Show DRAMATIC AND L YRICII I i Ned Sothern and How He Iulr His Start KEILLY ANT WOODS BIG SHOW ritana Once Move Cast of Martha The Ivy LnarA Full Week at the Theatre Notes anil Jots Mi H 15 Warner who visited Salt Lake y last August as the manager of the Ijeeum Theatre companywhose excel cat performances of The Wife arc still remembered as a bright page in the amusement amuse-ment annals of this community now in the iity in the interests of llr E H Sothern who appears at the Salt Lake theatre during the latter portion of this week In conversation with a HEKALTI reporter re-porter Mr Warner said Mr Sothern is also a Lyceum theatre attraction and like The Wife company I wes his present prominence to Mr Daniel Frohmans busy brain Mr Sothern and hs company divide the time at the New v ork theatre with the regular stock com pan appearing there while the latter organization is off upon its regular western tour and it is diilicult to say which is mod 1 opular with the New York public Both ola s which he produces here had their hrst performances at the Lyceum theatre ID fact Mr Frohinan began his successful areer in that house with Mr Sothern in The Highest Bidder which after a run cf t 100 nights was withdrawn to allow the ock company to produce The Wife Last August while The Wife company wuijkin your city Mr Sothern was at the t GwTatheatic t in the midst of a prosperous ruts of Lord Chumley which continued mtil The Wife company returned inNs in-Ns ember The same plan will be be in progress when The Wife company again xisits you in August next Mr Sotttrn is yet a young man being bureli thirty years of age but lie has al real attained a position which compares favorably with that of his illustrious father the famous Dindreary Sothern He has had a varied experience which began with a failure that would have deterred one of u ss determinut on His father never gave tile young mini credit for any dramatic abiliti and 01 ly after considerable persuasion persua-sion east him for a very small part in his ina of Sam at Abbeys Park theatre New York in September 1ST9 He had Out one line to speak Half a crown please sir I hope you dont think it too much sir But it did prove too much for Eddie as he was familiarly called to distinguish dis-tinguish him from his father He forget his word spoiled the scene and so exasperated his father that he would not give him another opportunity Had young Sothern homo dicouraged at this the stage would have lost a much better actor than his father was and Daniel Frohman would have missed an opportunity to again prove the value of his managerial judgment It was Mr Frohmau who saw the possibilities of Mr Sothern as he was struggling with sOhjjt of his fathers old parts It was Mr r haian who decided what were the proper parts for the young actor to play and gave him those opportunities which lie l has so admirably taken advantage of Strangely enough it was in a play written for the father but never played bv him that the son made his lirst success It was The Highest Bidder which will be seen here Though Mr Sotherns parents were English he is thoroughly American both by birth and inclination and has been brought to the front by the enterprise of a representative American manager and that in two seasons time It is a curious fact that an author or manager is often a better judge than the a < > ior himself of the parts which best present pre-sent him to the public When the elder Sothern was first offered the part of Lord Dundreary he indignantly refused it Then as a member of Laura Recites stock com pan he accepted it rather than sacriiice his position in the company It subsequently subse-quently made him both rich and famous When Lord Chumley which will also be played here was first read to the younger Sothern he had little faith in it He thought the part was too much like those his father had made prominent and he feared criti cism from that standpoint Manacer Frohman insisted however and Mr Sothern yielded withmny doubts to the result As ns rehearsed nto the part however how-ever gradually his own individuality beCame be-Came more marked and on the first night he presented a characterization so distine tively original that comparisons with his fathers portrayals were outof the question He had presented a fop it is true but such a one as his father never could have played JKfanager Frohman is proud of Mr SutXcrns success and proud 01 rueh an addition ad-dition to the value of toe Lyeeaui theatre mark I trade Jmark s Keilly Woods variety company gave a great show before a great audience at the Grand last evening The house was nearly all full below and above the audience was jammed in like sardines The whole show was good of cits kind the particular feat ireibeiug the clever artist Pat Reilly him ceIW whose colored sketch of the raft scene i e F ic W rM d ew nimense applause there the usual song and dance contortion business were and after piece and Miss Jessie Gilbert the clever cornctist rendered a SJ o But what owipsno was really waiting icr came in the aerial act sisters They did first some of the Yaidis acts bars omi plover trapeze ou and VPPV suspended new very high over the heads of the audio of the pieces of revolving machinerY ence one near the ceiling being particu novel and complicated It worked by Urly electricity and was in itself a curiosity work over the elder sis This retired preliminary to her mother an elderly lady who tel was in waiting in the wings and the of the two girls was oucS and slighter swunPby ou a rope through a pulley clean up of the S the ventilator in the lofty ceiling bunding where she stood > on a bar for a I omt her head touching the wall above I her gazing down upon her audience a great part of whom had gone upon the stage by invitation from Mr Heilly There was a buzz of expectancy at first and then a dead hush and if everyone had owned it to himselfit ws with rather a sickening sensation that he contemplated the chance of the girls making that tremendous dive into the net belowwhich was stretched in a width of ajout fifteen feet from tile gallery to the stuo The girl first let bet handkerchief flutter down and half a dozen ladies got up and left the house Then she leaned forward poised herself seemed to calculate for a moment and the next instant in-stant went headlong downward Half way duwn she gently turned over and lit in the net on her shoulders rebounding to a height of ten feet and then settling in the net amid the lusty hers and yells from a thousand throats The fall was about seventyfive feet though it looked much more It will be repeated Monday night when without doubt it will again till the house Maritana went to large matinee house yesterday mainly of ladies and the pleasure pleas-ure the performance gave scented to be as general as ever as before it was the admirable ad-mirable dance to the accompaniment of guitars and mandolins beautilully led by Miss Olsen and Mr Wctzel that won the greatest applause and the dancing of the gypsies the duo of Edith Clawson and Miss Hawley were all highly appreciated The characters all take a muchneeded rest till Monday night when the farewell performance per-formance will be given as under the contract con-tract the costumes and orchestral parts have to be returned to San Franc isco this week The totol rc i Its tlus far r ah about one thousand three hundred and hlty dollars which owing to the generous almost al-most lavish manner in which the production produc-tion has been given hardly I equal the expense ex-pense up to this time We trust Mondays performance will pull the balance to the right side The Ivy Leaf printing monopolizes everything in the shape of bill boards and the spectacle of a live eaule carrying off a live child a row of soldiers leveling the muzzles of their muskets against the breast of an Irish i atriot and the patriot leaping from the accustomed ivy i tower will all apnealteiiderly to the srallery breast and we dbuLt not will fill at least the upper portions of the house The same company was here not long since and played to immense business After this busy week at the theatre the feels will be cleaivd for action once more and Stephens opera company or it would be more correct to say another of Stephens opjra companies takes the boards with Martha which will be rendered in the thorough and complete style which has characterized all the Stephens productions The chorus will consist of exactly fifty voices but they will be selected from all Stephens best lm1 nml fhn < si5 i will IIP us fnllmvs n matinee Decoration cay openng the season = sea-son Martha Lizzie Thomas Nuncy u Itesie Dean Lionel Uecre D Pyper Plunkett II S Goddard Sir TrUtrum S Young ShcriH E W Arthur Alexander Salvini has contributed a pleasant column and a half to the Xew York nurlil regarding his distinguished father Among other things he says In his professional life my father exhibits the same methodical and conservative habits of mind A clever but unscrupulous business busi-ness agent whom he had once employed but had dismissed sought to throw ridicule ridi-cule on him by reference to the fact that iny father in his contract insisted on having four new wax candles every evening in his dressing room and retained the unburnt portions of them The first half of this accusation ac-cusation I have no doubt is perfectly true and perhaps the latter half also This I do not know It is the fashion in our country for the dressing room to be so illuminated and my father having been used to his four wax candles every night would I almost al-most think be unable to act unless he had first made up by the accustomed light His insistence on this odd clause therefore was thoroughly characteristic of two phases of his character first his scrupulous nicety regarding his agreements and fear of any loophole for controversy being left open and second his innate conservatism and devotion to the customs of a lifetime In other ways too this latter feeling crops out My father always packs and unpacks his stage trunk himself and arranges ar-ranges his costumes He arrives at the theatre a full two hours before the time set for the rising of the curtain and leisurely begins his preparations for the evenings makeup Although he generally has a dresser in attendance he rarely makes use of him but prefers to make liis stage toilet unassisted I am frequently skcd whether father did not train me himself for my stage career ca-reer and the question is put in a form that makes it evident the answer is assumed to be in the affirmative This is so far from being the case that my father designed me for quite another profession and indeed when I first visited America it was to pursue pur-sue hero my studies as a civil engineer My father however was firm in his determination de-termination that I should not be an actor and lie was glad to see me sail for America thinking that at any rate I should be under no temptation to don the sock and buskin in a land whose very speech was at that time unknown to me As it happened I had not long been beta and gained a smattering of the English tongue when chance threw in my way an opportunity to make my appearance as an English speaking actor in the company of one no less famous than Clara Morris I was a mere lad and I think was saved from failure as much by my own boyish self confidence and ignorance of what failuie meant as by the kindness of my friends and the good nature of iny audiences At all events with great delight my good friend Majerono and I concocted a cable despatch announcing my successful debut and sent it to my father Then I waited with trepidation and band b-and by a letter came I was congratulated but the question was put with parental incisiveness in-cisiveness Why did you not ask my permission per-mission 1 My reply that I did not ask because be-cause I knew he would refuse and so I thought it better to succeed first and ask for leave afterward tickled my father immensely im-mensely but he gravely answered that for the present I could continue and when he tame to America the year following he would make up his mind I awaited his 1 coming with even more trepidation and the next year in Baltimore he saw me act in English for the first time I was playing Romeo to Miss Mathers Juliet and at my first entrance I did not see my father When I reentered from the opposite side of the sage I caught sight of those great eyes of his at the back of the box and for the first time I knew what stage fright meant After the act he came to my dressing room and said only ouc word Why do you hold your hands sof imitating the gesture ges-ture I had prided myself on as being uncommonly un-commonly graceful Hold them so easily and naturally and then he went out At the end of the play he came behind once more saluted me in Italian fashion and merely said Go on and that is all the stage instruction my father ever gave me Wo have discussed the conception of characters and stage business and so on when I supported him some years ago but he has always refrained from anything that looked like teaching Once though hejsawme play Maccari in Called Back I happened to use in one act with some effect a red silk handkerchief handker-chief and brought it to view again in the course of It later act My father came behind be-hind as I was dressing for the street and said You were all right my boy but tell me has Maccari only one handkerchief His eye had caught the trifle which jarred o his artistic conscience so peculiarly pe-culiarly isitive to minute points of detail I was nonplussed for a moment but cruelly cru-elly turned the table by remarking AhA Ah-A ou see you have been betrayed by your ignorance of English Maccari belongs as is pointed out in the piay to a secret society so-ciety called the Red Handkerchief Gang Ho was satisfied until later on I undeceived unde-ceived him Stage Dots and lots Leonard Gravers hA Noble Son was presented at Xiblo Oil Miy 13th with E J Buckley as the star Frank Daniels backed out from his European Euro-pean trip at the last moment owing to nervousness ner-vousness caused by the fate of the Dan mark The Bostonians who are now in the full tide of popularity in San Francisco play at the Grand in this city Bill Nye will probably venture towards Salt Lake again in the fall The sudden death of Carl Rosa is a bitter blow to English opera America gave Pa repa wealth she bestowed it and her hand upon Carl Uosa and he devoted his life to the resurrection of grand English opera which is very different from grand opera in English Will it die with him or has he inspired it with his own energy and eouraire David Belascoand Henry C DC Millcnre working upon their new comedy The Charity Ball There will be no Sunday performances during Booth and Barretts season at the New California Bob Hilliard the more or less renowned dude comes with Kat Goodwin Henry Dixev will hereafter receive for Adonis and his own services a percentage percent-age of the gross receipts without any ie sponsibility Mr Rice will manage and furnish the company Bob Slavin has a travesty called The Little Fly Coon Herbert Archer who once lived in Salt Lake and who used to appear with the old stock company here is one of Sotherns principal people Robert Elsmere with the fall of the curtain at the Union Square theatre last night slipped through a crack in the stage and into a region of darkness from which it is not likely l it will ever be removed Xew York Herald C W Couldock is going to play in the piece written by DenmaiijThompson the Two Sisters Ned Harrigans lease on his wellknown theater in New York has run out and Kate Claxton is bidding for it Mrs Bowers benefit in New York last week was rather slimly attended but the high price paid for tickets brought the net receipts up to 51000 Rose Eytinge is now playing La Fro chard with Kate Claxton in the Two Orphans Or-phans What a change was there my countrymen l Gounod composer of Faust has contracted con-tracted to give seventy five concerts in this country commencing in October The immense spectacle The Twelve Temptations comes to the theater in June Fauntlcroy had a great week in Denver Den-ver There as here the boy was the favorite fa-vorite i |