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

woman at the Ritz and took tea u,itti
ner- Afterward she got in her car
rage at the Place Vendome and her
companion said enviOusly:
suppose you had a lovely tina
sNdt u that French lady? I suppose you
Sot on famOusly in conversation?
Wen, said the girl complacentIy.
she understood what she said and I
understood what said "
The success of a. play on what is
| Known as the road is supposed to de-
pend to considerable extent upon ITS
prosperity on Broadway, New York.
ana none of the arts of its manager
Is so delicate as that of elxfng out its
run there with good showing in the
mousse, says the Saturday Evening
Post. The man in the box office does
much by giving seats in the paruuet
Tor gallery prices and then scattering
the audience over as much OF the au-
G1tOrium as possible. When pIav-pO-
ers find the balcony empty they may
make a pretty sure guess as to the
reason.
Sometimes it is hard to get even
enough people to scatter The first re-
sort is to those who advertise in the
programme device which, if used in
moderation, tends to make advertising
popular. 1t is when this is exhausted
that the chief difficulty arises. The
deadheads must not be drawn from the
general public, for this would cut of
possible buyers, and, what is worse,
give away the fact that the play was
in distress. For a long time the man
ayers sent tickets to the department.
stores with the stipulation that they
should be given out as if gratuity
from the employers.
LatterIy the mana gers have taken to
sending the tickets to the fashionable
shops on Fifth avenue-the employees
in which are supposed to be better
hammered and better dressed-with the
stipulation that the statesmen and
saleswomen should wear the clothes
in which they did business But here.
too. there was a stumbling block. The
victims rebelIed against being sent TO
rotten" shows. saying that their
evenings We're their own 10 do what
they wanted.
During a recent talk Julia MarIowe
made some interesting revelations re-
gardlng the modern and the old plays.
OF the two confessed Miss Mar
lowe, I would much rather appear in
u play of the present period than in
the comedies and dramas that were
written some hundreds OF years ago.
In the modern plays you use the Ian
Suage to which you are accustomed
IN everyday life You go to your mill
liner or TO your dressmaker and order
hats and gowns that are entirely mod
ern, for these will fit The role YOU plav
All you have To do is to give your
order for gowns of a certain kind
dinner. opera. breakfast or walking
dresses-with hats to match, provided
you wear hats at any time durinS the
action of the piece Then you study
your part as you would read an in
terestIng book, and before you know
II you are ready for the first perform
ance-
Not so with the old plays. You are
compelled to use a language in them
TO which you are not accustomed. 1t
IS essential that you become thorough
~ acquainted with the style of com
position of the old authors. in order
that you may convey to your audi
@nce as lnteligenuy as modern Ian
SUage would do Just " hat YOU are
speaking Of It is really Il hard task
to do this. Then YOU are compelled
to make researches in order to be Ger
tain that your hats and gowns are
correct so far as the period in which
tie action OF the pay Is laid is con-
cerned- Then there are Il hundred and
1ne other little things to be attended
20 that don't bother you in modern
pays ON, YES, modern plays have n
Instinct advantage for the player-but
here are not so many Of them that
IRE good as TO allow us TO drop the
I'D ones"
Blanche Walsh has solved the prob
EN- OF preventing members of her com
amy from talking shop"
1t all came about because 2 troupA
I blonde opponents of the anatomical
pera boarded the train in which Misc
Walsh and her company We're saa+a5
remarks about the next stand ''Ias+
light after the show I'm going tn
he Palace: it's a dollar double" were
7afted down the aisle
oil
alng, exclaimed Miss Walsh to Flea
or Carey, who is her stage mother in
lyde FlLchS The Woman in the
aSe 1t Is such companies as that
ne ahead of US that are resDonsfbIe
lr the popular idea of what an actress
'oks ike and acts like Still. even the
PROFESSIONALS are apt TO talk more than
ley realize they do about such things
Things that, it seems to me- they
1ould be only TOO glad to forget when
way from the theater''
Let's form society for the sup
ressiOn of our Identity" said Miss ca
~
TN tell you a better scheme" re-
lied John 3. Reynolds, the acting
I viii get uD list of Of
enses and fines for mentioning the
age or anything connected with IL
uring our trip TO Boston. Wen use
he money for a trip 10 Bunker Hill"
All agreed. and soon a typewritter
)py OF the following notice was hand-
to each member.
Offenses and fines-Speakin Of
What a favOrite I am in" cents
Great criticisms I have. misIaid." 9
ntS; Me and Irving" 20 cents: How
uCh better 1 play the part than the
81 one did, 10 cents; The unfair
ass of dramatic critics" , cents
Managers who want to star me" 90
'nJs; familiar references to Charlie
Abe Erlanger. Dave" Re-
SEQ, Bill" Brady and other personal
lends in the business. 10 cents: He
all right in the part but % car,+s-