Show i a > + v r 1 Fit F-it rI i M r r r < r oo I F 1 k 01 u I j 1 M I 1 1I I 4fifjlc r rrfpp I l i I 1 This week Salt Lake Theater Den man Thompson in The Old Homestead Home-stead Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day nights and Wednesday matinee Willie Collier in Sir Smooth Thursday Thurs-day Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee I Grand Grau Opera company In Wang all week with Wednesday and Saturday matinees fl A it I The Old Homestead has been seen I in Salt Lake numerous times Like Puddnhead Wilson given here the past week It Is one of tho plays which I has such wholesome material homely pictures genial humor and tender pathos pa-thos that Its beauty is not destroyed by repetition These plays unlike a great many of those which are purely novelties novel-ties hold a fascination for theatergoers theatergo-ers who have seen < < them time and time again The Old Homestead Is a picture pic-ture of TanJvCedom of Hew England country life plucked from the original ground Denman Thompson himself is I the best delineator of Yankee characters charac-ters the American stage has ever had The famed drama of the SI Perkins i type is buffoonIsh burlesque upon the I I genuine type Few of those who live In I i Utah have ever had the opportunity of seeing life In the rural districts of New 11 England True we have our New Eng land society and there are many here I who regularly go back to their old home I In the granite hills the scene of their I youth To most of us however born I and bred in the far West Uncle h Joshua Whilcomb is a type with which we are not personally acquainted He 11 Las become familiar through the efforts I of Denman Thompson but the sager sage-r brush the prairie and the desert are h I nearer to us Mr Thompson comes with a strong company and the play is I given a good setting It will be remembered j re-membered that Neil Burgess was the last to present this piece here 00 a Willie Collier who was last here In A Man from Mexico and who set 1 audiences in a continuous roar of laughter will again appear tho coming week in a new farce entitled Sir Smooth This piece is new to Salt Lake and is a piece of Colliers own writing Naturally ho cut his cloth to fit his own measure The Mr Smooth I of the play Is a man of smooth manners I man-ners after the line of a number of other oth-er characters in which Mr Collier has made such success As in the plot of I Ills other play he gains admittance to a wealthy mans house by telling a lie I and then tries to save himself by tell ing more lies Finally he falls In love with the wealthy mans daughter and I then he Is heartily ashamed of having commenced tho process of lying Final I ly 1 however he confesses to the daugh trtr extricates himself from tho difficul ties marries the daughter and comes i Into jHsssesslon of a large fortune OH is customary in all wellregulated romances ro-mances The story appears somewhat t conventional yet it Is mado extremely i I interesting by Mr Colliers personal J I business Tho ladies of the company occupy a good share of the attention The costumes nre said to bo exceptionally exception-ally beautiful a Thq big success of Graus popular opera company playing at cheap prices last year Induced Manager Mulvey to book them for an entire month tills I season the time including conference week The spring Invariably draws the I mind of theatergoers to something light and cheap opera presented with a fair regard for musical requirements and stage settings always takes well with the people In order that the company might appear to the best ad vantage Manager Mulvey deliberately canceled the first week of the engage mont and compelled the people to rest that they might appear with fresh I voices Stanley Fclch the comedian 1 of the company who was here lost year 1 is still with the company Adele Farr Far-r rington Is not with the company but such wellknown artists as Minnie Em mett Alice Gaillard Bertha Dale Mar tin Pache Charles Sulckard and Martina Martin-a Cueerman will be seen The opening bill will be Wang which had a long I run through the country in the hands of De Wolf Hopper Robert Lett who IB the stellar I feature of the company i will take the role which Hopper made I so popular Miss Mortimer Mr Felch I I and Mr Lett are the specially strong i mcmbfrs of the company Mr Lett I himself being a recognized comedian 1 I There will be a general regret that Mr r + Davies the tenor who t made so excel lent an Impression last t year is not with I Grau this season One of the features of Wang it will be remembered Is l a trick elephant which makes up much of i the fun of the entertainment Wang was one of the great comic opera successes having had long runs in New York Boston and other Philadelphia American Chicago cities 1 given by Hopper It Is a dlillcult when mat ter to present J opera at popular prices and make It a success owing to the ex I ppnse of singers the large arrre chorus I ue ct sary and the hcu heavy cost of o mount i Ing this I class of entertainment i Clrau is one of the few who Mr has made It l successful in spite of ordinary dis 4 couragements S Viola Pratt Gillette one of the l recent Salt Lake girls to climb the theatrical ladder reached home Thursday ay night after nearly a years absence in Aus Aus I tralia Zealand < Until her de piruuv for the Antipodes Mrs Gillette had taken no part in dramatic work tnMl a year ago Mrs Gillette had made a success in chinch singing and concert work but had essayed noth ing dramatically Hoyt it McKee having leased all of the famous Hon farces to the Australian manager Mr JlIIo nlJOJ > Viv rtetatmtot I to BJInnl n FIij f New York company to present such pieces ny A Stranger in New York A Trip to Chinatown A Contented Woman A Milk White Flag and other wellknown Hot skits in the English Pacific colonies Among those selected for this work was Mrs Gillette Gil-lette together with our old friend Hugh Warde Mr Wardcs wife and Harry Connor one of the lloyt stars best known for his delineation of Wellington Wel-lington Strong In A Milk White Flag It I In speaking of her experience In the Australian colonies Mrs Gllletto said that It had been an altogether pleasant pleas-ant one although the odd customs and strange names for familiar articles I made the first part of her stay there I somewhat queer Professionals are received with open arms throughout the English colonies in the Southern Pacific In fact the social world cannot can-not do too much for them said Mrs Gillette During the whole time I was abroad I was like the other members of the company treated with the highest high-est consideration Mr Williamson the Australian manager desired that I should remain another year and offered of-fered me a contract with the option to hold it onen for me until July IsL I Whether J shall return or stay In America depends largely on my husbands hus-bands plans After a week here I will I go to New York and then accompany Mr Gillette on a pleasure trip to Cuba If he Is willing to accompany me to Australia I shall return otherwise remain re-main In the East Mrs Gllletto was in Australia during the departure of the troops for the South African war One night In every city visited was given for the benefit I of the patriotic fund as the money raised for the volunteers and their dependent de-pendent families was called It was a regular practice on these occasions said Mrs Gillette to give a tableaux I picture of rite AbsentMinded Beggar together with a recitation of the same Following this the audience would rise and shower tho stage with money which went from f5 to f25 Several thousands of dollars were raised through our efforts for the departing troops In the middle of her engagement with the Harry Connor company Mrs Gll line was borrowed for a season of opera at Sydney appearing as Alan aDale Jesse Bartlett Davlss old part In Robin Hood She found operatic work morn enjoyable even than farce comedy After an eight weeks season of singing in Sydney she went to New Zealand to rejoin the Hoyt company Hugh Warde and wife Mrs Warde by the way is a most accomplished singer have been engaged by Mr Williamson and will remain another year abroad Manager Williamson who his become a millionaire out of thi Australian theatrical the-atrical business was a member of the Salt Lake stock company here during the 70s Now he owns or leases every theater of any consequence In Australia Aus-tralia The theaters there arc very handsome the most noted being Her Majestys in Sydney the Royal at Adelaide and the Princess at Mel hou bourne rnc e Yes said Mrs Gillette I was at Sydney at the time that Oscar Ellason was shot I received a telegram from Dubbo saying that Mr Ellason had been accidentally shot and brought In there and that it was not likely that he would Ihe many hours He had been shot by the pianist of Ills company com-pany who was a careless and reckless handler of firearms during a hunting till Mrs Eliason had herself been apprehensive ap-prehensive all day long and had congratulated con-gratulated Oscar on getting through the days sport without any accident Just then some birds flew across the way and both the pianist and Ellason jumped out of the wagon to get them Oscar ran ahead The pianist not I knowing his gun was loaded pulled the trigger and the gun went off the bullet bul-let going through Ellasona thigh The magician had no Idea l the wound was serious but insisted up to within a few minutes of his death that it was alight a-light matter and that he would recover Pressed by his wife and surgeon however how-ever he made a will His wound was I much aggnnated by a runaway which came most unfortunately After he had been lifted into the wagon and was being driven back to Dubbo the horses ran away throwing everybody Including the magician out Eliason was In the greatest agony when he was thrown to the ground It seemed as If every sort of complication arose against the magician from the lime that IK was shot The runaway the slowness In reaching Dubbo the delay in getting out a special train at Sydney and the delay In getting the train with the sur geon to Dubbo all worked against his I recovery although It is uncertain whether he could possibly have survived sur-vived under any circumstances Ho left a tidy sum for Mm Ellason who has been almost too distracted ever slnco to make up her mind to future plans She had an offer from Mr Williamson Wil-liamson to appear In the line of work i mado famous by Lole Fuller that IB I scrpentlne dancing but will probably the stage I not return to Mrs Gillette was met at San Francisco Fran-cisco upon the landing of her vessel I the Mariposa by her father and sisters sis-ters The boat was not allowed to stop at Honolulu owing to the strict quarantine quaran-tine maintained there She says that arriving In America and hearing so much news of the past year has set her head in a buzz If she returns to Australia Aus-tralia It will be purely for operatic 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