The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-09

NDUNldN, DGGcuDtI Wlln MISS DtS5lc
| Busley, late of Charles Frohman s
forces, III the star role. The book has
dramatic posi- bilitics and characters
new TO the stage, and Mr.. Pollock has
woven them into play OF undoubted
strength, which was not altogether un-
expected when ii is recalled that it was
he who made the successful dramatize.
tlon OF Frank Norris S graphic story of
The Pit . The play is strong, vivid
and of absorbing interest. Its analysis
of the girl thief is graphic. and the life
such n woman might lead is described
skillfnl!y and In such way as to retain
thc sympathy of the audience
Miss Maudc Fealy, who is this season
starring i'll Martha Morton s new com
edy, "The Illusion OF Beatrice tells
story reminiscent of the late Sir
Henry Irving, during her experience as
leading lady for Sir Henry at the ia
nous Drury Lane theater, London, Eng
land; The story is, perhaps. best told
III Miss Fealy's own words: 1.-The first
week passed most beautifully: | PLAYED
all my roles, but the second week /
had an accident which came near being
serious. | thought the list OF plays
each week would be played in rotation
as they were the first, and as | did
not appear IN one of the plays, the one
which was played the corresponding day
OF the week previous, sat slowly fin
ishing my dinner and asking my mother
where we would spend the evening,
when the call-boy rushed into the room,
saving; Miss Fealy, the prologue of
' Beckett is over and the overture of
your act IS on. 70 This day | don t
| recall my sensations, ! believe | was
! deaf, dumb and blind. Finally the
words, 1t IS raining, caught my
ears. and | said Get a cab, and
rushed upstairs for my hat. never
got the hat but came down cutching
two hatplns. and when we arrived the
| hatpins were still in my possession.
Fortunately lived near the theater. so
In few minutes we arrived. | fell
out of the cab, across the stage, STUN
bied and ran into Sir Henry. No one
had told him of my non-appearance, and
the call-boy, who was my friend, wished
me to avoid meeting Sir Henry; but
fate decreed otherwise, so after picking
myself up | fell upstairs, and Sir
| Henry's words reached me, Never
mind, America was never left yet
And, thank goodness, she WASH I in that
case. With the assistance of two maids
/ vas ready before the overture had
ceased. How it was managed | will
| never know
With the eight performances of
"Madam Butterfly" last week at the
Garden theater, New York, this grand
opera broke the record for consecutive
performances of any serious opera pre-
viously given in this country. The long.
est previous record of grand opera is
also held by a Puccini work, his "Iya
Boheme having twenty-eight consecu-
tive performances in 1898 in San Fran
cisco. The record in Europe is said to
be held by Verdi s "Ernani," which
had run of nineteen performances at
the Paris Grand Opera.
| During the past four weeks the Gar
| den theater has been crowded nightly
with music lovers and the advance sale
would indicate that "Madam Butter
fly might remain in New York all
| winter except for the fact that Manager
Savage has booked n cross-continent
tour for the company. The entire com
| pany, with its orchestra Of sixty, will
be taken direct to Cincinnati Christmas
Years week, after which it goes to
Indianapolis, ST. Louis and Chicago be-
fore starting on its tour TO the Pacific
| coast An itinerary of $4,000 miles has
been laid out, including engagements in
sixty cities. To accommodate his or
ganization, Mr.. Savage will charter n
special train, with sleepers, day coaches
gage cars for the scenic production.
The company of one hundred and
twenty-five people will be in charge of
/ Ralph Edmunds as manager. 1t will
appear in Salt Lake.
In its criticism of the revival of
Captain Jipks' at Philadelphia last
Monday night, with Ethel Barrymore as
Nine. Trentoni, the character in which
she won her first success, the Leader
says of the playing of Mrs. Adams:
Annie Adams was a very impressive
Mrs; JiDks and commanded profound at
tention IN the few minutes she was on
the STAGE
! Digby Bell is to end his long run in