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Show ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK. -j- !! salt i.akk theatkr nus- B -u shm Svmphony orchestra ami ! B .t. Hen Greet players In Shako- B .. spwirean plays, with music. First A half of week: mntlneu Wcdncx- .f. (iav. "The Girl Qnustlon," last hail-, beginning Thursday even- -r B Ins. with Saturday matinee. ? COLOXfAL TIIEATEIl "Shnun Hhue." with Arthur Cunnlnguuui. All tho week, beginning tonight. -r- Matinees Tuesday. Thursday and J Saturday. H -i- THE BUNGALOW "La Tosca." -j with Willanl Mack and players. - B All the week. beginning tonight, v B Matinees Wednesday and Satur- -r H x da'- x V OKRIIEUM THEATER AdvanciM vaudeville. All the woek. begirt-B begirt-B .j. nlng tonight. Matinees dolly ex- y B I- cepl Sunday. j. GHAKD THEATER "On tho v B Stroke of Twelve." All the week, lu-Klnntng tonight, with Wcdnes- -I-duy and Saturday matinees. LYItlC THEATER Moving pic-B pic-B .;. turs. All tho week. Matinees The Russian Symphony orchestra, 1 Modest. Altschulor, conductor, and tlio 1 famous 13on Greet players, will begin their engagement at tho Salt Lake the-atcr the-atcr Monilay niht with "A Midsuin-nun- Night's Dream.1' Tuesday evon-ing evon-ing "Romeo and Juliet " will bo given. Wednesday matinee. "Tho Dream" will be repeated, and tlie engagement will B dose Wednesday night with "The Tem- B vest.' In every city which has been B visited up to. the present time, the press Bj lias praised ihe combination in nn- B stinted terms, declaring it to be most charming and exquisite. As a sample B the Omaha World-Herald pays tho fol- lowing beautiful tribute: No Shakespearean production has over been seen in Omaha so dainty or so exquisite in poetic suggestion as B "The Midsummer Night's Dream," B presented lasr evening bv the Ben B Greet players at the Boyd theatcn No B drama over seen here was so enriched B with harmonic sweetness or so pervaded B -with fragile loveliness of music. Mcn- dclssohn a masterpiece, interpreted 1)3' a marvelous organization, the Russian Symphony orchestra, and Shakespeare 's most charmingly fanciful )lay inter-B inter-B -preted by a company of ama.ing ar- B tistry made a combination of such rare B enjoj'iueut that the beauty of it is sure B to make a lasting memory for all put.- B rons fortunate enough to have been B present at the performance. That the B web of enchantment is to be spun again at a matinee this afternoon is to bo re-garded re-garded as good tidings for playgoers who missed last night 's opportunity, and will serve, also, to whet; the public's appetite for another event equally im-portant, im-portant, tonight's representation of "Romeo and Juliet." Tliat (he audience of Inst evening should have begrudged the falling of the last curtain and that the applause should have continued long after the close of the play merely bespeaks a fine appreciation for fine things on the part of Omaha's playgoing public. For, in j truth, it was an opportunity to be high- ly treasured. Think of lOO'peoplc being B brought together for an artistic prc- scntation of the great fair- play, an B orchesti'a mado up of fifty pieces and B a large dramatic company of admirably selected phycrs. with a chorus of chil-drcn chil-drcn dancing to measures of the blos-som blos-som timo pilt to music in Mendelssohn's "Bpring Song." These woro features of such appealing charm and superla-.five superla-.five merit that the result was complete on the part, of , the audience. Tho per-forniance per-forniance v.-as so well unified; it was B a productitfn so vell knit together by B the art of each individual player. B In regard to the scenic phases of tho production, much is to be said. No paper trees hang iheir flat and ,i:t-toothed ,i:t-toothed branches above tho Den Greet players; no green excelsior grass im-B im-B pedes their footsteps; iheir stage is B hung about with mystery, wallecl bv B imagination, curtained 'with dreams. B Through the shadowy forms tliat. glim- B mor dimly upon the draperies the eye sees not trunks of trees nor sunlit open- A;' .v. . MARY HALL, As Flora Tcsca in Sardou's groat play, "La Tosca," at the Bungalow all this ' week. iugs, but the measureless vrtsluess of forest infinity, a suggestion that sots tho mind miracle-working, and then leaves it to paint wonders that no brush ever set upon any canvas. Truly it is genius alone that knows so well 'how to use the power of suggestion. And into this background blend costumes cos-tumes that make a whole like a priceless price-less tapestry. Color that sings like the very music through which it moves, and dances that arc "a spoil of woven paces and of waving hands." The dance of dawn during the sleep of the four lovers is almost incrcdibh- beautiful, and wlien Ihe. rippling loveliness of Mendelssohn s "Spring Song" is united with a fitting fairy dance beneath wreathing branches of pink blossom it seems that the acme of artist r3 in stage effects has been achieved. In tho midst of this iiir-mony iiir-mony the plaj goes on with the most perfect fitness, with a perfection of grace in pose and gesture that the ab-surd ab-surd comedy clement only serves to WILLARD we ihe, violinist, "Whoso, appearance as Boloisfc with the Symphony orchestra next Sunday will he the notable ovont In his career. I accentuate. Tho whole performance can only be likened to a perfect poem without" with-out" one discordant syllabic or one false accent. Pretty girls and catchy songs, dances which are marvels of grnco and action, a cast of sterling players, and, above all, a play with a plot of intense human interest, arc found in "The Girl Question," Ques-tion," tho entrancing musicnl play which comes to the Salt Lake theater for threo nights and matinee, beginning on Thursday next. This play is along the lines and is, in fact, a successor to "The Time, the Place and the Girl," tho musical comedy which has jammed evory theater in which it has' played since its run of -163 performances in Chicago. The fifty prettiest chorus girls who have ever hocn seen in one show are found in "The Girl Question," Ques-tion," as are also t ho famous "$1000 Beauty Broilers," tho latter being tho ten little girls who dauce with an abandon of emotion and enthusiasm and an amount of ginger which has uevor been equaled. The plot of "The Girl Question" reveals overy-daj' life which is of real human interest, though broken up in its development at. moments to allow for tho introduction of songs and dances. The production wan stngod bv that past master in the exploitation o'f dramatic scenes, beautiful stage pictures pic-tures and gracelnl dances, ITarrv Tlan-lon. Tlan-lon. Tho cast includes Paul Nicholson, Henrietta Tedro, Marguerite De Von, Nina Collins, Carl Georgot Russell Lcn-non Lcn-non and others, while the songs include "Good-by Pal," " 1 Hate to Work on Monday " "O Gee, Be Sweet to Me, Kid," "White Me 'Round Till I'm Dreamy," I'When Eye:? Like Yours Look Into Eyes Like Mine," "The Old Ruck and Wing" and "Do Something." With a company stronger than ever, and with now scenery and costumes, the Bungalow stock company opens Sunday in Sardou's great emotional drama, "La Tosca." The production will be a great one in every respect, Tho company has been resting for a woek, and while no play was being given the members have been devoting all their time and faculties to the work of putting on this drama, ono of the greatest in molodrnmatic effect over i written. "La Tosca" at once calls up ' memories of Bernhardt, of Fanny Davenport, Dav-enport, and of Blanche Walsh. "Tt was , a rolo eminently sailed to these great artists, and it suits Mnrv Hall, who will be soon in it here. Miss Hall has I won a reputation as an emotional Ac-I Ac-I tross in Boston, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and other cities by hor characterization of the beautiful and jealous prima donna, whose sad storv is handled with such mastorly skill by the great French playwright. "Floria La Tosca has long been the despair of her admirers, but finnlly falls in love with Mario C'avaradossi, 'an artist, who is engaged en-gaged upon a great work in tho Cathedral Cathe-dral of the Virgin. While painting thorc he assists a political prisoner who takes refuge in the church and finds him a hiding place, thus coining in contact with the inarchosa, the sister of tho refugee. La Toseu ia furiously jealous of Mario at all times and flies into a 1 rage that he should speak ro tho mar-chesa. mar-chesa. To allay Iter suspicion he tells of the escaped prisoner. i Among Florin's admirers is Maron i Scarpia, tho chancellor, who suspects that Mario has helped his prisoner to ) escape. With a double motive, Scarpia i loses no opportunity to work on tho jealously of La Tosca and shows hor that Mario has boon lunching with tho marchosa in tho cathedral, producing tho lunch basket. La Tosca resists him until her lover is thrown into prison and subjected to tho torture. She is compelled com-pelled by Scarpia to listen to his groans from an adjoining room and cannot withstand these She tolls Scarpia where tho refugee is hid, but. by the time the soldiers arrive there ho has escaped. Mario is still held in prison and 1)3 false charges Scarpia has him sentenced to death. Ho then offcr3 La Tosca to save him if she will consent to roccivc his addresses. She finally pretends pre-tends to agrco to all that lu: nsks, though it includes hor dishonor. Scarpia Scar-pia 's plan to save Mario is for the bullets bul-lets of the guard, who will execute him, to be drawn, and for him to feign death. Scarpia writes a passport tor him, and as ho hands it to Lu Tosca she stabs him to the heart. Tho hour comes for Mario's execution and he is executed, Scarpia having never intended tliat the guns of the guard should over contain aii3-thing but real bullets. Floria follows her lover, taking hor life, when she learns of his death. "La Tosca" has never been produced here by a company playing at popular nripPK. t This week's Orpheum bill, which bo-gins bo-gins this Sunday night, o frees variety and enjoyment for evory taste. There will be some vocal and piano selections hy Cheridah Simpson: .Twaii Tscher-nolT's Tscher-nolT's troupe of trained animals; Goldsmith Gold-smith and Hope, a fine musical act; Nonette, a bewitching young woman violinist; Thomas liico and his comedians come-dians in the funny tabloid, "Wise Mike;" Earl Flynn in impersonations, .songs and dances; Krobel and Ruge, eccentric ec-centric aorialists, and regular Orpheum features. Cheridah Simpson needs little introduction intro-duction to the pcoplo of nii3' section of America. She recently closed a slurring tour in "Tho Red Feather." prior to which she played "principal boys'Mu the groat and wonderful Klaw & Er-langcr Er-langcr Druiy Lane pantomimes, liko "Mother Goose," "Sleeping Beauty and tho Beast." " IIumpty-Dumpty," and others, Sho possesses a voice of marvelous richness and depth. In addition addi-tion to her singing she is an accomplished accom-plished instrumentalist and accompanies herself on the piano in a number of her selections. in J wan Tschcrnoff'S "Unique Circus Troupe," which includes a marvel of equine intelligence, "Hans, tho musical pony," will be found an act. that the children will go into ecstacies over, whilo the older folks will be as greatly entertained. With four beautiful trained ponies, two dozen or more trained prize dogs, and man" trained pigeons, this act is beautiful and edifying. Mr. Tschornoff is one of Europe's most famous fa-mous animal trainers, and has brought to bear in the present act the best years of effort in this line. Goldsmith and lloppc the former's name being Sol and tho lat tor's Guy arc going to make their audiences spend twenty minutes of enjoyment and laughter. Thoy arc musicians, not. the kind that bores, but the kind that enthuses. en-thuses. Not only do the" plaj" on the largest saxophone in the world, but ioy also plav the smallest slide trombone over made. The' furnish melody in all sorts of ways, through the aid and I assistance of aH kinds of instruments. Their act is genuinely wholesome and amusing. Nonctfo is a pretty girl with a pretty figure and a piquant face, all of these charms boing used to acccntunto the attractiveness of hor act. She is a i woman violinist, and not only does she ' make music out of her instrument, but 1 her magnetic personality goes far to charm and allure her audiences. She dresses in quaint Bohemian . cosl nine, making her appear more liko a bizarre Gj'psy street musician. She plays a j numlior of classical and standard compo-) compo-) sitions, winding up with' a nicdle' cm-! cm-! bracing national patriotic, air.", i Thomas Tnco and his comedians ap-' ap-' pear in a laughable and farcical tabloid I termod "Wise Mike." This vehicle was j created for laughing purposes and has ! accomplished its end all over the Or-i Or-i phoum circuit where it has appeared. It I concerns the fortunes of a man who im-j im-j personates a burglar for the purpose , of scaring his wife, but who runs foul of a real burglar and the hitter's wife. Mr. Ince is a comedian of rare ability ' and has secured the services of a splcn-1 splcn-1 did company to aid him in his niirth-I niirth-I provoking sketch. Frobel and Ruge are two eccentric ' European, aerialists. who ctuno direct from Switzerland for the purpose of making an American tour. The- do I some wonderful, yet: humorous, work on 1 an old aerial apparatus, in addition to which they have a lino line of legitimate i work. Though newcomers, they will llinl 1 as hearty welcome here as they have found in olher (daces. Tho famous Orpheum orehostra will have some more of its special musical mu-sical numbers, while the kinodrome will project sonic new and interesting moving mov-ing pictures. I j Another trvout. at the Orpheum has ! resulted in "The Piano Trinity," com-! com-! posed of D. Bert Anderson. Thomas C. Hand, Jr.. and F. Hardio Moakin. be-i be-i nig bonked on the Orpheum circuit, and , i they will make their first appearance at the Ornheum here the week begin-ninj? begin-ninj? tonight. Thoso young men are well knoivu Salt Lake boys, this being their native city. The' have an act thai -will take with' patrons of tho several" Orpheum Or-pheum playhouses. Their act covers a wide range in tho musical field. For illustration. Schubert's "Serenade," with six hands, then "Tho Secret," then a solo rendered by Mr. Anderson, "Hnppy Coon from Dixie," then ragtime rag-time medleys and the finale to "Tho March and rilgrini 's Chorus." from Taunhauser. It will be seen from this that their stunt is not. only novel, but it i6 unique. This is the third of Salt Lake City's musical and drnmatic talent tal-ent to bo booked with the Orpheum circuit, cir-cuit, and tliat "The Piano Trinity" will make good, and better than good, goes without saying, for tho young men are enthusiasts and nurd workers. HoRts of friends in Zion extend congratulations congratula-tions on the. good fortuno of the trinity. When the booking for the trinity was first made, tho intention was to have (he trio make their first appearance' May 12. but on Saturday, Manager Will R. Winch of the Orpheum received a dispatch from Iiarl Flynn, "tho boy in green," from Kansas City, which stated that tho latter, owing to serious ill-.ncsfi, ill-.ncsfi, would be unable to fill his engagement en-gagement in this city at tho Orpheum the coining week, as has boon advertised, adver-tised, hence in Mr. Flynn 's place will appear "Tho Piano Trinity." and the boys will, therefore, make their bow as professionals this evening. 0 n "A Runaway Tramp" closed a most prosperous week at tho Grand, Beginning Begin-ning this evening this same company wilf present. "On tho Stroke of Twelve." This strong drama of English Eng-lish life is perhaps new to all Salt Lake theatergoers. It tolls tho story of tho downfall of a young man who falls in evil ways in London, aPd who, when exposure seems iniminontj succeeds in fastening the burden of his crime upon his stepbrother. Through the determined olforts of tho victim's sweetheart and a voung waif of the streets, named "Ned," tho innocence of tho stepbrother step-brother is established and everybody is hnppy except those who ought not to be. 'The plav will be mounted in fine style, cast with the full strength of tho company, and will no doubt achieve the same rocord success that it has won in all the large .cities of the west and northwest. New and attractive at-tractive specialties will be proscntcu between the acts by the throe clover children, Liez, Ody and Helen; Charles Cunning, the clever comedian ot the company, and the Clayson musical family. fam-ily. Manager Arington 's. fino company has won a strong place in public, esteem hero and will undoubtedly continue tho great business thoy have been doing the past two weeks. - It has boon definitely decided between be-tween Charles Frohman and Miss Maude Adams, that next season. Miss Adams will go on a tour over the country in "What Evcrv Woman Knows," instead of as originally intended, reopening at the Empire theater. While the widespread wide-spread interest in Miss Adams s newest new-est Barrio play is at its keenest, it has seemed best to her and to hor managor to satisfy the curiosity of all the Adams idolaters', rather than let this keen national na-tional interest in the play fnttor away. The chief difficulty in the way of such a tour is for Mr. Frohman to apportion appor-tion the amount of time that each largo cilv shnll have, without showing favoritism fa-voritism to anybody. Probably every manager in every city of any size in America has written Mr. Frohman, ottering otter-ing almost unbelievable terms for long, ami always impossibly long, engagements engage-ments of Miss Adams in "What Every Woman Knows" at their theaters. Mr. Frohman 's plan, however, is that Miss Adams shall play as inanv cities as possible pos-sible for as brief a time in each city as will seem reasonable. There will bo no six or eight weeks' engagement in any ono citv, but a two weeks' stay in the large cities, a great many three-night stands, and oven more one-night stands. Miss Adams has practically perfected plans to travel in a private car that will be fitted out with a. wireless equipment: equip-ment: of sufficient power to keep her in touch with New York, wherever she is. 4 On the 2d inst. Miss Ada Dwycr of Salt. Lako completed ten years' continuous con-tinuous association with Licbler & Co. Sho has been appearing in "The Dawn of Tomorrow." Starting with this evening's performance, per-formance, Arthur Cunningham will inaugurate, in-augurate, his second week's engagement engage-ment at tho Colouial theater, when ho will bo scon as Larry Donovan in Joseph Jo-seph Murphy's groat comedy drama, "'Shnun Rhuo." Without doubt this is ono of tho greatest Irish comedies every written, and served Joseph Murphy for almost as long a period as did "The Tverry Gow." "Shnun Rhuo," which moans "Red John," is a desperate character and has much to do in the story of the play, which is as follows: Larry Donovan is in disrepute with his father, Morris, who is trying to enforce en-force his daughter into a distasteful marriage. Larry is ejected from the house and goes to his mother's grave, and picking up a handful of earth he promises to keep it moist with his tears, j and then sings "A Handful of Earth," a song which has become so closely identified with this famous success. Instead In-stead of going to America, as he intended in-tended to do, Larry becomes informed of a plot against his father by an office boy, Tim, who brings him a letter let-ter intended for Shnun Rhuc containing contain-ing the villain's instructions. Larry immediately determines to impersonate imperson-ate Shnun Rhuo, foil the villain's plots and thus win back his father's affections. affec-tions. That Larry accomplishes this is duo more to his ingenuity than anything any-thing else. In the last act he is taken back to his dear old l'atlur, and all ends happily. It would soem that the (day was a serious nature, but. there is any amount of genuine Irish comedy running through the entire action, and, in fact, tho last two acts are excru-tiatingly excru-tiatingly funny. Besides "A Ilandfull of- Earth," Mr. Cunningham will sing "Barney from Sweet Killarney" and "Tho Donovans." Tho play will be presented with all special scenery, costumes cos-tumes and effects, and Mr. Cunningham will be supported by Miss Alice Condon, who plays Dora Cavauagh. Larry's sweetheart. Oihors in the cast include Miss Lillian Raymond, Miss Clara Coyne, II. D. Bvors, Edgar R. Sinclair, Sin-clair, W. T, Shecau. Robert Leonard, George Calvert, and Karle Gardner. Them will bo two matinee performances perform-ances of "Shnun Rhuo" on Thursday and Saturday. At the conclusion of' Mr, Cunningham's Salt Lako engagement he goes to San Francisco for a six weeks' run. where last winter he did a phenomenal business with "The Kerry! Goy" and "Shaun Rhuo." " Tho fraduating exercises of the j t wont.v-fifth vcar of the American ! Academy of Dramatic. Arts were held Tuesday afternoon at the Enipiro theater, the-ater, Now York. Diplomas were awarded award-ed to tho t went-y-sevon members of the graduating class. Addresses were made by Mr. Augustus Thomas. Mr, Eugene Presbrpy. Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, and William C. do Milk-. Mr. Thomas, who was the principal speaker of tho afternoon and guost of honor, spoke on tho topic,. "The Potency of Suggestion." Sugges-tion." -OS Fannie Ward has purchased from Chaliuing Pollock tho English rights of a one-act play. . entitled "With Hor Back to tho Wall," which sho will present pre-sent next summer in London. 'Tho piece was ospcciallv written for Miiss Ward bocauso of Mr. Pollock's recognition of her work in his dramatization of "In tho Bishop's Carriage." Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph Brooks have accepted a. play by Mrs. Gertrude Andrews entitled, "Through a Window," Win-dow," which they will produce early next fall. ' f Ii3a' AETHUR. CUNNINGHAM, 'Hitfls In "Shaun Rhuc," at the Colonial theater all this week. Iiitfs. |