Show I r i I I fp w ri = W 1 I I ria J inj S c J tr 1 1 J JiiSi i r J II I 1 t l b I Tho decision of the managers of the vaudeville theater at tho Salt Palace I to raise the standard of entertainment and make the admission price commensurate I commen-surate will meet with the approval of I theatergoers Salt Lake amusement patrons have never objected to reasonable reason-able prices providing they got their moneys worth The admission charge nt the Salt Palace so far has been the same as Is charged for cheap freak exhibitions ex-hibitions on Main street or other trilling tri-lling affairs An admission prlco of 25 cento Is itself very low and requires n considerable business Inorder to enable en-able the management to put on a first rato specialty performance such as they promise to givp There Is no reason rea-son ns has often been pointed out in thcso columns why a good vaudeville theater should not bo permanently established es-tablished In Salt Lnkc A theater on the line of the Orpheum theaters at Kansas City Omaha Denver San Francisco and Los Angeles could bo prolltftbly maintained In this city once patrons had become assured that tho enterprise was on a solid basis andthat they would have a good standard of entertainment en-tertainment A theater is not to be established es-tablished in a day und no manager can expect to open a house and see it crowded from the beginning The vaudeville theater established by the Salt Palace management Is a nucleus around which a much more pretentious enterprise could bo erected This might take the form of alternation between I stock companies and vaudeville enter talnmcnU Whether It will be finally located at the Salt Palace or at some other point remains to be determined Salt Lake can only support one estab llshmcnt of the kind For years the I field has been open and waiting for someono to take advantage of It The I trouble in theatricals in Sail Lake has I always been overdone or not done enough Just now the vaudeville stago at Caldcrs park Is bidding for attention and next week Saltalr will enter into the field for a share of the public business busi-ness None of these can expect to jump at ono bound Into a big financial success suc-cess The nubile will in each case wait to dntermlne whether It is the hothouse variety of entertainments or one that will be permanently established Of course it is not to be expected that a theater at the lake or any of the summer sum-mer resorts would be more than a warm I weather enterprise but It might be I I fixed as a pcrmament summer institution I institu-tion such us Elltchs Gardens or Manhattan Man-hattan Beach at Denver The usual I I trouble with summer entertainment in I I Salt IJokc has been that It has been I I started without sufficient advance preparation pre-paration and with the Idea of only one I I or two weeks trial The first manager r to start on a solid basis and establish I I a reputation will have a business which will be exceedingly remunerative I I a Among the amusements projected for I I the month of August In Salt Lake none surprasses In size and elaborateness the I circus which Is to be seen here on the I 15th Ringllng Brothers have taken a place as the first of the tented enter I prises in the United States slnco the j BarnumBailey show left for Europe Tho BJngllngs are not new to Salt Lake having exhibited here two years ago at which time they were pronounced pro-nounced the equal of any show that had over been seen In the city AmonG the numerous circuses and menagerie exhibitions ex-hibitions given in Salt Lake in past I years those best remembered are the Sells show the Foropaugh show and I the Rlngllng Brothers show each of which was a monster attraction The mountain tour of the Forepaugh show was disastrous from the fact that It I I came late In the season had been preceded pre-ceded by tho Sells tihow and appeared L Ina very rainy season besides meeting meet-ing with a number of railroad mishaps I The disasters of that year in the Rocky mountains drove the proprietor and manager to his death and resulted in L I I the final sale of the properties to the BarnumBalley people The Rlngllng Brothers however whose show has been a growth of some fifteen years have taken the flrflt rank and probably I will hold it for many years to come I I Tho BarnumBalley show has about ceased to be an American enterprise F though founded and built exclusively in this country When Mr Balluy took his Know to Europe the remarkable success of Its London season induced I I British capitalists to flnancccr it to the I extent that Its capital was double 1 and trebled Notwithstanding even tIlls watering process which was I something novel in the show business the BarnumBalley show has continued to malo Its new owners barrels of money It is now traveling on the con I tinent and duplicating the success it I met In London For this reason and I the fact that It Is owned abroad It la i not likely that it will return to this country for many years to come Under these Circumstances the Ringllngs and 1 Sells people have a broad field to themselves them-selves Shows arc no longer what they used to be either the tented enterprises 1 with the exhibitions of animals and circus cir-cus feats or the Indoor amusements r which arc characterized as theatricals theatri-cals Instead of being an unsystema I tlc goasyouplease sort of venture I the show has come to be as thoroughly organized and managed as any great I I dcvmithicnt store I or railroad The result re-sult has bcon not only to put tho 6ho yon y-on a more solid financial bottom but It I has lifted the character of performers themselves One rarely hears now as in the olden days of the rough house 4 features of the circus of audiences xnlslng a Hot at the show and the per formers fighting back In defense of their supposed rights In the olden day fakirs gamblers and thugs wore found In the wafco of every traveling show Theperformers themseles were often men who piled side vocations to thlm I I blcrlg the public That Is I now all a thing of the past and the showmans 4 liCe la I very near us regular barring the feature of travel as that oC any I ardlnarv citizen To maintain strength IluxtJclty and nerve the athlete of the I ring finds he cannot drink carouse and j puraue the avenues of vice formerly associated with his h business O JUIngllngs show Is the only one of any j conscononce that will be seen In Salt Luke the present year I a o S A letter from Elmer Ellsworth who I is well known In Salt Lake City brings the Information that he Is now the rep resentative of the Frawlcy Stock com I I i T t LJ L hi I I with pany Ellsworths connection stage performances while not continuous continu-ous has been somewhat extensive In Salt Lake he Is best known for his connection con-nection with the Lyceum theater In the olden day Mr Ellsworth writes that the t Frawloy company has made a decided de-cided hit in San Francisco with The Great Ruby which was one of Augus tin i Dalys last big successes After Dalys death the play was sold to Jacob Lilt who put It on the boards of Mc Vickers theater at Chicago and ran it I through a large part of last season I with astounding attendance It Is a play j requiring more extensive mounting I mount-ing lI i and a larger number of people than 1 Frawley every brought together before For the Western rights Mr Frawley has paid the executors of the Daly estate es-tate a large bonus It Is questionable however 1 whether he will be able to bring tailS t play to Salt Lake for the reason rea-son that Its scenic properties are very heavy and costly to carry This Is the piece In which De Witt Jennings of this city made quite a hit In the role of Andrews An-drews a thug Besides The Great Ruby Mr Frawlcy is presenting Secret Service Madame Sans gene and The Children of tho Ghetto His leading man Is Wilton Lackaye Elmer Ellsworth writes that j I Frawley J will appear in Salt Lake sometime some-time during the coming season He also tells some whopping stories which Salt I Lakers will take with a great deal of salt One of them Is that the San Francisco merchants find Frawlcys I company < so large a one that they ad i vcrtlso on the reverse side of the drop curtain for the benflt of the actors and I stage hands It seems that Charles Hoyt was committed com-mitted to the asylum on the application I of his business partner Frank McKee It is said that Mr Hoyts Income nt the present tlmo Is S1400 a week l and his wealth Is estimated at half a million dollars His present holdings consist of a lease of the Madison Square theater I the-ater in New Tori and a lease of the Garrlck theater New York lIe Is also the owner of A Trip to Chinatown A I Stranger in New York A Contented Woman A Brass Monkey A I Bunch of Keys A Day and a Night Midnight Bell A Parlor Match A Texas Steer and A Dog In the Manger A feature of all Mr Hoyts plays Is that they nil commence with a Of late Hoyt has been subject to fits of melancholy that were pitiful Now that he has been taken from the asylum und placed in tho hands of his friends It Is hoped that his health may Improve 1 I Tho following chatty paragraph about f II Mr Iloyts career In the last Dramatic I I New from the pen of a friend will be read with Interest by Hoyts old Salt Lake acquaintances Three brief seasons ago Charles H Hoyt HUll youuir full of talent famous popular rich and his beautiful youthful murdy wife Caroline JMIskel could bo I seen any day driving through Central park a capital living picture of domestic t bllas and youthful energy Today Mrs Hoyt Is long slnco burled and Mr Hoyt hlmsolf is Just committed to the asylum for tho Insano at Hartford Conn Certainly as sharp as stinging a con trast as ono could run across In any cycle of time I am among thosw that still hope that Hoyt will recover now that ho Is where ho will receive Incessantly tho best of care Tho main trouble with him wan after tho death of his wife that he aim ply couldnt rest Ho spent himself In I tho i > Jiort to become a human whirligig and forget the pant In the excitement of tho moment 1 have never known 1 man I moro pitifully posscssedof the spirit of unrest than lloyt as ho has been for two years Immediately after his wife died he fitted up a charming apartment near his the ater and no sooner was It completed than he sighed a lonely sigh and moved promptly to a hotel Just to get away from the haunting ghosts of what used to be In tho jungle and Jar of Broadway It was hoped by his friends that a years vacation would bring him back to health and HO with his friend W H Currlc ho departed or Florida and other balmy re sorts lie told mo lately ho might go to Europe for a protracted stay but the fact was thirc was nowhere ho wanted to be except somewhere else nothing ho wanted to l do except anything Hoyt though qulto a rounder the o piiat ten years was always tho old Now HarnnHhlro boy to any ono that know him at nil well He could wear a top hat and an opera clouk as much an he pleased and put as much of tho Hoffman house and the green room as maybe In his farce comedies but the Ingenuous frank spoken homespun clement always pro dominated I During the coming k the Salt Palace Pal-ace vaudeville theater will present Belle Walton the wellknown character I singer as Its topliner among the new faces She comes direct from New York where she has been aTavorIte with music hall audiences Another new face will be Santanello the contor I tionist who does his work upon > a pedestal I ped-estal Instead of on a mat McDonald brothers the sketch team who have taken the Salt Palace audiences tho f past two weeks have been rccngagcd I for another week it Is probable that 1 I one or two other people from the Chutes In San Francisco will be added to the stage during the week STAGE CHOWCHOW I I Mrs Joseph R Grlsmer known to J theatrical people of the country pro fesslonally as Phoebe DavIes arrives In Salt Lake City today to visit with her friend Mrs Glen Miller She will probably prob-ably remain several weeks Mrs Gris mer Is ono of the most successful stars on the stage Margaret Dale who was seen ns the Ingenue of Henry Millers company a month since has been promoted by Charles Frohman to a place In the Empire Em-pire Stock company Among the probabilities Is the establishment estab-lishment of a firstclass Salt Lake Stock company for the coming winter on the lines of the T D Frawley company If lis started It will be owned and managed b y one of the prominent theatrical bm managers of the country Among the sad Items going the rounds of the dramatic press Is the statement that Lincoln J Carter Villl send out two new companies In The Heart of Chicago and two in Under t JDome v S I With Elmer Ellsworth doing business 1 woiMc with T D Frawley and Charlie Meakin In a similar position for Frederick Fred-erick Warde It would look as If Salt Lake were about to invade a new department de-partment of the stage a J Blanche Walsh leaves Liverpool August Au-gust 20th for New York where she starts rehearsals on her new play Hobart Ho-bart Bosworth and Joseph Kllgour will I bo her Important male supporters e It Is rumored that the Salt Lake Theater orchestra will be enlarged and II I that a number of those who left the organization or-ganization a couple of years ago will return re-turn Melbourne McDowell whose love affairs af-fairs with Blanche Walsh were exploited ex-ploited about the time he visited Salt t Lake Inst spring isnow married and taking his honeymoon In Holland His last l wifes stage name was Wllhamlna Maria WIntoh His coming season will 1 not be in the hands of Ben Stern who tied to Blanche Walshs side of the controversy con-troversy but will be handled by Clarence Clar-ence M Brune Nine Quo Vadis and six Sapho companies exclusive of stock companies appearing In these plays are on the road The Gentry Dog and Pony Show has at last had a New York appearance and seems to have been received with the same enthusiasm by the children I there as they have through the provinces prov-inces I MUSIC CHANTS Prof Thomas Radcliffe A G 0 has gone East on a muchneeded vacation lIe expects to be away for a month a a Hugh Dougall will sing The Palm Trees by J Flaure at St Pauls church at this mornings service e Prof Burke director of music at the Oliver meetings will have charge of the music at the Monday morning service at uhf church and will render special selections |