Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-24 | Page 8 | Press Agent Wants Room at Knutsford

IpS PRESS AGENT WANTS P. ROOM ATJWSFORD I I Ned Holmes, Here After I Ten Years, Finds Salt I Lake a Big Town. Sted Holmes, one o the old-time I I tlieatrii-iil prce agonts, is in the city, I CM st4)"in at Hotel Utah. Mr. Holmes I lifts been here many timcn in the past I g at pie presi representative of the late H j Mine. Modjeska, Lewis Morrison and I j other stage celebrities. It is nearly I 1 1fln years, though, since he was last in I Sjdj Lake, and he declares that he has I not visited any other city in the entire HOT 'Qnntry during thai period where so I runiiv tangible evidences of improve-H improve-H uMfit. were in sight. "I had an amusing experience get- tinp to my hotel," Mr. Holmes said vrjaferday. "1 got into a taxi at the B a , 'iti : told the driver to take ma JS to the Knutsford hotel. He loolu-il at nrt as i !' he t ell sorry for mo, and said, J a! '1 Jicver heard of it, sir; perhaps you f nyoan the Utah.' ' Yes, I know I am in I1 I'tali.' I answered, 'but you see to it ' that I am in the Knutsford hotel pretty pret-ty soon or you will hear sonic new ,. words you did not know are in tho Knglish language.'" Explanations fallowed thai the Knutsford hotel Had V long mi passed away, and Holmes ri was (alien to the I'tnh. Th "I am bringing the huge biblical Tri spectacle, 'The Wanderer,' to the Salt of l.uke thoater this trip," continued Ph Holmes. "H is tho biggest thing of !jaJ its kind in the country. We are trav-(or trav-(or 'ding nearly two hundred people, to' a say nothing of more than one hundred , real, live sheop, goats donkeys and Blpttherd dogs that David Belasco, who staged 'The Wanderer,' insisted were pel necessary to lend realism to our first sal net. The story of the play is based on I ins 'be parable of the prodigal son, you I . know. I J "When I first learned that we were I th ll0l1,i('11 to play here for a week, J I raj was afraid that a big mistake had I 1 been made. I am not worrying nny .'"( longer, because any city that responds I icq to the third Liberty loan as Salt Lake I So k.tf certainly knows tho good things in I 'id lifo' will not overlook a high-class I jid attraction like 'The Wanderer.' Why, I m when I loft Denver Monday, it still II 1,0' one-third of its loan quota to 1 niake. Salt, Luke sure is some live 1 j) burg," mused Holmes.