Show LUKE COSGRAVE VISITS I 66 o. o 1 Character Actor R Recalls c A i Colorful Past I 7 L i.- i. k I 43 I- I ct J r v 4 z w 1 r 4 S I JW- JW L. L 1 LUKE COSGRAVE Shak Shakespeare spear Once in Big D Demand mand in Utah Says Luke Hollywood Holly Claims Claims' Old Timer By AlEU t F. F PHILIPS Who Wh is s Luke Luk A Ask k any citizen of I Ka- Ka a- a nosh o I harum or Kanab or or any resident nt of ot L tell N hl Mantl Manti 1 nU or Moroni Ask most any citizen of or orthe the mountain Intel country and th they r Will tell teU you that h he ho wat was waa the idol of playgoer playgoers in tho those Ie early days when hen bb bo and his his' comp company ny visited their town tra traveling lIng by ra rail 1 in some sonic instances by team and t wagon won in others other and onto Once in a a. while awhile when something br broke ke down old Shanks Shank's hor horse o was used In order that th the engagement might be carried out and that thal th the play might ht go on on Today Today To To- day Luke Is Just as 09 much an idol with the pe peOple but now his Ills fame famo amcha ha has spread through th the of ot tl th the cr screen en play to ah ail audience nc df Ot f millions HI lila His n national pop popularity canic with the Covered COrM CO rM Wagon which was directed 1 b by Jimmy Cruz likewise an ah of ot Utah Luke del old man that beIs be he heIs Is Is came carne to Utah in 18 1890 and with John Lindsay the father of ot drama dramn in Utah appeared in th the Salt Lake theatre playing DI Damon arid alid d Ins las Their engagement Imm immediate ly Iy followed ed that of Emma Abbott who e tragic death after her n next appearance in Ih Ogden c caused de deep p regret both in theatrical and ln lay has clr circles Jes Atter filling the en engagement engage engage- n ment nt in S salt t Lake the he Lindsay Lindsay- Cosgrave company reorganized anti and b began gan a a. tour Of the small 1111 t townsand towns and cities in Utah Tire The tOUt tour was wasa a n. great eat success At At that th time said ld Mr Cosgrave Cos Cos- grave most molt of the 5 small panics that h held ld Log together thel for any length of or time presented B serious plays Shak Shakespeare Shakespeare- preferred In Indeed Indeed In deed decd those thos that retained retain d their Identity Iden Idea tit longest longet anA and whose stars tie be o came Canue bl big attractions confined fin l d themselves them selves with fidelity Uty to the clAssic plUs plU's My old home wa tva In Kansas and anda a t company which 1 I Organized there thero called caUM Tho The Players and of which I may b bo be pardoned In saying th that t I 1 was tas the tM st st. star r played pl Ht Hamlet Othello The Tho M Merchant oC of Venice Romeo Borneo and nd Juliet Damon and IS and ill UI for thirty consecutive e weeks se ks in tho the states 5 of ot Kansas Kansa and Th The latter hatter was th the drama thai t was most desired de do de sired aired What Whitt was ivan true tine of f that thaU section see sec tion proved rov d true of the Int intermountain n- n tam tain country FANS BROUGHT TEXTS When I J ti started d Tout Dut in iii U Utah b I nn o. o only y week vc k and h week half engagement en tn- gag ments and we played only ro and kindred cd dr dramas dranias 1 8 as they paid better ett r. r In e each eh h town towi towne twe l e played 1 I would give tl a a. lecture on Shakespeare ue and you would b be surprised d how much interest thIS the th 1 people Ople took in tb them m. m There Thero w ro Shakespeare eare clubs clubs' in most or of th the towns and in I instances they would br bring n the their r Shi sp n 1 Would woud give most earnest attention on The favorite Richard III fa play was and during durung all all' my my years tin fri Utah Uta playhouses OU c the tragic I find and nd her heroic herol lc WilL was in In demand But Hut this 1 is l' l reminiscent and I l' must not recall th the past put too tUo far ba back k 1 I tel get into Inlo the movies Well Mr Cruze Cruse and i I. I were old old- time tints friends We Ve b had d worked to to to- g gather ther in theatres wh when n n neither o ous or of us was embarrassed in carrying our ou load of ot wealth and ud Jimmy y drifted d along th the road rood to the films and Laus to La us use a slang phrase caught ou Th h camo th the Covered Wagon Looking Look Look- ing bout about for one who might par por r or tray the character r of ot an n ng aged d man mali h he thought of me tue That settled itI it It I 1 was wu wuen en engaged ased 0 Not only wits this dramatization of ot t Roughs Hough's story etory a 0 grea great crent eu success ce eBs s but other pictures which Mr lr iii Cruzo Crust has 1 directed have havo like like- Wise been a L' great success s. s 1 t re recall e e. e call U the first Ir t that we ve In tn Now New York with th the Covered wagOn agon 1 H I had b been en heavily id ad but at time lime lOt for the show the houSe which w we exp expected wOuld v uld be packed packed- was Vas only partially filled b but t the Dudl audience nce was most attentive nth We got the tho glad hand many JURny times find and tho second night proved tha that we h had d n R bonanza in it the U cr eh pla play 1 I 1 am sm n not t confidence conn dence when 1 t say that the tho C y t d' d I agori had receipts of ml- ml lion lion dollars This ls Il the pretty side of or lh the movies s. s continued Mr C vr There is the tragic and the thue trag tr gedy g- g edy comes Olnes near nearly every day No Jo Jono o. o no nOi that Is Is' Isa ft a J tr trend nd of 0 th the screen r I 1 t cannot Hl HI shall ar 1 here l next Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day evening e in th the theatre at the this corner corner of ot lo Fifth Uh E and ond Thirteenth nth South and will then go oi where I will also appear and wh where kC members of my f family n r reside and nd th then n will return to tl H Hollywood lb |