The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29

ers. especially objected. because IT car
ried with It the insinuation that the
present cast is not satisfactory
=, This. according TO Cummings letter
competent company which is now ap
pearing in 1.-THE Blue Bird" and which
created Its various roles in this country.
Loses 100000 a Year.
In less than two years the New theater
has suffered losses, said to total nearly
s400,0o0
II is reported that ]. Pierpont Morgan
has begun TO take a more active interest
after he learned the amount OF the losses
and was brought face to face with the
fact that failure had followed failure
he called his fellow members together
and administered verbal spanking.
Winthrop Ames, administrative direc-
tor OF the theater:. has rendered his res
ton. Mr.. Ames has accomplished all
that might have been done under the
handicap he had. II he retires. 1t will
be with the respect and esteem OF all
the founders and the public.
Theater District Spreads.
Only few years ago this city had no
west side theater farther up town than
Forty-second street. The latest theatH-
cal creation. the Washington, is five
miles farther north and another is
planned above that point. This will give
one an idea of the growth Of the the
atrical business. The new theater Is on
West One Hundred and Forty-ninth
street
This new playhouse, which Is the far
thest north on the west side Of Manhat-
tan isle, was erected at an approximate
cost OF sl50000 by the Phoenix Amuse-
ment company. The syndicate which
and Includes among its members Will
liam Fox. who is also interested in the
City theater. which Timothy d. Sullivan
and his associates completed on East
1t has been decided by the management
OF this new theater to devote II to high
class vaudeville.
Revelry In Magic.
II was unique afiair-that magic show
given by the Society Of American Ma
gicians at the Carnegie Lyceum, Magic
pervaded the air. Almost everybody in
the auditorium, IL seemed. was student
OF the mystic. except the members Of the
ochestra and the stage hands. or course.
there were some outsiders. and to them 1t
was as much of a treat as II was TO the
followers OF prestidigitauon. The outsid-
ers saw things disappear right before
their eyes and, while they kept their
hands on their coats and hats. they
watched the performance eagerly
Even the man in the box office had a
knowledge of magic. Every dollar placed
before him disappeared Immediately after
being pushed through the window.
II was the third presentation of mys-
terry" by the society. and its object was
TO secure funds TO be used
in the erection Of a magic building
The maSlcians and their families were
all acquainted and big magicians. little
magicians and medium sized magicians
visited around the place whenever there
was an intermission,
Sounding Board Works Well,
The new sounding board at the Knick-
erbocker theater. invented by Maude
makes it possible for the faint
est whisper to be heard i'll the remotess
part Of the theater, 1t is a. new approach
10 the old subject Of theater acoustics:
only ii goes at the problem tho other
way around. economizng sound as II
comes from the stage. instead OF direct
Ing sound, in particular way from the
stage.
The new device virtually amounts to
a theater auditorium into
solid drum. with no other opening than
the ases and the proscenium arch OF the
stage,
Mrs. Neaumont Packard. noted figure
in stage life. recently died in Brooklyn
Mrs. Packard came from California and
opened an agency for plays and per-
formers. Hailng from California, she
began her business career with the pat
ronage of stock managers of the west as
well as that OF such Californian New
Workers as David Belasco, Joseph Girls
mer and others. Her business grew 10
such proportions that she was obliged TO
DROP The brokerage feature and conflne
herself to the bringing together OF actors
and managers. Her success was en-
phatic and she enjoyed The business con-
fidence of managers and players alike,
More than 10000 names of actors and
actresses were listed on her books.
Mrs. Packard was one of the founders
OF the California club, and a foremost
mover in tho work stage people did for
The relief OF sufferers from the San
Francisco earthquake.
Fake Producers Get Deserts.
Two Brooklyn tailors who didn't know
enough TO stick to their trades have been
sentenced to serve not less than five
years or not more than nine years and
six months AT hard labor in Sing Sing for
grand larceny.
Some time ago the tailors hit upon the
idea of turning theatrical producers. They
organized themselves into an amusement
and inserted a modest but art
fully worded advertisement in the papers.
One Of those who answered the adveT-
tsement was Margaret Stevens. a trained
nurse. They induced her 10 surrender
10 them her savings of a lifetime on the
promise that the money would he used in
financing Il sure winner Of a play called
Hearts and that she would be the treas
urer of the company. Hearts" was never
produced and Miss Stevens after trying
vainly TO get her savings back caused the
arrest of the men, Assistant Dlstict At
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