Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-07
Especial Correspondence
a oNDoN, July "a. Two days ago
Tree knelt before the king and
. rose s,d II RI el,ha,.ts The A r1no1l1lcf. :.

gf53f3s tSpecial ECOrreSpOnuenCe.Js -
In oNDON, July 1.-TWO days ago
Tree knelt before the king and
rose SIR Herbert. The announce
n,e1lt OF the honor to be COR:
ferred upon him Was, OF course, made
some weeks ago, but IT was only on
Thursday that he, in conf Junction with
Arthur Wing! Pinero. received the royal
Saccolade
~ The bestowal OF a knighthood on the
popular actor ma mayer has occa stoned
general satisfaction. Personally have.
no great sympathy with such acts of.
royal favor in relation to actors, but
assuredly no one deserved 1t better:
than Tree. 1t Is an open secret that
he would have received it long ago had,
he been somewhat less of a Bohemian
and shown a less pronounced spirit OF!
independence Among the hundreds, i
might almost say thousands, of con :
gratulatory messages received by him
there is only one couched in what I
may describe as a rather Ambiguous
vein. 1t came from Sir Squire Ban
croft and ran as follows: Glad that
the king continues to honor our pro-.
fession." The telegram might be taken
to suggest that in the sende1's judg-5
ment anybody would have done as well
as Tree.
The latter, by the way,5.is Off to Mar
| ienbad to drink the waters for free
weeks. He brought his season at His
| MajeSty's to "a close "a week ago with
a pleasant little speech in which he
dealt out compliments pretty we'll u
every body himself Included. Tree is
a confirmed optimist and 1t was ma
ltural he should seize on the oppor-
tunity to play the part of Hpralser Ct
his own times" The drama. he de.
| clared, was never in SO vital and so
promising a condition as it is. at pres
gent. Nor was he able to recall d period
when aspiring playwrights We're of
| fered so many and such favorable
openings. This is all very well in
its way, but ! am afraid q close sclu-
| tiny of the past season would hardly
bear out Trees contentious. Failures
| have been all too numerous and genu-
Inc monetary successes few and far
| between. And now our eyes are fixed
ION the autumn which promises, at least
to bring us some notable productions
\ whatever their fate may be from ths
box office standpoint Vi
Tree himself is to give us a. trans
| lation', of Eugene Frieux s La Fol- =
NAMED False Gods by the adaptor,
1 James Bernard Pagan, who is shortly
| to cross the Atlantic to superintend
rehearsals of his play The Earth.
have read the piece and am confident
4 that artistically it will create something
/ of a sensa ton. The action takes pace
1 in Egypt 5000 years ago, but the theme
/ is intrinsically modern. ! have already
| given some details of the story ans.
there is no need, therefore, to so over
\ old ground. Enough that it treats of
i the perennial struggle between faith
l and skepticism, between religion and
i science. 85 49,. = ST
Mrs Patrick Campbell was selected
for one OF the leading parts which
would have suited her admirably. But
she demanded such impossible condi-
tons that Tree WAS at last compelled
to break off negotiations. The role
has now been allotted TO a young act
I ress, Mona Limerick. almost entirely
unknown to London playgoers. saw
her little time ago at one of the out