The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-18

Among the unprecedented number OF
theatrical productions attracted to the
Pacific coast this summer, The Ser
want in the House, which will be seen
Mt the Salt Lake theatcr for week g
engagement, beginning Monday, July
26. is the only one which comes west
for its first tour, yet backed by an en-
thusiastic Pacific coast endorsement.
This much discussed play was produced
IN New York City year ago last March
and ran through the spring and sum
mer at the Savoy theater. Last Aug
ust, Henry Miller, who was booked for
IN engagement at tho Nan Ness thea
ter. San Francisco, i'll The Great DI-
vide. determined to move his latest
production, The Servant In the
House, from New York to the Cali
fornia metropolis, following his own en-
gagement. The long trip. was made
without n break III the journey and
Mr. Miller personally directed the pro-
duction at the Van Ness theater. The
play scored as remarkable n success IN
the Golden Gate City rs 1t had on
Broadway and the California critics III
vailed one another in their almost eX-
trayagant praise of Charles Ram Ken
nodv s nowfamous play
After the engagement in San Fran
cisco, The Servant in the House was
week and then moved diTect into Chi
cago, where, in spite of the intense
September heat. il played to capacity
mt Powers theater for ten weeks, Dur
ing the last week of The Chicago en-
gagement moro people were turned
away from the box office than the
number that succeeded IN purchasing
seats. From Chicago the play was
sent direct to New York for second
run Mt the Savoy theater, which lasted
until the end of the year.
During the season just ended, Henry
Miller presented two strong companies
in Che famous play-one in the east
and the other in the large cities OF
the middle west When Mr.. Miller de-
cidcd TO send this play on a summer
tour through the Pacific coast states,
he combined these two companies, Sc
leeting thc pick of both casts TO form
The present company of Associate
Players
Charles Dalton, who plays the Drain
Man. will be remembered as the star
of The Sign Of the Cross company,
which had five years run in Amer
ica Mr. Dalton was a member Of the |
House, but resigned To star under |
Charles Frohman s management in The |
Thief. He rejoincd The Servant in the |
House for the Pacific coast tour
George W. Wilson, who plays the Bish
op of Lancashire, will be remembered |
as the original King Louis NI in If |
We're King, and as Colonel Starbottlc |
TO Eleanor Robson S Salomy Jane in
the dramatization of Bret Harte IS story
Of the same name Mr.. Wilson was for
sixteen years q member of the famous
old Boston Museum, appearing in more |
than six hundred different roles and |
creating over a hundred new charac
tcrs. He was first seen in the West |
as eo-star with James II. Powers in
Hoyt s first success, A Tin Soldier. He
was also seen on the Pacific coast dur
ing the seasons of 1886 as the star
of The Old Homestead, in which role
he alternated with Denman Thompson.
Wilfred Roger, who plays Manson, first
won success on the stage as leading
man at the Alcazar in San Francisco.
He was first seen in tho east as the
leading man in Cousin Kate and played
the role for thirty-nine weeks-a tour
that began in New York and ended in
San Francisco. Three years ago he
was starred through the Pacific coast
states as Herod In Oscar Wilde's Sa-
lone Following that engagement he
became Henrietta Crosmap' s leading
man. His personal triumph In Miss
Crosman' 8 production of The Christian
Pilgrim, led to his selection by Henry
Miller for The Servant in the House,
in which he has played all season
Lizzie Hudson /Collier, the leading