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Show II ATTBACTIONS THIS WEEK. I Salt Lake' Theater-Ben Greeks company In "Everyman." Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday at tcrnoon. I Grand Theater "Two Llttlo alfH. Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights iind Saturday afternoon. III Mm Nothing like ''Everyman" the medieval allegory which the Ben Greet Jndon Players will present at the SaU Lake theater next Thursday, Friday and Sau r- ,av nnd Saturday matinee, has ever bell be-ll fore he" n seen here. This play is COO years old. Is distinctly religious In tone, being originally designed as a moral lesson, j et is surpaaslngly dramatic and la as effee -MM Ivo wfth modern nudiencoa as It was v,lth those of the timo In which It was rUteri. The plot of the little play Is simplicity lt- self death comes to everyman that is I fhe story, yet so vividly is It told, so beau- I tlfuf Is the play that It mes a 'astl g Impression upon all who behold It The HI Dlav comes after a remarkable, record of I success In tho face of falh.ro at the start. In London. New York. Boston and Chl- i:ugo tho play has created profound Im- nrcsslons as acted by tho splendid Lngllbh company hended by Ben Greet. The part of Everyman la played by a woman. Tho other characters aro Death Fellowship. Cousin. Kindred, Goods. Good Deeds. Knowledge. Confession. Beauty. Strength, Discretion, Fine Wits, Angel. Blessings and Doctor. Interest In the p!a Is by no means limited to students. Its appeal is to all classes, and tho most fllp- pant la sure to bo impressed nnd delighted with this wonderful old play, which has withstood so many centuries, with all HH their changes of fashion in regard to HI things dramatic. Tho Greet company Is entirely English nnd Is said to ho a. rc- markablc organization, tho members ex- celling In poetic diction and knowledge of HI classical atmosphere. Constance Crawley I Is to nppear as Everyman. H HI One of Lincoln J. Carter's plays, "Tho Two Llttlo Waifs." will ttf at the Grand theater the Inst half of Tho week. The 8tory concerns two sisters, twins. Ly- 1 man Pendcville. tho heavy man, separates Xoll from her husband by bringing about intiiguo between tho wife's twin sister and Dr. Drako Young, who listens to words of endearment, apparently spoken HI by Nell. Desertion follows and Wayne HI Fleming, the injured husband, soes to the HI Philippines as a soldier, returning ill nnd HI down-hearted, tq. fall Into the hands nL his enemy, Pcndevlllo, who takes him to HI Mother Bowser's den, with tho intention HI of dropping him Into tho East river and HI marrying tho widow Harry Fleming, the HI waif, follows, and holds the crowd with HI the villain's revolver and rescues his fa.- Hl ther. The knot Is finally untied by the HI two sisters coming together by proxy. HI and husband and wife aro again united, HI Tnc l)lfiy nas opportunity for comody, pa- Hl thos nnd passion. H HI The Madame MantelH Opera company HI has been booked at the Salt Lake theater HI for Mondav- nnd Tuesday. February 20 HI From tho beginning of the engagement Of "The Two Little AValfs," on Thursday, the Grand will be open contlnuDjjly to; HI seven weeks. The attractions for the HI week beginning February 20 are tho HI "Black Patti Troubadours" and "0er HI Niagara Falls." HI Joseph Jefferson. Jr., and William W. HI Jefferson will bo at tho Halt Lake theater !HI In "The Rivals" February i and 13. HD Critics say that the success of thn ca- MJ, rccr of William Collier has been mado 'n HI He Richard Harding Davis farce. "The HI Dictator." The Salt Lako City cngnge- Mfl ment of Mr, Collier will be played at U:o BH Salt Lako theater Friday and Saturday 1 nights, with Saturday matinee Februaiy HI 24 and 25. RH HI Harrv Corson Clarke's engagement at HI tl,e Grand begins February -. He goes all from here to Seattle on April 1. for fifteen HI weeks, and after two months In San W Francisco will go to Honolulu nnd Aus- 98 Ml HI Among recent bookings t the Salt Lalce UH theater are those of-Lionel Baivymoru In Ml "Tho Other Girl," April 24 and 23. and HI Goodwin in "Tho Usurper," May IS, Mn I I of Ethel Barrymoro can no longer con-eoal con-eoal their anxiety ever ncr physical cond' tlon. Rumors that sho Is In a decline aro not denied. Her face has grown hngcard, her languor is more pronounced, and she has nn alarming cough. It is said that the curtain has been held down frequently on account of her fa'nling spoils. After tho recent special performance of 'Cur-rots' 'Cur-rots' in New York, It is d. Ml?s Barry-more Barry-more became hysterical from vearine:1.? an J worn-out nerves-"Miss nerves-"Miss Barrymoro Is appearing at present pres-ent In Boston In "Sunday, her new plsiy Cha les Frohman, her manuuer. and tho physician attending ncr, decline to make an official announcement regarding tho actress's condition, reassuring or otherwise. other-wise. To her friends they explain that they have fears of consumption, which caused the early death of her brilliant mother, Ceorglo Drew Burrymore, or of nervous prostration, which from timo to tlmo afflicted her father, who Is slowly dying at a sanitarium nt Flushing, L. I. It is known that her physician bus told Charles Frohman that unlea3 she takes a complete rest, or seeks the change that travel brings, he cannot promise her rc-The rc-The Messrs. Shubcrt are negotiating with Mrs. Flsko for tho English rights of "Leah Klcschna." In which they desire to present Mrs Patrick Campbell at the new Waldorf theater, London. They say they originally sold tho play. In which Mrs. Flake has scored her greatest success slnco "Tess," to Mrs. Flske for a .few hundred dollars. Maude Adams made her first appearance In a, curtain raiser, "Op o' Mo Thumb, at the Empire theater. Now York, last Monday night. Tho New York Herald says of the performance: "Miss Adams played In thl3 llttlo piece tho rolo of Amando Afflict, a Loudon slavey who Is employed In a. Soho laundry laun-dry and who lives In fantasy, Sho was not recognized In her 'make up' when she HrBt came on looking like a sort of a London 'Sla Hopkins.' "Pale and narrow chested, with naught of feminine grace to attract or charm, and only a pair of peladlng eyes, Amando. the butt of her fellow workers, lives a day dream born of the rending of sentimental senti-mental novels, nnd imagines herself a heroine, and a male customer, one Horace Green3mlth. tho fairy prince who is to tcue hor from her ead lot and enable her if1 to ' confound her taunting feminine fellows. fel-lows. "On this old and slmplo theme tho authors au-thors of 'Op o Mo Thumb' have composed n strong and moving llttlo play, and ono that gives Miss Adams an excellent op pcrtunlty for an effective bit of character work. She won her audience last evening fiom her first entrance, In her almost unrecognizable makeup, and tho memory of her tender little figure, her pleading lecks and of tho sad story sho told through Its changing moods and pathetic Incidents will not soon leave thoso who were present. "The actress was very nervous throughout through-out her performance, but this only increased in-creased tho sympathy that her role ovoked, and thero were few dry eyes at the final curtain. Sho played the sombro role with rare Intelligence and keen appreciation ap-preciation of its dramatic possibilities. "Mr. Arthur Byron played well tho rough but good hearted London coster. Horace Groensmlth and the other members mem-bers of tho cast were satisfactory. "The little play met with a deservedly cordial reception and the curtain calls for Miss Adams and also for Mr. Byron were mny. 'Tho Little Minister,' which followed, fol-lowed, gave Miss Adams an opportunity. In Its broad contrast to tho curtain raiser, to show her versatility, anil met with, the success that is now an old story of long continued popularity." c a Klaw & Erlangcr's mammoth production. produc-tion. "Mother Goose," will ho presented at tho Salt Lake theater during the week of March C. An Idea of the Immensity of this production may bo gleaned from the fact that 300 comedians, singers, dancers nnd pantomlmlsts appear In it, and seventeen sev-enteen elaborate scenes. The costumes, It Is said, number 2000. "Mother Goose" ran an entire year In London and nil last year in Now York City at the New Amsterdam Am-sterdam theater. It Is described as being a mighty exposition of beauty, quick, rattling fun. charming melody and spectacular spec-tacular magnificence. The Impression produced pro-duced by "Mother Goose" is that of a beautiful dream of color, costumes, calciums cal-ciums and hosts of beautiful women. Tho music is harmonious and catchy, the fun rollicking and In good taste, the speclal-tles speclal-tles novel Constance Crawley ns "Everyman." Gustav Ludcrs. composer of "The Burgomaster." Bur-gomaster." and Miss Ruth White, the original or-iginal Willie Van Astorbllt in the opera, had a good old-fashioned cry together in a box in New York recently. "Tho Burgomaster" was playing at tnc West End theater, and Luders and his vIfo and Miss White were seated together togeth-er in a box. As the well-known music of the place was played and sung, the tears streamed from tho composers face, and U "ACch! mTflrst baby. T shall never write another like It." The warm-henvttd German seized Miss White by the hand, and said: "Wh'n will tnose limes come back, referring re-ferring to tha time of the original production produc-tion In Chicago, when Luders was a poor violinist, and Miss Wr.lto tho prima donna of tho company. Ludcrs Is now a very wcalthv man. making in the neighborhood White Is to be starred in a now opera by Victor Herbert, by W. V. Cullen, manager of "The Burgomaster." Francis Wilson says that ho had no quarrel with musical comedy -Ghich caused him to stop his antics in front of a chorus, cho-rus, but after twenty years of falling dcn stalre, dancing nnd taking apples out of an umbrella he thought that straight comedy would be a pleasant change both for his friends and himself. Mr Wilson made a name and a fortune for himself In comic opera and probably disliked to glvo up his old lino of work for a new, but It must be taken Into consideration con-sideration that after he graduated from minstrel shows he played In comedies with a Phlladelpila slock company for four years before going Into such productions as "Ermlnle." Clyde Fitch wrote "Cousin "Cou-sin Billy" for Mr. Wilson, or rather ho adapted it from tho French play, "Le Vovnge do M Perlchon." by Eugene La-blc'he. La-blc'he. The adaptation wa.s most free, as the piny was written to glvo Mr Wilson full swing for his peculiar powers and much American slanc has been added. Referring to tho Baconian theory. Sir Henry Irving remarked recently. "Poor Francis had enough olns upon his back without being burdened with so Infamous a piece of cheating; -and 1 have such respect re-spect for the genius of Francis Bacon that 1 believe that ho would-havc been prouder proud-er of the authorship of 'Hamlet' or 'Lear' than of all the books he ever wrote. No. no. when tho Baconians can show that Ben Jonson was cither a fool or a knave, and the whole world of playwrights at that time were in a conspiracy to palm off on tho ages the moat astounding choat in history, they will be worthy of serious attention. I fear that tho desire to drag down Shakespcaro from his pedestal, and to treat tho testimony of his porsonal friends as thac of lying rogues, la due to the antipathy to the actor's calling an antipathy which. I am sorry to say, haB its eccentric manifestations oven to this day." George Edwardes, -the leading exponent of musical comedy In Europe, and really the father of the whole business, haa Just sailed from New York after seeing "The Duchess of Dantzlc" started on a successful success-ful career. Ho has turned the musical comedy stars of New York mentally upside up-side down, and all the press agents are talking London engagements for their favorites for tho rest of the summer. Mr. Edwardes looked the field over carefully and beyond making arrangements for an American branch of his business he kept his plans to hlmse f remarkably well. Ho made the btatemont before ho sailed that David Warfleld wr.s our best actor, and ho was delighted with his work In The Music Master." Mr. Edwardes says that In Fritzl SehcfC this country has a light opera singer second to nono. Ho also praised the work of Charles Blgelow and Marie Dressier. There are 1S0O chorus girls In Now York and about 1000 stage girls who stand around and are looked nt, but who cannot can-not sing. What becomes of thorn. Are they ambitious? , . A Now York newspaper man talked to one about it tha other day with tho following fol-lowing result: , , "Do you like being a chorus girl?' "Pretty good." "Will you always be one? "Nixie." "Aro you ambitious?" "Sure thing." "Do you want to rise In your profession?" profes-sion?" t "Why not?" "Do you llko Shakespeare?" "Crazy about him." "Which of his plays do you like tho best?" "That one about a man." "Oh, 'Hamlet.' you mean." "No, the other one." ' Probably 'Othello.' " ' That's it." "Who Is vour favorite dramatist?' "I don't like any of them." "Who is your favorite musician?" "The men who wroto 'Under tho Bamboo Bam-boo Tree.' I could die singing that." "Who is your favorite actor, nnd why?" "Marlon and Deane, they're great." "Do you want to act In comedy, or tragedy, trag-edy, or drama, or molodrnma?" ' Nono of 'em. I want to play In a short skirt, have about five entrances, do a turn with some good man, and talk. I would not sing." "What do you want to do when you quit tho stage?" "Keep a boarding-house." Tho attractions at the New York theaters thea-ters last week Included Maude Adams in "The Little Minister" nt tho Empire. Robert Edcson in "Stronghenrt" at the Hudson, "Friquef at the Savoy, Blanche Wfilsh In "The Woman In tho Case" at the Ilernld Square. Francis Wilson In "Cousin Billy'.' at -Che Criterion, Arnold Dnlv In "You Never Can Tell" at the Gar-rltk. Gar-rltk. E. S. Willard In "The Brighter Side" at the Knickerbocker. "Mrs. Leffingw.ell's Boots"' nt the Lyceum. "The Duchess of L-antzle" at Daly's. "I-Iumpty Dumpty" .'t the Nov. Amsterdam. Mme. Rejano In ' L HIrondelie" at the Liberty. Georgo M. CVhnn in "Llttlo Johnny Jones" at the Ntw York, Lillian Russell In "Lady Teazle Tea-zle ' nt the Casino. Edward Terry In "Lovo in Idleness" at tho Princess', Raymond Hitchcock in ' Tho Yankeo Consul" at Wallack's, "Tho College Widow" at the Garden. Henrietta Crosman In "Sweet Kitty Bella! rs" at tho Academy of Musi'". Mu-si'". Dave Warfleld in "The Music Master" Mas-ter" at the Bijou. "Hlgglcdy-PIggledy" and "A College Widower" at Weber's music mu-sic hall. Mrs. Flske In "Leah Kleschna" tit the Manhattan, "Mrs. Tcmplo's Telegram" Tele-gram" at the Madison Square. Mrs. Leslie Les-lie Carter In "Adrea" at Belasco's, "It Happened Ir. Nordland"'at Lew Fields's theater, Frl'zl Schclf in "Gerolle-Gcrofia" at tho Broadway, Edna Muyi In "The School GlrV at the Harlem opera-house. Matido Adams will appear for tho 1000th time In "Tho Llttlo Minister" on St- Valentine's Val-entine's night, In the Empire theater, New Yorl:. Julia Deane will bo In the cast of tho new Booth Tarklngton play, "Tho Gentleman Gentle-man from Indiana," which Llebler & Co. aro to glvo Its first stage presentation In Indianapolis February 27, continuing thero for the week, and going thence to Chicago. Chi-cago. Sarah Truax will be seen next season under the management of Leiblcr &. Co. In a new play now being written for her by a prominent dramatic writer. She Is expected to open In New York not later than October. John Drew has only had four, leading ladles In all his experlenco as a star Maude Adams, Isabel Irving, Ida Conquest Con-quest nnd Margaret Dale. o T7 C3 TVIllnr.,1 lino nnrrnnil n r Amni'lnnr. lending lady, Alice Lonnon. who made a pronounced success at tho SL James theater, thea-ter, London, last season. Miss Lonnon Is a California girl. Under the direction of John B. Schoef-fel. Schoef-fel. Nance O'Nell will appear in Philadelphia Philadel-phia shortly In a repertolro of plays, Including In-cluding "Judith of Bethulla," "Magda," "Fires of St John" and "The Jewess." "Tho Girl nnd tho Bandit." in which Viola Pratt Gllltte appears is proving ono of tho most successful attractions the Studebakor, Chicago, has had In some months. Tho engagement has been extended ex-tended again, and the closing performance Is now set down fur February VS Tlw play was originally planned to bo of but two weeks' .duration. Miss Ida Conquest's season In New York In "Tho Money Makers" ha.s not been tho success expected, and the play will not go on tour. Miss Conquest's next play will bo entitled "Tho Lightning Conductor," and deals with the trials and humor of automoblllng o ti a , If Sarah Bernhardt makes a success with "Prlnco Charming" she may como to this country In the spring for a short tour under tho management of Leiblcr & Co. If the pleco prove a failure she will not como until next fall. c "Tho Woman In the Case." a new play by Clyde Fitch, wa.i recently rroduecd at tho Herald Square theater, New York, and a majority of the critics voted It a success. Blanche Walsh Is the woman In the case and she Is said to havo boon provided pro-vided with a strong emotional part Mr, Fitch was called upon for a speech. Ho has produced only two plays this soason. Tho first was "Tho Coronet of the Duchess," Duch-ess," also seen nt the Herald Square theater. the-ater. There were no speeches coming from Mr. Fitch on that occasion, however. Tho play was so bad that oven Mr. Fitch had to acknowledge it, and aftor seeing three acts he made a quiet exit from tho theater. Forbes Robertson, who acted his new play in Toronto Monday, has been contrasting con-trasting audiences in England and in America, and explaining tho real motive that underlies tho "booing" at first performances per-formances in London. To us hore It often Qccma needless Insolence. In reality it Is a rebuke, and, in many respocts, a just ono, to a custom that prevails and Increases In-creases hero ns well as there. "This 'booing.' 'boo-ing.' " saya Robertson. "Is often provoked pro-voked by tho uncnllcd-for efforts of anxious anx-ious friends of tho playwright or the rtct-or.s rtct-or.s to manufacture applaiiBO for them Tho pit and the gallery naturally resent this attempt to make applause where It Is not Justified. Of courso, booing' Is nn unpleasant thing to faco, but. on tho whole, I consldor It a healthy sign. On this side of tho Atlantic audiences are more attentlvo, but less demonstrative than they aro on tho other, anC thov do not 'boo.' " Fay Tomploton Is to play Lady Holy-rood Holy-rood In tho forthcoming revival of "Flo-rodora," "Flo-rodora," the role Edna Wallace Hopper created sovornl years ago. Tho revival will be at he Now York Casino, following Lillian Russell and "Lady Teazle." Cyril Scott will havo his old part In tho play. Etta Gllroy, one of tho mombcrs of "Tho Wizard of Oz" company, Is plucklly playing play-ing her part with her arm In a sling. Sho broko hor arm by falling on an Icy sidewalk side-walk while the show was plying In Baltimore. Bal-timore. Instead of roturnlng homo to London at once, Edwin Terry will make a five weeks' tour of Canada under tho management of Leiblcr & Co. His season In Now York was a falluro and tho Shuberts dropped out of his management. 000 An American operetta will bo produced In Vienna, next season by Fritzl Schcff. Tho supporting company will bo Amor-lean. Amor-lean. MIrs Chorldah Simpson, who has been a member cf the "Woodland" company all season, hns resigned and her place was taken by MIsa Lucille Tozler, recently of tho chorus of tho samo organization. Tho continued success of Mnxlno Elliott and "Her Own Way" has caused tho postponement post-ponement of the production of "The Lilac Rcom," her next play, until next season. "Tho Lilac Room" Is a comedy by B. M. Dix and E G. Sutherland- 4 k O The Shuberts will take the entire "Fan-tana" "Fan-tana" organization to London In April to Inaugurate tholr new Waldorf theater In that city. Jefferson do Angells. Katie Barry, who is n big London favorite, and Adelc Ritchie will be tho principal mem-bors mem-bors of the supporting company. Do Wolf Iloppor stood looking at an advertisement ad-vertisement of a patent baking powdor, represented by a picture of twenty cooks at work In a big hotel. "That's one of tho best marine pictures I ever saw," said Mr. Hopper "Marino?" echoed an astonished friend. "Why do you call It 'marine'?" "On account of the great number of whltccaps," said Mr. Hopper. o The brlndlo bull terrier "Tlgc." of Out-cnult Out-cnult cartoon origin, has "caught the town" between Columbus Circle and Fifty-eighth street, and, with traditional tenacity, te-nacity, bids fair to hang on "until tho last dog Is hung" at tho close of tho theatrical the-atrical season, says the New York Press. For, while tho Immortal "Buster Brown" Is materialized to the life in the diminutive diminu-tive person of Mnster Gabriel, tho "toy comedian." George All's remarkable characterization char-acterization of his canine chum Is the genuine gen-uine sensational surprise of the "cartoon comedy." and deserves to rank as one of tho greatest pantomime creations of this generation. Miss Marie Cahlll. the feminine star of "It Happened In Nordland," owes much to tho late Stuart Robson. Not only did ho always encourage her with advlco and cheer her. but It wna on his advice that Daniel V. Arthur, then Mr. Robson's manager, decided to star Miss Cahlll, and that engagement led to her becoming Mrs. A rthiir Mabel I lite, who Is now appearing in "Tho Girl and tho Bandit." says of the stage life: "Yes, life on the stage Is very exciting, very. Do you remember thoso dolls one used to got at Christmas time-so time-so pretty and valuable ono couldn't play with them. Well, that's about the way with llfo on tho stage. You work hard and try and try and try until you commence com-mence to get a god saiary; the mo e you try the higher your salary gets; tho higher your salary gets tho more valuable your voice and ears and eyes and legs get. And the more valuablo these get the less you can uso them In fact, a girl can't have any fun and bo a success. I think I'll take tho veil.'' One of the greatest difficulties encountered encoun-tered by the modorn magician, saya Ke!-lar, Ke!-lar, la the keeping of his tricks and I. luslons from the regular stags hands and others employed about the theaters In which he plays. Kellar carries n corps of over a dozen stage hands directed by a stage manager, and the local stage hands of the theater are not allowed to have anything to do with the apparatus and paraphernalia of tho magician. A dead lino Is drawn on tho stage over which no one except the stage hands employed by tho magician Is allowed to cross, and tho files and galleries ubovo tho stage arc also carefully cleared of employees to keep tho eccrcta of tho tricks and Illusions Intact. In-tact. Kellar has spent years Inventing and perfecting some of his greatest feats, and they would cease to be wonders In a week If ho did not take every precaution. Rejano didn't piny "Sapho" In the city of Quebec. She was warned that If she .attempted to play the vulgar part that every minister In the city would denounce her and advise his flock to stay uway from the theater. It Is said an orchestra leader who was a stickler for suitable music for plays onco, when "William Tell" was put on", In tho sceno whero Toll's hdt Ib placed on tho polo, the band struck up the old tune, "Where Did You Get That I. at?" Miss Cecilia Loftus would fain return to vaudeville, temporarily, and she has let It bo known in Now York that sho would willingly again appear In the continuous In tho Imitations In which she won her first success. Mlso Loftus Is now starring star-ring In Israel ZangwIU's comedy. "The Sorlo-Comlc Govorncss." under the management man-agement of Daniel Frohman, and when It bocamo known thut tho actress contemplates contem-plates re-entering tho vaudeville field It was reported sho would leave the management man-agement of Mr Frohman and quit the legitimate stage for good. Mr. Frohman said, however, that thl6 was not tho case. "Wo are cjoslng Miss Loftus's tour about April 1," he snld, "and, her time for tho following weeks not being occupied, she asked If I had any objection to her going into vaudeville. 1 told her I hud none. If sho accepts a vaudovllla engagement It will not affect her contract with me, which still has' several years to run." so Sarah Bernhardt, who Is at present touring throughout Europe, has not been ablo to present her proposed programme at Constantinople. She has been allowed to appear In "Frou-Frou," "Sapho" and "La Dame aux Camollns." but tho Turkish Turk-ish censorship has declined to tolerate "La Tosca." "Phcdre" or 'L'AIglon." All plays In which kings or princes nave roles aro forbidden In Turkey on principle, but In tho cose of plays llko "L'AIglon," where Mme. Bernhardt Impersonates a malo role, tho Turkish offclals discovered discov-ered a direct breach of the laws of tho koran and declined most emphatically to discuss the question. v While playing "The Sambo Girl" In Vincent cs, Ind., Eva Tanguay bee o mo hi. dlgnant because a boy whistled during the performance. Tho actress expressed her opinion of tho audience, with tho result 1 that she was hissed and tho curtain was rung down, cutting short the play. Holen Grantloy, who Is otarrlng in "Hor Lord and Mastor," has a colored maid, who recently married. Tho wedding went off with considerable eclat, accompanied by useful presents from mlstretfs to mnld. H was only a day or two, however, before be-fore the girl wa3 back again. "Why, Delia!" exclaimed Miss Grantlcy, "whero la your husband?" The girl shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, he done gone off on the honeymoon." honey-moon." Amelia Bingham Is putting on "Tha Cllmbere," "Tho Frisky Mrs, Johnson" and other plays of her ropertolro In Pittsburg, whore she la tho lending lody of a reorganized stock company. Tho business Is good, but thon tho prices aro about two-thirds leas than thos to which Miss Bingham Is more accustomed. Mme. Rojanc, tho French actress, Is not grcatlv ptirturbed over the story that she danced the can-can on a tnblo at Ilydo'3 JC0.000 costumo ball at Shorry'B. Now York. In an Intorvlow sho donlcd dancing, danc-ing, but added: "But I would havo done so had they aBkid mo, I don't think it wrong to danco tho can-can, but I think it a crimo to danco It out of place. Tho can-can was not a Louis XV. dance, and tho Hydo ball was a Louis XV. ball. The can-can was not fashionable In that period. I am an artist, and don't like to do Incongruous things. The can-can would havo been Incongruous," A young woman present remarked: "Don't you wish it were true, though, Mme. RJano, that you could danco tho can-can 7" "You aro a peevish, innuffcrable creature," crea-ture," laughed Rojane. "1 can danco tho enn-can. I am not so old ns you think." Rcjanc's young daughter, Gcrmaine. was dismissed over tho can-can story Involving Involv-ing her mother. "Such a thing Is impossible, Isn't It, dearest mamma, perfectly Impossible' ' Mile. Germalno onld sympathetically. "You couldn't danco the can-can now. could you, dearest mamma? But, dearost mamma," and here Ml 1 0. Germalno's vtrtco grew Intensely dramatic, "don't you wish you could still dnr.co tho con-can as you onco could?" And this dutiful daughter looked at hor talented mother with undlagulBod adoration. adora-tion. A new version of ' Faust" woe given In Toklo arid Is now making tho tour of tho principal cities of Japan. The author, a, Japanese playwright, closoly stuck to the personality of Fauat and Marguorlte In his new play, but tho Japanese Mcphlstopheles Is represented ns an Occidental devil, a modern European, who by his perversity has succeeded In betraying tho fair daughter of tho Rifling Sun. At Inst Marguerite Is absolved by her Judges with tho caution, which forms tho moral of the play, never more to havo deals with Occidental devils, and is married mar-ried to a triumphant warrior Just returning return-ing from the war in Manchuria. ' Although Isadorc Rush has been dead for three months her aged mother, who has for a longer period been In feeblo health, hns read to her each week a letter supposedly written by tho actress daughter daugh-ter who was killed while eurf bathing In California. , , . It was feared that the news would bo such a severo shock to tho aged Invalid that she could not survive It. The family arranged a system by which It will be almost al-most Impossible for the news to reach her. Whon she Inquired anxiously why her daughter had not como to spend the holidays with hor as usual, flhe was In- . . . - . . . . . .,-0 c. mnlrmcr lurmcu inai uic wminj ...... -o , such a successful tour of the West that it would not return East for somo time. It was Miss Rush's habit to write weekly week-ly to her mother, and as these letters could not be discontinued without exciting excit-ing the old ladv'a fears, lcttors purporting to be from tho actress arc read to her each week ' "Now, when I am drawing the largest salary I have ever had. It seems odd to remember that for my first appenranco I drew ?C0 a week. It was Mr. Tony Pastor Pas-tor who met mo at a friend's house and to whom I confided my desire to go on tho stage. He said he'd give me a position at once. Then 1 thought of my mother s uisapprovai; out .r. jr.iaiui iihb";v-that iihb";v-that I come down in my ordinary attire, eing a few ballads, and even then I could get back home before anyone missed me. It was a great temptation, and I agreed In order to keep It a secret. I took the stage name of Lillian Russell my own was Helen LouIho Leonard; but thero was mother to be considered. For two weeks I went unsuspected, and then a newspaper man said pleasantly to my mother: "You ought to see Lillian Russell, Rus-sell, that EngllMh girl down nt Pastor s.' Can vou see me In a cold sweat? My mother went down to the performance; I hurried home, and reached thero before s'io did; then I walloJ In teirir until she arrived. Sho came in, looked me over and ald- "Well, I think you can afford to nay for your own music lessons' and after af-ter that I had to. I got 550 a week, and mv first week's wages was advanced to get mo the gown I wanted; and 1 paid It bnck 510 each week. Now. when my salary sal-ary Is forty times as much. I haven't any mbro left." Lillian Russell in National Magazine. Best of All Plays. I do not care for problem plays:1 give mo the kind of play-In play-In which the girl Is Just as pure as aro the Ilowcrs In May; The play In which In time of need tho hero's right on deck, And where the scheming villain gets It always In the neck. I love to hear the girl refuse the villain's gold to take. And sav thut rags are royal duds when worn for virtue's sake; I lovo to seo hor beaux decline to heed the rich man's beck, And swat tho villain with a club athwart his ugly neck. Oh, not for mc the Gallic farce, the Ibsen Ib-sen fol-de-rol, Wheic man Is but a Jncknnapes and woman wo-man Is a doll; I'll tako the sturdy plot In. which the villain vil-lain tries to wreck ' The hero's life, nnd In the end just get3 It In the ncckl Louisville Courier-Journal, Where's the PanoramaP One form of public amusement, once popular all over tho United States. Is now practically extinct. It Is tho .entertainment .entertain-ment by panorama to an nccompanlmcnt of lecture and musical selections. The panorama was a series of paintings on canvas rolled and unrolled" by two youths. ...t I..V. In H1I9. iinrllniiloi. lliuuuu.-l IU.UU1 111 v.i. o iiv.uii.1 was 111 requited. Tho measure of tho excellence of a panorama. pan-orama. In tho preliminary advertising at least, was tho number of yards of canvas. The subject was chosen with reference to tho sensibilities of a large class of persons per-sons who were opposed to theater-going, but who patronized lectures, panoramas, circus and museum performances. "Travels "Trav-els In Ireland," "Scenes In tho Holy Land," "Tho Pleart of tho African Continent," Conti-nent," "Among the Indians" and "Travels In European Countries" were some of the subjects. A "literary man" wrote the lecturo which was recited ,by :nr) employee, and there were usually musical features, furnished fur-nished by a duet, husband and wife. So the outfit of the panorama was made up of the manager, who sold tickets: tho lcc-turor, lcc-turor, tho ducttlsts nnd "tho two roller boys, six In all. The chief Investment, was the panorama Itself, and 'once .painted It would last for many years, with occasional occa-sional refurbishing. One ,of tho best-known theaters In New York wa9 built from the profits of a pan- orama mnnagor. But by degrocs panoramas pano-ramas havo ceased to bo a recognized form of populnr amuscmont. Tho prejudice preju-dice against theatcio has been effaced, scone painting haB greatly Improved, and tho larger towns are equipped with theaters. the-aters. Tho Improvement of railroad connections con-nections hns mado It possible for tho residents resi-dents of smnllcr towns to obtain a fair share of theatrical novelties, and thoy aro no longer dependent upon companies traveling, as panorama companies often did, by vnn from town to town Thero survive a few old panorama managers man-agers who nra reminiscent of tho old days, and oomo of tho old storage houses have unclaimed In somo dusty corner tho hundreds hun-dreds of yarda of canvas which havo delighted de-lighted hundreds nightly, as laboriously thoy were unrolled to tho nccompanlment of tho monotono lecturer. Now York Sun. |
