Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05


Vl the biggest attractions Of his
seasonal not the very big.
gest from a dramatic standpoint--has
been reserved TO mark its finish. "The
Lion and the Mouse" on which thu
curtain will ring down the season, IL In
tcrestlng from half dozen standpoints
/. First Il is an American plaJ
and has been so successful that
Daniel Frohman has two COM
panies producing it--one in Men
York headed by Edmund Breese and
Grace Elllston. and one on the road
Ian In the leading parts Second, IN,
company until recently included Mar
garet Ellington, wife Of Frohman him
self but she was taken from the cast
10 so to London, where the play Is To-
BE- seen next month with Mr. Breese OF
the New York cast as leading man,
and with Charles Klein, the author. to
conduct the rehearsiils. Third, the CEN
tral figure In the play, that OF Ready
Money" Ryder, Is said TO have been
bbkEfSAFH ny. anu llipDhNlg
the life Of j. pierpont Morgan and John
D. Rockefeller Fourth. Gertrude
Coghlan, who heads the company here,
IL the daughter OF the late Charles
Coghlan. and niece Of Rose Coghla..
Her father was most polished actor,
and the young woman is said 10 havs
inherited much Of his genius.
''rhe Lion and the Mouse" will run
ut prices ranging from 81 down. for I'VE
nights and matinee, commencins
Tuesday.
The writer had the pleasure Of seeihs
the drama in New York recently, and
~ the presentation here liz as strong
AZ there Salt Lake may count on !.
dramatic feast
The News Is pleased to note TINT
the bilIposters OF the country are Wig
orousiy following up the question OF
objectionable billbosrds and signs. A
committee called on Stair & Hayln,
heads OF the popular priced syndicate.
and received their assurance that they
would not book any company In their
! circuit which INDUCED IN sensational
or objectionable printing. The local
bilposters take an equally firm ground
and say that nothing next season will
be posted In Salt Lake that has tinge
of the yellow or salacous about 1t.
The "News' comends the local firm
on its stand. and cheerfully enlists In
the work OF Improving our billboard Mt
ernture IN future any citizen who no.
tees theatrical printing OF an obJec-
tlonable character on the walls or bill
boards of the city will confer favor
by sending a notice Of Il to this paper.
A writer In one OF the cities where
"Sara, the Divine" lately appeared,
says of the famous actress;
Sarah Bcrnhardt Balzac once said
that the grandest monument Is often
In a single name, like Napoleon Bona
parte, William Shakespeare or Victor
Hugo, because the one name has more
power to stir the Imagination than any
lengthy inscription or high columns
could have. So there Is much es-
pressed In that one name--Sarah
Bernhardt,
Sarah Bernhardt may have been
born Jewess. and become Chris
tain, but not one considers such matters
IN connection with her She Is n world
character--without doubt the most re-
markable woman Of her time, II would
b. both unfair and ungalant to speak
of how long she has acted, az on the
stage her wonderful art and magnetic
force makes her the age Of the woman
she IS impersonating.
Bernhard has not lost her Are and
her grace, although she is beginning 20
grow stout--only beginning, for such a
consuming nature as hers could never
become really fat
That IL one great point Her thin
moss was once the remark Of the world
Cartoonists 10 or rs years ago drew
pictures OF her as an anaconda, and
one humorist drew q picture IN which
he showed a sailor on deck mistaklng
Sarah for coll Of rope.
Is there not philosophical reason
for the recent loss of this extreme
thinness; II Is probably 10 be found in
the fact that while this great actress
was making herself her genius con-
slimed her flesh. az the electricity
which flashes In the globes slowly
consumes the wires, over which II tray-
els. When she was burning with am
bition TO distinguish herself she was
naturally thin. like all fierce ambi-
tious natures But now that she has
obtained her ambition she permits her
body To put on little flesh, Caesar re-
marked upon The thuness Of the
scheming Cassius hut had Cas.ius at
tanned his ambition, he might have
become q fat host at merry feasts.
Wonderful indeed Is this woman,
She has not lost any OF her power 60
enthrall an audience Her voice is
LIQUID or harsh as she pleases. I'm La
ha a. a., tts.t1t ItffsYat,F
man from her oriental sorceress or
the poor lovelorn ana sinful Camille.
Miss Ethel Tucker and her COM
psny have made q good impression on
the Grand boards, and the announce
ment OF a change ~ bin next week
will be greeted with interest Two
plays are to be given. the first part ot
the week being devoted to Across the
Desert" the latter part TO The Par
1sian Princess
The first named play, while It is a
"thriller" does not belong on the
blood and thunder order, but Is laid in
the camps OF the west. and reVoves
around a bowery boy and girl. an IN
dian. n Chinaman a negro, and a sister
OF charity. surely n combination varied
enough to make any sort Of a play
THE Parsion Princess" Is comedy
drama which is said to have plenty
Of excitement along with the comedy
work. so that 1t IS relied on 10 please
patrons both IN and down stairs
While Florence Roberts success IN
New York is und0ubted, all the critics
do not agree in singing her praises.
The following rather dlscordant note
Is from the World;
She Is mn actress OF more than the
average native talent Evidently she