Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10
Bare Footed Dancer
Coming to America
London Dramatic Letter

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feet. Gartie Millalss engagement, at
any rate. stinishes with the run of ..our
Miss Gibbs and / hear from a conf
Dental source that Phyllis Dare has
! been secured to fill her place. There is
something more than a probability. too
that Edmund Payne viii seek fresh
| woods and pastures new. Altogether 1t
seems as If we are to see something in
the nature of an artistic upheaval at
the Gaiety.
When, on last Wednesday morning,
walked into Charles Frohman's room,
!! u found him in Il state. Of transparent
delight x In his hand was cableSram,
which he Immediately pressed on me,
announcing the enormous success of the.
production of Joan OF Arc at the
Harvard University Stadium. From
later and more extensive accounts 1t
would appear that Frohman's private
Information was in no way cxaggerat-
ed and that, In thetpart of Joan. Maude
Adams had made one of, II not the hit
of her life. 1Trohman told me that the
expenses reached $4,000, but as $4,000
had been realized from tho sale OF
seats, there would be the tidy=little sum
of $10000St hand over to Harvard Ca
bled invitations to reneat the perform
iance had reached him from New York,
Chicago, st. Louis, San Francisco and
Washington. but, so far, he has accept
ed none. Maudc Adams. he said, was
booked to play In What Every Woman
Knows" throughout the whole of next
season and he had no idea of disturb
ing that arrangement.
The famous French actor, I.ucicn
Guitry, began fortnight's season at
the Adelphi on Monday last. unfortu-
nately he made rather mistake in
choosing SO old-fashioned piece as
IL Assonmoir" C.Drink"0 for his initial
performance. He made amends. how
ever by giving us later Henry Bern
steinsg"Le Noleur'' ("rhe Thief') in
which he was seen to much greater
advantage. He tells me that he has
signed with Hertz and Coquein for
five years. In November he appears
under their management at the Porte
st. Martin, Paris as the famous Chan
stecler"n Rostand's new play of that
name, and it is quite on the cards that
the piece in its original version will be
brought to London next spring. Guitry
himself is obsessed by n passion for
travelling and when "Chantecler" has
done its work in France and England
he is to make a tour of the world 50
that, before very long, American play
goers will have a chance of seeing this
really fine actor. He takes with him
both "Chantecler' and "Cyrano de
Bergerac," with other plays of a more
modern character, such as lie Voleur,"
La Massacre and Paul Bourgeois
"L'Emigre."
Charles F'rohman. after refusing the
play in manuscript, has bought the
American rights of Sir Arthur Conan
Doype's success at The Lyric, The
Fires of Fate" 1t is to be produced
in New York with a good all-round cast
early in the fall. Waller of course.
had the first chance of the piece for
America, but finally decided that the
principal part WAS not quite good
enough for him to make his first APP
pearance init before n New York audi
ence His decision, to my mind, is a
wise one, for it is only in a real
waller part that he can hope to
make an instant and emphatic sue,
cess with you. William Devereaux, au-
thor of Henry of Navarro. which is
now coming money for Julia Nelson
and Fred Terry. is writing a play for
Waller on the subject of Sir Walter
Raleigh and if all goes well he will
make his debut probably in this next
year before tho American public.