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THE HERALD-REPUBLICAN:THEATRICAL PEOPLE’S HOTELS AREADVOCATED BY SALT LAKE ACTRESSrdV\atttcVIfVaecfIlt;11 ]| t‘ i11 | i{mss JUNE MATHIS.The building of eix hotels in th largest cities of the east, almost exclusively for m* rubers of the theatrical profession. with Miss June Mathis of this city at the head for the present, is told in the latest issue of one of th.- leading theatrical journals, just received in the city.Miss Mathis is the daughter of Mathis, a local druggist, and is iW. P.a r ringshwstdecthis season in “Goins? :S-me.Salt Lak« last s a son in Bn lions.” in which she made a both here and throughout theIt is believed the Shuberts are b*which will mean an out laMiss Mihotel sejtem of gom thing l.'k7 visit?r h Milid d lot.country.hind the» .U Ilf ]110 Vi4 A!iu u femit ifti11i 11tvill do 'The rtrk i:vv*i. a nnAi A.this, th youngest In the galaxy of stars being pushed to the front by the Shu* bertjr. is working up the scheme in the different cities of the east where she plays in “Goiug Some.**The original plan is to build hotels in Chicago, New York. Boston, Pittsburg. Washington and Philadelphia. Members of the theatrical profession have complained of the charges at the first-class hotels in the larger cities of the country, where they are forced to stop while **on the road/' and the plan naturally grew out of these protests. It Is be lleved that the hotels can be built and conducted for nv mb- rs of the profession at a much smalier expense, with a graduated system of charges for rooms, Tf the plan proves successful in the larger towns it win certainly spread to other large cities in the east and west.“There was a meeting held recently of the theatrical leaders who are playing Pittsburg,” says the article. “The notice for the meeting was sent out from Cincinnati by Miss June Mathis, who plays the leading female role in 'Going Some.’ Miss Mathis is hv no means the leader in this work, hut is one of th^j cogs in the machine that is trying to it to a successful conclusion.“Inabhltv of ivtr ss s and actors toMiofitcure adequate accommodations while on the road. * xcept at a price that soon depletes the pocketlM»ok, is responsible fori he mov* ment. It, has not been undor discussion long, but it has nu t with such Kic.it approbation that the Shuberta have • ommuntvuted with tin ir principal actorss and while the firm will not king to do with the enterprise • diing way. it has shown that the nu mbers of the profession•11 tu follow ;he plan, plan was first broached in New th summer. Many companies hearsing at that time, and whenUhi was risked what sb** thought h* answered by saying that it should be helped, as it was the great ne-■ • ssitj of the theatrical world. Eddie Foy soon be«*amo a great exponent of th** ‘theatrical hotel for theatrical people,’ and the Idea swept up the Great White Way and was welcomed. Dustin Farnutn and the nth i nu n of established reputation.? in the dramatic sphere gave it their O. K„ and th.r. the endless chain was used tu communicate* with the members of the profession in the I'nited States and Canada.“Miss Eleanor Robson and her mother. Mrs. Madge Carr Cook, both of whom have spent considerable time abroad, declared that in Great Britain th»- idea had been tried and found successful, and stated in that respect the mother country is far ah* ad of her husky son.“In St. I«otii3, after Miss Mathis and the Going Some' company had left Chicago. a meeting In connection with th-*proposed enterprise w«» held, but it waskept quiet. There was nothing published about the plan, and for fear that it might leak out Miss Mathis, who is a sort of w alking delegate,' decided to refrain from calling a meeting In Cincinnati/*Miss Mathis is only 21 years of ag» and is the youngest leading lady on the’.iff of the Shnb Tts.
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Salt Lake City Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Mon, Oct 18, 1909
Page 8
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