Show r Q I GI I t r n 1 J b r r + + I I I t r I 0 THIS WEEKS ATTRACTIONS Mon t Salt Lake Theater Friends day Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Wednesday matinee Foxy Qull ler Thursday Friday and Saturday nights and Christmas and Saturday matinees Grand < Dosvn by the Sea Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nights and Wednesday matinee A Little Outcast Out-cast Thursday Friday nnd Saturday nights and Christmas and Saturday matinees A t e Edwin Wilton Royle comes again to the Salt Lake theater Monday evening for the first time in several years with Friends Since the pIny was presented pre-sented here Mr Role has made a number of changes in It which have Improved It and as it was enjoyable InMls original state It will certainly thoroughly so now Mr Royle will undoubtedly be cordially welcomed by his old home city His cleverness san s-an actor and author is a source oc pride to Salt Lake and apart from the merit of the performance Salt Lnl ers will find pleasure In the fact that the production pro-duction may be considered In a sense a home one Mrs Royle will share with her husband the warm greetings of Salt Lake audiences Mr > > Royle was asked why he made changes a play that had been so unmistakably un-mistakably successful as Friends Well he said I dont think you will blame me when you know what the changes are Yuu sec ten years ago when I wrote Friends I was ten years younger and full of poetry and I had not met Mrs Royle so It did not seem quite so difficult to hand over Marguerite every night to tho other fellow You see Korje thats the other fellow has had her now ten years and it occurred to me that It was my Jack Paddens Inning I have thought It over carefully In the light of my nine years of wedded life to the lady and now at every performance you can ace mo getting the girl and living happy ever after 0 a The last half of the week at the Salt Lake theater will be filled by Foxy + Qulllcr beginning with a Christmas matinee Richard Golden who takes the title part has added to his laurels as a comic opera comedian In this production pro-duction Some theatergoers who have f only seen Mr Golden In another line ti may not have known that It was In light opera that he won hIs first triumphs tri-umphs But It was In that form of entertainments en-tertainments he started his work on the I stage and now having returned to It he has In Foxy Qulller as a blun erIn er-In detective eclipsed his former successes suc-cesses Foxy Qulller which is one I of the works of De Koven and Smith I IsIn three acts The first takes place In England Here Foxy Qulller sets his I mastermind to the task of unraveling the theft of two bags of gold which have been stolen from a young sea i captain by a pair of strolling players The second and third acts are placed 1 In Corsica By a combination of circumstances cir-cumstances the strollers go to Corsica on board the same ship but the fact that the thieves are always under his hands does not annoy the detective In I the least for In the end he Is himself q arrested for the crime Miss Curlottc n Gilman who achieved success abroad I will essay the prima donna role and Adolph ZInk who gained fame as one of the original Lilliputians will interpret Inter-pret the character of Kimono o r Down by the Sea will be at the Grand for the first half of the week In describing It the press agent says It docs not depend on horse play nnd maudlin sentiment for Its success Its quiet and charming story Is free from all melodramatic exaggerations The entirely human manner In which the actors Interpret their respective roles and The way the moot powerful situations situa-tions thrill the audience by the quietest methods imaginable have earned for this attraction a position on thl dramatic dra-matic stage with such plays as Way Down Last and Shore Acres The I staging Is said to be excellent and rca llatlc electrical effects are promised G especially In a storm scene ° It K J Carpenter will bring his latest pJay UA Little Outcast to the Grand on Christmas for a run through the remainder i re-mainder of the week The play Is described de-scribed I an a New York Story of Ion and adventure and ranges from Murray Mur-ray Hill to Five Points the latter lo I callty giving opportunities of portray portray ways of des p eratt character = Amontr the striking scenes are mentioned lh docks off the Battery with the great dome of the World building and the adjacent skyscrapers Illuminated with hundreds of Incandescent lights i the fire scene one of the best ever produced pro-duced and a Chinese restaurant Ont J qf the hit is the singing of the Newsboys News-boys quartette Twelve years ago David I Warflcld lef + San Erancluco to seek a position Jj New York Now he la on his way bacl to the coast for the Aral time shut then and the New York World hae the following relative to what haH happened i hap-pened to him In the meantime One actor at least will be clad to Heaway from New York during the holiday season although It was here I I thni he made his first crude beginning 1 and gradually ripened Into celebrity t Tic Is David WarMeld who IB now In the far West and will play his Chrlat nas engagement In his old home San jfranclsco i i Only a comparatively few years ago u Unrflcld was ah usher In a San Frnn i I H Il I ± co theater Out of his small savings II bought a drexs suit Equipped with I It he hunted seats for the theater pat rons In fine feather until oue day he I lost his Job I tHe could not find another position so he started for New York with a few dollars In his pocket and his readymade I ready-made wnJimvtaU aa his only bag I I gage arriving in lids city penniless ho drifted Into Miners Eighth Avenue theater and asked for n chance to doa do-a Hebrew peddler Imptrsonatlbn The manager generously allowed him to be the chaser of the show for one night But It was only for one night The next evening he was given the place of honor In the bill At the end oC the week B F Keith made him an orr rAfter r-After a short experience In the vaudevilles vaude-villes he Joined Russells Comedians W where he remained until George Lederor decided that he would be useful use-ful In musical comedy Wjrfield next entered Weber Feldsa stock company where he become be-come a general favorite Then he fell under the eye of David Belascothat unrivaled discoverer of genius In the roughwho took him In hand and brought out the best that was In him Now ho Is on his way back to his native city which has never seen him in a play lie Is a star at the head of his own company married reasonably well off and with an assured future He will appear as the kindly old Hebrew in < The Auctioneer and his will Indeed be a merry Christmas the city of his birth receives him cordially Stage ChpwChow In Friends Mr Boyle uses In the knockout scene a halfarm blow on tho Jaw of the villain In order that the blow might be thoroughly artistic Mr Royle was taught how to give it by Mr Fltzsimmonsa Marie Bates who made such a hit as Mrs Encan In The Auctioneer Is Blanche Batess mother Andrew Robson will be at the Salt Lake Theater later on In Richard Car vel e Mme RogerMIclos the French pianist pian-ist Is to tour thh country In the spring and Is expected to come to Salt Lake I Among the attractions soon to come to the Salt Lake Theater Is Miss Simplicity Sim-plicity Frank Dan lelss latest success The Drama in New York CORRESPONDENCE TRIBUTE Now York Dec 17The sensation of the week on the Rialto was the suit brought against Klaw Erlanger head of the socalled theatrical syndicate by Yours Merrily John R Roger who wants 200 < X0 for being falsely I t i L i h 1rr t e f t f N C IS t 7s ix9Yrn4Y rl j7j j I r s w a Charlotte Gilman With Foxy Quillor confined In Bellevue hospital on a charge of insanity preferred by A L Erlanger on behulf of the ilrm Rogers who was once husband and manager of I Minnie Palmer and had much to do with the success of Mary Anderson has not been highly successful of late years and he says the supposed freezeout policy of the syndicate Is responsible < Last spring Rogers wrote a long letter let-ter to Klaw Erlangcr embodying his views upon their methods closing by saying he probably would have to starve or hang and that he preferred pre-ferred to hang Erlanger construed this Into a threat against the life of himself and his partner and hurried for protection to the Police court Taking advantage of a New York law under which a man may have any person incarcerated In-carcerated for a week to have his anl ty tested on simple declaration of being be-ing that he Is Insane he had Rogers taken Into custody At the end of the prescribed week the doctors declared there was not tho slightest ground for supposing Rogers was crazy THE SYNDICATE SCORES The battle between the syndicate and Its young rival the Independent Booking Book-ing agency headed by Harrison Grey Flske Maurice Campbell and James 1C Huckelt Is growing warmer as the new organization gains In strength The latest point has been won by the Klaw Erlanger folk This was when they secured a few days ago the friendship of Weber and Fields This unique and popular firm of comedianmanagers i had been at outs with the trust for everul years because of personal differences dif-ferences between Erlanger and Joseph I Weber and on account of the rivalry between Weber and Fields and their mltators the Rogers Brothers who are jnder syndicate management RETURNS HENRIETTA CROSMAN STATEMENTS Flushed with this victory no doubt Erlangcr showed his contempt for the ipposltlon this week by returning un pcned to Maurice Campbell two letter caring the latter office address on the envelope They were marked refused re-fused The epistles wore statements of Henrietta Crosinana extraordinary boxolllce receipts during her run In The Sword of the King at the Academy Acad-emy of Music in Philadelphia The present situation wan brought about by what Miss Croanmn and Ar Campbell considered malicious per eUtlon on the part of the syndicate when she was having her umuiual Ruccess In Mistress Mis-tress Nell at the Savoy She terminated termi-nated her engagement there by coming before the curtain and dismissing her audience by a speech In which she spoke of harsh treatment MRS LANGTRY AS PLAYWRIGHT Mm Langtry now In on her way to this country again and will niake her first appearance Nov Years week In the Garrlck theater Peculiar Interest attaches to this visit or the famous beauty because she returns In the two I fold role of actress and dramatist She Is to produce while here The Crossways Cross-ways a play written by herself and Hartley Manner a player In her company com-pany It hhs been played In England but twice once an a trial performance at Manchester up to which time the Jersey Lily had kept It secret that she had had anything to do with the writing writ-Ing of It and once In London This last was on the night before she took ship for America and from the English standpoint the event was made doubly notable by the presence of the King and Queen Mrs Langtry Is to present one other play on this tour Mile Mars a drama dealing with a noted French siren of the Napoleonic period Her American engagement which is under the direction of Charles Frohman Is limited to twenty weeks duration THE TAMING OF ELLEN Rlohard Hardlnjr Davis has decided to call the play he han written for Henry Miller Tho Taming of Ellen The novelist was nettled to find out It had been discovered this piece IB I but a dramatization of one of his most popular pop-ular stories The Lion and the Unicorn Uni-corn The supposition hud been the plot had never been used before In any form For purposes of this production Miller has passed under tho management manage-ment of Charles B Dllllngham who directs di-rects the tours of Julia Marlowe and has Maxine Elliott under contract for next season Dllllngham Is engaging a splendid company for support of Miller He made a ten strike In securing for leading lead-Ing woman Jessie Milward late chief actress of the Empire Theater company and one of tho most clever women over sent over here tromEp l nd The cast 1 will have a scarcely less talented player In Grace Elllaton who played leading parts with Miller all lost summer in San Francisco JAMESS DAUGHTER TO STAR DllIlnhnm has added to his collection collec-tion 0C sfars Millie James the young daughter of the tragedian Louis James This girl was struggling along In small parts until two and a halt years ago when Clyde Fitch and William A Brady cast her for the role of the waif Simplicity Johnson In Lovers Lane Her success In playing the hoydenish Impertinent Irresponsible girl of 11 was such that she was the actress of the hour I The manager Is having Paul Jvcster write a play for Miss James He la tho young Southern author who dramatized drama-tized When Knighthood Was In Flower Flow-er and The Cavalier for Julia Mar lowe In drawing a character for the young star Kcster Is to keep In mind the style of talent she displayed In Lovers Lane The play will be a sprightly comedy possibly of the rural type Millie James Is not yet 25 yearn old She is not fashioned in the large mold of her father though she inherited much of his histrionic ability VIRGINIA EARLE REFUSES Virginia Earle was on the verge ofa lively row with her manager George W Ledcrer a couple of days ago because be-cause without consulting her he endeavored en-deavored to transfer her to Fred C Whitney who wanted her to take Lulu Closers place at the head of the Dolly Warden company while Miss Glaser Is 111 Miss Earlc declared herself In no unmistakable terms to the effect that she would not be held and traded as a chattel Her chief anger wag because Lederer went about arranging the deal without asking her permission but she was no less angry at the thought of anyone any-one suggesting that she go out on the onenight stand circuits She makes much of the fact that she has not had but about three weeks of such experi encein seven years ORIGINAL VERSUS ADAPTATION Last week New York witnessed for the first time ln the history of Its theatricals the-atricals or perhaps an theatricals the Spectacle or an original foreign version of a play In rivalry with its English adaptation Atthe Princess theater on Wednesday night Aubrey Bouclcault made his bow at the head of a company In his own adaptation of Alt Heidelberg Heidel-berg while the original was revived in German al the Irving Place theater at the same time Mr Bouclcault who thus sela out to follow in the footsteps of his noted father Dion Bouclcault has Improved materially upon theorig inal play at least from an American standpoint < He has added to the love Interest which the original lacked and he has retained the German student element the most attractive feature of the piece The cast was advertised as an allstar one and comes nearer to being that than many which have been so billed recently Minnie Dupree la the leading woman and In the support are Robert Lorralrje Theodore Roberta Max Freeman and Augustus Cook MABELLE GILMAN AND THE PRINCE Pretty Mabelle Gilman has already regretted tho action of her press agent In giving to the public tho contents of a package of love letters purporting to have been written to her by the Crown Prince of Slam Of course the publication publica-tion of the letters and the poetry with which they abounded brought a great deal of advertising to Miss Gllman but her managers now question If the ad verllalhg IB of the beneficial kind Many have openly denounced the action of the press agent In using confidential communications In such manner and others along the Rlnlto express tine opinion that the letters are fake pure and simple which makes the offense even worse The Siamese ConsulGen eral In New York tutu started an Investigation Inves-tigation of the affair and So has the Department of State at Washington Assistant Secretary of State Pierce who had charge of the Princes entertainment enter-tainment during his recent visit here has Issued a statement In which he says that Miss Gilman and her press nL ent Importuned the Prince for a meeting and that finally hegranted Just one In I the presence of her mother The reaction reac-tion has caused the actress to Issue a statement In which she says she regrets re-grets the action of her press agent COMEDIANS TO PLAY JULIUS CAESAR While Richard Minsfipld Is giving a most masterful production of Julian Caesar at the Herald Square theater members of the vaudeville profession arc preparing a monster burlesque of the Shakespearean tragedy for early presentation at the Broadway theater Charles J Ross Is writing the burlesque and will himself be Brutua The remainder re-mainder of the cast Is as follows Eddie Ed-die Foy Caesar George Fuller Golden Marc Antony Peter F Dallcy Cas slUH1 Mabel Fenton Portia Nat Wills CaHca and Marie Dressier Caesars wife The feature of the performance should be Peter F Dalley the rotund comedian of Weber Finds In the role of the hungrylooking Cusalus Bailey In training weighs a trifle leos than 2GO pounds EVANS TO STAR AGAIN Charles E Evans whose antics as the book agent In A Parlor Match have made a natlonlaugh Is to star again Last week he closed a contract with Mciisrs Sam and Leo Shubcrt whereby he will undertake a season In There and Back an English farce which Charles Hawtroy presented most successfully suc-cessfully at the Prince of Wales thea terLondon Evans has been seen but r a o Cor a 0 Fops 1sk t i h et b pa a0 d r U tp9VU T w ooa k l f i5 t I a oOn a n J Y > t5 rt o Oory O Jp p p IrF 5 x Selena Potter Boyle in Friends = Infrequently on the stage since the dissolution dis-solution of his partnership with the late Old HOBS Hoc He appeared for a season In Naughty Anthony apiece a-piece that at best watt but a fair success suc-cess and then gave himself up to the atcr managing Ho built tho Circle Music hall at Fiftyninth street and Central park weal which until a few I days ago never opened Its doors on account ac-count of tho opposition to establishing a music hall In that vicinity Later he acquired the lease of the Herald Square theater which he sublet to the Messrs Shubort and now ho Is I a Joint lessee I with tho Shuberts of the Princess theater the-ater NOTES OF THE STAGE Joe Welch for several years a headliner head-liner In vaudeville as a portrayer of Hebraic rolcu made his stellar debut at the Fourteenth Street theater on Monday Mon-day night In a melodrama entitled The Peddler Isabelle Underwood the leading woman wo-man of the new comic opera Bobadll was obliged to go to the hospital as a result of her wounds received while rehearsing re-hearsing a stage duel with Sam Edwards Ed-wards The scimitars which were to I have been used in the fight scene will be replaced by broad swords which are more easily handled u Oscar Ilammcrstcln has purchased the American rights to Count Tolstois play The Resurrection and will produce pro-duce it at the Victoria theater after the run there of Viola Allen In The Eternal Eter-nal City A big benefit Is being arranged for Marie Dressler who has been very ill of typhoid fever for several weeks Miss Dressier has appeared at testimonials for distressed actors more than any other one player and this affair Is to be on an unusual scale M Y KIrke La Shelle Is to star Fritz Williams Wil-liams next year In a dramatization of H W Blossoms slang story Checkers Check-ers Williams was for years one of Charles Frohmans leading comedians A Maurice Graus newest Italian grand opera tenor at the Melropolllan Is I Carlo Danl who was once international bicycle bi-cycle champion lie has a small voice but has made a success In Rlgoletlo and La Travlata SAMUEL MLEARY WELLER |