeks Of which were to be
played in Europe. Mr. Fields refused this
offer and said to the agent: ITS pretty
easy to get into vaudeville, but It's pretty
hard to get out" From SO a week to $1,000
a week reads almost like the story OF
steel trust magnate.
Those who think that Marshall p. VIII
der does not think of anything but humor
are mistaken. He had Just had n serious
moment. and even that looked like n joke
until II was explained He has made his
Will. In connection with this event he
| telephoned to Burrclle. the press clipping
man. and said.
"You gather up clippings from all the
newspapers when men die, don't you2'
I'VE do
And make them into obituary vol
umes?"
Yes"
"weT, then, gather all the clippings
about my DEATH
'Why, you're not dead. are you7'
~ h,It r.
der and make the memorial II l ever hap
| pen to die, can't your
| And then the humorist explained that
! he had Just made his will and put pro-
! vision In II by which an allowance was
| set aside for this memorial containing
! every thing the papers happened to say
concerning his demise
p. FL Sothern is preparing for the
J printers what promises to be most In
/ teresting edition OF the Shakespearean
Lays in which Miss Marlowe and himself
! have appeared. and n work which VIII
! undoubtedly prove OF incstimablc value 10
/ managers and actors who may wish In
| the future to present the pieces Ihe
| PLAYS are to be issued in separate volumes
! and at a price which Will do little more
Than cover the cost OF publication, as Mr.;
! Sothern's venture Is In nowise lnnuenced
+, by tho thought OF money-making. with
each play, and each department connected
with its production. Will be given the iull
! benefit of the study and research entalled
1 uDOn Mr. SOtnern ana MISS ndllO"S III
their series of revivals. There Will be nu-
| mcrous colorcd costume plates, cach dress
historically correct Many OF these are
duplicates from famous paintings, while
| others are from designs copied under Mr..
| Sothern's direction in the museums and
art galleries OF Europe.
There Will also be reproductions OF the
! principal stage settings, together with
| minute directions regarding the lighting
| of the scenes Detailed instructions VIII
likewise be given relative TO the stage
,,Flh 30. nVin ~
musical plates embodying the main
themes which accompany the action. All
| this. has been suggested. VIII save a
deal OF work for future producers OF
| Shakespeare plays.-Philadelph Led
| ger.
Arnold Daily seems to be about at the
end OF his Bernard Shaw career. Accord
| ing to reports received from New York,
he has found little save unappreciatiVe
publics during his tour OF the country
| and in a week or two is expected to be
among the "unengaged" thespians In
! Gotham "You Never Can Tell and
Candida" have done poor business near
| " everywhere they have been presented,
| and Mr. DAILY now is indulging In dia-
tribes against the public for It's failure 10
| recognize the superlative greatness OF
Mr. Daily as interpreter of tho master
pieces.
The amusing. yet almost tragic. expert
enccs of the members of Miss Grace
Georges company at the opening per-
| formance OF The Marriage OF William
Ashc' in New York, when the crratc
hoofbeats OF the property horse threw
tho audience into conYulslons of merri-
| ment has led II. Reeves-Smith. Miss
Georges leading man and the principal
| sufferer, to invent a new device for sim
! ulatng the fall of horses hoofs.
| The long accepted method has been TO
beat Il pair OF bowl shaped rubber cups
upon block OF stone. Tho deception has
| always depended upon the skill OF the
manipulator. and sometimes, as In the In
| stance at the Garrick theater. the hoof-
| beats have sounded more like the steps
OF Montgomery and Stone or the late Pat
Mr. Reeves Smiths invention is little
contrivance worked after the fashion of
rattlcs employed by enthusiasts on elec.
tion night Four wooden arms, tipped
with solid rubber, arc set at such dis
| tanccs apart that when the crank is
turned they fall upon slate-eovered
| block in the exact rhythm of hoofbeats
BY throwing out q little lever the stride
Of the horse may be changed from trot
TO gallop. or 10 walk. The faster he
| turns the crank the faster seems the
| motion OF the horse, but equine Highland
nings. clog dancing and terpsichorean ef-
forts known as the buck and wing, are
| impossible. The actor. who has been o
producer and stage director on his own
account In London, has applied for pat
| cnt on his invention
CalNC hopes 10 become II dramatic
actress To the San Francisco Examiner
she said: 1T will always please mo bet
ter 10 act than to sing. The liberty is
much greater on the dramatic stage. The
| actress has more sway. In opera, no
matter how big the individuality. the
artist must measure her ways. She can
not get away from the one-two-threc
| beat OF the baton, She cannot be all OF
her personality. The music with its
rhythm holds her back. She Is the slave
OF the composer. But when she nets with.
out music she can be what she acts,
have long time wanted to act and my
friends want me to act. l have friends
dramatlsts. who want 10 write plays for
me TO act In. IL | act without singing
can forget everything but the role
cnn live in the role
Nine. Hading. the noted French actress
appeared recently at the Cattle theater
| Paris I'm the role OF mother and thereby
caused mild sensation among the critics
of the gay French capital. The play was
Serge Panine," and Hading had tho role
of Nine. Desyarennes, created In 1888 by
| Nine Pasca II thought that she
locked too young for the role, especially
as she did not try very hard to age her