Show 1 II 1 UUfl I i I 4 I P IJ 1 r Salt Lake Theater Louis James and ICatliryn Kldder In A Midsummer Eights Dream Monday Tuesday I Wednesday Thursday and Friday nights and Wednesday and Saturday matinees In Kichard III Saturday night Grand Mrs Fiske In Becky Sharp Monday and Tuesday nights In Tess of the dUrborvillea Wodncs I day night Cummlngs Stock l company in iCftplafn Swift Thursday Friday and Saturday 0 D In considering the work of the Cummings Cum-mIngs Stock company which was launched the Grand the past week Il is well to lomembei the attending circumstances as lawyers put it This little company is to be judged by its purposes Its aim Is to provide an even plqualng entertalnmenL In Salt Lake at popular prices There Is no pretense and should be none that the company is on a parallel with those playing In cities of a million inhabitants inhabi-tants at admission prices twice those charged hero It Is simply a question of whether the goods which In this case m4an theatrical entertainment are ivoeth the money There are no present John Drews or Henry Millers or Nat Goodwins in the company no Maude Adamses pr Maxine Elliotts or Mrs Flskes There may be people who < n iviu ut = CIVIl mi V jsuwii ittusia H JlCIL Charles Richman nd Blanche Bates and JeiWile Kcnnark and Alice Nielsen and Alkxudo Adams were in Salt Lake they were not the artists they now arc Players who can get 200 a w fek are not in a Salt Lake stock company It Is just at well to remember these things when we are drawing comparisons No coYnplcto estimate can be drawn from onO performance Opinion as to tho merits of the CummLngs company must nocVssarlly be nebalous this time Mr Cummings the past week has shown us how nicely he can portray por-tray a weaf rather colorless character Next week he will essay the opposite style of hatactera strong resourceful resource-ful shrewd daring manCaptaln Swift Mr BJakemore was a pleasant little surprise to us tor while Cummings Cum-mings had been featured as a versatile and accomplished actor little had been said of the others Judging by the one production Blakemore is fairly even with the head of the company dividing the honors Mrs Cummings gives promise pro-mise of being the suouser or the two principal ladies though Laura Nelson Hall was scarcely condition to judge I fairly of her ability during the week i I Mlba Hall is a very handsome woman f 1 and dresses with I coinmcnchiblo taste nnd ciTQCtlvcnesa airs Cummings however is the brighter more viva i I ciotis and magnetic rcachla1 straight for the sympathy of her 0 audience I Judging froni indications the plays to be given by 1 this company are selected I more with icJicreme to UIQ male than the female contingent of the organization organiza-tion Of courts the Cummings company com-pany Is focused in a very bright light through lecol1e lions of Walter Edwards I I Ed-wards an actor of great t versatility William Ingcrsoll George Edeson Blanche Bates Rebecca Warren Jennie I Jen-nie Kcnnark and theotlvtr strong mem beis of the old Grand stock Never In the old days howevcir was a play f mounted more prettily or completely than was The Gilded Fool If the 1 present company does ijot rise to the heights of a Frohman ocr a Daly company com-pany It has tlc merits of being an I I even harmonious casyfworkingr one That is a sight better tlvin having one or two brilliant leaders and a do ell supporting sticky This week the Cummings Stock company com-pany moves to Ogden for three nights while Mrs Fiske is i appearing in the Orand here Ogden jvooplc will find it hotter than nine out of ten traveling at tiaclionu at their theater For the last three nights of tin wcok the Company will be heard In Salt Lake in Captain Swift which will be recalled as one of the Do of lh Frawley Stock com panys production O 4 When last year turned l out a big moneymaker for Wngenhals Kcmper the proposition was picscnted them of undertaking a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream on a I scale of scenic splendor such as Mary Anderson and lfqurj Irving had given Shnl spare in I Lnpdon as Richard Mansileld had attmptd on one or two occasions ijrNcu York To bring out A Midsummer Nights Dream on tho metropolitan stage wus a costly and venturesome experiment After its I success there the problem of taking it across the continent was equally risl risky David Henderson with his wonderful t extravaganza of ten years ago In npltc of enormous business had broke in trying to gone carry his big pro duction across the Rockies to the coast Joseph it Grismer found after his trip to the Pacific with Humanity notwithstanding he secured business s that steadily tested the capacity of theaters I he barely came out even It was tempting fate for Wagcnhals Xemper to repeat the experiment but I they have bee leaping by bounds in the theprofesslon profession and were anxious to sur pass all their previous efforts A Mid pummor Nights Dream will prove hr every respect a dream the gorgeous weenie embellishment the ballets the Electrical and color effects approaching a gorgeous extravaganza while the acting will bo on the same high order Ks that seen In A School for Scandal Tind uA Winters Tale No one can accuse Wagenhals Kempcr of evolv ing a Spectacular scheme for the nt tho eye expense of real acting Louis Barnes and Kathryn Kidder are too well established to leave any question ns to their histrionic abilities Miss jKIdder appears in the play as Helena the lovelorn maid wlilte Louis James will bo seen as Bottom the the role being brought into weaver prominence great One of tho novelties of the per formance will be the Incidental music which accompanies the play nearly all of the famous Mendelssohn score being used There wIll be dances revels the Joriglnal songs will be sung and a com plete revival In every particular given It will come close tq being a spectacu lar exhibition of Shakespeare Ot the yarloua lnbnr3 ton Bottlners tbft 4 L J c first will be an interior showing the palace of the Duke of Athens The second sec-ond will show the interior of the shop of Peter Quince the carpenter The third act Is in the wood representing I fairy land Here the most wonderful I i effects of the production are shown 1 The picturesque foliage under which fairies and mortals mingle with its I lights and shades will dazzle the eye At the close of this net there will bo a gorgeous representation of the barge of Theseus behind which there is tt I moving panorama of oOO feet in length The last act returns to the palace of the Duke the play concluding with a fairy revel It Is only necessary to add I that the costuming furnished by Hermann the best in this work that America affords while the scenery was painted by Alexander Corbdtt I I The supporting company Is that 1 which assisted James and Kidder in their revivals A School for Scandal Scan-dal and A Winters Talc with the addition of about others A large ballet and chorus are carried with the organization 0 On Saturday night the Immense quantity of stage scenery and properties proper-ties used In A c Midsummer Nights Dream will be remoed from the Theater to permit a production of Richard III there being considerable special demand for this tragedy Louis James will be seen as Richard Norman Nor-man Hackett Jane Oaker inn Brooks Thomas Coffin Cook James Ryan Ethel Browning and Ashley Miller ae In the support The two plays which Mrs Flake presents pre-sents at the tGrand this week are the climax and the triumphs of a long and successful career Sirs Fiskcs life on the stage in its wide range and steady success has in some ways been a parallel paral-lel of Richard Mansfields who has traversed everything from comic opera to Shakespeare and Rostand Mrs Flsko first appeared here in 1S83 in Foggs Ferry and Wild Wave She again appeared here In the fall of 18S9 In plays entitled In Spite of All and Feather and Rain She was the first player the writer saw after his arrival In Salt Lake and her play In Spite of All II was more deeply Impressed by reason of the queer selection of the title There was nothing the entire piece to suggest such a title until the curtain was about to drop on the final act when this dialogue closed the performance I per-formance And you still love me In spite of all c Go e Minnie Maddern who had played In such plays as Caprice and A Messenger Mes-senger from Jarvis Section married Harrison Giey Flske editor of the Dramatic Mirror and for a series of years retired from the stage except at occasional Intervals to appear In some worthy charity or ns the exponent of some highly artistic delicate play which was beyond the bounds of moneymaking Since her professional icturn to the footlights she has become known as one of the great actresses of the world From kittenish cute bewitching be-witching little Minnie Maddern now singing a fetching song now fascinating fascinat-ing an audience In a Lotta sort of way she has developed as the exponent of the greatest and best of drama Of her two plays Becky Sharp will prove the more popular as Itis a transfer to the stage of Thackerays clever calculating heroine of Vanity Fair Noymig finer exists In histrionic his-trionic art however that her Tess of the dUrbcrvlllos one of those weird strange indescribable characterizations characteriza-tions which fascinates and benumbs at the same time Mrs Flsk v as is pretty well known is compelled appear Iii theaters which are not under the control con-trol of what is known as the Theatrical Theatri-cal Syndicate which controls the best houses of the land No greater tribute to her power can be offered than the fact that though appearing In museums muse-ums lecture halls and all sorts of odd rooms not controlled by the syndicate she never falls to draw the full en parity pari-ty of these Places at prices whh h but few attractions hue the temerity to charge She is uL wonderful artist as Salt Luke will testify the coming weekS S a c Coincident with Mrs Flakes appearance 1 < appear-ance in Suit Lake comes nous from New Voile of a big sensation in whleh the war Harrison lucy j Flske has been waging against the trust is brought into new prominence Henrietta Cross man who like Jennie Kcnnark sprung Into prominence a single night thlM year in New York is the central figure in the sensation Last summer in Denver Den-ver Miss C lOFsman appeared In a new play called Mistress Nell On Octo her yth last IJss Crossman got a Hear lag for borscht and the play in the 33IJou theater New York and the at i tcntion and praise bestowed upon her would according to a leading commen tator exceed that accorded Bern hnrdl Coquelln Maude Adams Viola Allen Joseph Jefferson or Richard Mansfield From the Dijon theater Miss Crossman went to the Savoy On last Saturday night Miss Cross man appeared before her Savoy audience audi-ence and In a speech trembling with feeling declared the theatrical syndicate syndi-cate was trying to crush her She claimed that the syndicate was persecuting perse-cuting her because It was interested in Ada Rehan who was giving Sect Nell of Old Drury a very similar drama dra-ma and that the syndicate was trying to shut her out of its houses as it had shut Mrs Fiske out The members of the syndicate rich cule the Idaa that they have any grievance against lJh Crossnmn or have attempted In any way to injure her They say Miss Crossmans speech was the result of a pet because the manager of the Savoy theater forbade her maid to run from the stage to the auditorium to the annoyance of pa trons of the house The Dramatic News organ of the theatrical syndi i cate has this comment to make on tho sensation which has filled the columns I of the New York Yorkdamcs for several I days If any one has interest enough to sift this matter to the bottom he will find that the editor of the Mirror Mr Finite has been Riving Mr Campbell Miss CiOBsmans husband advice oojnim1 iinvicu and if he puts two and two together will find that Miss Grossmans speech at H the Savoy theater was in keeping l with speeches Mr Fiske made before the footlights a few years nco Jtlooks SIN I I I If Miss Crossnmn Is after the same kind of advertising Mrs Fiskcs managers I mana-gers used In exploiting her Outof town newspaper men Jo not need to be told this because they know that the same methods employed to advertise Mrs FlBkc are being utilized for the beneJit of Miss Crossman The syndicate certainly did not force Miss Crossmun to send lur ultimatum to Mr Anrons about the forbidden use of the door from the Stage to the auditorium i audi-torium by her servant in the livery of service nor did it Impel her to make her undignified announcpincnl and close the Savoy Saturday night Mli iras > Grossman did what no other actresS has dared to do In New York city and that Is she deliberately insulted her nudlenoo by dismissing It under a pre textso trivial and unfair that she would have been hissed and hooted hud the realtruth been known to the people peo-ple she so selfishly Inconvenienced I Between the contentions oC Miss Grossman and those of the syndicate It Is very hard to arrive at a fair undcr standing of the merits oC the situation Certain Jt Is however that this latest episode accentuates the war which has been going on between syndicate and antisyndicate forces STAGE CHOWCHOW The Bostonians came as farNycsl as Denver and then turned eastward One of their leading ladles died of pneumonia pneu-monia in Denver f C 0 Way Down last begins a two weeks production at the Columbia theater tomorrow Joseph R Grismer went direct from New York to superintend super-intend the production At Los Angeles I the receipts of tIe play averaged 1G50 for each performance 0 Blanche Aldrach a Salt Lake City girl who for more than two years has been playing leading roles in opera farcecomedy and repertoire will return re-turn to her home Tuesday next Miss Aldrach Is the daughter of Mr and Mrs C W Aldrach 0 S C There arc more versions of Nell Gwynne on the stage of the land than one can shako a stick at In New York I there are lwoNcJl Gwynne plays running at the present lime in San Francisco there are two more The i New York productions are listed as trust and antitrust Henrietta Grossman being in the latter category Ada Rehan In the former 0 u The press agents have been getting in some tall whoppers the past week in the Interest of their stars Frank n leIs was reported married a second time which of course he promptly denied de-nied and May Irwin was credited with an intention to build an apartment apart-ment house for bachelors Next C 44 The Ralph E Cummings Stock company com-pany received in offer the past week from Moroscos Grand operahouse San Francisco to play there at the close of the Salt Lake season o o S A most Interesting series of reminiscences reminis-cences appears in McClures Magazine from the pen of Clara Morris o 03 Every seat was occupied the aisles jammed and even the lobby fairly well I filled at the matinee of the Cummings company at the Grand yesterday U V S Fully 1000 people listened to the organ recital In the Tabernacle yesterday arid Che custodian of the building estimates that twothirds of them were strangers At the close of the recital proper many of those in attendance thanked Prof McClellan personally and at their request re-quest he played several of their fa vorito melodies I St Pauls choir will render today Shelleys beautiful anthem The King of Love My Shepherd is Karl Schcld will sing thc solo parts A ROYAL FAMILY A Comedy of Romance Miss Cross mans DefiLatest Salt Laker New York Jan 5Annle Russell is enjoying one of the longest runs of the winter In A Royal Family by Capt R Marshall A Royal Family has frequently been termed the prettiest play of the season And welltermed too The programme calls it a comedy come-dy of romance which strikes one as rather happy combination of words for Ho description The scenes are laid in a portion of that mythical land in which Anthony Hope was the pioneer and Into whose realms many have followed fol-lowed him not always successfully The characters in A Royal Family are fanciful in name but are reasonably reason-ably familiar In speecn and actions so that from under the mask of their mythical personalities they direct many a subtle spear of wit at the weaknesses of the present day Louis VH King of Arcacia has decided that his capricious daughter Angela must marry the Crown Prince of a neighborIng neighbor-Ing country In order to avert a threatened threat-ened war Angela is filled with romantic roman-tic notions about Prince Charm In and Romeo and other Imaginary beings known In uptodutc parlance as the right man and will have none of an unknown quantity So she flies in the face of her father a wooden king whoso gentlemeninwnltinpr supply him with his opinions his speeches his memory his wOl sand in short his mind However just when the clouds are the thickest seemingly his eminence emi-nence the Cardinal of Caron comes lo the rescue with a plot so worthy and clever that but maybe they had oaidl nals gifted with such broad vision In Aicocla At army rate he plans to have the Prince wlio is young and handsome hand-some introduced at court as Count Bernadine Amid the uuict and romantic roman-tic surroundings the Kings beautiful MI miner home the Cardinal hopes that the two will learn to love each other naturally and thus further the diplomatic diplo-matic nlans without dlfiieulty Of course the Princess falls Into the net which Is spread for her nub she allow herself to love l Count Bernadine in spite of the fact that she knows all the time she must in the end marry the Prince The audience is In the secret and enjoys her perplexities and heartaches heart-aches extremely All during the cijurt shIp there are indescribably i pretty scenes and situations The final scene shows the court assembled in state to witness the bptrothal ceremony of the Princess Angela to Prince Victor Angela believing that she is now to meet in the person of del future hus band a man whom she has never seen does not raise her eyes until the ceremony cere-mony Is over When she does she sees a face which although shorn of Itsj mustache looks strangely familiar Her look of sadneFs changes to one of perplexity then slowly to one of supreme su-preme Joy and the I curtain falls Not one word Is spoken during the entire BCPIIP and the fleet Is fine Miss Russell Rus-sell has Jn the PVlnctMWj Angela a part which suits her dainty style to perfection perfec-tion and she Is eminently successful In I that she makes her wayward cayrl I cious and childish but always the Princess Another actress in New York J tried to do that this season but In her I I childishness always became hopelessly bourgeolse The two shining lights I In Miss Russells support are Mrs Til bert and Yo II Thompson It would bo difficult to Imagine any thing more perfect more finished in every detail than dear old Mrs Gil berts portrayal of the Queen Dowasrcr The part is Intended to bo that of a meddlesome old woman but Mrs Gil bert makes any part lovable She has a line which nightly receives applause showing the love and esteem in which she is held by theatergoers It la Although I am old and faded It is possible pos-sible that my features still remind you in some slight way of my former beau tv The line la uttered with the arrogance arro-gance and vanity which the author In tomlid but the audience anulles It to Mrs Gilbert personally and expresses Its sentiments accordingly Mr Thompson does a piece of superb work in the Cardinal and Is made up to look like he had Just stepped out of one of the fine pictures Mr Orrin Johnson who plays Prince Victor ful I lllls his part by looking handsome He has no opportunity to do other than conventional work The piece has still I several weeks to run maldng It one of I the seasons record makers J I There was anile a stir at the Savoy I i I b theater lost night When It was time for the curtain to rise Miss Cro > man I appeared before it costumed for the part of Nell Gwyn and announced that she had been hounded to the limit I of endurance by the theatrical syndicate syndi-cate and was too nervous nnd 111 to give the performance The audience J applaudid her vigorously Then the manner of the house appeared at The other end of the curtain and atftrnpted to make hlH statement but was hissed I down Of course both sides made statements state-ments to the reporters contradicting each other and the upshot of time mat r ter Is that the people in the audience had their money refunded at the box olllce and the New Yorlc season of Miss Crossman whose success has been one of the sensations of the year has come to nn abrupt close unless her husband manager Mr Campbell can arrange affairs with the offending cowers that be S C S The latest Salt Lake acquisition to professional ranks Is Miss Sallie Fisher who Is singing with Henry Dlxcy In his new opera entitled Tho Burgomaster |