| Show rl1cTh 00 r4 iiV 1 f Iflhlcr i6gn G I A JI Az 4Af4 I I I i rj > Vi r ft Y 2 QCC 7 OeiTeACOJ This week Salt Luke Cheater Frederick Fred-erick Warclo In Othello1 Thursday af tcinoon The Dukes Jester Thursday Thurs-day and Saturday evenings I Richelieu Riche-lieu Friday evening and Hamlet Saturday afternoon Grand The Fast Mail Monday Tuesday and Wednesday evenings Thc Bell Boy Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings S S The fickleness and captiousness the public was never better illustrated than in the matter of the Friday mqtlnce of the Alice Nielsen Opera company For weeks there was a clamor for a lengthy engagement of this opera company in ordcr that all lovers of such entertainment entertain-ment might afforded an opportunity of seeing Miss Nielsens organization once during its stay In Salt Lake City Manager Pypcr first tried to s tanex Ira night and matinee performance for I Saturday and was partially successful but the demand from San Francisco finally prevented the consummatiOn of such an arrangement He then wired 1 Manager Fianlc L Perley of the Alice Nielsen company a most urgent and beseeching be-seeching appeal for a Friday matinee in order to relieve the pressure from patrons of the house He had already If nil ted the number of seats to two for each performance in order that all might be in a measure accommodated Mr Pcrley was very adverse to giving a Friday matinee Inasmuch as it required re-quired a special agreement with every member of the company not omitting Miss Nielsen who is i one of the most exacting of them all For the first time this season he was able to secure a inalince outside of Saturday afternoon Miss Nielsen herself came In for a handsome bonus and the other members of the company were Insured equally good sums All this was done on the theory that it would offend Salt Lake if such an extra performance was not given and that the house would be crowded to its capacity Jn Denver a lOlO guarantee for a like matinee had been refused and at Colorado Springs Mr Perley was asked to cancel the whole Salt Lake engagement in order to give the extra time to that place in fact the demand all along the line has been something extraordinary Imagine the chagrin therefore of both Manager Pvner and Manger Perley when on Fri > day aftornoon little more than halt a house UiS assembled to hear the Nielsen Niel-sen comlan Mr Perley sat down and watched the performance through makIng ma-king the remark as he did so that it was the first time he had been able to get a seat at his own attraction during the season The truth of the mailer is j that while the public is very anxious to be accommodaied it has got to be accommodated in Its own precise and L selfdetermined way and jsnot ds poSed to put Itself out very much for anybody else Under these circumstances circum-stances It may be readily surmised that managers soon grow to feel that after all it does very little good to attempt to please The night performances were of course both crowded to fhe capacity of the house Such attractions as the Alice Nielsen company are few and far between A llllie fortune Is bound up in the money that goes Into such a company and only the largest kind of business enables en-ables the mangement to make any kind i of profit at all It might surprise a good many to know as is the fact that more money is made from a performance perform-ance of Katie Putnam or a Hoyt skit with a halffilled house than conies from the crowded attendance < of an opera company like the Nielsen organization organi-zation Manager Perley of thiscom pany Is one of the most successful clearheaded men of the profession is 1 I never carried off his feet and takes life t very philosophically in all its phases For many years he was the general 1 preSs agent of the Barnum show and I continued in that position after Mr Barnums death for a year or so His advent as an opera manager was with the Bostonians and his success was so pronounced that he was in Immediate demand for half a dozen companies and L enterprises lie is u halfowner of the Nielsen company and has succeeded ingathering I in-gathering together as fine a light opera organization as is I to be found not excepting ex-cepting the Bostonians A very good criterion of his ability is afforded by the fact that notwithstanding the well known dithculty In the handling of Blngois he has kept his organization intact and almost without change from the day he opened in New York three years ago until the present time In every appointment and almost to the last member of the chorus the company seen at the Theater the past week was prediselj the same as that presented at the Knickerbocker and Casino thcalers in New York by thls drganlzation From Miss Nielsens first appearance as a star she has been successful but this has i been accomplished by the united efforts of star manager and a score of able lieutenants The stage manager Julian Iltchell to whose discipline dis-cipline and skill the perfect picture presented pre-sented to the eye Is largely due is without with-out a peof as a stage manager in tills country The Nielsen company is a great organization and one that will 1 I probably not be duplicated here again in the course of the year Mr Cowles iildiie receives a salary equal to that I paid many an entire company The future career of Alice Nielsen will be l j watched with ro little interest With tueli examples as Lillian Russell Delia I I Fox and a dozen other popular stars of bygone days in mind one wonders who her Nielsen will have the cool head and Koort i sense to keep in the even path she has bcon walking or like the other stars noted will dash off among the ambles and losing her head ruin her promising fulure The dramatic and the operatic stage Is covered with the wiirha of bright clever people who I having achieved success thought tho1 whole world was at Iheir feet b IbijfdoncJ 1 the principles to which they IJcd their success and fell Alice Ntel HIMI has rison from an unknown girl lo the position of one of the bestknown light opera stars In the world So far she has kept her head Will she be able to do so In the future 1 or will she like j doztijs of illustrious predecessors to go 0 pieces on the rock of her own achieve ments u The final release which death brought to Charles II Hoyt must 1mae been a pleasant one to the playwright could I he in tho brier lucid moments have leailxeil Ills own condition As men t tioned in last Sundays Mr HoytH life was one of the extremes of i sweetness and bitterness His theatri I cal career covered a period of two dc I aQes it being just twenty years since his first success The Parlor Match was staged Mt Iloyts farces intro duced to the American I stage a new form of amusement and for ton years faiCLcomedles were the rage to the I l L I extent that they thrcatend to drive everything else from the stage The popularity of this form of amusement has come down to the present day and It is an interesting fact that lesy than a month and half ago the first production produc-tion of a Iloytpay took place In London Lon-don The success of a Trip to Chinatown China-town in Australia is well known Mr Hoyt was dramatic critic on the Boston lost in 1SSO when he wrote The Parlor Par-lor Match He took it from one manager man-ager to another trying to geL It I produced pro-duced Finally McKee another reporter re-porter on a Boston paper with something some-thing of faith In Mr Hoyts work helped give Ita trial Mr McKee was fortunate In having a wealthy aunt 1 somewhere up In the New England I Slates upon whose credulity he played to secure the money for the first trial of the Hoyt piece It is sulllclent to say that McKee profited for his faith since he afterward became Iloyts manager man-ager and partner The term Hoyt I play came to have the highest value asa as-a trademark in the United States and his farces commanded a royalty beyond that accorded plays of the first serious authors in the country As stated last Sunday II A Trip to Chinatown had 1 one of its first productions in Salt Lake Qlly following closely upon A Texas Steer These two plays gave to Iloyt Ills highest popularity Among the actors ac-tors in A Trip to Chinatown company 1 wcrp Henry Connor George Bcahe Amla Boyd Henry Gilfoil and Patrice i Gllfoil was seen in the same piece here at the Grand the past week Mr Curry i Cur-ry who was probably as close to Mr Hoyt as any player who ever appeared In his company aside from Hoyts wife was here last week in charge of itA Day and a Night Mr Curry had becn the leading man to Mrs Caroline Misled Hoyt in A Contented Woman and had been with the Hoyt plays over a long series of years In gratitude and friendship Mr Hoyt had given him IIA Day and A Night without the usual deposit required from managers and had personally guaranteed the payment of royalty to Hoyt and McKee A let ter from Mr Ioyts guardian Charles L Lcjfer a fellow member of the New Hampshire Legislature was shown The Tribune writeVjust a week ago In this the guardian stated that it would be absolutely useless to write Mr Iloyt as he no longer paid any attention to communications no longer recog nized his closest friends He was kept out of the dangerous stat nnlv hv r > Y erclse and care bestowed by his at tendants Hoyt loved his second wife Carol ihc Miskel Hoyt to distraction but It was an open secret in the pro fession that she treated him most shamefully and openly boasted that she had married him solely for his I money and influence i 0 Inal1 the world lT yt had not a sin gle relative at the time of his death A strange fatality seemed to have j overtaken who were near and dear to him and his own death from paresis is i a tragical close lo a liCe once radiant with all that makes life dear The news that he had given his beautiful home In Charleston N II where he was bQrnto the Lambs club of New York shows that he had a warm side for the theatrical profession Booth endowed the Players club with a beau tiful l house near the famous Tammany Hall and Hoyts regard for the pro fession In which he made so great a fortune Is similarly testified by 1 his gift to the Lambs Practically Mr Iloyts spacious grounds and beautiful home was an asylum since he was under restraint thereby order of tlC court He was not allowed to leave the place except when going to the barber shop or to take rides Ills death will be mourned by thousands who have been the recipients of his generosity and good heart It Is estimated that his estate will run over a quarter of a mil lion l of dollars The only two plays of his career which were failures wetc the last two A Runaway Colt and A DogJn the Manger His friends ascribe the weakness of these to his falling state of mindS mind-S S Three noted plays arc booked for SaltLake City in the early future For one of theic Way Down East the original company has been reserved for Salt Lake it being desired by 1 Mr GrIn mer Its owner that this play should be given only the best production In Salt Lake Mr Grismer owed his early success to the liberal patronage of the Western audiences given the Grismer I and Davies companies a decade ago Since his great hits in New York ho has become one of tho wealthy men of I the profession There arc now four j companies on the road playing Way I Down Eat Salt Lake might have seen this exceptional play before this except that Mr Grismer determined It would only be given here by the New I York company headed by Mrs GrTs mei or as she is known to healer < goers Phoebe Davies The business of this play has been something ex traordinary I averaging about tOOl a I week since It started Mr Brady who Is a partner with Mr Grismer Is said to have made 5280000 from tjhe earn ings of his various companies during the present I season Another of the at tractions which Salt Lake will seethe coming spring will be Minnie Maddern Fiske who was booked by Manager Mulvey for the Grand Notwithstand I InS tho reports to the contrary she will probably J1I1311 engagement there with Becky Sharp being a drama tizallon of Thackerays Vanity Fair I It isone i of thc stage classics of the I daOwlng to the fact that Mrs I Fiske is at outs with the syndi cate she cannot appear at the Salt I Lake Theater Another player booked the past week for the Grand theater by M Martin Knllman the manager who takes possession of the theater after the New Year ia Viola Allen who will appear on the 14th lath and 10th of January Miss Allen has Ire quently been been here In stock work but this will be her first appearance as a star 11II S 0 The coming week at the Salt Lake I Theater will given over to Frederick AVarde whoso name and place Is so well known to Salt Lake that It seems Kurplusagc to say anything about him Mr Wardcij new pluy The Dukes Jester appears to have made a very pleasant litfpressldn among Western theatergoers He has already ap J peared in the Northwest territory where tho Portland And Seattle papers have been fulsome in their praise of his production Mr Warde is tills year under the management of Cla rence M Burne Charlotte Tittle Burne one of the Tittle sisters and wife of Mr Burne 1mm I Mi Wardes leading lady Warde appears the last three nights of the week with matinees on Thursday and Saturday afternoons III SAt S-At thc Grand wo will see the return 1 j of a Lincoln J Carter play The Fast Mail which Is one of the sensatidhal melodramas for which Mr Carters name stands The piece will be seen the first half of the week The last half of the week there l will be seen The Bell Boy of which John Welsh Is the I central figure S U S With the exception of The Dukes Jester the plays of Mr Wardes repertoire re-pertoire are well known to Salt Lake and his delineation of the characters is fairly familiar The Dukes Tester Tes-ter Is the first comedy In which Mr I Wnrdu has yet appeared he having a feeling against that class of plays which did not show dignity and semi ousness of purpose This year however how-ever he overwent his own preferences and appeared In a new play The Dukes Jester which was especially written for him by Esp Williams of Now Orleans The comedy met with his approval after reading for the reason rea-son that it seemed tp contain lofty diction dic-tion and high purpose together with a sense of humor and situations to amuse i Ills Salt Lake admirers will watch with much Interest Mr Wardes attempts in I I this new field of effort It is not to be 1 forgotten of course Unit Mr Waide I appeared with much success as Bel pheczor the mountebank a thoroughly I I comedy character His new role of 1 Cecco is much after the same order |
