The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-05

When Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" opens at the Salt Lake theatre
next Thursday night, the second edi-
tion of the Taliaferro stage child trust
viii be found upon the stage, for in the
part of Loyey Mary in the play, which
was originated by Mabel Taliaferro
four years ago. younger sister viii
essay the part.
Edith Taliaferro is now 10 years old.
Ever since Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bage Patch" was given its premiere
there has been a violent struggle in
the Taliaferro family between Mabel
and Edith. Edith always insisted that
she was the proper individual to play
Lovey Mary. and that when she came
ter's work resemble a Filipino .peseta in
the United States treasury.
On occasion. 1t is said. the argument
waXed so strong that Edith almost sew
cred all professional relations with her
mother and insisted that when it came
her turn to book herself for part the
last place she would go to place her
name on the rolls was the Office of
Nine. Taliaferro.
However that may be, the time has
come and E6ith has come into what she
believes are her rights. and on the stage
of the Salt Lake theatre nex> Thursday
night she will proudly show her Salt
Lake friends what she can do with a
part that she believes was never in
tended for any one else.
Miss Taliaferro was last seen here
with Ezra Kendall in Weather Beaten
Benson" Five years ago she appeared
at the Salt Lake theatre as Jenny with
j. II. StOddard in Bonnie Briar Bush. -
Her first appearance in Salt Lake was
a fun ten years ago when she appeared
\ as Milly Berry with James A. Herne
in "Shore Acres" on his first trip to
Salt Lake.
On Monday, May 6. in New York, the
Actors fund fair will open at the Met
ropoiitan opera house. President
Roosevelt will press the button. A
thousand enthusiastic men and women
of the stage viii do the rest, with the
assistance of an interested public. The
fair will be the chief attraction of the
town during the entire week. The ba-
EAR will be open from 1880 to 6 .. m,
and from 1880 D. m. to midnight There
Will be dozens of booths, combined in
the general scenic scheme of the village
of StrstfOrd- on-Avon, with numerous
special entertainments. side shows, art
galleries, musical demonstrations, tea
gardens. band concerts, orchestra re-
Ciials and other features. Special dis
plays will be made by the leading the
Professional Woman's League. Twelfth
Nighters Actors Church Alliance, Cen
fury Theatre club. the Rainy Days,
Actors Society Lambs, White Rats,
Vaudeville Comedy club and the Green
Room club. An enormous quantity of
printing. Autograph, block and type
work is coming in, contributed by show
Print houses in New York Philadel-
piiia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland.
Detroit Milwaukee South Bend, New
port Ky. kansas City and other cities.
Tee fair VIII be billed like a circus and
without dollars cost. Manager Mil
ton Roblee has the thousand business
details perfectly systematized. Z. D.
Price. manager OF promotion, has Sc
cured greater advance publicity from
ocean 20 ocean than was given TO the
Pan-American and St Louis EXPOSE
lions combined.
The Augustin DAILY Musical company
closed q weeks engagement at the Salt
Lake theatre last night. Business was
surprisingly bad. The company is very
gpod. indeed. 1t contains three or four
singers of more than ordinary ability,
and the chorus was IN every way capa-
BILE Perhaps a reason for the poor
business may be found in the fact that
Salt Lake within recent weeks has had
rather more than its share of high-class
laGsical productions. That is. not real
j. more than its share, but more than
II could absorb. Tie Daily company
VIII do a bigger business on its next
appearance, and deservediy SO.
The vaudeville season at the Or
pheum viii close on Saturday night