Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-09
LONDON MANAGERS
ARE PLAYING SAFE
rheatregoers Must Content
Themselves with Present Pro-
auctions and Few Revivals.
LITTLE STAGE ACTIVITY
Mr. Harry Lauder Reported to Have
Offer to Visit Every Place Where
English Is Spoken.
Especial DlspntchJ


n looks now a. II It would he very
| dun summer here so far ms thestricals
are concerned Managers are Aging low
and preparing few productions Theatre
yoers will have 10 content themselves
mainly with the plays now going on and
a few REVEALS. There will not be much
stage activity until october.
If terms can he arranged Miss Ethel
Irving may go to America for a season.
She has had big OFFER to do so. but her
husband thinks the terms should be sti,l
ger"--Peiican.
Somehow that sounds familiar
At last we know why American plays
do not draw In London. The Globe has
been kind enough to explain In discuss
ing the question It says:-"America stands
to-day where In matters 81 the drama
England or. at any rate. London, stood in
mid-Nictorian times. 1t loves the unso-
phlsticated drama. but we have ceased TO
tolerate It. hence the many failures Of
plays from the States"
So Americans are unsophistIcated com
pared with EnglIshmen. Isn't It nice 10
know that We are so innocent? Remark
able that nobody ever discovered II before.
Mr.. Bert Levy has Just arrived from
America with hts cartoons and his whistle
to appear at the Palace, where he is al.
ways a favorite.
WIDE FIELD FOR Mr.. LAUDER.
The Stage states that Mr.. Harry Lauder
has received an oner TO visit every place
in the world where English IL spoken, in
GLIDING such out OF the way spots as Alas
ka, Singapore and the Straits Settlements
The amount OF the salary offered Is not
disclosed. but Mr.. Lauder describes It as
tremendous. As Mr.. Lauder is booked up
and under contract until 1914. It viii be
necessary for him. &c. sc.
Miss ola Humphrey. a charming Amer
lean actress. who was forced to close her
season In London and undergo an oper-
alton for appendicitis. has now quite re-
covered and Is visiting with Countess de
Novers al her place In Nightingale road.
Miss Adrienne Augarde has just returned
from New York. where she has been play
ing IN The Dollar Princess bubbling
ylth enthusiasm over American audiences
ma consolng herself with the fact that
he goes back next season. Meanwhile.
according to the Express, she viii go on
the Stoll tour with one act play written
by Mr.. Norman McKinnel called Dicks
Sister"
The American song "Yip-i-addy,' over
which all London has gone dart for more
than year, has at last had it, day at the
Gaioty and has been cut out OF our Miss
Gibbs" In It's place Mr.. Grossmlth sings
one called Angelica" OF which ne has
hopes. Several other changes have been
made ia the piece and Mr.. Edmund Payne
has returned to the cast after being absent
all winter.
MISS REDMOND'S PLAY.
The Referee says that Miss Johanna
Redmond. a daughter Of Mr.. John Red
mond, leader Of the Irish nauonallsts. has
written play which VIII soon be seen In
London
Miss Mildred Eearney, daughter u the
late Dennis kcarnoy. OF san Francisco
has returned from Russia. W here she has
been singing for a year and half. She
Will spend the summer In England and
AAA'N ~ ~ AlA'l lNa l9l ~ eil'lA NANAlH cue
is the fortunate possessor Of ten year
contract 10 appear in Russia. Probably no
other music hall artist has so long a con
tract.
Mr. Granville Barker IS quoted by the
Observer as saying that the average man
has not much use for plays with present
views OF dukes and duohesses from the
angle Of the shopgirl Mr. Bankers atten-
tion should be called to THE Bad Girl Of
the Family" which presents just that kind
Of view and turns people away at every
performance.
The summer festival at stratforl-on-
Avon will open July = and last three
weeks. The Piper" the prize play, BY
an American author will then be pro-
duced The Observer says that Miss
Marion Terry has been engaged for the
leading role.
"The Eldest Son" Is tho tile Of play
which Mr.. John Galsworthy has just fin
ished and which Mr. Charles Frohman
has secured FOR production at the Duke
OF Nork's Theatre next season.
London is 20 have another great Coli
scum II ippodrome- Empire building close to I
Victoria station. u viii be due to the in |
domtable energy and enterprise OF Mr.. .
Alfred Butt. the manager OF the Palace
Theatre, who is the moving spirit"-E1-
press.
In partnership with Mr Martin Beck.
Mr. Butt will soon have a big music hall
In Berlin and also one IN Paris.
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