Show II I 1 F r I g 7 tegyj t This week Salt Lake Theater the Tlvoll Opera company In The Toy Makcr Monday and Tuesday nights I and Wednesday matinee The Serenade Sere-nade Wednesday and Thursday nlRhLT The Idols Eye Friday night Grand Thcl ma Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nlchta and Wedncs I 1rJ V i s AJMLtij 4 i v T V jl i c 40 rtu5m T I ti 4 4 r 4 r c p I r1dW riiriig v > Sk > j I I Sf iJtiijt I V jM fa n II W ft > < tr I a L J I I 1 c il i i i r t A TO rfVi > r 4FL I r ffe > 4 Ji f l k 17 ajYffli rrS S p IIi fooa Ii ri J I j 1 I I A4fI Y I Donnitory Scene From Liberty Belles day matinee Flnnigans Ball Thursday Thurs-day Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon O L The Influx of State fair people the coming week ought to create a rattling theatrical patronage For some yeans there has been a resentment expressed by people coming to Salt Lake at holiday I holi-day seasons acalnnt tho amusements furnished because they were mostly of home manufacture However much they mny be Imbued with loyalty to homclnduptry there Is I n desire on the paiL of outoftown visitors to occasionally occa-sionally set something that comes from beyond the borders of our own State Home operatic dramatic and vaudeville performances are all right as an occasional divcrclon but when furnished as a steady diet to visitors from the country they become decided ly monotonous The ensuing week amusements are of a kind that should appeal favorably to our fair visitors At the Theater one of the best operatic companies In the United States will present a repertoire reper-toire of popular comic operas On Saturday Sat-urday afternoon and evening Hermann the prestldigitateur gives one of his exhibitions In necromancy At the Grand the lovers ot Marie CorelMs novels will have the opportunity of see Ing that favorite work Thelrua plv on by Alden Benedicts company The latter half of the week will be given over to a decidedly lively farce comedy Finnegans Ball Altogether the pro pram mcs of the two theaters are such as to appeal to all claspes of taste The Tlvoll Opera company of San Francisco Is one of the famous organl rations of the United States Not a San Franciscan or any one who has over visited the coast but Is as familiar with this noted organization as with the Golden Gate park or the Cliff house The Tlvoli Opera company is owned by Mrs Ivrehllng a woman known to musical composers and mu aiclovers everywhere Her library is J said to contain the largest selection of operatic scores to be found in the United States This la I the first time that the Tlvoll company proper has 1 ever visited Salt Lake City It hart been the custom with Mrs Krehllni 1 for several seasons past to Install grand opera at the Tlvoll for a brief fall season during which time her light opera company has been ent on the road It Is to this that we ow > the op portunity of seeing the Tlvoli company the coming week Some eight or nine years ago a company organized from the extra of the Tlvoll were sent on the road In Said Pasha That Is 1 thn nearest Salt Lake has ever boon to a real Tlvoll performance The roper toire of the company In an especially attractive ono The Toy Maker will be given on Monday and Tuesday nights and at the special Wednesday matinee when each child attending will bu presented with a handsome toy free II Following the live nights of opera at the Theater we will have one night of Herrmann the Great As Salt Ink ers probably better than any ono else understand the present Herrmann Is the nephew of the Alexander Herrmann who used to visit Salt Lake In the old days It was from the elder Herrmann that Oscar Ellason got moat of the In spiration that led him Into necromancy as a profession It IH i aunouiued that for his present engagement Herrmann will give an entirely new programme of magic there being hut two old illu sions In the whole evenings perform ance Among the larger nnd more I chowy tricks to be presented are The Hindoo rango Tree The Enchanted Cabinet the aerial mystery The Princess Mahomcda The Hand of Balsamo La Fete des Fleura The Tamborlno of Seville The Santos Dumont The Chinese Washce fWaahcc and the fiensation of Peking entitled Voyage Instantaneous Tho > musical Goolmana will furnish popu lar selections on various Instruments running from grand opera to ragtIme Marie CorelUe admirers are legion Her novels are the most sought of all on the library shelves Of these proba bly Thelma Is the moat popular If I the play at all sustains the Interest of the novel It will be an Interesting I work Alden Benedicts company JB i jane pf the popularprice organlzatlono 1 which has been seen here several times In melodrama It fills the llrnt half of the week followed by Gallatjor and BarreL In Flnnlyans Ball for the last half New music specialties songs and dances have been Introduced and all old material put aside A number of new faces will be seen In the company I com-pany Including a chorus of handsome ladles l t r ITo ITo I I-To wait and work fiftyfive yearn before I be-fore attaining the prominence and fame of a tarlo score a distinct triumph at the age of 75 in a new play this is something that happens in tIll experience experi-ence of few actors especially In these daya when new constellations of stars are dawning upon the theatrical world every day and an actor who falls to reach the ton line of the bills In his second sec-ond season Is I regarded as something of a failure Yet such has heen the experience expe-rience of J II Soddar who appeared at the Columbia theater In San Francisco Francis-co last week in a dramatization of Ian Mnclarens story The Bonnie Brier Bush Into the part of Lachlan Campbell Camp-bell Stoddard threw all the vigor and Intelligence and sympathy of his sturdy Scotch nature and It Is good to know that he captivated Ills audiences and won the hearts of the dramatic critics Wherever the drama Is known in America Stoddart is known and admired ad-mired and loved And the part he has selected for the finale of his splendid career will be remembered best of all Benefit performances for the sufferers by recent forest fires in the Northwest were given at the Marquam Grand and the Baker theaters In Portland last Tuesday night All the companies play Ing i in the city Including the James Nell Stock company donated their services ser-vices and over 2000 seats were Gold in advance it 1 each X II Mascagnl selected wisely the works of his own compositions to be performed in America Though all his operas have been praised highly by his countrymen the four he will produce on this tour Caallerla Rustlcann Zanctto Ratcllft and Iris are those which have been hailed most gladly In other lands Americans who have heard them abroad say the last three which are new to the United Stales will become be-come as popular here as his first great success Aside from the characteristic of beautiful music each tells a stirring and sympathetic story MascagnJ will appear In Salt Lake on his tour across the continent and it Is to be hoped that the great event will not be spoiled by putting admission prices Into the skies > The openIng picture of The Liberty Belles which Is reproduced In the illustration Il-lustration In todajs Tribune IG poe of the prettiest things in it The girl in the center is Mrs Edison In private lire daughterinlaw of Thomas Edison the Inventor In stageland she Is I Miss Twoey and Is known ar the lisping girl of The Liberty Belles Garrick and Johnson Salt Lake City Utah Sept 26 1902 Dramatic Editor Tribune Speaking of the Internal disagreements which have occurred between actor and playwright play-wright during the recent productions of Corianton brings to mind a similar occurrence as related In the experience of the famous Samuel Johnson with David Ganlck at the time the latter brought forth Dr Johnsons tragedy Iretio at tho Drury Lane theater London which seems especially apropos of your remarks in a recent Issue of The Tribune Boswell relates the event In the following words Garrick being l now vested with theatrical the-atrical power by being manager of the Druly Lane theater he kindly 1 made iitx of It to bring out Johnsons tragedy which had been long kept I back foe want of encouragement But In this benevolent purpose he met with no small dltlieulty from the temper of Johnson which could not broo t that a drama which hr had formed with much study and had been obliged to keep more than the nine years of Horace should be revised and altered tit the pleasure of an nctor Yct Gnrrick knew I well that without some alteration It wfluld not be fit for tho stage A violent vio-lent dispute having ensued between L them Garrick applied to the Reverend Dr Taylor to Interpose Johnson was at first very obstinate Sir paid he the fellow wants me to make Mahomet Maho-met run mad that he may have an opportunity of tossing his hands and kicking his heels I He was however at last with difficulty prevailed on to comply with Garrlckte wishes so as to allow of some changes but titlll there were not enough There are other facts further related L which seem coincident to the present history of the Utah production but I will not encroach further upon your time This is I simply another proof that history repeats itself itselfAN AN OBSERVER STAGE CHOWCHOW Ed S Carruthcra who served M E Mulvey as treasurer at the Grand Po lone Is now business manager ot Whoso Baby Are You Orestes U Bean Is In New York cast incr about for a new manntrer for Corianton so Gotham reports say AI Flnnlgans Ball was last done here by Murray Mack who ore otlll tho mnnagez oJ the company The new team Gallagher < Barrett are well known vaudeville performers Two veteran dramatic critics and considered the ablest In the ranks re tire from newspaper work thin weok Franklyn TyJer for over a quarter of a century critic on tht New York Sun and Lyman B Glover for years the ChlcaEO lUcardIIorald crItiC both quit their old places Mr Glover gonji with Richard Mansfield God help him I The list of deserters from the ranks of dramatic editors to the strictly strict-ly theatrical world now comprise Charles B Dtmn ham Klrke LaShfMJe Bruce Ewards William Raymond Sill James ODonnell Bennett John D Lef nngwell A W Dlngwall Harry B I Smith Willard Holcomb Channlng Pollock John J McNally Edwin II Price George Ade Paul Wllstach I George Frederic Hinton Julian Mag nus Marc Klaw James Forbes and A I Toxen Worm Frank IJenncssy the owner of The Liberty Belles was for many years a partner of James B Delcher The latter lat-ter having married Helen Grantly is now starring his wife a beautiful oman o-man Helen Grantlys starring tour began recently at Red Bank N L with Her Lord and Master This play by Martha Morton Is Just suited to Miss Grantly who It may be observed ob-served Is a very attractive woman and at rehearsals she demonstrated that she Is going to create a furore in the play because the part Is exactly I within her lines and sho will add to It a great deal of grace and much attractiveness attrac-tiveness The part was created by Ef fie Shannon and IL will be recalled it requires a woman of much ability and considerable magnetism to act it James B Delcher sccured it for Miss Grantly feeling confident that the play was Within her capabilities Miss Grantly Is supported by a very strong company and this play will be continued contin-ued on tour until late In tho fall when t she will appear in The Girl and the Judge which has also been acquired for her by Mr Dcl her from Charles I Frohman AI The latest Dramatic News says Charles DalLon Is not to appear In Corianton as has been announced Mr Dalton goes In Ulysses and Joseph Jo-seph Haworth will continue In the Mormon play John F Cordray of Portland han secured se-cured the lease of the Grand opera house In Albany Or which will be dedicated on October 1st Tom Oberle who left the Arizona company In search of health In Artyo na is going to establish a stcok company com-pany In San Francisco with Walter Be lasco The one remnant of Blakeley Halls publications called Vanity Fair was raided by the pollce and several I of Its t attaches were arrested on the complaint com-plaint of Anthony > Comstock of the Society So-ciety for the Suppression of Vice and they were held In J1000 ball by Magistrate Magis-trate Mayo Vanity Fair Is part of the old Standard and Its principal object ob-ject seems to be the displaying of chorus cho-rus girls in not very edifying positions by the means of poorlyprinted halftone half-tone cuts In its various Ill lUes Clay M Greene the playwright who visited Salt Lake two Gummers ago has passed his first week as foreman of a Jury In Queens county He says It Is more fun than writing plays He gets 2 a day and It coats him 55 to reach the courthouec but being a patriotic pa-triotic I citizen he doesnt mind the loss because his royalties are quite heavy just now A correspondent from the Hawaiian islands writes ns follows about the company FrnwScy Nelll are sending to Manila The FrawleyNeill company com-pany en route to the Orient opened to s r o In Secret Service at the Hawaiian Ha-waiian operahouse Saturday evening September 6th and although owing to an accident to the S S Korea they did not arrive In Honolulu until 630 p m tho house was entirely sold out in an hour and a half Whether this Is 1n evidence of T Daniel Frawlcys popularity popu-larity with Hawaii Nel or the I fact that n attractions of that class are few and far between we must leave the question ques-tion to be solved by the enterprisIng manager who has courage to bring iflrstclasn companies to Honolulu where crowded houses have always rewarded re-warded him One of the chief attractions of the dramatic season will be the appearance of Mr J H Stod art In The Bonnie Brier Buh In this company Russell Rus-sell well known In Salt Lake ns the husband of Ada Dwyer also appears All of those familiar with the charm ing stories of Ian Maclaren as the as those who know Mr Stoddart through hla previous Impersonations can easily see why the piece made such a pronounced success in New York City The critics there were all of the opinion that the dramatist James MacArthur has carefully preserved the atmosphere which forms the larger part of the beauty in the Kaleyaid stories However It Is I In the charac ter of Lachlan Campbell portrayed by Mr Stoddart that the chief interest of the play centers Campbell It will he remembered Is a typical Scotch elder who allows his narrow interpretation of his creed to take precedence over his lovb for his daughter Becauno he docs not believe her story of ti secret marriage with young Lord Hay he drives her from home and blots her name from the family Bible It Is Only after he has discovered that the mdr rlago Is a real one and after he has been thoroughly chastened by suffer ing that he is willing to receive his child again The company appears In Salt Lake October JCth 17th and ISth t o The following paragraph regarding Harry Corson Clarke appears In the last Dramatic Neww Harry Corson Clarke who was featured In Gooduo Kelloggfl production of Hello Bill retires from the company on October 4th No reason la given for the change but as Mr Clarke will come to Nw York WP will hear more about It on his return The reason given here by his managers Ic the cam reason given by practically every manager he bin had In tn yearsthat tie Is unmanageable Clarke is one of the cleverlst corn dIana in tho country but he 10 so erratic er-ratic to employ the last offensive term applicable that no one can get along I with him He was comedian In the I fIrst stock company at the Grand theater the-ater here and ot course kicked up rows without number Ills pathway since has been a perfect wreckage of trouble with members of his company with his managers with the theater If Harry Corson Clarke could be caged the minute he Slepped oft the stage he would be a valuable acquisition to any company Ay it is he Is always In formcnt I |