Show Lvd I 1i0 r l 1 4 n v i J Z r r 1 rl l r > 1 J Salt Lake Theater A Friend of then the-n Family Saturday afternoon and evening even-ing 1 j A Frl nd of the Family which w111 be given twice at the Sail Lake Theater on Saturday Is an amusing farcecom edy adapted from the German It Is regarded re-garded as one of tho bent of its class l and the company presenting It is said to be one of excellent quality It was originally produced at the Court theater Berlin October 4 1 1900 and enjoyed an almost unprecedented run of 215 performances per-formances Its story and complications are unique its characters consistent and human and its humor absolutely clean and pure Esmond Miller a wealthy tea merchant having been widowed determined deter-mined to forsake his native land and made his future home In Toklo Japan Intending to send for his family two daughters and a maiden sister In Japan r Ja-pan he falls madly In lore with a Maud Miller an actress and marries her against the emphatic protests of his 1 family Mr Miller soon dies bequeathing bequeath-ing to his wife half of his fortune which Is locatd In America Bartley Swift 1tIi hod previous to Mrs J Millers marriage professel l an undying affection for her th M but had Jilted her and returning to JitJI America had married Esmond Millers daughter nianch The happiness is undisturbed r1 I un-disturbed until Mrs Miller 1 comes to America About the same time Bartley i1 I Swift engages a governess for his young I rlI l t elsterinlaxx I named Esther Morgan On A her arrival Mr Miller wires the family e eQt of Mr Miller that she would arrive at Jql their home at a certain hour and signs her Initiate E 1 M The same as those t ii of the KQvernesH She arrives and being i be-ing mistaken for the governess accepts 01 the mistake as a Joke until Stiffs arrival u ar-rival when she determines to keep up the deception as a punishment for his l hp I desertion of her Swirl knoxvlng the wu I Kt Jealousy of his rife IH In an agony of N J tenor which IH Increased I tenfold by the arrlxul of the real governess Many complication follow JNt i t4 Co eiii I Cilery Royal Italian band will appear ap-pear at the Sail Lake Theater September i l Septem-ber 1Kb arid lath j 1 The next attraction at the Grand will ngil > > be IilLdy Audlcys Secret which will t E ld be plavJ September 17th l 18th and 19th Eb 1 b K i Tle Burgomaster will he at the Salt ir R Liine Thniti the llrst half of tin week i J llbeghmlng September 14th The last half Jw of that v > ttl the Theater l will hUe an r fl tIthe of Plxley nnd Loders produc I IIId J Iftlonp The Prince of Pllsen which was I q iKTRytry popular In the East last year fk Jane Oakes will bring her stock com 3tl2 Dully uhlih has been at the Biondway r D niT during the summer to the Salt w1 Lake Theater on September lilst for ann k 11 an-n a fim nt which will inn until the him Hh JuE Ned Hoyles new comedy was pliiycd for tho Hist lime lust Monday evening 1 pit Jin Neat York and was given good words Hil the prefH This IH what the New la lone Herald said of it Mr I and Mr nol who have long add their light under a bushel of money In vaudeville so called returned to their Ill aId field at the Madison Square last gi night In a farce My Wifes Husbands le jxilttcn by Mr Tioyle Tho husbands ilhough their merL IH greater nnd there iyti are four of them might be culled grad funtc papis of Miss Vivian at the Gar Brick Gxxendollnes past however leaves if fie had taste t nobody questions the entire en-tire happiness of No 4 at the end J1CID It Is the story of a young man with Some brains a fad for the abolishment Pot divorce and no money falling In love With a vomun with much brains several former husbands and no money After pi declaration of love each tries to borrow no bor-row 100 of the other The woman of course hat the first word The young IEUId limn borrows from the hotel landlord idtoj The Irate father comes to save his son IOM the haters debts and falls In love e Ith his would be daughterlnlaxv Tho heroines three former husbands who by the broad llcenso of farce are alwaYH together when they are least anted furnish the complications that distract the youthful dreams She con i JjfeaBes to two divorces and pretends tho vJ1 ithlrd widowhood was of tho Rod lather otdi than of the grass But the burled hus and appears to mix things up for the hard lost act I r HIIU and lun 11 < < hl br t The first two acts of My Wifes Jt unhand bear out the excellent work le hat Mi Koyle has given us In the past ffi hc author has a knack of finding hu OiiII or naturally lie uses neither vul tnrltj nor the slapsticks yet appeals Jrnudb to hIM audience His methods f n comedian are not unlike his lines lis apostrophe to heaven for J100 bor uC 3li owed perhaps from the low German gkerJ hnmll 1 Hlmmel hast du kelne fllntc hlJ1 mlr dock can thaler nor J l cegl uight the audience at once as did I81p t + Iphs remark to his father I wish I t had the money to cut you off from ioll1u hen he turned the tables on the old jtentleman jJMrs Kojle as the pseudo adventuress ot all there w alt out of her part by tlmntf means Her fainting with ono I open at the end of the second art 6F i the rvonlngs hit The < last art Is so long ard explanatory but the per irmanco IB I FI superior to the average found up farce that even this IB I for y Yen r IQ HMcssrs Carter Ahelcs < and Dolmore the former husbands contribute three I Rtlnrt character sketches With a Mcnching of the closing act My Wifes disbands ought to help Mr and Mrs pyle out of vaudeville lorenro Roberts lo negotiating for theM the-M to play The Frisky Mrs John Pn f 0 P Ai Mr GMU has offered Mary Anderson rA Navarro J22COOO for a aeries of 150 dr4f i I1f + dings from Shakespeare and other tQ t sis As a further inducement Grau offered to devote 60 per cent of d latevor profit he should make to any + t glows charILy Mme do Navarro j night name Mmc dc Navarro made the following reply I have a decided disinclination to face the public again Then I could not bear to leave my precious home life with all its beauty and peace To help those less fortunate than ones self In not possessing possess-ing this worlds goods would be a high motive for sacrificing ones own personal Inclination but up to the present I have not been brave enough to do this Mr Grau Is rot discouraged nnd still hopes to receive an acceptance of his offer Pointing out that HO far Mme de Navarro Na-varro has not refused positively o a What becomes of child actors Too often a few months or years of stage experience convince both mother and child that there are other callings equal ly honorable and perhaps more lucra tIn than the actors profession Marriage Mar-riage takes many young girls from the stage they have known all their lives and the sure returns of business management man-agement Is apt to tempt boy actors to step across the footlights to a position nearer the box office but the average stage children attractive because of heir youngness grow up Into sheep little lit-tle resembling the tender lambs whose nmlxl3 amused and unable to secure legitimate dramatic engagements drift Into the chorus of operatic companies or take up their positions behind the department I de-partment store counters It Is only the very tow that carry the precocity and charm of youth Into adult age so that hey again become as famous as during he few brief years of childhood Everybodys Mazaglne o aWhile a-While MounetSullys Hamlet and the Hamlet of Sarah Bernhardt are equally French and equally a contrast to the dignity and subtlety of Booths interpretation Inter-pretation the two Impersonations arc curiously unlike The robust madman of MounetSully has little In common with the petulant frivolous bitter superstitious su-perstitious boy wholly and irretrievably mad who chucks Polonlus under the chin and afterwards spurns his dead body with his foot Amazing and disconcerting dis-concerting as BcrnharcUs Hamlet Is he takes complete possession of you When he meets his fellow students like a light p I I T I i I I Y r JI J I > 1 i 10 i 1L 1 j I t I I I > I I z I i y I I I t Y I I i t 1 I 1 Q p > rr > y II I I I r 1 i yt 1 p ifJI > 4 if 1 i yt I I 4 < I < f o o j I i > 6 < > > MIss Alico Johnson Leading Role In tho Nov Farce itA Friend of the Family Direction of W E Gorman I hearted student himself when he flirts with Ophelia In one moment and adores her the rext when he pours out upon I Ills mother a passion of tenderness while he uses the players to catch his I uncle the king when he dies as only i Bernhardt knows hoW to die whatever he says or docs or Is he absorbs you to the exclusion of everybody on the stage and in spite of the prejudices and precedents with which you arc unanswerably unan-swerably equipped In the scenes with the queen he Is incomparable and for the boyish flippancy of the meeting with Gulldcnstern and Rosencrantz the actor has unconsciously followed the lines laid down by that line and scholarly interpreter Inter-preter of Shakespeare Forbes Robertson Robert-son Mrs Julia R Tutwiler In Gun tons Magazine I lam u DA Th s arc rr tit fl r l rA r lu 3 t ti r F A l l > I 01 I ar t 1 yf b 1 a iiii1i I I 11 + s r 1 ll1l I IIt LJ1 1 ZK Il Jflu tL1 I I S I 4f 1 I FYO t r Vic vJ y rI 1 m 1 1 d 1 f a f r riving i IJ I t t I f I I I Miss Mabel Harper One of Charles Rents Promising Pupils |