Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03
.Neros of the London Stage
London Dramatic Lctter.

/, OF Il condensed version of Shakespeare
| tragedy at the Coliseum n month before
| Tree produced his and so contrive tt
take the wind out Of his rivals sails
Probably, after reflection, he will de.
eide to do nothing Of the kind. but the
fact that he even thought of such d
step shows how heavily charged with
electricity the theatrical atmosphere al
present is.
Yes. as | anticipated would be the
case, Trees negotiations with Oscar
Asche TO migrate to His Majesty's and
appear there in Louis n. Parkers his
torical drama Drake" have come to
naught. Tree complains that Oscar
Aschc has treated him rather badly in
tile matter. and Oscar Asche indignant
~ Ietorts that he has good grounds for
protesting against Trees behavior.
Doubtless there is something to be
said on both sides. Anyhow, negotia-
tions tire off, Oscar Asche takes Count
Hanniball' TO the Garrici and Tree
produces Macbeth" at His Majesty's.
Arthur Bourchier ana his wife, Violet
Vanbrugh remain with him. the former
to play the part of Mhcdum. the latter
that of Lady Macbeth. Gordon Craig.
Ellen Tcrry's son, has already advised
Tree in regard to some of the more I'M
portant details of the production. and
he is to be invited to complete his work.
Craig IS now living in Florence and
whether he Is prepared to return to
England remains to be seen. had Il
letter from him the other day saying
he had received a most tempting offer
to 70 to Paris. but he has some pro-
ductions to do In Moscow and these he
anticipated would occupy the time at
his disposal However. | know he is
very keen about Macbeth" and am
fairly confident he will eventually fall
In with Trees proposal. ] { he does. we
may expect something very cerie, mys-
teal and supernatural in the way of
stage effects.
l dined the other night with John
w. de Kay, who, as you know, has
written the new Judas play for Sarah
Bernhard. He is about to rorsake
business for the theatcr and Will cross
the Atlantic early in December in or
der TO witness the first performance in
New York of his cherished drama. He
tells me that he Is about to start n
new daily paper in London of n rather
novel description. 1t is to be printed
entirely in French and some of the
most brilliant Partisan writer's have
signiticd their willingness to contribute
to it. Among these are. for example,
Marcel Provost and Anatolc France.
The staff of course will include Il GER
tain number OF English journalists
whose copy will be duly translated into
French, If the thing Is we'll done 1t
may appeal to the cream of London So
ciety. as 1t is dc rigueur that everyone
in the highest fashionable west end
circles should read and speak French
fucntly. De Kay Is II most interesting
fellow. He started life as a compost
tn,.'c cictn mt no I Ton
years later lie was the owner Of quite
a number of newspapers and now ut IS
he Is n millionaire. a recital of his
adventures in the northwest and sub
seuuently in Mexico would I'll many
volumes and some day he hopes to find
time to put his "reminiscences into
shape. But for the moment his atten-
ton is concentrated upon the thcatcr,
where it is his ambition to make a rep
utation for himself.
Fred c. Whitney arrives in London IS
hours hence. The pleasing news awaits
him that "rhc Chocolate Soldier" is
going stronger than ever and bids fair
to run for quite a twelvcmonth at
least. On the other hand. THE Dollar
Princess" is rapidly nearing the end of
its career at Days. 1t is to be taken
off fortnight from now and the
thcatcr will close for Il while pending
production of THE Count of I.uxcm-
bourg." George Edwardes. Ike the
rest of the west end managers, is up
against Il nasty snag in the shape of
the threatened general election. and
will probably delay producing anything
until that is over. Tomorrow he is off
to Vienna to see II performance Of The
Doll Girl" by Victor Leon and Leo
Fall upon which he holds an option.
BY the way. the fato OF the Lyric
is to be settled within few days.
Lewis Waller claims his right to re-
enter that house by virtue of an agree
ment with William Greet, who on the
other hand, insists that Waller for
fcitcd his claim some months ago. The
two disputants have wisely decided
to go to arbitration rather than to law.
Should Waller win his case The Choc-
olatc Soldier" will have to find an
other home-no easy matter ut tho
momcnt-but from what know of the
facts there Is very little likelihood that
the decision will he given in his favor
He has made n tidy bit OF money by
his autumn provincial tour and natur-
ally wants to have another turn at
London management.