The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SEPTEMBER

JNE, SUNDAY MORNING
why" he says, ''the people over
there have gone crazy over thoes two
fads., They play bridge whist in foul
weather and go touring about the coun-
try in automobiles when 1t is fair. -
n G. Goodwin, ST., father Of the
comedian. celebrated his golden we'd
ding in Boston Saturday. Father stayed
married'-Chicago Record Herald,
Miss Julia Marlowe. who recently ar
rlved IN New York, announced that at
Ter her appearance i'm Shakespearean
drama with b. II. Sothern on Broadway
she would act in the English provinces,
Although she is an English woman, this
VIII be her first professional appearance
in her native country.
Eleanor Robson has begun rehearsals
IN New York for the first Of the ten
plays she ls to present during the thirty
five weeks engagement she will have
at the Liberty theater in that city this
season. beginning October 8. The play,
now in rehearsal is Israel Zangwill q
Nurse Marjorie, which is said to be
written in u style peculiarly suited to
Miss Robson s talents. The whole Sc
TICS OI pays Will De UDueT buc stage
direction of Charles Cartwright. Among
the players engaged to support Miss
Robson IN this play are III. b. Warner.
son of Charles Warner, who will make
his first appearance in New York; Reu-
ben Fax. Ernest Mainwaring. A. G. An
drews, Leslie Kenyon. W. A. Hackett,
Hazard Short, Essex Dane and Ada
Dwvey.
N ,On licb Inr fcr Of he
don dallies, discussing the suggestion
that bondoners are unjust TO foreign
ers, and especially TO Americans, says
'Thosc who study the modern London
stage, instead of thinking Londoners are
unjust 10 foreigners, are inclined TO con-
slider that the truth lies the other way,
and that the inha abitants of the great
city are disposed to be overrcady TO
welcome Second-ratc strangers.
In music, and drama, and painting
oar city for many years has been the
happy hunting ground of the foreign
artist. 1t is true that Il great many
American plays produced in London
during the last twenty years have fallen
fiat. ! have seen almost every ono
given during fvc-siSths of that period
and can ONLY think OF two or three in
stances of failure undeservcd. The
Henrietta was one case i'm point; Ala
hama another; n melodrama produced
at tho Adelphi about five years ago was
n third.
- should require moro than column
merely 10 set down the names of tho
English works which. in the period mon
toned. have failed for no discoyerable
reason, and yet possessed moro merit
than the average American imported
transatlantic drama. One could also
mention y fair number of American
works which have en- joyed success far
greater than they deserved
$50 far as [ can see, the London
piaygocr has only one pre- ciudicc. and
that is n prejudice against works which
require the audience 10 possess and use
brains or a fine sense of art in order
to understand them. =
just four words spoken nv Harry Bul-
ger on the opening night in New York
of 1.-The Man From Now - won n more
hearty outburst of laughter than any of
tho many humorous lines of John Ken
drick Bangs, They came after Bulgcr,
and his assistant funmakers had been
hurled through time and space thou
sand years into the future at the end of
the funny prologue. The party lands
in more or less confusion on bcauti-
fu college campus. whore n bevy of
college maidens quickly surrounds
them
"Where are we at9'' inquiries Bulger
of the astonished school girls.
"Why, You are AT Gasser college in
the year 2906, replies one.
Bulger rubs the dust out of his eyes
and exclaims; ''Was Bryan ever
clected7''
The funny query nearly broke up the
show.