Show I r THEA THEATRE Tim MANAGERS OF SALT LA LAKE S S iIii h iteS I s t j I. I LIL wv 4 TI 1 I 7 5 I i i I W WARREN R EN j MANAGE OF THE I tk i I. I S I r HERE are arc many trials and tribulations for the tile manager of a aular aJ THERE T ular stock company that is catering to the best in public S and must therefore live li every week up to a 1 high stand While one piece is being produced the manager must st see ec that cv thing is in readiness for the following the week there is sc scenery ne prepared stage property to get and rehearsals must be lie held Of CM there are arc different persons to attend to different details but the si t t company and anti theatre manager must see sec that noth nothing ng is l llIe He lIe must be lie selecting plays for weeks to come hesi besides es watch the a advertising numerous little troubles about the house and cm eno details in ill fact to streak most mens men's hair hail with gray in a cry time Warren Tarren B. B Emerson manager of the Garrick theatre and and company has lias all these affairs on his mind hut his wide Wile experience the theatre thear w world J d has taught him him a 1 philosophy p that keeps 1 fr from m iii ruf lIe He hag a saving raving grace of humor and looks look i i bright si side e of worldly affairs Perhaps the tho first part he over played as an uc actor or had ng to do ilo with his Ins genial spirit lie He was a member of the famous juvenile f Pinafore I company of which Corinne was the star Mr Emerson must have imbibed some of pi the good humor of Sir Joseph Forter Forter For For- ter K C C. B B. the character ho he represented represented rep Tep resented r in that tour of the country Th That t early training kept him in in light opera several se years and he was in Lillian Lillian Lil Lil- lian han Russells Russell's company when the fair orie one was at the zenith of her singing jn career Mr Ir Emerson was in tho the production production pro pro- of The Tho Grand Duchess and others of her opera repertoire Mr Emerson n can never forget forJet th thrills of admiration he felt when he lie played as a youthful messenger in A f I A Winters Winter's Tale in support 01 or Mary Iary An Anderson derson Many stories stories stories-havo have havo been told about Richard Mansfield's Mansfields crankiness but bat Mr lr Emerson has the best of all It concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns the opening en engagement 3 ement of tho the famous actor at Harri an R theatre now the tho Garrick where Mansfield hoped to establish himself as a a. permanent Now York actor He lIe w as 3 presenting Bernard Bernard Ber Der nard Shaws Shaw's Arms I and the Man an from which The Chocolate Sor Soldier for fornas was nas written The actor not only attended at tended to the rehearsing details but wanted everything e about the tho theatre exactly ex cx- acU in line lino with hit his artistic ideas On tho the opening day Mansfield went to the men men's mens 8 smoking room then an innovation inno and stopping to inspect a miniature fountain and aquarium for gold jold fish which ho he had ordered installed installed in in- in stalled the cranky star be began n poking Ht t the fish flah with lis us cano cane and offered several criticisms Ho Ire gave gave- orders that tJ the o I fish h should be bo of uniform his word torl was absolute law Jaw fA 1 minutes later Mr Em Emerson a Slocum who brought II The The Ki Att Girl to the Colonial thi i it walked down Broadway to q Ret H tb sired fish Emerson says says' that SI SIs carried a little jUle tir tin til pail and cUed e estep M step ho he took S I When tho the Klondike gold i the country Mr Ir Emerson the fever fc for the y yellow yellow- dust and t an antto nto n to Alaska as fast 3 as a r take him buim there thero Tic lie woke wok up from dream of wealth whon when he got ot back bark Seattle broke There lie he tu luckily kill m met nt t told old friend Hubert Wilkie who Dorothy Morton was wu va doing a of ot light operas E Emerson joined companY and soon forgot for ot Mat Ali Mr loIr Emerson's Emersons career career li a as a a mn na nabas has bas been interesting He lie was for I ears vears treasurer trel at John Stetsons Stetson's Gl GI i theatre Boston until it burned I tw two seasons seas at fl son Square Garden New York York York-t 1 seasons with Daniel Frohman's Ly JyCe theatre New No York t two o years Abbey Grau manager for tor F F. F C C. C Whitneys Whitney's orten company presenting Quo V. V Vadia ii I toured the country countr with Anton St Stand t tand and tho the Metropolitan op opera ra and anil managed d concert tours touR i J I Scalchi S Lillian Blauvelt and Helene He wa JI manager for Robert E. E Johnston t r famous impresario who has t. t thi iff tat tation ion of introducing to Amenta ti celebrated m l musical artists th other person An Among oD the I introduced in America were efty effy Marteau Sauer Continued on following pl pi THEATRE MANAGERS Continued from preceding page Nordica Jean nn and Eduard Ednard Do De Resl o eking Sie and anel Do 1 Mr r. r Emerson also albo starred Tilbury Tilbury Til Til- bur bury and Arthur Lewis in The Tho Crust of with Miss Society Tilbury's mother moth er the famous unous Lydia Thompson 1 a member mem ber her of the tho compan company Jn n the early carly acting n days ho was at th thEm tho old oM Boylston museum Boston Doston sm nail and then at tho time Gaiety now tho Bijou where the tho company compan played a drama raffia t two o or three times every cry lay day also aJo a farce farco or three or four times a da day ilay anti and e Cf every fellow v did diel a I specialty ever every other week The Time first show was wa's was I. I presented at 10 JO a. a in m. n. n The Tho stock company com coat pany was sas permanent and th tho visiting olio brought rought to tho the theatre all of tho those p. p who had hall to work wort wizen when called upon upon upon- Geor George c Cohan and aud family l and Heath lIlath Weber nn and Fields and others |