Show H Y I Ik F k 1 THIS r THE THEATRES flail ball iB lair Tacit I c Tv rue day we and W tc c ay r um io In Zia lu la half haIr of ot ofu ui k m u o oO j ling and andall an all an eck every evary e day cx ex except Monday 4 Gra d This a eth and ana through 4 Wednesday y eln e matinee on The uTne Co Copt r da ai and ad Saturday v ad a d Sa matinee lachat l o fe Minstrels 9 L c Tai rn ing la a and aad all ail the tho th S week eeL riat 13 ices acea Wednesday We and V A Mothers Devo Devotion Y tion OF THE THEATRES Zira Zara Florence Roberta Roberts will be seen at the theall salt Fait all Lake theatre next Monday Tues Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday day and Wednesday nights with Wed Wednesday ed matinee In n Zira Zim the work ol of D DHenry Henry Miller Millet and J Hartley Manners being a i new adaptation and recon reconstruction of the famous novel The New lew Ma dales by Wilkie Collins The theme of the story and play is I Ithe the interest that revolves about a case of o false falM under remark remarkable remarkable able circumstances Older playgoers will Mill remember the powerful acting of o oAda Ada Cavendish and Clara Clam Morris in plays founded on the same story I In this new version Zira the charac character ter tr of the fraudulent heroine will be assumed by an actress who already has hat furnished hed ample proof of or her abilities in ht the way of emotion emotional al Interpretation She is 19 supposed to tobe tobe be the victim of a mock marriage and to have be been n subjected to the disgrace disgraceful ful Cui humiliation of divorce court proceedings pro by a vengeful woman As a aRed aRed aRed Red Cross nurse nuN in South Africa dur during durIng ing the Boer war she encounters a ayoung ayoung ayoung young English woman who wl o Is return returning returning ing home to England to Join she has never seen It is revealed rev led that this young woman is the bosom friend of the woman who has caused used Hester I to be bo disgraced and ard she threatens i further exposure A 6 shell sheH explodes and the young woman Ruth Wilding lI by byname b byname I name is wounded by it and apparent apparently ly killed Heater Hester quickly changes hanges i with her and appropriates appropriate her papers money mo ey and identity For a time tilde the deception Is success successful successful successful ful and Hester tastes the tho pleasure of n and position in London but of course ourse the woman she is impersonating ing is not dead although she has lias been deprived dt of her memory The two wo women women men however meet face to face and the shock of o the meeting restores the v c mans maris mental faculties She accuses a her br impersonator and is met first with supplication and pleading and then with defiance In the end Hester after affer a fierce internal struggle makes what reparation she can by a confession and restoration andIs am and Is rewarded by a love which compensates her for all her suf sufferings su sufferings I 3 z Ia Iah h v va vw x a w k M ab abt M v I F t of FLORENCE ROBERTS As she appears in the title titie title role of Zira at the Salt Lake Theatre u u Orpheum This weeks bill at the Orpheum promises to be a bill of headliners from top tori to bottom The acts are new and novel and come here having won lau laurels laurels laurels and favorable comment from all quarters quart rs At the he head of the program comes Cliffe Berzac with his trained ponies and Mid the famous original mule Maud This act is said to be the greatest laughing hit in vaudeville Wherever It has been seen audiences have laughed till their sides fairly ached a at atthe atthe atthe the antics of Maud the cy cyclone cyclone cyclone clone in her acrobatic efforts etI to pre prevent prevent prevent vent daring amateur from getting astride her back hack A more absurdly absurd I funny performance than the gyrations g of o this trick mule and the stolid insistence of three as assistants assistants to accomplish the feat of rid riding ing her seldom is presented Besides Maud there are arc three clever cleer little Shetland ponies of o highly trained in intelligence James and Sadie Leonard and Dick Anderson appear in a hysterical Rf man travesty entitled When Caesar Sees Her This sketch is a satire of Bernard Ber Bernard Bernard nard Shaws Caesar and Cleopatra The anachronisms introduced and the absurdity of the whole thing keep the house roaring Next comes cones Emma Francis and her Arabs This turn is made up of whirl whirlwind whirlwind whirlwind wind dancing and wonderful athletic stunts These Arabs ara ark ari from Africa and their tumbling feats are said to be marvelous By B the way wa of o variety George Austin Moore will render character and negro songs Mr r Moore cannot be called a r y z Y 3 ii iii c R s yv I c i t wv iia I c 0 NA ti Y 3 l n L i b hC x z x xI t I K a aE ais af f E is L 1 Louis E Ramsdell and Gertrude Ritchie In The CowPuncher Cow Puncher at the Grand theatre 0 j a 1 r b M coon shouter but he sings syncopated syncopated syncopated songs that the world has been taught to believe are the legitimate evolution of the old negro melodies in ina ina a It way that is good to hear He Is a handsome fellow has a good voice and knows how to use it He tins has as brought with him one new song Sam John Johnson Johnson Johnson son Dont Live here No Mo Io that will willbe willbe willbe be whistled all over the streets street before th the week d eEk is ended The Tivoli quartette are arc soloists and harmonists who ho have had a triumphal tour throughout the country A sample criticism of their works is this The quartette sings until the th audience Is aroused amused to the highest pitch of enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm and while clamoring for addi additional additional additional encores cn ores the quartette bows its thanks and retires It is a splendid or organization organization organization that sings well and with the most consummate taste There are arc few so worthy of the thc demon demonstration demonstration given yesterday esterday Allen AlIen Wightman comes billed as a acla clay cla modeler and pastel painter His skill as a modeler is said to be some something something thing wonderful while his pastel work Is of the most artistic kind The kino drome pit pictures Lures and Mr Ir orches orchestra orchestra orchestra tra are sure to keep the plage In popular popular popular lar favor they have won In the past The Cow Puncher That The Cow Puncher by Hal Reid to be seen at the Grand theatre four nights starting tonight contains the possibilities of o a truly great play seems to be an indisputable fact but whether these possibilities possibilities could not have been better bett r expressed sed by a simpler sim simpler simpler method of treatment is a debatable ble question Treating of the cowboys life and cus customs customs customs toms Mr Reid goes deeper and gives us a glance Into the very soul of the west The opening act dealing with the cowboys enthusiastic welcome to the owner of the ranch ranh a young girl who has been educated in the east and visits the west for the first time since she was a child of 10 finds the condi condl conditions conditions so strange and peculiar that it is well worth time to come and see how cleverly she works her way into the hearts of the rough and ready cowboys Other characters of ot which there are twenty go to make this the most successful play of o the season A play with a purpose yet with an underlying thread of delightful de delightful delightful humor Is The Cow Puncher The author Hal Reid has drawn his characters well notably Tom Tam Lawton the central figure Natures poet unknown to fame Brave Brae as asa a lion he could not write his name lame There Is not a dull moment from the time Geraldine Graham a young dash dashing dashIng dashing ing New York girl arrives to take pos possession possession possession session of the ranch left her at the death of her brother until the curtain descends s on the death of Lutchia Cor Cordovia Cordola Cordovia dovia dola who receives the bullet in her own breast aimed at her Spanish lover loveras as Fierce were the fires that burned in her breast She died for her love in the far ar golden west The Cow Puncher will run four our nights and a Wednesday matinee A Mothers Devotion If one cne likes a real human interest story with HII an extra thriller or two to please the gallery galle gods and some who arc not sitting In iii the gallery one should see A Mothers Devotion being produced at the Lyric L this week It Is quite a bit different from the usual melodrama and fully as entertaining enter entertaining entertaining as any play produced at t the tho Lyric this season Among the hills hUls of Tennessee In the moonshine district where families s of the outlaw whisky w distillers go about in deadly fear ear of ot discos Y and the revenuers hunt them with fully as much trepidation the scenes of are arc aid Little corn could be grown upon the rocky patch of ground that the hero owned It could not be besold besold besold sold at a profit that would feed teed clothe ter v and keep a roof above the heads of nis loved ones A Mill Is built in the far recesses of the mountain mount ln and the fam tam family famIly ily lIy Is provided for tor The story of or a feud the coming of the revenue men and ot o a mothers sacrificing devotion brings the tale to a happy ending that joins forever two human hearts and incidentally gives the audience a chance to brush away a tear tearA tearA tearA A crowd was present resent 1 at last nights performance erf and the leading man manFre Frederick Fre Moore as well as several other oth r members of ot an excellent cast did some some excellent work The company has been Improved with the addition of several members member and they are well prepared to handle handl the commendable list of plays that have be been n scheduled for the coming winter months It now seems an assured fact that melodrama will pay ay the dividends in this house that it has In the past Manager Grant wants to thank the patrons of the house that are returning to their allegiance and promises thano that tha no expense or trouble will be spared to give to the Lyric audiences the best I est melodrama that can be produced Seats can be reserved at any ani ai y time upon application at the box office Georgia Minstrels Equipped with all the accessories of ofa ofa ofa a organization the Richards S Pringles famous Georgia minstrels have caught on m in the most em phat fashion The theatres literally tested to their capacity night nightly ly Although years have elapsed ela 3 d since this company was first organized nothing which they have offered d has gin given gIen en such satisfaction as the program they present this season Visitors ors find so FO much entertainment that after two and an a half hours 1 of continuous fun they are arc loth to go goA goA goA A complete new show is offered this season which is full of ginger from start to finish Three Th e nights and a Saturday mati matinee matinee matinee nee commencing Thursday Dec Dee 5 at atthe atthe atthe the Grand theatre is the date of their appearance in this city The usual parade will be bc given hivon at 1100 1130 a in m Max Figman Mix Max Figman Fiman will be he an early attraction attraction attraction tion at the Salt Lake theatre in Grace Livingston Ui Furniss dramatization of o Haroid Harod story stor The Man ManOn ManOn ManOn On the Box Mr Ir Figman Is considered consid considered ered by many competent judges the for comedian on the American stage and If the tho old adago adage that money talks counts for anything there must be some truth in the th state statement statement statement ment for or he ho has as made a lot of o money with the tho th play and continues to do so every day The American people express ex cx express press pres their judgment of their stage favorites at the box office and it has been truly said that while you may ma fool some seme s me of thorn them th m all of ot the time and andall andall andall all of Jf them some of o the time you can cannot cannot cannot not dt it to them all the tho time Mr Figman plays pla s to crowded houses hou all ail of he hl time He will bring with him hima a superior company compan and a complete scenic production FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN One of Thomas Jeffersons smoking compartment stories relates that a atla teacher h r had been telling her class of boys that worms had become so nu numerous numerous numerous they the destroyed destro ed the th crops and It was necessary to import the English sparrow to exterminate them The sparrows multiplied very fast Cast and were driving away awa our native birds Johnny John was apparently inattentive and teacher thinking to catch him napping said Johnny which is worse to have worms or sparrows Please I never had lie he sparrows Chauncey Chaunce Olcott is somewhat con a rather unusual thing for an actor and the cause of his remorse came about in this way wa Ono One afternoon while he ho was rehearsing rehears rehearsing rehearsIng ing his company in ONeill of o Derry at the tIle Broadway theatre NewYork New York Yorka a young young man whom he had noticed d in conversation with two other men in front of the theatre left his compan companions companions companions ions and crossing the street said saidI I beg your our pardon but arc you ou Chauncey Olcott uNo No responded the comedian Tin Tat his brother Then I lose Imm my bet exclaimed the stranger darting in front of a car and rejoining his companions Mr Olcott saw him hand one of o the themen themen themen men a bill and not wishing the strang stranger er to lose 1050 his money he started In pur pursuit pursuit pursuit suit to explain but there was a crush rush of traffic at the moment and he lost sight of them themAn themAn themAn An hour later Mr tH ott was walking up Broadway when the same young man approached him hlin With another man ma manAre Are you OU Chauncey Olcott he h e asked Yes I am and I want to say that when I told you a little while ago that I was hot I know you had a abet abet abet bet on It Well Yell Ill be be exclaimed the stranger That two bets Ive lost on you OU this afternoon I just bet Jim JImh here h re a five spot that you wrent Chauncey Cha Olcott and I thought I had hada a cinch and he turned and walked dejectedly away awa I Miss Terry In the latest chapter of in they the November McClures takes a fling at Mrs Irs Grun Grundys Grundys Grundys dys rumor that she and Mrs Kendal were Jealous of each other Speaking of o he great triumph as Portia she says Not for years afterward ard did I find i out that I was not the first choice for Portia The had tried the first with the Idea of making a double engagement but the negotiations failed Perhaps the rival rivalry ry between Mrs Kendal and me might have become of more significance had she appeared as Portia at the Prince of Wales and preferred Shakespeare to domestic comedy In after years ears she played Rosalind oh oil Madge I do owe you one for tor that I never did ld and quite recently acted with me in Merry Wives ive of Windsor but bilt the best of o her fame Came will always be associated with such plays as The Squire The Iron master Lady Clan carty and many more When she played with me In Shakespeare she laughingly challenged me to Jo come and play with her in a 3 modern piece a domestic play pla and 1 I Isaid said Done but it has not been done yet I found her wonderful to act with No other English actress has such extraordinary skill Of course people have said we are jealous of each other Ellen Terry Torry Acts with Lifelong Enemy proclaimed an American newspaper In type when we played together as Mistress Page and Mistress Ford in Mr Trees coronation production of Merry Wives Vives of Wind Windsor Windsor sor Jut hut the thc enmity did lid not seem to worry us as much as the newspaper newspaperman man oer over the Atlantic had represented It was during this engagement |