The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-14

storehouse, and successful play IN
the sterehousc is Of no value at all.
'The big appeal IN any play is the
thing that everybody knows and recog-
niZes,
'EThe criterion that playwright
should seek in building a character is
to create one which will cause people
to say, 'Oh. yes, l know fellow ex-
actly like that.
''The big fundamental thing in
drama is character.
Gan unactable play is not worth
any more than al unsingable song or
an invisible picture.
"If dramatists had made it a rule
TO write only for immature yonng peo'
pie. girls under l6. and adolescent
youths, wo never should have had The
Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Magda or
Camille mot one of the greatest
dramas Of the world would have been
written
George AIDE didn I write this fable;
Once upon Time Little Grille.
Vdh With soms s .p shape the AP9logy of s.'
her heart Upon Making Hit. and hay
ing her Name in Big BriIIiants over
the Theatrical Places Of Business.
| Failure followed Failure. until One Day
she Met Up with Press Agent, who
Married her and Lived upon Der In
come Happily forever Afterwards
Now this Press Agent Knew Thing
or Two about Success. He made her
Smoke "Cigs.'' In the Vestibule of
Trinity and Tell Everybody he had been
| Beating her with the Jaw Bone Of an
| Ass. Pretty soon Divorce Rumors
foated on the Breeze and People began
TO Sit Up and Adjust their Lorgnottes,,
Still not satisfied, her Matrimonial
Press Agent Circulated the Report that
her Long Lost Father had Returned
from South Africa to reclaim his Little
Daughter, bringing along couple or
Quarts Of 35.iewel Diamonds. Next
Day some Editorial Cock robins were
fooled and used her Picture. She IS
star.
Moral-If Opportunity docs not
knock at your door. employ the services
of Professional Knockcr.
Popular Broad way expressions:
"Have Yon Ben Hurt Yet7'
And again, written on placard, IN
the window of cut rate theater ticket
office: .'Cut Rate Tickets for Ben
Herr. the Great Military Drama.
Twenty Horses.
If YOU haven I thirteen lettcr9 in
your person some place, there is little
chance FOR job in the Ncrba- Duescher
Office. Ever since these bows produced
..'rbe Spring Maid NOTE tbe thirteen
letter-at Waterbury, Conn another
l3--thev have taken the hoodoo num
Der for their mascot. They accepted
''Miss Dudcisack - for Lulu Gleser's
starring tour, partly because OF the
thirteen letters in the title aud also IN
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son.
The first reading OF the opera was
held on August I3 with MIX Hirscb
field. an original member or thc Fhir-
teen club. al the piano. The first man
epca eed for the company, David Tor
renee bad thirteen letters in his name
Another thirteen in the company Is
George w SamIDrs. the company man
aper. Furthermore. this will be the
thirteenth starring season of Lulu
Glaser. There arc thirteen letters IN
the Werbn Lucseher firm name, and
they insist on the magic number play
ing some part in everything they 40.
That is said to be the reason they put
on "Litttle Miss Fix'1t y 1t might be
remarked that this same Little MISS
Fix-Itf never cut much of figure un-
otherwise called George V. Hobart, TO
rewrite the piece Its topnotch week
during the all.summer run In Chicago
was $4,000. Louis Mann's new play,
.'Elcvating Husband, was partly
written by Samuel Shipman, another
thirteener. md willard u. Coxey was
engaged for advance manager OF the
piece for the same reason
.iRrh oder Maedel.r the Werba
Lusseher musical production. is also In
tlc thirteen class. aod Louis +, Werba
saws he took Mark A, Lueschcr as
mariner and books the show with klaw
l. ErIanger simply because they both
carried the fateful sign of l3-