The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-05

it used To be ia the days when come
dams Cuttit consisted of his old clothes,
some green whiskers and a slap-stick.
When the curtain went up ON the trial
performance of Lucky Jim" Miss Jane
tOurthope.s play, i'm Chicago nine weeks
ago she had invested exactly S2lS2. A
few years ago all acts used house seen
cry Then q few of the best carried some
dyed cloth scenes, draped over the house
scenery when i'm use and folded up and
carried i'm a trunk between times. Now
comes Miss Courth hope with fifty-nine
pieces of solid scenery. such as would be
employed by a regular dramatic produc-
ton This includes q CYclOTama showing
"a mountain scene; two inclined and curved
runs built in five sections; set
cabin and the various small rock. tree and
water pieces that go with them. The total
weight of this equipment is 4,300 pounds.
To give the snowstorm effect i'm the third
scene leo pounds of chopped paper are
used each week To manage this scenery
Miss Courthope carries a stage carpenter
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Julia Marlowe told a jury in the SUI
preme court in Brooklyn last week how
hard it is To interpret Gabriel d Annun-
zio's Italian plays i'm English. She and
T. Ii. SOtheru We're Co-defendants in a suit
by DirCe st. Cyr to recover 5000 for their
failure 10 produce her translation and
adaptation Of La Figlla di JOri0. They
agreed i'm April. 1906. TO do so, she said,
but that's as far as they got.
Miss MaTlOwe testified the St Cyr adap-
tation didn't suit at all. One of her quat-
rains the actress said. ran:
BY this mute the patron angel
From the willing wood block carven,
Deaf the wood stayed. sacred secret,
St. OnofriO vOuchsafed nothing.
Miss Marlowe said she put Arthur Sy-
mons. another translator. to work on the
quarain, and he ground out the follow
ing:
Silent stood the holy image,
She is patron saint in oak
Deaf the holy image stood there
ST. OnOfriO never spoke.
She didn't think so awful much Of that,
either. Miss MarlOWe said. Another st.
Cyr effort, the actress said, was;
Still stood one apart. a third one.
ooh! have pity on us, patron
Still" said one apart, a fair one,
"LO, Thy heart Of willing waiting
symons, said Miss Marlowe, polished it
off till il read:
Then outsp0ke the third, the youngest:
Lord, have mercy on the need
Then OutspOke the third, the faIrest,
Take my heart and let it bleed"
Even lnuLs she SetlQs OlQn SUIT SUN
ern said Miss St. Cyr translated one Of
D'Annunzio's lines TO read:
Suddenly the stump-bOdy branches.
This. he said, was changed by him and
Miss Marlowe to read;
Suddenly the dead wood blossomed.
Sothern said ne and Miss Marlowe tried
hard TO adapt the St. Cyr translation, and
had no better luck with translation by
Paul Potter. They spent 5000 trying 20
put the niece on the stage, SOthern said,
and finally gave up the idea in Boston.
/ Their press agent. SOthern said. put out a
fairy tale i'm Boston to the effect that
D'AnnuuziO's play had been forbidden.
The man. he said. had to invent some ex-
cuse to the Boston public which had read
of the proposed production there.
with the advantages Of press agent,
said SOthern, there are also disadvan-
tages.'
Former occupations OF theatrical stars
include the following:
Wilton Lackaye-LaWyer.
Ezra KenCall-Printer.
Kyrle Bellew-Sailor gold digger, lee
Bruce 1IcRae-Australian stock raiser
and Texas cowboy.
Melbourne McDowell-I1cket seller
Forbes RObertsOn-Palnter.
Jameson Lee Finney-Art student.
Sir Charles Observation-Disclosures stu
dent
Thomas @. Seabrooke-Bank teller.
Nat Goodwiu-Dry goods clerk.
RAYMOND HitchcOCk-Shoe salesman.
James r. Messenger boy.
Robert Mantell-Wine merchants ap-
prentice.
Frank Daniels-Engraver
viii NJ. Cressey-Carpenter.
Ben Greet-NaVal apprentice.
Any real estate hereabouts is
saiable-so it viii pay to perse-