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VHIHiHHiHHHHMHHHHMilHHHiHIHHHHHHiilHHRRHHHNHHHMHHBHHHiHK9MHiHRHHHHHiflHHHHHE GOODWIN'S WEEKLY 11 M The Drama and Music THE PIONEERS In playwriting usually have the weighty re sponBibllty of settling the spirit of drama that shall henceforth he written about a certain section of the country. As a result, each corner of the "United States is dedicated to a particular variety of drama. New" England Is now typified on the stage by The Old Homestead, and every play set in that part of the land almost inevitably falls into the genre type. New York is the home of such psychological or society or . financial drama as our literature af- fords. The high-strung battlefield ro mance colors all our ideas of the South. The West is condemned to the woolly dramatizations or Impos sible cowboys. Will the time never come when somebody can paint Western life in anything but glaring colors? Mus,t New England always do tied to the coat-tails of "Uncle Josn Whltcopib? We boast of our regard for realism, and then insist that drama strictly ob- I serve geographical traditions. These traditions may nave grown up from natural causes; New York, j for example, does typify the finances of the country. Nevertheless, there do exist in Manhattan a number of people who are intent, no on amuss ing millions, but in living mlddlo classly respectable lives. The South is not exclusively populated with j broad-brimmed colonels, beauteous belles of three counties, and humor- ! ous negro servants. I At present we need authors and producers who have not acquired all their notions of the world in the re- ! gions of painted canvas and banked ! footlights. ' Gentlemanly press agents will en viously yield the palm for mastery of their craft to that genius in At lantic City high school who hit upon the scheme of advertising a minstrel show by having each girl wear one black and one white stocking to school. The principal, it seems does not sym- J pathize with up to-date methods of pub licity, and instantly decreed a rear- I rangement of colors on a more con ventional style. Tho minBtrel show, however, should have been placed on a firm footing, so to speak, by this j exhibition. ! k That ruinous Shakespeare man has j been pouring money Into the cofferp f of Sothern and Marlowe this seasin I at a rate to arouse the envy of most of f our modern disciples of his art. The best record for a two weeks' engage 1 ment was registered in Philadelphia, 1 where the co-atars played to ?35,000. , In a week St. Louis passed $19,000 S through tr box office window. Foi half a weoit Indianapolis surrendered ?8,821.50, and Louisville and Milwau- kee contributed more than $8,000 apiece. The monument to be placed over the grave of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise cemeterv In Paris is now on exhibition M IIMMIIIMIIMM MMMMIIWIMI in the studio of the sculptor, Jacob Epstein, in London. It is said to be a curious sample of ultra-modern sym bolism. In alt relief on a block of Derbyshire limestone appears a figure with square Assyrian wings. The face is a portrait of WSlde. An Assyrian crown surmounts the head, and boars allegorical figures of Pride, Luxury, and Glory, in low relief. The whole effect is bizarre and yet not inappro priate to the genius commemorated. The young sculptor, Jacob Epstein, is a Pole, but apent his early life in the United States. DRAMATIC NOTES. The Pelican, of London is conduct ing a contest to determine the "smart est lady of the season." For the first week the Duchess of Westminster led with sixty votes. Hazel 'Dawn (of o'gden, Utah) was second in the list with fifty eight. Other actresses famil iar to Americans were Gaby Deslys, Anna Pavlowa, Ellis Jeffreys, May de Sousa, Olive May, Madame Tetrazzlnl, Marie Tempest, Mrs. Oscar Lewissohn, Mrs. Langtry, Vesta Tilley, Fannio Ward, Marie George, Kitty Gordon, Mary Moore, Fay Templeton, and L 1 Han Russell. May Robson is enjoying sucn good business with The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary that she will continue through into next season without a real break. The only rest the company will have will be two days in New York just after July 4. 'Marguerlta Sylva, who recently closed her American season in Gypsy Love, made a triumphal success in Carmen at the Prone, in Toulouse, Franco, on May 2G, when she appeared before an audionco of eighteon thousand people. She had a notable supporting company, including Saldoux as Don Jose and Dufraune as Escamillo. The International Musical comedy company, headed by Richard Carle and Hattie Williams, has been organized by Charles Frohman. They will pre sent The Girl from Montmartre at tho Criterion theatre in New York in Aug ust and at the Globe theatre, LonOin, next spring. May Yohe, who was believed to have committed suicide in central Park on June 9 turned up at Atlantic City last week and denied that she was dead. Reports say that Edmond Rostand is displeased at the prospect of Cyrano de Bergerac appearing in an English opera at the Metropolitan Opera House this next year. W. J. Henderson, musi cal critic on the New York Sun, wrote for Walter Damrosch a libretto based on Rostand's play, without Rostand's permission. THE ORPHEUM. The production of "The Deep Pur ple" at the Orpheum next week com mencing Sunday night will prove un doubtedly a red-letter week In the season of Willard Mack and the Or pheum Players. For two years past Salt Lakers have had an opportunity to glean from the magazines and the press something of the triumph Ada Dwyer has scored in the role of Frisco Kate in this thrilling study of the underworld. The fact that Miss Dwyer, who in private life Is Mrs. Hal Russell, this week is visiting her old home town on the occasion of the ADA DWYER The Salt Lake character actresB, who ai-pears at tho Orpheum next week In "The D eep Purple." Week Commencing M Sunday Night, July 7th H Salt Lake's Own ADA DWYER I Willard Mack H AND THE ORPHEUM PLAYERS H Present H Paul Armstrong and Wilson Miz- H ner's Great Story of the H Underworld, H m DEEP I PURPLE I Matinees Thursday and Saturday. M NEXT WEEK Eugene Walter's H Best Effort. H "PAID IN FULL." H Wandamere I The Beautiful H UTAH'S BEAUTY SPOT H Boating, Bathing, Dancing wM Scenic Railway, Chutes, j Miniature Railway, M Parks, Lawns, Bowling, H Shady Nooks everywhere. B Every Thursday Night Sensational 9 Motorcycle Races at the Motordrome H Where the crowds go B and find perfect enjo)- H ment. H wedding of her sister made it possible H for J. II. Garrett to secure her and H incidentally give the local theatre- m goem a great treat. It is thirteen M years since the noted character H woman appealed before a Salt Lake H audience, when she played with Edwin fM F Mayo in "Pudd'nhead Wilson" at H the Salt Lake theatre. Since then she M has barely left New York and the WM larger eastern cities, save when she H played engagements in London and fit Australia. M The whole play hinges around a H badger game played by three crooks IH on a young mining onglnoer from the M west. The scene is laid m New York H and the types all are there, including H the trusting young girl who has been H lured to the great city under the H