The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-16
DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT

Now that Harriet Standon, prima
! donna in "When Sweet Sixteen,i has
leaped from Il modest little road prima
donna to the feature Of n smashing sue
cess at the Chicago opera house many
neighborlng cities are claiming her as
favorite daughter. The amusing con-
test RACES in Oak Park, ILL.,, Blooming
ton, H., and Elkhart, Ind, in all Of
which cities Miss Standon has resided
and studied music. She owns property
in the first, sang in chorus in the sec
ond and her father is banker in the
third, but she discreetly keeps silent as
the papers print columns of laudatory
stories in all three.
The perennial rumor that "Romeo"
Antonio Scott and "Juliet' Geraldine
Farrar are soon to be married has ar
rived and this time it is stated that as
surely as the sun rises and the moon
sets and the stars shine above, this
mutually devoted couple of grand opera
stars, who have broken all records for
looking longingly into each other s eyes.
at the same time DENYING that they
were engaged, will march up the
church aisle to the chime of wedding
bells before the end Of the current
For n week the intimate friends of
Scotti and Miss Farrar have been
quietly telling everyone that the long
suspected engagement between the
prima donna and the baritone is q fact,
YEA, even to the big solitaire ring on
Miss Farrar's third finger. However,
neither Mr.. Scotti nor Miss Farrar
cares to discuss the subject in any
way.
Last autumn Miss Farrar declared
with much positiveness that she was so
sne had committed bigamy if she mar
RED a mere man.
John Cort has entered into an agree
ment with j. NJ. Dodge whereby the
| new Snreckels theater of San Diego,
Cal. will be booked through the North.
western Theatrical association, of which
Mr.. Cort is general manager This
theater is now in the course Of con-
struction by the Spreckels estate, and
VIII be completed by the first of the
| coming September to receive the at
fractions PLAYING Cort S extensive cir
cult of 300 theaters in the west, The
Spreckels will be one of the most elab-
crate theaters on the Pacific coast,
"Sir' Charles Frohman declares that
he will produce no more plays dealing
with the sexual problem. "The public, -
he SAYS. "don t want them. The play
of the future will still deal with di-
vision between husband and wife, but
it will not be the lover that separates
them. Some great new motive will be
found, PLAYS will still concern them.
selves with love, but not with the lover.
The human play is the play that the
public wants. and that I want + like
thief plays, too, and am shortly produc,
ing new one. The public is fond Of
seeing the evolution of the thief and
his reformation by love-
Nat Goodwin and Nance Gwyn have
the same initials. and each has commit
ted matrimony n quartette of times,
Yet how could there possibly be at
tached any significance at all to the
initials y. G.
How can mothers keep their young
daughters off the streets2' was a oucs-
tion recently propounded to Rose Stahl.
Keep the streets locked, quietly
responded the heroine of Maggie
Pepper. -
Gene Green says that he is the only
single act on the stage that carries
a straight man with him. His pianist IS
name Is Straight.
Green week" in Detroit;
Margaret Anglin in "Groen Stock
lngs' (and other wardrobe) at the
Opera house
1.-The House With the Green Shut.
ters' at the Lafayette.
Gene Green at the Temple with Al
Green leading the orchestra.
young callboy. not distinguished
for that which old sailors call so ex.
pressivelv saveY," rushed up to Ed
ward Siedlc on the stage of the Met.
rouolitan opera house and cried: "Ohl
Mr.. Siedle. the horse kicked chorus
singer in the abandon.
Did hei" cried Siedje "Go at once
TO the horse, get his name and address
aud tell Mr. Speck to fine him two
dollars -