| Show 1 A 4 U 4 I N WEEKS W S PROGRAM Salt Lake Theatre B Y YU YU YU U opera company In u Marl Marf t tana Saturday afternoon n nand I I and evening Theatre Vaude ande Vaudeville ville yule all the week matinees daily including Sunday Sun a Colonial Theatre Bonita f 1 c in Wine Women and Song Beginning tonight and run running running ll ning the week with mati matinees matinees I nees flees Wednesday and Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day Ii Daniels Theatre Willard Villard 1 t Mack Maude Leone and the ill stock company in Facing the Music beginning to tonight tonight f Pt t night and running the week B with matinees Wednesday and Saturday jI I Z Mission Theatre Vaude Vaudeville 1 c yule ville all the week with mati matinees matinees I 4 nees flees daily including Sun Sunday Sunday II I 4 day Change of bill Thurs Thursday Thursday I I i day afternoon V Il TV Luna Isis and Elite The Theatres I J f V atres Vaudeville and moving moving movI I ing pictures afternoon and Y V evening V T k Shubert lubert Theatre Vaude Vaudeville V 4 ville vilIe and moving pictures Vr V 7 afternoon and evening e V B V ui VV Casino Theatre Vaude Vaudeville J ville and moving mo pictures iw afternoon and evening I THING JQ DOING IN UN j DT wu V T Q L BY PYLES FYLES I TA j j f n fV 1 I w EW YORK yom May 14 American NEW N drama of realism breaks bre ks jail after several years ears of solitary confine confinement confinement confinement ment for Its assaults on stage and thereby vitiating the theatrical taste of the populace With With VI h the pistol in hand it dashes boldly into entitled entitled view with a play appropriately tIed The Holdup I saw a surprised audience throw up its Lands at the t e word of command and surrender to tn a gunplay as of yore ore Lonesome Joe Toe is a railway agent in Arizona He Ee lives there like a n hermit V talking to himself out loud about a ost lost sweetheart and over the telegraph wires to other operators whom he has never seen A locomotive stops a freight train just back of the stations wide windows with much whistle and and It goes g es on again after I Lonesome Joe has haa told the engineer within the all that I I have told you in the paragraph Joe Toe left lonesome long Hands up un cries a voice Joe grabs at ata ata ata a pistol but the visitor gets the drop dro on him and compels c him to hang out outa a red light that will hold up an ex express press prea train due in twenty minutes During that time the men play a des desperate desperate desperate game ganie to beat each other Do you know a deeper voiced actor than W lv V S Hart He plays the brave sta station station station tion agent while an equally strong i vocal Socola personates the robber So their dialogue spoken in whispers An Actual Incident By a shift shirt of ot guns Hart gets V the drop on Socola So cola Then the plot thick thickens thickens thickens ens to o what Taylor Granville theau theauthor the author au author thor declares in the program to be a reproduction of an actual Incident The station agent learns from the rob robber robber robber ber that he Is none other than thai that other station agent who once assisted him in averting the wreck of ot a train But he has turned road agent be because because because cause the company ungratefully dis dismissed dismissed missed ml him from its service his real name He gives it Great heaven It Is the same as that of the others lost sweetheart Then can It be no yes hes her brother If the coming train stops now it will take Socola aboard a prisoner instead of being plundered by b him The red light is set to hold it up The silence of suspense lets the humming of the mountain wind through the tel telegraph telegraph telegraph wires be heard Then come the toots of the approaching locomotive This Is melodrama Hart hauls down dmn the signal As long loud and lIlu illusionary a railway train as ever I saw on a stage dashed past the windows Hart and Socola shake hands They and a man for the freight engineer are the only actors for tor The Holdup is isa Isa isa a tabloid revival of western melo melodrama melodrama melodrama drama but the play bill names six other men from author and manager manag r to master mechanic and electrician and I suppose they all work on the realistic railway Hart the star The train is what carries the audience away Maie Dressier Dressler the American heavyweight champion soubrette came home from London bringing every one of the two hundred pounds she had taken there but with a com corn complete complete loss of temper for the English audiences had refused to laugh at her except derisively and when asked V What next will you go into she replied with a grim grin uA A nunnery If take me inc In of those lowbrow London chumps What That she did do three months ago I was to go on a tour with TUlles Nightmare Word came back that 1 she doing well weIl that amended versions of the play gave gae no better sat rat satisfaction t and the first of May she re rc returned returned turned to t town Now she has bounced up in all aU her herbig herbig herbig big rotundity into higher favor than ever eyer with those joll who like theatrical the theatrical theatrical foolery of her lier ler sort Edgar Smith Lew Fields Fieldg and Marie who had worked toge together er at such jobs In Inthe Inthe Inthe the hall halt lays tays put in a week of hard labor on Times Tulles Nightmare before bet re offering It to Broadway and made a bully show Just lust as before though TUlle Tillie Is a Cin CIa Cinderella CInderella derella drudge in a country boarding boardinghouse house bouse to h 10 left behind to wash the sup supper supper supper per dishes while others so go to a ball falls asleep and dreams of coming to New Jew ew York In the new chance for forthe forthe forthe the female buffoon however she en enthuses enthuses enthuses her lier admirers right oft with a s travesty tr vest of ot the poor little drudge that s fat with flesh and fun and Includes a ditty with the he chorus You may tempt t the Uie upper classes with your wicked but heaven will vill take ake care care of the he poor working girl V The he V ensuing nightmare conveys Til TI TIU u lie Into the gaieties of Gotham with her village sweetheart changed to a atoO town toO millionaire who owns a depart department department department ment store for her to turn Into a pan pandemonium pandemonium a yacht for her to sail ail away in and an airship to fly lly back home in Marie Dressier Dressler occupies the center of the stage much of the even evening evening evening ing and spreads considerable way to towards towards towards wards its circumference She is a coarse artiste but never crude and her depletion depiction of or mal de mer relieved by dipsomania seasickness aboard the yacht merging Into a champagne champa e Jag Is an example of real dramatic art soused thoroughly to suit the taste of f the Tenderloin Yet the rack reek show vicious in its f The art of pantomime Is Ia a fake con considerably conI considerably Did you ever see a play of I silent motion that have a scenario printed V in the program Otherwise you ou V have known what it was about It Is a false pre pretense pretense tense that a story can be told in dumb Show how understandably to people not previously informed of at least the gist of it Your grandfather may say there used to be so ex cx expressive expressive In action that they made characters eloquent and intricate plots comprehensive c ve without the utterance of a word The old mem mern memory memory ory is fooling him I saw the famous Ravels Believe me they had to be helped out by playbills However and although the story of the new pantomimic drama La So Is in the program the pur purport purport purport port and purpose e of the show the reason and the meaning are made clear by Nina Payne without an ex cx explanation explanation or synopsis And Nina is not technically much of a girl either Her beauty Is uncommonly mobile though throughout her entire length of sixteen feet teet In that m tal tel measurement of her corporal distances I reckon her arms and legs separately to the tips of her longest lingers fingers fl gers and biggest toes for her limbs are marvels of graceful activity What Ninas pantomime Is meant to express Is novelty in immodesty The theatres of ot the world nave have as you know been Invaded by undressed dancers generally American women who began with Salome Sal me In religious pretense passed Into a semblance of Greek art and gained a vogue even among people not usually tolerant of nudity on the stage Now Nina utilizes somnambulism Birthday Supper La uLa introduces eight persons at a birthday supper They dance in original ways under the of wine A tipsy rake sneaks back after the other guests have gone gets into the hostess bed bedroom bedroom bedroom room is dragged out by her husband and the men in their fight roll roU down a along along along long stairway about all Except that the rake Just before his overt offense sees the wife walk down those stairs In her sleep and dance A work is due d e to her exploit She is clad only in a night gown slippers and very Intimately a silken fabric meant to be regarded as her skin This coun counterfeit cuticle is too pink to be true unless it be assumed that she is blush lug ing all allover over as she ought to The gown is and so very sleazy that the tights Underneath being bright In hue tor f thaC purpose her figure shows plainly p through the gauzy g uzy outer en envelope envelope as she poses by herself or waltzes wildly in her mimic husbands arms It was Ninas luck at her third per ver performance the one I saw to get by accident thousands of dollars worth of publicity at the cost of a burned sleeve a scorched wig and a blistered arm She had emerged from her bedroom in inthe inthe Inthe the sleepwalking incident tumbled down the stairway without waking done ia danse dance de la Ia robe de nuit nult and picked up a lighted light candle like Lady Macbeth when her mass of loose hair caught fire lire It was as so ro manifestly a genuine accident that the newspapers far and wide told next day how the blaze made the people panicky and she put It out by rolling on on the th floor Whenever a play a quarter of a cen century century century tury dead Is brought to robust life Ute dont call It a miracle but ut look for fora a natural explanation You will find it usually In some one very vital scene Here Is Jim the Penman The younger generation knows it only as a successful drama of othe o the middle SO but when the older calls it to min Agnes Booth Bo te I the figure that stands stand standout stan out brilliantly foremost t forem rem st The passage in ln which thich a a wife slowly comes com to know that her het husband 8 ld is 1 a forger probably is as effective as is siny of its sort ever written in a iii play and our American I V V V Vi Vi VV Vi i i i V V V 4 V V V V V V VV V V VV VV VV VV 4 V V V V V V V Vs VV s V VV V V V V V V V PROF A C O LUND Director of the B Y U Opera Company Miss B o performance rose fully to Its possibilities 4 The original triumph might have been the English Mrs The mother of ot the British drama looks back upon the long career from which she recently retired with just pride in inthe inthe inthe the fact that she and her husband discovered numero s plays of mom mem memorable success but frankly she con confesses confesses confesses one glaring mistake Sir Charles Young offered his Jim TIm the Penman first to the then united with Sir John Hare in the management or orthe orthe orthe the St James Tames then most fashionable theatre The character of the detective had been written for Sir John and E M 11 Holland HoIland who played many of the Hare roles in America I Imade made much of it Mrs Irs Kendal says that either she or her husband read every manuscript ever sent to them Only people aware of the quantity submitted to a lead leading leading leading ing management can realize the mean meaning meaning ing lug of that assertion But Mrs Ken Kendal Kendal Kendal dal recalls It to her chagrin for Jim TIm the Penman not only proved itself to tobe tobe tobe be an uncommonly good play of great greaf grea popular ap eal but it contained ad roles for Sir John Hare and Mr Kendal besides beIdes one for her in which she would without a doubt have made a triumph long to be asso associated associated associated with her name in dramatic his history history history tory Jim the Penman A merit of Jim the Penman Is that it contains several good acting parts as the jargon of the theatre has hasit it The forgers wife and the thede V de detective detective detective are the best bet but Sir Herbert Tree found in the polished villain ma material material material with which early to impress upon the public his ability since be become become become come famous throughout the theatre world Yet with the great grat womans role and the two exceptionally good ones for men E S Willard Villard who was the English producer cast himself for forthe forthe forthe the wicked husband Agnes Booths son Ion Junius Brutus Booth son and grandson of tragedians of his own name nephew of the famous Edwin Booth and the infamous John Wilkes Booth and cousin of the recently la Ia lamented lamented Preston Clarke CIarle has appeared with facility in that same part Florence Roberts who now leads the star cast as the wife must have haye played the part transiently on the Pacific coast Mary Shaw gave a fine render renderIng rendering rendering Ing in a stock company a dozen years Jears ago while others in it were Julia Tulia Ar Arthur Arthur Arthur thur Nance Nanee ONeil Lillian Lawrence Beatrice Morgan Valerie Bergere and arid Lillian Kemble England In the part which Mrs Kendal rejected is associated ed with Mrs Bernard Beere and Lady Monckton Florence Roberts has never before made than a speaking acquaint acquaintance ance with New Yorkers They have heard of her vogue west of the Rock ies but her acting here hitherto has been in plays that barely escaped fail failure failure failure ure and then too her likeness to Mrs Fiske in ip person and method have given the wrong impression that she Is an imitator of that actress Her performance of Mrs Ralston clears her of that charge and makes reputation reputation reputation tation for her as an original artist Wilton Vilton Lackaye is the forging penman Theodore Roberts the baron who leads the tho gang of swindlers and John Ma Mason Mason son the secret sleuth They give much weight to the cast not less than GOO COO pounds In the aggregate and that they are an able trio be asserted because their reputations as usually starring actors are wide too Another old play preten pretentiously pretentiously T In Broadway is Caste and Marie Mario Tempest Is the reason for it Unstinted ted praise makes poor reading but the Polly of Miss Tempest is wor worthy worthy worthy thy to t be classed with though by the he quality of the material less Jess important th Lady Teazie of Ada Rehan and the Mrs of the tho late l te Mrs Irs John Drew The actress of Esther Eccles has a hard task Although os ostensibly ostensibly the leading role Esther is colorless and the th actress cast ast for It must see the honors carried ff In tri tn triumph triumph by the gay and gladsome Polly That was thE first performance when London of fifty years ears ago went balmy over the Polly of ot Marie Wil Wilton Wilton 1 ton Bancroft It was as so when Mrs Mn introduced the comedy to America when Lester cast W J T Florence for the part in rivalry to the and with all the Pol Pollys Pollys Pollys lys Effle Effie Fanny Daven Davenports Davenports Davenports ports Selina and those of repertory stock companies the orly views of Caste America has had since John Hare resurrected it in 1891 1391 So what chance has Elsie Ferguson when Marie Tempest is the pony Polly The production treats the comedy as asa asa asa a modern play yet Edwin Arden speaks with the lisp affected affe ted by |
