The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-15

in sheer desperation the fellow grabbed
that miserable dog in his arms ana
rushed on with him as if they were
the best of friends. OF course he had
TO change his lines to fit the altered
situation, which served to accustOm
the young actor thus early in his ca
recr to doing things on the inspiration
of the moment
In an editorial entitled "Cornering the
Supply" the Lon Ion Stage descants
upon n new American peril. This has
to do with the control by New York
managers of the output of The Brit
ish dram ltists After touching on the
incident OF the refusal of Frederick
Harrison. director of the London Hay
market. to take over the newest Bar
RE play because he must associate
himself with American management in
its production, the writer goes on &c
say:
1.-THE Names policy has tended TO
give the difficult art of playwriting in
TO The hands of a few: and now, with
our dramatic stage thrown into a weak
state by a slow course of seIoi-starya-
ton, it is possible for American CAPT.
tai to buy up what little there is
worth having. How far our managers
can reckon with this tendency, and
compete with the Americans. we do
not know, But the problem that faces
managers-of which. this is only one
espect-is less to preserve the exist
ing supply at all costs to themselves
than to set about improving the play
writing conditions. What is wrong
with the stage at present is the pow
erty of dramatic material Plays are
not numerous enough-particularl
they are not good enough. Much is
heard about bad business, but where is
the bad business, in town or coun-
try, when an effective play holds the
bOards-nOt a masterpiece, but a mere
play of sturdy qualities?"
The playwright is then king. The
managers do not seem TO care to ad-
NIT it, the public do not realize it, but
there is no Disgusting the fact. And
the new American playwright has a
better chance than any. for with us
the Names fetch has not the same
tight clutch it has on the minds of the
English managers.
X
In the second act of "The Umpire
the musical comedy which ran 904
nights in Chicago, there is a football
game that figuratively arouses a riot
of enthusiasm in every audience that
sees it. twenty-five young girls line
up in complete football armor and en-
gage in a regular oTt-and-out contest
that is as much in earnest as many
intercollegiate games. There are runs
around the ends, double passes, mass
plays on center, scrimmages and half
dozen other gridiron proceedings ac-
complished as skilfully as if pen
nant were at stake and it OCCASION
a hof he
so sincere that time has to be called
while the bruised haIfbacks nurse their
injuries
The perfect illusion of the game is
due to the fact that the players were
coached by no less an authority than
Professor A. A. Stage, athletic direc-
tor and football coach of the Uniyer-
sity Of Chicago. Messrs. Hough and
Adams, the authors of THE Umpire, -
are alumni of the university, and are
very popular with the faculty, and,
with the thousands of undergraduates
in the institution; so their request that
! Professor Stage assist them III per-
fecting this feature of their most sue
cessful entertainment was readily ac-
ceeded to Each member of the team
has had personal instruction concern
| ing the way to fall and be fallen up
Oh Win the iedsl pOooipl0 sihJulS.
The largest department store in Chi
cago reports that its music department
| has sold more of the songs of 'The
Umpire" than of all the other produc-
tons of the season put together.
Among the musical numbers in THE
Umpire which are particularly popu-
lar are "Yeu Look Good to Father =
Gross Your Heart, " THE Umpire Is
a Most Unhappy Man, Let's Take a
Trolly' and 1.-The. Drums of the Fore
and Att the latter being a dashing
military march, done with great spirit
by fifty girls.
An a--4.-fo xour aura r,fz -s-,x1 h-r.e.