Show D t ts tr tiIt s r i 1 I 1 r 1 S SS S j jf f THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES I ISalt f Salt Lake Theatre Monday H 4 evening Creston Clarke in The f 4 Power that Governs Tuesday f ff f and Wednesday evenings and j 4 Wednesday matinee The Ging 4 bread Man Mun Thursday matinee 4 4 and evening Painting the Town 4 4 4 Friday and Saturday evenings and 4 4 Saturday matinee Wilton Vilton Lackaye La kaye 4 4 in The Bondman 4 4 Orpheum Tomorrow evening 4 4 and all week matinees matIn es every day 4 t 4 except Monday vaudeville Ile 4 4 Grand Gr This evening and all 4 4 week matinees Wednesday and f 4 4 Saturday King of the Opium 4 I Ring All week A Japanese 4 4 Courtship 4 t M t M t M M The Power That Governs Govern The Power fower that Governs the th ne new and modern American drama in which Creston Clarke will be seen at the Salt lake theatre on Monday evening came Inlo futo being ht ho direct result of a de deidre dewe deg idre we g express by Mr Ir Clarke for a Strong tong virile the present time in iu which he could be seen In twentieth century garments That wish was ex expressed expressed pressed pres d by Mr Ir Clarke some three years ago in the presence of his wife Adelaide Prince who to the actors surprise Immediately offered to furnish what he desired if she were given the time and opportunity Miss Prince had done some creditable stage writing earlier In her career but lit t her husband nd had no idea that her ambitions were along such lines JInes The Idea however struck him favorably as It did later his manager Jules Murry So some few weeks af afterwards afterwards afterwards with the purpose of gathering material and familiarizing herself with the atmosphere which she Intended to f In ii the drama Miss Prince left 1 1 JOT ji Mexico There she took too Ie up her residence res in the Sierra Madre and for nearly two years while her husband was achieving unusual success in Shakespearian repertoire and as Mon ron Monsieur Beaucaire she kept steadily at work Returning to New York at the theos close os of the last theatrical season she offered her manuscript to her husband and to Mr Murry The play In n man manuscript manuscript manuscript form appealed to the manager and the actor as possessing many sit situations situations situations of unusual strength dialogue that was no less than brilliant and an atmosphere that while being typically and forcefully American was different to that of any other production made In late years Seen at rehearsal Miss Princes Prince work Impressed them moje more than ever and several weeks ago when asked a their opinion of it Clarke larke and Murry coincidently declared heir belief that It will prove o 0 be the thereat theN N fe great reat American play playa pla Gingerbread The Man ManIt Ma MaIt It is only fair fais that the sterner sex should be given a chance no matter m what the particular business in hand handAs handAs handAs As a rule for years past the domain of musical comedy or at least a large section has been given over to the girl girt From Front capital A to capital Z the dictionary has been ransacked to find adjectives qualifying the girl in some of her numerous incarnations Now comes the change cha ge A new work of this school will be presented at the Salt Lake theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Wednesday mat matinee matinee matinee inee that bears the curious and from the comedy standpoint now i m rab rabA A t tN pc N y ti ASS f r WILTON LACKAYE Who appears at the Salt Lake The Theatre Theatre Theatre atre In The Bondman f I Ing name of The Tate Gingerbread Man Ian ManIt Itis It is the work of Frederic Ranken and andA A Baldwin Sloane both with much standing to their credit in the Ue annals of light and pleasant entertaining 1 In the story st ry of Cr the work It is said to toI I hold bold much better together than the thet I t majority of its class although dealing i i altogether with the realms and crea creatures 1 I tures of Imagination Kris Kingle Is Isi i i prominent In the proceeding as aa are 1 Little Jack Horner Margery Daw Sim Simi I j I pie Simon Simo and other Interesting indi i who Iho ho step out of the story book II into Into flesh and being Of course such personages s need special territory for forI I their exploitations and this has been I furnished In providing Santa Claus ClausI I Land and the Aerial Sugar Palace all locations calculated to stir I the scenic painters fancy fanc The Sugar Palace recalls that an Im imf f part of the th plot Is where Jack Tack Horner sees Princess ss Sugar Plum car carried carried carried ried off in an airship to the home of j King Kins Bunn by one Fudge Before a union is effected between the rightful lovers the forces forcel of Fairyland and the nursery are In a terrible com commotion commotion commotion motion and plenty of novel business Is I introduced for the general delectation I of the audience Particular stress Is laid upon the elegance of scenic effect and the costumes One incident of which much Is expected is where Kris Kingle In his proverbial costume with silver silve reins and a golden sleigh drives a team of pretty reindeer girls of the chorus Another scene Incident claimed to be especially novel is a ing dragon who keeps busy helping help helping helpIng ing out the conspiring elements of the story Among the cast are many nota notable notable notable ble players such Buch as Evelyn Frances Kellogg Nellie Nice Mabel Day Annie Dressler Dressier Fannie Martine Amy T p Lulu Borden Fred Nice Ross Snow nos Garrick Major James McElhern Percy Matson Lute Bert Lovey and a great beauty chorus of well trained voices This with an augmented orchestra under Fred Walz makes a n complete organization numbering sixty two people and the same production that marked its run at the Liberty the theatre theatre theatre atre New York City will be presented Painting the Town The new musical spectacle presented by Charles H JI Yale is an announced announced announced as the attraction at the Salt Sail Lawe theatre next Thursday matinee and nd night The Th play Is an unusual bright and clever one and the story being of the bright side of city life fill fili of hustle hustie bustle and go construct constructed ed for laughing purposes only mgt met with unus i success In every city etty where It H has een presented The mu music music music sic is new striking and original while white the scenery and costumes are of the most elaborate description with many new and striking mechanical effects The company headed by those very S funny funn comedians Halliday and Leon Leonard Leonard Leonard ard Includes such well known artists as as Miss hUss King Miss Madeline Buckley Miss Lillian Herndon John JohnL L Li Guilmette John Fred Borne Borneman Borneman Borneman man Edward T Connelly Harry Hew HewItt Hewitt Itt tt Bert Herbert the three Sisters Lynch and a large ballet and chorus Charles H Yale for the past twenty five live years has given his entire atten itten attention tion to the presentation of large Scenic and costume productions notably The Sea King The Evil Eye The Dev Devis Devils is ils Auction The Twelve Temptations Temptations and other attractions all of which can without exaggeration be claimed I to have won not only the en entire entire i tire confidence nce of the theatregoing public but to have scored more than asual success Mr Yale is the producer of or Painting the Town and he assures as assures assures the public that the play is a abright abright abright bright clean and enjoyable enjo able one in interspersed interspersed inS with tuneful melodies and andi i j musical novelties interpreted by clever I artists with sumptuous accessories in brilliant nt costuming and scenic sur surroundings surroundings surroundings To this end nothing has hasI I been left undone that liberal outlay and andI I ability could Insure A special I I will be given Thursday i j I I The liThe Bondman j I Wilton Lackaye returning after an j absence of two years wilt will Friday I II t I night only be seen for the first time in inthis Inthis inthis this city In Hall C nes play of The 1 I i Bondman a foura four t dramatization I of the Manx authors ro romance romance mance of that title It seems safe to assert that the theme and fable of the play are known to a majority of the I folk who iho will be Interested in seeing It I for twenty years have haya passed since The Bondman first took a place In Inthe inthe the popular fiction of our tongue here I indin ind in Great Britain and although Caine has in that time been a fecund and industrious writer of novels none of his more recent books has succeeded In pushing the earlier r work out of the popular affections It Is a strange freak fre k of circumstances that brings a play based on The I Bondman he e as the work of Cie Ce twenty I years after Its publication for 1888 when the novel he was an avowed enemy of the thea theatre theatre theatre tre Ten years later expressing him himself self as of the belief belie that he was per performing performing performing forming an un ethical duty he dramatized d his novel of The Christian Since then the theatre has proved an attractive attractive attractive tive field for him for he followed that play with ra a dramatization of The Eternal City in 1892 1592 and that In turn with a dramatization of The Prodigal Son In 1901 1 The Bondman was dramatized by i Caine for production last season as the annual autumn play in huge theatre the Drury Lane where it was Staged on Sept 26 2 1906 1905 with magnificent i cent and massive settings and splendid I detail and with a cast notable for Its array arra of well known names It can canin an anIn I in Drury Lane till forced off in mid I December by the advent adent of the holi holiday holiday day pantomime but was transferred to I the Adelphi theatre where the run continued until May 31 1907 It was inthe in inthe inthe the closing weeks of that London run that William A Brady saw the play looked upon Jason Jaron as a good role for Mr Mackaye Mack aye and Imported It together with the production devised for Drury Lane Vaudeville at Orpheum Judging from advance e notices re received received received a superior bill of attractions will be given g en at the Orpheum next week Here Here Is the program Troupe Troup greatest gre test ac acrobats acrobats acrobats Jules and Ella Garrison in An Ancient Roman Jordan and Harvey in Two Sons of Israel Anna Woodward Wood Woodward ward prima donna soprano Czinka Panna cymbal virtuoso Ferrell Brothers Comedians and sensational sensationalists the and orchestra As headliners come comb the th Troupe There Thero are eight people p opie in this company five women and three men mert They come heralded as great groat greatest est acrobats Their work is said to be beof beof beof of the most highly finished order In hi fact wherever they have appeared they have been proclaimed the most wonder wonderful ful acrobatic performers in the world Of an entirely different nature is the act of Jules and Ella Garrison Theirs is I a Roman burlesque burle ue travesty trav st There have been other turns of a similar kind seen here but this one is said to be in ina ina ina a class all by itself Ii s a real bur burlesque burlesque burlesque lesque on ancient Roman life and hab habits habits habits its and is one of the most hilarious sketches on the t e vaudeville stage sta e eThen Then there is Jordan and Harvey who present an interesting entertain entertaining entertaining entertaining ing and original act entitled ed d Two Sons of Israel which has made good everywhere Miss Anna Woodward is one of the features of f the bill She Is a soprano rind and nd made a reputation for herself with the band as soloist the hc is isnow isnow now flOW int audeville and her offering in inthis Inthis inthis this weeks program will be one of the most popular vocal acts ever presented In the theatre One of her encore numbers is a song called Samland which is said to be one on of tho the most tuneful bits of music heard in a long time Ume X By way of variety Ferrell Brothers who are billed as comedians and sensa sensationalists sensationalists sensationalists promise to give an enter entertainment entertainment entertainment both novel and unique an act that Is said to have provoked as many i a I t r MAZIE 1 ING INGIn In Painting the Town at the Theatre i I I I ti 3 J Jt t S S Gf s 4 v If tv F A t x y i ib b A x r 4 h t ti w 4 Y Ya a I v 1 j t r I I I rY r I i 3 I IT It t T 0 a aS S 3 ti c cM cr i M r i I IFred Fr Fred J Nice and his John Dough girls In The Gingerbread Man at the theS th S 1 Theatre I ex A a ar iv r L V S Si r rr i e r A r x T t 3 1 g E Ets ts i gs f o a k Zi r tK THE TROUPE Who appear at the Orpheum this week smiles and laughs as any act on the road Of course the indispensable kino drome and orchestra will fill their usual important parts King of the Opium Ring The Lorch Stock now nov playing at the Grand theatre will for the first time in inthe inthe inthe the west the famous can melodrama King of the Opium Ring Ringo This play is a distinct Innovation Innovation Innovation tion in the line Une of theatricals and Is Isa isa isa a great groat gr t success owing to its refreshing originality and Interesting subject This attraction The King of the t e Opium Ring when at the Academy of Music New York for six weeks met with pronounced success from its nov nor novelty no elty in construction and absolute I in ideas The play was writ written written I ten by Charles E Blaney As can be surmised from its title the atmosphere Is distinctly Chinese and I therefore thoroughly oriental in tone I and anti action The King of the Opium Ring is claimed cla clamed med to be the first play put on the American stage st ge that re reflects reflects reflects Chinese character as it is The action of the piece takes place In San Francisco about 1850 1540 and deals with the methods employed to got get opium in into Into Into to the United States free of duty The scenery shows Dead Mans Ians Dock with the Golden Gate in the distance the escape of the smugglers yacht with the revenue cutter In pursuit firing shots from a gun a Chinese underground o jum den the Fong Quay Qua club and the Palace saldon on Sacramento Saram nto street the heart of China Chinatown Chinatown Chinatown town brilliantly illuminated on Chi Chinese Chinese Chinese nese dew lew vew Years Tears night during the cele celebration celebration celebration bration of the day doj and the assembly room of a swell Chinese club in Frisco where during the festivities vaude vaudeville vaudeville vaudeville ville acts are Introduced by clever specialty specialty artists Top Duy Wing Vin troupe of Chinese Victors actors who lend local color to fo the tho th production itA A Japanese Courtship Musical is the offering at the Lyric this week Zinns Comic O Opera era ompa F opened the season eason yesterday afternoon In A Japanese T Courtship a comic c mIC operetta op retta of more than ordinary merit When When the curtain rose Salt Lake gave the Continued on Page 11 THE THEATRES Continued From Page 5 a hearty welcome to our city cit The bill billIs billIs billis Is a good one and from all indications will draw good houses to each per performance forman formani e The chorus has sixteen pretty girls who dance and sing well welland welland welland and with a good aggregation of clever comedians comedian the sketches will be put plit on In good shape A brief outline of the story Is this Flannigan Fl a tourist from America Atner a and Lord Percy an English noble nobleman nobleman nobleman man are globetrotters and are arc in InJa Ja Japan Japan pan looking for ideal w wives ives one each They meet a merry bunch of maidens and are courted by a whole galaxy of beauties and by an ancient spinster who is determined to secure a hus husband husband husband band Tony West Vest as Flannigan Gus Mortimer as Lord Percy and Helen Hartley as 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