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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY MAY % 1908

many weeks with a curious public,
many OF whom had never before
heard her name. Now | hear that
Miss Dare will shortly essay the role
of Juliet at special matlnec TO DO
arranged by Robert Courtnoldge. her
manager.
Courtncidgo has grappled with the
problem Of womcu's hats and feels
certain that he will eliminate one OF
the most Objectionable features OF the
English plHyhouses. on every tick
ct sold at the queens is printed the
following notice.
Ladies' are kindly requested to note
that this ticket Is sold on condition
that they will remove their hats or
bonuets during the performance"
What Is perhaps more important,
tho management intends To enforce
the rule. Should one of tho fair sex
persistently refuse to comply, sho
VIII be politely but firmly asked to
leave the theater. and her money
handed back to her as she departs
with hautcur.
or course this IS by no means tho
first attempt that has been made to
force the ladies 10 don their hats for
the benefit of those behind. But all
previous attempts have failed and it
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
n JEW YORK May 17--Confcrence
N is being held In Boston today
and President McQuarr,e and
Mrs. Ida Smoot Dusenberry left
Friday evening by the FAN River line
to attend. Several of the elders also
accompanied the party. a social time
intersperscd with music and speeches
was enjoyed Saturday evening at. the
hall. aud three meetings Will he held
today at the same place; a large at
tendance - expected, the elders labor
ing in the Boston conference having
made preparations for n number from
Providence and the cities around Boss
ton. Miss Florence Jeppcrsons beau
tiful voice will be heard both Saturday
and Sunday. when she can be spared
from her duties In Boston, where she
IS doing solo work. The New York par
~ viii take the boat Sunday eve for
home, arriving early Monday morning.
Last Thursday Or. VIII Ward left for
his home In Willard City, Utah Tho
doctor win visit at home with his fam
lily for a month. returning some time
in June, and viii be accompanied by
his sister Elsie, who VIII remain in
New York during the summer. prob>
ably taking a course of study at Co
lumbia,
Prof. Hesfiey gave his last recital of
the season Friday evening at the Car
negie chamber, Music hall, Miss Mel
lie Treat, the professors star pupil, was
pianist. and Mr.. Bingham, "a baritone
OF reputation here, sang group OF
German songs which added to the
charm OF the evening. Prof. Heffiey's
Utah friends were out in force TO APP
plaud him and his pupils.
Mai. Radford of Philadelphia,
friend of Artist Geo. Barratt, gave a
dinner and theater party Thursday
evening. his guests being. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clyde Suuires. Miss Nora Eliason, Miss
Rea Nibley. and Mr.. Barratt. The
dinner was given at the Waldorf, and
a box for the "Witching Hour at
Hackett theater completed an evening
of rare pleasure to the friends of the
major.
The dramatic critic of Munsey's.
Matthew White. Jr., has just COM
pleted IA three-act modern play, col
iaborating with Fred Green, Jr. The
Truth Untold" being the name chosen.
Mr. White has also rewritten Stop,
Look Listen" making q four-act vor-
sion OF the sketch, which May Sully
has been doing so successfully in Vau-
deville all the season. Mr.. White is
a cousin Of Mrs. Nephi w. Clayton
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
W ONDON, May 13.--Twelve or fif-
teen years ago II was distinc-
ton I'm the aristoGratc feminine
< world of Great Britain not to
have written a novel. 1t Is not eN-
pensive-as expenses go in the smart
set"-to publish book, and being an
author was the fad When playwrit
ing came into vogue, there were not
so many who could follow the fashion.
The Duchess of Sutherland, with tho
originality aud the daring Of the Err
slline family, was the first to set the
ball rolling with her "COnQueror' a
dull, heavy play, which ran for fort
night. After her soon came the Hon.
Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton with Warp and
Wool" which had measure ~ sue
cess as IL dealt with vital subject.
The young Countess Of CrOmatie,
Scotch Celt and peeress in her own
right the richest woman In Scotland
after the Duchess OF Roxburghe, emu
lating the example set by her aunt
the Duchess Of Sutherland wrote one
or two medieval tragedies, lmagin-
alive and dramatic, and hundreds OF
society women of less exalted position
have had their plays performed AZ then
own expense In drawing rooms on IN
provincial towns.
Standing apart, distinct from the rest
OF The titled world Is Lady Gregory
Who writes plays not Tor the fad but
frSm love Of portraying character. Lady
Gregory is reserved, dignfied, un-
ambitious, dreaming mystic She - OF
that rare typo ur II'ishwomnn who
has not. To use AN expressive Amer-
can phrase, the gift of CAB"
/ talked "a her about the now type
of Irish plays introduced by Syngo,
Yeates and herself, and found that she
looked TO America for the best ap-
probation of them. Americans" sh,
said, Understand Irish sentiment, lr-
ish feeling ana the immense complex
ity of Irish character far better than
other nations. Maybe this is because
there Is 50 much Irish blood in tho
appreciate the Irish plays there" AC-
the best proofs that the English COM
freshman ana enjoy only that type was
types OF real Irish plays We're performed
a. the Queens theater, London, %
practically empty benches. Even the
press gave them but poor welcome,
though the united efforts Of Lady
were displayed. in acting which was
granted TO be- supreme OF It's kind.
The Irish players have been llkoned
10 tho Sicilans who held London spell
hound a few months ago. but why the
former failed and the Italians We're
glorihed Is ineXpllcablo except perhaps
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23

hall stage Of his development. Colonel
Mapleson, meanwhile, was holding the
fort at the old Academy of Music, in
precarious annual season of Italian
opera. The good old Madison Square
Garden was Hippodrome, concert arena
and three -ringed circus combined.
Fourteenth street was the Great
White Way OF that bygone period, I'm
ion square was its Railto. Niblo's
Garden, OF BLACK Crook" fame, ad-
joined the Metropolitan hotel and
faced the st. Nicholas, on Broadway
below Houston street, HaTIgan and
Harris Theater Comique was u popular
shrine two or three blocks further
north. At Thirteneth street and Broad
way stood the Star, formerly Wallack's,
where Henry Irving made his American
debut as Matthias in The Bells The
Casino, at Thirty-ninth street and
Broadway, the new Wallack's, at
Thirtieth street, and the Bijou and
Days opposite, We're the uptown thea
trical high-water mark. though at Forty
first street there was n Cosmopolitan
Thoater where Calendars Minstrels
held forth, under the management Of
MessIs. Gustave and Charles Frohman.
Daniel Frohman was acting manager,
and David Belasco was stage manager
OF Steele Mackaye's Madison Square
Theater-the original home of Hazel
Kirke" and the double stage, and later
the habitat of what in those days the
critics, headed by Nym Crinkle called
the "catnlp-tea drama" represented by
such inoctious little pieces as alpine
Roses" May blossoms" and "a RUS
sian Honeymoon" Daniel Frohman,
stnl in conjunction with Macltaye and
Belasco founded the I.yceum Theater,
over on Fourth avenue notable mod
ern stock company playhouse, which
has had its rise. made a lasting record
in theatrical history, and passed away
all within Is years. In May, 1888 Ia
Belle Russo" David Belasco's first sue
cossful venture in the emotional semi
dramatic line OF play-writing which
later he so brilliantly exploited was
produced at Wallacks, with Rose C'ogh-
Ian in the title role.
These were the declining days Of the
old stock-company system. The most
noted actors and actresses, such as
Booth, Barrett. Davenport, John Nc
CullouRh, Dion Boucicault. Jefferson,
the older Sothern, James A. Herne,
John n. Raymond. Richard Mansfield.
w. j. Florence. clara Morris Maggie
Mitchell. Mrs. John Drew MARY An
derson, Modieska and Lolita, were al
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
REAL IRELAND ON THE STAGE

that there is still race enmlty in Eng
land. Rarely win you find an English
critic enthuse over anything Irish.
Lady Gregory's contributions To what
are now defined as The Irish Plays"
are the CLEANS of sunshine in the SOM
her. mystical tragedies Of the other
writer's OF this group. 1t IS always OF
peasant life that she writes. The
peasants are the people who interest
her. She concludes that directly you
educate an Irishman he loses his orig
inality, his picturesqueness In her
hands no Irish character, however fool
ish or indiscreet becomes u carcature.
They are quaint, picturesque, human,
and true as life 10 the country to which
they belong. You meet them at every
cross road IN ireland. You laugh with
them In their joys, weep with them in
their sorrows. II YOU are not Irish,
there are times when you want badly
10 shake them, but that only proves
you do not understand the individual
or his temperament.
Lady Gregory's plays. like all the
others. are staged In the most realis-
tic manner, one can imagine oneself
I'm a "Shebeen" shop in Galway, when
watching picture Of such a place.
There is not a yestlge of color falsely
applied by these actor laywrights,
who know the scenes that they por-
tray.
Lady Gregory has a hobby-lf l
might call f. such-for planting
trees; not few by way OF auuse-
ment, but thousands" ms she says.
ITO Keep the irish moods in order"
Her home IS In Galway, the spot OF all
others I'm Ireland which is fun OF tho
most poetic and the most historic as
sociations. az also the most tragic.
Perhaps this Is why she rs among the
most inspired of modern Irish writ
ers,
Revival Of The Dairymaids" this
week at the Queens. the newest OF
London theaters, brings up that pre-
cocious little actress, Phyllis Dare,
who, although she has been an ostab-
lished London fayorlte for three years.
rs only ~ years old. She has more
puppy adurers than any other Voc
man on tho English stage, Tho iun-
iOr "Johnuydum' goes mad over hcr
assures her Of a well-hnod house
whenever she appears. and buys her
postcards I'm thousands. II was the
fair haired Phyllis who was summoned
back from boarding school In Bell
GUM when only z years OF age 10
assume Edna Mays part In The
Belle of Mayfair" when that lnde-
pendent American actress threw up
her part because of the Importance
given To Camille CLIFFORD, the origin
al Original" Gibson girl. The pa
pers made so much of tho fact that
tho little Phylliss studies had been
interrupted by the siren call of Thes-
pis that she packed the playhouse Tor
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23

Marie Cahil has closed her season
in Marrying Mary and will have n
new play next year.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
SALT LAKERS IN GOTHAM

w
and VIII be remembered BY ~
Irlohus or the Johnsons as ths we I'd
AIRS Matthew White. Mr.. Wbnsoh ID
ms tatner lives at tho Algunouln ,NH|
Forty fourth street, snd Is web wed
IN nVerarY circles IN New YORK "p0's
Or. GIN Riohards,who passed ~,
nero TWO weeks ago with his hnalossA
on thelr way 10 Boston and ps.Vnhs
Maine, returned the first of ~ laau
after seeing his brother off fnr r weed
he Is at home with his friend n. uS,oo1e
low Brooks, on West Tenth s,rs. h@l
Brooks, who always feels the IVY Dr
interest in Utah medical studorss rea'ts
open house for them, and in o,'a',k es's
shows his affection for his NY NN
that on the arrival OF DR.. Rich.yS NJ
was at once made to under,, , o,,S
West Tenth street was to he bI taa
while In the city DR. Rrc "s noni
called To Boston on Weaknesses Vu
left DIR. Richards In charge ~ anI
practise during his five DAYS, B
DR.. Richards has hosts OF frIansSseeno
and when he chooses TO visit NJ. ~
1t will not be necessary IN NV, iM|
boarding houses. ' VI
At 1s49 Amsterdam ayen,o 4,
G. Boyle, Jr., household, Whit, We
sists of Mr.. and Mrs, Rovle ~, eot
mother. Mrs. Best. will brcat ,o hsl'
on May 90 for the sumn,~s caml
Boyle, who is a mining and g.., at
cal student at Columbia uri suolos'
leaves with his class for Lake az
plain for u weeks recreatIon nan
Boyle and her mother 60 IN H. nm
visit with Lewis Boyle for few S "a VI
then to Buffalo and Niagara a, g"s
to Michigan to visit relatives ",u oA
they VIII remain until Joined h., m" NJ
Boyle, and the party will thon j..
to Utah. Their apartment on wy
sterdam avenue viii be snble, n avn,
September, when they return AZ u ~,
Boyle has two more years at Cant
Tuesday, the 18th, Miss Pboo ~,
ley leaves for Chicago. whera Ne
will visit with her brother and s.,..
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. James N,sl
for q month, and then go ON IN I,.,
During the winter, she has s,ri-;
piano of Prof Hefrley, and bsr- \
Prof Abt, and has made good y,
gress on both instruments. Soci'r,
Miss Nibley has been the life N \,
Utah colony since her arrival W.,
her absence will be keenly fen ~ (.
those who remain, Her praso,..
among us has been a delight. an6 y,
can only wish that the coming nj,
ter may see a return to finish stpdis,
and renew the friendships formed
among those with whom she has M.
ed the past eight months Rs,,
wishes and bon voyagel JANET
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23

remains to be seen whether this one
viii faro any better. There, Is nm at
tempt on record. however, which
proved temporarily effective During
tho performance at one OF the largest
theatcis In Liverpool very promtn-
ent man-about-town stood up In his
place in the stalls and announced I'm
q loud voice that he would remain
standing until the hats IN front of him
which obstrueted his view of the per-
fortnance had been removed. Other
sufferers Immediately followed his ex-
ample and finally the manager was
compelled TO announce that the per-
Torrance would not be resumed until
all hats had been removed. The lad
les capitulated.
This city Is ovcrrun with classical
dancers, all OF them giving a sort OF
sublimHtcd cuchcc-cuchee. 1t is AZ
due to the visit at the Palace Of Maud
Allan, a Canadian, who came TO Lon
don, via Berlin. Vienna and Paris
She gives performance OF much the
same character as that of Ruth St
Denis. who made such Il furore in New
York a few years ago. She has been
followed by a whole drove OF Initial
ors and now almost every London
hall" has some kind OF dancing
act. CURTIS BROWN.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
New York Has Built
Eighty Theatres IN Is Years.

The list OF New York's theaters in
1888 barely reached 20, and that only
by including opera houses, concert halls
and minstrel shows. The advertise
monts of all these places Of arnuse-
ment combined fell short of filling a
column in the Sunday newspapers. The
Metropolitan Opera House was just APP
preaching completion, and Imprcsario
Henry Abbeys plans for its opening
were still In embryo. Mr.. Conried was
running a German theater. and Mr..
Hammerstein was only In the music
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23
THEATER GOSSIP

Marie Cahill has closed her season
in Marrying Mary and will have
new play next year.
Percy MaclIaye, author of some
splendid plays that failed, says that
vaudeville is menace to American
drama. Martin Beck ia preparing a
reply
Henry e. Dixey, veteran actor, seems
still In his prime, from reports that
come OF his portrayal of the character
OF Papa Lebennard, In which he is APP
pearing in New York.
In the third production of "Othello"
at the Van Ness in San francisco, Man
tell will play Iago and Francis Nc
CHM will play Othollo. The latter was
San Francisco boy who has made
rapid advancement in the classic dra-
ma.
Eastern exchanges announce that
Mrs FislSe, at the close of her regular
season In "Rosmersholm," will make Il
supplemental tour of the Pacific coast.
prolonging her period of activity until
August. 1t is disgusting to think that
when she visits Salt Lake she will be
unable to obtain hearing.
Herbert Kelley and Effie Shannon
viii soon open a brief engagement at
the Alcazar theater. supported by tho
regular cast. They have the exclusive
rights to present In that city several
New York successes which will be
given there. Among these is j. NJ.
BarIie's "Allce-Sit-by- the Fire
Ralph Pincus states that he and S.
Harris of the Wigwam theater IN San
Francisco have offered Nance O'Neill
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23

speare or Sheridan one week, and Il
musical farce-commedietta like 'Ninde,
rella at School the next, may be said
TO have constituted New Yorks ideal
and last-legitimate all-round, old-time
stock company.
The principal American dramatists
and playwrights OF a generation ago
Judging from their current vogue at
the time, were Dion Bcuclcault, John
Broughanl, Bronson Howard BARLEY
Campbell, Charles Gayler, Ben WOOL
A. n. Cazauran (who pirated all the
French successes for Mr. PaImer)'
Joaquin Miller, Steele Mackaye, HOW
ard p. TAYLOR (author of Caprice" the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-23

$1,000 a week for two weeks engage
mcnt at the Mission street vaudeville
house, she to play for the first week
the murder scene In "Oliver Twist
Mckee Rankin. her manager has tn.
offer under advisement.
We shall have to walt for the ar
rival of the London mails to get any
clear notion concerning the true quail
ity of Mr.. Pineros latest play, The
Thunderbolt" OF the critical com
ments brought to us by the cable,
some are contradictory and others are
not taken from the most trustworthy
sources. But It seems tolerably clear
that the merits of this piece, as of
most OF its predecessors, are purely
theatrical. Mr. Pinero, apparently, is
among those who believe that the
stage has no other function than that
of entertainment He is content to
tickle the intellectual palate with cyu-
zeal wit and satire, to quicken the
pulse by aatense situation, and excite
admiration by the dexterity of his
carpentry.
The Shakespeare Festival at STRAIT
ford -on-Avon, this year, was conduct
ed under strange conditions. ON the
night when "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" was presented there was near
ly foot of snow on the ground, an
unprecedented occurrence at that date,
April %. But the house was crowded
for all that. The play was interpret
ed by f. r. Bensons company, and
Mr. Henry Ainley rejoined them tenn
porarily in order to play Oberon.
There was another crowded house for
King Henry W." in which Mr.. Ben
son gave way to Lewis Waller Mr..
A. Il. George was the Fluollen. but
failed. apparently, to equal Mr., Weir,
the usual impersonator OF that char
acter Nor could Mr.. Warburton, the
Plctol, equal the achievement of Mr..
Oscar Asche In the part.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-23
THE CITY IN BRIEF

We are now booking orders for.
Spring Cleaning. Richmond House.
Cleaning Co, Phone 1916. 222t,
Mrs. Hart. 81 y. Ninth street, will,
take private pupils in grade and High
school work. 222t
Don't fail to hear Fritz krull in the
James Whitcomb Riley Recital at St.
Pauls Parish House Tuesday evening.
Feb. 25th. Admission, 35c. 23-2t
The only Sanitary way of House
Cleaning is by the vacuum process
used by the Richmond House Clean
ing Co. Phone 1916. 22-2t
James Whitcomb Riley in verse and
song, by Fritz Krull, at St. Paufs
Parish House, Tuesday evening, Feb
%, under the auspices of ST Agnes
Guild. Admission, 35C. 23-2t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-23
Tableau-Goddess of Liberty.
TEN YEARS IN TORMENT.
A Wonderful Escape From Tor
ture.

While the Root Juice demonstra~
tions were being conducted at Lafay-
cite. Ind, Mr. A. G. Roberts. travel
ing man. rushed into the drug store
and grabbed the scientist by the hand
and said: There is no man on earth
whom | would rather shake hands
with than yourself. Through your
great discovery | made wonderful
escape from torment. This world was
a perfect torture for ME for over ten
years Every dollar | could rake and
scrape | gave to doctors and paid for
medicine without anything more than
momentary relief. My principle
troubles were in my stomach, bowels
and back. My kidneys gave me SO
much trouble | had to get up from ten
to fifteen times a night, and If red
Goals were kept on my back | don I
believe | would have suffered any
more. The doctors said my stomach
was lined with gastric ulcers. One
bite of solid food would put me in
misery. | was dyspeptic, constlpated,
sallow, weak and nervous all the time,
but the first bottle of Root Juice made
WOnder1ul cndnSe lot the Dettef III
my condition. | took about five bot
ties of the juice, and l don't believe
an angle in heaven could be any hap
pier than | am now. | feel like u new
being, both mentally and physically
and will never stop pralsing Root
Juice as long as |, live The Juice
has made scores of cures here in Rich
mond as any one can learn by going
10 A. G.. Luken's drug store.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-02-23

give a Martha Washington Tea Mon
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Charles Ford of Twenty-first street
The house will be appropriately deco
rated.
Tuesday afternoon their will be a
Bridge Whist party for the members
of the Country club at the club house.
u - =
The magazine club will meet with
Mrs. Robert Study, Monday at her
home on South Thirteenth street.
- - u
The program which will be given
Monday in honor Of Washington at the
First Presbyterian church by the mem
bers Of the Aid society, is as follows:
Music ..... Sunday School Orchestra
Reading ............... MIS- Dllhel
Washington Exercises Thirteen girls
Reading $500. Miss Mabel Kuhn
Music .............o rchestld
Martha Washington Exercises ..
49,. w Little Children
Piano Solo ...... ........ Miss Wartel
Tableau-Colonial States, Several girls
ion-Washington's Grave.
oong-"Star Spangled Banner ....
....... The Children
Tableau-Goddess of Liberty.