Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-30

old salt Lake theater goers. said Mr..
Pyper;
ION my recent visit to New York. /
was exchanging "reminiscences with Il
number of old-tme theatrical friends,
and Louis Morgenstern asked me II l
knew that George ID. Chaplin was stu
alive and residing in New York had
often wondered what had become of
Chaplin. as I remembered him when
WAS boy, looking breathlessly from
the third circle OF the Salt Lake thea
ter, while he slid down the toboggan
in Mick OF the Woods" and with
ahunderous tones cried: 'Tis /, the
Jfbbonanosayr How the gallery gods
them wondered, including myself, If
we should ever have the price of a
seat down in the parquette.
But am DEPRESSING. l was In
terested in Chaplin. and following the
directions of Mr.. Morgenstern,
Jumped on a Seventh avenue car. and
went down to No. 245 Eleventh street.
at the door. and a servant told me that
Mr.. Chaplin was not In. that he had
gone to a drug store on the corner.
] found the drug store which con-
tanned number OF people who were
getting shelter from the rain storm.
The rain came down in torrents 1t
don't seem like raining in New York
it Just Stops over
Looking among the drug store
crowd. 1 easily selected my man.
went to him and asked, Are you
George Chaplin? He said, I'm the
man Well ! said. I am from Salt
Lake city and have charge of the ola
theater in which you acted many
years ago. His face Immediately
took on an agreeable smile, and hold
ing out his hand, he said, I'm mighty
glad to see you
Chaplin only weighs 215 pounds at
present but has reached the enormous
weight of PCS. He Is 76 years old and
has not acted for ten years. He shows
every sign of having been well cared
for.
He invited me over to his house and
presented me picture OF IT, This
house is one of interest as It was
built In revolutionary days by Lord
Hammond. That part of New York
was then called Greenwich Village.
and the house was No. Al Hammond
street. The place was given to Lord
Hammond by the English government
After Hammond left, IL was occupied
by two or three successors, and then
air Chaplin's father. who lived next
door, bought It. We assembled to the
thifd story. where he lives alone, ana
once comfortably seated he became
reminiscent, and told me many inter
eSting things connected with his ap-
pearances in salt Lake city.
p. L.. 1. a
cille Western was peventcd from con-
tlnuing the play of oliver Twist.
chaplin met her some time after
she was excited over the oliver Twist
matters, and her excitement was in
creased by the evident use of stimuli
ants. She told Chaplin about the
withdrawal of the play. and was much
lncensed against President Young for
his action
Mr. Chaplin WAS ripe i'm his mem
cries of HyraIn Il. Clawson John T.
Game. David Mckenzie. Phil Margetts
John S, Lindsay, John c. Graham, Jean
Clara Walters, the Bowrings Jimmie
harris, ana all the old theatrical peo-
pie of those days. He was, however
especially pleased with the interest that
President Brigham Young always took
in theatrical affairs The president
came to my dressing room on one oc-
casion, and asked me If l ever played
SteNen FIuiho IN All that Glitters is
~. ~, ,iplu, replied that ] had.
NeIi, sdlu ne put IL on. mat Is my
I%FoIltu play' IN rev days we did
put II on ana PRESIDENT Young watched
tue pay win keen interest and great
cnJo$ HleHt'
m ] also remember the production OF
ne seven sisters, said Chaplin,
Nheh P'hy"d the part of Mrs. Pluto
ana came on as IA fairy President
Young threw nm his hands and abonk
win laughter.
by the way said Chaplin, how is
margaret Clawson?' | remember once
nelhg invited 10 an afternoon party at
her house and when | arrived there,
every person present was n lady. In
splle or mat fact 1 remained a bache-
Ior an my life''
asked Mr., Chaplin n he had never
felt Inclined toward the marriage state.
HIS face changed its expression and no
lntlmated that his heart was buried in
Greenwood cemetery. That took him
DHck Ia his hoyhood days and he cN-
planned that his name was not George
ID. Chaplin, but George pacen mglis.
In his younger days he desired TO be an
actor, but his father objected, so he
ran away from home and went TO New
Orleans where he appeared IN a stock
company under his right name. A
friend Of his father who noticed the
name, sent word 20 the elder lnglis, and
no Immediately repaired 10 New or
leans ana took the hoy home. At tho
age of a. however. lnglis again took
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