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Show I With the First fighter. I U iP "" "MRS. WIGGS." I i jjji What a role crowded with rich opportunity as I; that of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," and ' liil how fine a triumph it has been for Mrs. Madge U ijii Carr Cook herself the mother of that genius- j hjjj!j dowered star, Miss Robson to create in that H'l' role a characterization which goes beyond the . ' rv conception of the gifted story writer, and adds J , new sweetness and fresh, delicious humor. Mrs. j Ai Cook has r-c Mrs. Wiggs a familiar companion j i i ; and friend to the play-lovers of New York, who ' 1 came to revel in the oddities and the kindly fun J ,J of the "Cabt .ge Patch." Now Mrs. Wiggs, who ! I always expressed a liking for travel, is "on the ; I ; 1 road," and will visit Salt Lake on Friday and I'll N 'Saturday of next week at the Salt Lake theater. ; i 4 She travels with her Metropolitan company, and ! ' ! if Mis' Hazy, Mr. Stubbins, Little Tommy, Lovey I K , Mary, Asia, Europena and Australia her I Is "Jografy"-named children Chris Hazy of the if- . peg-leg, Cuby, the "fit horse," and all the neigh- i If bors, make a very merry party. There is nothing p stately or austere about Mrs. Wiggs, no glimpse ! I; of ankle, no swish of silk, no gust of Parisian , II perfume, but there is the splendid courage in ad- II versity that has made such women in America 3 mothers of heroes and statesmen; there is the j sunnincss of soul that makes a shanty more opu- 1 f 1 lent in happiness than the palaces of princes, and Hi that most golden gift of all humor unfailing ! iH whose quaint expression in delightful apothegms ft has made Mrs. Wiggs the favorite woman phil- Jfe osopher of literature, flj I H On Monday night the first performance of "In IBI the Bishop's Carriage" was given in " "artford, tH Conn., with the leading role in the hands of our own Julia Dean. Julia Dean as Nance Olden, and a hit. It is a reward of merit for ambition -backed by -the hardest . kind of work on the part of the little Salt Lake girl, and a cause for rejoicing re-joicing among her old friends here. One account by wire says: "Possessing all the elements of a genuine and emphatic dramatic success and given an enthusiastic enthus-iastic reception by the audience that filled Parson's Par-son's theater, the play based on the novel, 'In the Bishop's Carriage,' had its premier here tonight. The work is cleverly constructed and has intense climaxes and sufficient humor. "The role of Nance Olden was played by Miss Julia Dean, whose conception of the part was admirable. She scored a signal success in the part. Those who have followed the career of Miss Dean and who witnessed her performance tonight believe she will make a very favorable impression on New York audi ces. Members of the supporting sup-porting company include Edmund Breese, John Westley, John Finlay, Helen Ware and Clarence Handyside. Curtain calls were demanded at the end of each act." & & & ADE AN EASY MARK. No better evidence of the prosperity of George Ade's "College Widow" can be cited than an incident in which the author himself figured during the long run of the comedy at the Garden Theater, New York. Ade had invited a party of friends from the Indiana home to witness his play, but neglected to engage seats in advance. On the night he arrived at the theater he was compelled to apply to an enterprising enter-prising speculator on the sidewalk, as the house was sold out. "What have you got?" questioned the play- wright, in good old Indiana idiom. ( "How many?" demanded he of the paste- t boards. I VFour," replied the author, digging in his 1 pockets for change. Ijj "Here vou are. Four in the third row.. Fine." H "How mch?" asked Ade. I "That's right, $20, $5 each," replied the ticket man supplying the coupons and snatching one of those beautiful saffron-backed bills from the hand of the astonished playwright. Ade stood for a moment with a look on his face of a man who had misplaced his railroad ticket or lost his new Panama in a barber shop, while the "spec" hurried off for another gullible "mark." I Later Ade hunted up the manager of the I Garden theater and related his troubles. He was I interrupted by the remark: "See here, if I you bought those tickets on the sidewalk you'll 1 have to get oat. We are fighting the speculators." I "No," replied Ade, mildly; "I didn't mean to I say that I bought the tickets. I merely wanted to report that I had been held up and sandbagged for them." & & & "Why .doesn't .Gertrude .Atherton write a play?" asks Acton Davies in the New York Evening Eve-ning Sun. "Certainly, of all the woman writers of the day, she has the surest, truest touch in portraying both American and English types. She has the dramatic instinct, too, and in the matter of dialogue very few playwrights of the day can make their stage puppets talk as naturally natur-ally as Mrs. Atherton does her characters in her novels. When it comes to touching human nature na-ture on the raw, or giving a touch of .humor or light spirit to many ordinary every-day occurrences, occur-rences, it seems to us that Gertrude Atherton is about as wide-awake and artistic a writer as there is in either American letters or American drama today." |