Show A uf r I rI t3 Lt 1 J jL1 4 u11 i Jf5 k Lc 1 c 1I 1 I The ebb title of theatricals for tho year has been reached At the Salt Palace and at Caldcrs park vaudeville entertainment has been given with a degree of success which Indicates that summer theatricals on a larger scale would bo profitable The business at I the vaudeville theater on the Salt Palace Pal-ace grounds has been exceptionally good It Is the Intention to give a change of programme occasionally so that the entertainment will be attractive attrac-tive to those who attend week after week The managers of the Salt Lake Theater and the New Grand are having hav-ing a very active time of It In spite of tho fact that their houses are closed This Is the time of the year when the theater more or less makes Its money In other words the booking time Is to the manager what the bu inS season is to the dry goods merchant Good attractions with good percentages mean fully as much to the theatrical I manager as the purchasing of goods at a low figure means to the merchant Mr Pypcr and Mr Mulvey both say that their bookings for the ensuing year are of a higher grade than those seen the past season This of course is tho ordinary observation of the theatrical the-atrical manager summer after summer but this time it Is backed with most substantial proof A list of the attractions at-tractions so far secured Insures for Salt Lake a lively and interesting winter win-ter of entertainment The best companies compa-nies will not start out till after the Presidential elc tlonat least they will not reach the far West the disposition being to keep close to headquarters during the campaign excitement There will be little change In either of the houseasofar < as t lieir interior as pCct Is concerned for the reason that all the substantial Improvements were made last summer A few decorations and cleaning will constitute the summers sum-mers work Inside the two theaters b S The hot weather discussion of thc dramatic papers seems to be very largely I confined the questions of theatrical trust and the moral quality qual-ity of recent drama Thu trust agitation agi-tation has largely become partisan matter one class of papers sustaining the syndicate while the other fiercely denounces the centralization of the amusement business In the hands of a fcv I men Be that as It may and whatever the ethics of the situation may be the fact Is that the syndicate has corralled most of the fine plays and noted players The lines of the organization or-ganization are very much like those which have become familiar to the public in connection with commercial enterprises The syndicate has one bone b-one added moat of the prominent theaters of the country to its chain while almost every star of note has I boen brought into line either by direct engagement or by the booking pio I cess The result ly I that any house not a member of the syndicate circuit has poor opportunities By Insuring an attraction long season of business in a good class of theaters the syndicate has a great advantage over independent owners of theaters who arc not able to make continuous connections The result has been that one after another of the companies which have started out against the syndicate have fallen into line and of the most Important attractions at-tractions only a few are doing their own routing t I The other topic which Is receiving I inost discussion that of the morality I of recent drama was precipitated early in the spring by the exclusion of I Sapho from the New York stage The victory however of Olga Nether sole seems to liave turned the tide in favor of the questionable class of drama so much so that Mayors and Police Commissioners who were loud In their exclamations of what they would do if tho play were brought to their town now see Sapho put on the boards with no particular qualms of conscience The question of the exclusion exclu-sion of what Is currently termed the I Immoral drama seems to have become be-come a fashion Had the New York court pronounced against Sapho it I Is safe to say that scarcely a city In tho country would have permitted Us I presentation Having however decided de-cided that Miss Ncthersole could give it to her hearts content no other town seems Inclined to take up the cudgels against it The fact of It is that Sapho was no worse than docns of other plays which have been seen In I Salt Lake City and other places generally gen-erally such as The Degenerates Aristocracy and plays of that character char-acter Instead of suppressing this class of drama the agitation started over Sapho scorns only to have advertised ad-vertised and exploited It MUSIC CHANTS I Miss Edna Cohn will sing Salve Regln < t by Dudley Buck at St Pauls I this morning u a I H II McCorklc will sing the offertory I at St Marys today S I Mrs Willard Croxall gave a delight Cul musicalo Friday noon at her residence resi-dence hi i honor of J O Sloat organist of All Saints Episcopal church of Denver Den-ver Mrs CroxalPs advanced pupils participated and the occasion was one of marked enjoyment and artistic interest inter-est Mr Sloat returns to Denver this evening after a very pleasant visit in Salt Lake Ho Is especially taken with the First Congregational church organ |