Show I J LOCAL THEATRICAL REVIEW I L BY THE PLAYGOER I week Is accounted CONFERENCE C the best theatrically of the season Beginning Thursday night several attractions played to houses and business was good at every theatre In m the city The Easiest way Vay at the Salt Lake theatre has had only one recent rival in point of ot attendance and that was tho the tonal engagement of ot Maude Adams last spring For the tho first performance of the BelasCo drama every seat scat was taken tal en before b tore 6 in the after afternoon afternoon noon and large houses hou es were wore the rule rulea at a each succeeding performance The Tiro Easiest Easle t Way Va by Eugene Walter author of ot Paid in Full FuJI and The Wolf olt treats tra ts of ot an unlovely phase pha e of ot contemporaneous city life lite It Is supposed d to do this so artistically ly h and with such sueh ab absolute truth that the immoral story Is swallowed for the sake cake of ot tho the realistic picture It is isnow nuts now in its third year and nd with the present company will complete the thes season s son playing east from Salt Lake to Chicago ro The Easiest Easl lit Way Vay opened August 19 in Atlantic City then making a jump west to Los Loa Angeles whore where it was shown the first week in September Two weeks in San Sn Francisco where o a special matinee was as given to ac accommodate accommodate accommodate the crowds crowd and from there to Salt Lake has baa been its itinerary Itinerary mry Following this engagement the company will go to Denver Demer Pueblo Cheyenne Cho onne Wichita Kansas ICan as City Oma Omaha Omaha Omaha ha and Chicago Miss Starrs First Visit Miss Frances Francess Franc 6 Starr was seen in the city for tor the first time in ht The Easiest Way a Her Jer Salt Stilt Lake engagement renewed her bor acquaintance with Air Mr and Mrs Mr William Ingersoll whom she knew in New York when playing the role in Gallops Gallop at th the Garden theatre where Mr Ingersoll was leading man It was in this role that she was first seen een by David Be Belasco Belasco Belasco lasco who later engaged ed and starred her Mr and Mrs rs Ingersoll enter entertained entertained Miss Miu Starr and her sister slater Mrs O Gladwell lad well who accompanies her on her lier tours toun and Tunis Tun F Dean Dlan man 4 agor nger of ot The Easiest Way p at supper Thursday night after aner the play and Mr Dean gave a dinner to the same me party Friday evening Miss MS Starr who is a It personal friend of ot Ada Dwyer Russell RU was ws enter entertained entertained entertained at a tea at the Country Countr club on Friday by Mrs Ira Russells sisters Mrs Frank W Jennings and Miss Edna Ed Edna Edna na Dwyer Dyer Mr Dean also met a num number 1 ber T of ot old ohl friends during his hll l stay in inthe inthe the city He was in Salt Lake last lut season peason as manager for Blanche Bates Bat Batand Y and on previous occasions ocea lon for tor other li noted stars Played flayed in The Devil Joseph who made a It strong impression llon as aa Willard Brockton in inThe InThe inThe The Easiest Eule t Way Yay was last seen seon here herein herein herein in The Devil in which he played the title role John P Brawn is a native Salt fait Laker and he received a warm personal welcome at his first appear appearance ance as II Jim Thursday night Violet Rand another member of ot the Ute c excellent company was with Maude Maudet I t Adams in What Every Woman C Knows last spring Mr 11 Dean brought news of ot two Salt SaltI I Lake ake actors who are much In the tho public I eye e e Ada Dwyer is Ia now no in Chi Chicago ago cago In The Deep Purple b 11 IK Paul Armstrong She returned from England in August having closed I sed a successful engagement there thore Julia Dean will be seen leen at the tho th Salt take Lake theatre this winter in ht The IIi in which she hE is playing with ONell Billy lUlly SUI Clifford Takes Well Wil Bill Billy Rilly Clifford was as at the Colonial t f r the th ne wk k in in i It The Man the Girl Girt and the Game a lively musical com comedy comedy comedy edy His other name or more prop properly properly properly erly his middle name Is Singleton from which is derived the Single that has hu puzzled so many He thinks It perfectly proper to use the name as he is unmarried and practically alone in the world except for tor his aged mother Mrs Sarah Clifford who travels with him and at It the age of ot 73 enjoys the sort of ot wandering life Ufe that comes to the star and pro producer producer producer ducer of ot a road show From Salt Lake the tho company com pan goes north play ing stands between here and Portland where they the are booked for tor a week Mr Clifford is at work on another musical comedy which promises to be bea a little out of ot the ordinary It willbe will willbe be called Anyplace Anytime Any Anywhere Anywhere Anywhere where and he contemplates bringing it out next season His home is In Urbana 0 O where he ho owns a fine the theatre theatre theatre atre and business block The remarkable resemblance of ot Bud Braman who takes the part of ot Dr Harry Merry in The Man the Girl and the Game Gamo to Manager C N Sutton of ot the tho Orpheum theatre was I noticed by many who saw the play pia When hen Mr Sutton heard about it he ho I posted off of In hi a hurry hurr to the Colonial to see how he looked Bl Big Week at nt Garrick The Garrick stock company did a splendid weeks business with A Vir Virginia Virginia ginia Courtship in which Mr Inger took the part of ot Major Richard Fairfax a onetime role of ot William WilliamH H Crane whom the play pia was written Mr Ingersoll Ing gave a faith faithful faithful ful tul portrayal though the play pla by no means gave him the opportunity nor did the part suit his talents as well as some of Qt the earlier productions Among the women players pla es Miss Mar Margaret Margaret Margarot garet garot Dills easily led in cleverness cl verness of at work Since The Prisoner of ot Zenda had been announced for the past week the sudden change to A Virginia Courtship created some comment This was due to the fact tact that this I I play was available for tor Salt Lake last week only and as aa there had been many demands for it it was used at that time The Prisoner of or Zenda will be given later During the week there were many box parties at the among them those of Dr and Mrs Fred Stauffer on Tuesday evening and of ot Colonel and Mrs Edwin F Holmes Thursday night The rhe production announced for this week is Leah one of or Mrs Irs Fiskes successes and a high royalty play controlled by b Harrison Grey Gre Fiske It will give Miss Frances Niel Nielson son leading woman of ot the Garrick company compan the best opportunity she has yet had Miss 1156 Nielson will be at home at the hotel for the winter Other plays pla s now in the hands of ot Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph Byron B ron Totten Totton the competent stage manager of ot the Garrick are Regeneration Old Heidelberg and The Barrier He is now work working workIng working ing out the details to give them a presentation soon Big Time lime at nt nm The Orpheum had a good bill and anda a good weeks business with Charles Operatic Festival and The Police Inspector as headliners Although not classed among them the Rossow midgets played pla ed a close second to the star attractions They The Thearo are aro said to have havo boon been on the Rude vaude ville Ulo stage for tor more than twenty years giving the same act with absolutely absolutely absolutely no changes in that time J J JWilliams JWilliams Williams of The Police Inspector company i is h a former Salt Lake resi resident resident dent v who ho h occasionally worked at the I local theatres He gave gae an excellent character interpretation of ot an Irish scrubwoman In the Orpheum sketch Beginning Monday Monda September 26 the Orpheum added San Diego to Its list of ot vaudeville houses which now number twentythree on the circuit four tour of ot them being in California Shows will be given in the southern city three nights every week w ek with matinee running through Wednesday The acts will wm go down from Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles returning there and thence to Salt Lake It is expected however that shows will soon be put on in San Diego for tor a full week with daily dally matinee The big acts of ot the Orpheum pro program pro program program gram this week are Mis s Minnie Du Dupree Dupree Dupree pree in The Ministers Wife and the original six Kaufmanns Kaufmann a family of ot cyclists who are said to be the best bes besin bestIn bestin in the business Miss Dupree is a alively alively lively little person with very decided opinions on every subject connected with her art About Orpheum Orp eum au audiences audiences audiences as distinguished from those which attend regular plays pa s she vas has as this to say sayI I have found a great difference indeed In the character chara ter of ot the audiences For one thing vaudeville spectators are always impatient for tor forthe forthe the next act and knowing that no en encores encores encores cores are granted they are apt to slide sUde over the close of ot a performance Without seeming to give the appreciation tion one is accustomed to in other work On the other hand they are trained audiences and pretty quick to discriminate In fact tact their demands de demands demands mands are raising the tone of vaude vaudeville vaudeville ville llIe performances all over the t e coun country country country try Week eck at the he Daniels The Daniels theatre had its share of ot the conference patronage but the company compan sadly felt the lack of ot a leading woman and soubrette the places that have hae been vacant since the departure of ot Miss Baker Baltor and Miss Sutherland The announcement is made that Laurette Taylor of Q New NewYork NewYork NewYork York has been secured as leading woman She cornea comos to Salt Sait Lake Im Immediately immediate immediately mediately mediate at the close of an nn engage engagement engagement ment mont with the successful musical comedy Alma Where here Do You Live Another addition to the company compan will willbe willbe willbe be Bobby Bobb Burnham who comes from froman an engagement enga ement with George M II Co hans production of ot Little Johnny Johnn Jones A San Francisco soubrette has also been engaged whose name It il ilis itis is ii Impossible to give until her present contract with a California company compan is cancelled The Daniels company opened yesterday with an presentation of or A Happy New Year At the Shubert the Frederick Moore stock company com pan opened Thursday night in A Fight For Love and Honor a alively alively alively lively melodrama that had a good Ini Initial initial I run In the cast were Mr lr Moore Pearl and antI James Rennie of ot I the former Willard Mack Mach company The varied its moving picture program pro with the vaudeville act of ot Albini during a part of at last week The Luna Isis and Elite EUte theatres had good houses at th their ir afternoon and evening moving picture shows machine will bg be built this winter and Miss Stahl declares If It no noone noone noone one else will make maye the first attempt to fly fl it she site will take the operators seat himself |