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Show I II I X- XOiih the Firt JVfighter. H a m il ; The Henry Miller company will be here tomor- I Hi ' m low am on Monday WU begin rehearsal at the I II B Salt Luke theatre. This is joyful news to first I ri I ' 8 nlghters 'Who will be able to enjoy three first H 1 1 , H nights beginning a week from Monday. "The H ! ! II Taming of Helen," the Richard Harding Davis HI; H play, "Camille," "The Devil's Desciple," "The H i J 11 Lady of Lyons" and the "Ironmaster" are among H )'$ 'If the productions Mr. Miller is presenting, and we H fj m will see three of these plays. 1 w t m rne orSma programme was to play "Ca- I jl 1 mille," "The Devil's Desciple" and "The Taming 1 I I of Helen,"' but' Mr. Pyper Is making an -effort to H have "The Ironmaster" and "The Lady of by the news even to a poetic pitch, as the following follow-ing lines witness: I am weary of the calcium and tired-of the whirl, I want to be a pretty Annie Russel sort of girl With a father and a future, long speeches like a tract, And to die in dainty linen in the fifteenth act. You can't imagine how it irks an artist with a soul To impersonate a maiden who endures the flowing flow-ing bowl, ,v v Who wears a dress diaphanous; who utters shrill abuse, h j il HHIHGB9n&9H&SHHBHE9lft B i 0 HENRY MILLER, .in "Tho Taming of Helen." B I II Lyons" substituted for the two former produc- ! tions. Salt Lake has had "Camille".ln bunches this year, buj. not Margaret, Anglin's "Camille." I saw her in the part in San Francisco during the last Miller engagement, and she plays it better than any Woman on the stage. Her "Camille" Is a truly remarkable performance, and it will be too bad if the play is scratched during the engagement. engage-ment. Mr. Midler and Miss Anglin open a season that has every promise of being the best we have ever had, and It Is certainly encouraging to have such brilliant artists' begin the good work. J 5 tSl Critics have been somewhat dazed by the announcement an-nouncement that Edna May Is soon to appear as a , .. star in the 'legitimate" and that Charles Proh- HH Ifl man has promised her a play by no less an au- B I thor than J. M. Barrie, whose comedies have hith- H erto been reserved for Maude Adams and William H 1 Gillette. The report seems to be true, though it Hl' ;( Si was at first duly discredited to the silly season. A HK k writer on the Daily Telegraph has been thrilled In the accent of my happy home my simple Syra- cuse. My nasal twang were useful in stories of the poor Where a cultivated manner is an indication sure Of deceit and deadly venom where the maid who's used to prayer. . Demonstrates devotion T)y neglecting her back hair. In comedy .that's musical I've shown my groat ability, 1 My art's commended- equally by gentry and no bility. I dance, I prance, with lightning glance altho' it is but vanity. But now the kind of work I do will benefit humanity. hu-manity. You know the kind of plays I mean, where maidB keep blushing frightfully And wicked men deprive them of inheritance unrightfully, My sobs are every bit as good as Katharine Grey's can be, I'm simply fine at sitting In an Ada Rehan reverie. My country! O, my Country! Old England gives me chills; I'm yearning, yes, I'm burning 'for the Syracusan hills, i To sea, the boys' and girls again on silly old ''Broadway, Thanks to Mr. Frohman, I'm a happy girl today. y & & Mrs. Leslie Carter goes to her summer home In Emotional Valley, where she will take the rest cuie She will indulge in nothing but new emotions and the cultivation of flowers during this happy period. Reading press clippings of herself her-self will be barred, and her press agent will be pensioned. Mrs. Carter knows what she is going go-ing to do next season, but she won't tell. 5 t7 ( Richard Mansfield is said to be fuiious because James K. Hackett has forestalled him in the production pro-duction of "Alexander the Great," says the New (York Sun. There was a very handsome white horse with a black tail which Mr. Mansfield used to ride in the production of "Henry V." Knowing the horse to be stage broken, and as Mr. Mansfield Mans-field could have no further use for it, Mr. Hackett Hack-ett wrote asking Mr. Mansfield if he would mind telling him the wherabouts of his stable and present pres-ent owner. Mr. Mansfield's secretary at once returned re-turned a curt reply to the effect that Mr. Mansfield Mans-field kept no track of his animal actors, and could tell Mr. Hackett absolutely nothing as to the whereabouts oiUthe beast,. Later, Jto anact-ress, anact-ress, who happened to approach him in search of an engagement, Mr. Mansfield unburdened his mind. "The impertinence of this young man Hackett!" Hack-ett!" he exclaimed. "Why, I have been working for years on a version of 'Alexander.' It has been one of the big schemes which I have been working, work-ing, for it would be an ideal role for me. And here this young man Hackett has the Imperti nence to ask me to lend him my horse! Insolent Is not the word! It excels even his effrontery of last winter, when I dismissed a leading wo man for incompetence, and he at once engaged her and made her a full fledged 'star.' Mr. Hackett may as well understand that he can never ride to success on my white horse with the black tall." $ i Jv There is nothing subtle about the melodrama tic problem play. And of late the titles of such pieces are becoming as plain as the makeup on the faces of their players. "The Worst Woman in London" was a recent success in the English city; "Why Women Sin" is the title of an American play of similar stripe, and in New York a recent production was made of a new play called "The Evil Men Do," written by the prolific Theodore Kremer. When the placards announcing the latter play we're posted in fiont ofUhe American theatre a middle-aged ladyvwas noticed to stop and read them very intently. Then she remarked to a companion: "There is a play that ought to have a long run." "Why?" queried her friend. "Well if that drama undertakes to show all the evil that men do, it will take from the 1st of September to the middle of next May for the play to run Its course " ty tv t It is the unexpected interruption in a theatrical theatri-cal performance which often provides an audience audi-ence with more genuine amusement than even the most carefully drilled humor of the piece itself. it-self. Thus it was when the son of Thomas Francis Meagher, the well-beloved Irish hero, went on the stage with "Jr." after his name, playing an Irish part that involved the lines, "If you are not my father, who is my father?" From the gallery came the answer, "By gosh, Tom, ye'll never bo the equal of your father!" t Again Mrs Mates, best known as the mother of Blanche, tells of an experience when, years ago, she was playing "The Octoroon," and allowed the present darling of the gods, then a small child to be present. When the slave was put up for auction there was a sound of infant weeping in the house, and at the bid "Twenty thousand dollars!" dol-lars!" it rose to a sudden wail; "They're selling my mamma!" Instantly a big voice above rang out, "Thirty thousand!" and, luckily, just in time for the curtain to go down. t7 fcv f George Ade has written a new musical comedy called "The Sho Gun." The scenes are laid in Korea, and it is in two acts The composer is Gustave Luders, the composer of "The Prince of Pilsen." |