Show t 7 < Flt y 4p + t I 3 o I yp 5j r J a 1 tsl Po J I I Qy II j d This Week Salt Palace Wilbur win Opera company In Bohemian Girl Monday Tuesday and Wednesday Wednes-day evenings Grand Duchess Thursday Thurs-day Friday and Saturday evenings usual Wednesday and Saturday matinees mat-inees I c n From present Indications Salt Lake will during the coming fall season enjoy en-joy one of the most brilliant seasons of theatricals it has had since the palmy days when Al Hayman directed theatrical theatri-cal affairs personally In San Francisco and when the noted stock companies of New York were sent westward to fill summer seasons The first company to I strike westward was the Henry Miller organization which has been playing for some time In San Francisco Last I night the Blanche Bastes company hacked by David Bclasco and Al Harman Har-man carrying several cars of scenery and horses passed through en route to the coast Their engagement Jn San Francisco opens a week hence and continues con-tinues for a month after which they will play one or two of the larger cities I In California and then come eastward opening for three nights hi Salt Lake City CitBlanchc 4 Blanche Bates Is now a star of the first magnitude and carries with her a canmany such as can only be furnished by one of great resources like Al Hay man The expenses of her Jump from t New York to San Francisco are something some-thing exceptional The dramatic repre s tentative of The Tribune was on the same train with the company from Kansas City westward and had the pleasure of renewing oldtime acquaintance I acquaint-ance with the lady who has jumped I from an ambitious beginner In Salt Lake to one of the great actresses of the world The company occupied two I special cars In which they travel from ocean to ocean Miss Bates said she looked forward with no little apprehension appre-hension to her San Francisco engagement I engage-ment She stated that she felt moro sensitive over her appearance there anywhere else in the United States not only because San Francisco Is supercritical super-critical but for the reason that everybody every-body there is expecting so much of her Under Two FJags is l a dramatization by Paul Potter of Ouldas famous novel and was staged by David Belasco It I was one of the great triumphs of the I past season in New York The company is identically that which appeared In New York with the exception of Mabel Howard who was taken from a starring star-ring expedition In Zaza to be enlisted as Miss Bates loading lady The company numbers forty to fifty different people and are under the Immediate supervision supervi-sion of Sam Meyer who has for a number num-ber of years represented Mr Frohman with Maud Adams Salt Lake regards Miss Bates as one of Its own girls Her father and mother Mr and Mrs Frank I Bates were for rears members of the old Salt Lake Stock company and at the benefit given upon their finally leaving Salt Lake were accorded the warmest patronage of Brigham Young Blanche Bates herself started In Salt Lake on her dramatic career as a member mem-ber of the ONell or F rawley company com-pany as It was differently known She was second lady to Jennie Ivennark and even In those early days she showed great promise Her rapid advancement I has been one of the marvels of the dramatic profession Through It all she has been selfcontained modest and indomitable I in-domitable Her appearance In Salt Lake will be the signal for a general turning out of theatergoers Not only docs the syndicate nend Miss Bates and i 1 her big company hero thin fall but will i follow them by one of tho Charles I Frohman companies and u number of the special successes of the last season In Now York Mr Meyers the representative i repre-sentative of the Hales company said I this new departure was due to the fact that I good times In the West had I brought brick similar conditions to those I which existed when the noted companies com-panies were sent here ten years ugo Being justified by the excellent business i busi-ness of tho West the syndicate felt It a safe proposition to give this section of the country another opportunity to see tho late New York successes presented by original companies If 6 a The WIlburKirwin Opera company will ihjn week take a trial at something a liltie moro pretentious than bpcras heretofore presented during their ° engagement I en-gagement For the first throe nights of the week with Wednesday matinee JRalfes Bohemian Girl wll be the bill and for the latter half of the week Of fenbachs Grand Duchess will be given The former opera has been before be-fore the public about three score and ten years but Is one of the few operas that never grows old The management manage-ment promises for the two operas new costuming and scenic embellishments The past weeks business at the Palace has been large J and the establishment of thc summer company at the resort has almost passed the stage of an experiment experi-ment HO Tonight the Salt Palace band In connection con-nection with the WllburIvinvln Opera company will give a sacred concert at the Salt Palace theater A rate of 2u cents for admission to the grounds and every part of the theater has been fixed These concerts will be held weekly and will commence at 830 + STAGE CHOWCHOW I I James K Hack tt and Mary Manner Inn are to appear in a Shapcspearean production The Taming of the Shrew cr a 0 I Etta Butler who Is to star next season sea-son In an opera by Harry B Smith I passed through Ogden for her San Francisco home where she will take a few weeks rest a a a The Sultan of Turkey has prohibited Iho performing of Cyrano de Ber gerac In that country declaring the play to be revolutionary r a a Marie Walnrlght will star next season In revival of The School for Scandal Scan-dal a Two notable players who have been secured for Minnie Maddcrn Flskes company are J F Dodson and Annie Irish S e + Ed Carruthers treasurer of the Grand theater left last evening for New York where he will make bookIngs book-Ings for the coming season It ik b I Eddie Foy has been selected by I George W Lederer to appear In The i Strollers at the Knickerbocker theaterS theater-S 4 a Thomas L Nelson a successful theatrical the-atrical man of Louisville Ky Is visiting visit-ing his old home at Park City Mr Nelson left Utah nine years ago to attend at-tend school in the East and later entered en-tered the service of E D Stair the wellknown theatrical manager Mr Nelson han been for some years trcas urercr of the Avenue theater at Louisville Louis-ville S a a Elith Reumcrt an actor from the Royal theater at Copenhagen will arrive ar-rive In this city the coming week on I his way to the coast and will entertain enter-tain his countrymen next Saturday evening He is said tobg one of the most favored actors on the Danish stage and as a reciter of Holbcrg and Hans Christian Anderson Ifj I eminent Salt Lake local Scandinavians are preparing pre-paring a reception for him and are expecting ex-pecting an artistic treat Next Do Wolf Hoppei as Red Rid ingHood Sarah Bornhnrdt says she Is afraid that she cannot learn I tho part of Romeo In Englf hSnrah should not be appalled at the English tongue simply because most American actors have never learned how to speak It nit it should bo spoken Denver Den-ver Republican S a a It Is absurd to talk of Bcrnhrmlt playing Romeo to Mumlo Aduns0 Jullot In the first place the divine Sarah speaks English En-glish In it way that would make Shake speares bones stir In their grave in tho second Maude Adamss Jullot la something = some-thing which tho best critic have declared she would do well to drop from her repertoire reper-toire San Francisco Chronicle Co w Sarah Bornhardt Is i to play Romeo next ccason to Maude Adnmsn Juliet The defects de-fects of JBcrnhnrdts Hamlet wcro largely Inseparable from her sex No woman no feminine In volco and physique as Bern haul could possibly make firstclass llumlet A woman oC tho masculine stature < stat-ure tho strong head and face tho deep voIce of Charlotte Cushman could play Hamlet fairly well but women of the Bernhardt physique and voice ought not to attempt any of Shakespeares inaacu Hno parts beyond that of Romeo Fcrcll I smnrt Sebastian Prince Arthur parts of young striplings whose youth implies n Blender boyish figure and speech that Is marked by a passionate rush of feeling rather than weighted with strong thought I Portland Oregonian 1 |