Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-27
LONDON STAGE NEWS.

he was frankly abusive. though In
clever IA shlon.
Made dramatic critic OF the sporting
Times. which is commonly Known as
the Pink I'M his attacks on all and
sIndry ware go unbrdled that the pro-
prictors " the journal weTo in daily
fear OF suits for libel. They finally
bought "Hall'' OF, in fact, by giving
him the money 10 start a paper OF MIS-
own and tlius the Bar came into eN-
istenCe, II was too eccentric however,
to survive long So 1t ts not surprlslns
that It's editor soon found himself "ow-
Ing ALL again Just before entering ct,
his wonderful success as Il libTetttst
THE Caeisha" alone, with Its run OF 700
Rights In London brought him In
fortune but the fees from this and his
other pieces were mortgaged before
their RUNS began. Huge royalties also
came to him from -E'lorodora.' eS-
ptcially from America, where 1t was
said that Tell Me, Pretty Maiden had
replaced Yankee Doodle" as the ma
tional tune,
AS was published at home at the time,
the librcttst recently formed limited
company, with the name OF owen
Hall, Ltd, to produce his own pieces,
and new one which he called THE
Catherine Whee1' was 10 have been
done at the Adelphi in September Da~
Wis last success was made with ser
geant Brue' which Frank Daniels
played In America The lIbrettist had
been sick man for months but his
death came as surprise, Taken alto
RettleT- he was one of the most amazing
characters which London's "Bohemia'
has produced.
1t has been sort OF satisfaction to
some OF the English critics to point out
that whereas Clyde Fitch Is declared
TO be the most successful of American
drana tistS, he isn't good enough for
least Of ''The Truth the latest Clyde
Fitch play to be produced here please
London playgofrs and even the critics
uncommonly well. The applause AT
the Comedy theater ON the first night OF
the play under the Frohman manage
ment was unstinted for two acts, fairly
strong for the third act. and almost
rerfnnctory for the final act. If only
the dranlattst had profited by the fall
ing-off enthusiasm and had pulled to-
gether his fourth act instead Of skip
ping off to the continent next day, to
do that Identical thing for his version
OF '-Toddles" American play stock
would have gone up a good many
points. One trouble was that he had
Interested us in the affairs Of three
couples ana then had utterly neglected
one of these couples and had left the
other nj loose ends The third couple
was represented by two daservedly
popular players, Roslna FiIlppi and
Dion Boucicault, and naturally the
great British public wanted to know
how their counting came out. But If
there was Some question about the
quality % the play, there was none
about the remarkable success of Marie
Tempest In the principal part She has
progressed steadily since the night Some
Is years ago when she appeared in the
old Star theater In Buffalo In her first
really important part, as the heroine
OF De koven and Smiths Fencing
Master and now it begins to be sus-
pected that instead of being simply an
uncOmmony bright, vivacious quick
wftted little woman. she Is perhaps a
great actress, a mistress Of smiles and
tears, worthy 10 rank with Rejane
CURTIS BROWN.