Show I T bJ 00 it 11 f < 1 I Paderewski 2901 50 Sousa night 1250 00 I Sousa matinee 1075 00 Total 5226 50 I This sum paid out for amusements from I Wednesday night to Saturday afternoon J af-ternoon to say nothing of the amounts I taken in at the box offices of the Grand and Lyceum illustrates that Salt Lake is not yet ready to yield up her claim 1 to being the banner show town of the west It is comfortabe too to reflect f that while this large amount left the pockets of amusementlovers it did not by any means all leave the town if The tabernacle choir retained 25 percent per-cent of the Paderewski receipts the distinguished Pole paying all the local expenses These amounted to something some-thing oer 500 hence in reality he only carried off a little more than 50 l per cent of his box office receipts In the Sousa concerts the choir received a 1 considerably higher percentage than 4 In the other but paid the local expenses ex-penses out of their share J 1 W Sousas matinee yesterday was a beautiful affair Nearly 3000 people attended it a large portion of them being ladies With the 1500 chorus children and the band there were 4500 people assembled under the great roof and the seating space really seemed capable of accommodating as many more Sousa and his brilliant band were at their best Vhile the pro gramme was hardly so novel as on the night before It kindled the same enthusiasm en-thusiasm and double and triple encores en-cores had to be yielded The audience rose to Immense heights of enthusiasm when the band and the mammoth juvenile ju-venile chorus rendered the Pilgrims Chorus together Mr Stephens as an encore had the youngsters give America Amer-ica to the band accompaniment and the effect was electrifying as the youthful trebles and altos waved 1500 flags to the time of the song The same effect was produced when the chorus and the organ gave Stephens Utah We Love Thee This was directed di-rected by Professor Young and Messrs Sousa and Stephens listened from the rear of the building Sousa graciously allowed > Mr Pryer who got another ovation to play a trombone solo For an encore the saxaphone soloist Jean Moeremans gave a selection This gentleman by the way took the first prize in a class of seventynine in the Paris conservatory When he was encored en-cored a brilliant cornetist was given alit a-lit chance and so it might have gone on ad libitum the whole afternoon but for the fact that the band had to take the 5 oclock train for Provo Miss French the sopi E no duplicated the big hit she made on the night previous and she had to give her exquisite Ben Bolt for a recall The violinist Miss Duke fared the same way Sousa and his men left Salt Lake with genuine gen-uine regret and they may be sure that the feeling is genuinely reciprocated It is not probable that they will visit js again for two years c A very pleasant surprise awaits our theatregoers for Monday afternoon This Is nothing less than the appearance appear-ance at the theatre In a special matinee mat-inee of the favorite Frawley Dramatic company made up of the players who opened the Grand in this city and made so many friends Mr Frawley little Blalemore Blanche Bates C W King added to Belle Archer and several sev-eral other not so well known here will all be in the cast of The Lost Paradise the bill to be presented The explanation of this hurried engagement en-gagement on an unusual afternoon is as follows Mr Frawley has been corresponding cor-responding with the theatre for several months attempting to arrange for a week here when he took his company east Unfortunately for Mr Frawley and his many friends he was not allowed al-lowed to make dates for the reason that Al Hayman controls the booking for the house and Mr Frawley like the Bostonians who recently gave us the go by is persona non grata to Mr Hayman that is he plays in San Francisco at the Columbia which is Mr Haymans head opponent This shut Mr Frawley out of Salt Lake as there was no other house here he could go to Being most reluctant to pass fcy his old friends here with never a salutation Mr Frawley addressed the Press club of this city told them he would have an open afternoon Monday Mon-day and volunteered the services of his company for their benefit The Press club booking the date for itself and putting In the Frawley company It seems Is not prohibited b3T Mr Hay man and that is the way the affair has been arranged What the Fraw ley company receives if anything we do not know At any rate as the whole house will be open at 50 cents they should receive a royal welcome Ned Royles Mexico with the author au-thor in the leading part puts in Thurs S h1 2 k I5Liv nniTEIR BOYLE IA Mexico day and Friday nights at the theatre Mr Royles townsfolk have kept close watch of his new play and he will be gratlfed to learn that there is keen Interest felt here In the production His friends however do not generally know of the Immense changes which Mexico has undergone since Its birth night and they will be surprised to learn that what was designed to bestirring be-stirring melodrama has now evoluted into a highclass comedy drama In a letter to the writer Mr Royle says In producing Mexico I have had in mind the policy of that astute manager man-ager and playwright Charles Hoyt who produces his plays and plays them York for a season outside of New with a view to colaboration with the public Had I produced Friends in New York without its preliminary Salt Lake nroductlon which short as it was taught me much it would have I been an instantaneous failure I think I may say that with the exception ex-ception of one city Mexico has been favorably received wherever we have played it but today the audience that saw it three months ago would scarcely know it Every time we have played it I have changed it until like the pocket knife Illustration in logic it is still the same in spite of having lost all its blades back and handle When first produced it was a melodrama with spectacular and mechanical effects ef-fects with a slender thread of comedy 1iL 9i 1I41 1t EDWIN MILTOX ROYLE In Mexico running through it Well the first thing my colaborator the public taught me was that the most effective thing so far as the audiences were concerned con-cerned was the aforesaid slender thread I took the hint The audience who had seen Friends expected comedy com-edy of me and exaected to see me in comedy I was playing a bad romantic roman-tic leadone of those heroes who lets everyone else do his work I knew this before the production but though I am not free from the average actors vanity van-ity I didnt care who had the fatso fat-so long as the play was a success It was a bad part and I am not a good enough actor to scintillate in a I bad part Everyone seemed to agree I that I was not in it Mrs Royle and i I long ago agreed that it made no I difference whether we had the best parts in our productions or not but the critics appeared to resent it i e our subordination I think too that if i our little nubile if I may be so bold as to lay any claim to the great public pub-lic did not like to see me resort to mechanical and melodramatic effects So I cut them out remorselessly I had come to believe that the public liked that sort of thing I think I was mistaken mis-taken It is possible I believe to understand un-derstand the public I took the comedy ftit J ii Iii Major Gcnaro Mentloza insubordinate Mexico1 in-subordinate interest and developed it into the main interest The serious interest I made subordinate This as the New Orleans papers pointed out made my title inappropriate so I am going to change to Captain Impudence Impu-dence or A Modern Petruchio We have given a big order for entirely new printing under that title but will I have to play under the title of Mexico Mex-ico in Salt Lake as our new printing I does not reach us until we get to Frisco The new title will give you some idea of the play as played nowL e the adventures of a man who sets out to tame a woman The serious Interest in an emotional way springs out of the love and hate and misunderstandings of a Mexican woman for this same Captain Cap-tain Impudence The horrors of war which were conspicuous in the first productions have been eliminated almost al-most entirely The scenery is unquestionably unques-tionably beautiful I may say that as I didnt paint it but I have cut out a costly and beautiful set along with all the sound and fury of war I Mexico was in Denver last week judging from the extended notices the paper gave it Mr Royle has made no mistake In his radical changes a Robert Gray an old bachelor Walter Edwards Herbert Gray His Nephew Hugh J Ward Jane Barnard Engaged to Robert Rob-ert Gray Helen Henry Miss Gray Elder Sister of Robert Rob-ert GrayCatherine Jerome This is the cast of the curtain raiser Red or White which will open the weeks bill at the Grand Following II Follow-ing is the cast of Snowball a hilarious hilari-ous comedy which will receive its first production tomorrow night Felix Featherstone Win Ingersoll Uncle John Thornycroft George R Edeson Harry Prendergast Walter Edwards SaundersHarry Hathaway I Mrs Arabella Featherstone I Madge CarrCook I Ethel Granger Her Sister I Rebecca Warren i Penelope Maid of all work workHelen I Helen Henry i Yesterdays matinee of Led Astray I was packed despite the heavy oouhte1 f 1 < < J I m jI < I attraction and a good house saw the closing performance last night Gilbert MaitlandH Coulter Brinker Mathew ThorntonEdward Hayes Solomon Isaacs J J Williams Sir Frederick SydneyDeWitt Jennings Walter WinfordBrigham Royle Joe the Lock KeeperJames Ellis Thomas Omn Grow Kate MaitlandMaud Edna Wall Ada Sydney Emily Lytton Laura Sydney Nettie Drury Little ArthurJessie Conrad This is the cast of Queens Evidence I Evi-dence the sensational play which forms the bill at the Lyceum for the coming week The management say they have felt the pulse of the public thoroughly and have now ascertained that it is melodrama it wants henceforth hence-forth therefore comedy will find a resting place no more on the stage at the Lyceum which is to be known as I the home of the sensational Queens Evidence by the way is one of the old time successes of the Home Dramatic I in it Governor Wells made one of his earliest successes as Moses Abrams apart I part which for some reason will be essayed under the name of Solomon Isaacs by Mr Williams > > 2 It is pretty well known that Paderew ski was disappointed with his reception in this city less with the monetary part of it than the dencrstrative He has been so accustomed to having peo pe prostrate themselves before him that he could not understand the demeanor de-meanor of an audience which merely listened breathlessly and gave him hearty applause He said to Mr Stephens that he feared he had come to Salt Lake fifteen years too soon Mr Stephens attempted to reassure him by saying that while his music was rather heavy yet the audience had enjoyed it I and they had shown a great deal more appreciation for him than they had for Ysaye Great was the mournful response what must poor Ysaye have done It will be news to many to read that Modjeska was Instrumental In introducing Introduc-ing the famous Polish pianist Into the musical world When in Poland some years ago Modjeska met and heard Paderewski and recognized his genius She advised him to continue studying and advanced a large sum of money for his education on the piano Modjeska modest and unassuming has not breathed a word of this but Paderew I I ski does not make a secret of this great kindness shown him by his country I coun-try woman I a I I The third and last of the series of concerts arranged for the benefit of the tabernacle choir California excursion fund will occur at the tabernacle Friday Fri-day evening next Mr Stephens has arranged a fine programme and a feature fea-ture which is expected to prove a strong attraction will be the drawing of the holders of season tickets for a free ticket to California and return The choir also gives a concert during conference which will probably be their farewelL Harry Corson Clarke Charlotte Tit tell Wallace Munro and several other Thespians who are spending their at liberty season in Salt Lake have been invited to render a triple bill at the Murray opera house this week and two car loads of friends will accompany accom-pany them over the Rapid Transit and a full house is guaranteed them They will render One Touch of Nature My Uncles Will and Box and Cox up to Date P II Eliason The Mormon Magician is back from his eight weeks experimental experi-mental tour in the middle western states It has proven so much of a success that he has signed a five years contract to go into the profession and W W Tillottson his manager has gone to New York ito book a forty weeks tour through Klaw and Erlan gerThis This was Eliasons first appearance east of the Rocky mountains and it is gratifying to say thathe was well received re-ceived everywhere In this connection it is interesting to note that Eliason followed Hermann closely at Colorado Springs Col La Salle Ills and Davenport Da-venport Ia in the same theatres The critics at these places gave him most flattering notices pronouncing him the rival of Hermann and some said lie was the superior of the elder necromancer Eliason will start out on his tour next August with an entirely new outfit out-fit and new features He will give two or three performances here as a farewell fare-well S S Mr Johnstone the enterprising manager man-ager of Ysaye has been writing Mr Burton asking on what terms tHe great Seidl orchestra and Saumet could be booked here in May It is to be hoped the arrangements can be made as Seidl is today in New York far in advance of what Theodore Thomas was ten years ago Her townsfolk knew that Maude Adams occupied a high place in the estimation of New York cities but they were hardly prepared for an outburst like this which appeared in last Sundays Sun-days World John Drew and his admirable ad-mirable company in The Squire of Dames are attracting large and fashionable fash-ionable audiences to the Garrick theatre During his present engagement engage-ment Mr Drew will be seen in a new play Until then Mr Drew will stilt coldly around the stage in the Squire of Dames and Miss Adams will carry the piece as she has all the other pieces in which Mr Drew has made his great successes Better one performance per-formance by Maud Adams than a cycle of John Drew a The Chicago Lady quartette which appears at the Congregational church on the 16th or 17th under ithe auspices of the Orpheus club is now touring California San Jose letters speak highly of its work W Following is the programme for the band concert at the Post Amusement hall Fort Douglas at 330 p m today Star Spangled Banner Overture Mons Choufleui Offenbach Popular Medley The Metropolis at Night L O DeWitt The Coquette Char CanceSousa Selection fr MacbethVerdi Intermezzo Loves Dream after the Ball Czibulka Southern Patrol Voelker Hail Columbia I I Stage AVhispcrs I The author of Red or White is a I brother of Mr Causten Browne of this city Mr Browne Is also the author of A Fool For Luck Marslck the renowned violinist who appeared with Paderewski in San Francisco is the possessor of one of I the rarest violins in the world He I has it insured for 57500 I Duncan B Harrison has secured I I from Charles H Hoyt the exclusive rights to Hoyts itA Midnight Bell and will shortly send the piece on tour i He has engaged Digby Bell and Laura i Joyqe Bell for leading roles The famous Bostonians who have been playing to 10000 or 11000 a week at the Broadway theatre in Robin Hood celebrated the 2000th performance of that opera on Monday j February at that house Composer Reginald De Koven led the orchestra and Librettist Harry B Smith was the stage manager for the occasion The TwentySirst Ward Amusement company who have acquired a good deal of local fame for their rendering of tho military play of Comrades will repeat it in the Eleventh ward assembly room next Thursday evening even-ing together with the farce of A Charming Pair The proceeds go to the benefit of the ZIons Maori association associa-tion The Carleton Opera company is playing play-ing in San Francisco a popular pr1ce Several newspapers have said that j f s Henry Miller is going starring next season These reports are wrong It Is true however that Mr Miller will not be In the Empire Stock company next year Since it has been noised about that this was the case half a dozen managers have submitted to him Various proposals for next season but as A M Palmer would put it there is nothing definite yet in this connection connec-tion Victory Bateman one of the cleverest clever-est and most versatMe of the younger actresses is at present filling a ten weeks engagement at the Avenue theatre Pittsburg Miss Bateman is at the head of the stock company at that house and her work has been highly praised by the leading papers of that city She was seen in a different differ-ent role each week displaying remarkable re-markable versatility One of the local critics speaking of Miss Batemans performance of Vera in Moths said It was the most original artistic and perfect impersonation of that character ever seen in that city A performance of Caste was attended by the Tuesday Tues-day Night club of Pittsburg composed com-posed of the citys four hundred So strong in fact is Miss Batemans popularity that Harry Davis manager of the Avenue theatre has extended her engagement indefinitely Mirror |