Show I Thee Drrarnllso Take Salt Lake Opera company has arSiieved a great success during the ii past week All who heard 1Iradel net pronounced ne-t It the prettiest brightest ° knd best rendered opera < < in the com ° panys repertoire The company now < < Vccupies a place quite its own in the junctions of the theatregoing public j and while some people will continue to iJi compare it with a professional organization i = organ-ization there are many reasons why the plan is neither well advised nor i just to either side The Salt Lake Opera company is an organization wtoich has been built up out of home talent home enterprise and home patronage 1 pat-ronage It gives a bright healthy performance per-formance with professional ginger without professional threadbareness > not always with professional assurance t to be sure but with a youth and vigor that is usually sadly missing in professional pro-fessional organizations The continued enormous patronage is the best proof j that the public is pleased and is the best expression of appreciation to the active promoters of the enterprise There is a long season of prosperity ahead for the Salt Lake Opera company com-pany and ttie promise of increasing enjoyment for the public fromthis source Every now and then there is a dls cussion as to the future of the stage in this country One of the favorite solutions so-lutions is that we are gradually returning return-Ing to the stock system That wean = tart long continue the way we are going go-ing without disaster is certain and the stock idea was always a good one a plausible one and one which would doubtless relieve a very muddled condition con-dition of affairs Much has been said about the degeneracy of the stage that Is the plays which judging from + the patronage seeni to be demanded t by the public There is also another side the ability of the actor In mese days of indpeisdence and enterprise a man determines to be nn actor regardless r re-gardless of knowledge training or previous pre-vious condition of employment Any actor can create himself a star provided i pro-vided he has capital enough Young actors join inferior companies They J arc not content with small positions tn good companies where they lava the benefit < of observing men nd wdmeii V of talent and experience They want a big part and plenty of glory as soon > 1 as ixwiblc They live for the present and never count the cost With the old system the traveling travel-ing stars gave the young actors plenty to ihink about and a valuable school of experience If we xjveif do reTurn to the stock system there will have to be a weeding out in the profession but there is not a doubt that it would be all I i for the beyt A dearth oC InB OShaugneSFeys would not be a particularly fatal blow to the world of dramatic art It has been observed that abuse will cheapen anything and this may also be applied to originality EccentrIcity may be defined as an exaggerated state of originality I orig-inality and the example of it on our stage toda are too numerous to mention men-tion If wo are not past help where is I a solution to come from Any man has a right to make money honestly if lan l-an and the man who can make money out of Mrs B OShaugncswey wash lady and others of the same class will urge his rights with the peanut vender on the corner Neither are approved of high up in the world but both have a stratum of their own and who can I gainsay them A complete new theat neal system in accord with the rules vl art and progress Is a pleasing thing to contemplate so was the scheme of I civilization set forth in the book called Equality pleasing but up in the clouds and with our present facilities quite out of our reach By the Sad Sea Waves Messrs Dunne and Kyley the well I known theatrical managers will pre I Fens Matthews and Bulger the popular J popu-lar I comedians at the Salt Lake theatre < Friday and Saturday of this week The sile object of the entertainment is to amuse to afford Relaxation to busy men I and to give fun and amusement to all While this is the second season on the I load of By the Sad Sea Waves it is tin t s onntructed as to allow the constant jTuKtduotion of uptodate jokes etc The management announces that everything every-thing on the programme this year is I abs timely new excepting the title of the peee Matthews and Bulger themselves them-selves have prepared an entirely new vaudeville act in which they will ap l > i < ir in this city for the first time themselves They have surrounded vvith a brilliant cast of comedy stars t with metropolitan reputations Among them are Jane Lennox Bessie ChaJ I Irojtr l Mina Mickman Julia RalPh Lizzie Sanger Agnes Wayburn Eva Les ie Ned Wayburn W J Darning 7 Tony Hart Thomas A Kiernan and JUHo Le Seye who is direct from the Folios Bergere Paris and will appear in a series of plastic poses There is a chorus of twenty trained voices ands and-s tine especially arranged new music The niece ran 103 nights at the Herald Square theatre New York last season Madeleine or the Magic Kiss Madeleine the new success of the Salt Lake Opera company will be given its fast presentation at the Theatre on Wednesday evening The performance will be given instead of the one which was omitted last Tuesday on account of the illness of Miss Savage Theo The-o era is one of the best of the local companys successes The house should again be crowded Popular prices will prevaIL Grimes Cellar Door For Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day evenings of this week Manager Mulxey announces James B Mackie I and a big farce comedy company in G rimes Cellar Door Mr Mackie will I l > e remembered best as the original Gnmbey Me Boy n Hoyts A Bunch of Keys and made a great success in the part In the presentation of the Cellar Door Mr Mackie finds plenty of eoye to display his versatility as a comedian His company includes Louise Sanford comedienne who was long identified with Hoyts ntractions and a company of pretty girls and clever comedians A Lady ofQuality i Eugene Blair has > neither spared time I nm expense upon her production of A lady of Quality which will be an early attraction at the Salt Lake theatre I thea-tre All new scenery has been erected under her personal direction Ever i detail called for in the novel of Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has been I carefully followed and in a number of places improved upon Words are inadequate to express a true picture of the rose garden scene which Is beauti fu Mrs Burnett does not even attempt at-tempt it in her novel She gives but a ague idea of what is possible to accomplish ac-complish In modern stagecraft The artistic ideas of Miss Blair have been carefully carried out by Ernest Albert one of the best scene painters in the country The World Outside It surely seems that It is the unexpected unex-pected which always happens in the theatrical world The muchheralded production of Peter Stuyvesant Governor Gov-ernor of New Amsterdam collaborated collaborat-ed by such noted playwrights as Bron sun Howard and Brander Matthews and exploited by the popular I comedian William H Crane has not proven a success It is most surprising when one > onsaders the Interesting subject the authors and the actors and it is alt a-lt aj for the American stage just at present is badly In need of a good tri ru American dramas drama-s ° The most unique figure in the play iso + is-o tiUse the testy old governor with lus wooden leg The wooden leg by j sJ the way Is said to be the best turned thing in the play and Mr Crane displays dis-plays considerable skill in concealing the real one It is said that the character char-acter of Peter Stuyvesant however is merely used as a prop a background for minor characters and that these characters are not only unimportant but commonplace There Js a quartette quar-tette of lovers who furnish most of the complications played by Sandol Milli ken Percy Haswel William Court leigh and William Ingersoll While the play is not an absolute failure It Is said to be slow and uninteresting unin-teresting at times and disappointing at best It is not yet known how long it will hold the boards at Wallacks theatre It will be no wonder if actors and managers r become superstitious about this theatre for Peter Stuyve I sant waS put on earlier than was planned tp + succeed The GadflyL I which was an immediate failure It is also an odd coincidence for Robson i and Crane have never achieved anything I any-thing like the fame since they separated I which they enjoyed as joint stars I With Mr Robson especially it begins i to look as though he would never again equal the success of Bertie the I Lamb Of recent years he has done nothing but add to a list of unsuccessful unsuccess-ful plays 4 Otis Harlan who scored such a success suc-cess in Hoyts A Black Sheep produced pro-duced a new play by George R Sims at the Garrick theatre last week entitled en-titled My Innocent Boy The story while affording plenty of excuse for complication in the play is simple enough to elate A S6yearold man is supposed have > been so carefully reared by his fond and doting father that he is entirely unspotted by the world He falls in love with a young Woman wflidtfis devoted to truth and who thinks iljai in him she has found the embodiment of her ideals However I How-ever sad ilo relate the innocent boy has a secret l which he has never had the courage to tell his father much less 1 his affianced wife This fs that he has been married at 18 is a widower and hqs a daughter at hoarding school The I complications proceed to unravel fast and furiously when the bride and the father visit the boarding school Mr Harlan is assisted in the fun by Miss I Florence Lillian Wickes Miss Ada Dea v es Frank Doane and Joseph Allen The Castle Square Opera company in New York has done much to place grand opera within the reach of all I financially and otherwise There are two rules by which this is accomplished j popular prices and all operas sung in 1 the English language The last big i production attracted great attention in the musical orId and in spite of sneers and expressions of doubt from the extremely ex-tremely fastidious proved a success The opera was no less ambitious a work than Wagners Meistersanger given under the Anglicized title Tire Mastersingers of Nuremburg This is I surely an important event in the annals I an-nals of cheap opera and of considerable consider-able importance to that large class which loves music but cannot afford to pay Metropolitan opera house prices Barron Berthald who sang at the Tiv oli this summer gave an excellent performance per-formance of Walther and Harry Davies Da-vies lately in Salt Lake with the Grau Opera company received praise for his David in The Mastersingers Sousas Popularity The foliowing is from Hilary Bell of the New York Press How long will Sousa live This inquiry I in-quiry is not applied to tile corporeal existenceof our bandmaster for as he headed the parade on Dewey day John Philip presented a picture of health and a promise of longevity Some solicitude however is reasonable over the fate of his compositions Two years ago everybody every-body with ability In and taste for sib illant melody was whistling his marches and last year they were the favorite selections of hurdygurdy men During Saturdays parade however only two of the regimental bands executed exe-cuted his marches as they passed Admiral Ad-miral Dewey when they were expected to put their best foot and finest music forward The band headed by Sousa played El Capitan and half an hour later a New Jersey bandmaster struck up the Washington Post On all other occasions such oldtime airs as Home Again Onward Christian Soldier Way Down the Suwanee River Maryland My Maryland America Dixey and The Star Spangled Banner Ban-ner guided the step of the soldiers Judging by the furore coated by Sousas marches a few years ago it seemed that their popularity had come to stay Event Even-t e queens jubilee parade was begun by the Washington Post and El Capitan = inspired our fine fellows at Manila John Philip was dubbed The March King as Strauss was called The Waltz King The Viennese gives sure promise of becoming a classic while the Washingtonian lacks guaranty guaran-ty of permanence Mr Sousa aimed directly at the military in his compositions composi-tions and for a time his effort seemed successful The rival and less distinguished distin-guished bandmasters are apparently t I jealous of the prosperity of their famous fa-mous comrade and by union of envious purpose have crowded John Philip out I of the position he won with The Cadets Ca-dets and Washington Post hI have i had to fight against jealousy all my life said Sousa to thQ Press man last summer and his argument is born out not only by a general effort to silence si-lence his music on Dewey day but by the concerted attempt to overthrow his opera in London Evil were the reports and dire the prophecies of El Capitals when it was introduced into England I but after a three months run the piece I is still so popular that De Wolf HopI Hop-I per has decided to stay with it all season sea-son in London In time John Philip may triumph over his energies the bandmasters as he discomfited his rim ligners the advocates of Wang Ann Hathaways Cottage New York Dramatic Mirror American tourists to Stratfordon Avon hereafter will miss the quaipfc dame who for seventy years has been the custodian of the cottage that tradition = I tradi-tion has described as the home of Anne Hathaway the wife of Shakespeare Mrs Baker this ancient custodian died on Sept 24 from the effects of an accidental acci-dental fall It may perhaps interest those persons that periodically declare that Shakespeare is dead as a dramatist dramat-ist in the face of the success of evfery dignified presentation of his plays to know that during the past year more than 10000 tourists paid for admission to the Anne Hathaway cottage at Stratford Strat-ford and that in fact the number of I pilgrims to this place increases fiom year to year and that every relic of the poet or of those related to him gains new interest as time wears on AT A GLANCE Madge Carr Cooke was a member of the illfated Gadfly company A Gentleman of France by Stanley Weyman is shortly to be produced Nance ONeill produced Peg Wof firigton in San Francisco last week The Man in the Moon Jr isthe rs 1moThe Man in the MoonIup todate > The new opera for the Bostonians by Herb > rt and Smith is called The Vicerby J Janouschelt k will shortly begin a starring star-ring tour in a new version of Meg Merriles James K Hackett will appear in anew I i a-new play this season a dramatization of The Pride of Jennio by Grace Liv I I I I ingston Furniss and Abby Sage Richardson Rich-ardson Next season Viola Allen will appear in a play written for her by F Marion Mar-ion Crawford Alicq Neilsons new opera by Victor Herbert called The Singing Girl has proved a great CC S eVictor i > < > e-Victor Herbert and Sidney < Jones have written a new operatic farce called The Prince of Borrieof J Brcadiiursts Clever farce Why Sjnith Lett Home will shortly Come to the Sail Lake theatre < G Bernard Shaw hag written a new play for Ellen Terry called Captain Brassbound Conversion I It as rumored that Roland Reed trill play DaY Haruni in the dramatization i dramatiza-tion of that popular story Ernest Hastings and Madge Carr Cooke have been engaged for the Dearborn I Dear-born Stock company in Chicago 1IIr and Mrs Kendal have arrived in this country accompanied by their daughters Margaret and Dorothy Robert Taber will ° produce a new play in London this season by Louis Evan Shipman entitled DArcy of the Guard A popular performance on the Masonic Ma-sonic temple roof garden in Chicago te Known only as The Girl with the Auburn Au-burn Hair A dramatization of Beside the Bonnie Bon-nie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren has been made under the supervision of Augustus Thomas Cissie Loftus has been compelled to cancel 1 her engagement with Richard Mansfield owing to illness Katherine Grey has Instead been engaged for the rolo of Roxane lIme Calve intends to have two statues stat-ues of herself on her tombj fcme as Ophelia and the other as Carmen They are now being designed by a celebrated cele-brated Paris sculptor Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon will appear in a new southern drama this season entitled Border Side It re eelyed its first production In San Francisco Fran-cisco without a name i Howard Kyle sent on Dewey day a greeting from Bunker Hill to the Mirror Mir-ror Feeling the enforced absence from New York at this time he wrote I have patriotically climbed and un climbed the 294 steps of Bunker Hill monument says the Dramatic Mirror Miss Marion Abbott who made such a hit as the widow in The Moth and the Flame last summer has been engaged en-gaged lor a character part in James A Hernes new play Sag Harbor The jam s Kidde < Hanford combination combina-tion opened at the Grand Opera House New York last week 1ui A Winters Tale It was regarded In theatrical circles as < a most Interesting experiment i experi-ment I I j 1 < tore StanhopeWheatcroft pupils are engaged with prominent companies this season than ever before Five former student 6f this dramatic school are I with the Hrs Fiske company now playing Becky Sharp three are in The Girls from Maxims under I Charles Frohmans management two are with Richard Mansfield one is with Madame Modjeska one with Olga Nethersole one with Chauncey Olcott arfdf onet yith the KelceyShannon v Pany Aside from the two stars two of the principal features I of Mathews Bul gers aggregation > of farceurs in By the Sad Sea Waves are the > only and original Sfa Hopkins the gal from SlabtownV who is > now the talk of the funloving world and a beautiful French woman Mademoiselle Le > Seye direct from the Folies Bergeres Paris who appears inn series of plastic poses with illuminated irridescent electrical elec-trical l effects and is considered a decided de-cided novelty MUSICAL PEOPLE II I I Miss Lucy Moore is acting as accompanist accom-panist for the Chaminade chorus Mrs Somers Cocks will sing Abide With Me at the Congregational church this morning Mr John Burleigh will sing the obligate obli-gate to the anthem Seek Ye the Lord at St Marks this evening Mrs W A Wetzell will sing With Verdure Clad from Hay dns Creation Cre-ation at St Pauls this morning Miss Margery Webber has gone to Butte < Mont where she Intends to give a concert and will perhaps remain some time The quartette the Synagogue Is one of the most promising in town Kate BridewellAnderson sang a solo by Carl Bohmi at the service Friday evening Mr Spencer Clawson jr one of Salt Lakes most talented young pianists and until recently a pupil of Miss Flanders left during the week for Germany j Ger-many a N j Mr E M irace will open a studio in tlw HooperEldredge building fop classes jn sightsinging and ear = traiaj ing conducted according to the qnUnj 1 ParisCheve o j 7 r There will be a V concert at the Thirst Congregational church Monday evening = even-ing Oct 23 under the management of Mrs Somers Cocks for the benefit of I I the LadiesAid society w ° I Mise ° Sibyl Anderson who spent the + II I last year In Pittsburgh studying ttiQ I violins under Professor ° Ivbltwasser will remain fin Salt Lake > this winter arid > 1 will be a valuable acquisition1 to mu II sical circles I A young violinists who has 1 Just returned I re-turned to Salt Lake is i > Mfss Elizabeth r Lamson She appeared in public fop the first time here at Miss Flanders concert at the < Literary club last week and lishted < l her audience Tiie Euterpe club held its first meeting meet-ing this season last night at the home of Miss Afton Young According to then the-n plan of the dub a miscellaneous programme was rendered Mrs Cowers read a fiveminute paper on current I musical topics the vocalists were Mrs Daggett and Miss Conn and the pianists pian-ists Mrs Vollmer Mrs Christy and Miss Young |