Show n I I f f WME ll Ul I I 47Jfr I II I T I I J I I 1 I I I I I t J t II I t T mo2 1 L 3 1 J J Y J J f I I < t < It IiI 0 I I tA r r < < J L > b Jtt t p i tl t tv t JJ1 ot j J j 1 rl14 = hJ 1J W I J tttfYil f j l1J < J I 1J c I Ii fo Yil 0 I l v ifv f lL f > J 4 I1 I f I i < i < 4 rj1 tYf J This Weetf Salt Lake Theater dark 0 randHaverlYs minstrels Monday Tues ar and Wednesday evenings Hunian Hearts Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings I 6 The week before Christmas is as a rule one in which most companies quit vork a nd spend their time In such Chrlst laS shopping rehearsals and other oijlds and ends as they have to do Such co mpanles as continue performances perform-ances dt > It wIth the agreement on the part of the i players that they will accept ac-cept hatfsalary for the week Salt Lake the past week had two exceptional excep-tional companies on the boards of her theaters The Belle of Xew York at the Salt Lake Theater and the Or phecim show at the Grand Notwithstanding Notwith-standing < Uie high quality of both performances per-formances attendance was of the usual holiday order In addition to the fact of everyhody being engaged fti Christmas Christ-mas buying Salt Lake has been for some lime inundated with shows both theaters going nightly week after week and tho public bestowing patronage In I good rcUiul numbers palnagc not a great deal of disappointment felt by the management of these shows over I the slim patronage for the reason that little is tever expected from holiday Ito I week It Is customary for companies to lea v e oft the first week of iLent or for performers to accept halfsalary j Commencing with Christmas matinee the cowpanics throughout the land will start in again in full tilt While the public is enjoying the Christmas inaUnco or evening performance a part of its holiday recreation the actors ac-tors arc wo kCng to their utmost o Salt Lake It appears Is not the only 1 city that hits been given the cold 6h ulcer by the Grau Opera company In fact she finds herself in such good company that the grief is somrtvhat I lessened by the news which comes I from Chicago that Mr XSrau went I I through that cltiy without stopping for I any performance Chicago has the eputatlon of bbing a goodshied vii Sodsized lage and of belrig fairly liberal In the amount of money I spends on all al classes of euterCainmcnt While Mr Grau appeared at Lincoln Minneapolis I and other interior points he stopped In Chicago only long enough to transfer his baggage from one depot to anoth er The reports have not yet been re I ceived as to Mr Graus r manner of can cn ceIling his Chicago time whether he called up the clerk of n hotel from Sheboygan and instructed Jnstrcted him to no tify the people of Chicago that the his baggage from one depot to an other The reports have not been re I bills contracted in behalf of the en gagement by various el gas valJou representatives esentates vcro repudiated or not It l allo 5th I er too much to expect that Mr Grau or his company should be sovornM by I hose rules of business life which ap ply to other enterprises A prima don IH who files th9 track and refuses to King because her pet poodle has been stepped upon by a porter In mor or less of the kind of ptoplo that mol the Im In prussarlo has to deal with and he in turn gets something of th I same dis slnc dlf like for ordinary rules of life The Metropolitan company Is now in New York where stockholders of the Mtro 101 tan Jolitan operahouse arc aceuscomcvl to uoine down with 1500 or 1000 wih 1001 each as a subscription for season ticket it is really too bad that Mr Grau t3 I to leave such OH8 easy game and come out Wet where people are not willing to give more than 1 or 10 101 wi1ng teat Salt Lake extends to Chicago her heartfelt sympathy t 0 0 By a curious coincidence the next at tractions a the Theater and the Grand boar names which no longer remvTent thoso who rcplP8Clt made them famous Herr man who opens at tho Salt Lake The ater on December 31st In legerdemain is a nephew of crdeUail the great Herrmaa Herrma The Ilayerlys minstrels which vIll he I seen at tho Grand tomorrow evening long since ceased to be VcnlnS ceaed Haverlys but the value of Haverly and Hermann as a trade mark Is too well known to l be lightly cast aside Srimana UShUy Mr Hertmann Is j traveling on the prcstlve of his clever uncle and the Haverly mlnotrela ae trying to gain from the name which lre was once synonymous with everything that was line In minstrelsy wa lne Eugene mh1tre1 Field has celebrated In verse the glory of the Ilaverly minstrels In their palmy days since that day Cleveland Nanke yule and others have paid for the privi lege of using the Ilaverly name to dis tinguish their organizations Mr Haverly last spring made an sprInt attempt Tilmself to return to the field of former glories but found that It wan J n dif ferent story from what he had imagined Col Jack Haverly is not an unfamiliar person in Salt Lake ITo has entered into numerous mining ven tures in which it may be parentheti cally temurked he has sunk most of the money he made In the good old minstrel days AS a matter of fact however the present organization Is not one that needs the name of ITaver Jy or any one else to glorify It It la one of the few attractions tliat Mr atractons liat Mulvey secured for the Grand thcfciter with the expectation of putting the prlccs at the same rates as charged by the other theater The Orpheum show and the Haverlys minstrels are both bigclass attractions and do not need to play to cheap admission in order to attract business These minstrels will bo seen the first three nights of the week week 0 0 Human Hearts which comes to the Grand the last three nights of the week Is an extravagant melodrama which has been seen In the city before I is written by Hal Reid who since has distinguished dis-tinguished himself by a more pretentious preten-tious piece The Prince of the World which was the first attraction at the Salt Lako Theater this season I thrills with human interest to quote a favorite phrase and should make a good appeal to the people who like sentiment sen-timent and lots of ft0s 0s There will appear In Salt Lake City at the same time two attractions of na tlonal reputation during January 14th 15th and ICth At the Theater the JamesKidder company appear in the Midsummer Nights Dream which In elaborateness excels any Shakespearean Shakes-pearean production that has ever been seen In a Salt Lake stage I opened in New York city this season and was pronounced by the papers there a revelation reve-lation in stage arL During this same I time there will appear at the Grand Minnie Maddern Fiske in her two I I plays Tess of dUrbcrvilles and I Becky Sharp Both attractions will probably appear at advanced prices I 1 I will be n great week for Salt Lake theatergoers 4 0 0 The Denver Post has the following sharp editorial in regard to the coming appearance of Mrs Fslkc In that city Mrs FIske Jumps direct from Denver to Salt Lake appearing at the Grand for the reason that the Salt Lake Theater Is controlled by the syndicate I is a source of much gratification I that our local courts have swept away the legal obstacles put In the way of the appearance of Mrs Fiske In this I city next month V a result of the action of Judge Butler In making the I temporary injunction granted permanent I perma-nent the Denver public will have an opportunity of seeing tills gifted woman wo-man and most accomplished actress In two of her notable parts Becky Sharp In Thackerays Vanity Fair and Tess of the DUrbervllles a dramatization of TJhomas Hardys famous I fa-mous book 1 I seems Incredible that n foreign theatrical syndicate or trust should have the hardihood to prevent this brilliant woman from playing when and where she desired If local arrangements arrange-ments could be made satisfactory to all Immediately concerned Briefly the circumstances are these Mrs Flske whose husband Is the proprietor pro-prietor of the Dramatic Mirror the representative theatrical newspaper of the country and which Is opposed to the methods of the theatrical syndicate sought to appear in Denver The trust which directs affairs from New York city controls practically the Broadway theater and the Tabor opera house and of course barred Mrs FIske from ments the portals of these two establish The Denver theater was last summer sum-mer outside the fold and Mrs Flakes agent engaged the house for one week in January As soon as the trust heard of this arrangement It promptly secured control of the Denver theater making as a condition of the new arrangement with the local manager that he cancel the engagement of Mrs Flske This he I attempted to do several weeks after the contract for her appearance was signed I by him Mrs Fiskes managers declined de-clined to accept the cancellation and asked for an injunction forbidding tho trust to interfere ith i her appearance The matter dragged for some time but finally the Injunction which was temporary tem-porary at first was made permanent The original contract therefore stands and Denver will have an opportunity of seeing this actress The extraordinary feature of this whole matter is the Insolent and arbitrary arbi-trary proposition of this huge theatrical theatri-cal trust It Is not content with ca I securing se-curing control of nearly all the leading theaters In the country of browbeating prominent players into accepting its highhanded direction but It seeks to prevent the appearance of those who Independently resent Its dictation and to force them into abject submission The very Idea is monstrous and touches tho public nearly I It waR a matter of differences simply between Individuals Individu-als equity and Justice would demand sympathy for Mrs Flske But it Is more The trust decides who shall and who shall not come to Denver I Mr Jefferson Mr ManMleld and players of that alamo dcsirt to visit this city < professionally they ICl only do so by the grace of and with the permission of this syndicate Personally and In dividually they have no choice in the matter I however they are content to remain In this condition of servi tude that Is their business When a star like Mrs Fiske however asserts her independence and wants to appear l In this city public opinion will very properly rise up against any attempt to forbid her the privileges of a free and Independent altlzen Under tho t 1 circumstances this community will give Mrs Fiske 0 much more cordial reception next month than would have greeted her had she appeared at one of the trust houses 0 0 A local correspondent writes to ask what Is the meaning of the terms popular pop-ular price regular price advanced prices and reduced prices as used in theatrical reports advertisements and notices The terms are all comparative compar-ative ones and have more or less a lo atve cal meaning wherever used In New York for instance admission prices are from onethird to onehalf higher than anywhere else in the country for the reason that the value of real estate and the consequent enormous amounts demanded de-manded as rental of theaters makes It necessary to raise prices to get even less returns than received In other parts of the country for the same business For Instance an attraction that would pack the Salt Lake Theater as the Alice Nellsen company for Instance would make far less In New York from 2 a seat admission than In Sal Lake at 150 As a result firstclass attract tlons Ice Alice Nellsen the Bostonians Richard Mansfield and Viola Allen seen In Salt Lake at 150 charge in New York 2 a seat and in many oases attractions at-tractions which have appeared here at 51 admission charge 2 in New York r I goes without saying that the New I York productions arc In many ways finer than possible PlC a place like Salt i Lake The super element which goes I I to till out the stage Is always fuller and 1 I bettor trained The stage properties arc richer and the scenery and costuming costum-ing even if idtntical with that used in New York Is new and fresh when seen In tle metropolis while usage has Its effect by the time the same materials are seen here For all these reasons regular prices In Salt Lake mean a quite different thing from regular prices in New York As locally employed popular prices means any admission where less than SI is charged for the best seats The Grand Is l popularprice house because be-cause 75 cents Is the highest price charged for the best seats on the par queUe floor An advanced price for the Grand would be anything over 7G cents as In tie case of the Orpheum show tIme past week when 1 admission admis-sion was charged Regular prices I aro those in vogue for the ordinary run of attractions at the Salt Lake Theater being l for the best seats Reduced I prices refers to any admission under 1 nt the Theater Advanced prices mean 150 admission charged by possibly pos-sibly one out of ten attractions seen during the season because of the exceptional ex-ceptional size artistic merit and expense ex-pense attaching to these special presentations pre-sentations Only In four or five instances In-stances in the forty years of theatricals in Salt Lake has more than 150 been charge The first was February IS 1SS6 when the Mapleson lS6 lapleson opeja company the predecessor of the Grau Metropolitan Metropol-itan Opera company appeared for a single night here giving Carmen The second came within the same month in the case of Jhe worlds great tragedian trage-dian Tomasso Salvlni who appeared for one night In the Gladiator supported sup-ported by Viola Allen and his son Alexander Alex-ander Salvlni Two years later Booth and Barrett also advanced prices over the lr > 0 mark as did Joseph Jefferson with his allstar cast including Louis James and Mrs Drew in 1S9L Six months later the great comic opera company presenting Lillian Russell Hyde Coffin and other noted singers appeared at 250 admission rates with disastrous results What promised to be the finest engagement of the year was turned Into an awful frost by reason rea-son of a popular uprising and protest against the prices established for the occasion Out of mere principle wealthy people of the town who as far as thij money was concerned could have paid 5100 a seat canceled their orders for boxes and seats recalled invitations and kept away from the theater During Dur-ing the four pei formances there was not a halffilled house at any lime That put C quietus on that sort of thing for the future In connection with the question I of policy in charglncr enormous admission admis-sion prices whatever the attraction the experience of the Grau Opera company com-pany In grand opera at Kansas City Is very significant l I will be remembered that an attempt to get big figures by auctioning seals here for this same company proved a fizzle less than a month Hlnco At Kansas City the great Convention hal wan secured for this I company and scats put at 3 ouch In Salt Lake it was not proponed to sell I any Beats for less than 53 Yet with 50 admluHlon the feeling was so Intense In Kansas City that omply chairs were to be seen in ovcry direction durinG cverv night of the Grau season and lht opera engagement financially was a bad full lire The locul management lost thousands thou-sands of dollars One of the Kansas City papers commenting on the matter I says there Is a limit to enthusiasm and I tho host way to put a dampener upon I tho ardor of tho public IB to stick admission I ad-mission prices way In the air Naturally Natur-ally when tho public falls to respond with Its dollars to these blS prices the managers charge it to a lack of appreciation I ap-preciation for art Good attractions arc not a novelty in Salt Lake or Kansas I Kan-sas City and while willing to pay n I good price for a good article people decline de-cline emphatically to pay anything beyond be-yond it k Those who failed to hear the lecture of Nat Brlgham on The Grand Canyon of Arizona last Tuesday night at the Assembly hal will have the opportunity opportu-nity at the Theater Friday night of the coming week Mr BrlghamR lecture Is n superb piece of languagepicturing eloquent diction and new interesting facty In the lecture field Mr Brlgham I i is J seen at his best I STAGE CHOWCHOW A large number of companies have remained lI l re-mained Idle during the past week owing I ow-ing to the dullness in theatricals before be-fore Christmas 0 o r B Curtis who took Ellason to Australia Is In New York on C visit with his wif6 Albena do Mer 00 The following from the pen of Edwin Milton Roylo appears in the last Dramatic Dra-matic News matc CONTENTMENT Do sunflower aint do daisy Anil do melon aint d3 rosel ce Why Is doy all so crazy To bo sumpln ohio dat grows I Joss holo to do pluco youno planted And do do best you knows I Bo sunflower or du daisy Do melon or do rose meon v a I Nat Goodwin will appear In n revival of Merchant of Venice during his New York engagement A jump from the comedy roles In which Mr Goodwin has made his reputation to one like Shylock is certainly tempting fate Maxine Elliott as Portia will certainly be good a S Commencing with New Years eve the following changes in prominent attractions I attrac-tions take place In New York theaters thea-ters Maude Adams will give way at the Knickerbocker theater to Ada I Rehan in Sweet Nell of Old Drury Lulu Glaser will retire from the Manhattan Man-hattan In favor of The Burgomaster and The Sprightly Romance of Mar sac will vacate in favor of Viola Allen at the Republic theater At the Empire Em-pire John Drews long season will end and the Empire Theater Stock company com-pany will start its season with Mrs Danes Defense I will be noted that Viola Allen appears in i new play at the Republic theater I was at onetime one-time reported that she would appear in Salt Lake City during the spring but this can scarcely be correct I a o S The New York Christmas Mirror lathe la-the first of the holiday dramatic editions edi-tions to appear In SaltLake City Like Its predecessors it is a beauty The contributors to the paper are well known professionals the illustrations are in the happiest vein of a number of noted delineators and artists and the portraits OL famllar players are irom I recent sittings A feature that all will 1 enjoy is caricatures of famous players play-ers among whom appears Maude I Adams The caricature of the latter will seem very funny to Salt Lakers Among the faces seen In this Mirrors pages are those of Mary Van Buren and 1 Daniel Frawley the latter in his character of the telegraph operator in Secret Service This number Is highly high-ly creditable and shows continued enterprise en-terprise on the part of Mr Flske a SLob o S-Lob Fuller who was at one time a costar of Ellason Is on the ocean on her way back from Paris She appears at tion Koster Dials as Kg next sensa ton S 00 Last Tuesday evening at the Empire theater New York the studEnt of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts present d a new romantic drama known as the Maid of Leyden The play Is in three acts and required a superb stage mounting The criticisms Indicate that the performance was far above the play Special notice is given to Miss Lawson a Salt Lake girl who has been studying In this school for two years I S S Lisle Leigh who has been with the Grand OperaHouse Stock company In Nashville has left i to Join the Bald wlnMllville company a S S of Cincinnati Victory Baleman who Is now at the Grand operahouse In Pittsburg Is to star next season In a new comedy a S S Blanche Bates who has been with the Bergere Stock company in Washington Wash-ington has returned to New York She is under contract to David Bclosco A surprising report comes from Milwaukee Mil-waukee where it is said Maurice Bar rymore the wellknown actor was invited in-vited to leave the Marie Burroughs company because of unsatisfactory work The front page of the last Dramatic News is taken up with a picture of Mary Van Buren t S S The Sunday sacred concerts elsewhere seem to be very much the same sort that we have in Salt Lake In one prominent city In the United States it Is said that twelve theaters WEe open on Sunday night giving socalled sacred concerts Every house was packed and many people turned away and yet there was not a concert In thp list which by any stretch of Imagination could be called sacred Everything from oneact plays to jlS dancing was shown Most of them had only one or two songs of a sacred nature in order to give a semblance of sacredness to the conc rts o SO Thero will be two stock companies running simultaneously the coming month In Salt Lake One will be the new Cummings Stock company at the Grand and the other the National LiveStock association Both are promised prom-ised to be great affairs |