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Show nystrom has new truth;. title. Amusements. or Tuesday last up to the morning Salt Lake Theater Mary Mannering title City Recorder Nystroms military in Janice Meredith, today and toin this State was that of plain Major. to night. Nov it is General. There is a prefix New Grand Carl Haswin in The read Silver the title, too, which makes it King, today and tonight; Had Helds military band, tomorrow night. Receiver-Genera- l. sweet way, it Coming attractions: Salt Lake Theater-WNaylor had his own Ex-Recor- lar standpoint. That this comparatively new method of supplying material for the drama is robbing the playwriter of his creative incentive and originality of thought is widely admitted. But I can see no awful calamity in that, and, though its effect may in some cases be bad, yet it has elements of compensation which lessen the evil, if not making complete restitution. Some of the best inspirations of the stage are drawn from books. The book-worwould commit a crime of selfishness if permitted to lock his library and keep the k eys in his little 3 any other exaction ; the groundwork of the story is retained, while the incidentals are preserved only so far as the animation and dialogue of the drama render necessary. I suppose Janice herself did not differ so much from other colonial girls. History tells little of them its pages are loaded down with battles and ponderous conventions, leaving the little maids in the obscurity from which Mr. Ford and others have rescued them. It ls small wonder, then, that Janice was' at first indifferent to the political policies which came sweeping over the colonies; they were serious matters, while she was indifferent in the carelessness of romantic girlhood. Between the toryism of her father and the burning patriotism of her lover she was swayed by conflicting emotions. This is artistically and delicately brought out by Mary Mannering, who, as Janice, must preserve the identity of the two divergent feelings, yet bring them into such harmony that neither filial devotion nor affection for her lover can be said to suffer at the expense of each other. It ls difficult to paint these moods, forming as they do the atmosphere In which Janice moves and breathes. And then the illiam Collier in On the Quiet, December special Christmas matinee. New Grand Whose Baby Are You? pocket. December One takes up an interesting novel, special Christmas matinee; "A Wise Woman, December fascinating in plot and literary style, Helds military band, December but the pages must rely for warmth 2nd. and color upon the imagination of the reader; the men and women of the book are as lifeless and bloodless as In the days of theatrical enterprise printers ink. But happily a man like the dramatization of a successful novel Mr. Rose comes along. He takes Mr. Janice follows almost as a matter of course. Fords imaginary character, Sherlock Holmes leaps from his Meredith, by the hand and leads her from the coldness of the pages up to morocco bindings to the of him. from the walks Carvel Richard library the warmth and glare of the footlights As an excuse for beginning the battle to the stage, while Janice Meredith here we are confronted, in flesh and which put a lump the size of a Leghorn escapes from the confinewith the colonial lass and can ink blood, printers see her in all the actuality of her little berry on the back of the Recorders to dramatic Mr. the ment Ford of dome of intelligence, causing him to freedom given her by Mr. Rose, the storm centers of petulant restraint and bark his shins against a desk and was playwriter. Whether the dramatized heart concealments. In the dramatized the reason his heart is bleeding to novel is in its incipiency, its meridian Janice Meredith the literary features temperament of this colonial girl runs think his erstwhile friend would do or decline is, as yet, far from certain, of the novel are preserved more with into all kinds of and shades lights the such a thing, Naylor brought up from a popu reference to stage requirements than petulant at times; modest, now and unimportant quite though assessment a of campaign subject then, almost to coyness; half tory and which was supposed to have been paid half rebel, sometimes wholly the one or anor to was to him and wasnt, paid the other; coldly repellent or warmly other man or something of the sort. yet inviting; always winsome and The explanation offered by the ReJanice is enough to drive irresistible, corder did not suit Naylor at all, and to distraction. lover her statements fierce in his that he was To all these requirements Mary Manseme person was a liar and in his nering responds with a naturalness frame there was no odd corner where which can come only from dramatic ina truth might get nights lodging. stinct and artistic feeling. Indeed there Nystrom assured him that the money are times in the play when one might had been paid, and that he had reif Mr. Ford did not write the ask ceipts. He offered to produce them, to meet the conceptions of the novel and Naylor said go ahead. actress.. Janice Meredith, .dramatiThen, while - Maj. Nystrom was and is the central figure cally logically bending over his desk in an atempt to of the drama. At times this eminence smote open a drawer, the is but it ls only for a time. disputed, him a smite behind the ear which in the drama, both as to Everything knocked him clear into the next apartand situation leads to or from dialogue, ment, skinned his shins and dazed him the little colonial girl with the same generally. completeness as in the novel. Sur"Trilby Nicholson and rounding Miss Mannering is a comConsul Simondi, who draw salaries for pany which, on the whole, is capable writing out licenses, taking petitions and well balanced. The stage settings, over the counter, telling people where costumes and effects are, of course, the pound is and how they can get colonial, and the eye is charmed with their dog back, at once rushed to the their quaintness. "Janice Meredith rescue of their fallen chief, the first be presented today and tonight. will armed with a paper weight, the latter with a copy of the riot act. Naylor was engaged in uppercutting at Invisible foes and asserting that he When Knute Erickson, who is a Salt particularly desired to get at some one. ake boy, left this city in pursuit of a Changing his tactics, he began kicking, career his friends were hopeheatrical until it looked as if he were practicing ful doubtful of his success. But yet for a spurring match. But Nicholson, t, Knute himself felt that the the hero of Callocan, the man who has ee was not for buzzing nothing and the honor of having administered to t either. wasnt, Early this week Aguinaldo his first defeat, was watchKnute Erickson at the appeared ing and dropping his paperweight he Theater in Yon Yonson, and surrounded Naylor on one side while surprised those friends who had been, Simondi flanked him on the other, and, but doubtful. In hopeful Yon; while the doughty warrior was vainly Yanson Mr. Erickson found the' endeavoring to knock a hole in the bee-hito dramatic was which he some was atmosphere escorted place, he guided by the aforesaid buzzing bee outside in. something that resembled of theatrical ambition. Tbe big, rag time more than 120 to the minute. Swede, Yon Yonson, is the Mr. Nystrom was unable to perform blue-eye- d same Scandinavian kind, his duties at the Council on that evenfirst hero made Gus Heege famous by ing, owing to the lump on his head, and now successfully perpetuated by; while Nicholson and Simondi quit writ-fo- r our own Knute Erickson. All the Int'vo hours afterward until teresting features of the play have1 their nerves settled. been retained and others added. The The affair created great excitement, lumbermens quartette Is just as en as Naylor has been noted for his mild joyable a feature of the show as lamb-like and disposition, while Nys"Yon Yonson was always, trom Is well and favorably recognized ON THE IN QUIET. RIDGWAY interesting. All admired the railway WILLIAM COLLIER AS ROBERT hy all who have the pleasure of his station scene, the lumber camps, the acquaintance as a young man in snowstorms and the thrillMinnesota " hf!m there is no guile. log-jascene, where Yon Yonson ing Nicholson and Simondi, it may be 6E0. D. PYPER rescues his sister. Supporting Mr. stated, came out without any scars, was a fairly good company Erickson Manager. former attributes to his 5,i!neV1nff of players. skin in getting away side by stepping at the rgiht time and to Simondls aptness in ducking. . Helds band concerts have grown inFour Nights and Matinee, Beginning to a popular institution; the attendCHRISTMAS DAY, ance last Sunday night at the Grand diVtrWRIHtTfC0IJRTT THIRD JUDICIAL was large and most appreciative its Utah, county of Salt size was a matter of comment. vs- Frank If MoouVa1 The Summons. there was ever any doubt about these Thr. stoV,. concerts being a success such misgivYmi nw t Htah to the said Defendant: Comedian, e!?y summoned to appear, within ings have long since disappeared. The days after the service of popular gratitude for these musical HE0? ,U lf served within In His Latest and Greatest Hit, the cointv treats ls divided between Mr. Held for ls aStIon brought ' Mr. "thcrwey the and idea of the serconception thirty days after 3iul'inrl.uffeild the at)ve entitled action; Mulvey who provided the means to ini'll make the idea successful. At every, youI failure SO to do, judg--hie? rndered against you, acconcert may be found tourists and. u whhht0n demand of the complaint, cf strangers who are agreeably, surprised copy s herewith served upon you. to find such a band in our midst the1 LOWERS, STRATJP & LIPPMAN, Impressions they carry away with SEATS ON SALE MONDAY. them are not without artistic value. Plaintiffs Attorney. Considerable comment has been made 28, EaEle Salt UUh00m L.k, or mieht have been General Debility intervened. General Wreck, but friends Air Naylor appeared at the office on lurking the date alluded to with blood not was face His blue eye. mild his in was He evidently fair to look upon. angry and determined to do some one. Upon looking around the office and sizing up the situation he determined that, as Joe was the smallest person there, with the exception of the course it would typewriter girl and of woman he would a to thrash never do out the stuffing everlasting just wallop 25-2- 8; m 23-2- 5, 26-2- 8; foot-light- s; . . - ex-recor- der Ex-Itali- an ten-pou- nd . foot-ligh- Salt-Lak- e ve good-natur- ed ' ever-Scenical- nSalt ,ant- - - Iiake Theatre SlUUam Cottier, On tbe Quiet. m ly, |