Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-16

girls have taken him TO their hearts |
and seize upon every opportunity Of |
showing the warmth Of their affections.
They scream and yen and rend the |
air with strident cries whenever he |
puts foot upon the stage and loving |
Iy address him as Dear Old Joe" To |
speak quite frankly their attentions |
have become so pronounced as TO he |
something Of a nuisance TO the rest
OF the audience. Twenty years ago the |
man in the gallery" was rather a
terrorizng influence and I can recall
many occasions upon which he and
the manager Of the theater INDUCED
In a wordy warfare His place has
now been taken by the girl In the
gallery" and the change is I am
bound TO say, by no means an inn
pTovcmcnt for ~ there Is one per-
son who boy her obstreperous conduct
her unreasoning zeal and her shrill-
toned voice can render everybody un-
comfortable IL Is that particularly
obnoxious young damsel.
The other two productions Of the
week are "The Mountaineers az the
Savoy and smith" at the Comedy.
| The first is a very milk-and- watery af-
FAIR a feeble imitation or the Gilbert
Sullivan opera. on the other hand. it
! is absolutely nnocuous and may posi-
| bly, on this account find favur with
| suburban young ladies' whose dramatic
| educa ton u.s. still IN the earlier stages
| But 10 is hardly likely TO bring much
| arst 10 the mill OF G. n. Workman
| the new manager OF the savoy or 81
/ the syndicate az his back. smith"
/ Somerset Mauehams latest work. pro-
| duced at the Comedy. two days ago
| is an adventure into rather more Sc
| rious domain than the author has cul-
| tivated lately. As an attack upon the
| foibles and weaknesses Of modern fash
| ionable society IL has many points ot
| similarity with Alfred Sutro's The
| Walls Of Jcricho;" there is also d. -.
| ~ close resemblance between tho prln-
| cipal characters In tho two pieces Tn
| doubtedlv one feels the absence from
| the cast OF Marie Tempest who. after
a brief tour I'm the English provinces.
| f. 10 pay America visit under Charles
| Frohman's direction hear that on
| her return 20 this country she is 10
| sing az the Coliseum, our biggest va
/ Iietv theater, al a weekly salary Of
| $500.
4 serious storm Is brewing IN con-
| uection with the American rights OF
| Austpv's farce "The Brass Bottle,
| which bids fair to make at the Naude-
| villo the biggest hit Of the year q.
b Mcclellan brother of the author of
/ ''Thc Belle of New York who acts
FOR the International ADJUSTMENTS COM
psny on your side. lost no time in max
! Inc am offer for the piece for America
and Germany. According TO what he
tells me- that offer. which Included
cash payment Of So 900, was accepted
| and 10 only remained for the formal
| contracts 10 be completed. Mean
| while Charles Frohman came along
| with another OFFER Of s., 500 down as
| ff.sHs ~ 4
| by way Of advance on royalties to-
| gether with l5 per cent on the gross
| receipts which TO CASTOR Mayer pro
protor OF the piece, seemed more 10
| his advantage. Consequently he al
! once closed with 10 and now Mcclellan
threatens that he win invoke the as
! sistancc OF the law 10 make good his
| claim against Mayer. And from an !
| can gather he appears TO be In pretty
| good position 90 make out "a favorable
case for himself
His brother Charles. by the way. has
! concluded "a contract during the past
few days with Lewis waller for the
| English rights m his latest play "Ju-
| dith Zaraine' already played on your
side under the title ~ THE Pick
| pocket Waller win produce 10 at the
| LyrlC Immediately after "Sir Walter
I Raleigh the latter four-act drama
/ written specially for him by william
| p,rcrcuX and destined to succeed Coz
nan Do,lo's Fires NJ Fate" Coinci-
! den.cs are of such common occurrence
n tine world of the theator that one
| more or less hardly matters: neverthe-
loss. II D. of interest Co note that the
! plot OF judith Iarllne ls in very
| many respects almost Identical with
! that Of "The Master Key" COsLlO
| Hnmilton's now four-aCt play presented
| hy Charles Frohmau last month az the
| Chestnut street Opera House, Phila-
| delphla Hamilton however. wrote his
story first BOZ the form of a novel pubs
lished some time ago and Of course
open 20 ail the world TO read.
! Charles Hawtroy has discovered
new author named Moncktou llOne, or
perhaps a. would be more correct %
say that a new author, named Monck-
ton Hone has discovered Charles llaw-
trey Al any rate, hC sent the popular
/ comedian 70 play Go read called Little
Damozel" aud so pleased was the latter
with IL that De promptly secured not
| only tho piece but am option on thu
! writer's entire output during the next
| siA years. Prank curzon, alao, was so
| favombly Impressed by the novelty
that ne offered 10 join with hawtrey
In producing 20 ut Wydhams And 8p
ln three weeks time THE hitherto "un-
| known dramatlFt' VIII make his bow
there. HaWtroy's health, I ann sorry
20 say has been none ~ tho best lately
| he suffers from some sort 0f heart
troaible and. az ne laushlngly declared,
he is not 20 young as he onoo was. IA
Inc circumstance he has definitely de-
| eided never o. undertake. the manage
| mont or thcatcr again OF even to burr
| den himself with the stage production
~ play lie Is quito willing ANA alie
10 appear in the leading part but there
he VII draw the limo FOR the future la
/ ..f H... III. IL.