Show p J t ap 1 1 Ii1 tiI l J i 1 r 1 I c cJ f l J i S I f I t t I As usually happens the boom in traveling theatrical attractions is to be swelled bj a little boom in local amusements amuse-ments Not only has the Salt Lake Opera company been called together to begin active work on p winter campaign cam-paign but a new dramatic company is springing into life the idea being to fill the vacant shoes of the defunct Home club whose knell sounded when its popular leading man was elected governor of the state L A Cummings one of the original members of the 4 Home club who did many capital pieces of amateur work such as Eliot Grey in Rosedale Harold Rutledge in The Bankers Daughter Manuel in The Romance of a Poor Young Man and Arthur Standish in Pique and who afterwards left Salt Lake to enter the profession is to be the leading lead-ing man George E Blair is to be another an-other active member Miss Lulu Boyer of SpringviIle who made so goodan impression in university theatricals last winter is one of the principal ladies and Alice Calder a clever comedienne I is another the list is not yet complete but the cast is being rapidly filled up l The new company will make its bow I to the public during conference and l r Eisteddfod week rendering the sensational sensa-tional play of The Cotton King which has never been done in Salt Lake 000 I The Salt Lake Opera company haS been called together by Director Veihe for Wednesday afternoon when active work will be begun on the first opera of the season Strauss renowned work The QUeens Lace Handkerchief Handker-chief Mr Weihe says the chorus has I been reorganized for this opera that it con ins some new and fresh voices and that it will be stronger than for sometime past The cast has not vet been completed but such popular favorites fav-orites as Miss Savage Mr Spencer Mr Goddard Mr Pyper and Mr Campbell will be among the leading principals Professor lIcClellan whose new duties as head of the music staff at the B Y academy in Provo will take him three days of each week out of the city has resigned as accompanist for the opera company and Arthur Shepherd has been appointed to the place Mr Shep herd besides being one of our most brilliant pianists had a considerable experience in opera with the Castle Square Opera company in Boston which will stand him in good stead in his new position 000 The Young Peoples club which produced pro-duced Snowball not long ago with so much success Is now at work on a musical comedy called The Widow Hunt an abridge lent of Every bOds Friend They expect to give it first in lIercur on Labor day and it will probably see the light elsewhere Such clever performers as Alex Camp bell Hugh DougaIl Walter Meeks Miss Alice Clawson Miss Lu Boyer and Irs Nellie Brown are the moving spirits in i the enterprise tV 9 c I Salt Lakes musical forces have received re-ceived a decided acquisition lately by the arrival of Mrs Effie Dean Knap pen formerly of Los Angeles Mrs Knappen will open a studio on State street just inside the Eagle Gate at the former residence of Miss Flanders Flan-ders and teach vocal instruction She is the possessor of a rich contralto voice and her own methods of singing show that she has been trained in the best school of voice culture i > < Henry Miller opens in San Francisco tomorrow night and a great house is looked for as this is the first appearance appear-ance of the popular actor on the coast In a number of years we believe the last time he was seen in Salt Lake was when he gave his great rendition of Sowing the Wind Mr Miller has three plays in alI of which he will be seen in this city Among other old favorites in Salt Lake who come with Millers company are Leslie Allen the sterling old actor and Augustus Cook i who played Napoleon with Kathryn II Kidder in Madame Sans Gene Mabel Bert is the leadIng lady of the company com-pany and she too has a warm place in the affections of our theatregoers ti L < tIt > t-It will be pleasant news for the theatrical the-atrical companies which make a practice prac-tice of touring in the smaller cities of the west that the United States treasury treas-ury officers have placed a new construction con-struction 01 that part of the revenue I Ia v relating to traveling companies I Under the latest circular a traveling company playing in a city of more than J 25000 population In Salt Lake for instance in-stance would not have to pay any tax aa the manager of the local thiatre wo 141 already have been asesse for it I l the attraction however nroved i on to a town of less than 25000 Ogden for instance it would have to pay a tax of 10 or a pro rata amount for the fraction of a year dating from July 11098 and this amount would enable it to play all the smaller towns of the state If it moved across the border I however into Idaho it would have to pay another yearly tax and so on for each new state that It visited The rul iIg looks to be a lucky one for the bIg attractions which play only in cities of 25000 population and over as they escape es-cape taxation altogether 0 0 The announcement by Charles Froh nan that he will try Maude Adams for a weekas Juliet during next season moves Alan Dale of the New York Jdurnalto say The idea of presenting little Maude Adams as Juliet must have come to Mr Frohman as an inspiration in the silent watches of the night It occurred oc-curred to him in London and as far as It can see it is the most interesting thin he achieved there In the yards of iinterview that he spun there was just that one line that captured me I shall present Maude Adams as Juliet Ju-liet Nothing else mattered much it was the usual prolfic record We need I a girl Julietone that looks young and is young one that is thin and active i and pretty and captivating Miss Adams Ad-ams will give Shakesp ares exauisite tragedy the flip that it deserves I swore once that Id never see it again That was just after Mrs Potter hurled herself at the role and gave her unique idea of a summer girl Juliet with Narragansett Pier manners Asbury Park cocuetries and Long Branch clothes It was novel but decidedly disappointing In the potion scene you felt that she drank a morphine cocktail or an antipyrine julep because she was so distinctly newfangled I thought that I should never care for Juliet again But I hereby promise to smash every engagement into smithereens on the night when Miss Adams assumes the role We shall all declare beforehand before-hand that she hasnt the requisite strength which is the oxlike way of alluding to such a part but we shall go to see her just the same She will be fair sweet and of course winsome I win-some and if she doesnt take her POIson POI-son melodramatically and chew up Lady Capulets best bedroom furniture she will at any rat charm and reas I I sure us during the lighter portions of the play The 1cion scene is all very well but when it is made the one episode epi-sode for which every Juliet saves herself her-self up it 1ec9mes rather a nutsarce llr Faversham it appears is to be the Romeo but Romeo wont count in the least A dummy would do just as well Miss Adams in The Little Minister showed U5 how utterly unnecessary a leading man was If Robert Edeson could have made that piece a failure he would have done it But he couldnt and Maude Adams triumphed < > 00 Mark Thall speaking in the San Francisco Call of the actresses he had been instrumental in introducing to the public sacs Then there is Maude Adams who is coming here with the Frohman company com-pany and whose success has been almost al-most phenomenal When I was as sistant treasurer of the old Bush Street I theatre Charles E Locke being manager i man-ager she was a pretty little girl living here with her mother They were Utah people and their real name is Kiss I kaden Mrs Kirnkaden did not intend laude for professional life but I persuaded per-suaded her to let the little girl take I an engagement with Fritz Emmett I who had just returned from Australia under General Barton since the manager man-ager of the Bijou in New York I could I see the talent in the child and she justified my opinion of her on herd = ery first appearance I She was the sweetest most charming charm-ing most childlike child that I ever saw on the stage and never grew rude nor spoiled with all the praise that was given her I have watched her career with the warmest interest and when I I hear how well she has fulfilled the prophecy which I made concerning her in her childhood I cannot help feeling particularly glad that I persuaded the mother against her will to let her little daughter appear in public c c Phil Margetts and his two daughters Minnie and Mrs lIulhall of Z C lI 1 with Mrs R B Margetts returned from a very pleasant trip of two weeks ito i-to Preston Bear Lake Soda Springs and Gentile valley on Friday last I During the visit he met many old friends of years ago all glad to see him and anticipate another visit from him in the near future in a professional profession-al capacity supported by a firstclass company of ladies and gentlemen |