The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-18

and finally, impelled by the instinct of
self-preservation, the reporters on the
other papers appointed a committee to
watch Dillingham;. Dillingham; waited
every night until the regular hotel
men had made their rounds, then reg
istered the name OF a United States
senator, foreign nobleman, or a. col
lege president. sauntered off to the Of
flee, and wrote the interview
A few days ago an advance man in
Kansas City wrote to the manager of
the Aurora, Mo-, opera house, asking
for a Sunday night date The reply
shows that the rural manager is not
only business man of unquestioned
sagacity, but that he also has a keen
sense of fun. His reply to the advance
man follows:
Say, Old Settler, what do you think
1 have here? This is not a town hall
with oil lamps, where you put on your
makeup in the front room and then
walk right through the audience to
the stage with your makeup on. This
is a real opry house. I generally play
attractions at 80 and so per cent that
cost $500 a day, and when it is Sunday
the rate is 75-25. / take the 10. For
me to take so and you 20 would not be
doing your Opry troupe as I would
hope to be done by. To business for
a minute. I can only use shows at IS,
never play anybody better than that,
and these terms are liberal for Sunday
night. If you have a big railroad jump
make the company walk Hoping to
see you on time, etc.
Mrs. Fiske has some strong opinions
on the subject of ''write-ups." She
said in speaking Of the subject: Il
have not words strong enough to say
precisely what ] think about the Ordi-
nary interview which the newspaper
prints with the actor or actress. 1t
makes the subject of it presumptuOus,
arrogant, egotistical, anything and
everything but what he may be. 1t
is notifying, humiliating and 1 often
times wonder why actors ever consent
to grant interviews. Imagine yourself
in his place, and think of sitting down
and talking for half an hour, an hour
or two hours about-what? YOURSELF
Now, could anything be more hUmil-
Eating, more egOtistical than that?"
Edward p Sullivan, who is this season
playing the role of the Master TOymaker
in Babes in TOyland." is ar old Shake
spearean actor, and in addition to having
played serious roles in first-cIass com
panies. has had much experience in
transforming it Once in his younger
days when he was in 4 stock company in
Leadville, Colo, during the mining eN-
element, a western tragedian visited the
town to play q weeks engagement with
the stock. The opening bill was Ham
let and Sullivan was cast for Laertes.
The tragedian was very particular about
The combat SCere and rehearSed Sullivan
in il very carefully, all the details of
which Sullivan promptly forgot as soon
as the rehearsal was over When the
cue for the fight was given Sullivan de-
termined to do or die and went at it ham
nler and tOngS. OF course. he got il all
wrong and the star was furious, and in
his excitement broke his sword. He
turned to go off to get n substitute
weapon which he kept conveniently in
the wings, As he did so an inspiration
struck Sullivan.
With a whoop life that of d Comanche
Indian he sprang upon the Unsuspecting
Dane and ffguratively stabbed him in the
back fifty times and then ran off the
staSe in the opposite direction That
ended the performance right there
Laertes escaped with his life but did not
return to the theatre until the star had
departed from LeadviIIe-
Farewell sad farewell, to the "su-
Shall it come to pass?
Are the boys who carry the wooden
spears to be relegated to the background?
ttO. Waterman! What of the night
when the candidates come around to get
positions as senator's soldiers. and such ,
Shall all these ambitious, stalwart per
Beerbohm Tree the noted English actor
manager. has introduced a novelty i'm his
London theatre. BY the use of the gram
CphOne Mr. Tree now supplies his sound
effect In Richard the Third he had
his entire company rattle swords and
chains before the instruments and then
Used the disks.
The advantage of this method is that
he always gets precisely the same effect
The gramophOne people have taken up
this idea and have secured records of
chimes, organs planes AMI viOIirs to be
used in theatrical productions. They
have progressed so far that in case of
labor troubles with bands they can fur
nish complete selections of the music de
sired
Here is a new story concerning Nine
Bernhard 1t comes from New York and
Is told by man who witnessed what he
declared was one of the French ac-
tresses' most impressive performances:
1T was in Detroit and the play was one
OF those innumerable pieces where the
wife, discovering the husband unfaith-
nut protests in stormy Scere that she
will go forth and do likewise This man
sat in the pit, paying little attention to
what was occurring on the stage when
suddenly his ear caught an unfamiliar
in Bernhardts TRADE. He sat
up and listened. To his establishment the
actress, while weeping and scOldinC AMI
a her husband quite as She
should, was delivering herself in choice
French Of an invective against Detroit
hotels in general. and the hotel where
she was registered IN particular. The
food was bad, the service was worse and
II ever she came to that house again
might she hone to die and dwell forever i'm
So she smoke and fell 49,
ing al her stage husbands knees. The
audience, thrilled by her cOnsummate art
burst into rGptUTOuS applause The man
in the pit sazed around for some sign of
In a fellow listener but in
NOBODY m