Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-11
pEsEREr EVENING NEWS SATURDAY JANUARY 1908
sneclal colrespondence.

Special Correspondence
r ONION. Jan. lon both sides OF
the straits of Dover. the ever
present nuisance Of the Dig nat
M the theatcr again is under dis
cussion. BY London writer's 1t ~ as
serted that the enjoyment OF many
Juvenile patrons Of this seasons pan
tomimes" has been ruined by the adult
wearers of these distractions out up 70
date no course Of action against them
moro drastic than moral suasion mas
been suggested. But in France the suf-
ferers from excessive headgear in the
playhouse havo resolved on stern meas
ures The lead IN the new crusade rs
being taken by a newspaper winch mas
Just offered gold medal TO the play
goer who makes the most successful as
sault on big hat which has obscured
his view
To begin with, this journal attempted
to form a league of theatrical mana
gers against the big hat,but 1t failed be-
cause three directors held out. Hence
the gold medal which win be awarded
ito the spectator who. before the end of
the present season, having been an
noyed by woman's hat, shall have
made the most row" Would-be medal
lists already announce their plans. one
VIII go to the play next time with q
pair OF shears and 'let little daylight
into any hat that may be before him,
Another who has fine head of hair.
proposes to electrify 1t and appear in
his stall like the fretful porcupine. He
warrants that his locks on end will COW
er an area of two square feet, which
liz the size of a small matinee bonnet.
A third aspirant to the medal declares
he has bought Il miller's hat which he
viii smuggle into the house under
cloak If he is behind a lady in the us
ua1 theater headgear who refuses to re-
move 1t, he will put his on, and wild
horses win not tear 1t OF. A fourth rev
olutionist has the most ingenious, If
rather savage. scheme. Take, he rec
omm,ends, "a string about two feet
long, and tie a pin TO each end. Stick
firmly one of the pins into a lady's
hat and the other into the stuff back
of the ladys stall. Tile slightest
movement made by her will then dis
arrange the monument on her head.
| When she gets up her hat win be torn
| off. Then you can laugh. She won't
| put ii on again" Womens hats. in
| fact, appear TO be goeding the French
men into a fierce sacrifice of their ma
| tive gallantry.
In London the American actress is
having another triumph. In the Drury
| Lane Ian! or,ime--the leading enter
talnment of this kind in the country
the principal boy and principal girl"
both hail from the land of the dollar
| The first is Miss Meredith Maredro
| who originally came over to appear at
the halls in The Stunning Grenadiers"
| and who was snapped up by Arthur
Collins, and the second is Marie George
who now is an established favorite with
audiences at odd Drury." Both have
scored heavily in this winters panto-
1 Il lao, Pol hos Ia,
WooG."
Meanwhile. further up the Strand,
the bright particular star of the Adel-
phi pantomime, Aladdin" is another
Yankee damsel. Happy Fanny Fields.
She appears at the -Adelphi moreover
IN spite of the two attempts to re-
strain her from so doing, one on The
part of the Tivol, and the other OH
that of the Holborn Music Hail. 1t APP
pears that this young lady's excessive
happiness led her TO enter into three
separate contracts which conflicted
rather seriously, To begin with, there
was tine one with Robert Arthur, pru,
prietor of the "Adelphi." which, as
has been Indicated, stands in the
classic Strand. The other two manage
ments do not go in for pantomime. and
their complaints were not Oh this score
but on the ground that the American
laughtermaker had covenanted TO an.
| " 49, HNS'S III MAY anu, ~
the meantime, not to give performances
at any place OF entertainment within
mile OF either playhouse. Nor. the
Tivoli is exactly across the street from
the Adelphl, and the Holborn is les.
than half mile away, hence the re-
cent attempted injunction against
Happy Fanny" They failed as II
proved that the agreement with Robert
Arthur was of prior standing-that Il
was entered into" in fact, In Janu.
airy. 1906, whereas the other two were