Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-04


Lake Theatcr stage ana saw the roomy
apartment which had been made ready
for her use 10 was the same room that
Maudc Adams ana Ethel Barrymore
had occupied before her Walls have
ears. they say and if they likewise
have tongues. what "a stream OF mem-
orios the four walls of that room could
have lot loose for those three c7po .ih
artists. The green room was the rally
Ing place in the theaters Of the last
generation where artists assembled ID
hear the FIRST reading of plays. where
their parts were distributed where
stage managers gave the final inspec-
ton of costumes and makcups, and
where actors themselves fingered tu eN-
ahange the gossip OF the day.
In that room Maude Adams mother
received her earliest tuition as AN tc-
tress. and later sat at the head of tho
circle OF home players which gathered
there for so many years Ethel Barry
more father. Maurice. and her moth
er. Georgia Drew Barry more. more than
once sat there while awaiting their
cues. OF sank into the old fashioned
arm cnairs after "a strenuous night s
endaavors. and while Blanche Bates
was cherub Boo another sphere, her
father and mother Nir. and Mrs f. NJ.
Bates. made the echoes ring as they
went through the round OF tragedies
they were presenting
MI Bates died years ago, his wife
only followed him recently. and her
loss was a heavy one TO her daughter.
MIS- Bates played here many unnes
after her husbands death one OF her
productions being The Red Pocket
Bool." rendered by the old Home ORA
matte club IN the early eighties.
Blanche Bates never visits the salt
Lake Theater without going out upon
the stage before the audience enters,
and reVelng In the giories of that audi
torium She says she hopes the craze
for modern changes viii stop short at
the outer doors of this old thcater as
there Is nothing like that sweep Of
three galleries and the broad parquet.
left In another of the theaters in the
lana
Miss Bates last appearance in this
house was la 1901. when she presented
Under Two Flags" Prior To- that. she
had made herself popular as a menu
Der OF the Glffen a Neil company
which opened the Grand theater on
Christmas eve. 1894, In Moths IN
which she played the part OF the Ameu-
can girl Fuschia Leach. Her fellow
players were Madge Carr Cook T D.
Frawley Harry Corson Clark. Howard
Kyle, Jean COyc and Jennie Remark.
most of whom. like herself have rapid
~ gone up the ladder OF fame since
the day OF their salt Lake noyitate.
The new bin at the Orpheum prom
Uses 10 maintain the excellent standard
of the house. II is headed by Lily
Lena. "tho dainty English singer OF
dainty story songs" who came over
10 this countrf following such successes
as Ncsta Victoria, Alice and Marie
Lloyd. and Clarico Mayne. and her hit
was even greater than that Of her pre-
docessors.
Charles Dana Gibson's electrified
Girl Review" is the newest girl ensem-
BILE act in vaudeville and with it is
Clara Nelson, who win essay the role
Of the Gibson widow" for which she
is fitted In face, voice and figure
The finale o. the aci shows the most
novel and most uniquely conceived COM
ceit yet offered IN vaudeville a yacht
being shown. apparently running at fun
speed through tho water and with the
entire company aboard.
Julius Tanner is a monologist who
since his last appearance in the west.
has been successful in many Broadway
productions. His performance ls uotn-
hlo for IFS originality and his imta-
tions are remarkable reproductions OF
the originals
"Tho street Urchins" ls n neat little
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