Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-08
THEATER GOSSIP

THEATER GOSSIP
Miss Maudc Fealey has closed her
tour in THE Stronger Sex" 1t was
not strong enough.
Miss Maxine Elliott in Myself Bet
tina. a new comedy by Miss Rachel
Crothers. will follow Miss Doro at Pow
ers' Theater in Chicago next week.
Logan Paul who has been playing
Baco White, the Indian interpreter, in
THE SquaN Man. has been engaged
by the Shuberts for VIII NJ. Cressy's
new play, The Village Lawyer" OPEN
ing on Feb. 3.
One of the New York papers recently
referred to the chief counsel for the de-
PENDANT in the famous Thaw case as
"the Belasco of the Bar" The Grid
iron club OF Washington, the noted or
ganigation OF Washington correspond
ents. once called Shakespeare THE
Belasco of his day
Miss Nance O'Neil will make her first
appearance in Chicago vaudeville next
week at the Majestic Theater, present.
ing one-act play called The Jewess,H
which has been adapted by Mckee
Rankin from Leah the Forsaken.'
Miss o'Nei is supported by company
which includes Mr.. Rankin.
The authoritative life of Henry Ir-
wing witch Austin Brereton is writing
VIII be brought out next autumn. The
actors sons have supplied all the rec
ords and other documents relative to
their father which they possess. An
excellent site. by the way has been
granted in London for a statue of
Irving.
David Belasco is the hardest worker
of any of the American playwrights
1t is not an unusual occurrence for him
TO rehearse company for 10 or IL
hours at stretch, and then when the
actors are tired he dismisses them and
goes to work on pruning and fixing up
bits of his play. upon which he may
line himself still engaged long after
midnight.
The body OF the actress. Adrienne Le-
couvicur. was secretly buried by the
Seine In Paris. 1t was comparatively
recently that her grave was identified
in the cellar OF a house IN the Rue
Grenelle. 1t was marked by square
stone bearing her name and the date
of her birth with other details that
made is certain the grave was actually
hers.
The stage adaptation of Rudyard
Kipling's famous story. THE Gadsbys,"
which Coslno Hamilton made some
time ago for Messrs. Harrison and
Maude at the London Haymarket. but
which never was produced because of
the disagreement between those man
ayers. has now fallen into other hands,
and is to be played before long at
one OF the principal West End thea
tiers.
jolly Fanny Rice tells this amusing
dialect story: "A colored girl asked
the drug clerk for 10 cents with o.
court plaster"
Flesh cullah. sub"
Wheneupon the clerk proffered a box
OF black court plaster.
The girl opened the box with a de-
liberation that was ominous. but her
face was unrufhed as she noted the
color OF the contents and said:
Il asst for flesh eullah an you done
give me skin culHh"
The welcome announcement Is made
that Mr. Edward Yroom. the American
actor and playwright, who was for
several seasons n member OF the
Booth Modieska organizations. and lat.
er toured the country In his own yer.
blons or Don Caesar de BaZan,' Vie
tor Hugo's "Ruy Bias" and other plays.
VIII soon return to the New York stage
This WIN be Mr. Vroom's first appear
ance here as an actor since his admir-
able production Of Francois Coppeo'r
For the Crown" nj Wallack's thea
ter ton years ago. since which time he
has been In England, where he has
won success as an author and az lead
ing actor In Drury lane theater. Lon
don, and in the provinces,
Many and curious are the notes re-
celved by actresses from matinee girls
hui this. which came TO Julia Dean OF
The Round IN had a new note of
VARIETY:
Dear Miss Dean.
II was delighted 90 see you as Polly
In The Round Up | thought YOU Were
Just lovely. and ! couldn't realize thnt
twelve years ago you were my SUNDAY
school teacher IN Salt Lake city.
II remember that YOU entertained ~
al your house one Saturday aftornoor
by acting IN little play. Soon ate
that you made your debut In Salt Lake
CITY IN The Mikado and / had the |
pleasure OF seeing you, am very proud |
Of having boen your sunday school |
scholar. Mirror
one OF the best laughs the known,
public has at actors rs when stag, /
fencing is attempted The prone
handling Of "A rapier or broadsWord
rs an art which cannot be learned with
the rapldity Of the lines Tor the next