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Show I jjl tVith the First JVtghters. H If, Manager Myers of the Salt Palace is giving an H I I exhibition of the best vaudeville talent seen in H I I j thls clty or a ltms tIm0, nQro Is morit in every H I one of the clever acts, and the performances H I i should be well patronized. If good vaudeville can H I I 'j be made to stick, it will be equally beneficial for I 1 j the artists and amusement lovers, and to all ap- B f i If pearances, the people engaged by Mr. Myers will m 1 j make good. M I fl j J Jt Jl H I k "My Wife's Husband." Ned Royle's new play, 1 I will be put on at the Madison Square theater in M 1 New York beginning the last week in August. H 111 Tue many Sq& Lake friends of Mr. and Mrs. M If j Iioylo will rejoice with them in having 'received m 1 1 . able financial backing for the production, and as B 1(1 i -s tlie Pay 8 considered the best yet written by m j i ' the talented young man, success for the new ! play is assured. K H o id 5 I t The American Extravaganza company opens i 1 with "Alladin" at Saltair next week, and the 1 . management promises the finest summer produc- h K , tion ever seen in this city. . H Those who tell stories in the theatrical dis- H I trlct have been spreading one about James H fj f O'Neill and Wilton Lackaye. They were sitting Jin an up-town cafe, so the story goes, with another an-other actor, whose reputation was that of a iom-bined iom-bined egotist and miser. Both O'Neill and Lack-aye Lack-aye bought drinks, and then there was a long '-' r pause. The silence finally was broken by the third man, who remarked: I "Do you know, boy I am going to write my I I autobiography?" ( "With the accent on the 'auto'?" suggested I O'Neill. , t i I "No," interposed Lackaye, "with the accent on c , the 'bi'!" tW fcJC , , , H. L. Wilson's striking novel, "The Spenders," H j i published by the Lothrop Publishing company of m I I Boston, and now in its fifty-fourth thousand, has B 1 I been dramatized by Edward Rose for William H. B ! j Crane, who will open with the play at the Savoy B j I theater, New York, next September. H MM v & & M j i I I Since Augustus Thomas' "Arizona" was pro- B j I I duced, five, years ago, it is said to have netted m j I profits aggregating nearly $250,000. Most of the W I Si time two companies have been appearing in the play, and now it has been sold for a good sum. Its purchasers expect it to be good for a few more thousands before it gets to the stock companies. com-panies. iw v & The Owen Wister novel, "The Virginian," has succumbed to the dramatist and his manager. It is to be stagified next season. Kirk La Shelle will be the manager and Duston Farnum, who played young Denton in "Arizona," will likely have the lead. , tv v 7 In a San Francisco interview the other day Cecelia Loftus uttered this bit of wisdom: "Mrs. Campbell wanted me to play with her; but you know how it is supporting a female star. She has the part; the leading man has the part next to the part, and you have what is left which is mighty little. So I shall play with Mr. Sothern another season. J5 ss $s Harry B. Smith, author of "The Blonde in Black," was making time fly with a group of theatrical the-atrical friends around the Knickerbocker theater lobby, New York, the other night, and some one happened to ask what was the origin of the term "deadhead." "Well," said Smith, "they say it started in Detroit De-troit about fifty years ago. One street of the .city led to a tollgate at the entrance of a road leading into Elwood cemetery. Funeral processions proces-sions only were allowed to traverse the road free of charge. One day a well-known physician, Dr. Pierce, stopped to pay his toll, but while handing over the money he remarked: " 'We doctors belong to a benevolent profession, profes-sion, and I think we should pass free.' " 'No. no, Doc,' responded the gatekeeper. "You send enough deadheads through here without going free yourself.' "And so," continued Mr. Smith, "the word got into the dictionary used by Broadway summer-show summer-show managers." t t Jv A new version of the Nat Goodwin-Maxine Elliott El-liott reputation comes from Town Talk, and If true, it is amusing to say the least. This is how it goes: If the story which I am credibly informed is true proves to have a good foundation, Nat Good- HHHI i i I Hr- BBBHgHHBBBBBBBB Bj i BIBEffiHHHBJBHJIiMfiiiiilHHm B . ' f ''' A View of the Lake and Inland at Lagoon with Mountains in the Bade Ground. Isn't It the H Prettiest Spot In Utah. TRAINS LEAVE REGULARLY-6:30, 9:00, 11:00 a.m., 1:30,2:30, BBH ' f 5.30, 6:30, 7:30 p. m. win must bo laughing in his sleeve at the stories Which have recently been circulated concerning his separation from his wife a separation said by the newspaper gossips to be personal as well as professional. I have it on the best authority, with which Nat has nothing to do, that Mrs! Goodwin is with friends in tho east awaiting a very important domestic event, for she does not intend to let her little sister Gertrude get ahead of her, and Gertrude is the adoring mother of a small and winsome daughter. Perhaps it is the programme-situation, perhaps it is the Goodwin fate, to have the old-time rumor, ru-mor, "Nat and his wife are going to separate," floating like a comet over his circuit. And the cause assigned? Why, the proverbial woman. But all the same the acquaintances of the comedian comed-ian who give ear to the rumor point to his failure this week to appear in Sacramento as billed and his hasty dark brown trip back to this city as one of the unfailing signs that the domestic felicity fe-licity of the star has somehow slipped a cog. & & 'te: An Infatuation for the comic opera stage made pretty Addle Silks convert a prospective trip to Europe into a season's engagement with "The Runaways" in New York. Miss Silks is extremely fair to look upon, one important endowment in a stage career of that kind. & & & The specialties of the Appllo quartette at the Salt Palace are particularly clever. The quartette consists con-sists of Boman Johnson, Lawrence Beck, Jack Farrel and W. P. Parr, and the blending and quality of their voices is most pleasing. |