Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-18

mourn 10 ma llNV H"lAo ."
the scandal columns OF the
-sIlow newspapers of the east, and TO
read that she has been compelled 10
retire temporarily owing to distress Oh
mind over these publications. FROM
all accounts received thus far 1t looks
as though an innocent woman name
had been dragged into a malodorous
case through spite. woman hail'cu
Won Hermann, IN suing her nusoapu
for divorce, named Miss MurloWe as d
correspondent. Her friends were high-
ly indignant, claiming that it was
reckless and unwarranted case oil
Islander. Miss Marlowe at first refused
to notice the reports and kept on ner
tour but later the publicity preyed so
much upon her mind that she seems
10 have collapsed. Her name has been
entirely free from the breath OF scan
dial all her life and her many friends
in the west unite with those In the
east in the confident nope that she viii
emerge from the ordeal with her repu-
cation unscathed,
1t was the yellow sensation mongers
that drove Mary Anderson from the
stage and ruined The career or Georgia
Cayvan, and now they seem to have
united on another shining target. May
their efforts this time prove less sue
oessful.
Manager Piper has just been advis-
ed that Louis James has purchased
from the estate OF Richard Mansfield,
the famous production OF Peer
Gynt," the play TO which Mr.. Mans
field had devoted so much care and
attention just prior to his death. Mr..
James manager thinks the role viii be
one eminently suited to his stars tai
ents, and the big scenic mouptings ana
all the costumes which were designed
by Mansfield himself, will prove de-
cided acquisition TO Mr.. James.
The production is booked Tor salt
Lake next fall.
The coming of Mary Mannering in
the new American play Glorious
Betsy by the author of Brown OF
Harvard" to the Salt Lake Theater
next Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
is an event of more than ordinary in
terest as II will mark the first APP
pearance here of Miss Mannering in
her best and most successful play. The
Shubert Bros. have given Glorious
Betsy magnificent setting ana
scenic inyestiture which the pie
turesque and highly colored life of the
period make possible.
This new play has for its central
figure that radiant belle of yesterday,
Betsy Patterson. whose beauty and
allDlltpI lnduG lpI afltF one OF inc most
remarkable careers ever attained by an
American woman From the position
OF Baltimore belle whose wit, pride
ana rather daring independence made
her the admiring comment of all fash
,,onable '.Jciety In America, she sprang
suddenly into international notice by
her marriage with Jerome Bonaparte,
the brother of Napoleon. just at the
time when he was proclaimed emperor
! of the French.
They are betrothed and the play tells
= or the efforts of Napoleon's agents to
prevent their marriage; their fruitless
voyage to France, where Napoleon re-
fused to allow Betsy to land, ana the
mai happy triumph of the lovers.
Miss Mannering has carefully Sc
lected the supporting company and
perfect performance is assured.
The famous Jim Corbett. ex-pugilist
is headed this way, Following closely
upon the heels of his recent success
IN the Proctor Stock theaters of New
York, wherein he demonstrated that he
would act and act well too at that, Cor
bett Is being announced in new play
styled THE Burglar and the Lady" the
advance notices telling of the authors
success In moulding pretty story
around the two popular stage heroes,
Sherlock Holmes and Ned DanVers. II
the press agent can be believed, we are
TO be given something out of the or
binary when the attraction comes next
week. The Offering. while II is said
TO be meodramatlc In theme, is a con-
sistent story and Is filled with new
situations that lend much to its attrao-
tiveness, Mr., Corbetts engagement
opens Eastern Monday at the salt Lake
Theater.
one OF the most interesting engage
ments of the season is that OF John
Drew who Will appear at the salt Lake
TheateG soon In MY Wife" a play
whose reputation has spread over the
country in n very short time. His
stay at the Empire Theater extended
over four months and My Wife" ana
the performance OF MIR, Drew and his
company was the talk OF the town.
Mrs Temples Telegram a Broad
way success, is one of the nearby at
fractions at the Salt Lake Theater, The
e, comedy Is now owned by l.. II. Stock
well. the famous old actor who IL en-
7 trely blind, but still deyotes HIM
y self to theatrical management,
Many Salt Lakers win recall the frat
appearance IN this city of While Edou-
q IN, the English actor who died In Lon
4 don during the past week. lie gave US
almost our first taste OF farce comedy
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