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Show H X IS266 ? Fir Jt fighters. fi'I EXTRAVAGANZA AT SALTAIR. ItR e American Extravaganza Company, incor- fyjfa porated, "with three burlesques and one extrava- Ifeiil ganza on the road, begins a summer engagement IF 111 at Saltair Beaqh on July 14. jfLJBl Mr. Sam Pickett, the old-time theatrical man- WMl ager, has arrived on the scene and in co-opera- 5: lllli tIon wltn Prof R L' Landrum nas planned 'Edi amusement for the summer that looks like the I If real thing. Mr. Pickett has the former Hender-H: Hender-H: Era son Protiuc,tlons of Alladin, AH Baba, Blue Beard, I'Km Tlie Cnrystal Slipper and others, and the bill will IvBl be- changed weekly in the above order. There ife W& are thirty-three principals under . Mr. Pickett's I ' " Jq contro1' and outside of the advance, he wlil if &i bring twenty-two people here for the summer !"'.K productions. Aside from these, a ballet, com- B prised of sixteen young ladies, has been in con-V"K con-V"K stant rehearsal , under the artistic eye of Prof. j'ijEf Landrum, and forty people will be on the stage. f :':, wk It; will be a most effective scenic production, '1': fig ' and the canopy pavilion will seat some two thou-.,W thou-.,W s&nd people, according to Mr. Pickett's figures. gjaB Jt )n nS built after the plan of Hopkins' pall pa-ll H " 'n St. Louis, with a stage 40 by CO feet f. W deep, and a 45-foot rigging loft. A band of four-,, four-,, w! teen pieces will be in attendance, and an olio , of vaudeville from The Shield's Northwestern ,' L circuit in Portland and Manhattan Beach in K Denver, with a weekly change of bill, will be put !wk: on between the acts. 1 Prof. Landrum has charge of the mounting, -IE ballets and stage management, and everything i-m looks promising for a fine summer production. ''Ml j" v 3 3 t 'M Not for many yearshas the .local theatrical III ," . season lasted so late as this, and the prospects for ffi an early start for 1903-04 are exceedingly hope- 'I ' fuL I And like the ponies at Ingleside, the finish (' 1 saw the good ones bunched. Amelia Bingham fln- 1 ished the season the last of June, and Henry I I ' Miller opens the new one in August. Just a ," n ; month's wait; till the curtain is hauled up again f. M . and the game opens anew. And speaking of cur- m tains, it would be a great boon if Mr. Pyper gr ii ' would make an effort to get something like the If; ' M ; drops used by the Bingham people. Belasco has p 9 I them in his pretty house in New York in deep I rich red, with D B in heavy gold in the center. 1 7 Red would go better with this dear old theatre f than anything else, and the eye comfort such cur- g , tains would give would be worth the money. w. Think it over, George. m ' i is?" p After Miller, plenty of delightful music will . float in, followed later by heavier stuff', and the . season looks awfully good to the naked eye. Of I course all bookings have not been made, but the ' list so far as it goes is as follows: f Royal Italian Band,' "The Burgomaster," $ i - "Prince of Pilsen," West's Minstrels, "Florodora," : "The. Chaperons," "The Sturk'e," Warde & James, 'j' l "Ben Hur," "Are You a Mason?" Robert Edeson, !j I De Woolf Hopper, "King Dodo," "Foxy Grandpa- pJff pa" Jefferson De Angells, "Beside the Bonnie g jHj Brier Bush," Andino Robson, Blanch Walsh, Clara ,'"ifi Bloodgood, Grace George, Richard Mansfield, i ir Klaw & Erlanger Opera company, Pollard's LI111- ; ' putian Opera company, Lulu Glaser, Marie Wain- 9 wright, Patti, Olga Nethersole, Lily Langtry, m ' nyWay Down East" "David Harum," "Kathryn jap Kidder, "Chinese Honeymoon," Florence Roberts, "- "Silver Slipper," Bdstonians, Nat Goodwin, Den- . B man Thompson. :'S '' & j & , ffl Ashton Stevens went to see Julia Dean the ,M other morning, and then he went away and wrote f . .and then the Examiner published what he wrote, I , . and below are some extracts. Juddle says things away from home (if Salt Lake is home) that she does not even whisper to us here, for it seems she has been dis'tisfled at the way old Triends treated her when she was playing with Jim Neill. But to those who remember of all the girls who have gone away to return in triumph, none of them have ever been treated stf well as Julia Dean by press and public, and privately in a social so-cial way. Hence, the whyness of the wherefor? Stevens says: When Julia Dean came into the parlbr of the California hotel with a handkerchief to one eye and a big opalescent tear in the other and told me that she was sad, oh, so sad, I was not only amazed but disappointed. I was sad myself this morning. p te& fcV "I've got the blues something awful. I'm so disappointed." "Disappointed! Why, the town couldn't have given Blanche Bates a prettier welcome that you got last night." "I know it, but I felt like a thief for taking it I hadn't earned it. Oh, you needn't be polite; hadn't My whole life is a fizzle and I am just wretched. My five years are up and I am nothing, nobody. I guess that's enough to give the blues to a saint." "What five years?" "When I went on the stage I said I'd stay there five years,. and then quit if I had not succeeded." "But you have " "Not. My five years are up and I've done nothing, noth-ing, and I can't quit. I can't quit simply because I can't afford to. And I'm nothing that I want to be as an actress. I'm conventional " "Anything but" "I say I'm conventional; and as an emotional actress, rotten simply rotten. I'm the rottenest emotional female that ever happened." "You seem to be doing it rather well today. "That's right, be funny. If there is one thing I hate more than myself as I am it is myself ridl-culedv ridl-culedv I don't see why you should have interviewed inter-viewed me. You don't owe me any friendship; you hardly know me; and I'm nothing but an insignificant in-significant failure. Hang it!" "Don't swear about it." "I never swear. I've got a lot of slang in my system that will erput now and" then, but that's all." She smiled woefully through her grief. "Think of your success on Broadway," I solaced. sol-aced. "Haven't any to' think. of. I'm as much a stranger in New York as if I'd never played there. Nobody knows me in New York. I'm as unknown un-known as I was five years ago when I played one of Joseph Jefferson's village maidens and my night's work consisted of saying, i'Come dance with me, Rip,' It takes more than I've got to break into the charmed circle of Broadway." "But those lovely newspaper notices!" "I got them after we had moved over to Harlem. Har-lem. Arid I got wonderful send-offs in Cincinnati. One critic called me a second Clara' Morris. Wouldn't that ? And another said, "She is not a comer; she has came.' And then they were very good to me in Salt Lake, where I was born, where the Maude Adamses come from ha-ha!" Such a drab, unmirthful "ha-ha" it was, too. I had rather rath-er heard an honest "bocnhoo." "I'm talking not so. much of critical as of social so-cial Salt Lake," she went on, gloomily. " "I've been learning a few unpicturesque truths about life in general and human nature in particular. You know, in Salt Lake they used to be pretty dapper and distant with me. But when I turned up as ' e mr of Mr. Nathaniel C. Goodwin's com- K .. K- pany they thawed, they positively melted all over HI me," I was very much "it"; but I didn't like it at H all.' It didn't have the right ring. Honestly, there R is something about me that does not impress peo- H pie favorably." Wm "Rubbish!" said I. "You are as chummy IB. over the footlights as a politician." H "I wish I could believe some of that, but I H can't. Mr. Goodwin and the misses have been H; bricks to me; I can't tell you how good. But I V am sure they think I'm a lotten actress." H "Mr. Goodwin, the 'Governor' offered me the B part of Titaniahn the 'Midsummer Night's Dream' Wm production which he puts dn next season. 7Bul H my singing voice, apait from being too bad, re B too low for the music. If I could only sing I'd Hi make a break into comic opera or musical comedy B and try to get Ettna Wallace Hopper parts. Of B course, one iinds those parts growing on trees. B And then Maxine Mr8, G- said she wanted me in H her production of the Fitch play, which is yet un-B un-B written, but called, I believe, -'Her Own Way.' A B nIce timely title. But I hope Clyde Fitch bucks B UP a bit wnen ne writes it. Far be it from me to Bi knock, but he has been on the wane this last sea-B sea-B son decidedly on the wane." Bk Sne Htted ber eyes from two pert boots, stood B" UP and took offi lier sreen jacket and smiled dls-H dls-H mally- Hj "Why don't you play with Mrs. Goodwin?" 1 Bl asked. Somebody had to save silence. Bj "Fitch," she answered, dryly. "He said he Bf didn't see a part for me. He must have thought B' me rotten. I like honesty except wnen It hits B me in tne wrong place. Isn't that feminine for B yu' Truth is, I'm discouraged 'way down to my B shoes; not only professionally, but financially. 1 B don't want to tell the Ad story about an invalid B parent and a large collection of little brothers B an(l sisters but I've got a mother that's worked Bj harder than I have these last Ave years; and 1 B ought to be taking care of her. That's what B hurts. A great beauty or a genius is the only B woman that has any business on the stage. With B my everyday looks and mediocre talent I was a B fool for ever trying this game. Look at the B others that started when I started, and look at B me. I'm lost. They are on top." B "Who are on top?" Bj "Gertrude Elliott, Mrs. Bloodgood, Ethel Barry- B more. We all started the same year. They have B pasts, presents and futures, and I have nothing. B Oh! oh! oh! No wonder I am in the dumps. Aug H I've never been so all-fired ambitious, you know; B never really wanted to be a star; just a compe tent workman-like, first-class actress. I'd be satisfied sat-isfied to have it said of me that I could play just one part better than any other woman on the stage, and I shouldn't care how small the part was. Really, there is nothing swinish .about my ambitions; and I am not a loafer; I think more of my work than anything else. But here I am, : five years gone and nothing done." t tv t5 "I'll wager," said I, "that next season finds you playing a tip-top engagement with a tip-top company. Good ingenues are almost as rare as good tenors." "Ah! now you are rousing my sporting blood. I'll take you. The odds are bound to be in my favor, for if I get the engagement I can afford to pay my loss, and if I don't I shall need yours. What do you bet?" "A dozen pairs of gloves against two hundred choice cigars," said I, borrowing a line from the play. I "Your choice or mine?" said she, from the same source. "Tell me something you really need, and we'll wager that." , "I've promised mother a flat." "Make her another promise; I'm out ol flats.' "Is the bet necessarily for publication?" she asked. "Not necessarily," said I. "Well, then," said she, "I'll bet you " "Taken," said I. 13o if you don't see Julia Dean "playing an important im-portant part next season in a great production you may know that she has gone into hiding just to win that bet. |