Show l k r ta i r t > I I I 8 Rl jJ 1r I 11 d i I 4 I J OJ < I I Probably Congress never passed a lnv that gave ns little satisfaction nnd was so poorly enforced ns thiiL portion of the war revenue bill n feeLing timusements which has Just ben repealed In practically none of the States was there a quart of the by companies that was war tax paid due If the revenue collector failed to make a demand the tax was not paid and as the Htilo companies dodged around that country itwas practically Impossible lo keep track of them Tin tax affected the bib companies very little as In the large cities the theatres the-atres not the companies paid the tax But the smaller fry of amusements the companies which play Eureka Brigham City SprlnjrvIIIe Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant and smaller towns were constantly fearing the visit I of the revenue collector col-lector even If thoy did not meet him It will he a great relief to the little companies playing the onenight atands that thrs tax is i off 4 I Talking of road companies few people peo-ple realize how much depends upon the railroad companies for the amusements every western town enJoys A general passenger agent becomes almost a dramatic I matic agency In Salt Lake for instance in-stance D E Hurley and Dan Spencer arc as well knon and as important aIds lo thq amusement buslnes as jManagir Pyper or Manager Hammer A large proportion of the l companies have not the means or facilities for a tour through a country like the Rocky Mountain region unlosH can led on account ac-count much as a country merchant carries a farmer between crops So an arrangement is mnde with i the la s iengr gen to Carry the troupe from town to town anti collect I the fares at the box office If the box ofllor dont furnish a proper harvest the next one 1 must be depended upon xo make up the deficit If several In succession fail I then baggage mils be gKon as secant se-cant y Seldom however does the tour fail to make good thf transportation transporta-tion yet without thl nursing by the railroads I dozens of companies Coil IdoL Id-oL travel Again it is I important to have some agency that can provide reliable Information as to open time The general I passenger agents office Is a medium between traveling companies and the theaters along the line Indeed In-deed It would be hard to say how the smaller traveling companies could manage man-age without this assistance It of course builds up business for a railroad rail-road and is by no means a onesided proposition Let a Salt Luke man drop down Into the1 TMalto New York any Bummer and he will hear as many inquiries in-quiries about Dan Spencer as nhout any man in the West Xo western man Is better known to the profession o U For the first lime In years and years Kale Salisbury Is lo have a show In Salt TJake Buffalo Bills Wild West Show is the first t of his shows to land here since the Salisbury Troubadours vanished twenty years ago Great were the Troubadours as moneymak err as well as merrymakers The Wild West Show which Is a distinctive enterprise en-terprise of Ifs I own cluss In the lenled fIeld owes really as much to Nate Salisbury as to BuffoJo DlIIhul It Is the latter pcronnjf < j the public knows What Salisbury d Ida I know about the show business when he Joined Cody wasnt worth knowing Of course Cody had the reputation as a scout the glamour of frontier life and the ac qualntanro and confidence of cowboys rind Indians But that of Itself dont make a successful showman The money and thf management for the Wild West Show Fallsbuiy furnished Both mon have giown rich They lmv shown an Interest In the West outside their show business by establishing the town of Cody In Wyoming and developing devel-oping a big irrigation scheme there of which F C Ivelsey formerly Salt Lakes City Engineer is the chief engineer en-gineer I I It Is really fortunate that In the dearth of entertainment Salt Lake In experiencing thIs I summer two such splendid and mcrltonus shows as Buffalo Buf-falo Bills and the Tlinqllng Brothers are to visit us Both arc probably products pro-ducts of the Elks 1 convention The Bingllngs were son i here several years ago being piobably the hest of the mammoth shows that have come here not forgetting Baileys Forcpaughs or Scllss Since tim Barnum people went abroad three yearsago the Ring lings have had the United States practically prac-tically to themselves I This winter however how-ever brings the Barnum people back to the land of the striped 1 nag and from this distance It looks an if I fur would lly between I ho TUngilngs and Barnum next season D In view of the fact that Salt Lake Is promised a visit from George Ado the present summer and will later listen to one of his operas the following review re-view of his life and work from the last Dramatic Review will prove > Inter csting George Ade has sl Emtc1 a contract t with Henry W Favage by the terms of which Mr Savage will have control con-trol of all of Mr Ades writings for the stajrc for thrcp years to come as the contract does not expire until 1905 George Ade tf bettor known ns a humorous hu-morous writer than ho Is ass n writer I of literature for the jstag Ilia Fables f in Slung arOjjniibllnhad all over HIP t country and place him In the front rank ac a writer of illuming matter and nt the annie time show that he has a very kiien appreciation of the folbjes of the genus homo Mr Ade and Mr Savage got together with i HIP I piodnc lion of The > Sultan of Sulu which was produced the Studebaker theater in Chicago last spring and which ran for eleven weeks to extremely large receipts re-ceipts The book of The Sultan of Sulu Is said lo 1 be one of the best librettos which na been given to a comic opera in many years It is a story of the annexation of the Island of Sulu and Is the keenest kind of satire on the American occupalign It was the great HUCCCKH of this work which encouraged Mr Adeto devote mom of his time to this kind of work Ho has followed The Sultan of Sulu with Po gy from Paris a mild satire on the American girl as she IB to be found In the French capital Mr Savage Is quoted mr way lug that he Intends to give this work UK handsome a production as Is possible I pos-sible and that I the company will be as good a one as can be got together Both The Sultan of Snlij and Peggy from ParIs arc scheduled for New ilork itngaimnnfir and UK urohahlH p ties arc that the latter will be < seen In this city before the former i a a George Ado Is probably as well known as any newspaper writer In this country coun-try t I He ctartcd In at the work almost immediately after I graduating from Purdue university and uccepted a pp yltlon on one of the newspaper In Lafayette La-fayette Ind FOIL number of years Mr Ado was on the staff of the Chicago Chi-cago llecord and marie several trips to Europe in behalf of that publication publica-tion It was during Ihe time that Mr Ado was with the Record that I he begun be-gun to make a name for himself asa as-a humorous writer and a I keen observer First came a column which was called Tales From the Street then the Ar tie stories and afterward the now famous fa-mous Fables In Slang all a seriesot documents which will last Mr Ade had for a colaborer In The Sultan of Sulu a young Chicago musician Alfred 1 Al-fred G Wathall For Foggy from Paris Mr 1 Savage has signed a con tiact with William Lorraine Mr Lorraine Lor-raine Is I a wellknown composer and the combination with Mr Ade Jiould be a very happy one For the music for Mr Adep future librettos thcie has been nothing as yet arranged but it is < Mr Savages expressed determination to t secuie as good collaboration as can be obtained S Those not posted In professional matters mat-ters who meet Joseph Haworth might fancy him a spring chicken of this or last years hatching In Corlnnton he certainly looks very youthful and virile Vay back In S5 Si > and 87 liens w lie-ns producing plays ana hud under him such clever women as Sophie Eyre mma Vndsrs and Annie Robe Since then he has done so much and appealed in so many characters that it Is very doubtful if he coUld give nn Intelligent account of what he had covered cov-ered Of course h Is antedated nnoth CI genoratlm bj Siagp I Director Lewis who fought through the long yea of the Heb lIon closing with n 1 linger short at the Hat I tie of he I Wilderness But although Lowis owns up to 03 his old mother who is post 00 Is I yet alive an enjoying good health Truly the life of the stage Is a sort of elixir to furnish fur-nish material for Rider Haggards She |