The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-30

L. z. Martelle as Caiaphas was also good.
The Holy City is well staged and the
special music adds TO the pleasure of the
entertainment. 1t runs throughout the
week, with the usual matinees, and judg-
ing from the reception given 1t on its
first presentation, it will be popular-a
strong card for state fair and conference
week.
Managerial instinct is not always to be
trusted, as many successful man at the
head of theatrical affairs has found to
his cost, and in proof of this may be cited
the fact that while THE Vanderbilt
Cup, which is to be seen at the Salt
Lake theatre all this week, opening to-
night, is the first real simon-pure motor
drama yet given to the public. there have
been at least three others submitted to
managers within a space of eighteen
months before the present vehicle was
given public presentation.
In February. 1905, well-known author
walked into Charles Frohman's office and
laid down the manuscript of an automo-
bile play with the remark that it was the
very thing the public had been yearning
for these many moons. Mr.. Frohman
snOrted derisively at the thought and re-
fused to even look at it, saying that such
thing as a gasoline drama would be
hooted from the stage at the very OUT
set. Charles V. Dillingham; was offered
a suggestion that embodied a motor plav-
but he was of the opinion that the hour
was not propitious, and that the public
seriously. Then the author with an idea
that smelled of gasoline rushed into the
Office of Henry B. Harris and talked
sparkling plugs, carburetters and speed
gears until he had run himself down, but
Mr.. Harris merely smiled and limited tina
the motor car was hardly vet of sufffc-
lent tried worth to warrant its adoption as
dramatic theme. particularly as it en-
bodied no vital emotional principle
Then James Gates saw the possibilities
of the motor car and into his brain crepr
the genesis of great motor drama that
should be something strong and virile. He
what he wanted, and the deed was half
accomplished. The result is one of the
biggest successes Of the past season.
At the Orpheum this bill opens tonight.
Julie Herne & Co.. in Between the
Acts Lew Hawkins, the Chesterfield of
mlnstrelsy; Leona Thurber and her pick
aninnies; Scott and Wilson, acrobatic
original acrobats; Thomas Carey. novelty
banjoist; the kinodrome and the Orpheum
orchestra
The state fair week bill at tbe T.1rio
opened last night to a crowded house
Most of the acts were well presented. The
headllner this week is Miss Nellie Ettinge
and company in Picking a Winner" an
amusing satire apronoS to the race meet
at the state fair. Among the other acts
on the bill are Gilmore and Castle in
black face; the Four Schardes. In a.
sketch. Mistakes will Happen" the Far
leys in a song and dance speciality. ana
Baby Dorothy in illustrated songs
In addition to her concert work under
Loudon Charltons direction, Nine. Johan-
ma Gadski who is to be heard here next
Monday, is now one of the leading priIna
donnas of the Metropolitan Opera com
pany. When in New York, Nine. Gadskf
lives at an uptown hotel, for with con-
slant rehearsing she has little time for
domesticity. But in Berlin she has her
own charming home, with its many sra-
cious rooms. all lavishly provided with
beautiful furniture and hangings There
are many rare works of art, while plants
and flowers are everywhere
In this beautiful home where she
spends her summers with her husband
and little daughter, Gadski forgets the
eXigeneies of artist life. except for a GER
tain number of hours a day which she
faithfully devotes to practice and study.
repertoire for she is an inveterate worker
and her own severest critic.
The results of GadSki's summer study
are shown in her concert programs. which
Invariably show a number of novelties i'm
addition to the great arias and lieder. for
whose rendition she is famed
A new Sousa march, ''Powhatan's
DaL ghter,' will be one of the program
novelties in all concerts given By the
Sousa band on its coming grand trans
continental tour. that is t. include one
hundred and more ea1aeSs