Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10

company. Mr.. Daniels declares Mr..
Hook to be the best part he has had
since his famous hit In The Rag
Baby
In "The Fighting Hope" at the Be
lasco Stuyvesant theater, New York,
Blanche Bates plays the part OF a.
stenographer. Several weeks of hard
practise have made her a proficient
typist and she actually writes the let
tiers dictated on the machine.
EleanorsS Robson has Just returned
from a summer vacation spent quietly
in the Isle of Wight, England, and is
making preparations for her coming
season. George G. Tyler. the managing
director of Liebler & Co.. has purchased
four plays for Miss Robson's use during
the coming season, and the young star
will be seen first in a drama by Rich
ard Harding Davis, to be called Vera,
the Medium" title that gives clue
to its nature. One OF the big effects
to be introduced. and incidentally one
tof the real novelties as far as the stage
is concerned, will be q "materializa-
ton" scene.
The new Evans bust OF Miss Maude
Adams has just been finished and Is
placed in the lobby OF the Empire thea
ter. New York. The work of a COM
paratively unnokwn sculptor, Rudolph
Evans, this bronze likeness of Miss
Adams Is an unusually happy piece of
work. 1t has fine portrait value-"tl1e
little ladys' very countenance seems
to be emerging through the mass of
bronze-and yet the delineation of the
features has not been done with
unrestrained literalness. Like Rodin,
or better, like Pater. Mr.. Evans leaves
something to the willing imagination
of the spectator
Mr. Henry Miller and Charles Ram
Kennedy have gone to London to ar
range for a. spring season in that city.
Great Divide" 1.-THE Servant In the
House, Mater" Mr. Kennedys 1.-THE
Winter Feast" and William Vaughan
Moody's THE Faith Healer" Mr..
Miller, Edith Wynne Matthison, and
Walter Hampden will appear in each
Matthison will succeed Miss Anglin.
and. surprising to relate, Mr. Hampden
will play Philip Jordan Mr.. Miller will
play the drain man in The Servant
in the House" In Mater" Mr.. Mil
Ter will be the politician Cullen, and
Miss Matthison tho heroine.
Viola Allen Is going to have new
play by Eugene Walter this season.
and UP at Wolf cottage, Walters place
in Connecticut, the newest playwright
is sitting up nights with u towel
wrapped around his dome of thought
digging scenes, dialogue and situations
out of the surrounding circumnambient
in an effort to get it all done by the
time Oct. Is rolls around. in the
meantime Miss Allen is impatiently
sitting UP in her home in New York
waiting for the MS. to come forth from
the Walter play emporium, and when
ever she hears the postmans whistle
she leaps up and peeks out, hoping that
it may be the medium for her efforts
Nat @. Goodwin, in between the times
of the suit for divorce he is bringing
against his wife. Maxine Elliott, on the
grounds of desertion. is out at Reno as
sociating With his gold mines and the
character OF Cameo Kirby, the principal
character of the new play he is to APP
pear In this coming season, and which
has koen written for him by Booth
Harrington and Harry Leon Wilson, tho
authors OF "The Man from Home The
play goes by the same name as the
character Goodwin is TO assume. and
those who are familiar With the MS.
insist that the erstwhiIe comedian will
have the greatest chance he has had
In many, many years. The character
4 Is that OF Mississippi river gambler of
the year 1895. and the four scenes are 4
2 iiiu IN New orleans ana OH d planta-
ton some 20 miles out from the city
Arnold DAILY got right UP in court the
other day and confessed that he didn't
know anything about business; that he
didn't want to; that he never knew
where his money went; that he some
times earned a thousand dollars a
week: that he was invariably broke;
that his family was an expensive one:
that he owned two suits of clothes and
that his brother was II stage electrician
who couldn't work because he had such
an ungovernable temper. He also In
sisted that he did not consider legal
matters one-half as Important as a. re-
hearsal, and that he$must be allowed to
leave court TO attendSto some really inn
portartt matters. He had also forgot
ten whether 1907 was last year, or next !