The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-22

William Fl, Crane has accepted an
offer from one OF several prominent
book houses that have been haunting
him for a volume Of his "reminiscences,
which, when it comes out, will be called
"Forty Years on the Stage. The
fortunate publishers finally got Mr..
Crane 10 go TO work on the task by the
clever device of Offering TO send on tour
with the actor one of its staff, who WIZ
always be near him whenever the mood
strikes Mr.. Crane, and Immediately
take down in shorthand whatever DIT
of stage history or personaha comes up,
These will afterward be Systematically
put together in book form, The maj
product cannot but be rich and enter
tainine reading for few American ac-
tors have had the advantage Of finer
associates and moro interesting asso'
Citations than FThe Senator. - David
Harum" and "Lemuel Morewood. -
The Only pity is that science or art has
not yet developed means OF trans
and pantomime and the genial laugh
that accompany tine telling of these
stories For example Mr.. Crane has
the cracked voice and the toothless uJ-
terance of Joseph Jefferson down per
fectly as be tells, with Jefferson S funny
little index,6ngef gesture, the story OF
s9 sasTeFng letters +ba anq hes, 'S@SfSqo gaG fo
y
answer letters is not to answer them
for two weeks. Then half OF them have
answered themseive and II s too late
TO answer the rest. -
'fThe Wolf" q new play by Eugene
Walter, author of "Paid in Full, Will
b seen ct S the &oi Sal Lax: thg@fSr IN
OF the Canadian Hudson Bay country
in three acts, and deals with the rugged
manhood OF that far northern country,
which resists and defeats the plans of
an adventurer among women. Andrew
Robson. splendid actor, heads the cast
GA Kentucky Boy" by Pauline
Phelps and Marion Short, will be 81 aw
& ErlangeT S next production. The pay
is now in rehearsal In this drama
the authors open new field for stage
purposes, although one cultivated care
fully by the novelist. Cut off from
the world by mountain ridges and lack
Of access by railroads. the dramatic
student ie likely to find stirring plots
which the women playwrlghts now in
wade.
Manager 2. Lawrence Walker reports
excellent business Tor Charles 3, Han
ford. despite the distractions of g Pres.
idential Year And il is generally
admitted that outdoor political demon
stTations constitute the most formidable
rivalry that a legitimate theatrical at
traction ever has to encounter. One
of the most remarkable characteristics
of Charles B. Hanford s business is the
steadfast patronage he enjoys, regard
less OF outside considerations.
Frances Starr, charming, petite and
more beautiful than ever, has returned
10 New York, after a long summer in
ton of the new play which David Be
lasco is writing for. her,
David War6eld, the Bclasco star,
will next week enter Chicago for a
limited season in ''The Music Master F."
and ga Grand Army Man, - after a
ecord.breaking week in ST. Louis.
"The Warreus Of Virginia" with
Charlotte Walker and Frank Keeuan
in the leading roles, is beng eurhusi'
ssticaly received in every city Of its
itinerary as the most realistic play of
Civil War days ever presented on the
American stage, The incompatible art
of David Belasco places this thrilling
drama in class by itself,
Marie Cahin opened her new uusi-
cal play. "The Bows and Betty" at
Wallack IS theater. New York, Monday
night, and scored the greatest success
of her continuously successful starring
career There is no doubt that the
play marks au advance in the de-
velopment OF the American idea OF the
musical play, and, as a medium for
unfolding the comprehensive abilities
OF the charming star, il is the best she
has ever had.
"The Round. Up" Klaw & Er-
langer's great drama of the Arizona
desert, has repeated in Boston the
success which it achieved there last
year. After filing enga gemcnts in
and near New York city, the play
will be sent into Western territory