Show i U I I iv tiun E LLc7 I 7 I 1jg rI I I I This week Salt Lake Theater Fatlnltra Monday afternoon and evening Tabernacle ScionThompson lecture Saturday afternoon and evening The disposition of Eastern theatrical directors to cut out Western bookings seems manlfestabout this time Regu Jarly every fall we are regaled with the list of notable stars who are to appear among us during the season and before the end of the season arrives ar-rives we are just as regularly greeted with the informaHon that this and that one usually the most prominent have been cut from the list The two great events of the year the Grau Opera company at the Tabernacle and the Bernhardt engagement at the Theatorwcre canceled unceremoniously unceremoni-ously and the attractions went by the town The latest curtailment of the list comes in the removal of the name of James K Hackett tone of Froh mans proteges floW many more will be stricken off the roster cannot bee be-e JJ guessed The manager of tho Theater In an inferior town seldom has any control over his attractions Companies Com-panies are given him or withheld as suits the pleasure of the greater magnates mag-nates of New York who control theatrical destinies The past year The far West has fared better than during previous seasons for the reason that the prosperous condition of affairs here has impelled companies to come this way Less Inviting however has been tho situation on the Pacific coast where business has been reported disastrous dis-astrous Indeed it Is said that In Los Angeles only two companies of all those appearing have come out even during the present season Salt Lake has more than sustained her reputation reputa-tion as a liberal patron of amusements amuse-ments practically every attraction oran or-an merit having done well in this city The condition oC business in turn has been reflected In the dividends divi-dends which the owners of the theater have drawn However Salt Lake business alone is too smalUa pebble to cut very much of a figure with companies com-panies going to the pacific when business busi-ness is bad there A few years ago comment was frequent fre-quent to the effect that conference people bad grown weary of local performances per-formances and resented the monopolization monopoli-zation of conference dates by home attractions preferring to enJoy plays of naUonal reputation If the business busi-ness done by FatlnlUa however is I to be taken as an index the assump tion is hardly a correct one Certain J It is that no performance of the opera I I during conference time was given except ex-cept to crowded houses people standing irthe aisles and crowding the galleries If the Grand had furnished a good attraction there la no doubt that it would have enjoyed the same over flowing attendance The break In the years business caused by thc transfer of the house to the Cummings company com-pany and Its transfer to Manager Mulvey so disconcerted affairs that everything has been happygolucky since the first of the year The Theater on < Hic other hand has followed a systematic course with the result that Its clientage HAS BEEN A STEADY ONE Fatlzltza as noted in the opening review while not the greatest produc tion given by the Salt Lake Opera company may be ranked as one of the most satisfactory The accession of Prof McClelland and Miss Clark to the enterprise has added to Its Strength The secret of success on thc stag e rests largely In ability to work and to keep a level head So many artists get their jnlnds swelled with a little success and praise that they are spoiled subsequent work The Salt Lake Opera company has by its past efforts attained a position of which the members can feel proud The organ ization has not only established Itself In Salt Lake City but in surrounding cities of Provo Ogden Park City and Logan where they are always as sured a cordial welcome I J Ernest SetonThompson who lectures here Saturday afternoon and evening 16 best known among Western people from his successful book Wild Anl nials I Have lnownHls reputation however rests OH much upon his suc cess as a painter 33 upon hIs efforts as an author For foul years hu was 0 resident ° f P rl8 exhlbllln his pie uires of animals In the salon Like Bernhardt his art Is oCa versatile order Our own Government has recognized his labors by publishing and Illustrating through the Smithsonian institute his work The Birds of Manitoba As a naturalist and scientist he Is an authority the world over in the Enut SetonThompson has become so popular as to he almost considered a fad He has risen from humble surroundings through his own natural gifts coupled with an Indomit able capacity for work His lecture Is I one that appeals to all lovers of I niture for naturo is practically his religion His wife Grace Oillatin IB a woman In thorough sympathy with her husbands art She has dono much I to assist him on his road to Kiicccbs It is said that Mr ScionThompson who Is I a prolific contributor to the magazines receives more for hla articles than any other writer except ing Kipling ScionThompson taken the ground that there arc Individual among animals who occupy tho same I relations to their gpccles that great lenders like Gladstone or Blmarek have to their nations He Is almost the first writer to observe that among I the wild animals there Is the same rcIa tire distinction aa there is among dif ferent people of a commpnlty H0 nccnin to understand animals as a mother would tho clmruiterlstlcs of her children To children there is nothing so fascinating as the story of animal life 7t Is the particular desire t of those who have the Salt Jlll l < o en sagCmcnt In charge to draw the school children to the lecture To that end I the admission for the matinee hna 1 bc 9in placed at the UHtly nominal sum of 10 cents for all children Miss Kathel1ne l ro Oliver who Is booked for a course ° C recitals at the First Presbyterian church April 23rd 25th and 26th comes under the auspices I aus-pices of the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute In-stitute The proceeds of the course will be devoted to the needs of the school library and laboratory I 0 According to the Mirror received yesterday yes-terday James A Herno who was to appear hero In Sag Harbor May 2nd to 1th has been compelled to retire from the cast of the play and Mr George Woodward will art as his sub slltutc on the trip of the company to the Pacific coast The Mirror states as follows James A Home retired from the cast of Sag Harbor In Chicago Chi-cago last week and will rest for the ro j inalndor of the season The company will continue Its toul to the Pacific i coast with George Woodward In Mr Hernes role Mr Home has returned to his home In this city His retirement was made necessary by a disease of the throat that has been aggravated by an attack of the grip It is his intention to open his next season under the management man-agement of Llebler Co at thOBoston theater In September He will appear Ip Sag Harbor and later may present I a new play on which he is now at work There has never been a year to compare com-pare with the present one for prostrations prostra-tions of prominent members of the dramatic dra-matic profession Among those who were booked for Salt Ink this season Sol Smith Russell James A llerno James K Hackett and Olga Nether solo have all been compelled to retire from their companies through sickness Roland Reed who was to have been j seen bore a couple ot weeks hence died in a New York hospital last week 1 Frank Daniels was out of the cast in I Salt Lake because of sickness and Thomas Seabrooke Mrs FIsk and Mrs Leslie Carter were all under the care of physicians during their Salt Lake engagements en-gagements I I In the production of Nathan Hale which will be given at the Theater April 24th and 25th Salt Lakers will welcome two favorites of the Grand Stock company Howard Kyle and Miss Jessie IzetL Mr Kyles name has been kept pretty well before the public I since his departure from the city and his flattering success is known to most t theatergoers Miss Izett h however has I been out of sight to us for some time The following from a review of the production pro-duction of Nathan Halo In Kansas City taken from the Times will show that she too Is climbing the ladder to success Miss Izett pays Alice Adams as Maxlno Elliott who was the costar with Nat Goodwin In the orJglnal production pro-duction never could She Is not a pretty pret-ty woman Is Miss Izett but she has facility and charm expression that count for Infinitely more She Is first presented as a schoolgirl and she really stems one The girlish yet womanly sweetheart constructed a fabric of poetic sympathy between herself and her audience that was replete with dainty touches There Is rarely to be found so wholesome and acceptable a love sceno as that between Nathan and Alice In the second net And It would be hard to imagine a better portrayal of heartbreaking Borrow than that parting between the lovers on the eve of the execution There was a total absence ab-sence of the heartrending sobs and hysterics hys-terics which make one Involuntarily wriggle The grief was deep and real The Kansas City Journal has this to say of her interpretation of the part of Alice Adams Miss Jessie Izett Is the AllceAdnms originally played by Miss Maxine Elliott The new Alice Is a lit tlo creature of engaging personality and keen dramatic temperament and sho has attained a degree of art that Is surprising In one GO little known to the playgoing public She has not lost all the marks of tho fledgling but she Is exceedingly clever whether In the light comedy scenes or In the several very dramatic episodes STAGE CHOWCHOW Blanche Aldrlch who left here with the JOIcvonth Hour company has 1 received aji earnest rcrjuest from Lincoln Lin-coln J Carter to head one of his companies com-panies fqr next season It Is probable that Khe will sing In opera at Kansas City during the summer j 41 0 Nub Laurel who is a native of Salt Lake City his father being C A Christensen Chris-tensen the present city parkkeeper has made quite a success In vaudeville Just now ho Is playing nn engagement at Wilmington Del His specialty Swedish dialect acts H Salt Takers In touch with local amusement matters will remember Fitzgerald Murphy who first came here to present free silver drama which hjd been written to boom the eaUBc of free silver Last summer ho reappeparcd here OH one of the managers man-agers for Whose Baby Are Youhand drew particular attention to himself through a suit planted against the company by Uloanar Marls who claimed uhmo had boon discharged without with-out callre MlHs Marls suit Is Bllll pending in the local courts From an article appearing in the last San Francisco Fran-cisco Dramatic Review signed by Mark Swan It i would seem that Mr Murphy h Hi1fd trouble with hta partner who charges that tho actor Is entirely Irrofiponnlhic and visionary Miss Maria after suing Murphy remained re-mained here Jean de Tloszkcs voice boa failed I At this rate tho HUge will noon be be 1 reft of Ito great Jt lyric artists 4 I A cable from London says that Olga Nctbcrsole Is dying Her collapse is I said to kayo bQcu due very largely to the trouble over Sapho which she experienced In this country II 4 V Friends of Tves Cobb In Salt Lake are wondering what has bi > cono of him I fiincc the nxwlc I of Iho Cummlngs company I com-pany la the Northwest t Mr l Cobb In i reported fp live had something more than 1QQO InvcHlcd In the attraction ircnr Mlllor is J lo play In Salt Lake during the coming summer nJJ Glfln4 who brought the Fraw Icy company lo Bait Lake originally 16 to manage James K Huckett next non I son Mr Uackctt Is now 111 at the home of a friend In Wilmington Del I HIt wife Mnry Manncrlng Is playing at Philadelphia I Manager Peters of Caldors park has J 1 secured the services of IlaucrbachB I I orchestra for his resort during the sum I mcr season The orchestra will furnish I fur-nish the dance music during week days 1 and on Sunday afternoons and even lags the resort will hnea military I 1 band of sixteen members 1 0 SQ I The Jolly l Farmers a mirthful operetta op-eretta will be given by local lenl in the Seventh ward meetinghouse Tuesday Tues-day and Wednesday evenings April 2trd and 24th Miss Mabel Cooper conducting con-ducting with Fred Butler and Alex C Pyper two of Salt Lakes bestknown singers In the leading roles assures Its success Fatlnitza for Old Folks Jt wifs yesterday definitely decided Hint the midwinter entertainment for the old folks should bo given at I heSalt Lake Theater on Thursday iifteinoon next This entertainment Is possible 1 only by thc usual courtesy of the Salt Lake Opera company the Salt Lake I Theater management and the em i I ployccs of tho Name Tho opera Fa i tlnltxn t which has had such a success 1 I ful run will be given and there will I bo no cutting or abbreviation because the entertainment Is given without 1 price Every mar and woman In tho oily over 70 years of ago no master of what color or creed will he welcomed I and tickets of admission will be Isnuod at Savages art hazar from 10 a in to I p in tomorrow W B Preston W L Binder Andrew JcnKon William Naylor C TJ Savage John Klrkman N A JSmpcy Hcber S Goddard and William Kddlngton comprise the committee com-mittee I |