The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-01

second act of ''Zira' has a woman CIV
en- forth such sparks of feeling as
Odette Tyler is radiating in The
Her I of Maryland" at the Academy.
For the big revival of the BelascO
drama Miss Tyler was about the last
one most managers would have select
ed for the role of Maryland Calvert,
for her career has been identified with
light cOmedy-the opposite of the re-
quirements of this character originated
by Mrs. Carter. But Belasco, as usual,
knew his business. He Iured Miss Ty-
Ter from the retirement OF ner farm at
ShepardstOwn, Va, and he now has in
Mrs Carter, Blanche Bates and Miss
Tyler winning triplet in the way of
illustrators of vibrant emotion.
Modjeska was telling of the players
now prominent whose uncertain steps
as beginners she had helped to
strengthen Il have made many stars"
she said, and sighed, land so many
have gone. Barrymore, he is gone: Ha-
Worth-the best father in 'Madga' q
very gOOd Macbeth "A fine Hamlet 3"
ventured the interviewer. He is gone.
Taber, Bob Taber, is also gone Otis
Skinner was another, and Robert Man
tell. Mary Shaw was another-im-
mensely intelligent woman-she was
with us for five years" George Bar
rymore, Modjeska said, still thinking of
the past, had been one of her company,
q particularly beloved member How
Lionel and Ethel BARRYMORE became
her and her husbands gOdchildren she
told quantity. One day the children
out with their mother, walked off by
themselves and got lost It was in
New York and Mrs. Barrymore was
frantic She went everywhere that she
could think of, then in utter despair
found herself on the steps of a church
MOdJeSka said: she prayed % God
what shall 1 do? and there, lust above
her, she saw her children And then
she came TO me next day. She said I
am going to have the childref bap-
tized at that church. Will you be god
mother? And so we have our dear
gOdchildren.'
NJ. Pierre Weber says, in the New
York Herald, that the robust old age of
NJ. Sardou knows not failure; the least
of his successes continue TO be estim-
able successes In his new play, la
Piste," one can recognize all the in
genuity Of Les Pattes de MOuches'' !
and the dramatic interest nexer fall
ters. The plot is as follows: Florence /
the divorced wife of JObelin renarrieS |
with ReYillOn, whom she adOres. Re !
villOn finds an old telegram addressed |
to Florence, which proves she has been
lnfaithfui to her husband, but the /
question is, Which husband, the first
jObelln, where he finds his wife who
had come to beg her former husband
% say that 1t was he to whom she had
been untrue. SardOu has so entangIed
he plot that Florence cannot prove
Ter relative Innocence, and it is only
It the end that this is made clear The
piece is admirably presented by NJ
3rassen. Nine. Rejane and Nine. Ca
on in the leading roles.
If the late lamented William
had known jefferson De
Angelis, it might have been suspected
hat he had the comedian in mind
vhen he wrote about the one man who
in his tiTE2c played many parts The
tar of "Fantana" has acted in almost
very cline and kind of play. Fifteen
ears ago he had a season of meIo-
rama, appearing in the first of those
ieces which featured railroad scene.
THE mechanical device was rather
SAYS Mr.. De Angels.
but the situation was strong and
rOught roars of applause every time it
1orked, which wasn't often / remem-
er that on our first night in San
francisco, an important occasion, the
eroine, who was supposed to hew her {
1ay through an oaken door in order to
L : my bound and gagged person off
he track, broke the AK handle at the |
ritical moment. She tried to kick
pen the door. but failed. The man
-hO ran the train-an affair of canvas
nd cantling-miSt0ok the noise for
is cue and started on. The lOcomO- {
We and two day coaches ran over me
I full sight of the audience. If
admit had a darned fine constitution '
ne play would have ended right {
lere." {
Al Wilson is a singing comedian. ,
therefore, he likes children. He tells J
lany stories of them. and this is one: i
ITO a little boy there were given {