Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03
fsnccial Correspondence.)

tacular and dramatic production
of "Joanof Arc" ny Maude Adams
is universally voted the greatest
triumph OF her stage career. It will
certainly be food for newspaper talk
for some time to come. Schlller's ode
Jungfrau Won Orleans was the version
adopted by Miss Adams for the Har-
ward stadium, 1t being the best for out
door exhibition, of all the many drama
tgatIons known on this subject. The
number OF dramas woven about this
popular heroine OF history runs into
the DOZENS from Shakespeare down to
Jules Barber. for whose version Gounod
wrote the incidental music. The famous
actresses who have ,essayed the role
include Rachel, Bernhardt, and other
great French and German artists, down
10 Julia NARROW, but Miss Adams pro-
duction was in many respects more
unique than any. Frohman and j. w.
Alexander of Paris and New York,
worked out the whole scheme Miss
Adams constantly revising and assist
ing by means of a chart and model OIL
the stage placed on a table where she
mapped out the positions of the play
ates of Harvard represented the French
army and 1t Is said more than q thou
snd volunteer soldiers, Harvard under
graduates and Boston militiamen, join
ed in making this spectacle realistic.
Miss Adams, work Tuesday evening
will so down in the history of the
American stage, as a triumph OF artistic
work and spectacularrealism.
A ~ -
rived from salt Lake: she left New
York with hei, mother, MIS-. A. Best,
las, March, for her home in Utah, but
hcr mother died there 10 days after
reaching the mountains. Mrs. Boyle Will
make her home ut 1SS Lafayette ave
nue., Palisade Park, n. j., where her
husband. Mr.. Boyle, has been living
with Prof. and Mrs. Berkey of Column
bia university. Mrs. Boyle has made.
several visits to relatives en- route, De-
troit Chicago and Flat Rock, Mich,
have been resting places where she met
with friends and spent a few days,
breaking the monotony of the journey
in the heat at this time of year. Every
one Is glad to welcome her to the titan
circle again and all hope her health
may be restored after the long vigil she
passed through attendant OH her moth
ers last sickness.
In private letter to friends here,
Mr., Preston Richards, who Is now To-
Gated at 32s East Fifty seventh street,
Chicago, as a student in the law school
OF Chicago university, tells ora visit to
Camden, N. J., where he stopped on
his way to washington to see the
huge battleship Utah. now under con-
struction In the New York dock yards
When completed this autumn, 1T VIII
be the largest battleship afoat. The
superintendent of the yards very cour-
teously showed MIR. Richards around.
explaining in detail the making OF
great ship with it's many intricacies,
and giving him a chance to see the fVo
men now employed in the work at their
different labors, which proved most in
'eresting. Mr.. Harold Golf Joined MI
Richards in Washington. and together
they paid their respects to President
Taft, through the courtesy OF Congress-
man Howell Messrs. Richards and Con
started into work, In dead earnest Tor
the summer last Monday, the former IN
the law school and the latter In the
literary department.
Mr.. Lyman Martineau was Visit d
to the city in the early part OF me ,ss
week. being on his way to Harvard ~
witness the graduating exercises a.
that university, where his son u Royal
Martineau. will graduate this year.
Young Mr.. Martineau has been in Har-
ward four years and will return home
with his father making a stay of sew
eral days in New York before going
west. MIR. Martineau will attend to
some business In the east probably GO
Ing 70 Washington before taking train
for Utah.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Russell have
moved to IL Wadsworth avenue. One
Hundred and Seventy-fourth street.,
"The Alcazar.., where they will re-
main during the summer; the park Is
near their residence which makes It
delightful for women and children to-
escape the heat.
Last Monday Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley
early and Sister Beatrice Anderson
moved to GOO west One Hundred and
Forty-second street. Mr.. and Mrs. Early
have been away from New York since
early last winter and their return Is.
much appreciated by their friends.
On Wednesday last Mr.! Hal Bur
roughs. who is an art student here. left
Tor his home in Salt Lake to stay there
change for the young artist who has
worked hard for over a year past at.a
With good results.s
Measles, which is quite a fashionable
disease at present among school chill
dren, has attacked little Jean Ford,
laughter of Manager and Mrs. Hugh
Ford. They are spending three weeks
IN the Maine woods. hunting and fish.