| Show I 1 J P i I it i > t J j1iv t I 7 µ 1f 1 11 11H r I t U i f 4 y G i t j Tills Tt rccltSn1t Lake Theater dark I Sunday band concert Sunday Grand Hclda Bar Z Ranch of the evening Jess etilbndaS Tuesday and Wednesday IVlbnday M III matinee evenings and Wednesday of Thursday Friday Henrys minstrels and Saturday evenings with Friday I and Saturday matinees 0D > iI I Last night when the Theater curtain dropped it went down for a two I weeks rest With the canceling of the engagement of The Girl From Paris I Is left without an I company the house Tho time to come attraction for some to secure a management is trying I booking oC some kind for Tlmnk ginS I g-inS afternoon and evening as It I is i rec j ognised as one oC the best days of tile i I I I year for business in Salt Lake A magnificent mag-nificent business has been done at the Theater in the past five or six weeks I During that time hardly a night has I been missed and heavy patronage has been the rule With all styles of plays barring of course the few which nave I been really unworthy of patronage I business has been good Playgoers J I generally will welcome the rest and after the breathing spell will turn out I even more eagerly for the good things Mr Pyper has In I store r a I or the promising young stars working work-ing for recognition from American I playgoers Minnie Tittle Bruno Is among the prominent representative ones bEcr engagement at the Theater the past wcelt gave her salt Lake I friends a better Idea of her wide scope in artistic accomplishments It was a genuine treat to witness the I fervor with which she entered into the j interpretation of Sardous Theodora Theo-dora Not once during the four nights engagement did Mrs Brune slight her work and the role was played each evening with the same earnestness that characterized her opening performance Toward the end of the engagement the play was cut i but while Mrs Brune was on the stage her whole effort was in bringing out the I part in hand It may surprise patrons j of her performance to know that during dur-ing her engagement here she was carried car-ried from the stage In a dead faint after her strong scene in the vault beneath be-neath the Hippodrome Mrs Brune is naturally of a very high strung nervous ner-vous temperament and the tension on I her nerves resulted in her swooning The city was cheated and the papers imposed upon by the management in I substituting air Sturgeon for Mr Brune In the part of Andreas Not that the interpretation as given was not so strong as It might have been In the hands of Mr Brune but the idea l of deceiving is reprehensible L Even when the management did Etate toward the close of the engagement engage-ment that Mr Brune was not Jn the cast the assertion was made that he was In Boise Ida which too was not a feet as air Brune arrived in I i Salt Lake Monday evening and remained re-mained here during the engagement of t the company i e Y I Jess of the Bar Z Ranch which was originally written for the late Belle Archer vill be presented for the last half of the present week at the Grand with Miss Alice Archer in the title role The scenes of the play are I I laid among the cattle ranges along the Rio Pecos in New Mexico and thft pIece was written by Forbes Heer mans Briefly the story of the play concerns the systematic robbery from Col Maylleld of vast numbers of cat tle by his halfbreed foreman Qulgg I i and the timely arrival of his daughter Jessie Mayfield from the East She discovers the stale of affairs and at once assumes the management of the J ranch and from that time forward I there is a struggle between the Mexican i Mexi-can and herself for control In this she is assisted by several characters I but chiefly by James Spencer ono of Roosevelts rough riders Between the two there Is a strong yet pretty love story which ends with the overthrow I of the Mexican and his suicide In a manner at onco novel 1 and startling In the Northwest where the play has I been appearing It haH been given very complimentary notices I u ot o II For the latter half of the week Man ager Mulvey has an attraction which ought to fill hln house to capacity every night Hi Henry played an en gagement at the Grand sometime ago i and proved the strongest minstrel nt racllon ever seen al that house He had the phenomenal run of two weeks This year it is claimed air Henry has I a better company thai before There P t are a number of entirely new acts that will be Introduced among which r i I arc J Probst Imitator of song birds I little Viola Abt tae dancer and soup sou-p brctte the comedian Billy Clarlc the I Inglng comedians Ilanvey and Cooley the dancing comedians Corrigan Corri-gan and Dove Cook and Hall musical I comedians HOT Canute Lovstrom I Swedish basso and the acrobatic stars the Brothers Bard HI Henry himself will render cornet solos The manage ment announces what they term An Automobile parade each day Just what the parade is remains to be seen 4 Co Another branch in dramatic work has been established J Salt fiake this time In the shape of a standard fenc ing school which hUH been opened in the Hooper Eldredge building The school so far Is for la ladles and Is an J innovation which has proved popular I In many of the Eastern cities It Is understood that the system used Is I I that in vogue at TOIl1lllcle Pont France While partiqulars of the school are meager It Is a branch of work which interests stage folk o a a Someone should be blessed for adopt I ing the green Rights i on the Theater I orchestra lamps The bright lights which the musicians have required In the past have been a source of annoy ance as well an an actual discomfort to playgoers While all else was dark I these lights have stood out between t audience and players greatly marring I I the effect of the play 1ho trouble has not yet been entirely overcome but the green light hi I a step In the I I I right direction to a a I The question of prices charged by various attractions has been the theme of so much comment from time to time that it ccema like redundancy toagaln broach the subject The business of In Old Kentucky which has Just finished three performances In Salt Lake City ought to be an object lesson to any company In douht as lo the ex pediency of putting admission rat s I within reach of the people The num I I her of occasions In which the public I I In a city like Suit Hake will go down Into its pockets for more than a dollar j dol-lar for a show are few and far bet the attraction I Iwecn To exceed that amount traction must be something of the extraordinary ex-traordinary There seems to be a prevalent idea however In the minds of managers of Inferior attractions that by sticking a hlghpt iced label upon their goods they can make the public believe that the attraction I i equals thom which really merit the better prices For instance some I weeks ago the Casino Girl appeared here at 150 prices The public was fooled once and there the fooling ended j end-ed The three subsequent performances perform-ances went to almost empty scats Had the attraction come to Salt Lake City at dollar rates appealed to the popular I lar taste and made a cheap rate for its matinee It would have taken twice aa much money at the box ofllee as by charging the > 0 per cent advance getting get-ting one good house and playing to three poor audiences subsequently Later Shore Acres an attraction far excelling In merit The Casino Girl appeared at popular prices and for three performances had scarcely an empty seal anywhere As a mater of fact people liked Shore I Aeres and In Old Kentucky far boter than they did The Casino Girl or Theodora Theo-dora yet the llrst two were seen at dollar prices while the latter two charged advanced admission The Name story Is told by other towns farther far-ther to the north notably Boise and Portland When a star like Mary Mannerlng or a combination like l the ModjcskaJames combination comes people are perfectly willing to pay extra ex-tra admission because the goods are worth the price It Is I not InfreQuent however that companies charging 5150 in Salt Lake go to San Francisco and play at 100 prices and some of them even at 50 cents admission I STAGE CHOWCHOW 1 Maude Adams has scored another success in her production of Quality StreeL The play was wrItten by J M Barrio i a The PolUfrd Juvenile Opera company which Is bwoked for the Salt Lake Theater The-ater has made a great bit at the Tivoll San Francisco e Kathryn Kldder started her tour in Molly Pitcher last night In Elizabeth Eliza-beth N J t a o Ben Hur has lad an eleven weeks engagement at Chicago where the receipts re-ceipts went near the 200000 mark o o The Bostonians have a new opera Maid Marian by Ham B Smith and Reginald Do Koven The opera was given its initial performance at Philadelphia Phila-delphia and will be used on the tour of the company a ii I Jessie Bartlett Davis continues at the lop in vaudeville work She has a number of new songs which have caused a furore o a d Edwin Milton Royle and Setina Fetter Royle are headliners of a vaudeville bill at the Duquesne theater New York presenting a version 01 Captain Impudence Im-pudence Sf o f Utah has a Bar Z Ranch being situated sit-uated on the road between Price and Fort Duchesne The title comes from the cattle brand used which is a bar placed over the letter Z t > U Both theaters were packed yesterday afternoon In Old Kentucky bringing out one of the largest matinee audiences l audi-ences of the season |
