Show w THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES H 4 Salt Lake k Monday y yand Tuesday TuesdayS 4 S and Wednesday with Wednesday 4 0 j jS o 4 S matinee Annie Russell in A Mid lIld 4 0 S SS o c S summer Nights Dream Thurs v 0 4 cS day da Friday and Saturday Satur a with i 4 io o S Saturday matinee Henrietta G 0 e 4 o Crosman in 0 S 3 Ss o 4 s gy 4 0 4 cS Orpheum All week beginning 4 0 i Monday night with matinees dai dat 4 0 o J ly except Monday Monda vaudeville 0 4 0 Grand GrandAll All week beginning to toS 4 0 o 4 S night with matinees Wednesday 0 c o 4 3 and Saturday the Leighton play players 0 b 4 ere ers era in Butternut Jones 4 3 s 4 cS Lyric All week with matinees et 0 etc o c S daily except Sunday vaudeville So 4 s 3 PROMISE OF THE THEATRES The eighth and final concert of the season Reason will be bo given by b the Salt Lake Symphony orchestra tra en the afternoon of Friday FrIda next The rehearsals have been conducted weekly for the last three months in order to give the pro program program program gram an especially excellent rendition I This final concert will mark tho the close of the third season In the tile history The patrons will have the first opportunity of hearing some Borne of Arthur Shepherds own composition as the full orchestra will render two move movements movements movements ments the waltz and march of a suite in D major The soloists for this occa occasion occasion occasion sion are Mrs Walter Falter G Tuttle who will render two harp numbers and Willard Flashman flutist whose appearance i the first season created such a favor favorable favorable favorable able Impression Fred C Graham has the subscription n ticket t sale in charge Here follows the t e full program Overture Midsummer Nights Dream Mendelssohn Solos for Harp Harpa a b Autumn Thomas Symphony N No 3 Mendelssohn Introduction Maestoso Allegro Adagio Allegro Intermission five minutes a aYase Valse Lent Lente A Shepherd b Marche e eFrom From Suite for Orchestra Concerto for Flute D major Mozart Waltz Watz Wiener fener Blut Strauss March Pomp and Circumstance j Edgar A Midsummer Nights Dream DreamA A lovely lovey spectacle some beautiful music vivacious us acting and not a lit little little little tle rollicking fun tuna funa a very cry excellent en entertainment entertainment entertainment diverting satisfying and composed more or less of the stuff that dreams are made of all this accord according accordIng according ing to the New York dramatic review reviewers ers ore Is the Kemper pro production production production of A Midsummer Nights I Dream which played pla ed at the New Astor As Astor Astor tor theatre New York as the inaugural I tai ral attraction and which will be seen at ut the Salt Lake theatre the first half of this week with Wednesday matinee with Annie Russell Rusell starred in fn the role of Puck Rich grouping of figures and and plenty of pageantry and tho glided gilded pomp of court to contrast with the fresh luscious green and yel yellow yellow el low Jow of woodland hill and dale with tho the added satisfaction sati faction of much of the tho thoon Mom on el 9 hn music comprises about all an that can call be done with A Midsummer mer Nights Dream most exquisite comedy Critics from Hazlitt down have hae be bewailed bewailed bewailed wailed tho the absence of the dream feel teel feelIng feelIng Ing from productions of this play Once One In the Phelps production of Sadlers Sad Sadlers lers Jers Wells Vens they the were said to have had hadIt hadIt hadit It Phelps it would seem used a gauze curtain or something of the sort and find showed his figures in a kind of milt mill that gave the vague ague faraway souse fo one associates with things of the fancy fanc Gauze Is not used in the Rus Russell sell BOll production but the lights aro are dim many mahy times tims and there are plenty of other first aids aids to illusion Colored lights lI bob bol up In flowers when Puck kisses lt them an owl hoots and blinks his hs eyes e es and a whole group of little elves and m fairies very well trained In Inthe inthe the tho antics of fairyland as we ve under understand stand them play leapfrog tumble tumbledown tumbledown down dawn hill and indulge In a most be beo o w crooning that gets as near t the soughing of night winds In the trees tre as any anyone one could wish Miss Rus Russell Russell sell seIl is a sort of Puck in pastel shades She Sh comes In first flying very ery prettily by means of a wire arrangement graceful and in her role of the madcap fay fa She has a sweet singing voice olce and the th song Ye Spotted Snakes Is charmingly given with a pleasing arrangement of the music by Augustus Barrett who was imported from England by Kemper Komper to make special arrange arrangements ments of the tho th Mendelssohn music for tor this production A popular element of the play un theatre at the Duke oi or o Yorks theatre in London Lon London LonI don last year It had a long run and I Miss Crosman has made It one of the theR R American successes of or this season It ItIs Itis J is a play pla of or today In three acts and is considered one of or the wittiest and merriest mer merriest merriest I riest comedies that the English stage i has sent Hent to this country It abounds In mirth and merriment and tells an In Interesting interesting story prolific In droll charac charne I ers rs and laughable situations Miss Crosman rosman as Peggy OMara has an I Irish part similar to those in Sweet I Bellairs and Mistress Nell Xen ell In which she scored famous hits Peggy and her mother the Widow OMara O Mara are working counter matrimonial I schemes with Lord Anthony Anthon o Cracken Crackenthorpe i i thorpe as a pivot Lord Anthony is a ai i scientist whose present hobby hobb is IsI j spiders The widow Is plotting to cap capture i I ture him as a husband for Peggy The TheIrl girl Irl wish to marry matr anybody but Iq is trying tr ing to bring her mother and andI I j i Lord Anthony together Lord Antho 1 j nyc nys family desire to keep him a bach bachelor bachelor I elor so they the can cnn continue to share his house Consequently Co they are plotting against the Peggy Peg puts up a scheme by b pretending to elope with I Jimmy Keppel Lord Anthonys young younger er brother There Is no elopement and andI I Jimmy know ot of the escapade I until he finds Peggy Pegg In his rooms f where events have detained her longer 1 I than she expected Of course there are I all aU kinds of complications which are I heightened by Peggys Pe gys discovery discovers after she h has run away from Jimmy that I she he really loves him The Tho New York World said In its review Peggy Pegg is a alovel lovely lovel Hibernian bubble all nonsense and ami mischief arch and winning The entertainment Is one that appeals to the lighter moods and abounds in laughter The play Is In three acts which take place in England the time Is the present pre ent Miss compa company ny is h of an exceptionally high order and In Includes Frank Gillmore Ernest Stallard J R Addison Pitt John Marble C A Chandos Chando Kate Meek J Marbury Mattie Ferguson and Genevieve Reynolds Vaudeville at Orpheum It bears all the earmarks of a distinctly dis distinctly distinctly warm bill at the Orpheum this week commencing tomorrow night With JUl but two exceptions first last and amI andall andall all the time boisterous cachinnation will willbe willbe willbe be In order among the patrons of the house Even the falls falis Into line with three comedy animated scenes The headliner Matthews and Ashley Ashle are leading directors of the laugh trust They The have a little offering in the form of A Smashup in Chinatown that is said to be a gem Given one of or the Chosen Race who is out for a time and makes his appearance with fractured a cab wheel around his neck and a coachman who has h s been smoking hop and there is the foundation for the act Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox has writ written written written ten a comedy entitled Her First Divorce Case This will be included in included included In the bill and be presented by Mattie Keene and company c The sketch is written In a seriocomic vein the situations are ludicrous and varied Is the feeling of Bottom and his fellow fE actors a Bottom who is ex extremely extremely extremely funny and who actually man manages manages manages ages to be so even when his own round oily oil face s hidden in the ass head John Bunny Is the Bottom a most ab absurd absurd absurd surd lout most magnificently dense an I ass on a scale Others In the capable supporting company compan are Os Oswald Oswald Oswald wald Yorke Edwin Mordant Atkins Lawrence Lionel Adams Thomas Cof Coffin Coffin Coffin fin Cooke Catharine Proctor Lansing Rowan and Richard Lee u A a S udd en Peg gy Henrietta engagement at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake theatre next Thursday Friday and Saturday nights and at atthe atthe atthe the Saturday matinee is an event that will rank prominently in the notable offerings of the season Miss liss Crosman Is coming here almost direct from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and will be seen in the comedy in which she scored one of the distinct Broad Broadway Broadway Broadway way successes of oC the year ear Her en engagement engagement engagement at the Bijou theatre New NewYork N V York In was one of the features of the season She proved anew that she is the most popular popular popular lar comedienne in New ew York City and that she merits the reputation she has earned as the most gifted exponent of comedy roles on the stage stae today toda Her visit to Salt Lake City an event in itself is the more In Interesting Interesting interesting from the fact that she Is to tl be seen in a comedy which was a hit In London be before before before fore she presented It in this country It ItIs ItIs Itis Is by Ernest Denny and was first done and into the fifteen minutes s of action P TWO STARS WHO WILL APPEAR AT THE SALT LAI LAKE E THEATRE THIS WEEK M x S F Fg Fh Ft g a h t 5 K r 21 4 I w wl id t 4 y l s d 4 v t P II t c 1 4 z rF 1 1 LP r M Ir IrIl Il 1 hr ri b t I I M i K N y sir t a i it l 1 I x t rl ft Henrietta He rietta Crosman who plays the title role in Peggy Annie Russell who plays In A Midsummer Nights Dream are crowded all kinds of wit and hu humor humor humor mor Raymond Ha mond Finlay FInla and Lottie Burke come direct from the Los Angeles Or Orpheum Orpheum Orpheum where their offering Stage land Satire has been one of the hits for the past two weeks Of their work the Examiner says sas The best real vaudeville act is that of Raymond Fin Finlay Finlay Finlay lay and Lottie Burke in Satre Sat Jre re They are able to keep their audi audience audience audience ence laughing from start to finish a feat not attained by all aspirants in vaudeville The Durands are a trio of character vocalists who render selections selections selections from grand opera in a fashion calculated to enthuse those of artistic temperament The an illustrated lecture by b Toona a oded Navajo girl is a distinct novelty for vaude vaudeville vaudeville ville This maiden has the distinction of sailing salling under the auspices of LAr L Ar Artiste tiste club of London and Paris The act requires from fifteen to twenty minutes showing views of Colorado Arizona Nevada Neada and California including in including I the Canyon of the Colorado the houses of the desert people the people themselves and the color effects to be encountered only in that part of the world Sharp Brothers are a couple of agile dancers who sing the songs of the south in a fashion calculated to make downstairs applaud and the gallery throw a spasm of delight The ever popular gets into the running with three good films de depicting depicting depicting Parody of Toreador The TheOld TheOld TheOld i Old Mashers and Visit Butternut Jones Salt Lake Luke this week is to have hae the distinction of having the first real first night it has experienced in several years ears at a local theatre Tonight at the Grand occurs the initial production on any stage of Harry Leightons roman romantic romantic romantic tic idyl of the southwest Butternut Jones dramatized by Mr Ir Leighton from Tilden novel of the same name The Interest that has lias been manifest manifested ed in the preparations for the production production tion of Butternut Butt Jones has led Mr Leighton to give the opening perform performance ance tonight instead of tomorrow night The play will continue through the week at the Grand with matinee per i i tt I i tl bi I Y L Tr 0 F 0 0 r j 1 f 7 WILLIAM FLASH FLASHMAN MAN Who will be one of the at the Symphony Orchestras concert concertI I 1 I Wednesday and Saturday afternoons at 30 I Prepared for presentation at heavy expense with every detail of the pro production production I absolutely new and in Itself a play pla Mr Ir Leighton believes will prove i ithe the greatest western story ever given the stage the engagement of Butter Butternut Butternut Butternut nut Jones promises to prove an aus auspicious auspicious event in the thc local theatrical season Of the scores of western plays that have been turned from the pens of playwrights during the past few I years lars but few have lived Jived through a aI I single season There has been b en no secret i in the cause of the failure of the oth others others ers Superficial untrue to the real conditions that exist in the west and great southwest overdrawn and melo melodramatic melodramatic melodramatic dramatic the th public stamped its disapproval of such productions productions productions in an un unmistakable manner Butternut Jones as Mr Leighton has told the story ston is of the men and women whose who lives have been so close closely closely II ly Identified with the th of the western country who have made it I what it is and whose existence needs no coloring to appeal irresistibly to American audiences Harry Leighton has spent weeks with these men and women sharing their work and play pIa their happiness and their sorrows ws The story he tells in Butternut Jones Janes Is filled fined to the brim with the great truths of the ranges of the southwest of the work of the men and women of or the country court their loves loes mot and hates failures I and successes It is life as western people know it not a creation of the stage The things that have been responsible for the failure of other western plays plas Mr Ir Leighton has h S been bLen careful to avord The western bad man has no place In Butternut Jones With hIm have been be n crowded out the Indians the greasers and the shooting affrays Not a shot is fired on or off the stage during the four acts These are the things westerners are giving up their lives Jives to drive from their midst They are the things that are untrue to the best of the west and Mr Leighton con considers considers considers siders them unnecessary Butternut Jones Is a romantic Idyl of Texas and Oklahoma Butternut a cowpuncher is employed at the Twin Bar ranch in Vail Vall Verde county Texas owned by Catherine Cloud a pretty Kansas City girl birl who at the opening of the play Is getting her first taste of western life and her first insight into the lives of western people Surround Surrounding ing the girl and Butternut Jones are the cowpunchers of the tile ranch several of Miss Clouds city elt friends and Rich Richard Richard Richard ard Thorne Thome in particular to whom Catherine is supposed to be bo engaged Mr Leighton carries the girl and But Butternut Butternut Butternut through four strong acts first amid the picturesque scenes of the Texas plains then at the opening of the Cherokee strip in Oklahoma later In Perry Ferry Okla hours old and finally in the girls irs home In Kansas City Cay The rhe second scene of the third act showing the little town ton of Perry being built is exceedingly realistic Butternut Jones Is a story well told and abounding in humor and logic of the plains and hills bills Butternut Is first firsta a college man and ad then a cowpuncher er |