Show fJ c u e 1 J f h se J A J l 1 I 1 I ON AND OFF THE STAGE i BY HAROLD New Ne York Sept 25 The Immoral tide is still very high in New York and somebody has bas got to begin In walling wailing over the vicious tendencies of oC the stage sta e eor or the whole institution will become a sewer ewer It Js is the duty of the New York critic to sound MUnd the note not of alarm and let it Milo through the outside press 90 so as us to SO save 88 the grace of decency which is stronger er over the country than it is in the metropolis The Th Revelers is a play full fult of ot tenderloin ten tenderloin types and the life Ute it pictures 1 I Is not particularly interesting to tran transient transient transient patrons of ot the theatres and New Yorkers themselves have these charac charae characters characters shoved under their noses so much In restaurants and other public places that I should think they would get sick of seeing them and their lives glorified 4 on the stage One evil is that many dramatists live Uve too much in the atmosphere of the tenderloin The theatres theatre are all there therein thereIn in the best lighted district in n the city and its doings occupies the greatest space in n the papers These things give the impression that its life ife is the most important and most moat typical of any anyAn anyAn anyAn An American Widow is a billed as 8 a farcical comedy by Kellett Chambers but there Is nothing in n the title that suggests the intensified lines and very risque situations that one sties sees in this play pia at the Hudson theatre The hero heroine heroIne heroine ine is the young oung widow of a rich old man who has particularly provided that in to a second marriage she will be deprived of all the advantages of his wealth but he had failed to specify the same penalty for her third marriage When she falls in love Jove she seeks to nul nullify nullity nullify lity the effect of the will by securing a temporary second husband who will nil submit to a divorce as soon as it t can be secured after the marriage I In the interim while the second mar marriage marriage is still in effect all the characters find themselves either by accident or as guests at the faraway bungalow of a bachelor friend where the sleeping g rooms are too few to supply each with wit witha wita h a separate one The situations arising from the pres presence pr M Mence es ence of ot the lover and the fact that the th e servants do not know that the husband and wife are not really husband and wife can readily be imagined This situation may be called funny but the expense to propriety Is too great I was at a professional matinee o oThe of f The Girl From Rectors considered Bred the funniest of all an the recent farces and an d saw several everal well wen known actors and ac actresses actresses actresses tresses leave the theatre disgusted at a t seeing their fellow professionals in such auch roles I remember that Etta Otis at one time Urns one of our foremost actresses ea played a very suggestive part partIn partin partIn In that farce which certainly cheap cheapened cheapened ened her even in the eyes of friends And by the way The Girl From Rec Ree Rectors l tors tore is playing in that pious city of If Philadelphia to on the week in in fact this farce larce Is making more money momy for tor its owner than any piece pie e this season sea Ilea season son and the managers will continue to produce these vicious plays and the dramatists will continue to write them there themas thereas as long tong as the we public will patronize I say sav the th new Hippodrome perform performance perforMance ance the other evening and must tats m that it is unquestionably the greats great a ashow show of ot is 11 kind in the world Th The critics have exhausted superlatives in u n upraise praise e of this the latest derson production Seeing the previous Hippodrome shows I wondered hw how ho under the sun they could give a greater great r entertainment than that was and how hew they the could find anything new but have bave done so and with bewildering so su cess for the Hippodrome has baa never in its history had such crowds The Chocolate Soldier Fred Whit Whitneys Whitneys Whitneys first production In some years now playing at the Lyric is the only standard comic opera at present in ha the city Oscar O car Strauss a relative of the Waltz Walz Kings has given us some real music In The Chocolate Soldier His solo Selo 10 and concerted numbers are delightfully melodic and his harmonies and or orchestrations orchestrations are most pleasing and get pt well away aWRY from the beaten path The book is an English version ver ion of Bernard Shaws Arms and the Man but is not amusing enough for tor comic opera and for that reason The Choco Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate late Soldier which takes Its name a from the comedian who Js very fond of chocolates did not sett set the die town on fire and will probably not pay back the 10 O which was spent event on the production Down at the old Academy of Music lc they are having a season aea on of ot grand opera op opera opera era sung by Italian artists at popular prices for tor the best seats eat This is isa isa isa a great thing for the many students who are being educated in New York and who cant afford to pay pey K I at Ham and the Metropolitan SALT LAKE THEATRE One o of the bite big Chicago successes of last season will be the attraction at atthe atthe atthe the Salt Lake theatre on Thursday evening next and for far four perform performances performances ances ancee when the thep Princess Amusement company offers Honeymoon Trail This play play is a musical comedy by Hough Hou h Adams fr d Howard Hward the authors author l f of The Time the tha Place and the Girl The Girl GIl Question and A Stubborn Cinderella and ran for two hundred night at the Chicago home bome of musi musical musical musical cal C the LaSalle theatre The production n will be he identically the tho th same as 88 during durin its long run in n Chicago while the company is composed of all al alb performers In 11 In musical comedy work The story is a very amusing one and depicts depict the adventures adventure of a hus bus bustling hustling hustling salesman who is I sent to a rest re t cure sanitarium by his employers Ad Adjoining Adjoining Adjoining joining the sanitarium ie it a divorce colony hotel and anel it does not take the energetic salesman long to toga get t the two establishments mixed up in m one merry jumble His ever fertile brain brainis braIni la is i always searching for a new Dew adver scheme to t exploit his wares and some of his ideas are excruciatingly funny Before he be has haa been at the sanitarium three days he has baa all ail the inmates of same saDle working for f r him and he then turns hi his to the guests of the hotel n makes bitter enemies friend i i Is the means of remarrying divorced al arced Couples During this time he also has haa h i v little love affair and the play ends with his marrying the daughter of a rival con concern concern concern cern of his employers The scenes are laid in lower Cali fornia and afford great scope for the scenic artist and costumer and Mort H Singer has taken full ull advantage e of the opportunities offered him and baa has given to the public one of the most gorgeous productions ever presented pre The garden fete at night beautiful with many colored lights pretty women In dainty gowns and realistic stage settings is one that always re remains remains remains mains in the memory of those thole who ho hosee see it as one of the most perfect and beautiful stage scenes they have ever seen een Bert Baker is I playing the part of Dennis Mason and scoring the hit of his hi life Mabel Kabel Melvine the prima donna of the company is a beautiful girl Kirl with an exquisite voice Louis Kelso who plays the part of the sales man is a comedian of great merit The balance of the company includes equally people among whom are Carl George Geo Frank Beres ford Kroell Maude Potter Arline Boling William Loomis George Averill Charles Hales Margaret Lotus I Carl George Mention should also be made of the famous little broilers These eight little girls have long been the feature of the LaSalle LaBane productions and are sure to make a big hit here with their wonderful dancing There is la no doubt that Honeymoon Trail will be the one great tion of the season here and should ac accordingly accordingly cordingly be greeted by a great big house ORPHEUM THEATRE An entire change in program pr m goes into effect at the theatre tonight and the bill will contain a number of fea tea feature feature ture acts sets among which Eleanor Gordon and company are the headliners Miss MiM Gordon is a beautiful and clever comedienne comedienne enne of great prominence and the act in which she will appear Tips on Tap s a repeated succession of laughs It involves a young wife who seeks seeD to appear well weel dressed in her husbands eyes and to secure the necessary funds she purloins sure thing race tips from her hus bands rockets pockets and sells them to a cli clientele of The comedy is good and clean throughout and is uproariously funny runny and Joseph Sullivan who is s Miss Gordons leading man is a popular actor La Petite Revue is Js one of the quaint offerings produced by Charles Lovenberg All special scenery is ill used the scene pic turing a youth in reverie reviewing revie the stage celebrities of the present day elay Then the scene changes and the dreamer recalls the dear old days of some former fortner comic opera whose tunefulness and popularity will never lessen As he dreams the characters of these operas appear upon a miniature stage Seven ven people this act all having baving excellent voices mak ing the act appeal from a vocal standpoint as lIB from a point of novelty The Trio are cyclists who cy cle and who introduce several unique de In addition they are acrobats of fine calibre and many of their feats are astounding and The Five Frye Avolos are regarded as the premier xylophonists of Europe They are the most expert manipulators of this thi Instrument ever seen on any stage stace and each of their classical and popular has been carefully chosen Lena assisted by Sam Mint will Introduce something entirely new In n the terpsichorean art She dances dance on a spade on a wire and on the floor and she la le as much at home on the wire as ason ason on the floor Her Iler aerial performance is but one feature of her ber novel act Davey and Poney Moore pre pr 8 rt an in al almost almost most comedy entitled The Dancing Ten It concerns a Ii college man who comes west in search of health and the girl he had bad loved back east On his ar arrival arrival rival at Roaring Gulch the student is III given a roughhouse rough house reception by his sweetheart who before she discloses her Identity poses first as a rough cowboy then as an Indian and later as a Fluffy Ruffles as which she is recognised Little Millie Williams Is fe a big ble Salt Lake favorite and one of her songs will be sung in a aeroplane which has been spec specially sally built for her by the Orpheum stage crew and ami T w n will wil h nr r make nak a hit hitI Nt New I w i Ir tin S su 1 the kinod ome and w A a H J k P a r ri V Vr VA r A b I Is r fit e s ELEANOR GORDON GORDONA A clever comedienne who appears in Tips on Tap at the Orpheum this week special selections by b the Orpheum orches orchestra tra will complete the bill COLONIAL THEATRE It will please any number of people to know that Lena Rivers will be presented at the Colonial starting to tonight tonight night Since its production the dram dramatization dramatization dramatization of Mrs Mary J Holmes ex exceedingly exi i popular book has had an overflowing amount of success Dur During During During ing its 1111 metropolitan engagements the theatres were packed to the doors at every performance So great was the desire to see it that it was found necessary to give extra matinees to ac accommodate accommodate accommodate the public In giving the play here the production seen in New NewYork NewYork l York will be e utilized The he story is di dl divided divided vided into four acts one laid in the Massachusetts hills and the last three In the south at the Livingstone estate near Frankfort Ky Most of the char characters characters characters made familiar by the book are in the play and so 0 are all the bright lines and quaint sayings To the lovers lov lovers lovers ers of the book the adaptation of it itis itIs itis is very satisfying In Miss Emma Bunting they find an ideal Lena and the pretty little actress portrayal of the character is replete with artistic skill Everything about the work has haa been and is in artistic hands Through Throughout out the country the play pia has been phe phenomenally phenomenally phenomenally successful The Chicago engagement was extraordinary in the matter of its receipts and the one in Boston was a record breaker in that regard Every Everyone one who read the book will undoubtedly want to see the play taken from it and a large audience will surely be present at its presenta presentation tion to see Lena Granny and the neighbors In la real life BUNGALOW THEATRE There Is no more stirring play than Quo ladle Vadia which the Arington players will present pre ent during the corn com coming ing lug week opening Sunday evening just as no novel in hI a great century of ot literature has haa so enthralled the reader as 5 this thia work of dealing with the persecutions of the early Christian martyrs It Is ie not a play that a stock company would ordinarily attempt but Mr Arington spending is a large sum to give it a worthy w re revival revival revival vival on the Bungalow stage It will be a wonderful scenic pro production production production The opening scene of the revels in the gardens of Nero with its ib riot of Pagan debauchery the Roman palaces the burning of the great city and the torturing of the Christians in inthe Inthe inthe the arena furnish a world of material for the scenic artists who have been given carte blanche in this thil Instance Vinicius a Roman patrician just re returned returned returned turned from the wars attends the feast of Nero and when Lygia a cap captive captive captive tive princess is brought in drunkenly makes advances which are repulsed with scorn acorn Her foster brother the giant Ursus rescues her and takes her ller herto herto to the dwelling dwellings of the Christians Vinicius follows follow her there and Ursus would have slain him but for the girls reminder of the Christian law Thou not kill The conversion of Vinicius to Christianity follows and he attempts to stay the persecutions of the Christians and save them from the torture He lIe only incenses Nero who is urged on in his cruelty by his wife who cherishes a guilty pas passion passion passion sion for Vinicius which he has re repulsed repulsed repulsed pulsed In x a i drunken fit of exaltation Nero sets tire firl to Rome and through H J Ir I II r I i Y t s t ty tr y r a ai I 0 pAi c S I s k ks 4 s 4 4 b r rF rs rS rr rI F s r I S a MILLIE tULUE WILLIAMS Millie Williams who is well known in Salt Lake City and who has on more than one occasion caslon shown promise of a brilliant future will appear at the Orpheum theatre tonight for the first time and throughout the week She has lived in Salt Lake all her life lite and has made many successful appearances ap appearances before the Salt Lake public and all those who know her and her capabilities anticipate that she will more than make good on an this oc occasion occasion occasion casion She has haa always been among amon the first to offer her services n the cause cuse of cf charity and that she should have been offered this engagement at atthe atthe atthe the Orpheum goes KOe to show that her talent will not be allowed to lie He dormant dor dormant dormant I mant A special feature of her engagement will be a song sons which she sings |