Show r I J S TL 0 l I II I 5 I f J J J V V There was no fonder admirer of the VV t X theater and Its devotees than Andy > Brixen who died last Friday evening From 18SO to 1S90 Brixen was a conspicuous r con-spicuous figure among tho theatrical people who visited Salt Lake City occupying oc-cupying very much the same position V that Dan Loftus docs at the present V time In other words if any theatrical theatri-cal manager agent or actor wanted information J in-formation help or any small service hey he-y was sure to turn to Andy Brixen for It 1 These associations made Brixen popular pop-ular fellow with the theatrical fraternity frater-nity He was correspondent here for V the New York Clipper in the days when that paper was a power In thor l tho-r profession The Valley boost and afterward i V after-ward the Cllft house which Brixen ran were headquarters for the profession f liven after more consequential hos N tclrica were established in Salt Lake j the wellknown stars preferred going c to Andys modest and unpretentious resort t re-sort because of the congeniality they t found there MtJ Erb of the Walker J Chouse tried lime and again to draw the stars to his house but all in vain V J V Andy Brixen loved to tell with a VV V chuckle of the time that Maj Erb sent a special agent eastward to meet the r Booth and Bar ett party and had a handsome equipage at the depot to meet the famous stars that he might convey them to the Walker house Andy sauntered down to the depot about train time and when the famous r Shakespearean stars alighted Andy quietly stepped forward and gave them a handshake That knocked out all the y fine plans of laj Erb In an instant J Booth and Barrett were In a carriage a with Andy on their way to his house Practically all the wellknown stars of the SOs were guests at out time or another an-other of Andy Brixen Million andS and-S Dolly Nobles Emilic Melville John A Stevens Robson and Crane Tom Keonc Emily Sbldene Willie Edouin t 1 i t N l i r l J 1 I tk5 S Kale Cll lon John T Raymond C W Couldock Alvin Joslln Davis Nat Goodwin and his llrat wife Eliza Wcathcrsby Minnie Palmer Alice and Lo Harrison Minnie Maddern now Mrs Flske Scanlon Lawrence Bar rett Charles Wyndham Rose Coghlan Sol Smith Russell Dion Bouclcault J II Ilavorly M P Leavitt Rhea las A Home Lottie Langtry Mr and Mrs Joseph R Grismer Emma Abbott Mr and Mrs McKee Rankin Adelaide Rls tori Kate Castleton W E Sheridan Mile Aimee Josh Billings Lquis AI drach Mme Janauschok Emma Nevada Ne-vada Tomasso SalvinI Buffalo Bill Minnie Ilauk Mary Anderson Billy Florence and wife Clara Morris Edwin Ed-win Booth Mme Janlsh Edward Har rlgan Frank Mayo Henry E Dickson James ONoil Nell Burgess Annie PIx ley Cora Urquhart Potter Gus Williams Wil-liams Old Hoss Iloey Jeffreys Jeffreys Lewis Vernon Jarbeau Louis James and Mare Wainwrlght were some of tho wellknown people of the stage whose autographs on his hotel registers Andy Brixen prized as a token of his popularity popu-larity with the profession Such men asT Harrlgan Mayo and Louis James never failed to look Andy up when they came to Salt Lake In later days and the old Valley house was one of the spots to which the oldday actors have I always turned their eyes as a monument monu-ment of their first appearances In Salt Lake Many a regret will be expressed among actorfolk at the death of genial ge-nial openfaced honest Andy Brixen 0 A new policy will be Inaugurated at the Grand the coming season which promises to put that house In direct competition with the Salt Lake Theater Thea-ter At the beginning of last season it was a serious question with the management man-agement as to whether the house should be kept on the basis of popular popu-lar prices which had been established during the stock days or should run as a firstclass theater on lines laid down by the Salt Lake Theater Manager Man-ager Mulvey finally hit a medium by raising the prices of bin downstairs seats from 50 to 75e thereby securing abettor a-bettor lino of attractions lie found I it a hard matter however to hold a number of the better companies to their contracts when they learned that I 75 cents was the ruling rate and It was only with the understanding that prices would be advanced that they contracted contract-ed with him for the ensuing season Mr Mulvey has determined to abandon 3 popular prices altogether and to ostab llsli admission rates to conform to the attraction This means that admission admis-sion will run all the way from 50 cents to SIGO according to the character of the company appearing at the house The prevailing rate however will be the same as that of the Salt Lake Theater The-ater 1 for the best seals on the lower floor It may be set down without much arguing that there will be very few RO i 1 cent or even 73ccnt attractions seen I I in tho future as when managers of companies learn that higher rates are In vogue they will not be disposed to play at lower admission since so doing would be a virtual admission of inferiority In-feriority Ed Carruthcra the treasurer treas-urer of the house who did most of tho booking last Reason is 1 now In New York booking attractions for the coming com-ing year Mr Mulvey himself will not go East A long line of good attractions attrac-tions has been secured but following hln past policy Mr Mulvey docs not care to make a public announcement of them a Two of the outdoor resorts are branching out somewhat extensively In vaudeville entertainment Manager Peters of the Salt Palace Is enlarging the vaudeville theater attached fo his resort so that the place will accommodate accommo-date several hundred patrons and the stage entertainment Is most Int > restIng rest-Ing The programme the past week haD comprised several numbers which could well be placed on any stage The center cen-ter of interest has been Thelma who seems quite versatile In her art giving very pretty renditions on the violin I n o I Most of the Salt Lake Theater employees em-ployees are to be found around the Salt Palace grounds there days Including James Gibson the doorkeeper rally Hammer the property master Con Lyon chief usher and Karl Decker ushor and others 0 At Calders park a vaudeville entertainment I enter-tainment will ho started the coming week 1 Two of the performers will be Mile Tjcrneto romantic and pastoral dancer and Mile Donlzeta national and grotesque dancer I o 0 0 I During the past week there was atone at-one time eight popular affairs in progress pro-gress in Salt Lake City In one evening I and yet all received large attendance No city in the country Is more given to amusements and It only needs the as sistajice of managers to make the theatrical I the-atrical end of the Bummer resorts most popular I V I I A glance at the list of bookings Manager Man-ager Pyper has already made for tho ensuing season Indicates that in the theatrical line Salt Lake has once again struck the upgrade Already more stars and plays of national reputation repu-tation have been secured than were presented at the Salt Lake Theater I during the whole of last season Evidently I Evi-dently the syndicate in whose chain tho Salt Lake Theater is a link feels the necessity of coining to the relief of its Western department Last year the general cry was that business was so good In the East that firstclass attractions attrac-tions could not afford the long Jumps to the Pacific A different story will be heard the coming year It Is certain that but for this last move very serious seri-ous competition would have arisen asa as-a general disgust was spreading among the theatergoers of the Intelmountain and Pacific States The remarkably good buslncs done by the great attractions attrac-tions that have visited the West evidently evi-dently has furnished a lesson to the sTew York booking agents No less I than twenty highclass attractions I have already signed for the Salt Lake i Theater for the 100001 season 0 I Miss Blanche Aldrach recently will the Real Widow Brown company has gone to New York HUSIC CHANTS Most of the musicians are away on the summer vacation w 0 a Karl Schcld will make an English and continental tour doing the exposition exposi-tion as he returns The vestry of St Pauls will give the choir a Saltair treat tomorrow night oa Mrs Thomas Radcllffe has gqno to England i Miss Flanders vlll pass the heated I term In California a n Mrs BenIta SablnCockshas arrived In Europe 1C C Kerr will sing The Holy City1 at St Pauls this morning 0 A Miss Jennie Mackintosh soprano who has been meeting with marked success In Chicago Is here for the summer with her parents Mr and Mrs T J Mackintosh a S Miss Newcomb of the Illff Methodist choir and J A Augustus of the Central Cen-tral Christian church choir will sing an Ave Maria by Lambillottl at Su Marys cathedral today |