Show A COLD DAY A BemarkaWe Play > WitK aBe mai able Name and Cast Mr Charles JJacGeachy the manager of the Cold Day Company arrived in this city last evenlngto complete the preliminary arrangements for the performances per-formances to be given by his company atthe Theatre on Fridayand Saturday evenings of this week We have to be sure an incomprehensible incompre-hensible title for our play he said when asked what ACold Day When We Get Left was all about The play he continued is not a play exactly ex-actly though it possesses a plot Nor is it strictly a comedy though it teems with witty lines and laughable situations I situa-tions Nor is altogether a musical sketch though f rolihc with popular music and artistic solo duets trios and choruses Well what Jis it then 1 urged the interrogator S After a moments meditation Mr MacGeachy admitted that it is an indescribable in-describable entertainment to which not the least exception can be taken by the most exacting amusement seeker It was first produced in New York City without a titleWe offered 1000 for a name for the piecein vainuntil the one it now bears was submitted and in despair accepted We sought a title that would mystify the public as to the nature of the piece Well I fear interrupted the interviewer inter-viewer that you have secured a more perplexing title than you bargained for So it has appeared for we have been repeatedly queried as to its application j to the play everywhere rejoined the j manager and adding Perhaps thebest insight I can afford you is to state that j the performers include such wellknown j funmakers as William Welch the I I premier comedian of the once famous Haverlys Mastodons Frank Wills formerly leading comedian of Dalys Comedy Theater New York Gilbert Sarony7otie of the greatest living burlesque bur-lesque artists of the day ana im j mcnselV TSOpllafin San Francisco Perkins D Fisher the best of the 1aqpS4n e comedians John Rice tho shared with Welsh as partner the comedy triumphs of Haverlys Mastodons Masto-dons Ernest Havens beyond question the cleverest dancer in the business The vocalists in the companv include the celebrated Star Trio A E Burton Bur-ton J D Green and Stanley Vernon who are unequaled as a singing team Among the soubrettes of the party are Miss Valina Phillips late of Fords Comic Gpera Company Miss Lizzie Hight late of the Boston Theatre and Miss Cora Macy late of the Madison Square Theatre New York From such I I a concentration of firstclass legitimate talent a most satisfactory mleange of fun and music may be assuredly anticipated antici-pated The company bring all the scenery scen-ery required fef the piece together with an abundance of mechanical effects How has theplay been received in the J l nflincT mijoa1 It was regarded in New York as the best of the funny plays extant Even the sedate Chicago Times advised its readers to go and see it In Boston Philadephia Washington Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis and other leadins eastern cities it scored unprecedented succcsse 5 attracting enormous audiences audi-ences The same with regard to Denver Leadville Cheyenne and elsewhere in that section It is in short a popular play peculiarly adapted to please any audience wherever the English language lan-guage is understood and the people are not blind for the makeups and pantomimic panto-mimic action throughout the piece are among the hit It is an entertainment g f 1ji too that commends itself to ladies and children for this reason the attendances attend-ances to our matinees have been extraordinary extra-ordinary Salt Lake is considered one of the test matinee cities in the country If our piece makes a hit the first night our matinee on Saturday rank with the largest that has ever been given hereHave Have you played in San Francisco yetNo No We are on ofcr way there now to fill an engagement of three weeks We next do the California coast circuit then proceed north where we have dates in Washington Territory Oregon and Montana our return to the east |