The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
"The Bachelors Baby" Not a
Play but an Autobiography

play an enthusiastic herald Of its mer
It's The thrilling realism OF the com
posing and pressroom scene of the big
newspaper are so vivid, unusual and
show such mighty mechanical power in
operation that il grips the spectator as
no other scene in the theatrical world
today can do, and the audience is in
yariably half ont Of its seats with ex
cltement at the climax Of the big situa
ton.
Denver Girl Makes Good
II has begun TO look as though "Paid
an Full - is one of those standard works
of drama which will live in popularity
for many. many years. In the present
cast OF the company playing Paid in
FULL in the east is a young woman
for whom critics have great regard,
and for whom they predict great things
some day. She is Miss Marguerite Wat
son, who plays the role Of ''Beth Har-
ris. Miss Watson is slight and petite
little woman, who is playing her part
with true artistic Interpretation. She
was born in New Orleans, but was edu-
Gated in Denver. so that, when her full
measure Of greatness comes, the south
and west may both lay claim to her
Finally Hears Daughter Sing.
Though Miss Flora Wilson, daughter
of Hon. James Wilson, secretary Of agri
in concert ever since her American
debut at the Hotel Plaza in New York,
her father had never heard her sing in
public until she gave special concert
Monday night in the Bellevue .Stratford
in Philadelphia. The secretary hap
pcned to be in Philadelphia to give an
address before the Manufacturers club
of that city and availed himself of the
opportunity to hear his talented daugh-
ter,
All the society of Philadelphia appar-
emily availed itself of the same priv
ilcge, for the audience was almost a
roster of the Quaker City "smart set. -
Miss Wilson is better known as a So
cicty woman than as n concert singer
but the enthusiastic reception accorded
her would argue speedy reversal of
her distinct regulations
Throat Hospital in Theater.
An adjunct absolutely unique in the
annals of the theater has been installed
in the Casino theater III New York by
Fred G. Whitney, and to this agency
may be traced the fact that the great
strain on the voices of the chorus men
and women of "The Chocolate Sol
dicr' has had no appreciable effect on
their voices which continue as fresh
and strong, in spite of the six months ,
wear and tear on them as when the
opera was first produced here early in
the season. This innovation is nothing
more or less than the installation of n
thoroughly equipped throat hospital or
inhalatorium. under the direction of
DR.. Joseph Muir, the well~known throat
specialist, and trained nurse working
under his direction in which the chorus
girls particularly are treated every
night before the second act, in which,
in tho finale. there is such tremendous
STRAIN on their singing powers.
Dancing at Seventy Five.
Annie Yeamans, who is now play
ing in "The Candy Shop will be 10
years old on November 10, and has
been before the public sixty years, but
she is still far from old Indeed, Mrs.
Yeamans dances an Irish Jig or
Connemara reel today with ms much
arch cOquetry as might be expected of
the youngest of actresses. She is young
in spirit because she has always looked
at life through the rosy glasses of OPP
timism, She is one of the most beloved
women of the stage.
Born on the Isle Of Man, the land
made familiar to American readers
principally by Hall Caine, of a Welsh
placed on the stage when she was fair
~ a baby IN arms. Her father was
William Griititbs, n singer and actor,
and when little Emily Annie Grfliths
was year old her father took his wife
and child to Australia to begin an en-
gagement there with a stock company.
Her first important appearance was
in 1S45, with this company in Mel