The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-04

DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT
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bours7' asked the impetuous manager.
what timidly. Isl dou't altogether
agree with all of them, if / may beg
yopr pardon, but II do my best. =
"All right, then " answered Mr.. Bra
dy, ego to It, Meanwhile, " start
engaging the company
Very well, sjr,'' said Buchanan
''I'll go right home and To work. BY
the way, I've brought another manu-
script with ME which ! wish YOU would
read when YOU got time.
thing else now replied Mr.. Brady,
testify. 81 We got troubles enough 10
get this other thing into shape. What S
| it called, anyhow
"'A Woman's Way % said Buch-
anan.
K" Sounds like another one Of those
| things declared the manager. ''WclI
let Y have 1T; j ii look at it some
| time. y
Then Mr.. Brady through several
agents as ,a ISSUED hurry s II TOR the east S
desk waiting for the applicants TO re-
port. the manuscript Of '''A Woman .
Way lay before him. Nervously be
opened il at the middle, and his eye
fell on a passage 20 he delivered by
tho principal woman character,
"That reads great, he thought TO
himself.
lie read Oh q little further. and be
came deeply interested. Next he
turned back and began at the first
page.
Applicants for positions in the cast
Of "1he Intruder began 10 arrive
from the Lambs club, the Woman g
Professional league, and Mrs. Fernan-
dez 5 Office. They were all biddcn to
cool their heels in the waiting room.
Mr. Brady would not be ready TO see
them for an hour.
At the end Of the hour he thus ad-
dressed the assembled players:
81 am sorry, but YOU must all go
home. | have changed my plans. L
am not going, to produce 'The lntru-
der at least, not now.
Then he sent for Buchanan again.
81 IN going 10 produce one of your
plays he said. "'hut its not The
Intruder II 's'A Woman g Way. That
one is corkcr. And Grace George Will
star in it,.
A visit to Charles Osgoo] OF the
klaw & ErlangeT booking Offices re-
suited in the cancellation of Miss
! George "road' tour in "Divor-
cons 4 telegram TO her brought her
and the company Immediately to New
York. For ten days rehearsals of ' A
Woman's Way were carried on Mt
brcakneck speed. and at the appointed
lime the play was presented at the
| Hackett theater It was instantaneous
and emphatic.
A wear later 1.-The Intruder was
produced, and proved 10 be complete
failure,
Rose Stahl whose maggie Pepper
is such a marvellous imitation Of n
shop lady is interested In unique
| characters and has a fund of negro
stories, She tells this on typical old
darkv Of the south:
''Blake HoGgatt says he has found
new way to eSterminate 9rasshop-
pers, Blake says to catch a couple OF
the hoppers and pinch them on the legs
| till .the muscles become sore. Then
turn them loose They will bop so
queerly that all the other grasshop-
pers will die laughing. The hard part,
Blake SAYS, is TO catch the two origl.
nal grasshoppers when the others are
all dead, and kill them
Harry Bulger, who is the star Of
"The Flirting Princess, always
wanted 20 be a tragedian. His fate,
however, has been TO play tramp char
acters and other humorous roles. and
tragedy has not once been entertained
by his manager. Mr.. Buleer was prom.
inent in schoolbov theatricals at
GAINESVILLE, O.. his home town, and he
tells a story regarding rehearsal of
CAS- You Like IT. by himself and his
schoolmates.
,sTbe rehearsal sook rlace in n u.r
den. - said Mr.. Bulger. 'tbat was over
looked by building operations As my
amateurs postured and chanted the
bard s. beautiful lines. bricklayers
above us laid bricks. carpenters planed
boards and masoDs chipped stones.
g During n lull in the rehcarsals one
afternoon, we heard voice from the
building above say gravely.
- prithee, malapert, pass ME yon-
4 I'll.