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Show 1 The Drama and Music . FRAULEIGATJ3S3,retuniod tojier native state appeared before ttfe I moat critical audience of her career and captured it. Critical? More so than all of the audiences of the continent whose ears are trained to grand oera and whose senses are attuned for productions of rarest I quality. While less capable of weigh ing the standard, the audience at the Tabernacle last Monday night was I far more atile to judge the progress made, by Emma Lucy Gates. During her siege of the continent, where she has scored one triumph after another 1 with the Royal opera at Berlin, the Utah papers have consumed proud I columns in recounting the advance- i ment made by this great songbird. So it came about that thousands of her intimate friends and others who had taken a personal pride in the I fact that they, too, are Utahns, flocked into the great Tabernacle to wel come her home. It is not too much to say that a majority of this audience audi-ence was- curious to know if the Fraulein Gates who returned was better bet-ter than the Emma Lucy Gates who went away a few years ago to cast her lot among the great artists Of the age. Miss Gates at all times has been regarded as a soprano of Unusual ability, with a future whose brilliancy depended entirely upon her own desire. de-sire. And she returns with a voice of more volume, range and sweetness, sweet-ness, with a presence more matured, more gracious, more winning; with a personality most charming. In the light of immediate impression one is wont to be swayed by the spontarie ous applause, by the bursts of enthusiasm enthu-siasm that greet each effort, yet -in sober reflection there lingers the faint, retreating notes of "O lleb so lang du Heben kannst," or the echo of that trill of the "Nightingale" the marvelous song whose wonderful rendition has given Miss Gates the iiarne of '"Utah's songbird." It was fitting that Miss Gates should be surrounded, upon her welcome home, by thousands of her intimates, and 'many of the artists who have, with her, helped to make Utah famous. fam-ous. Prof. John J. McClellan accompanied accom-panied her through all of the selections selec-tions which whetted the popular appetite ap-petite for more, and Mrs. Sybella MISS I L( )RKWK ST( )E Who makes her firt Appearance at the Orpheum Sunday Night in the Title Role of "The Spendthrift' as Co-Star with Mr. Willard Mack. pjU'wj ""' ' 'nnji imwnipnuiiiy i nwv 'jgyyggp. ass""" r v -. Clayton-Bassott, a pianisto of highest rank, delighted the" ' great audience with various renditions. Willard Flashman played a flute obllgatd to the concluding number and the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle choir aided in the homecoming by singing "Lord now Victorious." The beauty of "Green Stockings" lies in its rich humor, its rapid action ac-tion and its perfect character work. The Salt Lake theatre closed its season sea-son this week with Margaret Anglin in this play, one of the cleverest comedies' of the day. Miss Anglin muat attribute most of her success to the fact that she never loses Bight of the value of surrounding herself with capable people. In "Green Stockings" Stock-ings" Miss Maude Granger appears as the antique aunt from Chicago and her interpretation of a woman in hysterics hys-terics is a joy. Otherwise as a female with a peach of a jag she instantly captivates the audience and will be remembered as one of the big features fea-tures of the play. "Green Stockings" is an English comedy along wholly unique lines and its story is so out of the ordinary, so appealing in its rich humor and so compelling in its situations that it stands out from the rest as a refreshing refresh-ing diversion. Miss Anglin brought with her H. Reeves-Smith and a capable cap-able company. "Ladles and gents: We are going to present to you next Monday night mellowdra'ma, vodevllle, motion picture, pic-ture, er-er drama and vodevllle. We carry special scenery for this great production and we are charging not fifty cents, not twenty-five cents, but the alight sum of ten cents. Now ladles and gents, I give you muh word as a gentleman that you will be pleased with this show. And if we can't pack the house all next week at ten cents a throw I am going to step out to the box office and tell the manager to turn this playhouse into a livery stable." This oration was delivered at a local lo-cal playhouse which gives motion pictures and drama and "vodevllle" every time there is money enough in the house to pay the film operator and buy a meal ticket for the "company." The orator was a big, fat man with a voice like a fishmonger and a presence pres-ence like Bathhouse John. He had just completed two acts of a barroom bar-room melodrama in which he was the villain and also the bar-keep. The drama was very mellow but It was excused on the ground that other houses In the city content themselves them-selves and their audiences with vaudeville, light comedy or motion pictures. THE ORPHEUM. "The Spendthrift," next week's offering of-fering at the Orpheum, calls for a small cast, with the result that the best of the Orpheum players are employed. em-ployed. It also affords excellent opportunity op-portunity for exploiting the talents of the two featured players, Florence Stone and Willard Mack. It will be the first appearance of Miss Stone and a sort of rod-letter 4 fr y&JbT vfv t4$& occasion at the Orpheum generally. M The critics of San Francisco, when M Miss Stone appeared in "The Spend- M thrift" at the Alcazar recently, came M near exhausting their vocabulary in M praise of her rendition of the title H The play Is by Porter Emerson H IBrowne, the young man who first H won his stage spurs by writing "A H Fool There Was" for Robert Hilliard. M The author has woven around an M actual phase of our modern city life M a telling story and has done his tell M ing with dramaturgic skill. In spots H his dialogue has a frankness apropos HI of matters marital and in other spots M it takes unto itself a feeling for hu mor quite refreshing. M To sketch the story very briefly M Richard Ward has become a bankrupt jH through the vain extravagance of his M wife, Frances. When he speaks to M her seriously of the situation, she M takes refuge in the woman's defense: M "You don't love me any more." But M she goes out, the wife does, and bor- H rows $20,000 form a millionaire some- B what notorious for his amours All M this is working up to the big scene, H which comes in the third act. The H husband comes to his wife's bedroom H and insists that she phono for the M man. He will find out if she has H lied to him. The millionaire arrives, IH is handed the money by the husbanf1, H pnd, in a tense scene, denies tint H there has been any Intrigue The H husband is about to shoot him, but H leaves the house in his rage. In the M final act the extravagant wife is jfl found in a cheap boarding house, H completely cured of her extravagance, H and eventually everybody Is forgiven H Miss Stone plays the lole of the H wife, Mr Mack, the husband and Mr H Tiyior that of the millionaire who H has the reputation of never giving H H; anything for nothing. In tho toll- Hl in- of the story thoro nro several Hf ether characters destined to create H favorable comment. In the role of H the wealthy old aunt, a sort of Hetty H Green, Miss Ross will have the big- Hj' gest opportunity yet. Mr. Seymour, H too, is assigned a Congenial role in H Monty Ward, the brother with love Hl affairs of his own, and Rosa Roma H plays Clarice Van Landt. Tho others H in the cast are Frank Jonasson, Jack H1 Conway and Alberta Spears !"The Spendthrift" goes all week with the customary matinees Thurs day and Saturday. I William Danforth, the brave preacher and friend of tho theatre at its best, well known to the players in and about Chicago, made Margaret II- Hf lington's vehicle, Kindling, tho basis H? for a recent sermon in an Elmhurst, W' 111., pulpit. H l He said. "In these days of the mill- H; tant suffrage movement it .frequently Bp'' seems that the mothers of the world BfcMP are becoming unbecomingly violent; HB ( but further 'meditation removes the H' wonder that mothers and prospective H mothers are rising to demand a voice H, in human aaministration. We need IHl not stretch oiir Nietezchean ethics to tho breaking point in pardoning them for breaking a few windows, if those broken panes let in more light. "Wo are ready to agree with Mrs. Bates, the old washer woman of the play, that tho Lord 'made the laws of Nature before He made the Ten Commandments.' Com-mandments.' Except for tho stupidity of democracy in administration the earth's surfaco would yield bread and clothing, and the 'joy of life,' and to spare for all the million, and there i would be no Maggie Shults problems." i Tho curious case of Richard Barry versus The Players did not end with his securing a mandamus from the H civil courts. Mr. Barry served the H writ on the club from which he was H expelled, and his name was replaced PK on the roster. Immediately upon re- IH ceiving notification of tills fact, Mr. HK ' Barj-y sent the following note to The DJ Players: ll I am informed that in accordance 1 with the order of the Supreme Court Bl you have reinstated me to full rights I and privileges in the club. Therefore wBM I wish to ask you to accept my rosig- 1 nation tendered herewith. HI Now that the castigation of the club I is concludod in a fashion consistent 1 with Mr. Barry's honor, tho history of II tho article which caused the disturb II ance may be considered closed. H I According to report, no actors In the IB. employment of the Shuborts are al- ft lowed to sing for phonograph records, on tho ground that a contract gives H the employer exclusive rights to the singer's services. Such an order, it S seems, is rifely throwing away an op- H portunity for legitimate advertisement, B which could in no way curtail bcx of- fi fice receipts. |
