The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-07

long been Its abode to an apartment
farther uptown. The change to less
commodious quarters made 1t necessary
to dispose Of much of the family furni-
ture, SO 1t was sent to the store of a
dealer in antiques. Months after a
search was made for some family por-
traits-old photographs that 1t was
thought had been saved. The search
was in vain and the portraits were Civ
en- up as lost.
The second chapter brings the story
up to last autumn, when Mrs. Ftske
was making ready to produce Leah
Kleschna" In the first act. showing
the lodgings in Paris OF Leah and her
father, the details of the setting in
cluded some single portraits to be hung
on the walls. They might be supposed
to be the pictures of relatives of
Kleschna and his daughter or perhaps
portraits meaningless to the dodgers
that the landlady had made part of the
furnishings of the room. To obtain
these pictures recourse was had to one
of the shops where antiques We're sold.
At such shop were found portraits in
small mahogany frames. old-faShioned
in design, and these We're purchased. In
due course they became properties for
the production of Leah Kleschna" and
were used during the FIVE months that
the play ran in New York and during
the spring tour to the Pacific coast.
Chapter three occurred only a few
weeks ago, when Mrs. F'iske was again
playing Leah Kleschna" i'm New York
and two members of the old Knicker-
booker family went to see the play for
the first time. Their seats were well
down in front. The first act had scarce
ly begun when their attention was di-
verified from the play by the surprising
sight of the long-lOst portraits of their
relat gazing UPON them from the
0f ? II, Do
After comparing notes to determine
that it was not a case of imagination
and studying the pictures through OPP
era glasses they inquired for Mr.. Fisxe
and told him their extraordinary story.
He gladly consented to return the por-
traits and others were secured for the
wall decoration. Tie new pictures
have not thus far been identified.
An inventive actor-H. Reeves Smith
has applied for a copyright on a deck
of playing cards, which he is to call
1.-The international FavOrite" series.
Each card will have the picture of a
whose likenesses appear on the cards
are as follows:
Willie Fdouin is the joker.
Lillian Russell is the queen Of dia-
monds
Grace George-by gracious courtesy
of her leading man-inventor-is the
queen OF hearts.
The ace of hearts is George Alexan-
der.
H B. Irving is the king of hearts,
and an American actor-John Drew
is the jack of hearts.
The ace of clubs is Beerbohm Tree
Ethel Barrymore is the ten of hearts,
and Edna May, the Big Casino, the ten
of diamonds.
Annie Russell is a modest trey of dia-
monds
De Wolf Hopper is a king of spades.
Weldon Grossmith is q jack.
Sir Charles Wyndham also gets into
the ace division.
Ferdinand GottschaIk, James Welsh,
Jameson Lee Finney, and Arnold DAILY
are nine spots
Ellis Jeffreys' eyes make two and her
hands the other two diamonds of the
four of that suit,
William Collier is a jack.
Gertrude Elliott ranks as a six spot.
Robert ManteH is a ten.
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William Kelley is the leading man of
a New York stock company, and q
personal friend of a Tammany poll
tician, whose wife is model Of all
the domestic virtues. Among her other
accomplishments is a talent for max
ing homemade bread. One evening she
had finished setting the batch of dough
to rise in the kitchen, and was rest
ing herself in the parlOr, when the 81
lence was disturbed by her 6-year-old
son, who came running upstairs, cry
ing, Mamma mammal there's a
mouse jumped into your bread pan"
The good woman was much per-
turbed, and frantically asked Did you
take him Out?"
Nom, but 1 done just as good; I
threw de cat in, an she's diggin' after
him to beat de band.'
William Gillette recently wrote and
produced in London a One-act playIet
entitled 1.-The Painful Predicament Of
Sherlock Holmes He appears in it
as Holmes. but does not speak a word
from the rise of the curtain until its
fall. He is discovered as the detective
sitting smoking before the fire in his
room in Baker street. Despite the eff
forts of his attendant, a young woman
forces her way into the room and be
gins a torrent of talk which speedily
shows her to be mentally unbalanced.
She smashes Holmes pet violin, tears
pictures from the wall, Overturns the
furniture, and finally begins a long I'll
rade concerning some great injustice
her lover has been subjected to by her
father. Holmes sits motiOnless save
for a moment, when he scribbles a few
words on a piece of paper and, ring
ing for the attendant. motions that the
note is to be delivered. The girl con-
tinues her talk until two officers enter
and lead her away. The boy gives a
cleW to the contents of the note by
remarking as the curtain falls: 1T
was the right asylum, sir" The Lon
don critics seem to think that Mr.. Gil
lette might have given himself more
to do with advantage to the playlet
Miss Irene Vanbrugh as the lunatic is
said to have carried off the difficult
scene with no inconsiderable success.
The recent revival of 1.-The Merchant
of Venice" in New York by F. H
SOthern and Julia Marlowe required a
great deal of research as to proper cos
tunes, wigs and make cups" Among
other concentrations discovered by Mr..
Sothern in EXAMINING all known opin-
ions on staging the play was a letter
written in the early eighties by Edwin
Booth, in which he carefully described
two things-his Interpretation of Shy
lock, and his idea of the physical ap-
pearance which the character Tubal
i