Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-02

hNDON, sept le-llenry Miller
has come been seen and CONF
l. quered Tho audience at the
Adelphi last Wednesday cvc-
Ming. and it was both representative
and distinguished took 20 him at once.
from the outset his success was never
"a doubt They liked his easy power
fuL rugged manner they accepted him
as a splond.dly convincing type of the
far west.
Edith Wyunc Matthison also came in
for a large share of the honors, al-
though her part IN "Tho Great Divide
is just a little too monotonous To- Doe
entirely effective. The play itself re-
oeiNcd an extremely cordial reception.
albeit the second and third acts showed
some failing on Ia the interest as come
paecd with the first The morning aft
or tho performance ] had "a chat with
Miller whom ! found in a state OF
great delight over the warmth of his
welcome. No one, however. could be
more modest or more diTident than he
regarding his own work
''Of course" he said, II have heard
add read "a good deal about the sup
posed hostility OF the London press and
want living contradiction Of such
charges take myself. What delights
mc more than anything I'm connection
with last nights success ls the CON
elusive proof il affords that American
artists and American plays can depend
Oh a hearing as impartial and even i'm
dUlgent from your critics as they Gun
hope to meet with on the other side OF
The Atlantic"
II gives me the uvellost satisfaction
70 transmit these words. particularly
n; a moment when a certain section OF
tho American press appears disposed to
take up a particularly uufuendly att
t.tudc towards ourselves I read tine
following, FOR instance. In the New
York Review.
Reciprocity Is sadly wanting. The
foreigners get what they come TO Amer
lea FOR. while our vcnturcsome Noy-
1gcrs never attain their end our
Thespians grOpe about in the London
fog FOR a few weeks and come back
naked Of shckcls and shorn OF egotsm.
In both cases the Europeans get the
money and the Americans the hook"
Than this nothing could De unfairer.
more unjust London is as ready 90
appreciate and. Incidentally. 20 reward
American talent as talent of any other
description, homemade OF of foreign
growth on the other hand, IL is all
ways 20 be remembered that the tastes
of London playgOers are not the
tastes of New York playgoers
and that a success In one city does
not necessarily imply success in
the other There is surely no reason.
however, that because man prefers
whisky to rum and his friend rum 20
whisky, the two should set 10 work
callirs each other an the evil names
10 De found in the dictionary.
David warneld turned up at the
Carlton a few days ago. His stay.
however. IS TO be OF the briefest In
point OF fact the steamer that carries
this letter will bear him also across
the Atlantic He has been spending
most OF his holiday on the continent.
sightseeing In Paris. Vienna, Berlin
and so forth. His chief regret now IS
that he left himself SO little time In
which "a see London.
1T IS u years since ] was here" he
said to me. land OF course there are
many changes. But / am simply de-
lighted just to go about and look at
things. I have not missed a single
chance Of visiting the theater. ! am
Just hurrying round with spiked shoes
The way you do things over here is
quite delightful / like your theaters,
your artists. and the way in which your
plays are presented. The other eve
ming I was az the ST James s.. witnessing
"a performance Of Pinero's 'Mid-Chan-
nell To my mind Irene NanbruCn
rs one Of the finest actresses. If not the
finest. IL has ever been my good for
tune to encounter II is not only her
nervous force, her emotional power her
sense OF humor that impressed me; she
seems to have the peculiar faculty of
making you understand what she feels
and suffers 10y mere look or gesture.
I was immensely pleased, too, with my
visit 20 the Gaiety. whore 1 saw our
Miss Gibbs with Edmund Payne and
Gertie Millar in the principal parts.
What a wonderful comedian Payne Is
and how your public loves him, al