| Show l Memories at t the Salt Lake Theater I 1 asked a ked to record sonic of my of f the old I tl III I tl day md 1114 around the Salt for the benefit bendit of r ise k the Christmas News N th the WIth r I CI pl t the I Ie News was gr greater rye e f tlc tIc first firt papers I if f not t the I Ie IC ICI fir l I wa was I n in career as an cd 11 fir a r tic tice my orris M d 11 ut lt took place in in this ol 1 the Theater stage July on III 11 14 I and while there were verc pipers here that made t rr 1 I appearances in those the tl Ness es as the one stand It the authority to which t tt public I for tidings a and 1111 E the as af veil a 3 In 11 most other things Io 0 wonder that the alt Lat Theater should occupy a aft t I affectionate f place in my mytr tr rc n As a girl I watched s J nail 1111 lip front from the ground Ii Irs r open to the public on 01 night in March I M mint with delight beheld the aI rS and 1 actresses appear In Int t Ctr part from time to time after tIe 1 opening took look place tv k hauled from the II to go into the great build tg gl anal with him I frequently ted It and rth th workmen employed ed on ontie one tie e My JJ y lister Hister aud I vent ent to tn shoot In hi the First and the and it was a after ler a aE E hool exhibition at the latter pace where when with Logan Paul we lived a t Thc Jd of nf the th Lions that I re retied e tied an invitation to come up to tott tt Salt Lake Theater and give a ain afling fling in to the managers of the thc r lse John T T Caine and H 1 I It H o I one can picture my on I 1 was hardly 17 7 and aud I Ir r urging my mother to toI 1 I me wear my longest tress dress in inder order der that I might not he be thou thought ht 1 r girlish h father ather took me on ae sta stage c I was introduced to John r a l David d m l McKenzie Dunbar They brave me meI I h play If t to tod toad ad d and mt Il f them than went inthe in tie the front If the house hOlse while bile I Id sj d In 11 the stage reading the thc lines linest t he hC lah s part while Mr 11 r time the hook book and read te of If the len leading ing man Mr lr and Mr Caine would fre call 1111 out their continents comments and edge the trial was waR satisfactory is r three days das afterward I was fied that I was expected to top p y the part of Grace Otis in the 7 of The Lawyer known as af Solon Shingle Shingler Ir r Dunbar pa ed Shingle Joy JO was the lover and David way wa the lawyer Sara Sarak k danced between the acts ata night that wall I aade ru first acquaintance with t intern arrangements of the J i Theater its costuming rooms J i shop hop nud ml all the para t Its interior the most ett I of any an in ill the hd tl ti s 1 days Mrs Bowring t time the ladies costuming r t ant of the lath un n n George Ottinger J air lip up Mr mfr Squires time the thet t curled my hair anI ami Mr tsen Ien aS t in touching up nil m illy reran Everything to 1 l the actors from the thel l i g In Ih the house from jewels ch In a to Ill Its t S Just before the ther r IH 1 I T r r rt rt rr t t r a I t tt t I X k 1 i i N f fr 1 I 1 I r I 1 1 t x i ic t t r r t t c r rr J r I i curtain went up wr we would all as I in the greenroom and each pass under the stage managers eye ec to see if We fulfilled all tho ro re of our parts t speaking of there never vas such sueh a oUt one as that thal in th the Salt Lake Theater I never ilass it nowadays without a i pang when I see it given over tH as a storage room roo n for props and hag bag gage limit bul in this it simply follows allows in time the wake of nil all the other theaters in the land The greenroom is a athing t thing of the past Even Evan the thc In Em Empire pire Theatre New cw York does lacs not have hae one The greenroom of the Salt Lake Theater i is associated with some of m my most interesting tender and laughable memories It wa tas there the company compan used to assemble to hear plays plas read and there that we were assigned our parts in new plays plas limey Y were laid out for us ns on a circular table each part with the name of the act actor actor or written above time the character ch and what whal a there used to be to sec ee just what the had hado served o Ili to each one Ile in thc lime play I I especially remember dear dearold dearold old Mrs Grist who used to do the small parts and vcr very often was teas given two or more roles in the same bill When she saw Haw her name nameon nameon on two parts she would always ex cx exclaim claim There the go doublin mime me hup again and this camme callie to be quite a byword in the green room The night of m my first appearance Judy Jul 25 23 1865 was also time the night when Julia Dean Hayne 1 the first great actress to visit Stilt Shit Lake ar arrived arrived rived in um the tit city She tarot callie with her leading man Ceo Geo D 1 Waldron and the Potter Company by stage from The following week she began an at atthe atthe the theater and most of the tock stock company were ere pr privileged to sit Hit in front and take pointers from one of time the greatest actresses the American stage has known How we all revelled in that e Mrs Irs greatest work was in Camille and ln time the t terribly realistic tic manner in which sue she the consumptive girl and the startling startlingly ly Iy natural cough cougar she employed im impressed pressed themselves vividly on om all allour allour our minds mind I well remember the that was teas created when an old ohl lady who iho used to hc be em employed about time the stage to Mrs Irl Hayne one evening with wilh all al althe the solicitude i in t t time the a mix r t t I ELIZA IZ I J tore ture of her herbs s and amI drugs which she had prepared at homo home saying that time the poor girls cough would kilt kill her if she shu take something for forit forit it For the next five fine or six years life It at Ute the Salt Luke was a busy one The stock company played regularly front fall to spring and ancl sometimes in tune the often chan changing ing its bills bilts three times time timea a week Time The actors and actresses of today who limo pIa play one part through a whole season have hac little concep lion tion of the work the old time stock u used cd to have to undertake under take Everyone must stand react ready to learn a big part on the mho shortest notice and vcr very often oCten the enormous tasks in committing to memory that tha t r I perforated while yo young ling stood me in good brood stead tead Once when Amy Stone Slone Time The Sea of Ice she was seized with illness and the doctor ordered her to rest I was given her part at four foUl one olle afternoon and told that I must be ready to go through it the next night It was wasa a prodigiously I long ng part with six changes of costume but I got gal through it when the night came ame without looking at the book Another time I took Mrs Bow rings place in the bill at only a few her child having died dial during tune the day and such emergencies were not uncommon to all of II us There were ere very cr few timings things in fn inthe the line of tragedy comedy and even cven plays plaS that we hesi hesitated hesitated to attempt My ly first 61 essay at singing was Blade maue km in time the play of GU Guy when Tul lidge the musician drilled tie me in iii inthe the girls part I well hell remember the duct with Bertram which I had to sing bl t candor compels mc to say that I 1 do not re recall call lall having achieved an any bewilder ing m success H w f t q qt qI I t I r I t rU f I r t t II II cJ N 5 T T ON J Group of Pioneer Players at the Salt Lance Lake Theater in in the Sixties When time the traveling stars came along we were especially ally busy husy One Ona o of In my earliest e experiences aas with T 1 A Inc Lyne with whom J I played Lad Lady Maebeth Macbeth just after I was ryas 17 I recall well the talc bash bashfulness with which I approached certain lines in the tragedy and how Mr Ir Lyne stared when hen I de declined to repeat therm Sometime later John carne came along and also played I again resolutely declined to speak time the tines lines as written by Shakes and ami while he tried to urge me meat meat at rehearsals he vcr try kindly said nothing when the night carte came and andI I left them therm out tie had a wonderful won memory that thal man ratan lough I Years later after I was wasa a married marred woman mill and had had much more experience c he cause came cameto to Salt Lake and amI again Mac Macbeth Macbeth beth was pot tip up ns the bill Almot the thc first thing hI he snit said at It rehearsal was tas tasWell Yell Well II tit arc toa Oll going r to speak i those lines tonight 1 answered rams that time had changed 1 ply lIty views and I thought I would of John of time the memorable able nights in time the history of the Salt Lake ill in those days ryas UI the time when le he rind nud Edwitt damns l met here uy by accident anI and I in iii a production of Time The heart playing t d jf t D J MRS R VI J cJ 1 NG amid McCullough olage Helen Tracy lead leading ing illg woman played time role of Marco I arco and amid Thad r had time the part of time sweet flower girl T It t was all an experience I hall hail never forget Later Laler Mr Adams re rc returned turned to Salt Lake and I had time the pleasure of playing to his Raphael Our first nights in tho those c days were very er interesting events Though the city was small we of often often ten played to audiences that filled every por portion ol ot of ilia house houle and amI sometimes s our plays ran a week Our audiences always included the noted Chur Church h lenders with wilh President dent Young at the head time the judges and the territorial officials sent out from Wa hington awl and often the military Pt Ft Douglas Th fhe figure of President seated at t the end of a bench in a large arm chair is I as clearly before me while I 1 write as though jt it were yesterday lIe was a great critic of the and was cr cry particular as to the class of plays that the company presented lIc often dropped in inon inon on us at rehearsals and ami frequently emit over time the house from top to bottom holtom to Ii set whether it was kept in order ordel I ant often asked to name the actor or actress of those days who left the most vivid id impression on my mind There were so many that 1 can call hardly say but yet if i I were wele to pick out the one among lute long list who most moot thrilled Inc by her tremendous work it would be Charlotte Crampton who played runs parts with the same vigor And amid strength that she did the female roles I remember once being ill iii front of time the house when she he played Shylock and my feelings so cur car cured carried ried ed mile aWl away that before e I knew new newit it I jumped upon It a bench and led the applause standing there But you must I tuns v very r ryO yO young at die time Is E J 1 Davenport with whom I played Mack Alack Dyed Susan is ili a memory that will rill always remain with mite me AU Augusta Dargon nr on was flue actress C W Coil dock clock and his daughter Eliza Elim who visited time the old stock stOlk con any times were vast ost favorites with Wilh the people J Ilis I is daughter 1 was WIS a sweet girl irl a amid ul the part she ill io The Flue V illow Cop Copse e in inthe inthe the sixt sixties lI was the role Jole Oil nil which the character of hazel Kirke tuns built years cars after The Thc poor girl died here timid md is buried on the hill GlO c B Valdre rem n was ns another line fine actor with whom I played coil can f in fact the production of Green Bushes hy by him and ami Mrs Mayne Hane when I was cast caRt in iii inthe the part of Geraldine Gernldine was time the first large role that ever eer came callie to my hands Ill Mr amid Mrs Irs were clever actors who played a avide wide vide ronge of parts and were ver cry pal popular mina w with iti time the public Geo I was waH an elegant nt English actor who remained with us A lon long time and whose con cony connection with our company did much to educate and put n a polish on their work The first time I ever played a boys hoys put lhart was with T A when t r filled time the rol role of Francois in his 1 shall Hhall never forget limy wretchedness that night before time the curtain went rent up as I hung around the scenes and hid behind the wings John T 1 Caine the l stage manager laughingly re rte me and told mite there was lothing to be afraid of or ashamed of in the part Mt I 1 was play pIa ing imig anal that braced mime me up to too togo go o on ob obIn In time the early s enties time the old alII alIIDe Deseret De ret Dramatic Stock company dissolved and amid I left for the coast playing in vat various parts of Nevada eva n and Cali ornia for several years ears earsIn In 1869 I had imaI married l H 11 Kis Kia kronen then in the banking busi business business ness here My ly daughter Maude was educated in this thi city and I frequently returned lucre here to visit isit her and to take her traveling with me During my lily present visit I have been so often asked in regard to Maudes laudes birthplace and Ind the circum circumstances stances of her making her first ap appearance on tIll Stage that I will take the liberty of recounting tier them hr Th The old uld Adams homestead I where J I a b r rr my r 7 t h i father amid aul mw th r ot at time o of I I j try l on alt thc i t t I t corner coner of Ea t and Eighth South lt streets the ii t corner cornel f r rand 1 and it WI was there that ladle Iatt was w as horn It is i trite that thaI she he mitre v jJr 6 t her tint first nn 11 the stage 1 hn she he was a baby at the Salt Lake It way wa in time the fall of v vl 11 1873 amid WI teas about nine or orten l It I ten mouths old lyre V e were then living at 1 time the I louse just t S below helow the old City hall and j night the maid tho took er care of df the child used lIsell to bring her over to f j j the stage and walk torte hm with me meas as I only took part in the opening b nj plo play The Thc bill that night was Thc Cottage l irl and J i had fun lin my role and was jut j ut le leing heavy lug ing for home when the maid came in carrying in her arms The farce of The Lost ost Child in which a live baby ban has ItaR to app appear was being played The Th baby that ti st night had been on the stage once rr hut but jUt just as the time came to be car carried carried ried on again it broke into a ter terrible crying fit Henry Maihen who had to lo carry it out upon a tray was Vim f terribly agitated and ran up to mc inn e excitedly saying What shall I do doI I cant take lake that baby on the stage Like a flash I answered Here take I J i and without another word ft y s r I he dumped her on the tray tra aunt ran ram upon the thc stage with her As it had 1 ants been five minutes minute since the theother theother other baby had been taken off and andas as it was only three months old it il I fl can be imn ined that the audience t set up a howl of laughter at the thc l substitution whereat bab baby Maude fi jt nothing abashed sat up and threw 1 r I y the audience a kiss kiss which was her 1 t il j first experience in bringing down r It house Some nonsensical f f I things have been heen written regarding 1 C Cher her having hwing been literal brought up upon upon on the stage The fact is that she was never neer in a dressing room at the thc Theater except when she took part t I She went to school in the First anti and S I k Tenth Wards and later studied at atthe a time the Collegiate Institute under Prof I n I Caner Coyner She would have graduated but being determined to go tt t I the stage she left school I be t t tj fore graduating time to enter the r 1 I profession Her IIer earliest hit as a achild 4 s I i i re q child was in The Celebrated Case I and amid her success in that was what determined us IS to allow her to fot fol r I t a alow low the stage C 1 Before I leave the subject of the ail i stage I desire delire to correct an im which have hac often |
