The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-19

troduce new characters their work
would stand q better chance Of meeting
with managerial approval, and at the
same time invite production instead
OF the usual curt note winch accom-
panies the returning manuscript re
gret that ] find your play unavailable
for my use.
"Another fatal defect in most of
these PLAYS is that they have special
appeal. \ rlay 20 succeed must be
one which invites interest from all
sorts Of thester-goers. | am OF the
opinion that the interest being taken
in plavwrjting in this country. VIII
result in new crop OF playwrights,
which will establish America head and
g producing cepter.
tiThis activity means something
The old writer's are written ont. They
are barren of ideas, and we must look
10 the now ones for the forclble plays
that will again bring the theater-goers
20 the theater IN larger numbers than
ever before
The New York World has this TO
saw ahout- The Balkan Princess y:
s'The Balkan Princess is reported
To have eniored enough OF vogue IN
London to make il conspicuous among
the recent comic opera successes. II
this be true. its disclosure in the Her.
ald Square theater betrayed that II is
dehilitated from It's sea voyage and Is
in need OF doctor. The production by
the Shuherts was all that could 6e ae.
sired Probably II was much better
than the piece deserved double bat
terv of orchestral implements WAS pro
vided. ard they were manipulated by
the lusty mnged and strong armed mu,
sicians with n gusto that often swamped
the voices of the chorus.
But. however elaborate were the
scenery and costumes, they could not
act as an auaesthetic TO deadeu the
cxouisite agony caused by the hhretto
by Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Cur,
zon, which was about the weirdest and
siupidist affair perpetrated by any sup
posedly comic piece IN the last SIX
months. The Jokes, some Of almost pre-
historic vintage, may have seemed
quite hilarious TO audiences of Shafts.
bury avenue or on the strand, out
Broadway will he likely to receive them
with wailng and gnashlng of teeth.
Only Herbert Carthell, who appeared
as restaurant waiter escaped the un-
humorous blight. lie took the pre-
cautions To furnish his own lines and
Jokes and thus gave sufficient excuse
for several hearty laughs.
Runert HUSneS. tne NulHoI OIL EA-
cuse Me- which is the latest Henry
W. Savage success. was at one time edi
tor Of Godey's magazine. Mr.. Hughes
was born in Missouri. year ago Mr.
Savage asked him to "show me, and
the author IS answer was Excuse Me. y
RAYMOND Floriot's s plea in defense of
Madame X in the great court room scene
in Bisson's drama of the same name,
-, ranorfal of fha AnoSt
examples of forensic oratory. extant,
Henry W. Savage hys received numer
ous requests from high school principals
and teachers of elocution and dIctlop
for copy of the young avocat g speech
to the jury, to be used as a study in
oratory and defamation, The speech
is the longest in modern dramatic lit
erature. IT contains eighteen hundred
words and occupies fifteen minutes in
delivery.
Henry ". Savage positively an.
nounces that he will make his reentry
into the field of grand opera In Eng.
Iish next season with a PTTo,ducti;on of
the Golden Vest The opera, as is
well known, is based on the famous Da-
vid Belasco drama, and has attained z
remarkable success as the feature phi
in the current season s metropolitan |
Opera house repertoire. The theme and
American locale of the drama are es-
pecially suited to production in the YER
nacular When one recalls Mr., Say
ages amazing productions Of "Parsi-
fal' and MADAME Butterfly in Eng
lish few seasons ago, his Forthcoming
grand opera enterprise VIII be watched
with interest and great expectations.
NERV0USMESSTSo return q. Q; spells sIs