Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-03

Special CORRESPONDENCE.
EW YORK, Nov, 3.--In a week
nj that has added nothing not
able TO the number OF sue
oessss now In town, the uh-
usual prosperity Of the season mas
been made more apparent than ever.
Nv last letter began with mention OF
the fact that half the houses aoNs
broadway had hits, and this IS so
far true that managers with promis-
Ing attractions on the road are Ut
terly unable 10 get into New YORK.
seyeral Of those producers are deter
mined to obtain a metropolitan near
irg under any conditions, and tnere-
,ora ave or slx of our best theaters
ara "a lead double lives from now on,
the LvrIe sheltering Lena Ashweli
In "The Shulamite'' evenings Us 10
witness afternoon performances py
Browning's "Pippa Passes, given ul-
der direction Of Henry Miller by MrS,
lie Moyne. 'rhe Great Divide VIII
run throughout the year at me fiin-
cess. where, In consequence, Mn' Nh.
lcr's revival OF "Hedda Gablef, Win
Madame Naisnofi In the title role. WI,
be shown by day. The prosperity pl
Grace George IN clothes q, Wy
Manhattan caused William a. btaus
10 announce that George Broadhnrsts
new comedy, ''rhe Man OF the hour,
originally booked to open there oct
AZ would be revealed at an invitation
performance last sunday, and then
presented at matinees. The recep..
ton accorded the piece on the roao
caused this plan 10 be abandoned, put
no New York playhouse has been on.
tajnable for "rhe Man Of the Hour.
Oscar Wilde's horid poetic drama,
"Salome," Is soon 10 be acted AFTER
Moons at the Aston, and the manage
ment states that Aubrey Beardsley,.s
fantastic illustrations or the text WIN
be reproduced as posters 10 advertiSe
the entertainment. When these PFC
lures adorn our bill boards. nocturnai
intoxication will become thing OF 1he
past in Gotham. No inebriate VINO
came face to face with Beardsley' $
printed idea of dancing girl would
ever take another drink as long as
he lived.
The current week has brought to us
many interesting performances OF
which more later. The Shuberts have
located THE Shulamite'--not TO be
called "The ohubertite"---at the Lyric.
and have opened a new theater the
Lincoln square With Guy standing IN
The Love Route" Forbes Rooertson
and Gertrude Elliott began their en-
eagement ut the New Amsterdam III
George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and
nnAth.r comedy Of
MIR. Shaws, How He Lied 10 lier
Husband. has gone into vaudeville
and taken Arnold DAILY with IT, James
7. Powers and his smile are TO be on
view tonight az the Casino In ''rhe
Blue Moon"
There may BE- on record examples
of the successful dramatization or q
book with which the author OF tbs
original story had TO do, but ! can
remember one off hand Authors o.
books are impossible persons when u
comes 10 teaching them the exigencie'
Of the theater; they want to melt thell
stories and pour them on the stage
Their hard .and-fast rule for making
plays out OF their works Is that this
adapted tale shall be las II was II
the beginning, Is now, and ever shall
be-" The first thing 70 do when you
dramatic q novel is to send the au'
thor to England.
All this spropos OF the fact that the
version Of The House OF Mirth" made
! by clyde Fitch and Mrs. Wharton and
offered last week Mt the Savoy Is al
ready scheduled for trip to ths
storehouse Of mlrth, MIR. Fitch, If hS
had read the book carelessly, forgot
ten It carefully, and written the play
unmolested, might have made splen.
did thing out Of the story of Lily Bart
He probably would have selected one
episode OF her life and carried Il
| through four acts The piece, as II
stands has 4 different episode foi
each act and the same ending for each
| episode The only love-affair that run:
through the play is that of Lawrence
! Selden, who turns up at the climax Of
| every scene in time to catch Miss Bar
with another man and to leave hei
| forever THE House Of Mirth" has
two bright lines. one good situation, a
! plot incomprehenslble TO ANYBODY un-
| familiar with the book, and oceans OF
utterly vacuous dialogue.
Mr.. Fitch's works usually are vel