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Show TRUTH. Greenroom Gossip. L. R. Stockwell has secured the rights to The Hon. John North. Miss Marie Cahill is to be the star of the Lew Fields new theater In New York. It is said that Ada Rehan will he starred next season by the Shubert brothers. Rumor has it that Margaret Anglin will star next season in a play called "The Eternal Feminine. Edward Harrigan next season is to appear in a new play, written by himself and based upon his own career on the stage. William Gillette is to appear in London commencing next season in April, 1905, in a new comedy written by himself. Lew Fields is to star next season in a comedy drama written by Glen and staged, of course, by Julian Mitchell. Kathryn Kidder will return to the stage in August in a new play called Frederick Warde will "Salammbo. be her leading man. Julian Mitchell is negotiating with Alice Nielson to return to America at the head of her own company and appear in comic opera. Frances Gibson has made a great success as Rose Melon in "PUT, Pali, Pouf, and will remain with the company all next season. Mabel Barrison has signed a three year's contract with Hamlin & Mitchell and will continue in her old part in "Babes in Toyland next season. The next role to be played by Mme. Bernhardt in Paris is Marie Antoinette. The play will be produced in the fall under the name of "Vareines. Charles Frohman has secured "Joseph Entangled,' by Henry Arthur Jones, for Henry Miller for next season. Miss Hilda Spong will be in E?. Millers company. Mme. Bernhardt, it is reported, has decided to make a spectacular proversion of duction of a five-ac- t novel, By Fire and Sword, adapted by her son Maurice. Sam Bernard has received a quick summons from Charles Frohman to sail for England to consult him there 2n regard to the musical comedy which is to be presented next fall. Miss Bijou Fernandez has returned from abroad and confirms the report that she is soon to be married to W. L. Adington, an English actor. She will retire from the stage, at least for a time. Miss Viola Allen recently sailed for Europe. While in Paris she will confer with Rostand concerning a new play. Miss Allen will appear next season in A Winters Tale. Harry Sommers, formerly treasurer of the Illinois theater, Chicago, is conducting a summer season of stock company revivals in Grand Rapids, Mich. Miss Dorothy Tennant is the leading woman. Mrs. G. H. Gilbert has received the complete manuscript of the Clyde Fitch play, "Grandma, with which she will make her farewell tour of the country and complete a service of fifty years on the stage. David Belasco is authority for the statement that Mrs. Leslie Carter will play an engagement in London next summer. It is also said that Mrs. Carter, may play the part of Lady Macbeth next year. Mac-donoug- Sien-kiewic- h An-gel- is who died recently in SL Louis, left his splendid collection of more than 3,000 prompt books to tho New York public library. The books are almost priceless, as they contain practically a complete history of the stage business employed in the standard dramas since the days of Garrick. Mrs. Patrick Campbell has signed a contract with Charles Frohman to appear finder his management for twenty-six- . weeks in the principal cities of the United States. She will begin her tour on Oct. 3, opening in Now York with Sardous new play, in which Sarah The Sorceress, now Bernhardt is being seen In Lon- Young Actress Winning Laurels. Celia Loft us lias a protege. She is liss Janey Laurel, who lias been in K. II. Sachem's company ever since 13 was sly? years old. That was five years ago, and it was the acting of one of the small parts that attracted Miss Loftus to her. At tho lalters request the young woman was allowed to understudy her, and when Miss Lotus became ill with scarlet fever Mr. Sothern gave her the chance to play he leading role opposite him. Report comes from San Francisco, where Mr. Sothern is now appearing, that Miss Laurel is receiving much praise for ler work, and that she also has captidon. vated with her fresh young beauty. o In a recent interview she confessed Find Good In Bad. that her aim was to play Juliet and On every occasion which leads thee that she hoped to learn much from to vexation, apply this principle: That the production of Shakespeares play though this is a misfortune, to bear it when it is given next year by Julia nobly is good fortune. Marcus Marlowe and Sollicrn. Miniatures Are Costly. The craze for havlug ones miniature painted is still going on. The fashionable miniaturists charge $1,000 to $2,500. SIX THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS IN SALT LAKE JULY 1 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BELL TELEPHONE Co. CAN TALK TO 20.000 OTHERS zs Fay Templeton, according to report, was offered $15,000 for ten weeks' time in vaudeville, beginning in October, but was obliged to decline. She will be starred next season by Klaw & Erlanger in a new play by John J. McNally, Kitty Cheatham, once a member of Augustin Dalys company. Is the latest recruit to vaudeville. Miss Cheatham was married several years ago and retired, but in recent years has been doing a monologue for private parties around New York and Boston. Weatherbeaten Benson has been chosen by Edward E. Kidder as the title of the new play which he has written for Ezra Kendall and which will be the opening attraction of the next season at the Park. theater. New York, beginning early in September. It is probable that Jefferson de will be the principal comedian next season In Humpty Dumpty, under the management of Klaw & Erlanger. This firm is confident that this great Drury Lane spectacle is run in this good for a three-year- s country. Daniel Frohman cables from London that the opening play fQr his new stock company at the Lyceum theater, New York, is now being written by Mr. Pinero and will be brought out about the first of the year. Margaret Illington (Mrs. Daniel Frohman) will be the leading lady. George Becks1 the veteran actor, 13 IN UTAH. IDAHO. WYOMING AND MONTANA Gave Sothern an Idea. During a tour of the west E. H. Sothern met a literary woman who said to him: "I'm an idealist, Mr. Sothern, and want to congratulate you upon your work. You make your character a man apart from our little world. "Then, Im not true to life, according to your ideas, madam, replied the actor. "Certainly not, Mr. Sothern. Why, people wouldnt go to the theater to see a lot of mopes like themselves. They want to see something like your-' self; something that never existed. Indeed I Yes. Your work is heavenly, with Just a dash of you know the other place. Thank you, madam, for your sincere observations, was the reply. You have given me an idea. Perhaps I have been deceiving the public, ll have myself billed in future as 'a forerunner of the hereafter. Gingham Aprons. The little gingham aprons that they were Those dainty queens of sunny days of yore where flowers tumbled One was through in the dew. Upon the bare feet padding No bannerets of glory ever yet Fashioned by the cunning - hand of skill Can hide the signal flag Ill neer forget No silken sheen and satin ever will Displace the modest, sometime tattered thing The little gingham aprons that they wore. Ah! queens beyond the ransom of a king! Ah! vanish gingham aprons of the yorel Dear little gingham aprons of the days Of sandv paths and primrose-scente- d ways; There Is a glory In. each string and check Heart gathers from the flotsam and the wreck They used to scurry oer the mossy stile, They used to sway upon the grapevine Ah,SVrnef there was no sophistry or guile In een a puckered ruffle or a string. I close my eyes and see the merry train Anon come trooping down the sunny sliore The bare feet paddle In the dew again And flowers drift through the rents the briers tore. New York Sun. Ofd-TIm- e a-re- nt ; OUR SLEEPING CARS ARE TIE They have been equipped for the service to St Louis, and there are none more comfortable or better ventilated. In the Standards the upholstering is plush; in the Tourists it is rattan. Lqt me know which you prefer either is good, and either is at your command. The Tourist is the cheaper of the two. - . American Iron Abroad. The last railroad built in india has American rails. Americans export their iron and motors, their machinery and galvanic wires to South Af' rica, Egypt, too, has more than one Three hundred Philadelphia bridge. cars railroad from Jersey City have found their way into the land of the Pharaohs, and in the foundries of Pittsburg electrical tramways were forged to connect Cairo with the . 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