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8 GOODWIN'S WEEKLY
I WITH THE PLAYS, PLAYERS ANI
WILLIAM E. MICK, manager of
the Shubert heatre in Mil-
HI waukee, has introduced an en-
M tirely novel idea. A motorcycle squad
H for the delivery of theatre tickets has
M become part of the house staff. Mr.
H Mick's aim is to save the public time
B ordinarily required for a trip to the
H theatre to purchase tickets. Under the
H new system any person desiring thea-
H tre tickets has merely to telephone
HI his or her wishes to the theatre box
H office force and within half an hour
B the special motorcycle messenger will
M deliver the tickets to the home, store
H or office in any part of the city.
B
M Mrs. John Astor, one night last week,
M viewed jv performance -of "The Whip,"
H in New York; since which event the
H columns of the press have teemed with.
m contradictory stories about the lady,
H and society was convulsed, aghast and
M perplexed as to the facts in the case.
M The original account had it that tno
H lady, in prankish spirit, had acted as
HI "super" In one of the scenes of "Tho
H Whip," in company with some other
M society folk. As there was not a
1 word of truth in the report Mrs. Astor
Hi has been forced to give out a state-
Hj ment of denial. 'She was simply a
B spectator in one of the boxes, she
B states.
H
B A contract has been entered into
B between Blanche Bates and Charlus
B Frohman, the manager under -whom
HI Miss Bates first attained her present
fl rank as a star, which extends over
M a period of five years, beginning next
B September. Miss Bates may appear in
B New York in a special programme in
H March. This, however, depends on
fl the final completion of a manuscript.
B There is also under contemplation
B to present the star in a theatrical
B venture that is to Include the lead-
B ing players under Mr. Frohman's man-
B agement. In addition the contract
B calls for her appearance In a new
B play each season. Miss Bates' last
B starring tour was in Nobody's Widow,
B under the joint management of Dav'.d
B Belasco and Charles Frohman.
fl
H MaBelle, the English dancer, has re-
H cently received by mail from Englund
B a Lloyd policy insuring her against the
fl Iosb of her toes and hair for a period
B of eight years. The ten toes of the
B English dancer bring her a salary of
B $1,800 a week, and she meanB to have
B them insured. This makes three wo-
B men who now have their toes insured.
B The other are Anna Pavlowa, the won-
B derful Russian dancer, and M!lo.
B Genee, another -wonderful English
KH dancer. Mabolle is tho first woman,
B however, who has ever insured her
B
H
H The "Gambler and, the Polio' a
B, play founded on the Becker-Uosenthai
Bj case, was the offering last week of a
H theatre in Baltimore. The play deals
B with tho story of the gunmen of New
B York, and Is entirely unlike anything
HE that this company has presented in
ETHEL GREEN
Headliner at the Orpheum next week.
the past. With a setting in New Yoik,
it is a play that presents thrills and
sensations and daredevil situations,
and the five acts are so full of acMon
that the play never allows a tiresome
moment, and hag plenty of good humor
added. Tho celebrated murder car,
Gyp the Blood, Dago Frank, Lofiy
Louie and Whitney Lewis are all
there.
This is the story of a wife who, be
lieving her husband to be more Inter
ested in his own affairs than in his at
tentions to her, gradually falls into tho
way of committing a folly. The -wife
Is "Peggy Admaston" in the play, "A
Butterfly On The Wheel," which run
all last season in New York and which
will be seen at the Salt Lake theatre
next week opening Monday night. She
in the wife of an ambitious, honorablo,
rising statesman who sees but little
of his wife whom he trusts and grants
the fullest liberty. This she abuses
by carrying on flirtation with Roderick
Collingwood to whom she grants many
secret meetings, but in none of them
meaning any harm. At last she agrees
to go with a party to Switzerland and
Collingwood, who is one of them, con
trives that he and she shall get Into
a wrong train and be carried to Paris.
Ho makes a confident of Lady At
will, a former rival of Peggy's In tho
affections of George Admanston, and
she, in an anonymous letter to Adma
ston, reveals the plan. The husband
takes prompt measures, establishes the
fact that Collingwood Is In the apart
ment of his wife as late as one o'clock
in the morning. The audience which
has witnessed what has really oc
curred in the apartment and has seen
Peggy repulse Collingwood knows that
she is legally innocont, but whon
Admaston arrives the next morning
(Act 2), and detects Peggy and her
friends, who turn up meantime, In a
series of flagrant lies, he naturally
puts the worst construction on the
case. He enters suit for divorce. The
third act curtain rises upon the Interior
of the divorce court showing Peggy
In tho witness box whore sho Is sub
jected to a gruelling cross examina
tion. The clmax of her despair is
reached when her whole theory of in
nocence by curious coincidence is de
molished by tho fact that the writer
of tho anonymous letter evidently
kuew that her lover had planned In ad
vanco the arrangement for tho rooms
ra Paris. The whole of the scene is
&n uncommonly effective and vlt'tl re
tire tion of a proceeding in nrh a co .vt.
The fourth ad last act has to do with
the discovery of the writer of the
anonymous letter and tho reconcilia
tion of Peggy and her husband. There
have been many trial scenes on the
stage. The one In "A Butterfly on the
Wheel" takes rank as the most inter
esting and graphic of any ever at
tempted. Yielding to the insistent demands
of her friends and managers, critics
and admirers, Madame Calve came out
of her retirement last year to appear
as "Carmen" in her own condensed
version of the opera, in costuifie and
with scenery. So successful was the
experiment, that this year she has
added "Cavalleria Rusticana" to her .
repertoire of tabloid opera. Madame !
Calve is assisted by her handsome I
young husband, SIgnor Galileo Gas-
parri, an Italian tenor of great note
in his native country. Mme. Calve and
company will appear at the Salt Lake
theatre January 23.
A real comedy wi.h tuneful, catchy
music the kind you like to -hear and
the sort you'll whistle on the way
home comes to the Salt Lake theatre
for three nights opening January 13.
The play is Gus Hill's famous cartoon
musical, "Mutt and Jeff", with a splen
did organization of fifty people, and a
car load of all new scenery, costumes
and effects. Those who saw and en
joyed the piece last year will find it
even better now.
Two years in London, two years in
Moscow and St. Petersburg, six months
in Tokio, one year each in New York,
Paris and Berlin such is tho remark
able record of "The Blue Bird," tho
gorgeously beautiful spectacle of Fairy
land, by Maurice Maeterlinck, which
is duo at tho Salt Lake theatre for a
half week's entertainment the end of
the month. It will be the first visit
to this vicinity of this most popular
of all fairy pieces. The new theatre
production will be brought here intact
from New York, a production which,
on account of its masslveness, cannot
be presented in any of the smaller
cities.
Moralizing has long been a favorite
pastime for the playwrights whoso
ideas are worthy the designation of
original ' and of late years more and
more of the stage authors have sought
to convey in their plays lessons that
do not find expression so convincingly
by other means. Henry Arthur Jonos
is such a playwright and some of his
works have touched the borderland in
daring and originality. "Mrs Dane's
Defense" has been considered one of
the brightest and best of the Jones'
product and this much is quite certain
It is a drama built along most un
usual linos and one that deals with an
absorbing question most acceptably.
For the coming week at the Colonial
theatre William J. Kelly will stage
"Mrs. Dane's Defense" for tho first
time In Salt Lake at popular prices
and the attraction Is expected to prove
one of the genuine treats of the 'local
season. The role of Sir Daniel Car
taret so perfectly fits the young stock
star and tho other roles offer the re
maining members of Mr. Kelly's com
pany such exceptional opportunities
