The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-03-25

ceSSful career, and Its latest play prom
ises TO be Its great success
1t is said that Charles Frohman Is to
build two new theaters In New York.
One Is 10 be named the Adams. after
Maudc Adams, and the other the Drew.
after John Drew.
The plays written today are of a higher
literary order than those Of a couple or
years ago, says Clyde Fitch. No one can
doubt II who looks over the field. Twen-
ty years ago there were but two Ameri-
can dramatists who were writing serious
ly and earnestly for tho stage. Today
there are at least n dozen engaged In that
occupation I, To ,e be sure, ,, we e. who S,,. are are
guard OF the playwright force OF the fu-
ture, We simply are digging the bitches
and draining the land. IL never Will be
our good fortune TO participate In raising
the great white structure on the founda-
tions we are preparing. That VIII be af-
ter our day. But wo con console our
selves with the thought that at least we
had hand In preparing ground Tor the
magnificent cdif1cc that l am sure Will
some day be erected upon It by our sue
CessorS.
Wilton Lackaye, the player. has story
of an animal show In the West where the
principal feature of the programme was
billed as The Happy Family, the said
family" consisting Of a lion, tiger,
puma and Il lamb Some one, In conVer-
sation with the proprietor OF the show;
together. Quite confidcntially the pro
prletor replied:
About eight months, l think; but the
lamb had to be renewed occasionally"
Al twenty-five, Claiming Pollock has
had produced play that Will give him
Gray Lady" is a drama of local color,
that Is TO say, the old. familiar plot
love- estrangement, reconciliation-in
new and unfamiliar setting. We are so
~ n
on In the drawing-room that we are sur
prised and pleased 10 find them just as
interesting In the bnck yard. After we
have been persuaded that intrigueS which
involve mems fortunes and honor occur
only In the great world, we arc interested
by the discovery that human nature Is
just the same among the little clerks and
clerkesses OF Washington That Is the
significance of the local color device and
that is the chief value OF The Little
Gray Lady" that and the sweetness OF
It's sentiment, the freshness of Its COM
edy.
1t is the same dear, familiar story, old
as love Itself, and dear as womankind-
the story OF the man who loved woman
but wandered into evil ways. and the
woman who suffered, and loved him, and
by her constancy saved him. You can
speare'e sonnet, Two loves l have of
comfort and despait." Wagner found 1t
In the old German folk-tales and set 1t to
music in "1annhauser. r."-E>yerybodys
The legitimate DRAMA said the play
wright scornfuliy, as Manager F1asco
''I hear nothing but the legitimate
drama" What Is the legitimate drama,
anyway
Fiasco. coldiy comprises all those plays
which. their authors being dead, may be
produced without the payment OF royal
ties.
An interesting probability before the
end of next season Is the joint appearance
OF Mrs Fiske and Mime. Kalich in a new
play that Will furnish roles OF relative
prominence and fitness for two such ar
lists, supported BY actors selected from
the Manhattan company and the Kalich
company,
1t now looks rs II John Drew would be
given the leading part In the new Pinero
play His House IN Order" when II is
will mean that Sir Charles Wyndham will
doubtless be given Capt. Drew on
Leave" for his American tour
why arc YOU bowling TO that man.
DO you know him?' asked Ma&ge. in sur
prise.
me so many times getting out between
acts al the thcater last night that VIC
got real well acquainted detroit Free
Press
The arstocracy of Stardom is the high
est station to which any actor or actress
can aspire successful star earns q
great deal OF money FOR bis MANAGERS
and himself. enjoys more social prestige
than other actors Is petted and cuddled
more than the most successful men In al
most any other pursuit are. and receives
more advertising than he could hope TO
get In n lifetime II he were not u star.
The joys of stardom being many and
diverse, there naturally is a great desire
H.. L, |g,4 gF. a,,I
to become one. From the outsl6e the dc
lights of being star are many. but 1t is
only from the insioe that the workings OF
the mechanism that turns out stars and
keeps them In the armament can be seen.
a stars capital Is his name Therefore
In many companies that arc headed by a
star the publicity department has strict
orders to print only the name OF the star.
The leading man the leading woman,
the case may be, is doomed to half
light. sometimes TO obscurity, and the rest
of the company is forgotten. In the cleo
trIC lights In front OF the thcater, 1t Is the
name of the star or the name OF the play
that shines forth. In all the billing. 1t
Is MIR. Star I'm - not '-- with MIR.
Star" When the name of the actor
comes first he ls a star. When the play
Is regarded as of more importance the
actor Is said TO be featured He IL Il
near-Stnr
stars make all the curtain speeches,
though no one knows who writes them,
Chicago Tribune.
1t is evident that Margaret Dale is to
leave John Drews company. as 1t Is an.
Hounced that Margaret Ellington viii
have one of tho leading roles In His
House in Order next season.
Chicago woman wrote for Tim Muir
phys autograph the other day and got II.
A night or two after the comedians man
ager found the autograph while counting
up 1t had Pass four" written above 1t.
Hereafter Mr.. Murphy says, he Is going
to indorsc his signature across the back
with autograph" No wonder actors are
Indifferent about sending their sigma
lures
To thu Boston Transcript Julian Mitchell
ccnldes his conviction that the chorus
girl of today is ten times intelligent.
much better looking, and has great deal
more self-respect, Is 80 per cent younger,
and much bette paid than she was twen-
T. years ago. There is no difficulty in
getting a chorus that Is young and at
tractVc The average of intelligence
amorg chorus girls 10 remarkably high
Stupid chorus girls are in small minor
ily 1t IS rare now that YOU have to show
anything more than once, The chorus
I. 10, ~ h H.