Show J 7 I f 1 fl fl 1 I Iw w 0 r 1 L I r 4 THIS WEEK MEEK AT ATTN t J TH TN THiE E THEATRES f SALT ALT Lr T f learns ft at t Aaa Lu s Or OrlD f lD t Tues Rites Tu f ff f day Wednesday and ani Wednes Wednesday W day Hie in r 4 When Wa Was W in ill 4 JI A Tonight First tal land Dared f f Monday Tuesday 7 Wednesday 7 r sad aad Wed 7 matinee Xu u r agree Hearts and aid act r f Xan Prom From j jlII f S lII I y aad loot Hoot wrestling match f 4 HI HE world will w await t with r T Uv lively It ly Interest the outcome of a aoH oH auk Bled aIM by hJ an aD English lisKI actor against on sae of the London dawn dailies for tor foran foran an alleged libel In the criticism t ot of his hi I work Toe TIle critic std amid very frankly that tile the performance was Wa Waat I absolutely at without merit that he failed to realise the requirement of I the tbs part aart and ud that the play plaT would be bevery bevery I very much moch better off pR without rE mm Naturally the tile actor was w I nt Meat Mat ee are INe i certain that they are an great gre and aDd that when w they T are unfavorably criticised the critic has baa hasa a at personal spite against a mat them This particular putt performer felt that be he was wa irretrievably ruined and nd he said so sea In InIda his Ida complaint Damages in a pro prodigious I turn sum are a demanded d and it U is asserted that the action will be vigor vigorously 0 pressed If It the plaintiff secures a Judgment nt and aDd If It the English E I law thus laid down la Is accepted In this country two very big Ifs te by b the way it Is I easy y to tot forMos t an n endless amount of ot trouble Any ham lam who IB h properly told that bit hla place is back by the water tank will wW promptly y file ale a suit Rit for damages daIna II aDd ad get them There will wUl willbe willbe be no BO protection for the public what Every BY dramatic criticism with Ith the tear fear of a libel bet suit hanging over the ther paper r will be a favorable criticism The TIle cheapest melodrama and lad the most mat uy production will faro fare alike aUa The TIle Thet first ent t st magnitude tude star atar and the lunch torte route tourist will look alike to the man who wile reports report Truly that is b a prospect tor for the tile thet theatrical t profession prof but the public will be let off orr In the muddy middle of i the Ute where there th r is i no crossing However there her Is at least allt one ont way ont of f the difficulty newspapers newspaper can ala refuse to print any Uy criticisms whatever of ot Inferior productions That would ld bring brine the gentlemen to time In short hOrt order for after a r alt all the Ute average sir metr r would rather r be bf roasted than d without any notice at all allu alle e 1 u t ody ever st slapped to figure out ou the amount of mot mealy that IB Is take tak en eD out ff Wt r by It Itt t oom oe A L little eon con conservative e eI figuring easily shows that the I aggregate runs tote Into very tidy figures For the sake of ef tb the Illustration let letus letus us U say My that the tile season begin Sept 1 1 and Tuna runa until April 1 It is really 1 longer than that but bat we want to bo be boon beon on the safe te side For Jor seven Men months of ot the year the I average number of performances in Inthe inthe th the Salt Halt Lake theatre is easily pf It teen tn That makes a total of per performances performances Let us ue figure re these theM performances per performances on the basis of aji ap a aver average average age ap of S M OI each This Thie is It certainly well I within the bounds bounda of reason because more companies In the Salt Lake the theatre theatre theatre atre will take tI in hi i over 1800 50 a perform performance ance anee than will take In a less lea amount A little multiplication therefore shows that patrons patroM of the Salt Lake theatre pay paT during the course of a season for t r their entertainment Runs Ruts into money moy very rapidly d nt it Theres a very verT comfortable for tor fortune fortune tune If It you happen pen to be a poor man maIL manYet manYet Yet it is Ia not all Salt Lake pays pan for tor theatricals by a good deal Theres the tM Grand This has bas been beena a particularly successful season n at that playhouse We cannot figure the Grand on OD the tIN basis buta of the Ute Theatre beat for there then are more performances at the Grand For seven mouths months of the year the average ave will easily be twenty That makes mak in all It Is Ia very ery con COD conservative conservative to place the Grand takings at ata a performance Usually that amount is well under the real figures A hundred and forty performances at SM each make the tb handsome total of 80 So the grand total in 1 a season can eD I hardly be less lea I than m mi i a The return engagement e played by b bOM Miss OM Flora aad and he het capable company at the Salt Lake theatre last t week brings bring brI up the old question qu tion Are Aft such plays playa as u Camille The Unwelcome Unwelcome I come Mrs Hatch Batch Zaia Zaza and Mag Magda M Magda c da worth while The question opens open a limitless field for fr debate debat but hi ta the end most t of the U pUy will 11 confess that they would rather see Miss XI Rob Bob Ro f erode erta de debe else The be one bright lat spot pot In the week eek waa was washer her presentation of The TIle Adventure of ot Lady Ursula Here we had bad pure comedy Mi lr iM 1 Roberta surprised 11 many of her het ad by 1 the readiness with which w she adapted herself to the part I i and most moat of ot them came away wishing that flat she fhe would offer r more mort of mirth and lees les le of misery Miss Roberts Roberta herself says lays The ques question question question i tion is I asked me so en often The i l il are immoral no doubt but the plays play s 1 t y l 1 ti s sto to t k r LIZ or IN x WAS IN IK FLOWER I Iare themselves so far from being immoral cal are the only really moral dramas dram thai th al ue we have han because they preach the most m ot moving and powerful sermons Who Wh o would think of calling a preacher im immoral Immoral Immoral moral because he be painted for his hi con congregation congregation a vivid picture of ot wrong wrongdoing wro wrongdoing doing and its Ita punishment And yet this th this js is exactly what the master minds the that t created crated Sapho pho and Zasa Zaza Za have hay e done They have painted pictures s e of or evil only the more vivid because the theare they y are re embodied in characters of flesh an and d blood I Their purpose is I Just aa u high un an and l just as worthy as a that of any other oth er moral teacher But It is not the pro province provInce v ince of the th theatre to preach except e in indirectly Indirectly directly Its U province is to present a atrue atrue true picture of life If it does dots that and andI an anI d I believe the truth of or these theet plays play stands stand s unquestioned the moral lesson leeson is I car carried carried ried home to the heart of ot each ach hearer hear er I mute more powerful w lt l jt could bw tw by nitre mtr me ra words worda however eloquent Miss Mi Roberts Roberta Ro rt goes gOH from here bere to Den Des Denver Denver Desver ver opening there at the Broadway y theatre next Monday night for a It three ee weeks engagement Then she he goes t to 0 Los Loa Angeles for four tour weeks week w U ending her h er present season on in lower alif a about May M 30 This will complete a I year your and a halt half of work that has been bee n I II c c I I IaD practically for tor she played pIa d an all test Jut summer simmer in San Francisco a Great Brest oaks Dab from little acorns acorn grow says n tile the old proverb This TIda holds w good goodin in the case cue of Campbell brothers showmen show showmen men A little more than tea ten years y ago 0 too the Campbell brothers were wen practicing g ataa in a small grasp 11 way waT on oa a nay bay y yat now at Fairbury Neb NA They TheP always had hacI a crowd of admiring yokels yoke around them and when on ou otte day a patent medicine fakir came to town and lost loR his hla troupe through inability to pay paT its I members m the Campbell Can brothers were recommended recommended mended to him bim He engaged them and that wag wa w their start Ran in the show abow business The medi medicine cine stunt lasted several veral years Then the tIM boys boy bought bout an n ancient a camel and a red reel wag To Today Today day cia their show fills big bIc Ipe cUI freight cars and they give a performance per performance performance that people go 10 a long lone way to see m The Campbells Campbel are coming eo to Salt I Lake In the summer Rm r A C is Js getting some very vel good notices on the coast couto The follow following lag ing In which hleb U is a fair sample Is from th the San Ban Francisco Chronicle A very v interesting and picturesque que production Is Ia at the Califor California nia alg theatre this week The TIM story is I taken takeD from the Book of ot Mormon and put into dramatic form fora to by Orestes Bean Quite an earnest and sincere attempt which is Ie very successful au has baa been made to present the plot with fit ting tinS dignity and the odd environment makes the not unfamiliar dramatic sit situations something of a novelty There is I no spirit in the work As Aa a rule It is all simple ample and direct with dialogue CUe lust just strong trong enough to carry it and in many places most moat ned cred development of dramatic cli climaxes climaxes maxes The Aztec Atee scenery seener may mayor or may not be accurate but it is I surely novel and attractive The company playing it are not all as u good as u might be M and nd Mr Bean Beau falls fal down on his Comedy somewhat The leading characters 1 the wayward son the righteous son eon the high bb priest t Se I antum the and are very well played Alphona Ethier is I quite a good heroic actor and leaves a I strong trona impression behind him in rori fori ori I anton A sympathetic performance Is la given liveri by b Ida Due and Helen Boyer BOYN I shows bow ability in the siren The Black Pearl ballet Introduced d is not brilliant brilliantly t ly Iy successful u atul but as u a whole for tor a play which is not easy eay to do in just the right key the people give lve a representation tion worth seeing C The well known local playwright j t Frank Maltese has baa just completed what competent critics pronounce an j I extremely clever comedy He calls it j The Wrong Wro urn Mrs x Appleton and it will be M presented by local I eaI talent at the Grand on Thursday Friday and Satur Saturday Saturday day nights of next ext week W with a matinee mat matinee matInee inee on Saturday Mr r Maltese deals deaI i with the that is 18 the stage atac met drew Ifa Ut an n original 1 r rA rA A young man conceives the notion of 0 j marrying his bia to a rich old bachelor who Is a guest pest at the young mans man home The returning from a trip abroad is la unexpectedly delayed and writes to her children Informing them of oC the fact Thereupon the young man extremely desirous at of l t getting the tile bachelors money n y for the family manufactures a mother inlaw A friend consents to lo play the part and aDd enters into It most moat ardently While his hi fun tun is at its Ita height het the Ute real teal mother inlaw in law arrives and ancI the complications that ensue are ue said to be extremely lu ludicrous ludicrous i ROUT ABOUT A PLAYERS Chauncey Olcott tells the following Rood story A friend of ot his approached I It t well known New York physician and i said Mid Do no you know that a morning mornin newspaper It n 11 this thi city caty publishes every everyday everyday I Ilay day lay a list Hat of the names mee of t people who 1 will ill never trade at nam naming I ing a prominent department store I again a aln No you dont say y Why I I should hould think that would be ground I Ifor for a damage damace suit Could Well you see replied l the gentleman the names are ar arunder e under the heading beading Died Yesterday After the opening performance pe of t The Bonnie Brier Bush Bub in n Brooklyn n last lust week the veteran actor J H Stoddart was waa w shouldering his way ay through the raging toward tie the tb e I ferry to return to his New Nei N York flat when the manager of en him and noting the he n r lad daft figure said 41 c r I Mr Stoddart st you ought oti t M t to be ben nut n tin in such SUa a storm as u this 0 1 The actor ur dily r f Why my mT boy said he lie I like Ilke It Makes me feel teel like Bile U I wu war a boy again n I in the highlands of Scotland I nevi never nev r rI i I miss a chance to get oat out In a real realI I Rood good bit of weather It warms warm the blood hl Od OdI I And the actor of ot the ott school en entered ent entered fred t the ferry house hOUM and shook the flee I snow from him like litre e a schoolboy c aft after after i er pr a snowball battle on n the playground I i It seems that recently at some social socia I function when the orchestra played pia Mr M r Dooley Comte Robert de Mon Mont I t t Sf jumped up and stood respectfully respect i fully until looking around he was wasi wa waI e i I surprised d to see that t all the other ethe r guests nests present had bad remained seated sealed What exclaimed the comte Int Isn t it r the custom here to stand when the th e national anthem is played Surely Surel Y I Yankee Dooley must be very popular Yr r with the American people for tor I have hav heard it every day and DC everywhere since my rival arrival f h Grand opera stars star relax sometimes IIO utez and laugh lauch and ohan like Ilk lea lofty ar artistic artistic people Everybody on D the Met Metropolitan opera house hoUM stage la is laugh laUCh log lag gleefully ale a the latest mot of M Miss lea Carrie Bridewell the wittiest singer on o A Impresario Graus Grass payroll It seem seems s that all the unwed tenors area and hart bail baritones tones of the opera company compa T and nd even eve the big bachelor buss basso have the unanimous moue and pleasing habit of casting cast themselves at Miss M Bridewell feet at t I rehearsals and begging the handsome e contralto to name tile tiro day cia To all their prayers their threats threat s of ot suicide and similar tragedies Miss Dui Bridewell turns turn a deaf ear earA e r rA A few days ago 10 two bachelors of o the organization organisation knelt before her ber sett and andin andIn d in a beautiful duet implored laal lored the cru cruel el elrose fair one to explain exp n why she aM so 10 obdurately obdurately declined df to wed Pooh Why should I marry de demanded demanded mended Miss Bridewell I own a parrot who swears and a cat who stays out night and what w bat does dO e anyone possessing Iq these two gif gifted led treasures want of a husband ledd Whereupon the baritone who is Ia said sal d to have ha e a pretty little glut gift of profanity ity and the th tenor who is i suspects suspected I of ot keeping most improper hours rose from their knees amid the howl howla of the theAt tb e corn compau au s a ct At the Hotel Touraine Boston Boats n whence Frank McKee ld et has bas lately come ome he be introduced 1 one or two novelties in enterprise about which staid citizens are still talking tall Requiring lag ing In a bell boy one atte n he pushed th the button in his room I Om and received word weed that no bell boy hoy t oy was wu available at atthe the moment Cant wait awfully busy bUllY man re replied replier plied Mr McKee curtly Get me a messenger er boy boyThe boyne boyThe The ne messenger er boy was wu summoned and Del Mr McKee immediately pressed him into service to bring bru ice water and Other little refreshments such as the tired traveler tra ter sometimes requires When ben he be asked for tor his lUa bill at the ter termination termination of his stay star h III he shocked ked and grieved the head clerk Berk by cautioning him to 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