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Show here and trut h there of Assistant In the retirement In the Palace Hmusements. Fire 3 of the King, adapted the dramatic essentials were in the from Crawfords well known novel, the book, their proper arrangement reactress is given wide opportunity to quired but little more than ingenuity. fire department Chief McCarthy the member and the city a loses a valuable Salt Lake Theatre. Viola Allen, demonstrate, in a single performance, In the Palace of the King, matinee emotional versatility. The play teems has today, performance tonight. Mr. McCarthy servant. with ever faithful changing lights and shades Grand Theatre. Helds Military which Ln connected with the department Band play about Dolores with the tomorrow evening. occasions on and many certainty of fate and the fickleness of forest years COMING ATTRACTIONS. the in saving bravery has shown great Lake Theatre Nathan Hale, chance. For the heroine of Mr. CrawSalt best the has He and property. of life March James Neil company, fords story is a restive creature, who m success for March 13th. Rose Coghlan, March 14th. chafes at restraint and rests in an atwishes of the community He chosen. has he which field Forget Me Not, March 15th, Forget mosphere of impulsive caprice in fine the new Canada, for Me Alberto, Not, matinee. expects to leave will engage evening performance. Lady Barter, a character historically impossible, yet he where weeks afew Grand Theatre. The Denver Ex- possessing the realities of romance and S farming. Mr. McCarthysandresignatcame Over the Sea, the delightful exaggerations of fiction. press, March ion was purelythevoluntary remuneration paid March Helds Military Band, It has been said that Mr. Crawford about because small. It will be no March 16th. bv the city was so wrote his novel with an idea to its futenders his surprise if Chief Devinethe same rea- soon for . It comes high to see Miss Viola Allen ture dramatizati&n. It it easy to beresignation very scintillate as a star. There is, how- lieve so nearly every scene in the has a theatrical which ever, a just proportion between the ar- story lends itself tobackground been has which the requirements The organization tistic worth of her performance and readily of the stage. The task was easy for of obtaining the purpose for effected Mr. Stoddard to make the adaptation who the price of admission. travel pay for the Utah volunteers should be served in the Philippines of encouraged and aided in the pursuit existethe end for which it came into nce. There is no reason on earth why ll-12t- h. 10-12t- 13-15t- h. h. To what length the craze for historical dramas will run is not, as yet, a known quantity. That the zenith of its popularity has been reached is, perhaps, more felt than evident. The taste of the public is a law unto itself, hut sentiment, at least, is turning to the dramas full of the realities of life. We long for men and women whose blood are red with humanity, rather than the impossible heroes cut from the picture books of long ago. Beneath the rich garbs of courtiers and the. shining armor of Knights, hearts may beat and passions become stormy, but, try as we will, we can not feel an earnest sympathy for the throbbing breasts beneath the gilded trappings. In this respect only is Crawford's dramatized novel disappointing in all else it fills tho measure of expectation. There is a robust freshness in its words and dialogue, which belie with a delightful contradiction, the langurous atmosphere and the volunteer privates and officers who did such excellent non-commissio- service should not receive travel pay from Manila to San Francisco as well comas the regulars and the volunteer They saw more missioned officers. those who reof service than many ceived travel pay and in justice are entitled to it. It means about $300 each to the boys, wad would to many of whom a little come in very handy, and Senator Kearns will doubtless .help them to get it. J. O. Nystrom is presi- the association; A. L. WillBradfiams, vice president; Archibald A. Geo. Gibbs, treas ord, secretary; dent of urer. ft Land and Water Commissioner Westerfield has fared badly, very badly at the hands of the two morning newspapers recently. It was published in the Tribune about a week ago that Mr. Westerfield had bought beer and other refreshments on a Sunday for the use of members of the city council when they made a trip of inspection to Mill Creek Sunday before last and in addition the article contained insinuations that Mr. Westerfield was partial to beer as a beverage and that he had caused the bill to be presented to the city council for payment, all of which was without the smallest foundation so far as Mr. Westerfield was con- SCENE INNATHAN HALE. cerned. The Herald on Wednesday morning contained a paragraph stating that Mr. Westerfield had a hearing in the city court on Tuesday on the charge of polluting the waters of Parleys creek by permitting eight head of cattle to stand in the water, that he pleaded guilty & and was fined $10. This statement had I alt LaKe Theatre ! Tuesday and Wednesday, March II and 12. even less foundation than the Tribunes article. Mr. Westerfield was not charged with the offense named or any Special Return Engagement of other offense, he was not in court at all, didn't plead guilty to anything and wasn't fined. On the contrary ' he has been indefatigable in his efforts to keep the waters of the creeks from which the city derives its pure and free from pollution supply and has caused many persons to be prosecuted for befouling them. Attorney T. S.Taliaferio Jr., of Rock Springs. Wyo., was a Salt Lake visitor Wednesday. Judge 13. W. Standrod, Republican Rational committeeman of Idaho, was m Salt Lake for a few days this week. Ldwin Opdyke of Cheyenne, traveling auditor of the Union Pacific Railroad company, was in the city Wednes- day. s sir t i AND A CAREFULLY CHOSEN Mount Pleasant, off in the city lor a few days en stopped route to the ooast. . PRESENTING Jathan Hate HVNOR SENTIMENT - Mr. and Mrs. Oscar W. Wall, Mrs. Josephine Neilson and children, of COMPANY, Seats Now on Sale. . . ro aw w w Q 3 ROMANCE v PATRIOTISM 1 $ Prices, $1.50, $1, 75, 50 25c. $ sensuous air of those who. speak its language. It calls for love passages, sweet and tender, yet burning with a sincerity which warms even the stony corridors in which the words are spoke n. With skill and tack Mr. Crawford has given force to his stormy periods, without wasting strength in clumsy rhetoric though, at times, the ruggid simplicity, which should characterize some of his characters, leaves itself in a' kind of verbal tinsel. Miss Allen, as Dolores, is the central figure of the drama. The Dolores of Miss Allen captivates us at once by her high spirits her venturesome and resolved determination a tendency to laugh and sigh afterward. To this conception of the part Miss Allen adds zeal and a youthful vivacity, never quite coquettish, but always bubbling like a fountain. This conceit of the actress is a happy relief, for we have been surfeited with romantic lovers who have mistaken the glamor of romance for the substance. This conception of Dolores may be a trifle strained, yet its delightful freedom wins our sympathy. With the flutter of wings she flies through the vaulted chambers like a happy bird seeking its mate. Like a happy, bird, too, she flies to keep her forbidden tryst with her lover flies from threatened discovery and baflled conspiracy. How unlike Shakespeares storm bird, Juliet! The personality of Miss Allen lends itself to an ideal Dolores |