Show I I J 4 4 THIS WEEK AT ATt t t THE THEATRES 4 4 t 4 4 SALT THEATRE 4 4 4 Monday Nonday Paul Gilmore in The f I 4 Tyranny of Tears Wednesday Wednesday Wednes 4 day Salt lake Symphony Or 4 I 4 chestra Thursday and Friday 4 4 and Friday matinee at 3 Anna 4 4 Held in The Little Duchess 4 4 GRAND THEATRE To 4 4 night First Regiment band 4 4 concert concerti Monday Nonday Tuesday 4 I 4 Wednesday and Wednesday 4 1 matinee For Her Sake Sakei Saturday The Peddlers f Claim matinee and evening 4 earnest honest desire for tor natural natura naturalness I Iness AN ness has led modern playwrights into ending their plays sadly Of late the audiences at the Salt Lake theatre especially have been going home with tearstained countenances They The toll tell us that the sad ending Is the natural ending but is it so soIs soIs soIs Is human life so full of tragedy as all that Do no men inca and women in inthis inthis Inthis this world conquer the ills that t tat beset them and live happily ever after atter If l the questions could be truthfully an answered in the affirmative what a weary weary world this would be and how ho glad every one of us should be beto beto beto to quit it Comparatively few of us however arc are so pessimistic as to be believe believe believe lieve the play must end sadly to be betrue b true to life Ilfe Let us take Zaza for instance A strong play it is and strongly pre presented presented presented by Miss Florence Roberts and her company Was it necessary for forZa forZa Za a 8 to end so badly Would a man mari mariand and a woman in real life who loved lovec each other as did Zaza and Bernard I have gone groping through life apart Not today Bernard would have gone to South Dakota for a divorce and having hoing secured it he would have hac mar married married ried ned Zaza and all would have been well Was Vas It necessary for Sapho to break 1 t ther her heart Hardly for women in her class very rarely break their hearts over any man I 1 came into this world wrong but Im gong out of i it right said Sapho How could she go out of the world right by entering into a loveless marriage contract Would your real life woman have hae done it The unwelcome Mrs Hatch died diet at the moment she was reclaimed by her daughter Joy very rarely kills in real life Why should it kill on th the stage Would not the play be Im Improved improved Improved proved if the curtain fell feU at the mo moment moment moment ment mother and daughter are clasped in loving embrace Certainly the au an audience audience might have been spared that tha agonizing death scene without material materia injury to the play Oh yes es we e like to be harrowed oc or occasionally we like for our hearts t to tobe tobe be wrung and our eyes ees to be moist moistened moistened moistened ened but after all the best play is the play that sends us away happy There Is tragedy in the offstage land plenty of it but there is much more of joy If it we look for it Sad endings natural Well Wen perhaps one in a hun hundred hundred hundred dred i 4 Manager Curtis of the th Florence Florenc Rob Roberts Roberts ROberts erts company is an old timer in the theatrical business During his thirty nine years of ot stage experience he has hast t be n everything from call boy bo to lead leading leading leadIng ing man and he has enjoyed the ac acquaintance acquaintance of every actor and actress of af prominence since the war Mr Cur Curtis tig knew John Wilkes Booth very welt well Indeed Booth was recalled to him through a dispatch published in jn The Th Herald which told of ot the death in In Indian Indian Indian dian Territory of ot a man who claimed to be Booth That fellow tellow was no more Booth than you yo ar are said Mr Ir Curtis I person personally personally personally ally know that Booth was killed short shott shortly shortly ly after attar he assassinated Lincoln Hi His body was brought back to Washing ton thoroughly identified and burled in quicklime In the jail yard ard I knew Booth well and a charming fellow tellow he was He was so gentle so kindly that when I heard he was the assassin of I President nt Lincoln I could not credit the there report re ort Edwin Booth was never the same after atter that tragedy It shadowed and darkened dark ned his whole life and I believe It had hall much to do with his death Manager Curtis visited Salt Lake last l st stin in 1886 as the manager of the th original Hermann the magician it was wils as h midwinter and the mud was so that he had to wear wading boots Hermann became angry because his audience would not lend him handkerchiefs chiefs and rings and other articles for use in his tricks and rang the curtain I down Then Mr Curtis made a speech from rom the stage In which he implored I the people to assist the magician HIr Hi I talk had the desired effect and the show sho went on 4 Manager r Ja er Py er of the Salt Lake the theatre theatre theatre atre has hns received notice that Helen H len Grantley has abandoned her tour She was starring in The Girl and the Judge and was booked for the early Hiring season f Miss Grantley played t KatherIne Katharine to Charles B Pe Fe In Taming the Shrew here JlE re lasS last season 4 An unusual feature about the con eon contract contract tract between the Theatre and the Wil William WillIam liam Gillette company com pan is that it re requires requires requires quires the removal of ot all the regular footlights and the border lights These hese F v I I will vill be replaced by lights Ii carried by the company The contract specifies also that all the stage lights tights shall be under und r the control of the electrician electrician I cian clan and that Charles Frohman shall I have undisputed authority in the mat matter matter matter I ter of prices to be charged for seats I This means that the best seats here as elsewhere will cost 2 each 4 RESS AGENTS PROMISE It has been some time since the beau beautiful dashing bubbling and altogether fetching etching Anna Held has played in Salt Lake Whatever the vehicle for or ex exploitation may be one feels sure I enough that her gowns will be won wondrously wondrously wondrously gorgeous that her songs will W ill be he pretty that the work will be replete with scintillating epigrams and stir sUr stirring sUrI stirring l I I ring climaxes and that her chorus will wille willbe be e a a garland of posies with MIss Held as is the center of the bouquet The fol following following lowing is from the Memphis 4 The Little Duchess is only a line upon which is gracefully suspended a I f I number of clever specialties s batches of humorous dialogue good songs song and the most brilliant and beautiful stage pictures ever seen here or anywhere else After the company appears the audience forgets that there is a play forgets that De Koven and Smith ever existed forget everything else ex except except except that it is looking upon the most superb collection of beautiful women I offered at one time ever before in the 1 t history of the Lyceum theatre Each member of the galaxy seems to out outshine outshine outshine I shine her sister and even after the final curtain opinion is still divided as to which Is the most attractive member of Miss company The climax is s reached when the Sadie girls are i Introduced The acme of the costumers skill is found in the picture presented I by the thirteen young oun women who sing ing with Miss Held this number Each of the girls is physically fitted for the I gown assigned to her Each seems as asif asIf if f she had been selected by the most successful Parisian modiste as a and more than realized all the ambi ambitions ambitions entertained for her The cos costumes costumes costumes were revelations Nothing can be written which will adequately de describe deI describe I scribe them Women Va men glued opera I glasses to their eyes and diamonds danced in the ears of the occupants of the mezzanine boxes through sheer ec ecstasy ecstasy ecstasy stasy There was as a murmur of suppressed delight which swept wept over the audience as each new toilet made Its appearance 4 Well Ive seen Haddon Chambers Cham ers delightful comedy The Tyranny of Tears I popped into the theatre in intending intending intending tending to pop right out again after an act or two That Is a merry little way I have on my busy days But I Isa saw sa w my finish before I had been there ten en minutes I knew I would never I I I I I I I I nal success with theatregoers It has the comedy element clearly and con consistently consistently consistently ingrained in its plot and anti it is said to o be a of comedy The play will be seen at the Grand theatre Monday Tuesday and arid Wednesday and Matinee MaUnee Wednesday at t S 3 p m 4 Of The Peddlers Claim which opens at the Grand next Saturday aft art afternoon arti afternoon an exchange says i Sam Morris the bright particular I star of the somewhat unknown drama The Peddlers J Claim o appeared at the Marvin theatre Saturday night His I success was WM instantaneous and though the large audience was somewhat crit critical critical I ical i al still after Mr Morris had been 1 I on the stage a few moments they real realized realIzed realized they were in for an n evening of fun run funt t I Too much cannot be said of Mr Mor Morris MorI Morris I I ris and arid his careful study of the Hebrew character Findlay audiences are used I to 10 seeing this type on the stage but J I i usually In the burlesque conception It tt Itcan Itcan i I Ican can be b said of Mr Morris and honest honestly i ily Ily II t I ly that his hs impersonation of Moses 1 Levi while it is a character that af at affords fords the audience unlimited amuse amusement amusement amusement I ment still sUll he does not in any way way be belittle belittle little the race of people he impersonates ates ate I 4 1 STORIES ABOUT PLAYERS i Dramatist at the age of sixteen I I 11 I 1 1 1 1 1 1 A A 4 4 e 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T r r r r y i y y r y y r T Tt TT TONE r T 4 4 I 4 4 4 I 4 4 4 4 4 pr I t 4 4 4 4 4 4 k 4 4 4 4 4 4 th 4 4 4 4 44 4 4 4 4 s i 4 4 A 4 4 t 4 e 4 T I r 1 4 4 4 4 4 4 I 9 4 4 4 4 4 4 ONE OP OF ANNA FENCING GIRLS I I I t trl rl leave lea a till ti I IWaS Vas putout put And The doors closed on the tail tall of my I gown You see I had never never seen Had Haddon Haddon Haddon don Chambers play though Ive read some of his books I had never seen Paul Gilmore either I had no idea of ot the feast of ot good things thi gs that was to tobe tobe tobe be set before me But I 1 soon found out and no ilo dog ever eer stuck more closely to a nice sweet bone than I did to io Paul Gilmore and The o Off Tears Fact J as assure sure you There are four acts in the play all au short crisp and right to the point If I knew a better word than fascinating I would apply it to each of the four J t can only say that glue be pe in tn it with any of them for holding holdina you to your chair Each E ch time the curtain c rt n fell I said to myself mys lf Now Nowhere Nowhere Nowhere here is where I make my exit But bless me I budge an inch I found I X had taken root right therE And AndI I was thanking th my lucky stars when the Ute curtain fell tell on that noble finish to the last feet act Sly UY Iy but Gilmore waS wac J Ii i good od and anci gentle getIe nit and tender to that I i wire wife of Crt his Hels Heis it ft now nov A short time tinte ago ugo when he jie played t t dashing shing j Ie hero D Tt who carves friend a kisses u a a girl kin and deceives an aged parent with equal eq al promptitude the critics insisted upon thrusting Alexan Alexander Alexander der shoes upon Gilmore you ou know Very Vety V rY excellent cell nt shoes sho s they are too and most mot worthily would this t is wear them But after one has seen his fine performance perform nce of ot Clem Cleat Clement ent eni rit in The Tyranny of Tears on gees ees his awn shoes shO s are all allright allright allright right and fit him well enough and he can afford to stand firmly on his own sole leather Nature has given Gil Gilmore Gilmore more a complete outfit for a romantic hero I cant see that anything has been forgotten Let me think There ig Ia i youth What would Robert Mantell James ONeill and a few other romantic roman romantic romantic tic actors not give for that blessed I I I I l I I f I boon of youth Then there is figure No hunting around to find his own belt line for tOl Paul Gilmore Youth figure good looks talent voice presence fire artistic perception and poetic temper temperament temperament ament What more would you have in inthis InI inthis this young actor Just mention it itI Theres nothing lacking la that I can think of now Name your our gift and then keep your eye on He has hasit it He lie is isa a fine manly and anti generous Par ury his performance being b in the highe tf degree d gIe excellent The Mati Mali Matinee Matine use nee ne Girl Sergius Ser the famous f nihilist political and refugee who several years ago toured this country as s a lecturer lect t supplemented on platform l many m ny of if the lie harrowing harming det detaIls nS of f the story told t ld in his famous amous book hook Underground f Russia R tsia la Through II the efforts of and others of his sort the dramatic quality in the I life lite of the Russians has become pretty well known to people of the western hemisphere and there have been two o othree Ot othree three dramatists that have been able to profit by the fact fac A widely success successful ful play was Michael Now For Her Sake is the title of the latest lat st of the plays having to do with Russian high life with the moving sorrows of ot serfdom and the harrowing experiences of life in the Si Siberian Siberian Siberian berian convict mines For Her Sake SakeI is credited with possessing an element which its predecessors lacked and I which doubtless more than thon anything any thins else has contributed to its phoneme is the title won by young Robert George Paterson of Kokomo Ind md who has hris put into acting form the story Henri De written by the late Mary Hartwell The young dramatist has been hard hardat hardat at work on the play during the last twp two years and just as his efforts were about to be crowned with suc success success success cess he sent most Trost of the play to Mrs Catherwood The authoress died be sore fore she could read work but be beI I fore e the play had heen e n finished fi she sheI I wrote him a letter saying that it itI I would give gie her great pleasure to live lave him dramatize the story and send her herthe herthe the play Several hort stories also alsa are on the list of or Pattersons achievements n but iut none non of them has been published pUblish elL No plans for the disposition of the Ton ty play have been made 4 Robert Grau Is now engineering the th biggest st deal tl that he l has ever under undertaken undertaken taken in his long career C r er as US a a purveyor I j I of amusements It is nothing less than a farewell tour of America by Adelina Patti Mr Ir Grau has been in correspondence cor p nde with Baron Cedar atrom st m the divas husband for several months month arid and a d last week received a contract and a letter from fr m the baron TH Tnt letter Ie lett r stated that If the contract rat is signed by Grau without change or alteration that the t e deal would be closed cosed and that Madame Patti would begin her tour next fall tall The Th terms specified are ar per concert and 50 per pr p r cent of all aU receipts Sixty concerts will willbe willbe be given and aAd the tour will embrace the principal cities of the United States and Canada There Thre Th are a number of ot minor clauses clau s in the contract covering the tha matter of personal l comfort rt of at the great singer during her lour r all aU of which will the th expense se Mr Grau has s affixed Ills signature to the paper and ad it vill be bp b forwarded this week In a a few Jew weeks wee a 11 duplicate I J I i i I i II t I 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