The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-15

Edward Martindel, who so nobly
scored last season In the comic opera,
"The Alaskan" soon to be sung in
this city is repeating his success this s
| rendition of that famous musical mas
| terpiece, "My Totem Pole" will long
be remembered by all who were for
| tunate In hearing 1t, for 1T created al
| most sensation in musical circles when
sung in New York, and was the great
| big number of the opera during its
| successful tour throughout the entire
country last year.
Capacity audiences crowd the Belasco
Stuyvesant theater,. New York, at
every performance of Blanche Bates in
"The Fighting Hope The Thursday
| matinees, introduced to relieve the
| heavy pressure at the regular perform
anceS, offer excellent opportunities to
| out-of- town patrons to see the Belasco
star in her much-discussed play. 1t is
| a woman IS play-the strongest appeal
| living in the revelation of the innermost
secrets Of feminine heart struggling
in the throes of conflicting loves and
| sympathies,
Florence Gear in "Marrying Mary"
played in Grand Rapids last week to
the biggest business known there tins
! season.
| There are over twenty pieces in the
repertory of The Sicilian Players whom
| Charles Frohman is bringing to Amer
| lea. The plays are mostly tragedies
| without scruple-'t tinsurrections, rlots
murders, assassinations, as sherman
| Bell once said in q proclamation TO the
Denver striking miners. Signora Mimi
Apuplia Ferrau. the chief actress of the
| COMPANY. is everywhere hailed as an
actress of extraordinary vitality and
intensity in action,
Mary Shaw. who heads the cast of the
| Martin and Emery players, Is widely
known for her great work IN ipsonlan
niavs. She is also an exponent of George
Bernard shaw's plays.
Charles Frohman has definitely do
| c;ded that William Collier and his com
pany shall appear in London this sea sc
son in Mr., Golfers new comedy, me
Patriot most of the scenes of whlch
are laid in London. AT the conclusion
of his New York engagement, which has
! been shortened on this account, MIR. Col
lier will leave for England. appearing
| during the winter at one of the. FToh
man London theaters. This will be MI
Golfers second appearance IN London
He last acted "The Dictator In that
city. But tho interesting fact. about
Mr. Collier ,s coming appearance IN Lon
is an unfliuching American view Of the
average Englishman and of Englisf
frailties.
Norman Hackett has robbed the
southern press OF objectives: His man
ager has tabulated a list called .'South
ern Chivalric Sayings cplled from the
| E,e opd
ports that thus far (in. six -weeks) just
| o67 obiectives have found places or
the list.
David warfeld, the eminent Belascc
star, after an eleven weeks tour Of the
| Pacific coast in '.The Music Master
and ga Grand Army Man "a toul
which. artistically and financially, ha:
never before been equalled by an Amer
icap or foreign theatrical stars re
turning east by easy stages; After
| week each in Kansas City and st. Louis
Mr.. Warfield will enter Chicago for
run in his two famous character por
trayals, Anton Won Barwig Of "Tbe
Music Master and Wesley Bigelow OF
ga Grand Army Man."
William Gillette has made en- agree
ment with Charles Frohman to continue
in the part of "Samson" for the next
two wears. During that time Mr., Gillette
will complete the manuscript of a new
| American play. the scenario Of which Is
already finished The subject Of Mr.
Gilette's new play, in which he him
self will not appear, will be civil wal
incident Of the order of "Secret Serv'
| ice, -
Wilfred Roger. the leading man with
the Martin and Emery players, is loaned
bv Minnie Maddern Fiske. He has
been selected to play the part Of Man.
son in "The Servant In the House
next season.
Miss Billie Burke's engagement in
Glove Watches at the Lyceum tbeatel
has again been extended. Miss Burke
will remain at the Lyceum until after
tho holidays instead Of, as was orig
inally planned, beginning a road tour
November 30. The two months allotted
to Miss Burke in Boston will be taken
by ''The Thief company, of which
Kyrle Below is the sta..
George Arliss continues to play 'tThe
Devil'F TO admiring and enthusiastic
audiences which fill the Belasco theater
New York. at each evening and matinee
performance. There is so much of in
terest in the sardonic philosophy of his
play at least three times to get the full
benefit of his epigrams. Evidently this
Is what everyone who has once seen the
play is doing, for the demand for seats
is phenomenal.
Agnes Mahr, a dancer of international
renown, has escaped the "Salome'
plague and will do limitations. But not
the Cissy LOTUS sort. Ny. mol She
will appear in costume Of Z" A French
Poodle Dog" and give her idea Of how