The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-28

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been called an eccentric coincidence
/ don't like that name. / want to be
a coincidence legitimate coincidence.
am not going to confess my ambitions
but l don't want to play ODhelia or
POrtia; l don't even want to play Ca
mile. But 1 do want 10 be taken Sc
rioUs, as Mabel Hite.
Perhaps you have heard the story
of Margaret Anglin's ability TO cry over
a dish of ice cream. 1t is not more
singular than Eddie Foy going to see
The Music Master three times in sue
cession and crying like a baby each
time he went. The play on the human
emotions is controlled by those powers
which the actor has been trained to use
either for laughter or, for tears. Your
true artist can bring tears by bur-
lesque. In New York at present there
is an actor who burlesques David War
field, and does it so well that he throws
the whole house into tears. Then he
suddenly turns around and burlesques
Sam Bernard, and waves of laughter
sweep the audience. Being funny is an
art-it is not acquired altogether. Just
as good physician is said to have been
born with the instinct for his profess
sion, the real comedian is born with the
instinct of laugh getting. But the de-
velopment of the instinct is hard work
When the late Georgia Cayvan. then
| leading woman of the old Lyceum the
atre company, first thought of retiring
from the stage because of illness, she
wrote TO her relatives and friends that
| she wished to donate to the next act
ors' fund fair her diamond star.
| For the fair. about fourteen years
ago. the managers purchased from Tiff
fanny &c Co. large diamond star TO be
H. xT,4- no
competition was one of the most lively
of the week. All the actresses had
their admirers and adherents, but Miss
| Georgia Cayvan, who spent day and
night at the Madison Square garden,
where the fair was held. in constant
hard work in the interest of the fund,
and who held then what was regarded
as the reigning position on the~New
York stage, received the tribute of this
jewel by great majority of votes.
The cash value of the star is about
/ $1,000, and the sentiment attached to
| it's donation to the fund. since the ac-
tress' death, gives it additional signih-
canoe and forms what might be termed
memorial tribute to the dead actress
and popular favorite of her day, to the
most popular actress of the present
time.
The administrators of the Georgia
Cayvan estate have turned the dia-
mond star over to Daniel Frohman,
president of the fund, and it viii form
feature of the fair to be held at the
Metropolitan opera house in the week
of May g.
The keen satire of some of Bernard
| Shaw's lines in Caesar and Cleopatra"
/ is apparent in scene between the
guardian of King Ptolemy of Egypt
and Caesar, the latter having made a
mand upon the Egyptian treasury for
| 1,6e0 talents. He Is Informed that there
is little money in the treasury, and the
| taxes have not been collected for a
year. ooh, yes, they have replied
| Caesar "Iny officers have been busy
collecting them all morning
Can it Ee possible replied the
kings guardian, that julius Caesar,
the conqueror of the world. can inter
est himself in such a vulgar thing as
our taxes?"
my friend" replied Caesar, with
great elaboration, 1.-The chief business
of conqueror is taxes
| Frederick Burton, the original Bub
Hicks in THE College Widow halls
from Gossport Ind, village that
George AIDE has Drawn on for some of
| his Hoosier characters. Burton got
his start on the stage after making a
hit in a knights of Pythias benefit in
Gossport. After three years absence
from home his company played in Ter
re Haute, and Burton invited his
father to come over and see him act
The old man watched the performance
and after the last curtain went back
on the stage TO see his SON Presently
the treasurer appeared at the dressing
room door and handed Burton his week
ly pay envelope. Burton, sr., saw the
figures on the outside and his eyes
| sparkled.
You don't tell me you get that much
every week, do you?' exclaimed the old
gentleman.
That's right" the son replied mod
estly
sNWell. what other chores do you have
to do besides actin'?" inquired father.
pertinently
/ Charles Frohrnan having arrived in
London, it is not strange to learn by
cable that he has determined on a Gu
rious new plan in play producing. He
announces that when Nicely Neil is
put on in New York he will introduce
a sort of competition between English
| and American actors He will import
a company of some fifty English artists
with the play. One night they will
sing the songs and dance the dances,
the next night a company of American
actors viii sing the same songs and
dance the same dances. Then, of
course. the public may determine--if
the are not certain already-whether
England or America is the greatest ma
ton, at any rate as far as the acting of
musical comedy goes. The plan is a
capital one. it would seem. because
most persons having seen the play once
viii wish to. see it again for the sake