Show o v t t t l 1 1 t I1 1 T t f ft r t + r t n r 1 t I p htnutt > l F 1 i r a 1 L y i r I i r + 4 1 t The resorts the natural rival of indoor in-door amusements in Salt Lake have themselves met with some opposition this week on the part of the elements It is true that this is the season of the year when peoples thoughts turn to green fields and bicycle paths but the current is likely to l > e changed when in the dampness of the former lurk microbes micro-bes of consumption and pneumonia and the latter are seas of mud where the road should be Perhaps in time if we are patient dreams for summer will be realized the fishermen will fish and the wheelmen wheel-men will wheel in the joys of which the indoor amusements of winter will be completely forgotten Just at pres ent however some more theatricals would be quite in keeping with the supplementary sup-plementary season of cold weather We can count on less than the fingers of one hand what is still in store for us There is the notable engagement of Henry Miller at the Salt Lake tneatre this week and after that Manager Py per has but one more bookingthat of Krohmans comedians in On and Off Godfreys British Guards Band Is also in anticipation This celebrated organization organ-ization Is booked for this month at the tabernacle and by the way the auditorium au-ditorium being admirably suited to a concert of this kind the affair will surely be a success These are but the last gasps of a dying season as it were soon will commence the exodus for summer places and those who remain at home will seek the outofdoor recreations rec-reations which are so plentiful hereabouts here-abouts Managers Pyper and Mulvey will let the cobwebs grow over the front I doors of their playhouses and will themselves be twice as busy as ever I planning the peoples amusements for 1 next Year It is to be hoped that the news of the generous patronage of this season will tempt the managers of the more notable nota-ble attractions in our direction As is A usual this season has seen a mixture of good bad and indifferent and the If wonder of It has been the crowded i houses on nearly every occasion showing show-ing that the people are eager for amusement and willing to soend their money for it In spite of the fact that Charles Frohman and other big eastern east-ern managers have said that they can do without the Pacific coast they may still see fit to change their minds However How-ever we will manage to worry along one way or the other for there never has been a time when managers have allowed generous patronage to be wasted wast-ed It is not likely that we will ever see big scenic productions In Salt Lake but we are perfectly content with a few actor now and then The World Outside David Belasco whose success as a stage manage gives cigiiL 10 ma upm ion says In an interview in Leslies Weekly This actor must be gently patted on the back and led along the way The next man must be jollied I if I may resort to vulgarism I Actor No I 3 needs the Yere de Vere stare and a rigid iron discipline Each man must be treated according to his temperament tempera-ment An actress is not difficult to manage man-age here she understands her business busi-ness When she lias a grievance or when she wants to explain thingsand she generally doesor when she is In difficulties it is a good plan to listen to tier Give her the sympathetic eye and let her talk and she will bend herself to discipline And the rule which applies ap-plies to actors and actresses applies to every one else employed about the stage Let me here emphasize one point for the benefit of the young actor who may some day take charge of the stage dragooning and bullying never answer an-swer The severe stage manager the brutal stage manager is never In the end a successful stage manager That Is the invariable rule with my experience expe-rience h Many stage managers and many authors au-thors believe in writing the business of a play the entrances and exits and all the properties required right in the book It Is an old standard rule of the business and one from which I have j ventured to depart I prefer to establish estab-lish a rule of my own and let the rehearsals re-hearsals of the play suggest the business busi-ness and things that may be needed in a certain scene Equally useless is the system of reading a play to a companyanother ancient observancefollowed religiously religious-ly by Sir Henry Mr Daly Mr Froh man and every manager in the world except myself A bad system is not made good betause it Is old Head a play to a company and they will know rather less about the play at the end of the reading than they did at the beginning be-ginning The actor Is not in sympathy with the story or the author or with anything on earth save himself His sole Interest Is In his own parthow + much of the cream he has got for himself him-self By that standard he estimates the value of the whole work And this is why actors are always such bad judges of a play The only practical system is to leave t i it to the actor to become familiar with i I lmeJ his part at rehearsal In actual re lfi TIr1Vr hearsal will the possibilities In an apparently ap-parently poor part develop themselves Only at rehearsal can the actor begin to appreciate all that is required of himAs As to the actual average cost of a big production there is no recognized standard of figures You may spend 5000 or 50000 I estimate that The White Heather cost Mr Frohman I something like 20000 Assuredly The Sporting Duchess involved a much larger expenditure Mr Frohman however 1 how-ever goes neck or nothing win all or lose all on the Napoleonic principle in every big production and he can therefore scarcely be accepted as a standard of conservatism Many society so-ciety plays with their elaborate set The play which will be presented here is Henry Arthur Jones brilliant corned corn-ed The Liars It is one of the light sparkling society comedies with epigram and satire as its strong points the kind of society play which has been so much in vogue of late tears It exposes the foibles of fashionable society In a witty and goodnatured fashion While The Liars is much appreciated by men It is said to be In a great measure a womans play and does not fail to impress this quality on all who see It It also appeals to the fair sex in another waythat of the gowns worn by the ladies of the company com-pany which are said to be the latest creations of London and Paris The next attraction after the Henry Miller engagement at the Theatre will be E M Holland and Frohmans company com-pany of comedians In On and Off This will close the season The play is said to afford Mr Holland the best opportunity for the display of his talents tal-ents since Jim the Penman The Skidmore Benefit Tomorrow evening occurs the big benefit at the Salt Lake theatre for Postman Skidmore and his family The efforts which have been put forth for this occasion have made Its success from the first and public Inferest In the affair has been increasing everyday every-day An unusually fine programme has been arranged so all will get the worth of their money besides the satisfaction sat-isfaction of contributing to a most worthy cause This programme will be presented The Dawn Parks Utahn Quartette Salve Regina Buck Miss Emma Ramsey Spanish Silhouettes C E Pomeroy Consolidated Mandolin clubs C D Schettler conductor Deseret Olsons and individual players I See Thee Love in Every Flower Abt To S Ashworth Invocation Dhardelot Miss Sallie Fisher Prologue to Pagliacci Leoncavallo II S Goddard The Spanish Gypsy Girl Damrosch Ladies Cecelia club Mme Swenson conductor Fear Not Ye Oh Israel Buck George D Pyper Aria Miss Lottie Levy a The Long Day Closes Sullivan b The Winter Nights ThoughtFelton Felton Orpheus club A H Peabody conductor Faust Fantaislc Sarasate W E Weihe Quintette Chimes of Normandy Misses Fisher and Levy and Messrs I Pyper Goddard and Campbell + r + + t + + S I I + + + Et F4 I + I i II v4 + + + + + t HENRY MILLER + + + + t + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t + t + t + + + + t + + + tings and furnishings cost more than the average melodrama I suppose it would be possible to put a handsome presentable New York production on aNew a-New York stage for something approaching ap-proaching 7000 Henry Miller at the Theatre Charles Frohman will present Henry Miller and a special company at the Salt Lake theatre for two nights beginning be-ginning Tuesday June 6 This city will be the only stop the company makes in its trip from New York to San Francisco Fran-cisco where Mr Miller will play a ten weeks engagement at the Columbia theatre Henry Miller is a great favorite favor-ite in Salt Lake and the mere mention of his coming has already aroused the greatest interest He was seen here last year in Heartsease and made a big hit For the occasion of his visit this week the attention of tbeatreco ers is called to the unusual excellence of his company It is claimed that no star has ever before carried such a strong organization across the country o The leading woman is Miss Margaret Anglin whose remarkable presentation of the role of Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac with Mr Richard Mansfield placed her name on evcrvbodvs tongue and gained Ijer a distinction that only the greatest merit could win Another important member of the company Is Mr Eduard J Morgan leading man of the Lyceum Theatre New York who made a great hit as John Storm in The Christian The other artists include Charles Walcot and Thomas Whlffen of the Lyceum I Ly-ceum company Guy Standing and Blanche Burton of the Empire Theatre Thea-tre Marie Derickson Frank E Lamb I and James Lindsay of the John Drew company Louise ThorndykeBoucI I cault Margaret Dale and Earle Brown I It would be impossible to secure such i a company at any other time of the year T TTTTTT t + + t Professor Arthur Shepard accompan ISC Lecture on Indin Father Youmans the eminent priest who has been giving a series of sermons and lectures in the city will be heard at the Salt Lake theatre Friday even Ing in his famous lecture on India His talk tells of the people their religion social customs habits modes of living scenes etc and ihere will I be about fifty of the very finest stereopticon stere-opticon views in existence to illustrate the subject Father Youmans has been made thoroughly familiar with his sub ject by a personal experience of forty years in the country India Is of great fascination to people on account of the many peculiar and Interesting phases of the life there and wherever Father Youmans has delivered this lecture there has scarcely been standing room A big audience is assured for him at the Salt Lake theatre Friday night AT A GLALCE Henry Lee has been imaged to play Simonides in Ben Hm William Ingersoll is said to be considering con-sidering a sketch for the vaudeville It is said that Crocketts Lilac Sunbonnet Sun-bonnet will be dramatized this summer sum-mer Mrs Amelia E Barrs novel The Bow of Orange Ribbon is to be dramatized The Dramatic Mirror now has theatrical the-atrical correspondents from Havana and the Philippines The Frawle company produced anew a-new play in Washington last week entitled en-titled Private John Allen Charles B i h > t J h I1 t I Stanford was especially engaged for the part Viola Allen will open In Chicago In September with The Christian which will be her only play for the season Mason Mitchell the actorrough rider will begin a lecture tour in the fall under the direction of Major Pond A burlesque on The Children of the Ghetto called The Children of the Stiletto is to be produced In New York John Drews new play for next season sea-son which is now being played in London Lon-don is entitled The Tyranny of Tears Frederick War e will star next season sea-son under the management of Clarence M Brune Minnie Gittelll will be his leading woman Blanche Bates played a special engagement en-gagement in Washington with the Frawley company as Drusilla Ives In The Dancing Girl The advance agent for The Musketeers Musket-eers distributes envelopes containing cards which advise people to hear Blanche Bates scream Massenet has a new opera entitled Cendrillon which was produced in Paris last week The plot is based on the story of Cinderella According to one authority Maude Adams Is the greatgranddaughter of Joshua Adams the first cousin and Intimate Inti-mate friend of John Quincy Adams At several of the New York theatres the orchestras played God Save the Queen on the queens birthday and the auddences rose to their feet during the rendition Harry Corson Is In New York resting since his retirement from the Frawley company He has secured a new comedy for next season entitled What Will Tompkins Do Gladys Wallls the tiny soubrette who was so long with William H Crane was married last week to a Chicago millionaire Her real name was Margaret Anna Bird Mrs T Benton Leiter the Chicago society actress will star next season under the management of the Lykens McGarvie company It is rumored that Maurice Barrymore will be her leading support Augustus Thomas has a new play entitled en-titled Arizona which will be produced pro-duced In Chicago this month The cast will include Robert Edeson Arthur Byron Clarence Holt Olive May Theodore Roberts Vincent Serrano Walter Hale and Mabel Burt Lewis Morrison appeared last week at the Chicago theatre San Francisco as Hamlet It was his first appearance in the part although it is said that he has been waiting twenty years for an opportunity to play it His wife Florence Roberts was the Ophelia Director Stephens extends a cordial invitation to all members of the former Choral society Orpheus club and the 1 numerous church choirs of the city to Join the festival chorus for the coming British band concerts Rehearsal Tuesday evening 8 oclock at choir hall Richards street Sara Bernhardt is very much elated over her performance of Hamlet She says that she never saw either Booth or Irving in the part and that her representation is entirely her own She will not produce the play In America as her engagements will keep her in I Europe for three years I I The important announcement was I made last week that Walker Whitesides has been chosen by Klaw and Erlanger to create the role of Ben Hur In their famous production of that story Mr I Whitesides although still a very young man and not widely known Is said to I be one of the coming American actors |