The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-01

replied that be not only would not OBJ
lect, but he wished her success in the
effort TO find career for herself
President Wilson enjoys the theater
very much himself.
''A1i!estones." the most famous play Of
the generation, which has but recently
completed two years ngagement In
London and year in New York City.
will come to the Salt Lake theater soon
with the same company of distinguished
London artists who have won such enthu-
"Milestones" is comedv-dr by Ar
mold Bennett. the famous essayist and
novelist, and Edward Knoblauch the au
thor Of "Kismet." The Faun" and other
brilliant plays. Together they wrote on
OF the most rema rkan BILE plays ever pre-
sented, play in which the fortunes Of
two families are carried onward through
three generations, the action covering
period OF fifty-two years and calling for
its nterpreta ton for the most rema rka
bic york on the part Of the actors; In
Rhead and the Sibley families are seen
in their youth. in the next act GSS5)
they are middle aged folks whose children
begin to dominate the action; In the last
act Clol2) third generation is seen (and
heardl. while the young folks of the first
act are now totterng old men and worn
Ell All the action takes place In the
same room, but as its original occupants
1NNS
ter OF the room Itself change with the
different times, Candles give way TO gas
and then TO electricity: furniture and dec
orations change with the fashions Of the
three generations; nothing remains the
same, save romance and ambition. that
dominate each new set of young folks.
Laurette Taylor played her five hun
dreth consecutive performa nee In, Oliver
Morosco's production OF j. Hartley Man
nerss wonderfully successful comedy,
Peg o Ny Heart" at the Cort theater.
New York at yesterdays matinee. there
by setting a record for continuous per
formances In one play at one thester for
female stars that is far In excess OF
any other achievement OF like nature in
this country at least. Especially re-
markable in connection with this event
in theatrical history, is the fact that
Miss Taylor has attracted capacity au
formance since the run of the play began
on December 90 1912. Through winter
and summer the weather conditions have
had little effect on the business. and the
advance sale of seats at present is just
as large as at any time since the play
was first produced. Long runs have
been recorded for plays in the past. but
none has continued to attract as has
the lovable Peg In commemoratlon
OF Miss Taylor having passed the fifth
century mark Mr.. Cort and Mr. Morosco
night at the Cort, when Miss Taylor
will begin the sixteenth month of her
engagement. Beautiful photographs au
toeraphcd hy Miss Taylor will be given
to each lady present at that perform
ancc.
Being censored by the police is nothing
new for Richard Bennett and his CO.
workers, but to he subjected 70 the criti-
cal eyes and ears of policewomen Is In
deed novel experience. That Is what
happened last Monday night at the
Academy OF Music in Baltimore, where
Mr. Bennett played Dana sed Goods,
As result Of the vice crusade that has
stirred Baltimore for several weeks COM
plants poured in upon the chief OF police
about Dana ged Goods" and that Off
cl3l appointed his policewomcn Gour in
number) as censors. Evidently they found
nothing to warrant an attempt 70 sup
press the play. for Mr.. Bennett finished
his engag cement without interference.
Four hundred employees of the yari-
GUS Curtis publications, including the
Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday
Evening Post. witnessed a performance
Damaged Goods" at the Garrick thea
ter In Philadelphia last week ss the
guests OF Edward Box. the editor Of the
Ladies' Home Journal. Mr.. Box had seen
in New York last year and al that time
promised Mr. Bennett that he would
send his employees to see the play when
II arrived In Philadelphia as he consid-
by every young man and woman In the
country,
A rks ble performance of Dam
aged Goods, which will be seen here
later this season. was given in Phila-
delphia last week, when Richard Bennett
and his. co-workers presented the Brioux
play before the faculty and 900 students
Houston. hall. II was the first time that
a theatrical company had appeared under
the auspices OF the university. and the
performance takes rank with that given
by Mr.. Bennett IN Washington last April
before the members OF congress. The
play was staged without sceenry or prop
critics other than the chairs and pipe or
gan which furnished the auditorium plat
form. cloth drapery suspended across
the front served as curtain. The mem
bers OF the faculty personally thanked Mr..
Bennett and his CO. workers for their serv-
Ices, and when they left the students
lined up In the driving rain and cheered
them
No department of the motion picture