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Show If n? 'With the First Fighters. H Attractions for Week of March 16. H Salt Lake Theatre. Monday night, Orphan's Hi Home entertainment. H Tuesday and Wednesday and Wednesday mat- B inee, Effle Ellsler in 'When Knighthood Was in K' Flower." H'' ' The Grand. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes- Hf day, "Human Hearts;" Thursday and Friday, H "The Man From Mexico;" Saturday, McLaughlin- Ht Ross wrestling match. l( 3 Hf( "When Knighthood Was in Flower." H This, of all the great crop of book plays, is W one of the most successful, and Eflle Ellsler has Hl had a very gratifying season, since opening in H' August. V The production is most artistic, carrying Bl beautiful scenery, and a largo company present- K ing the pretty romance with all the original rf- Bj fects used in the Marlowe production. It is the H only theatrical event of any consequence during Hf the coming week, and will undoubtedly draw big V houses. V l C Hj Karl Gardner. B How are the mighty fallen. Few people un- H fortunate enough to take a chance at "The m Darkest Hour," recognized the Fritz Hoffmiere in B the cast as the once favorite Chas. A. (Karl) L Gardner. First a clever comedian, then a star, B? then to vaudeville, and now to this. Surely it is b pitiful surely it is "The Darkest Hour." K v iv tv B Roberts' "Camille." m M'he "Camille" of Florence Roberts is not to B sratistying as her other peiformances. It is not B her fault, for she does it beautifully, but her Bj support does not rise to its demands, and then K again, the play is so old, and the comparisons so B many, that it is difficult to appreciate it. All of m the work of Miss Roberts is magnetic, all of it is m finished, and the woman is a great emotional ac- H, tress. Lucius Hendeison was rather good in the 1 fourth act, but his Armond loves the grand- B stand more than Camille, which is a little dis- B tressing to the rest of the audience on the bleach-B bleach-B . ers. Georgie Woodthorpe's Prudence was good, m ot course, and the only real flaw in the cast was B the starchy performance of Howard Scott as the B Count Do Yarville. B w O ! Recently, Mr. Charles Major, author of the charming chivalric romance, 'When Knighthood Was in Flower," with his family occupied a box at the Gennett theatre, Richmond, Indiana, where he witnessed, for the first time, Efile Ells- bj i ler's portrayal of his mad-cap heroine, "Princess Bv Mary Tudor." After the performance Mr. Major H was interviewed by a "Richmond Sun-Telegram" HI reporter, and said: Hi. "I am pleased beyond measure with the intel- Hi ligent rendition given the piece. I am charmed H' with Miss Ellsler's conception and portrayal of H Mary Tudor and with the uniform excellence Hi of her company. Manager Frank L. Perley is to H be congratulated on his selection of such an ar- Hf tistic cast. Tonight's performance has given me K as much pleasure as did the original. I consider H this interpretation the equal of any the play has H' ever had. I hope some day to have Miss Ellsler Hi originate a character for me." BlK w 2ft w HJF Frank M. Eldredge, a former well known Salt BjL Laker, has been shaking hands with old friends Hl all week. Mr. Eldredge is business manager for If Effle Ellsler in "When Knighthood Was in HI Flower," and one of the brightest young men H on Frank Perley's staff. H, "The Adventures of Lady Ursula " It is unfortunate that so many people saw Florence Flor-ence Roberts in "The Adventures of Lady Ursula" who have never seen her in anything else. The adventures ad-ventures of the lady are a bore. Florence Roberts is not, but there Is little or nothing In the weak vehicle to display the talents of this gifted woman. The frothy play, is marked by stupidity in the first act, some clever dialogue in the second and thiid, and sleep producing inactivity in the finale. fi-nale. It is a little, light, flimsily woven fabric of nothingness, and should not be in the repertoire of this clever woman, whose Zaza, Magda, Hatch and so on, have won her such just commendation and so many, many friends. Perhaps Ursula is put on for Henderson, though, for he is seen to better bet-ter advantage than in anything else, unless we except ex-cept "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch," in which he is very clever. But give him Armond, or Bernard, or anything like such parts, and well, that is another story. "Zaza" is the bill for tonight, and her former work in this play should be a guarantee for a crowded house. JT V Beauty in the Modern Chorus. With the development and popularity of the modern chorus a new type of actress has been evolved. She is known as the Show Girl. In almost every ev-ery light musical play theie are two, and some-feature some-feature and figure, who occupy a place midway between the chorus and the principal performers. They do not stand in the chorus-line or perform exactly the same movements, and they are dressed differently and more gorgeously than the chorus girls. Managers get great reductions in the price ot the gowns for the chorus in return for the advertisement the dressmaker obtains, particularly particu-larly if the play in question has the reputation of setting the fashion. The garments of the Show Girls are often obtained below cost, and the cos-tumers cos-tumers give themselves full swing in designing and making a show girl's wardrobe elaborate. In the matter of dress, says a writer in the March Cosmopolitan, duchesses and chorus girls are very much alike nowadays, except that the latter are rather better dressed than the former. The concert ot the First Regiment band Sunday Sun-day evening will bo a brilliant affair. It is in honor of the officers of the National Guard, and tue last concert of the season. & They Want Legs. "Frawley went away from Manila thoroughly disgusted," a San Francisco newspaper man writes me from Manila. " 'They won't stand for ,n anything,' said Tim, 'but comic opera or bur- J lesque. Legs will do the trick. It's too cursed hot to listen to the woes of the heroine or the rhap- I sodies of the hero. The audience perspirs and goes out for a highball during the most thrilling thrill-ing moments. It is my honest belief that Manila wants legs. If the Lord spares me to return to San Francisco, I shall organize a funny show to take back to Manila in the fall, the leading feature fea-ture of which shall be legs. You see, there's a great lack of these ornamental parts in Manila, and the expatriated American, as well as the Englishman and the German, sighs for the shapely shape-ly sights that dazzle his eyes and dizzy his brain at home. I'll give them legs galore. With twen-i twen-i ty of the beauties I can find between New York and San Francisco I can put on a show in the Philippines which will coin money. I shall emulate emu-late James Neill and have a crest, but instead of a melancholy heraldic device, I'll have legs rampant ram-pant on a field of gold.'" Town Talk. |