Show j P I I 7 c I I I ckIr2lLc V7 1 i iil I J1 I ffJ TV t I P 1r Apropos of Toaquin Millers appearance appear-ance at Keiths continuous lcrform ance theatre Alan Dale makes a few remarks in his usual interesting and piquant style He describes the appearance ap-pearance of the Poet of the Sierra oljecth to his Santa Claus make uv and deplorEs tht fact that iIr mner is forced to soek his nu gets thus after hir return from the Klondike but wIse h concludes that this js the poets own atrair It seems that Mr Miller ends his act by singing an Indian dirge which certainly desnt sound as though it would be particularly cheerful and Alan Dale says it wasnt In fact it Is apropos of this very song that he wonders why the Cornish inquest isnt held at Keiths as the continuous aud iencs seem to stand anything Well it is truly astonishing how many incongruJus things are done to catch the public in these degenerate das And they are not by any means confined to the vaudeville houses eltplr There one has become accustomed accustom-ed to cxnect novelties as well as inconsistencies in-consistencies But on the legitimate stage also one occasionally finds much to wonder at For instance many have taken exception to Lewis Iorrisons portrayal of lIephisto because of the Ulltodate slang etc which he introduces intro-duces ducThere There certainly Is no doubt that It detracts from the artistic value of the erformancc yet on the other hand the aUdiencetakes a huge delight In the gags and modern expressions As may be eXDectel from an actor of Mr Morrisons standing he has a reason I for so violating the original conception I of the famous part When he first started out in Faust he played Me phisto as was Qrlginal intendedIn the classic style as Irving played it But he very soon found out that this ames not Interesting to the average audience aud-ience 3111 he name near to starving in consuence It was then that he de ddCJ to make Iephisto a slangy up tvdate personplace him nearer to his audlrnees as it were Since then he has known nothing but success In speaking of it Mr Morrison says that he was pprfectly aware jt wasnt art and all that but It was a case of bread awl but tee and it is better to give peo plc ahat they want even 1t a sacrifice of artistIc principles than to stare Its It-s for the same reason that the final I tableau was changed In the original V rSl n Faust goes down with llephis to hlh seems hut right and proper fr did he not make the bargain himself him-self But the audience rebelledIt left a baa taste in the mouth and 1 daresay dare-say they thought that poor Faust had had a sun Ient share of Hades right here n earth At any ate again Mr 1I1ornsJn hru1ge his shoulders and mId Let them have theIr way so ever since Faust has gone upwards I along ith Marguerite and Satan has bl n obliged to descend alone John Philip Sousa is anther artist ah ha been cliticised for his Doses and affectations which are classed as uhmusleianlr But here also one must remember the delight of the audience ahen he turns and bends as though to express the character of the music rendered ren-dered During a tostep he always looks as though he Is all ready to do a ckeaJl and every movement Is stud Itd with a view to its effectiveness But lLl thIs was no doubt done with a view of IIcreasing his popularity for there 1s n doubt that it makes him doubly Irtirestin to his audIences One can understand the tendency This busy world of today wants to be amused and I 1Fnt looking out for thc preservation of hh artistic principles Irs Robert Osborn a society wo I mm under the necessity of earning h r own living has introduced the late lat-e t novelty in the entertainment line 1tl New York She appreciates theCae the-Cae t that Sunday afternoons are horribly hor-ribly dull to society so she deised a sties of musical teas to be given at the WaldorfAstoria Society welcomed wel-comed the Innovation and accordingly repaired to Mrs Osborns first tea In large numbers thankful for an excuse tn kill the afternoon The tea was excellent ex-cellent likewise the music The Ladies La-dies Orchestral society and Madame Saville were the attractions and the I affaIr was a great success But unlookedfor Interference came in the form of the Society for the Pro tcCtfl of the Sabbath or something of similar name ThIs organIzation rote scathing letters to Mrs Osborn aDO also sent her her portrait clipped from one of the newspapers wIth every available space thrteon filled with warning texts and Biblical references The society alJo made it known that while the tea as going on they ere to meet and spend the time praying for tlke failure of the scheme It seems rat er late in the day to pray for the failure of Sunday entertainments In New York after all the years that Mr Maurice Grau has been giving Sunday concerts at the Metropolitan Mrs Os born says they singled her out because she Is a woman but it seems that the prayers availed not for the second tea was more largely attended than the first It seems 1 pity that there should De j 1 grand opera all around us and that we cannot have a taste of it The I Melba company is giving performances In Denver and from there will go to San Fran iSco for a season of several weeks It7seems plausible that Salt I Lalw couler support at least a week of grand opera yet no one is inclined to try the experIment We are so completely com-pletely cut off from operatic delights that an occasion of this kind should cause people to fairly flock to the Theatre The-atre It Is true that Salt Lakers do not take kindly to a raise in price which would of course be inevitable But a good many of us were willing to pay 2 at the tabernacle for just a mere taste So genuIne grand opera at the Theatre by the beet artists In the country should be worth a fancy price Does no one feel the Inclin tIon to tl the experiment A very commendable enterprise is that of the music department of the Brigham Young academy of Prove and the Provo tabernacle choir LJnder the direction of Professor JT McClellan and S R Boshar a series Of concerts will be given which they propose to make noteworthy in every respectIn fact they aim to eclipse any series ever given in Utah The first concert wUl tale place Tues Ida I-da of this week in Provo The solo Ists sill be Max Bendix thc celebrated j violinist who was for many years the I leading violinist In I the Theodore Thomas Thom-as orchestra Jennie Osborn a leading Chicago soprano and Miss Scott plan iste also from Chicago On April 1 Leopold Godowsky the noted pianist will give a recital As this will be an especially noteworthy occasion special trains from here and other points wIll be run to Provo The last concert will occur May 12 With Bruno Steindel cellist Professor Schenker harpist of the Theodore Thomas orchestra Minnie FiskGrif fin soprano and Mrs Steindel plan iste as soloists This is certainly a most praiseworthy effort for the elevation of musical art in our state and deserves the cooperation coopera-tion of interested in its welfare The promoters are assured of financial success suc-cess by the fact that 600 tickets will be taken by the academy students alone J I I The Salt Lake theatre Will be dark for two weeks but the next engagement engage-ment on the 20th will be one of great Interest The Sign of the Cross with the original English company will open on that date playing here three nIghts The critics on the coast are I engaged in a livelY controversy regardIng regard-Ing this drama its effect on audiences etc with the result that people are turned away nightly All agree howe how-e r that it is a play of strong and unusual interest and I look forward to seeIng it here for it is sure to be one of the notable events of our dramatic dra-matic season The WardeKidderJames combination combina-tion comps to the Salt Lake theatre the first of next month for an entire week Their season on the coast Is nothing less than a positive triumph and Manager Man-ager Pyper has been fortunate in hookIng hook-Ing a goodsized engagement The School for Scandal is a prominent play of their repertoire and will be given in Salt Lake possibly twice or more during dur-ing the engagement Abong the Shlkespearean dramas which would probably he acceptable to Salt Lake are Othello and facbeth In the recent engagement in Portland the ad I vance sale Is said to have broken the record at the Marquam Grand I I The Grau Opera company engagement at the Grand has evolved itself into a genuine society event and not only is the theatre packed to the doors at each and every performance but the audiences audi-ences wear a vastly different asnect from those which are usually found at this theatre They are Salt Lake theatre thea-tre audiences which always find their way over to the Grand very readily whoa anything worth while Is going on I The excellent character of the entertainment enter-tainment offered makes the pUblic cordially j cor-dially welcome the fact that the company com-pany remains with us another week wIth five changes of bill While aU members of the company are not Oerglfted with voices they are for the most part very satisfactory satisfac-tory and it may be said that the dramatic dra-matic ability of the whole company is distinctly above the average Miss Carrington and 111 Davies are vocally vo-cally the prime favorites and llr Felch the comedian sfmply owns his audiences the moment he steps upon the stage Mr Mulvey has another I fat week before him I The Bostonians contemplate a revival I or Rob floy The Two Orpheus has lately been revived In Paris I Ellen Terry line reived Tom Taylors J Plot and Passion t Olive Bolt isqh H 3l1iTh1 i < Malern Fiskes cOIfpany now playing HMagqa Francis Wilson hM anew opera called The Festivals The Iendalls have a new play called The Poverty of Riches Frankhl1 Fyles has just written a melodrama entitled Kit Carson Marie 1Yainwright expects to appear next year in a new play under the management man-agement of Jacob Lltt I It is said that Sarah Berl1hardt does nol look over thirty although she is well along in the fifties Mnnle lIfaddern Fislte will shortly open her New York season Her tour has been a brllliant success Ada Rehan has been engaged to create cre-ate the leading role in a London melo I drama at the Drury Lane next fall TIle title of a new farce is Mr Plaster of Paris The Baltimore AmerIcan Amer-Ican wants to ltnor if It will have a good cast Louis James Katheryn Kidder and Frederic Yarde were guests at a banquet ban-quet given by a San Francisco club at Heilry Jewett has replaced Joseph Haworth as John Storm In The Christian I Chris-tian The latter Is said to have taken too much Jamaica Ginger on no less than four different occasIons The last time the manager counted him out I Pianka the liontamer who was seen I at Lagoon last summer fainted in the cage one night last week during the exhibition in San Francisco It was I d kS i kS1ag during a dark change hut she was saved by the prompt action of her husband hus-band The DorothY Morton Opera company is stranded in Atlanta Salaries are unpaid and as a climax Warra B Emmerson the manager disappeared I alter the last performance of the company com-pany Elizabeth Tyree will leave the New York Lyceum Stock company at the close ofthls season and may have an important part in The Maneuvers of Jane by Henry Arihur Jones which Charles Frohman will produce next season I The New York Sun speaking of the proposition to appoint a censor of the I stage says that what is needed Is not a censor but an enforcement of the cx IstIng laws as the police have ampl power to suppress Indecency and any individual citizen can make a complaint to a magistrate of objectionable performances per-formances Bill Hall the Chicago correspond eat of the Dramatic Mirror rItes in his letter this week Talk about Weber We-ber Fields 1 asked a witness in my police court the other day how long ago he left certain premises and he replied re-plied Aboud fife months agoon an aferage Then 1 asked how long ago he had seen the prisoner and his answer an-swer was Oh aboud dree veelts ago py sight The followIng from a San Francisco paper contains some excellent points Mr John Cordray uses in his Portland Port-land theatre adeylce which mIght happily hap-pily be introduced Into ours As soon as the last strainsot the orchestra die away from the floor of the stage there arIses a sign beJrlng In bold letters this inscrIption This Is thc Proper Time for Ladles to Remove Their Hats This is good as far as it goes but It needs supplementing Three or four minutes before tile curtain falls on the last act there should arise another sign with thIs inscrIption This Pay Is Not Yet Over and it Is Not Yet Time for Ladies to Put on Their Hats Nor would third sign address to gentlemen be altogether superfluous This should read This TheatelNot on Fire and r People Whc < > Have Paid for Their Seats Have a Right to See the Entire Performance Per-formance UndIsturbed by Those Who Must Rush Out to Do Nothing 11Xto tD Another excellent mechanical device for dispensing manners and morals mig11t b adopted from the customs of an operaho iniMllan In the lobby of this theatre there stands a box With this inscription People Who Desire to Hear Encores Can be Accommodated if They wm Deposit In This Box a Sum Equal to That Which They Have Paid for Their Seats Henry Miller the actor tells an amusing story which Ire says an actor friend of his wlW has recently taken to playing in a sG1c3i in vaudeville houses related toJiI as a fact The actor has not much of this worlds goods albeit he Is a clever man One night a lIttle seriocomic sInger saId to him between turns Mr Blank I see you dont wear no diamonds yet Neither Nei-ther do T but I hope to some day Little girl said Blank remember what Charlotte Cushman said when some one was aifmIring her beautiful diamonds T1ia y are beautiful 1 bought them myself and earned every dollar with whidisI paid for them Charlotte Cushman said the singer Is she in vaudeville Yes retorted Blank who regretted attempting to point a moral shes doing a harp specialty over the river EutClPe Club Recital A most enjoyable evening w ds the Beethoven recital given by the uterpe club last night An especially noteworthy note-worthy feature of the programme was that without a single exception the selections were all flom the works of the great German composer A most Interesting paper on his lIfe and works was given by Irs Vollmer A trio for violin cello and pianO was given by Mr dive Mr Christensen and Miss Flanders and a duet for violin and piano by Mrs Gemmel and 1111 Veihe The club members who gave solo numbers were Mrs Plummer Miss Ellerhecle 1111 Vollmer and Mr Rad cliffe The evening was one of the most thoroughly artistic yet given by that club and much enjoyed by all who were fortunate enough to be present It was but an example of the very high order of work done hy the members The ext concert will be on April I I j s I1 hJ4 = an k547 SOBl PBOtt SAID PASHA which Lord Charles Bercsford the British admiral l was also present Fritz Williams E M Holland Samuel I Sam-uel Reed and Ralph Delmore are play log in On and Off which will be seen in Salt Lake at the end of the season It Is said that the first scene in Sol Smith Russells play The Hon John Grissby is an accurate reproduction I of Abraham Lincolns law office in Springfield Ill Grigsby himself is mod clad on Lincoln for which a miscellaneous programme will be arranged Ogden Choral Union The first of the three musical treats arranged for by the Ogden Choral I union takes place at the tabernacle tomorrow to-morrow Monday night That the mu II I sicloving people of Ogden will be out to welcome Max Bendix on that occasion occa-sion Is an assured fact As a violinist I Bendix is a master His success as a virtuoso Is commented upon by the leading musical critics of the country His support is no less deserving of men tion Jenny Osborn is a soprano of remarkable range and poWer and never fails to captivate her audiences Jeannie Scott while not so well known Is recognized asan artist of exceptional exception-al ability The Bendix company Is most certain ly a strong one and the Ogden Choral union certainly deserves the hearty support of the publIc in its venture It will certainly mark an epoch in the musical history of Ogden Max Bendix as concert master and soloist in the ThSodore Thomas orchestra or-chestra has gained a reputation sel dom acquired by au artist It is such men at3Bendix who have made Chicago a musical center and the orchestra at the Auditorium famous = |