Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
SIR GILBERT to
CONDUCT OPERA
IN AMERICA
Insists on Choosing His Own
Company and Personally
Conducting Rehearsals.
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tMR. LADDERS PLANT
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Miss Constance Collier Is Coming
10 New York 10 Star Under Mr..
Charles Frohman's Management.
tMR. LADDERS PLANT
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'7'' " o '''''ef' mas received u 'e'''p''"s
offer to direct revival of Gilbert and
Sullivan operas in the United states.
Although lie Is more than seventy years
iold his age does not deter him from ac-
ccptIns It. hut what he will insist on is
that he shall be allowed to choose his
iown company, select his own musical
directors. superintcnd the costumes and
scenery ana personally eoiuuet inc re-
heaFsa'S' o'herw'se nc VIII nor no.
ne great ''oFe'ssst mas ha" u some
"ha' p''ter experience oi A'''erisah MAJ
iTea''neh' VI ms oi'e'" say ~ ~
win one eAeep''o" ne ~ ''
sullivan never So' penny o"' y, an .ne
ttEo"Sahos VI 'e'''' '''''''Ne VI 80.
IN tne on''e' H'''es' ne eHN 49,
IL Boston manager. VINO sent Nv e'eh -
ne composer ana itnret''S'
Miss Constance Collier Is about 10 start
for New York to star under Mr.. chaFles
Frohmnns MANAGEMENT. for some reason
MI. frohmah wants inc name Oh '"e pay
KEEP; secret. Ihat LOOKS Ms IL ne were CIV
!nS his press agent helping mana Win
mystery paragraphs. when MISS Confer
and her husband, Mr.. Jui'an lhs'fahse'
return to LONDON next spFi'S theS nope
TO lease theatre oil their own 'oAhafase
= and act in
The Earl OF Yarmouth mas closeh ms
5. engagement as observation-disclosures ~
!, the Court Theatre. me Eari SINGS ana
IS dances better 'han most members u ''e
House OF LORDS
"Jellyhsh Morality"
In ",rhe Man from the Sea- the Bishop
dorounces the ..iellv0sh morality of the
present day" Are not even jellyfsh to be
Icyompt from the tongue of scandal?
r At the Lyric Theatre they are beating
IAN records In the way of long distance
ndvance booking. The Pelican Is authority
for the statement that the other day a
block of seats was sold for the PERFORM
q uncc of The Chocolate Soldier to be
given there on September .. 1911.
For the last few weeks Mr.. Henry
Arthur Jones has been down In Sussex,
at the beacon Hotel in Crowborough.
finishing up his new play, which Is to be
first given In America. Mr.. Jones himself
will 20 over in about month to superin-
w. tend It's production ana WINE mere PROB
H. ably will avail himself OF several invita-
:, lions to deliver college lectures.
:, "Mr. Harry Lauder can have but small
. sense of huinor off the stage" states
:, London opinion. ito whine about man
:, ayers being unsportsmanliEe In not cancel-
:. Hing his contracts SO that he might make
i, cvcn larger ones elsewhere"
Mr.. Lauder says the managers are get
lng all his young life ana energy without
giving anything in return, HOW about All
!, these thousands OF dollars ne r'ceiNea
weekly in America?
~, MIR. Ign Harding is also ambitious 10
:, become West End actor manager, III lie
-, doesn't get theatre OF his own he threat
Gus 10 get even somehow and present
shakespeare in the provinces.
In an interview in the Daily Telegraph
Mi. seymour Hicks describes the nGslc
nan stage MS domain bounded on The
north by an acrobat. on the south by q
~, coniurcr, on the east By ventrioquss
land on the west by troupe of performing
dogs Mr. Hicks thoughtlessly ncGlects TO
/, satisfy our curiosity and tell us which