Show I I j 17 I f l I 31I This 1CSfl1L Lake Theater In Secret Ser company Frawleys and Tuesday evenings vice Monday Blue Jeans Wednesday matinee and evening and Thursday night Brother Officers Friday nlglrt Trilby Saturday Sat-urday afternoon and night Grand The Chimes of Normandy Monday and Tuesday night Good nature and good limes have manifested themselves at the theaters the past two nights Mr Frawley has adventure and visits a haunted castle where he has the dream Here at the haunted castle the comedian Zoo Zoo and l his sneezing brother Bllnkle Blin the ker are Introduced as guides to haunted castle and the action of thc play Is carried out about the castle finally After many difficulties Karl wins the hand of Jeanette Artist Andcrsbu Is prcparlng special scenery for the production One of the selections well spoken of which Is given Is the Flirting Sextette Rene Humphrey a toe dancer has been specially spe-cially engaged A flying dragon a spectacular spec-tacular effect will be Introduced the dragon carrying the comedian across the stage irate Bridewell Anderson takes the leading role Alfred Best sings the tenor part Mrs Frank Browning lays the soubrette part and Frank Koster will be seen in another of the principal roles A chorus of forty Is now rehearsing the piece < Lobby Chatter a dramatic newssheet news-sheet published In New York comes to hand with the following paragraph purported to have been written bccaU8e of an Incident that happened In the Salt Lake Theater The news came to the members of the Metropolitan Arizona company while playing at the Salt Lake Theater Salt Lake City that King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra had honored the company riov playing Arizona at the 1 J i tv I vi t I 1 I j 1 9r h a 1 f J r TMiss May Buckley ns June in Blue Jeans had the pleasure I of entertaining a genuine gen-uine oldtime conference the kind that fills the Crocks and Interstices that overflows Into lobby unto srde walk over the street The pleasant weather brought the crowds to town and the strong bills at the Theater drew them to the evening entertainments entertain-ments Mr Frawley had been in New York arranging for hlpxrorganixation as Is his practice each spring He arrived ar-rived back just In time to step Into the role oC Jim JRadburn at the opening performance Between management oil which he hoa general oversight and the stageon which he keeps a keen eye Mr Frawley is about as busy a man as could be found In the profession profes-sion He has been singularly fortunate in picking people tor his company but unfortunate of late in having his people peo-ple prostrated by one sort or another of sickness A whole1 week between Denver Den-ver < ancl Salt Lake had to be eliminated towing to the Ilnes3 of prominent players play-ers besides which the opening bill had to be changed at the lost moment Miss Buckley who was especially engaged en-gaged for the part of June in Blue Jeans is a convalescent from typhoid fever Mr Buffield arose from a sickbed sick-bed to fill his rOlcand Mr Howard and Mr Johnson were both indisposed As has been before observed In these columns T D Frawley Is 1 a manager of high Ideals If he had faked more and spent lesson fine staging he would have been far richer than he is today Indeed it can be safely predicted that Mr Frawley will not die a rich man Ills money goes to his hobby the stage as fast as he makes it More than any actor now playing west of the Missouri he has become identified with the far West Hip company Is by odds the best stock organization on the coast and half a dozen cities look up it as an institution In which theyhavo a proprietary pro-prietary S 4 The engagement of the opera company com-pany at the Grand In The Chimes of Normandy Is chiefly interesting from the fact that it has indloated what a large amount of firstclass talent is available Salt Lake Half of the original principals were changed Sallie Sal-lie Fisher Loltle Levy Kahn Miss Savage Mr Spencer and yet their successors gay a performance that surprised every one by Its evenness brightness and musical excellence It has really seemed a pity that the old Home Dramatic club did not continue Its existence letting new talent enter Into the company as business duties and domestic cares retired older mem bers When MIss Savage first came I before the musical public Salt Lake I felt that a new star had risen but her retirement brpught another clever soprano so-prano to the front In the person of Miss Luella Ferrln who can be said to eclipse any of her predecessors as allUre a-llUre high soprano In the dramatic line however there has been no oppor tunity of finding talent lor the reason that there Is no home company In which to see It 4 4 s The Prince and tht Peasant the new opera by Frank Maltese and Harold Har-old Orlob is awakening much interest 1n local amusement circles This now work has Invaded field hitherto unex plored by home composers and writers and the outcome of the efforts of the promoters will be awaited with Inter est Mr Maltese has be working for a number of years on an opera plot and The Prince and the Peasant Is the result of his application After the words had been written they were sub mitted to Harold Orlob who is one of the promlulng young composers of tho city and he has written the music for the production The opera is In three acts the place of action on the Rhine The story deals with onQ Jeanette an Innkeepers daughter who is be trothed to Prlncq lIugaa man who loves her for her great beauty Jean ette is loved by one Karl whp receives the smiley of the fair lady Karl dreams that Prince Hugo Is dead and proceeds In his conquest on the theory that his riyal is out of the wuy He is a roan ot a rovlngjjllaposUlon seeking f J r k Adelphi theater London by a royal visit and subsequent royal compliments compli-ments Miss Grace Elusion who plays IJonlta read with interest how Queen Alexandra had called Miss Olive May the Bonlta of the London company into in-to the royal box at the end of act III and had paid her gracious compll menfs My but I wish Id had that chance she exclaimed Never you mind dear cooed Jane Bliss Taylor the Miss McCullnsh of the cast There is a Mormon elder with four wives in the stage box and he has had his eye on you ever since the sidecomb scene You just do your prettiest In the love scene now and there Is no telling what may happen I Miss Elllston very promptly resented the Implied reflection upon herself and the liege of all the Britons with a handful of rice powder whereby Miss Taylors artistic makeup was for the nonce not calculated to fascinate even a Mormon elder S t > Sometimes acting on the stage Is done under difficulties Blanche Aldrach is a clever actress playing one of the leading lead-Ing roles in Naughty Anthony which closed at Burts after an unsuccessful attempt to play with a halfsick cast Miss Aldrach arrived in the city on Sunday Sun-day morning so ill that she could not walk She was taken from the railway station to the Hotel l Madison In a carriage car-riage and Dr Phil Relg was summoned immediately It was thought that Miss Aldrach would recover but after the physician had left she became worse and twenty minutes later Dr Heig was called In again Miss Aldracha case having become be-come worse than ever The plucky woman fought off the illness Ill-ness until matinee time and despite the protests of her manager and they other members of the company she insisted on playing her regular part t The fainting woman was unable to travel the small block between Burts and the Madison and a carriage took her to the theater She was then so ill that she could scarcely stand and those who saw the Sunday matinee will recall that the woman In the shining black gown sank down upon a safa every moment mo-ment or so The part didnt call for it but Miss Aldrach could not stand She played it out like a stoic and the same carriage had to take her back to the hotel In the evening she was not Improved but she went on again Then she fainted through sheer illness In the middle of a scene She Is now under the care of a physician but Is Improving The above from the Toledo Bee will prove of Intersst In Utah Miss Aldrach is a daughter of C W Aldrach of Clear Lake and is very well known In Utah Stage ChowChow The management of the Columbia theater the-ater San Francisco has just posted the following notice The management of this theater desires to Inform their patrons that hereafter there will bo no regular reservations for first nights A cldun box sheet will be open to all on Thursday morning of each week preceding pre-ceding OUt Monday opening night The Columbia theater has probably the largest salable first night list west of New York City and a certain class hag been able to reserve scats prior to the regular opening Hereafter all will take the same chance for choice seats S William Faversham the actor was divorced last week from Marian W Fa versham By his consent the decree provides that he pay Mrs Faversham permanent alimony of 1200 a year James Neill Is producing Under the Red HobeMr Nelll playa the part originally done by William FavoVsham while Miss Chapman lq l playing Viola Allens old role This Js the first time the piece has been done at popular prices In the West S 4 Mlnnlo Tltt Bruno l has agalm taken r up vocal instruction It Js said with a view to going on the operatic stage 06tf Fortytwo members of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts received diplomas di-plomas graduation at the exercises of the academy March 21st s 0 0 I Now it Is stated that the reports which have been circulated concerning i Tames K Hackctta withdrawal from I the Crisis are absurd He played in St Louis to 19300 worth of business a a AH the leading dramatic papers now devote a column to news of the various M 4J 4tc 2 9 b4 lir Jkt i ti cti1 I c A 14t t r I I ¼ i d I n t f I I s 1 L L f ts Benjamin tLoward With l > an icl Frawley at Salt Lake Theater Elk lodges throughout the country Theatrical folk arc warm supporters of the Elk lodge Sag Harbor has closed Its season the final production having been given at Kansas Cityfl fl 9 After the present engagement of The Chimes of Normandy closes at the Grand there will be nothing at the house till May 5th when Lincoln J Carters Car-ters Two Little Waifs will be heard S 4 0 Miss Buckley who Is one of the best known players In Mr Frawleys company com-pany has had no part In the piece heard the past two nights She will be seen in Blue Jeans as JuneS June-S I 1 The strongest character that Mr Frawley has ever taken Is his Capt Thorn the telegraph operator In Secret Se-cret Service ri The ModjoskaJnmcs company is to play a supplementary spring tour of the principal cities of the middle West a S Richard Mansfield last night completed complet-ed a live weeks engagement In Beau calre at the Grand operahousq Chicago Chi-cago Mr Mansfield goes to St Louis thence to Cleveland Plttsburg and Buffalo Buf-falo He then comes Westward playing play-ing Omaha Denver Colorado Springs and Salt Lake From hero he goes to Tncoma and returns East over the northern route S S The winter season of the Barnum and Bailey circus closed in Paris last week One weeks receipts of the mammoth organization or-ganization amounted to over GO000 The cirous will return to America tho fall O O 5 They arc using the Florodora1 sex tette portraits to boom shoes and other commodities with the expression Tell me pretty maiden wont you wear etc I T S S O Ben Hur had Its London production last Monday meeting with success The advance sale amounted to over 40000 4 5 Clay Clement has been added to the cast of The Starbucks S a S Jessie Bartlett Davis has Inaugurated her concert tour Miss Davis is now out of vaudeville S S Maude Adams continues with much success In Quality Street She played at Powerss theater Chicago to the largest opening night receipts of the season I = merit and Into his pianoplaying he brought all that soulfulness that belongs be-longs to the violin lIe Is one of the nrtJ who has never few great artists brought out hia own compositions in fact we have never heard that he composes com-poses at all Yet he > is deeply Intellectual Intellec-tual admirably poised full of poetry and refinement In short he Is an art list ar-t of the highest possible attainments His plans for ntJxt year are not dell nltcly settled but there Is much anx I icty to have him on the Pacific coast and In Australia Josef Holman has just returned from I his Western tour which was one of the |