Show DRAMA TI OF F TH THE WEEK L t THE WEEK AT ATTHE ATt t THE TIIE THEATRES t i SALT LAJOE THEAT B t Monday Tuesday Wednesday f 17 Wednesday diM day Matinee The Pris Prisoner one oner of Zenda Zeada Thursday day 4 t day da Saturday Saturday Matt Mati f fn t n nee e The be Bounders BouD t NEW fEW f fAll t All week Stock f t company in The little finis finist r t ter trot B 4 Friday Priday afternoon and aad evening Sousas So Band and Tabernacle Choir Concerts IKE ALL OTHER cities of or the far tar west Salt Lake is begin beginning beginning C ning to hunger for some really class theatrical attractions attractions attractions By Is meant the quality of of t plays and players the larger cities clUes can boast wf the plays that are eln ae n in towns town along aIon the Mis KIa Missouri MIssouri river or even een In J Denver Denv enver r There was a time when this community got gotthem gotthem gotthem them and that was not so very ery long ago Y YE t toda today Colorado and sometimes points much JAuch farther tarther east seem to be bethe bethe bethe the jumping off oft place for everything new and brilliant One ODe can am hardly pick pickup pickup pickup up a Denver paper without reading of some late success which has bas been pro produced produced produced there with good results As Salt bait Lake was never accused ed of letting any anything anything anything thing good go begging beRing it naturally arouses a prejudice a righteous one oneto oneto oneto I to see this condition of affairs If someone should ask why this town Is behind the times a couple HIple e of seasons or so what would lx bo the Use reply What is the reason mason and who is at fault As near as can be determined from surface Indications no one The degeneration so 80 o to speak is s due to natural causes and it will require something unnatural unnatural unnatural ural a strenuous effort by the trust for tor example the trust can do any anything thing to remedy the situation San Francisco is known to the pro profession profession profession as the graveyard for the very clear reason that after getting get I there an expensive combination haS nas nowhere to go that is there are few cities of consequence coo to play in itt Inand and a ump Jump hack back from San Francisco to New NewY NewYork York Y is Sa something managers prefer to toRvold avoid They have haxe played all an the good towns coming out and the e enormous i railroad expense is about all that is i ift left 1 ft to them Salt Lake being between I l enver nyer t and San Francisco FraDeJ co gets the worst of it There are wre only a few of the best companies that will make the thelong thelong long lung trip for tor the very good towns es esh h when ht n business is good farther east tiLst The result is that Salt Lake is getting attractions generally speaking wh which eh have haye been done to a finish in the ast east and which frequently play all alt the little town tower along the road A large targe majority of ot the bookings here put In 11 time me at man many points of much less leas hal im ha ortance l It is a good thing for the little litt towns but Salt Lake may be par pal pardoned for sighing that her ber artistic eye and taste are in in jeopardy There is no particular need of oC illus illustration illustration but it would perhaps surprise some nome of our theatregoers to learn that the K Etonian that famous organization organisation tion which can crowd the Theatre night I after night at any season is of so 80 lit little littie tit tie i in New York that it plays sat at low prices at a cheap house houe and allt i is probably glad to do that 1 I T illustrate the other side of the question n take The Little Minister That play has been dead and buried these t two seasons yet Salt Lake will willix m lx ix glad to see Bee it for the first time this week There here ht re is some consolation in this instance A company once one played it at Provo and Ogden and nd the reason it was wa not done here was Manager Charles Charl Frohman promise that Maude Adams Adam and her company would pro product duct duc it first in Salt Lake cannot be blamed b for not keeping his I promise prom 1st when his star shot way ahead of the piece and was w put Iut into better things and bigger money moneymakers makers bu buth buth but I th the tact fait remains that Salt Lake has baS netY ne r et seen The Little Minister There are numberless s plays of equal prominence that have hae not been seen een I her 11 o for the reasons pre previously given Tr Th theatrical syndicate does not I pla playa play a big part in the ej cause ue of the trou trouble trouble ble bIt hut but it contributes It makes the IM A few men mt n like Uke Al AI Hayman C charles harles Frohman Klaw Kia and Erlanger Erlan r rand and Nixon and Zimmerman began fifteen fifteen teen tn years ears ago aco to secure a cinch cI h on the the theatrical al business of the country They ha hat h succeeded eded They The say in effect e to toa toa a II i mr any We Eo will book you for tor the v h hIe hh season along alone any route you want to tn fc go thus saving you ou the income nit me r of f writing managers manager for dates I For Foi this you yon will pay us 3 MM Of course if you dont don t want to you dont don t that have hat ha I u tn ta The only thing is that we e control all the good theatres of the i and we don dout t see how you can cango cango go on the road unless you ou let us attend this matter None NODe of our managers will re give e you dates Is it clear You sir tec it is quite immaterial to us Suit yourself elf I Th The figure ft is perhaps an as av r rare rage are age 8 f AN When hen made his last bun tour of ot the south BOUt the writer is informed he I 1 I IJ II II Ij II II k y a I II II II I I I w n nL I I I L f ft J I I j I I II I I I t I II j f fv fly ly 4 v S w RUTH THE PRISONER OE OP ZENDA ZEOTA paid the syndicate 1500 The fee is based on the drawing capacity of the attraction as Judged by the syndicate With an expense of this nature to come from its neason season s n earnings and andall all other things equal it is not surprising surprising surprising ing that a company selects some orne field held other than the far west where good stands are so IJO infrequent There are sonic some exceptions allowed by bythe bythe the syndicate It was perhaps a II sur surprise SUrprise prise prim to Colonel Thompson to get into the Salt bait Lake theatre with the Boston Lyric Opera company as a t this organization organization organization tion does dma its it own booking Manager secured the consent of the sy cate to book the attraction for tor this town In other towns they y cannot play In syndicate houses because upon be beginning beginning ginning his tour Colonel Thompson would not Dot go SO against the syndicate g game I If the If the syndicate ever eyer comes down to 1 earth on its Ita fee proposition there wilt will willbe be one point gained in favor of the far west and mod its theatrical attractions Manager had an experience last week that he w win not soon forget forgett So did the Boston L ra ere r company C and the reason n for fur c Thompsons Thompson s sudden departure fo DE Dt r seems to toLe toLe toLe Le clear There was as a suspicion in inthe inthe the minds mf d of the public all week that I 1 the contralto was not so ill III Tuesday night as was reported and the belief seemed to be general that she could have gone on for II n Trovatore Trovatore store if a bad rid Old had been all that stood In n the way What the public suspects is not provable able and bad had there therefore therefore therefore fore better be left unsaid However Manager Ma r was forced to dismiss an audience for the first time in his regime that represented j SO net for the Theatre s man manager manager ager said aid she was wu ill m Manager seems to have bave become convinced of something else about Wednesday V w when hen henhe henl he ta said to have v served notice on Col Colonel Colonel onel l Thompson that he would hold alt all receipts for tor the remainder of the tha week to try to make up for what wafe wain lost lo t I Tuesday night The colonel 1 did not ot ob object object strenuously but having haYing no more interest In hi the amount received at att the box office went ent on to Denver Dener The man inan left ten in authority had bad no further inter intel interest est eat in is the company than to keep track o the properties and stage settings which cannot be a very burdensome burden task The comic operas ran through the week and aud occupied a box at nearly every performance She had agreed reed to appear only on Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day night Then came the attachment suit The Salt Palace PalMe directors attached aeo 1500 re eints at the box office alleging that Colonel Thompson On broke a contract with them then last April ADril This money be belonging belonging belonging longing to the tte Theatre rather than the company Manager Managar came out all aU allright allright right The TI e company squared matters mattera WB wih b the Salt Palace people host even evening lug ing and lid will wUl be allowed to continue its Journey to Denver f Somebody went behind the scenes scene at atthe A t the Grand theatre one ate night t test last week wee k ii 1 l IL 7 i I F I 1 f r t f tt t I t I f t tit it 1 t i it ik t i k a aK W I I 9 Q m AS OUE IDU JE UT nr THE TEE BOUNDERS j i iv ir R Rf r f C v c 1 c f and informed the nic artist Mr 1 Lewis that his moo moonlight ilig t scene in the thelast thelast last Jast act was ruined be bc because au ause e of ot the in inaccuracy inaccuracy Inaccuracy accuracy of his perspective e in the reflection re reflection of the moonlight on the tile lake kike Had this party foreseen the complications complications tion that ensued he would have hae kept his seat But as 88 it was as everybody got Sot into the discussion and it has been the chief topic top of discussion around theatres clubs and firesides all alt week The burning question seems to be does a path of moonlight reflected re on water narrow or broaden as it H comes tomes toward you yo Perhaps everybody t vt in town has watched the moonlight on the lake from the Saltair pa pavilion lon at sometime some sometime sometime time or another but how many have noticed whether the apex or the base of the reflection is nearest the tile eye The scenic scent artist had It H that the apex was wasand wasand wasand and this is what another artist told hint him was wrong The actors took it t up They The were divided The discussion was carried into the newspaper offices and there was an equal division dl of opinion there Maps Kape plans scenes landscapes I diagrams dla rams and experiments were brought forth to no avail If a man I changed his hia attitude for tor a moment it was to fall tall back into his first belief I Someone tried to explain it by the old railroad track theory showing that a track tn ck apparently narrowed as it re receded receded receded ceded This was against pinet the scenic artist but he came e balk back with an argument argument argument ment that the water played the part ofa of ofa ofa a a mirror and the dae effect t was just the opposite after the moonlight struck the water The artist said that if it the scenic artist arti t was right if It the lake hike w were ere wide enough across after going SOing a certain certain certain tain distance the light would get down downto to a fine point pint and finally to nothing Then he demanded what would you do without light tight Mens Men s hair began to turn gray BAY The artists drew pictures showing the reflection re reflection tram rm two viewpoints and paraded them hew to get an opinion n as to which was the more natural a Some Somes I said s W one some the other othe and Dd some both A diligent nt research was begun I for ter old works of ot art and here heIe the most astonishing part of the whole thing tiring I comes in inthe the he masters ma show both bo J forms One ODe of o Hudson lia ion s paintings corroborated ted d the scenic artist and another anether eminent in ID oil was favorable to the theother eti other her side sId while still another picture was walt found where the path patti watt WU Just the same width all the site way a along ong the water To settle seule the dispute dl an en interested crowd went down to Liberty park Fri Friday Friday Friday day night after the performance to see seethe seethe seethe the rejection reflection on en the park lake As luck would nave have it fhe he be moon stayed behind the t clouds until the trees and other ob objects obJects objects shut out the he and the test failed The moonlight excursion w will ill UI be repeated ome some night this week providing the moon remains r full tull Meanwhile the most convincing argues argument I ment most seems meats ema to be that of the die scenic artist t which bleh is that while the rays of the mon on the earth broaden as I they leave the heavenly body when they strike the water it is Ia the reflection we see sad and a d the petit path is Ia seen n running in inthe n the rise opposite direction This to is on the thee same e theory that If ft a man standing before Defore a looking hooking glass could shake hands with his reflection be he would grab It his bis left band hand thinking tt it was as the tile right It a will surprise some some of Salt Lakes society belles to learn that th t the Gibson man n is right Late here ll le in our midst and that the have hare watched him on the theof theof stage of the Grand Orand theatre time anda and a without knowing of his distinction distinction tion Perhaps It is because th the female tote ty e of Gibsons peo pez en was so beautiful that U at so mu much h has baa been said ald of the Gib jea an I girl J and so 80 little of the Gibson titan tan although in most of his pictures Gibson oua has baa both the mal mate and anc female ures The girl who posed for his pictures is said paid to be his w wife ife The he manis man manto to is Charles Giblyn the juvenile of the Stock company pany who has bas played opposites S to Miss Mke Douglas in all ail the lie Wass thus far nut met on en I Mr has bas rather a distinguish h It f look about Iu h u i anyway and his profile tint first attuned attainted at ed the attention of I Idie the die artist ar the two being lose dose friends I Jai Flat two years jears Ears and over v r Mr Giblyn pored for fM di Hb boons oft pictures and ilind some of his Ia most OSt famous drawings were a aide ade during daring that time After knowing l i Cne Ife facts in the case cast it is not at all alt I to see the close resemblance between the maa man in the picture re and I Ithe the actor cor I X L Saunders rg GO Gordon a manatee of the thelta Grand Concert company l Jany who wm in i the city last week tens tells a good story ato a at t the expense of Berry the lite French opera m manager magel The latter engaged Electra Ele tra Gifford Gilford to sing Ring in sconce France with ha his company He took her re from Sew York ork and nd under the terms erras of the contract either r the man manager manager ager or ore the tle star sta could call al in the agree agreement agreement ment o oil off within th thirty Hurty tv d eL ys y Gifford had been singing Ringing abou a three Un nights when the th French Fr people began to criticise crit Ids cist her h r T nr renunciation of the tongue the w to dis barge h r Hi Ha Having ing n no to work vork any ini hard hij i nn i 11 her he waited until th the j thirty li Lays Jay tv n ra 1 up It was as th tip last Us night of her The lh manager h waited outside her dressing fre room after the performance perl to give ve her notice Meanwhile le Gifford had got wind of his intention and dropped out of a window leaving having l the manager on the outside of her door Next morning was too late could not discharge di his biz star without violating the contract The result was the singers ers 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