The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-16

core at the MISSION TheaJer.
tors. 1t is lack Of magnetism, the
natural ability to put it across There
are two managers in particular who in
sist on having people who possess this
ability, a. l.. Erlanger and John Cort
| They are both sticklers on this and
they surely know what the patrons of
their many playhouses want. They do
not say is she pretty?' has she a
| glorious voice?' but 'can she get II
across the footlights7'
Salt Lake has never staged more
magnificently spectacular or intensely
appealing play than ''The Shepherd
King" in which Wright Lorimer will
be seen at the Salt Lake theater on the
24th of January. This powerful Bibli.
cal story tells how David, the youth
full son of Jesse, slew the giant Goliath,
won the love of King Saul s daughter,
Michal and the friendship of his son,
Jonathan, and ultimately succeeded to
the kingly honors of the Jews. 1t is
decked with all the barbaric magnif-
cence of the Orient, and its spirited
pictures Of the battlefield in the vale
of Elah, with its brawny fighting men,
and the phantasmagorical scene in the
cave of the witch of Endor, have no
superior on the modern stage. Mr.. Lori
mer' s David is powerful and satisfy
ing. He is surrounded by notable
cast of players.
Samuel Z. Rork s big musical produc-
ton of 'The Land of Nod, which
comes to the Colonial theater on Jan
uary 30, is one of the amusement events
of the season which is attracting more
than ordinary attention. 1t is the bril-
liant musical extravaganza which made
such an unqualified hit here last sea
son, and returns this year with prac-
tlcally the same excellent cast.
The Cleveland, O., city council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting man
ayers of thcaters from allowing late
corners to be seated while performances
are in progress. The maximum fine for
so doing is 800; the minimum, $50.
In the case Of a vaudeville performance
there can be brief intermission after
the opening of the performance to al
low late corners to be seated. If 1T is
play, the late corners must wait until
the first act is over.
Ruth st, Denis produced in Boston
at the Park theater. on Thursday, as
an addition to her present repertoire
of Hlndoo dances, new dance 80 In
An Indian Garden This dance shows
n garden Of Hindoo nabob in all its
beautiful coloring, with the wealth of
foliage and nowo-s such as India is
famous for. HeT the dancer is shown
giving an entertainment for the nabob
and his guests.
Josephine Lovett. leading woman for
Robert Edeson IN "a Mans 4 Man"
was born in San Francisco, and made
her debut on the stage with Henry Mil
Ter in Heartsease' in Chicago at
Dol, Ia - ~
Northern, in 1888
Rene Fauchois, the author of
" Beethoven which is to be pre-.
sented at the New Theater. New York,
is not 80 years old. For ten years he
has been Il student of the theater. and
in order to make competence while
studying the drama. worked as an ne
tor. PLAYING at the Sarah Bernhardt
Sully. In 1902, while employed as an
actor, he wrote plays for The Theater
de Poetes. one of which was five
act play called "Louis XVIII This
was somewhat crude. but showed evi-
dcnccs of genius Two years later he
produced, at The Nouveau thoater,
I" The Exodus - a modern play. which
called him to the attention of students
Of the drama.
An ingenious statistician once com.
nuted the number of death scenes that
Nine. Bcrnbardt had enacted. Her
deaths by self administered poison, it
was calculated amounted roughly to
10000; she had jumped into the
scenic artists Seine over 1000 times,
had sent over 5000 bullets into her
head from n revolver, and so on.
A chorus girl in the Anna Held com,
panv came in twenty minutes late for
rehearsal one day and said 70 the stare
MANAGER: every sorry Mr.. Mitchell.
but the stree. car nearly ran over n
man mud we were detained twenty
minutes Two davs later the girl
camc in q half hour late, and. approach
ing Mr. Mitchell. said: "Awful sorry.
Mr.. Mitchell. but the car ran over a
man and they took all of the pas
senocrs names and it held us up a
half hour" Three davs later the Girl
came in late again, and before she had
time TO offer an explanation Julian
looked at her and said: "T suppose
you went TO that mans funeral this
morning7"
Hope Booth Wolf, known on the
stage as Hope Booth, has brought suit
for separation against Fenold Wolf, a
dramatic critic According to the com
plant the couple were married Mt
Yonkers February 4. 1903. and Wolf
abandoned his wife last August Mrs.