| Show o D 6 9 1 By HAROLD H H. H JENSON HAS MAUDE ADAMS TAKEN SARAH BERNHARDT'S PLACE L This is Indeed a question n difficult to answer as each playgoer and critic will have his or her personal opinion However many prominent In theatrical circles of ot the world have bestowed this compliment on on Utah's tai talented ted actress tresS tresS' Her tier type type-h type however was far different from that of the tho great French actress but her message In her varied plays is ever remembered by those who witnessed them This is the test of a a. real actor If it he can make his audiences rem remember his plays and his characterization he has indeed achieved success New stars loom u up almost every day in the stage limelight but soon n flicker out and those who make the everlasting Impression are the ones nes wh whose se names will live forever In this class comes Maude Adams for l her er w work rk will never be forgotten Recently many Eastern publications ns carried n notices that Maude Adams had retired from everything and would never appear again on any stage and c could uld not be found It Is s true that Utah's famed artist has not appeared publicly for some time except In entertainments f for r charity and these have been but few When When- the Empire theatre of New York sent invitations to all noted artists f for r a n. special event Maude faude Adams' Adams was returned marked marke Address unknown This perhaps gave foundation for a story that she was forever through The fact also als that Billy Burke wife of Florence succeeded Miss Adams in Barries Barrie's plays also led to this story But Buta a very short time ago news flashed out DUt that Miss Adams had just jus returned from a trip to Europe which was news even t to her f friends friend here She has always been of ot a a. retiring disposition gave but few Interviews in all an her stage career never dined in public places and shunned the public eye Through Charles Frohman she was made famous and her Peter Pan and countless other plays have Immortalized her That she may yet c come me back Is borne out by her statement t to many of ot her old time Salt Lake friends that should ever the time arise when her services were needed to tD help perpetuate and keep alive the Salt Lake theatre where she first made her debut as a a. baby she would be ready She once offered Dered to tD stage an outdoor pageant of J Joan an of Arc on the University of Utah campus That she will still sUU appear In New York oa o 01 certain occasions Is thought certain Hence she has returned but not retired and like Bernhardt her fame will never die 1 r PLAYGOERS GO TO SEE ACTOR NOT SHAKESPEARE r I That playgoers today go gD to see the actor who plays Shakespearean plays and not because of their love for the noted bard is maintained by Leo LeI who voiced this thought at the luncheon of th the I Salt Lake Community Drama league Thursday His Ills point is well wen taken even th though ugh some may disagree As proof of his assertion he I pointed to tD crowds that attended John Barrymore's res re's production of ot Hamlet In New York City which was a success while white David Warfield In Belasco's Belasco s Shylock eVen though elaborately staged and presented In finished style was a failure in point-of point attendance This he said was due to tD the fact that Barrymore Js is a a. young man while I Warfield Is an old one Mr was also asked how people c could uld be educated to tD higher class productions and he wittily retorted it If he c could uld answer this he would make a million n d dollars 1 L J ANOTHER SALT LAKER SCORES IN MOVIES t Very few know or have ever heard of Helen Kerner a Salt Laker who has scored In the movies She Sta came from Germany as a girl with C. C M M. r. r Brown well wen known locally in theatrical circles and joined her parents here As an amateur she played in countless local productions ns and three years ago left for tor California Last May ray she married Emma Emille Weitz actor expert fencer and nl movie director She appeared first In minor r parts and then in second leads She took first lead with C Colleen lleen Moore M re In Affinity was with Harold Lloyd In Dr Jack Norma Talmadge Talmadgo in The V Voice From the Minaret Mae Bush In The Christian and also took and Richard Dix part in The Famous Mrs Fair Common Law Brass and end Eleventh Hour j SALT LA LAKE SOLOIST SINGS FOR COAST RADIO 16 I Recently Genevieva va Harris of ot Salt Lake was sol soloist at one of r th the I big radio broadcasting stations ns at Los Angeles The program featured I Ia a a select gr group up of artists well known and credited with musical talents Miss Harris Barris c coloratura soprano gave several classical gems over the I radi radiophone phone Miss Harris arrived In Los Angeles recently She was one of the soloists in the Salt Sal Lake Tabernacle choir under the direction n of A. A C. C Lund and J J. J J J. J McClellan She Is now coaching under Professor and Mme Marquis Ellis Ems In concert and operatic repert repertoire lre It has often otten been stated by musical critics that Miss Harris possesses a voice that resembles that of the the- fam famous us Madame Nordica She expects to tD make a tour of the United States and Europe in the near future when she will c complete a largo large concert program 1 A I 1 j BROTHER OF OF UTAH MOVIE DIRECTOR SCORES 11 II I II I Practically every movie fang fan knows ws who Frank tho the celebrated cele- cele I director of is but few foW know his brother brother Daniel II who also halls hails from Salt Lake He is a a. talented musician and has II I appeared in vaudeville for some somo time Ab About ut six weeks ago Dan as his friends call him left this city for Los Angeles to be near his brother and to resume his professional career as a a. vaudeville artist He is slated fo for an appearance be featured soon at the Ambassador hI hotel tel and itis it itla j jis I is la rumored that ho o w will be featured In several of Graumans Grauman's theatres theatres' in the near fut future re He Is also doing special work at the tho United studios s' s sIn In the te technical department l' l I |
