Show 1 o ° 1 i o lyf i Vd ytt r 0 J r f I cscj r 1 b rha 1 o c o cf i At u 1 1 0 d 4 o it I v s t a tio c I 000 am This Week Salt Lake Theater Phil Margetlss benefit Friday evening Grand Whose Baby Are You all week 4 The loss of life Grau Opera company is one that Salt Lake hns good reason to regret and yet the grief > of the town can be very well tempered by the extremely < ex-tremely highhanded coldblooded contemptible treatment which the managers man-agers of that organization have extended ex-tended our people It Is always a matter of uncertainty as to who has i charge and who is responsible for the I nets cf a company of this kind There seems such a retinue of managers as Blstant managers and resident managers j mana-gers connected with these grand operas I that one never knows who Is directing air affair of the Jdnd In the present instance there appears to have been a surfeit of people who assumed the authority au-thority to make contracts and bind Salt Lake parties to agreements and yet when it came to a question of unceremoniously un-ceremoniously canceling the whole engagement en-gagement it was accomplished by Mr Stralwsh telephoning a hotel man in Salt Lako to tell the Theater management manage-ment that they would give us the goby go-by Salt Lakers still have a very vivid r recollection of the abominable treatment by the Jlelba people on the I occasion of the prima donnas appearance appear-ance at the Tabernacle two years ago when a fellow named Lee Wilson came along with all sorts of pretty promises which he took no pains to keep Wilson Wil-son worked the town to the Queens taste including the local managers and the Tabernacle choir Melba gave a f finish to the process by expressing in I language not usually used by ladles her opinion of the choir its leader and Salt Lake generally On that occasion a committee In compliment to Melba went up to Ogden to meet her but the prima donna treated them contemptuously contemptu-ously There seems to be around the whole operatic business a spirit of cold blooded commercialism yet an utter disregard for the obligations which I commercialism usually brings These prima donnas seem to bel farmed out and farmed and farmed i again until the public who arc called r upon to foot the bills have no comprehension compre-hension of whom they are dealing with Lucky It was that the local dealer who received the money for tickets to the Grau concert was a responsible party who held onto the cash and returned It to the public when the engagement was so percmptorully canceled The amount of work done in connection with the I affair is something enormous and tho local lieutenants have not so much as the lirst thing yet for their work The I home end of the affair Is always tho one to hold the bag while the managers man-agers with highsounding names and wonderful pretensions are the ones who profit by the transaction From the simple lecture bureau to the Hop H-op ratlc organization of the world tine one principle seems to be to work the public for a lot of suckers and laugh when the game is over j The Frawley company will be with us a week hence starting with Secret I Service which Is their opening bill everywhere Besides this thpcompany will be seen In The Great Jftuby and The Sporting Duchess All three plays arc sulllclent to make the mouths of theatergoers water in pleasant anticipation an-ticipation Mr Frawley has always maintained high ideals and secured the very best plays to present his audiences audi-ences While his royalties must be heavy this expense Is well repaid by the patronage which such plays naturally natur-ally bring If the public has seen a play two or Three thousand times It Is to be expected that it feels weary when I I the same piece Is again to presented Such pieces as East Lynne Camille I Ca-mille Pink Dominoes Esmcralda J make better fare for country audiences than for cities The company this year Is a larger one than Frawley has ever before carried car-ried and the productions are heavier than any previously attempted for Mr Frawley The Great Ruby itself requires I re-quires a small army of men and women I on the stage The only members of the i I present Frawley organization who have been in Salt Lake with Frawley previously l I pre-viously arc H S Duffleld Phosa Mc Allister and F K Matthews Wallace Shaw who plays the part of Fduche In Mme Sans Gene was herewlth Kathryn Kidder when she gave us that exquisite Napoleonic play V The only Theater attraction for the < L present week will be the testimonial for Phil Margetts the veteran actor next Friday evening This aifalr ought Ito I-to awaken the liveliest sort of public spirit In Salt Lake Phil Margetts was fifty years ago as popular with tho masses of Salt Lake theatergoers as Alice Nielsen was two weeks ago For a long series of years he has been off the stage except now and then ap paring In some benefit for public charity char-ity or In a benefit to some needy actor It Is I the custom In all cities to honor those who have In days past given their services for the diversion of the public Seldom it Is however that a fiftieth year of stage service can be I commemorated by any actor In spite of the fact that fifty years outspans the recollection of most theatergoers Phil Margf Ib 1 today strong hale and vigorous In token of their appreciation apprecia-tion and evidence of their good wishes the Salt Lake Opera company Ayill render ren-der nn act from one of their successful productions and a number of other I local favorites will appear In the entertainment en-tertainment The tender of this testimonial testi-monial came to Mr Margetts in the following fol-lowing letter signed by Presidents Snow Cannon and Smith Go Yells oxManager Charles S Burton and many other prominent people of the cityAs As this Is the Jubilee year of your dramatic service on tho Utah stage It seems to bo a fitting time for your many friends to give you a token of their respect and their memory ot your early appearances before the public pub-lic as an actor The undersigned therefore there-fore desire to tender you a complimentary I compli-mentary benefit and would be pleased I If I you would at as early a date as is convenient revive one of the plays In which you appeared before the Salt I Lake public association with as many of the oldllme performers as aro still able and willing to appear on the boards Cthc Salt Lake Theater We are sure that the public will be delighted delight-ed to see your face once more behind the footlights and to greet you as one who made merriment for them and chased away the gloom attending the trials Incident to pioneer life We recognize rec-ognize the fact that you were one of the first to organize a dramatic company com-pany In Utah and that now you are In I the fiftieth year of your dramatic experience ex-perience We request nn early response re-sponse to this Invitation that it may prove a fitting mark on the pages of your history J t This year the Grand has divided each i week between two attractions filling I the first three nights and a matinee with one and the latter half of the week with another In view of the fact that Whose Baby Are You Is out of the usual Mr Mulvey has booked It for an entire week The piece Is strict ly l a farce and must be differentiated from the numerous farce comedies which we have been having of late with such steady regularity Its author au-thor Is Mark E Swan who was writing I writ-ing it at the time he appeared here last year ns the author of that clever comedy I come-dy Browns In Town The story deals i with the adventures of a young artist I and his sweetheart a baby and a model The general trend of the play Is In line with Jane Wilkinsons I Widows and that order of highclass farces and deals with a Bohemian phase of life In the larger cities The company Is said to be a very strong I one headed by Mr Swan himself The baby has been a fertile cause of tribulations tribu-lations in farces presented on the American stage When not placed under I un-der surroundings of exact propriety the stage baby appears to be the cause j of endless anxiety Mr Swan Is tho I latest of farce writers to take advan loge of this fact and his production has met with singular success II e The engagement of Frederick Warde just closed has been a source of sorrow rather than disappointment to most of those who have attended the various performances It in hard to disassociate disasso-ciate an actor from a performance as most people are not given to differentiating differen-tiating and analyzing but only to judging an attraction In Its entirety sLar play company stage scenery costuming cos-tuming Inasmuch as Salt Lake Is distinctly a friend of Mr Wardo and has a very high estimate of his ability us a scholar a student and an artist It Is not Impudent to nskas so many I are asking What lo the trouble Without having any special insight Into Mr WrmKs affairs It may safely be set clown that lack of money Is responsible for the situation Mr Warde Is loo old and experienced an actor not to appreciate the advantages afforded a star of his own ability and fine discernment by a firstclass support I sup-port by beautiful stage settings and all those accessories which gIve atmosphere at-mosphere to a production But why does Mr Warde lack money it Is not a pleasant question to propound and I with most men would bring the reply None of your business It is however how-ever very apropos and essential to a proper I understanding of the subject matter Warde lacks money because ho lucks shrewd able business management man-agement In this day a star does not make himself management is at least half the success of every am action Many people Corlnno for instance have been made entirely by management manage-ment Alice Nielsen is the product of the most alert farseeing subtle business busi-ness management On the other hand Mr Wnrdes Lours look as If they were being managed by a lot of farm hands Actors and actresses Immeasurably his inferiors In every way are enjoying the I widest measure of prestige prosperity and prominence while Mr Warde Is I struggling with almost superhuman efforts I ef-forts to make amends for others shortcomings short-comings What a striking contrast between be-tween his present appearance and that of himself with Mr James and Miss I Kidder two short seasons ago Then ho had managementyoung men who knew how to exploit those rare qualities t quali-ties of Intellect and art which Wardo I I possesses who brought to his presentations presen-tations that mysterious atmosphere I which Is if 1 Intangible at least a most potent element of stage success Wag cnhals Kcmper were making money and lots of It from the enterprise Mr Warde had a feeling natural and proper prop-er enough that he should get a better I bet-ter share of ho returns than he was getting Unfortunately a star cant I handle both ends of his show and Mr Warde hasnt to dale got anyone who I supplies on the business end the same quality of goods he brings to the stage j Erratic management ruins earnest but Inefficient management retards and commonplace management brings commonplace com-monplace results The great successes of the theater today are very much the result of work on the part of people who are never heard of by the masses who flock to the places of amusement The public knows Alice Nielsen but It dont know Frank Perlcy it knows I Frank Daniels but It dont know Klrke La Shelle It knows James and Kidder Modjeska and Henry Miller but It dont know Wagcnhals C Kemper Yet Porley and La Shelle and Wagen hals C Kemper are ns vital to the success of the attractions as the noted players of the names wo mentioned Thero Isnt a star living with such artistic ar-tistic ability that he can survive continued con-tinued business iilefflclenoy on the part of management Mr Warda IB an exceptional artist In I that he knows the history and the phi losophy of his art and can present It with clearness gracefulness and terseness terse-ness to tL general audience He Is one of the happiest speechmakers f on the stage and what is to the point ho makes hits own speeches Most players give expression to sec phrases and prepared pre-pared responses At nn entertainment in response to a call they will nrlse and tell a funny anecdote or sing a song or recite a story which some one else has composed Warde is a thinker and can express his thoughts Every per formance in his Salt Lake engagement he had tai make a curtain speechnot once AU he taken at disadvantage nor did he once mar a situation by Inappropriate Inappro-priate remarks The students of the colleges tho members of art and literary lite-rary clubs who have been favored by Mr Wardew addresses have I learned more from him Shakespeare as he was In reality of his alms and accomplishments accom-plishments heed from cant than they have learned from all other legitimate players put together What a pity then that this gentleman scholar and artist should be deprived of the rewards which even mimics and superficial mouthers arc receiving To make the whole still more regret I table Mr Warde Is I employing as the chief of his repertoire a maudlin non descript comedy unworthy his talents distasteful to himself and disgusting to his warmest admirers a play that ap peals most to those who dont know anything about the ideals for which Mr Warde has strived and given his best energies The Dukes Jester I bears about the same relation to Wardes olher plays that a slopbucket does to a rosejar I STAGE CHOWCHOW I CHOWCHOW I I It Is definitely settled that Minnie Maddern Flske will appear at the I Grand her dates being January 1lth I lath and ICth Manager Kahlman of the Cummings Stock company will carry car-ry out tho contract made with her by Manager Mulvey 1 < > a Way Down East which will be seen in Salt Lake the coming month will go to London at the close of Its I American engagement this winter I This production Is a prodigious one and will show on the stage a collection I of cows horses sheep and calves which I will make people think they are In the midst of a country fair It Is one of the biggest pieces of theatrical property proper-ty on the road o Victory Bateman seems to be achieving achiev-ing much the same great success In PIttsburg that she did in Salt Lake on her first appearance here with the Grand Stock company The Pittsburg papers have columns about her As a singular coincidence William Inger soll who was leading man while Miss I Bateman was leading lady at the Grand here occupies the same relation with her at the Grand in Pittsburg Y w Phil Margctlss fiftieth stage anniversary anniver-sary will be celebrated this week David Henderson who used to be one of the bigbugs of the profession is now trying to exploit a new star Em met Devoy Miss Stone has been released from the Auditorium JSlock company Kansas I Kan-sas City and may come to Salt Lake I with Cummings A Maude Adams Is playing LAlglon In I English at the Knickerbocker theater and Sarah Bernhard Is giving tho same play in French at the Garden theater N < w York Both houses are nightly crowded with fashion and talent Those people who have been bewailing bewail-ing the fact that tho Grau Opera company com-pany canceled their grand opera engagement en-gagement here should remember that the Mat Grau Opera company will again be with UH M t V Edwin Milton Boyle Is writing sketches for the vaudeville stage His i latest IB The Professor Next Door r < < r Frederick Warde gave an excellent Interpretation In-terpretation of Hamlet yesterday Extraordinary as it seems for a matinee mati-nee uudlence the ladles called Warde before the curtain for a speech V o Nellie Ilowarth Nelle Clawson Ell Pierce Elias Woodruff and Mr McAl lister will support Phil Margetts In his coming benefit Prof Wolho will give I a violin solo the Salt Lake Opera company com-pany will render the second act ff The Chimes of Norrnnndy and a quartette from the Tabernacle choir will furnish musical selections MUSIC CHANTS I Music l In the churches will be as usual a feature of Christmas doTh a n The Eleventh WardOpera company has decided to repeat Queer Esther which was so successfully given during the summer time Three entertainments entertain-ments will bo given Tuesday Wednesday Wednes-day and Thursday evenings respectively respec-tively o The ladies of the First Methodist church are making arrangements for a musical to be given at the church in the near future I Y The organ recital at the Tabernacle yesterday was listened to by about a thousand people mostly of whom wsre strangers yet there were several Salt Lakers who seemed to < kern it worth their while to take an hour off even on a Saturday to hear the tones as developed by Prof McClellan Some of the notable numbers were the first movement of Beethovens E flat sonata so-nata the Mendelssohil wedding march and the Lemaro Andantino a At St Pauls church Hugh Dougall will sing The Holy City by request at this mornings service and Adamss The Light of the World at the evening even-ing service The choir will render Gounods anthem Praise Ye the Father u Miss Alice Bradley Kidwell and Mr J Augustus will sing 0 Morning Land at the morning service at the Central Christian church this morning The offertory solos both morning and evening will be sung by Miss Kldwell and will be The Heavenly Pathway and Toil and Rest f u Mrs Kate Bridewell Anderson returns re-turns from San Francisco today r The third in the series of monthly praise services at the First Congregational Congre-gational church will be given this evening at S oclock The choir consisting con-sisting of Mrs E J Jolly soprano Miss Susie Stewart alto Mr T IT Gilbert tenor Mr F R Sands bass will be assisted by Mr Fred C Graham Gra-ham They will use In the service the following selections AnthemO Sweetly Breathe the Lyres Above ChopinShelby trio Thou Shalt Love tho Lord Costa solo King of Eter nity Hartwell Jones duct fI Will Magnify Thee Mosenthal sojo Tho Angels Promise Behrend anthem J Wallace Tj5tvvior Source of Every Blessing |