Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-04

I understand that Tyler has loft in
struCtlons with his representative that
10 Is TO be given four weeks chance.
and if at the end of that time the
situation does not improve Tho Dawn
OF a Tomorrow" viii vanish from the
Garrick thoater bill. on the first night
j was seated between Mare klaw and
Madeline Lucette Ryley. ina box was
Maxine Elliott and in the one Just
below her the new Mrs. Nat Goodwin
so l[law Informed mo. Others present
We're Sir William gilbert, Sir Charles
Wyudham and Lena Ashwcll. The
audience was sufficiently enthusiastic
on the fan of the curtain. but In the
case ~ the FIRST performance that
counts very little nowadays. Gertrude
Elliott has gained upTTociahlN ~
power since she last PLAYED In Lon-
don and has lost none Of her bright
ness her sweetness and charm
The bubble has burst at Henry Try
iugs old thentcr. the LyCeum, which
has been run during the past three
years on popular lines. The original
managers were IL n. Smith and Ern-
est Carpenter whose Joint capital
when they ContriNcd to secure the
lease. was. believe. represented by
very little moro than $4,000, The thea
ter WAS run consequently ON a hand
to-mouth policy and again and again
the adventurous couple only Just con-
trivcd to scrapc through. Smith, as /
recorded at the times prompted by
jealousy Of his partner. rushed on and
took the Waldorf, now the strand
Shubcrts old theater. determined To
show what he could do on his own.
His season ended disastrously with,
as hc himself told me-, "a deficit or
something like $4,000. Where he found
such "a sum goodness only knows. Last
Christmas Ernest Carpenter suddenly
died. and when his estate came 20 be
wound up IL was found that he owed
S25 600 Fred Carpenter. his brother,
a man without any real theatrical
knowledge or ability stepped into his
shoes so far as the LyCcum was con-
cerncd and together he and Smith. a
most IN assorted pair, tried To Keep
things going.
The Inevitable end has now come.
Their resources exhausted. Smith and
Carpenter approached Walter and Fred
Melville. who have made a. fortune, as
their father did before them, by run
ming cheap mclodrama, written by
themselves. iu the cast end ana IN the
provinces. The fame OF such pieces as
"Thc Worst Woman In London The
Girl Who Took the Wrong Turning
and "Thc had Girl OF the Family
may possibly have reached American
playgocrs MY own experience or
them is limited to the first Eight
years ago william Greet and took the
Adclphi In order TO produce captain
Kettle" a drama founded on Cutcliffe
Hyne's well-known stories. The piece
was failure and several other at
tcmpts to find an attractive successor
proved similarly uuavailing. Just when
matters were at their worst Walter
Melville offered to come In ON sharing
terms with "rhe Worst Woman In
London" It was lurid, absurd, crude
melodrama OF a kind likely to appeal
only To- the most elemental intelligence.
But by virtue OF its very crudity ana
its utter irrationality II caught the
fancy Of West End playgoers VINO
focked TO the Adelphi to 20 into hys.
terical laughter over the weird ana
strange proceedings Of the author
preposterous character. Anyhow, the
piece brought grist to the mill and en-
abled us afterwards to produce 'The
Darl and the Girl" the success OF
which recOupcd us for our previous
losses. The Meivilies declare that they
intend to adopt at the Lyceum the
same policy pursued by Smith ana
Carpenter. but they would be some
thing less than human II they did not