Show ki H I f Aa 4 I I I I 10 t r t Thcalor 14The This Wek Salt Lake Pride of Jennlco Monday ami Tuesday Tues-day evenings and special Tuesday matinee Quo Vsulls Woilncstoy SaIL Lake Opera Thursday nights company In Martha Saturday afternoon after-noon and evening Grand HI Henrys minstrels Monday Mon-day Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Wednesday njadnec A Trip to the Circus Thursday Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday matinee mati-nee The respite given thoitcrsocra the past wMrk will probably make more money for the Salt Lake places of amusement than It 1 attractions had bcen coming night after night The public requires rest from theatergoing aa much as the Individual requires time between meals in order to digest Wa food For two months both houses had been pouring a perfect volley oC attractions Into the town It was a matter of considerable astonishment that buslneEs kept up to tho notch It did The result of the reaction however how-ever His shown In the paltry attendance attend-ance upon The Wrong Mr Wright and Alvin Joslin The coming week finds the dime of the houses again well occupied the Theater being closed only one njght of tbo week while the Grand Is open every night In addition to ths the Chicago Symphony orchestra will be heard at the Tabernacle e Aspirants for tho atagc find opportunity oppor-tunity for entrance upon histrionic work In the Intermountain regions that are not so easily obtained In the Eastern sections of the country In tho first place the sudden change of altitude affects the voices oC singers to such an extent that scarcely a company com-pany is heard unless one or more members arc out of the cast Again the change of temperature In coming from the Missouri valley or the Pacific const levels to mountainous sections sec-tions results n I a breakdown that requires re-quires substitutes Not a few of those from Salt Lake who have made their success on the slage have owed their first chance to this < condition affairs When a company playing the Eastern cities or the Middle States Hnds itself shqrt a member It Is an easy matter to wire to New York or Chicago where Idle theatrical peopjo are always to b c found In abundance Salt Lake however Is situated eo far from these points that It becomes necessary to nil In from the amateur ranks the city AL least a dozen players are now engaged In subordinate parts who have been practically orced upon the organizations which they ppear Scarcely a singer or player comes to Salt Lake but comments on the difficulty diffi-culty of maintaining voice Harry Beresford the star with The Wrong Mr Wright remarked the other Hay Wehaailll got cotton on the throat and In explanation said that there was scarcely a member in the company that could speak his lines clearlyi The WltburKlrwln opera company which went to the Northwest North-west found Its ranks cut down one third by the effect of thecllmato Miss Ivlnvln In speaking of the matter said that in all her experience she had never known so many In a company HI at one time as had been 1 the case since her organization left Salt Lake last fall Those reared here and acclimated accli-mated flnd little difficulty In sustaining sustain-ing their voices but those who as In the case OL traveling companies come from lower altitudes find it extremely l trying 3 S The Pride Jennlco which come to the Salt Lake Theater for two nights and special Tuesday matinee commencing Monday night Is one of the very successful book dramas It was dramatized by Abbey Sage Rlch ardsQn before the death of that cloven author and Is now owned by her son Percy Sage and Wallace Munroe It Is a romantic drama and was last year seen for a considerable time at the Criterion theater New York Since then it has had n successful career on its way across the continent The play is based upon the chief incident In Efferton Castles novel The hero Capt Basil Jennlco Is a wellborn young Englishman and the favorite of his greatuncle a doughty old warrior whose life has been spent in the military mili-tary asrvlce of a foreign prince and who dying leaves his Immense estates and wealth to his nephew Basil the old mans sole Injunction being that his heir shall contract an ambitious marriage There comes within the boundaries of young Tcnnicos domain a princess accompanied her maid A girlish fancy prompts the princess to masquerade as the maid and to pretend pre-tend that live young woman Is really the princess Basil makes low l to the woman the marriage Is arranged and when the ceremony Is performed them the-m d Is substituted Jennlco Is ut first wild with rage but finds that he really loves the maid better than the suppowd princess It Is several months before he finds he has married the real princess Shortly after the marriage the couple have a disagreement disagree-ment which becomes a serious quarrel quar-rel Then the princess leaves her hus band who goes to great lengths to recover re-cover lib lost bride Through this action ac-tion of the play novernl strong climaxes cli-maxes are worked up A feature ot the engagement win be the school childrens special matinee which occurs Tuesday afternoon commencing com-mencing at 3 oclock S The Quo Vadls company which will be seen at the Salt Lake Theater the last three nights of this week is the same organization which was here last year The present dramatization In I by Stanislaus Stange and the attraction at-traction Is owned by F C Whitney and Edwin Knowlos two prominent theatrical 1 managers The story and scenes and the general features of the play arc too wellknown to require de Ecilptlon C At the Grand HI Henrys minstrels play a return engagement appearing three nights and maltnoc beginning Monday They were one of the first companies to appear at the Grand the present season and their coming gave promise that equally good companion would follow This however proved a delusion and so the HI Henrys minstrels min-strels stand out as one of the bright attractions In the Grand season The first part it will bo remembered was rather disappointing he costuming being stiff and rather flashy while the songs were of a decidedly mcdlo reorder re-order The second part and the spe cialties generally however were so extraordinarily clever and so novel as to make people forget the earlier part of cntortalnincnL The result wa that the houses was crowded nightly and the engagement could have been prolonged for another week with good patronage I Ill Henry himself is one oC the worlds noted cornctlsts and hh band hai areputation second to none In the advcrtlfiements mention Is made of3 brand new electrical first part Whether this is intended to be a change of show aa seen here previous lyr or refers to the whole season Is not quite clear Certainly then was room for Improvement In the beginning AL half a dollar however Henrys min strela Is like augur at C cents pound 50 S Thursday Friday and Saturday nights withSaturday matinee A Trip to the Circus IH I the offering at tho Grand It Is a storyof New England Eng-land farm life Infour acts During the progress oC the play a circus seem Is given with the sideshow nccom panlmcnt The action of Jo the play hinges about a lost child and Us Unix recovery by the father This Is the flrst visit of the play to the West Tin company Is said to include twentyflv < people A parade and band concert are given daily by tho company The nearest approach to classic opera the Suit Lake Opera company has yet undertaken Martha which presents at the Salt Lake Theater Saturday matlnco and evening The announcement has been made that It Is hardly likely the company will be able to continue mttoh longer na the members flnd the work too much of a task with their regular duties to take care of Miss Ferrin who made so pleasant an Impression on her first appearance with the company durin the last engagement en-gagement has the title rQlcjlIss Clarke Is I seen as Nanpy George Iypci as Lionel and the rest of the l cast IB ar follows Sir Tristram John Spencer PJurrkett HS Goddard Sheriff Fred 1 Graham Molly Pitt Elsie Barrow Polly Smith Miss Livingston Betsy White Mrs Brpwn and Kitty Hell MissHudson S S S lIme Modjeska has recently made some pertinent remarks on the matter ot schools of acting that Is what people peo-ple term the old school and the newschool Among other things she says It seems to me that good acting act-Ing must be always the same I know nothing of what Is called the old school acting As for that of the preent day I seldotrs have a chance to go Id the theater The acting of Forrest and the elder Booth bad gone before I came to America Mr Booth Edwin Booth you know whom I played with would have been a great actorat any lime now as well as during his life So far as schools of acting are concerned his lf > the best I know of that IB Just plain acting Taste changes among theatergoers We are In a transition period Tis well I think We cannot always be at the point of greatest achievement Art has its growth in life andilife Is changed not always for the best seemingly or for the highest but the general tendency Is for improvements I im-provements We have many plays and often In many dramatists I think so reading these plays that are written nowadays that the dramatist Is I stopping stop-ping at excry line to admire himself He turns to his audience and says Plow beautiful Ah there Is the difference dif-ference bstweea the pootanflthe man who writes for effect I STAGE CHOWCHOW Otis Skinner contemplates a production produc-tion of Francesca da Rimini In London Lon-don nex season 4 a Arrangement have about been perfected per-fected by Wagenhals Kemper thereby Louis James and Frederick Warde will travel as joint stars the coming season A u Mildred Holland Is to have a new play known as the Lily and the Prince It Is a historical play whose scenes arc laid In Italy S The Lyceum theater Is to be torn down to give place to a commercial building The Lyceum has been one of New orks Interesting playhouses forman for-man years Now Yorks latest big success to cross over to London Is Arizona1 The play willbo produced at the Add phi theater u satire on The Little Minister called The Wee Minister la being given giv-en at the Boston Music hall with Blanche Ring In Maude Adams part tugustus Cooke paraphrases the title rolt i a m Sarah Bernhardt and M Coquclin ire glvlngthelr closing perf6rmances jf LAlglon In Paris and will follow Lhe play with Theodora and Les PreclcuseH Kfdjcules Delia Foxs new starring tour opened last Monday night at New Jersey Inn comedy especially written for her by John Fowler Robert Edeson son of the late George rt Edeson Is to star Ibis spring In Soldiers of Fortune a dramatization DC Richard Harding Davlss book by Augustus Thomas t Or The following appears In the latest Dramatic Netve Will Salt take thea 01 goers have to go to New York toe to-e him or will ho come here A man who drags a cart about with his eye brows Is the big novelty who Just at present amusing Paris He Is nego tiating for an Amsrlcan tour A new dramatic paper devoted to Pacific Pa-cific coast amusements Is now being published in San Francisco R Beer Loos for many years manager and owner of the San Francisco Music and Drama Is cdlt6r of the new Journal o In the Matters of Fact column of the Mirror the Jolly Delia Prlngle com bination gets this notice The Delia Prlngle company had a happy Christ mas on the private car Jolly Delia The member exchanged handsome gifts and presented Mr and Mrs Adams Delia Pringio with a silver tea set Persons who have come Inc n tact with the posters of this Western organization will wonder why the no c did not mention the band Marcla Van Dresser seems to he re peating the experience of Maxlne El liott In passing from tho ranks of stage beauties to those of actresses of real ability Her acting In them role of Otis Skinners productl fole production ot Francesca da Rimini has been C n praised for Its emotional strength Her step from light opera to leading parts In the poetic drama with Viola Allen and Mr Skinner has been a longono but she appears to have made It safely |