The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-02

from tho sawdust TO tho vaudeville
stage have they been asked TO think,
much less to speak. such scandalous
dialogue as is called for by this speci-
men domestic drama OF the "legit -
stage. Richard Carrie Will play the
cockney husband. Hattie Williams,
the cockney wife; VIII West. the play
| censor, and Charles McNaughton, tho
eyil-minded third angle of the sup
posed domestic triangle in short
Tho Censor aud the Dramatists' is
n Kind OF companion skit 10 Mr.. Bar
rie s earlier buriesque, "a Slice Of
Life :; and, like the institution OF the
censor and the modern domestic
drama which il satirizes. "The Censor
and the Dramatists contains a moral
which is, that II is only when people
are obstreperously moral that they
are completely immoral.
j. NJ. Barrie s baronetcy is said to
be the first conferred on any man Of
letters since Sir Walter Scott. You
can scarcely walk along Fleet street
nowadays without meeting literary
or journalistic knight. but that q scrib-
bling fellow should gain the coveted
honor or baronetcy Is rare enough
event 10 be sensational The Joke OF
1t is that this new recruit TO the aris-
tocracy is the most modest Of men, and
the very last whom one could suspect
of having made any effort himself to
gain the decoration. Ralph Connor has
told how he was once invited to a re-
ception at Free st. Georges, Edin-
burgh, which was given by the young
people of the church ID honor Of the
rising novelist. Coming in late, the
Canadian met Henry Drummond.
Drummond "No, 1 should like
TO see him - WAS the re-
ply. "Wen," said Drummond, smiling
look round till you find n hole, look
down in the hole, and you will sec
Barrie Ralph Connor found Barrie
later in quiet corner, evidently look
ing for a hole, and somewhat dis
tressed at not finding it. All the
English-speaking world knows Barrie
today as novelist and playwright.
Some recall with keen pleasure
watching some of his earliest steps on
the ladder Of fame, and how delighted
all were in his brilliant newspaper
sketches, before ever ne had ventured
to sign anything in his own name. 1t
was in 1857, when the British Weekly
was still a new and struggling journal,
that 1t began to publish some ertraor-
dinarily clever stuff written by man
who called himself ''Gavin Ogilvy,"
the continent in 1.-THE Trail Of the
Lonesome Pine has her favorite su-
perstitions like most stage folk. She
believes that black cats bring her good
luck and always carries one with her
on her tours. There came near being
a terrible catastrophe on the road re-
Gently when a dog. who had no super
stitions at all, killed her black cat Just
outside the stage door In the course
of battle royal. The company man"
ager was equal to the occasion, how
ever, for he was able to get black
kitten from the head cook at the local
hotel Just ten minutes before the COM
pany's trains left for the next city.
Tho ingenious and artistic manner ia
which William Hodge has arranged for
pany to take their curtain calls in "The
Road to Happiness" which is now play
ing at the Garrick theater in Chicago,
is attracting considerable attention,
Mr.. Hodge has found from his expert
ence with the pubhc's reception OF the
play that he receives on an average OF
thirty-seven curtain calls each night.
He has arranged, after the finish of
each act, for the story of the play to be
When the curtain drops the &C.
tors are seen In action silently keeping
along In the same situation in which
they had been appearing The result is
a continuation of the story without tne
disconnected jarring of seeing the ac-
tors simply appear and make obclsance.
In every city visited by Mrs. Fiske
there is always more or less wonder ana
speculation over the delivery at the
box flee Of the theater in which she is
TO appear Of some ten or dozen let
ters all addressed in the same hand
writing to "Mary Page
This is the name of the character in
"'The High Road impersonated by
Mrs. Fiske, but the two are not usually
related in the minds OF the box-office
attaches until after the first perform
ance Of the play Among the precon-
ceived explanations of the letters, some
new activity Of the "Black Hand is
usually the one most favored.
When the manager of the company
appears he is always appealed to for a
Without glancing at the letters-for
he has grown used to the inquiries-he
exclaims YEARLY: ooh, thosel Just
letters that the property man writes
and mails before we get here. In the
play the character played by Mrs. |
Fiske, Mary Page, destroys package |
Of letters, and Mr.. f1ske ls such /
stickler for details that he insists on |
the letters being real ones sealed,
post marked and all the rest.
Whereupou the excitement subsidies
and the box.office staff has learned |
about the Importance OF lit.
tie things in the estimation of careful
stage producer.
In the days of our youth "That stars
are suns is taught by astronomers -
stood side by side in our copy books
with "'Tell me not in mournful mum
bers," and "My having, IN Sanskrit,
like Orlando 5 beard is younger
brothers. revenue. - Wo never knew
what the latter meant, and now IN the
lays Of our maturity we are often just
as much nj sea over the teachings Of
our theatrical astronomers, for a
. star would seem to be not n 'sun
Of the stage. but creation Of the gen
ms of Thomas \. Edison What many
atter-day ''stars' would do II II
we're not for the electricity that gives
Them their chief prominence, is hard
question. Perhaps some Of the humber
might become overcrowded.
The tcuuTe of al too TnanY in tho con-