Show Ii h c a c Mit l Y71 lr I I c I L If1 I iii S F II I II I I I I r J The third week of the new theatrical T season has passed and while Cit has been n profitable one for both the visiting visit-ing attractions and the local management I manage-ment it has taught some lessons that both will do well to make a note on The main one is that the prejudice agst paying advanced prices for amusements is sO deeprooted in this I community that even a star so popular as Henry Miller can not hope to overcome over-come it No one senses this better than I I1r Miller himself He said in conversation conver-sation with the writer that he might I come west for a summer engagement next year and if he did he would probably prob-ably play at popular prices If Salt I Lake would pay an advance of 50 percent per-cent for any one it would be Henry Miller No star that travels is stronger with our public and certainly the lavish lav-ish way in which he mounts his plays and the class of people he engages as support entitle him to receive the highest price we are willing to pay to be amused But the readjustment of idEas and values which folloWed the panic affected theatricals like most other oth-er things in life and the young man of average means nowadays ponders long and seriously over the many necessities those dollars will buy before he parts with them for two theatre tickets He may attend the theatre one night but he rarely Ventures again while if the prices were kept down to his means he might indulge in a whole repertoire In great cities where the wealthy population popula-tion is large such considerationscount for less but that they even affect some portions of New York is shown by the following paragraph in a recent issue of the World Is any theatrical performance ever presented in this town worth 2 or even L50 a seat With newspapers at 1 cent apiece what sense is there in the theatre charges At 50 cents for the best seats the theatres could fill their houses at the prices they actually charge they never can and they only have themselves to blame v 00 Another lesson taught by the past week is that when prices and attraction suit there is plenty of money here willIng will-Ing to be poured into box office coffers A Milk White Flag though not the highest form of entertainment and rendered ren-dered by a company that could not be call the beSt even of its own class showed that it was the form of amusement = amuse-ment the public dclred and the prices being satisfactory the house was packed Henry Millers four performances perform-ances brought in about 2100 A Milk White Flags one night yielded between be-tween 900 and 1000 What tale more eloquent could be told < 0 0 Henry Miller oft thr stage is as genial and companionable a good fellow as on theboard he is a martinet When his engagement here was over he remained a day in town to visit old friends he almost lives in a whirl and carries one with him make unknownWherever I he goes Though an Englishman by birth he has lived most of his life in America and his patriotic fervor when I talking over the war with Spain equals that of the truest bluest son of the I soil He spent a most interesting hour at tie Altaclub on Thursday listening I to Captain Ducat Lieutenant Wells recite their experience in the recent I campaign and he said afterwards that nothing he had heard in recent years so thrilled and pleased him 1lr Miller has a palatial New York home hIs wife 1s Bijou Heron once a wellknown actress and his family is now in Paris where the children are being educated Ol the stage Mr Miller reIgns with I all tlae vIgor of an absolute monarch The writer having been invited to call onJ1im at the closeof Tuesday evenings even-ings performance 9f The Master was sUrprised to find him in the midst ofa vigorous rehearsal the curtain had not been down fie minutes but Mr Miller aId Miss Dale were repeating the closing clos-ing lines of the play and going through the final scene with as much earnestness I earnest-ness as though a thousanddollar house I were in front of them Actors and stagehands I stage-hands stood in awestruck attitudes in the wing and one of them was heard I to say that no one would dare to stir till the boss had gotten the thing to suit him 1lr Miller afterwards explained ex-plained that unless he kept his people I carefully rehearsing they got careless and missed the finer points of the rendition ren-dition He is his own stage manager and every detail about a production from the scenery to the color of the lights is prepared under lis direction While the star of the company Mr Miller still receives the handsome salary sal-ary he has always enjoyed from Charles Frohman and gets a share of the profits at the end of the season as well As soon as the box office count is made the business managers first duty is to hurry back of the scenes to show the figures to the star Mr Miller said their financial results in Salt Lake were eminently emi-nently satisfactory < S > 0 The totnibg week will doubtless seethe see-the biggest gathering of people that has been witnessed here since the Jubilee Local attractions will hold sway at the Theatre the new dramatic > club making mak-ing its first appearance in The Cotton Cot-ton King which is liberally billed about town and the Salt Lake Opera company presenting its fifth work in Strauss Queens Lace Handkerchief At the Grand Two Married Men a comedy by our old friend George R Edeson will run all the week Of course the main attraction will be the great Eisteddfod at the tabernacle II Wednesday Thursday and Friday but the other places of amusement reckon that there will be enough people in town to give each of them a chance 000 The Cotton King will be presented in the theatre Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings It is a melodrama melo-drama by Button Vane and one which was presented last year at the Adelphi theatre London It ran all last year under the direction of W A Brad in this country and was one of the stc cesses of the season Through the friendship existing between Mr L A Cummings and 11r Brady the piece was secured for the initial performance of the New Empire Stock company it is a thrilling piece from start to finish I I and the scenery and stage effects are all saId to be new 000 Mr Weihe is now conducting the closing rehearsals of The Queens Lace Handkerchief and he says he is confident con-fident that the first rendition next Saturday Sat-urday afternoon will show that the company is prepared to keep up to the standard it created in The Mascot I Patience The Chimes and Said Pasha One hundred costumes have been made and special scenery is being be-ing prepared fof the production while the chorus of 40 voIces has been selected select-ed with a view to the difficulties of the score which are by no means few The principals are Miss Savage Miss Fisher Mrs Brown 11r Goddard Mr Spencer Mr Pyper Mr Campbell and rrr Gill The dates of the productions are Salt Lake Oct 8 10 and 11 Logan Lo-gan 12 Provo 17 Ogden 19 The advance sale opens Thursday and the popular scale of prices will be adhered to 25 cents to all part of the house being the matinee charge 000 The lines of care and age were very i perceptible in Fanny Davenports face the last time she was seen in alt Lake and it was not an entire surprise to read that she had succumbed to the I destroyer On her final visit here which opened with two old plays in her repertory Fedora and La I Tosca there was a great faIling off of II public interest but all the old time enthusiasm revived when she gave us i in the same week Gismonda the i magnificence of that production told I that her wonderful brain had lost none I of its cunning and that she was still as great a producer of plays as she I was an interpreter of them Without i doubt her end was hastened by the cares incident to her determination to II cut loose from Sardou whom fihe always al-ways accused of bleeding her by his royalty chargesand by the failure which greeted her attempts to produce a play by an American author In her efforts to push this production she is said to have lost an immense sum Miss Davenport first came into note as leadipg woman in Dalys Fifth Avenue Ave-nue company play books of Saratoga Sara-toga Divorce Pique and other great plays brought out there in the early 70s have her name in the original orig-inal productions She was one of the beauties of the stage in those days and as gifted as she was beautiful Since her breakdown in Chicago her husband hus-band Melbourne McDowell has been playing her repertory with Blanche Walsh in his wifes roles < > 0 11r 11ulveys house opens for the sea r I < 1 M I SISTERS GRIERSOli IN TWO MAERIED MEN son tomorrow night its patrons will find it in spickspan shape the scenes having been retouched and draperies provided and a general allround cleaning up process indulged in The house will be open nearly every night during the season several of last years favorites such as the Grau Opera corn = pany and the Dazzler having been booked Following Is the Gast of Two Married Men Carnaby Fix one married man J Rush Bronson Tim Tackleback the other u < A W Ellis I Weary WillieCharles E Schilling Dan McKann Harry Dever Peter onto his jobBay Southard Sybilla yours truly 60 cents Miss Ray Leis Mrs Stormbelone Mrs Fixs ma Miss Kate Beebe Mrs Carnaby Fix Maud GrIerson Janet Mrs FIxs sister Flory Grierson I Fatima know it allLittle l Kenwick I O 4 > Ke Dr Parry the eminent Welsh composer com-poser is passing the time preliminary to the great Eisteddfod in which he Will be adjudicator in getting acquainted ac-quainted with the various musical bodies on whose work < he will be called to pass On Thursday niglt he visited the tabernacle where he had the pleasure pleas-ure of conducting thebig choir in one i of his own compositions The GIQriOus I Songs of Freedom Needless to say that under the inspiration of his baton I the singers did their work with new energy and enthusiasm Of course the Eisteddfod music was not touched The Salt Lake Opera company has tendered Dr Parry and Professor Stephens a box for any performance of The Queens Lace Handkerchief which they choose itO attend As the doctors sailing date from New York makes it imperative for him to leave here Sunday or Monday and as he lee tures here Saturday evening it is likely like-ly that he will attend the opening performance per-formance Saturday afternoon He is an enthusiastic admirer of operatic work He has written several operas one of them Btodwen having been rendered over 600 times and r it is his intention to bring a Welsh opera company to New York next year |