| Show l lt J l rri 11 r r 6 00 X yr 1 r lc I fCo tt 1 tI I I jjjr r r This week Salt UR Theatcr Dan Lord and company In Lor iel Prowley and comp Lady Altry 1 Monday n I s 1 11l Thc Only Way Tuesday night I Brothel ora The matlnec cars Wednesday n C Primrose Liars 1Vcdnesday night Dockstadcr IInslrcl I daY and Sat t urday nights and Saturday alernoan I lt DollY r Grand Band cocet d TrIngle Monday Tuesday anc11 Tchurs ITaecrly lllnstrels 7 hurs I day nlghls day nighdts and SalUrdaY nights It t i4 i Now that cold weather I ma be said to have played its lert en r afTcmcnt Sfilled dates we filled its and snow to have I 1l0w of patronage i I may look I for steady toward the theaters SomehoW people inside a theater as never feel so good nfler It is thoroughly uncomfortable outside Snappy crisp fill always amusementgoers If Perchance starts am < thc drizzle and the slush joint I the Pro gramme every place of entcllalnment js sure to be packed The past week was made noteworthy i not only by the first evidences of real i ° winter In Salt Lake but also 1 by the engagement p 1 en-gagement of Jefferson DeAngells In i r The Royal Rogue Though known by amc to all operalovers DeAngolls was an unknown quantity to nlnetynine t k hundredths of Salt Lakers and K ° JJ ii dear experience people have learned tot to-t f j light shy of untried entertainers The oj performance of The Royal Rogue electrllled the llrstnlght audience and > word was swiftly passed through the r r city that one of the best things In months was on the boards Theodora t Theo-dora Is the nearest approach we have had to this production and Theodora 1 Theo-dora pales beside It Not only Is Mr if eAngells a wonderfully clever and ingenious Ito in-genious comedian but he has every Moment r Mo-ment of delicious comic opera In which 1 t to navigate The composition Itself was tuneful and ere t ° ded with catchy 1 conceits from the brain of the creator the libretto was appetizing I and the orchestra I or-chestra was directed by the man who wrote the music As for the singers they were In voice and action one of i i the best comic opera donipanJcs that 3 has appeared here 1C attractions of > this caliber were the rule there would be less reason for flnding any fault with bookings v a < rt Two minstrel shows playing simultaneously 1 simul-taneously In Salt Lake make a situation t situa-tion highly interesting The fact that one of them bears the name of Haverly f recalls the days when Haverly was alive and at the head of the famous organization lii x or-ganization which helti the palm ofmln strelsy At that time minstrel fights were the thing Haverly was determined deter-mined to have the whole field to himself r him-self and took great pains to secure the same dates that his rivals had Then he papered the cities to be visited until one would have thought a circus was coming to town WJth his 1 magnificent magnifi-cent band and his extraordinary Y control L of the best blackcoik talent Haverly r could easily draw away from his com I petitors Where he could not secure the same dates he would nevertheless i plaster windows and walls with the in rl junction Walt for JJaverlys Min Y K strels It was the liveliest kind of war n for several seasons and Col Jack Ha tf e verly never lost a trick He forced one a tp after another opponent to the wall I and lj d never knew that retreat meant him r self until he attempted speculation In mines when the profits of minstrelsy ii rapidly disappeared The present Ha i verly Minstrels J are those which leased the name of Haverly before the death iy in this city of the Colonel several weeks S ago Ii Ie 4 t 1 The Primrose and Dockstader min strels which cpme to the Theater dur 1 ing the latter part of the ensuing week Is one of the L more prominent companies In this line of work Both tt Primrose and Dockstader have for fL f years slon been In the lead of their pi oft s Docksto del 1 owned and operated l a 7r theater of his for own In New York city years Hla specialty is a u that of an Improviser r h er and a treater of t Iea l f sub topical I subjects j Primrose r has become so weB rt known to the country that almost ev > cry schoolboy feels a personal ac quaintance with him He was the co partner of Billy West In Prlmiose d Wests minstrels and the two became l noted for their joint work as a clog l dancing team fM This year Mr Primrose thinks he ctti has something that is an improoment over even the Primrose and West i j dancers He has with him 1 couple clog I of Irish lads from Brooklyn who have tlW e created a furor as clogdanccis Prim of lose has trained theae in the style i of dancing made popular b by Primone u isi and West There are now two great tt minstrel companiesThe companies The 1nmroso t c lmot and Itc Dockstader I it i and the William Vst or ganizations Primrose clings more to t the old traditions than does his f rmer 2 I partner West In fact the acpanulon of the two was attributed to a t 1 ue seater lIon Jt of policy as to whether the min a ly strel buslnebs thould virtually change Into I the vaudeville show or or vholhiT N the darky characteristics should be maintained 11 u M t The week at the 1 Grand o yens opens I with r the Jolly Delia f Prlngle company The lJ repertoire for their f be engagement Is to Monday The Princess 3 of Purls t Tuesday Faust Wednesday atria Y matinee East Lynne and ht Wednesday night r the Pulse of New York The com pany carries its own orchestra and a band They have been traveling through Interior towns of Utah for some time J C t a 6 6 f Havcrlys Mastodon minstrels I fill il the hist i three rights of the week at the Gland They have been playing I recently In California where their en t gagement at the California theater Is i said to have 9 drawn the capacity of the a f house George Wilson lIson is chief come tr dian Ills particular 0 business which j attracts greatest attention Is his monologue work In this he Is alto gather unique i Mr Wilsons assistant funmakcra are Dan Allman a clever young come r dian the Young family Mazier 1 er and r r Conic Marlon and Pearl Garden and it Somers f r Eddie McGluc and a bunch of C others The vocal soloists f spoken of by the press and are Include i highly George Morgan male alto direct from Mooro S Burgeass minstrels St Jamess hall London ISnglund Joseph Bury lyric tenor Harry Richards baritone Edwin Platt basso The com pany carries a complete brass band 1 and orchestra The orchestra Is under H the leadership of Claude Menace and Mr Frances Southcrland who has charge of the celebrated HaVerly Con j cert band and has won distinction in t the music world asa director and composer com-poser The first part set 1 represents a magnolia mag-nolia grove and the costuming is described de-scribed as very pretty and appropriate The olio Is exclusively made up ot minstrel specialties and Includes Garden Gar-den and Sonars a musical team and II the Young family A matinee will be given on Saturday e t l The return of Frawley to Salt Lake with his company will be looked upon as a sort of homecoming There Is not It Is true a single member of the company aside from Mr Frawley himself him-self who was a member of the Fraw ley company here orglnally A number num-ber of that original organization have climbed to the top rounds of the theatrical ladder Mr Frawley himself him-self has been a wonderful drillmaster and the aspirant for stage honors could find no school where the trainIng train-Ing would greatly excel Unit received in Fniwlcyfi oiganlzatlon It Is not necessary to refer to Blanche Bates as an Illustration Twenty lesser examples ex-amples testify to his ability as a preceptor pre-ceptor in dramatic art A secret of Mr Frawleys success In developing latent talent is that he has a high Ideal and Is a hejlever In thjC dignity ot his profession Take Fraw ley and Harry Corson Clarke by way of contrast Clarke in splto of the fact that he has ieal dramatic Instinct has not the loftiest motives In his work Frawley on the other hand puts heart and soul Into his work and accomplishes accom-plishes results by painstaking conscientious con-scientious effort Another thing Fraw ley is distinctively a 1ie11everin I thorough thor-ough staging lie 1 a lavish spender for artistic results He Js a believer In good plays and pays large royalties royal-ties for exclusive dramas The opening bill Is Lord and < Lady Algy by R C Carton author of Lady 1 lluntsworths Experiment Wheels Within Wheels Liberty Hall and other stnge creations that I have achieved fame It Is upon his work In Lord and Lady Algy however how-ever that the reputation of the clever t English dramatist chiefly depends Its f I first London production proved one of the most remarkable events In stage annals that city and its later presentation pre-sentation by Charles Frohman at the Empire theater New York duplicated dupli-cated the London triumph of the piece Very few changes have been made in the company since here last A recent addition to the force Is Blanohe Doug las a charming actress who will be cast for the Juvenile roles The stage settings are elaborate and In excellent taste The costuming is de ilguer and the gowns of Miss Van Buren arc dreams t Mir Frawley will be supported by the following company Miss Mary Van Buren Blanche Douglas MInctte Barret Phosa McAllister Christine I Hill Lillian Branscombe Margaret VIoIHT Harrington Reynolds J R Amory Frank Mathieu Wallace Shaw H S Duflleld Herbert Ashton Regl > nald Travcrs Ernest RIverz Roy Stev enson and others Lord and Lady Algy will be presented pre-sented for Monday night only and will he followed on Tuesday by The Only Way a dramatization by Freeman wills of Charles Dickens novel of the French Revolution uA Tale of Two Cities The special matinee Wednesday Wednes-day will be devoted to the threeact comedydrama Brother Officers by Leo Tiavor Wednesday nllht will close the engagement of the company I and the play offered will be Henry Arthur Ar-thur Joness clever comedy The Liars 6 10 The University Dramatic club has jfor I the past month been actively engaged en-gaged rehearsing The Schoolmistress Schoolmis-tress a catchy threeact comedy by Arthur W Pinero The play will be presented in the Salt Lake Theater December De-cember 19th The members of the club have dls tll1b nshed themselves in I their past ef fOr and arc quite well 1 and favorably known to theatergoers Among tho plavs the members of the club havf been seen in befoj are = A Box of ronlcysA Happy Pair Pygmalion and fJalateiu A Scrap 6C Paper hndLrhC Weaker Sex T STAGE CHOWCHOW Nance ONell and her company gave a benefit performance for the Soldiers Comforts fund at the Good Hope theater I the-ater Capetown South Africa on Oc tober 19th The play was Magda in which Miss ONell scored a decided success u Hcnrik Ibsen Is gradually growing weaker under his malady A dispatch from Copenhagen last Thursday bays he Is now unable to walk and that all hope for his recovery has been abandoned aban-doned 8 UUinche Bates was discharged on Saturday from Grace hospital Detroit where she was 111 jvlth typhoid fever for six wojtks MissBates will return to New York but probably will not act again this sca onto a on-to o Helen McGregor has been engaged to succees Cecelia Loftus In E H Soth = eras company Miss Loftus will Join Sir Henry Irvlngs company 0 0 A Washington dispatch says that Sol Smith Russell who has been ill for along a-long time is a victim of locomotor ataxia and never will be able to act again i f rho James Nell company opens tomorrow to-morrow night In Honolulu r o I > The report that Maurice Barrymorc was dying at a sanitarium at Amity vllle L I has been denied It Is now stated that Mr Barrymorcs health is i improving An idea of how much an actor can I lose In England is gathered from the suit of E R Reynolds against the backers of De Wolf Hoppers Opera company The amount Involved Is over 11000 to o Minnie Maddern Fiskcs new play The Unwelcome Mrs Hatch Is said to have about the same effect upon an audience as Camille and East Lynne A minstrel show without all the members mem-bers Indulging In a cakewalk The local production company H boys will go down In the annals of thc atrlcalism with a fervent benediction I The spell Is broken Long may it remain I re-main so |
