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Show pictorial. Next week genial sympathetic creatures, they are as luringly Derr will have his hands full jloodless as the vegetables of a truck George applicants as they were by Mr. in handling the persistent Played jarden. Attractions. occupants Coming and the excellent !or the Sammy box the conmuch of matter a Salt Lake Theatre Wizard of Oz, Miller, Miss Spong, amus- of which are were they company, supporting September a cern to the fair ones on the stage. So a way, mean a in way, petty ing Grand Theatre the Sammy Orphans Prayer, common In the hands of an in- 'ar the applications forinto way. the sixties, September ferior company Joseph Entangled" jox have only reachedMr. Derr is look-n- g would have been very much so but in tfext week, however, of latest for a perfect deluge, as the Salt the a direction not intended by Henry Ar-:hJoseph Entangled, Lake Johnnies are generally regarded Jones. the Henry Arthur Jones social comeis being there with the muscular twice was S see the to dies Helds Band will soon resume its reg- goods. differproduced in Salt Lake. Though The ent in subject matter from the former ular concert season at the Grand. Following the Wizard of Oz, and been not has dra- exact opening date yet all booked for September, are: Ralph stage effusions of Mr. Jones, it s the be will but environprobably determined, matic atmosphere and scenic Stuard in By Right of Sword, a roband has October. The in first Sunday ment follow the lines already made mantic melodrama dealing with Rusin summer its most successful had the rea musical familiar by this author. The play and will be in excellent artistic sian life; The Tenderfoot, histoiy ceived its American premiere in San shape for the coming fall and winter comedy and the always favorite, Frank Daniels, in The Office Boy. Francisco some five weeks ago, and concert season. Isnt that a list of heavy bookings? was kindly received by the critics. , jt ,t But the theatrical approval of San George Ade, the play writer, is a fel Zion will have a that rumored is It Francisco generally means the dis- low from whose skin witty things are new theatre.1 Mr. Gourley having been restill We York. New of the genial always Recently oozing. approval, swept off Main 'street by the tearing member how Miss Anglin and Mr George was asked by another rising down of the Unique, is casting around Miller, in Camille, last season, re- dramatic author as to the best way to for an eligible site. There is plenty ceived fat and juicy laurels of verdant get a roaring lion effect on the stage. of money and faith behind the enterIt didnt take long to formulate prise, according to the little bird that praise from the western city, but, la- his answer: George one of your acfine Just HARRY LE GRANDE. ter on, New York did its newspaper tors five dollars; the desired effect will told me. AMUSEMENTS. 15-1- 7. 15-1- 7. BATHING AT J ur foot-light- SAITAIR s, Is better than it has ever been before. x - i . . Finest Dancing in ihe State. J. v v C. LANGFORD, Lessee . best to ruin the reputations of actress and actor in the Dumas classic. So it will probably be with this latest Jones Joseph Entangled. Gotham play, critics finding the approval of San Francisco blown in the heck of the comedy, will probably proceed to California repu smash its bottled-utation. As for myself, I can truthfully affirm that I found nothing in Joseph Entangled which had a tendency to enlarge my admiration for Mr. Jones. In thus declaring myself p the I shall, no doubt, become liable to charge of stupidity, or at appreciation, by the guild of Henry Arthur Jones worshippers dwelling on least non Brigham street and the highways north of that aristocratic boulevard As a satire on the foibles of the London hupper circles, Mr. Jones again gives an exhibition of the doings of the Smart Set and the dancing of aristocratic people to snip-sna- p epigrams The comedy gets all its wit, all its humorous incentives from circumstances which compromise a wifes fidelity. The play certainly draws its theme from a source rather too Frenchy for appreciation When a comedy has for its mirth-prvoking idea suspicions concerning a womans virtue and a mans honor and the plot is continually revolving around their supposed weakness am duplicity, the humorous character o: the situations are rather coarse than amusing. The disgusting theme of the comedy is made still more offensive by the lack of sincerity which marks the protest of the suspected, wife anc former lover. One gets the impression that the entangled Joseph enjoys his entanglement and that the wife also draws a secret satisfaction from the tangled web of entangling circum stances. Together they would snap their fingers at conventional restraint were they not mutually suspicious and distrustful. In the entire comedy there ring out no notes of sincerity, the plausibility of the pTiot is not sufliciently pronounced and there is nowhere an atom of honest, sympathetic human feeling. For this reason Joseph En tangled is an unconvincing comedy in Which artificial people play an artificial Anglo-Saxo- n o game in an artificial way except in the last scene in which there occurs, for the moment, a flow of red blood in the three principal characters. Bu. while Mr. Jones stuffs his puppets with sawdust he works the wires of his plot-wit- h the hand of a wizard. The mouths of his characters are filled with bright speeches and cynical epigrams their mannwe are as finishi ad frfcsJte. But as !i . j r coats foggy natural, be instantaneous. & & - The remarkably successful Wizard of Oz will appear for three nights and Saturday matinee at the Salt Lake theatre beginning September 15th. Although we have been told yith due solemnity that there is nothing new under the sun, the assertion is some times disputed. We are all pretty wel agreed, however, that something new on the stage is an absolute rarity. The press agents of The Wizard of Oz will swear, with both hands up lifted, that not only is there originality in the comedy element of the piece bu that it introduces comedy roles never before seen upon the stage. The two principal comedy roles, the Scarecrow' and the Tin Woodman have been declared by the metropolitan press to be the most unique impersonations ever seen in musical comedy. Some of the spectacular effects in the Wizard of Oz, the scenery and costumes, are said to be veritable banquets of beauti ful colors upon which the eye may feast in a menu of ' riotous rainbow hues and prismatic tints. As in all spec tacular productions there are a few moving picture girls to be found with The Wizard. Indeed, the feminine to be not only numis said contingent erous, but exceedingly shapely and al Maude Adams in her early season tour through the south in The Little Mixt Arthur Byron will star under James K. Hacketts management in a farcial piece entitled Jacks Little Surprise. David Craig Montgomery, the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz, is ister. Robert Edeson is spending the summer at his farm near Sag Harbor, L I., where he is superintending the construction of an Elizabethan manor house as a substantial monument to his success in Soldiers of Fortune" and Ransoms Folly. Richard Golden has a new rural play by a hitherto unknown author, and it has been accepted for production by i .1 jj spending his brief summer holiday in Italy. Annie Russell will open her season Henry W. Savage. Golden himself in her new play, Brother Jacques, has done some little work on the at Cleveland, O., on Oct. 17, instead of manuscript, but will claim none of the Oct. 24, at Buffalo. honors of collaboration. has received Barnabee Henry Clay Olga Kethersole is trying to obtain reveral offers for a vaudeville season, the lease of a West End theater in but has deferred all negotiations until London. Should she get It she will behe returns to New York. gin her season with an adaptation by Mrs. W. G. Jone3 has been W. L. Courtney of Paul Herviens Le for Maude Adams company to Dedale, which wras produced at the play her original role of Nannie Web- Theater Francaise last season. ster in The Little Minister. Jefferson Winter and Mrs. Winter Nat C. Goodwin writes from Ostend. (Elsie Leslie are engaged for Joseph Belgium, that the water has rejuve- Jeffersons company next season. Mr. nated him and that he will sail for Winter will act C&pt. Absolute and America on Sept. 7, opening his season John Peerybingle, and Mrs. Winter al Powers theater, Chicago, on Oct. 3. will have the position of leading lady, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen has been enplaying Lydia Languish and other gaged by Charles Frohman, and when leading parts. ext seen under that gentlemans Edith Wynne Matthison has signed it will be in the new Clyde a contract with Sir Henry Irving to Fitch play entitled The Coronet of a appear with him for the next two Duchess. years. She is to take emotional roles. Mrs. Charles Walcott will appear Miss Matthison for twro seasons has this season with Annie Russell in her been appearing in the English miracle new play, Brother Jacques, while play, Everyman. She is a player of Mr. Walcott will appear with Miss much ability. Robert T. Haines, who left a Baltimore stock company four years ago to leading man in succession GEOJffYPER become with Viola Allen, Mrs. Fiske and Blanche Bates, has decided to return MANAGER to the same Baltimore theater as leading man of a stock company to be installed there this season. May Irwin will return to the stage the coming season and appear in ft FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SEPT. 17 new comedy by George H. Broadhurst. MATINEE SATURDAY The piece was originally written for THE REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL Marie Cahill, but owing to her change of plan and entering the Lew Fields company Miss Irwin fell heir to the vehicle and will resume her work as a re-engag- man-rgeme- nt CURTAIN' THURSDAY. 15-16-- star. WIZARD OF OZ Business Is Business Mr. Will-ia;H.?Crane will have the support of Joseph Wheelock. Jr., Walter Hale, Miss" Katherine Grey, Mrs. Dellen In m Sheridan Backus, Block, Harry Saint Maur, R. Payton Gibbs, Guy Nichols, W. H. Ehipont, MisGabrielle Ravenelle, Miss Emma Fieli and George V. de Vere. Th caSt pf the Drury Lane spee-Ucl- e Mot6er Goose, which will opes at the 01y&$ie theater.in St- Louiioa bfi,ugh, PRICES 81-5- tl.on, ?5c, 50c. 25c Matinee Gorgeous Spectacular Effects, S 1.00, ?5c, 50o. Boxes J2.00. 25c. George . Sale Begins Tuesday. - gcti.jwiU i present a quartet ql w I |