The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-19
DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT
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lege mate now III the employ Of Charles
| Frohman.
'Good heavens, man. you will never
| attain your ambition in your present
environment, exclaimed the latter
you must know life; YOU must fee!
life; YOU must mingle with the world
that makes drama, Also you must study
the stage at close range.
The outcome of the conversation was
! that young st. GaudeDs accepted on
the spot the appointment of advance
agent He is unskilled IN the wilcs OF
| local billposters and ignorant of the
! capacity Of a six-foot baggage car, but
! out on the '.roadD he expects to find
| life aud to meet the drama face 10
| face.
An echo to the closing Of "The Sign
Of the Rose which recently took
place at the Garrick theater. New
York, Will soon be heard in the courts
IN the case of Brooks VS., Beban. IN Il
suit to recover money alleged to be due
Alan Brooks. as collaboration, In the
writing Of the late lamented tallau
play, based on a one-act vaudeville
sketch
According TO Brooks. Klaw & Er-
LANCER agreed to star Bebsn In n three
act version Of "The Sign Of the Rose, -
& Erlanger read the play. however,
they became impressed with the fact
that, i'm its present form, it bad no
chance of success.
In casting about for someone to help
him over the dramatic hurdles. Beban
decided upon Brooks. who hied him
self TO Canada, according to his story
and lnborod with Bcban on the manu-
script which, eventually. Klaw & Err
1,r "A &
sistance, Brooks was to receive $1,000
and due credit on the theatcr pro-
grammes.
Charles Froham is responsible for
many things theatrical-among them
perhaps certain curious consequences Of
the fad for English actors which be
seems TO have set in motion.
At Il recent Broadway performance,
one humorous aspect Of this philaugll-
can furore was made manifest. Promi-
ment in the cast was a tbesplan from
over the water whose polish is only
skin deep and who sometimes-partlcu
larly in the matter of that social Sbib-
boleth the initial H-lapses into an ac-
cent that is only too. too terribly Eng,
lish On this occasion. be had handled
his lines impeccablv until he came to
the speech: sis that a house over
back into his pative vernacular. lngulr-
ing: sis that a mouse over tbereF
This was too much for the American
PLAYING opposite and the audience
rocked with delight at his swift inter
polation: "No. it ain t, It's only a
nut,
That a comedian s life is not invari.
ably happy was shown by a recent in
cident in which n wcll-knovn "fun
maker figured The Incident, moro.
over. indicated that realism has It's
naius 10 those who suffer it as well
as it's effect upon an audience.
This comedian sings a song OF the
tvpe now popular in musical comedy,
Uassisted'' by several slightly young
women. II is the stage duty of one of
these youur women to slap the come
Jian face during the progress OF the
dittv,
The stage manager complained to the
vounr woman after one performance
that her slap was not sufficiently real
istic. So at the next performance she
nut enough power into this bit Of
s.husiucss to eliminate three of the
comedian 5 teeth
Thanks to modern dentistry. as the
teeth werc normal thev were replapted
in The comedian : mouth, and he goes
about his business as usual. though uat-
urollv Mt the critical moment with a
wary eve ou the stroug.srmcd assistant
in his song,
s"rhc TootIights-Forc and Aft. a
new book about tho thcatcr by chan.