Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-16
THEATER GOSSIP


! William Gillette has left for Lon
/ don 90 remain until early next autumn
| when he viii return 10 New York TO
] prepare for Il tour IN rcpertOry OF
his more familiar plays.
Grace George goes 90 New orleans
| next week and then travels westward
| % the Pacific coast. which mean that
| her season VIII be an extended one.
and, therefore, interfere with her
summer prospects in Allonhurst. where
she has pretty home.
THE Dollar Princess at the Knick-
erbockcr theater. enters upon the
eighth month Of its prosperous run
More than two hundred and fifty
thousand PEOPLE have seen % this
winter in New York.
NJ y Lcavtts new book FIFTY
Years zoo Theatrical Management viii
De ready la May ~ b. to consist of 900
pages. Including about 200 portraits
" stage celebrities. selected from Mr.
Lcavitts large private collection ~
photographs gathered during his hair
century Of business ctupation.
Ethel Barrymore in "Nid-ChuuncI"
begins the last two weeks of her en-
gagcmeut at the Empire the1tcr. New
York. Miss Barrymore's engagement
was extended owing Co her great sue
cess in the role OF Zoe BlundoU aud
90 the popularity of Piuoro's latest.
and In many ways most notable. play.
Francis Wilson m his own play.
The Bachelors BABY" begins the
sixteenth week Of his STAY at the Cri-
terion Theater New York, Monday
"rhe Bachelors Baby runs "a broad
90 4
once side-spliuing farce ana a play
of the sweetest. most delicate scnt-
mcut
The ARA ngoments for the revival OF
Sophoclcss tragedy "Antigonc" i'm
which Miss Margaret AnClin is 90 APP
pear at the Greek theator in Berkeley.
Ca. az the Invitation NJ the faculty Of
the University of california. next sum
mer. have been placed in the hands ~
Mr. George Riddle Of Cambridge. a
well-known authority on the Greek
classical drama
Miss Mabel Talisrerro has iu an
probability Travelled farther than any
other young woman Of her years She
is barely 70. but from the records Of
her theatrical and pleasure trips ~
has been figured out that since she
began her stage career no the tender
age of 2ik years. a. Baby Bascome
in "Bluc Jeans" she has Travelled APP
proxlmately $4,000 miles.
Edwin Milton Roylc's play. The
Sduaw Man. celebrated its q. 00Oth per
Torrance in this country March 80 al
Cooks Opera house. Rochester. Its
original cast included William Favcr-
sham. George Fawcett, Theodore Ro-
berts w s Hart and Selena john
son. Some of Mr.. Faversham's success
sors IN the titlc-role have been
Dustin Farnum, Henry Jewett and
Fred f. Petley an English actor. Mr..
Petley now heads the company In this
country
Henry Millcrs lapse into theatrical
frivolty by means Of Her Husbands
Wife" viii not be lasting. since he
plans after the run Of the farce In
Chicago. TO appear in two thoughtful
dramas which have just left their au- |
thors' hands. one Of these Is THE
Second Generation" by Langdon
Mitchell. author OF "Thc New York
Idea" and Becky sharp and is
treatment Of heredity. The other IS by |
Charles Ram Kennedy. author Of The |
Servant In the House" and is called !
"The Idol Breaker" In this play Miss |
Edith Wvnne Mathison will appear as !
q gypsy queen undergoing infatuation
with semi-barbaric English farrier