Show RS THE FA I f JT II ly D Thompson and The Old 1 Homestead have become a permanent I feature of the American stage and some day will go Into Its history However It will probably be many r years rears before the play with its it its famous F star is at hing of the past for Thomp Thompson son although 68 years old is hale and andt t hearty and The Old Homestead is no noless noless noI I less so 00 It is twelve years since Mr Thompson Thomp Bon son played in Salt l Lake ake and ho found 1 i many improvements in the town He Ii 1 remembered it perfectly and said he was delighted to come here after his long Jong Salt Lake la g known to I the ithe profession as a sort of ot haven of he ha said and we are always pleased to stay may here several days Mr Thompson also alID spoke of the splendid n hospitality he had received here and ili the pleasure with which he talked over overs s old times with David McKenzie and 4 some Borne of his other oth old f friends The famous old actor and some of the members of his company found time to hear the igi tabernacle organ They were ere thorough thoroughly ly delighted with it Mr Thompson en enthusiastically enthusiastically remarked that it if he could carry that organ with him for the I church scene it would be a host In it ti elf and he w uld not need a company Mr Thompson is not one of the stars j Who Otto think that an actor must mum have ai a anew i new ales play every two or three seasons or oftener He looks forward to playing u Uncle Josh Indefinitely and md says that the tho older he grows the better he is in inthe inthe 1 the part He also says that the play is la drawing as well as ever and he has hasi i found fount that the business busina ss increases the thel l longer he stays stas in a town Mr Air Thompson takes all the comfort possible traveling and has his wife and daughter with him There are arp many people who claim that the degeneracy of the stage does c OO not exist that there may here and there be bel l instances of depravity in plays but p that these are rare and on the whole i there exists no downward tendency Itis It Ii Js is indeed gratifying to note that not only are many pure plays plas performed I nowadays but many are written TUten 3 even at the present day da when immor immorality immorality immorality in the drama la is said to be at its t height And yet at the same time ther the r public is credited with a taste for wick ick wickedness edness which is entered catered to accordingly so that there is scarcely one play however how however t ever pure In jn plot which does not con contain contain t tain suggestiveness in a greater or less lesa degree d Take the new plays we st a have i read about for instance At the Garden theatre in New Ne York there is a new melodrama entitled Hearts Are Arel Trump l It claims to be a 2 big spec spectacular spectacular spectacular production with a n story of the stirring BUrring kind written to arouse enthusiasm for villainy vanquished and vir virtue virtue virtue tue rewarded in the good old fashioned way Yet there 19 is an incident of an ar artist artist artist using a painting of the head of the heroine on a nude body and exhibiting e It in the Royal Academy When We f 1 Were played by Nat Goodwin and Maxine Mn lne Elliot has everywhere every ayery everywhere where been mentioned as one of the purest plays playa produced this season that thatIs thatis 1 Is the moral is healthy the language as os it should be b Yet there is a supper room scene which those who h have haye seen It say would be in keeping with it plays pays like Zaza or Sappho Sapi ho And to bring L I It t down to what we e ourselves have haye i seen se n Willie Collier comes to us in a al l of his own making a nonsensical of the most innocent style there Is nothing in the plot to which hiob the most ardent sticklers i for propriety could take es exception tion Yet even into Ino this affair i are introduced tiny bits of or disrobing i suggestions They are more suggestive 1 because they are arc brought in apropos of nothing ng which Thich seems to t indicate 0 O public taste demands it so let us put i it in here and there anywhere will do 00 There was absolutely no occasion for Louise Louisa Allen Collier to divest herself f of coat collar necktie and shirtwaist int in inthe t r i the glare of a bright calcium and full fullview I 1 view of the audience then to hastily 1 t r i draw down the shade in such a suggestive suggestive tive manner nor was there any need for other ladies of the company to rush about the t e stage The play I would auld have been quite as funny and 1 the plot quite as a complete without these J situations Not that they were so bad badin badIn 1 I in n themselves for they were quite I is harmless and anything but exciting 1 t But the point is that Immoral scenes disrobing acts etc have continually been placed before us either by de description 1 or actual presentation that we Involuntarily gasp at the slightest I hint and expect we do not know ex exactly j what but something naughty So 1 the suggestion sugg ion don has as bad an effect as I though the mild mold little indiscretions indiscretion indi In ini i Mr yin Smooth had been really shocking i It Tt is a tendency in the wrong direction f I f a and should be checked Some plays plas are aret written around an improper incident t these should hould be discouraged altogether I 1 Some have bae a 8 few spicy incidents into tl I r diced here bore and there just to be In the swim The authors of these should be beit it taught by b the public that these do not n win min success n The Grau Omit Opera Company It I Tomorrow night the Grau Gran Opera com coin company company pany pang will begin the second cond week of Its ita fi J engagement at the Grand The limit limiti i 6 of the engagement will be three weeks i and the theatre has thus far been crowded nightly The Grau singers are i well known in Salt Lake and no ex ox expense e ei i pense pen c has been spared for every detail 1 of the production Manager Grau has always given Salt Lake good opera and during his stay be he intends to tn maintain I i his bis former reputation The operas to tobe I lit t I be presented for this week are aa as fol follows f i lows Monday Tuesday Wednesday i and Wednesday Wed y matinee Pian i I great comic opera success Paul PaulI Jones ones Miss Mi s Minnie Emmett will ap appear t Fi I pear ar in the title role Lett and j Felch elch the two popular comedians have j two tW great comedy parts and will win sing I i r I the latest topical song I 1 Wonder f a Why Thursday night and andi Saturday I Ii i I J matinee favorite opera i f I Bohemian Girl will be given Friday i I night might Gilbert Sullivans Sullivan s new opera i The Th Gondoliers will be sung and Sat Saturday Sate Satt t e i urd y night also aino for the first time La Laj L a the Ballad Singer All the th e operas will be handsomely hand mounted j ili new nem scenery and costumes z A fA Contented Woman 1 1 What promises to be a great greot event theatricals i ithe is isi In the way of this season s i the engagement next t Thursday evening pt at the Salt Lake theatre of Hoyt s A A Contented Woman with all the stage accessories f cx ories and ami scenery and hat ral effects affects and gorgeous costumes pre precisely precisely the same samo as given ben In Hoyt s theatre New York A Contented Contente d dt Woman Tom oman n is announced as aa the most mos t successful l work of this clever delineator ea tor of American humor novel in theme daring faring in n construction witty In dia dialogue dialogue logue replete with spirited and catchy c atch S music uric brimful of bran new n w vaude valde vaudeville ville gills features and it is claimed as ens easily easly ily lly ly being the best thing Hoyt Hot has pre presented anted for tor some time timo timoThe The cast numbers thirty people an and d Mr Ir Hoyt Hoytt declares that It is iss by all odds odd s the alto best t company come any he h e has ever put ut to together gether ether Miss Belle Archer was specially Y Engaged two taro years ago UbO for the leading leadin g role gand and she will ill be seen here wit with la 1 nearly all the original cast which em embraces races braces Bonnie Bom e Lottie Henrietta Lee LeeC C P Morrison Morrl n John L Kearney Ar Arthur Arhur Arthur thur hur F Buchanan and others Pret Pretty ty iris have ha e always been a feature with wit h Hoyt Oj ot and In zv A Contented C Ce Woman he e Is said saI to be keeping up his repute reputation j Lion tion in this respect 1 Banjo Recital On On Friday night at the Congregational V church Mr Alfred A Farland I the he h banjoist will give his recital Mr arland Farland willbe wm be by the best of o ocal I I local cal talent Including the tho Ladies Ladles Man Manolin olin Quintette Mrs Ella Gumming CUmming I etzell soprano Miss Olive Gre Grey y I and Mr C D gui gut i i Mra Ki r ra a Wetzell Miss Grey and Mr Ir IrI I will wll give gie the trio fromi from from II n nr i r 4 M r Trovatore Tro and wJ bo heard hea rd ini int solo numbers Mr Farland will be lie heard in in twelve short numbers from widely wid ly different composers comp The subscriptions already insure success and the demand for tickets is The chart for reserved seats will open n at Beesleys music store tomorrow morning Ai A A GLANCE It Is rumored that John Drew Is go ing into Shakespeare again and andt will shortly produce Much Ado About Nothing o 0 Ada starring tour will ex tend no further west than Denver D nver Goy Puccini has written a new opera en titled Marie Marla Antoinette o G G 0 5 e Madame Modjeska contemplates cont plates a trip to Europe If she is allowed to re turn to t Poland she may play Ham let there A rumor has been going about that Madame Modjeska was swan go ing into vaudeville She Sho says it is quite untrue She Sho was offered for thirty weeks and all expenses Ran Francisco Chronicle o 0 William WilHam Deal Howells is writing a sketch for vaudeville entitled Room 43 Goo Now Nw that the dramatization of novels has become a fixed factor in current J 1 stage production a new now feature is con contemplated co contemplated in the possible I OS ble dramatization of pictures Daniel Frohman has begun I negotiations with Charles Dana Gib Gibson Gibson son SOD with a aview view to t presenting a play based upon Mr i ir series of sketches called The Education of Mr that have appeared in Life Harry B Smith it Is said probably will ill undertake the tIle task of building a play upon the pictures and d the tion It Is whispered may maj be seen at Dalys theatre after the regular stock stork season at that playhouse pla New York Dramatic Mirror 1 S S Phoebe Davies may star next season in a new play by W A Brady and Jo Joseph Joseph Joseph seph R Grismer o S 0 S S Alberta Gallatin has been engaged by W WA A Brady Brad Brady to head a company i to play the Clyde Fitch version of Sappho G 0 t G 0 S SEthel G GEthel Ethel Barrymore will be seen next nest season In a new comedy to be written for her by Clyde Fitch 4 G s G 0 3 G s J Sir Henry Irving contributed con t to the Dewey Dewe Arch fund in la New York last l tw week 00 0 0 g 0 3 Roland Reed was Wag discharged from St S1 Lukes hospital in Ins New ew York last l t week and is said to be in better physical condition con condition condition than ever before G 0 S 0 S James K Hackett may present The Pride of in London this spring JP w Johnny and Emma Ray will shortly appear at the Victoria Music hall in inA inA inA A Hot Old Time Madame Butterfly is shortly sh to be produced in ire London with ith Evelyn Mil Millard Millard Millard lard in the title role 0 J 0 Paul Gilmore is presenting a con condensed condensed veni version v on of The Musketeers at Proctors Pleasure ure Palace in New York o G 0 Way Down DOWD East is said to be al almost almost most duplicating Ung the success of The TheOld TheOld TheOld Old Homestead which is the highest praise financially that a theatrical en entertainment entertainment entertainment can receive G G G Lisle Leigh has made a great hit in inthe Inthe inthe the leading part of f the Village Villages Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master Mr Arthur Overpeck OS the chief me mechanical mechanical mechanical constructor of Charles H great spectacle The Evil Eye was nearly two years In working out the models of the stage mechanism used In the piece all of which is cov covered ered red by leters patent 00 An Aux attraction soon appear at the Salt Lake theatre ia is the Ward Vokes company in iii the new no musical farce en entitled entitled entitled titled The Floor Walkers 0 0 0 Selden I Clawson is working up some special electrical el ele effects for tor the performances of Pinafore at t Chris hall during conference week MUS MUSICAL CAL PEOPLE Rev W Daunt Scott has written a anew anew new song entitled The Love of bf Yes Yesterday Yesterday Yesterday 1 G 0 G Miss Agatha Berkhoel will sing The Day Is la Done at Calvary Mission in Darlington this evening The Misses Mimes Lamson will wilI also assist with the music on the piano Diano and violin violinS S S The club will meet on Sat Saturday Saturday i night nigh t March 31 with Mrs Voll Vell Vollmer Vellmer mer The Tho composers for the evening will be he Handel and Mozart |