Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-09

have played this difncult role. but un-
fortunately was too 900 10 20 on with
the rehearsals and Miss Dorothy Dos
mond had 10 take the part at short no.
tico ana In face of great difficulties
Many distinguished folk saw the play.
Including the Kings sister and brother
in-law. the Duke of Argyll and Princess
Louise. Duchess OF Argyll. Sir Charles
Wyudham and some of the other Lon
don managers were also present
'Pinkie and the Fairies" which Beer
bohm Tree g. presenting at His Ma
jcsty's rheator is remarkable for the
Inclusion uf an astonishiugly good
child actress. For the sake of advcr-
tisement the name OF this young ac-
tress was withheld untu the opening
night she being referred TO ON the
program az "a young LADY who makes
her first appearance on any stage"
Although only 10 years of age and
small for her age she dances with case
and grace and speaks her lines So
pleaslnRly that she quite rolegates 90
the background Ellen Terry Marie
Lohr and the other eminent members
OF the great company which Tree has
brought together
At the conclusion OF the opening
performance. In response to insistent
applause and calls. Tree led the little
girl before the curtain and introduced
her as elise Craven. u is said that
she has been an accomplished actress
almost from her cradle but that her
parents have refused TO allow her 10
appear publicly until now. She Is a
slight. golden haired child Of singular
beauty, and her playing OF the part
OF the queen OF the fairies is a Joy 10
the beholders. She has taken London
by storm and already IL is impossible
to get seat IN the house for the
month Of January and although hun
dreds Of applications are pouring IN |
the management have refused 10 book /
any farther ahead than that
J don't know whether or not YOU /
realize IL but a now honor has been |
chalked up against you. II seems that /
the now famous "Dansc des Apaches" /
which has become the rage in Paris |
and threatens TO put the Merry Widow |
waltz out Of business in England. orig |
mated In the Bowery This has been |
discovered by Michael Morton. the /
playwright author OF Her Father |
and NY Wife" and part author OF /
THE Richest Girl Already it Is be- |
ing danced In four Of the principal |
that half OF the pantomimes to be /
produced within the next week will in
clude 1t as a feature
Robert Fitzsimmons and his wife |
who have been playing in Ireland |
have arrived In London and are show |
ing at the oxford Music hall He has |
been telling everybody who would lend |
an ear that he is ready to meet any /
one, white on black, light or heavy. n |
he had come few months sooner, that |
ls, before Gotch appeared in his sketch /
at the Coliseum Bob would have been /
called an innovation by the English |
press for introducing his boxing and |
bag punching exhibition as the Incl |
dental feature OF a sketch.
London is keenly Interested in the |
news that William Faversham is at |
tempting to arrange an appearance |
here In The World and His Wife" OF /
course. the English rights In that play /
are controlled by Martin Harvey, but |
il seems very probable that Faversham !
win be able 20 secure an annulment /
Of the contract Strange as It may /
seem, although Faversham is an Eng
lishman, he has never appeared I'm |
London except as an amateur. Be
fore he went to the United States his |
professional appearances were confined |
20 the provinces.
Slowly but surely the vaudeville !
sketch, as you know it in the United |
States, is making It's way into English |
favor. II has been a hard fight and |
even today it is complete success on
ly in those houses which are frankly
run on American lines such as the Pal
ace, or which draw upon a class OF peo-
pie who have travelled and can appreci-
ate the worth Of a clever idea even If
II does come from the brain Of a
"bloomin' foreigner" The Empire
has taken the lead in the new vogue
and for a long time included in its |
excellent bill a one-act playlet trans
lated from the French, called after the |
Opera"
It's latest effort in the same line is |
called "A BLANK Check" and is from |
the pen OF that popular novelist, Wit |
liam j. Locke. II has TO do with a |
happy go lucky Irishman who has /
spent a term I'm jail, unjustly accused |
Of robbery. His wife believes him |
guilty and. during the time he spent |
behind the bars. tried TO forget him |
and win her way back to social favor, /
she having considerable money Of her /
own When the husband comes out /
of prison. he goes to the United states |
and finally establishes his innocence |
Neglecting 20 tell his wife but carry /
ing the proofs I'm his pocket. he returns /
to England and presents himself at the /
house OF his wife Gaining her pres
ence. he asks for forgiveness. even /
though he is guilty. She at first re- /
fuses and beRs him 20 go away and /
leave her. but eventually repents and 1
asks him TO stay Just as they are 4
i'm the midst OF reconciliatory kiss I
the telephone rings. and the solicitor 4
tells the wife over the wire the good |
news Of her husbands vindication. The /
title of the play is derived from an in /
cident of the piece In which the wife /
before she had pardoned her husband, /
thinking he came for money gave him 4
blank check lie filed it in with /
the words. PAY the bearer. his Wifes /
love" and handed IL back TO her.
CURTIS BROWN. /