Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-23

1 ly TO nRure very shortly as co.respond
| ent in divorce suit Happily for the
! rate OF the piece matters were subsc.
| quently squared; the offending nus.
uand was placated by means not par
| tlculatly Creditahlc. and the curtain
| rung down on n scene ~ general re-
| ioicing. Then Lena Ashwel produced
The Earth az the Kingsway and ale
| though IL scarcely created the sensation
expected OF H. 10 must have Wrung
rather severely the withers Of several
weli-knoWn people
Talking 90 Pagan reminds me that
Eugene krieuN, the original author 81
La Fol- ran over from Paris at the
beginning Of this week in order To Wit
ness performance OF his own drama.
Tho hrst three acts apparently de-
lighted him, and %, hurried behind the
scenes eager 10 congratulate everybody
But the fourth the only one in which
Bcerbohm Tree appears, seemed Co
dampcn his ardor considerably and he
went on without even bon sOi.'
Co any body For the next day Tree
had arranged luncheon TO take place
~ the big room In the dome of the
theater in honor OF BrieuN Some SO
guests were invited. including LLOYD
George. the chancellor Of the eNchequer.
r. p. O'Counor. NJ. r.. Mrs Patrick
y AlAiNhNi anu NAItI ttltniltINss NntlNI
political and theatrical But behold,
when we arrived on the spot IL was
only 90 bc told that Bneux had been
forced to return that morning To- Paris
ana that accordingly Hamlet" SO 20
speak, would have To be given without
the cooperation Of the Prince OF Den
mark. We soon recovered. however,
from the dampenlng effect Of the am
nouncemcnt and as both the menu and
~ saF haa
seHce of BrieuX was not seriously felt.
Personally / could not help wonder
ING whether the unexpected summons
nom Paris was the result OF the pre-
vious nights performance.
Two days ago the morning papers
came out with the statement that j.
NJ Barrie, the popular playwright was
bringing proceedings against his wife
Ia order 10 obtain divorce. The facts
have been within the knowledge OF his
more intimate friends FOR some time.
but il is not precisely the kind OF thing
about which one cares to talk unless
positively forced 70. Fifteen years
ago Barrie, then merely upon the
threshold Of his successful career. mar
rled pretty Mary Ansell, with whom he
had fallen deeply IN love while she
was playing the heroine in his first inn
Things since have prospered with him
amazingly Royalties have flowed in
ana Barrie has become. for "a writer
an immensely sch man He himself
has changed I'm no way What he
was twenty years ago when he and J
and Rudyard Kipling were on the stan
OF the old st. James Gazette under
the editorShip Of Sidney Low. he is to-
day. If you met him casually iu the
street ! am certain you would not of
fer him $3.50 for the things he stands
in; the inevitable dirty old pipe is al
ways between his teeth he is the shy
est and most modest man Il has ever
been my lot TO encounter He was born
a true Bohemian and a Bohemian he
viii remain TO the end OF his DAYS
] recall how, when mis- banking aC-
count must have run into some six
figures, he and his old chum, Addison
Bright. whose death gave him one OF
the most serious shocks Of his life
would devote an evening every now
and again 20 return 10 the haunts they
used TO frequent la their poorer days.
and l have known Barrie with enough
money to buy up half the street, come
10 a halt before "a cheap hot-ple shop
in order that he might glost over the
treasures exposed IN its window
His wife lived in another world, en-
ioying the best that money could az
ford her. No one certainly could blame
her for doing so. u is part OF the debt
which one owes 20 ones social position.
II is easy to understand. however. how
the rift within the lute might become
larger and larger; how things might
gu from bad TO worse. The person
who Is named as correspondent in the
case is Gilbert Canaan. a young fellow
who has lately sprung into some
prominence IN theaterdom. 4 little
time ago he wrote a skit on the In
stage society which SO
pleased It's members that they them
selves produced IL al a special per-
Torrance. / am bound 70 confess ]
could not detect the wonderful clever
ness which others pr0fessed TO discover
ia the skit the wit struck me as
forced and the fun anything but
spontaneous Canaan has written
novel since which has had fairly good
notices. although. I believe, IL has not
found any great favor with the
purchasing public. Today he bids fair
10 achieve more notoriety than fame.