Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29
Sarah Bernhardt Provides Sensation
London Dramatic Letter

exactly how much Sho was paid FER
minute, These were the days when
Guilbert was slim and wondrously
weird in appearance. fascinating
everyone by the strange. cerie manner
In which she delivered her blood-cur1-
ling songs Today sho Is plump and
matronly and has practically given up
trying to make her listeners flesh
creep.
bell sailed for New York. She goes
with no very definite Intention In
her mind OF playing there, but II
favorable offer should turn up 1t Is
tolerably certain she will not refuse
It, Just before she went she sent me
to read little one-act play by her
son, Allan Patrick Campbell, who. mp
parently, has now decided to WOO for
tune as an author rather than as an
actor His piece bears the title of
The Ambassadors Wife" and has
evidently been written to suit his
mother who tells me she Will take the
very first opportunity OF producing 1t,
The story deals with the attempt by
an unprincipled scoundrel to force tho
wife of an English ambassador to hand
over certain important state papers IN
exchange for a packet OF rather lndls-
Greet love letters. written when she
was a girl, which will otherwise be
new tale, but the youthful writer con-
triveS to give IL some distinctly fresh
and novel touches, The part of the
wife is particularly strong and ought
to suit Mrs Campbell admirably.
Seymour Hicks and Leslie Stuart
have this week given us their musical
version of Richard Harding Davis'S
piece, THE Dictator" They label their
work Captain Kidd" and to my mind
they have most ingcniously contrived
to spoil a good farce. Hicks is the
most amazing fellow in the world. on
the night of the first performance he
hardly knew line OF his part and only
managed to save the situation by gag
ging here, there and everywhere, To-
wards the close of the opening act his
memory failed him entirely, and turn
Ing to the conductor he coolly remark
ed. Cue for finale" That any au-
dience should tolerate him and the
liberties he takes with them is past
comprehension. But somehow they DO
can only suppose that they are COM
pletcly fascinated by his colossal I'M
pudencc. His wife, Ellaline Terriss,
was as delightful as ever, but she had
very little to do except to look
dainty and pretty. II Captain Kidd
goes any distance 1t Will only be by the
sheer force of Hicks's personality.
Just two days ago Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy brought down to His Majcstys S
the last act of his new play, Tho
o Flynn" for rehearsal AS the date
of production Is fixed for Tuesday
week, this Is pretty close work. Tree,
however, insisted that the piece, when
IT came into his hands, required
large measure of remodeling and dur
ing the past three weeks Mccarthy has
been working night and day TO get 1t
into shape Tree, by the way. Is i'm
mensely pleased by his first entrance.
1t does not often happen that the hero
of a romantic drama makes his appear
ance down a chimney, But that is
what O'Flynn does, emerging there
from. covered with SCOT, with hands
and face black as ink Tree is de-
lighted at having a part In which he
can give the frccst rein to his humor-
Gus faculties. In the course of the
evening he also assumes two dinerent
dlseuises, thus showing his versatility,
Mccarthy himself Is quite modest
about his latest effort which he con-
fesses Is more OF less in the nature OF
patchwork He viii even go so far
as to describe 1t on the program az AN
original play drawn from many sourc-
eS."
Rehearsals arc being rapidly pushed
forward at several theaters. and Feb
ruary, the general election over, prom
ises to be a busy month Cyril Mnude
is hard at it with Michael Morton's
version OF Ia Petite Chocolatiere," to
be produced at the Playhouse. Frank
Curzon Is just starting on Frederick
Lonsdale and Paul Rubcn's new musl-
cal piece, THE Balkan Princess at
the Prince of Wales. Lewis Waller
Will soon he giving us c. NJ. s Nc
Lerlan's "The Strong People" at the
Lyric. H. B. Irving has Comyns Cars
version of DR.. Jckyll and Mr.. Hyde"
we'll in hand for the Queens. while
Ethel Irving leads off the ball next
week with Frederick Fcnn's adaptation
OF LA Femme Nue. entitled Dame
Nature" at the Garrick. Finally comes
Arthur Bourchier with w. Somerset
Maugham's threo-act play which, as I
stated last week. the author has def
nitely decided to call Tho Tenth
Man"
Meanwhile, at the st Jamcs's. George
Alexander pursues the even tenor OF
his way with Tho Importance of Be
ing Earnest" which has quite settled
down into a laughing success. Chat
Ting with Alexander the other day he