Show lLfy t I vII lJL r n f II l U 1 t + f 11 1 o I 1 11 l r f t 1f 1fJj r Jj S I f I i I If 1 J fJl 7 This WcelcSalt Lake Theater Wests minstrels Wednesday and evenings The Liberty Thursday and Belle Friday and Saturday nights Saturday matinee Grand Hello Bill Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nights I day and Wednesday matinee The Stowaway Thursday Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee By the looks ot this weeks pro GTamme given above the theatrical two makes season Is on no Two times four and that sizes the situation for the next six nights One minstrel one comic opera one farcecomedy and one melodramatic show Altogether the swallow Is a bib one but Is not larger than Salt Lake will be asked to take regularly for the next six months If signs count for anything the city Is I ready to absorb a big lot of amusements amuse-ments The Penitents would haw nauseated the stomachs of many cities to such an extent that a month would have been required for recovery but I Salt Lake > simply made a wry fare1 sat I down for a week and then opened Itself for something new I Fortunately Thc Strollers wiped out I the painful recollection of the week previous and put thentorpoors Into the best of humor It was such a good diversion di-version from whatever standpoint viewed that people hnvc had their appetites ap-petites aroused to a desire for more of the same ort of thing At the Grand the Richards Prln gles minstrels gave a fair quality of I minstrel entertainment The real fact 11 i i however that with the exception of Williams S Walkers nhow there never was a colored company that could hold a candle to a vhlte mans company in the black cork art Somehow the blackman black-man cant be himself when 11 comes to a show or perhaps minstrelsy In but a burlesque of the negro and that he loser Its salient points Anyhow white minstrels seem the best As rald before be-fore Williams Walker seen here last winter arc the exception When tin writer was a college otudcnt this black pair of town coons used to come around serenading tho boys with song nnd banjo and were rewarded with enouGha quarter nplcce to buy a supper sup-per Now they have played = before the Prince or vales ana on occasion 01 their visit here had a private floor at the KnuLsford reserved for their accommodation accom-modation But talking about minstrels Salt Lake Is soon to see a great minstrel show without Ute man who made It amour a-mour Billy Wests minstrels will be here thin week but Billy West has quit the earthly stage A unique character a man of variegated career Wont had at the time of his death reached the full top round The lithographs represent lilm on the top of a high peak with the motto on top II was practically true at the time of hip death But names goon go-on though their hearers perish Especially Espe-cially name of popular showmen Bar num is dead but Barnums show Jsmt Haverly Is bone but Tlaverlys minstrels min-strels endure Billy Wests life was snapped short more than a car ago but Salt Lake will see the William TJ West Big Minstrel Jubilee two nights of this week It Is l prohable that we will miss thc debonnairo Billy In the I interlocutors inter-locutors chair hut beyond that the show will bo about tho same that he used to exploit As a matter of fact the features which comprised the best part of the show were corraled for the West by Sam Rlcaby the companys manager last season Ricaby Is one of the quickestwilted most resourceful men In the profession and had no trouble In kcteplng < the West people together after rests death Even Mr West himself deferred to his managers Ideas and during the last year cut out the elaborate elabo-rate marches which while very clever In their day had grown tiresome The end on which Mr Rlcaby finds himself is the vocal portion of the show Clement Stewart a famous English tenor will be hoard In a wide selection George Jones a youCFful baritone still In his teens and Harry Sylvester another an-other tenor make a splendid pair for the first part Salt Ixikers will be glad to note that Recaby has retained the bicycle team which created the big cneation last year the Zarrow trio Of the minstrels min-strels Billy Van of the olden day In I by all odds the best though John King the eccentric comedian Is also a great laugh creator Van King Jules Bennett Ben-nett and Frank Hammond are the only black cork people of the company the others appearing In whiteface 4 fc With the arrival of Harry Corson Clarke the word genial will be worked to Its limit Yet genial Isnt I the proper adjective nt all Effcrvps cpnt describes the boy a great deal bettor and volatile also applies I I closely Harry Corson Clarke can mako more plans copilde more schemes damn more enemies and re volvo more propositions In a mlnuto than any other man on earth He Is tho most restless changeable uncertain uncer-tain bird In the whole flock of theatrical flyers But his Irritability unstablllty and volubility are only the outward manifestations of a Hlrnngo temperament tempera-ment On the stage he lo one of the best outandout character fomcdlnns Going Frawley once said to the writer that Clarke hadnt an rqual in his line and would be Invaluable If he could mind hlrown business In makeup he In ns clever as can be found Hello Bill Is said to be one of the best things Clarke has ever done better than What Happened to Jones or Browns In Town or any of the others In reality tile piece Is I a very respectable sort of farce filled wltii good = lines and mrry situations and the duel In the last act In reminiscent of the classic days of Barry und I Fay The fun revolves around a certain William Fuller who has the misfortune to be arrested In a ganibllnghouse on thee the-e of his wedding = and being threatened threat-ened with a Jail HonteiiLo feels it incumbent I in-cumbent on him lo disappear under the name of Col afterward General Wll Ilum Fuller The veritable general may be presumed to have enjoyed a pleasant summer vacation on the llrlng line In Cuba compared with the xcltlng whirlwind whirl-wind of deception in which his civilian namesake becomes involved And when the real warrior shown up most inop portunely and iu about to turn Civi lian Fullers cake to dough that un happy gentleman is spurred Into Mights of genius which tax his versatility as an Ananias to the limit But ho perpe trates hla ferocious misrepresentations with the required boldness and at length sails once more into peaceful seas The Stowaway brings up interesting interest-ing memories of those worthies Spike Hcnneasy and Kid McCoy reformed re-formed burglars as they used to be featured on the 11111s and programmes And if memorv Is not wrong It was William A Brady who Ilrst exploited the reformed burglars Possibly the real reformed burglars may have done duty for two or three weeks but It would be utterly unlike the ingenious Barnum of the stage William Brady to pay burglars wages when any good ordinary actor could be had for a tenth the price Indeed It was rumored that the gentleman who now runs the Grand Paul Hammer JIdld duty for Splice one night at the Theater when Spike was off on a toot and could not He found But a now generation of Spikes and Kids had to be secured and Insthad of Hennessy and McCpy this year we have Spike Wallace and Kid Boyce whom we are told are two of the most noted cracksmen of th < era with whose names and ntartllng stage business the general public Is familiar and has been both favorably and fearfully Impressed And the advance ad-vance agent confides to us that It was Manager C Newton Taylor who first conceived tho successfully sensational Idea of engaging genuine burglars to do safe blowing In the play exactly as It IB accomplished in private life and under un-der nights protecting mantle Patient and delicate diplomacy resulted In his finally securing the distinguished services ser-vices of these men But laying aside romance the story of The Stowaway Is one to bring out the lovers of sensational sensa-tional drama and to pile up the gallery gal-lery business to the limit Although Viola Pratt Gillette has been frequently mentioned In Sail Lake papers ns the leading character In The Beauty and the npirt whlMi captured cap-tured t the East last season and this few Salt Lakers who have not seen her realize how prominent In the position she has taken The part Is I that of a prince In this mammoth extravnganxa She appears in full tights and Jesse Bartlett Davis In the days of hat i youth health and sprightliness never appeared l to better advantage Indeed ono of the compmy which f > m loyi her m nil to The Tribune critic thai there was no woman on the stage today who PO completely rounded out the need for See voice line figure and graceful movement It will be recalled that when here with Alice 1 Nielsen slip had a delightful voice but lucked sprlphtllness Her recent i trainIng train-Ing has remedied this trouble for she may fairly be called full of chic using us-ing that word to express dash fire case and grace Her success has been purely the result of long hard persistent persist-ent labor and she remains today as at the lime she left Salt Lake a girl of quiet and modest demeanor unaffected and considerate An actor In a child paid an old manager and the greater HIP actor ho Is the more childish he will act on occasion oc-casion Witness Miss Marie George who has Just thrown up a years engagement en-gagement with Klan < fc Erlangers The Billionaire company because the man agers would not agree to pay for her white satin slippers Mire George was engaged for a solid year the total amount of her salary for that time to be more than 510000 She had learned her lines and the play was under rehearsal One afternoon after rehearsal she called on Singe Manager Ben Stevens and asked hips if he would buy hr the white satin slippers which are used In the piece Mr Stevens Stev-ens paid no Miss George insisted and Mr Stevens was equally firm Well if you dont pay for those slippers I wont play said tho actress who did not expoct to be taken at her wordAll All right said Stevens Then we will p cuse you Miss George called up Mr Erin tiger on the telephone but was informed that he would not Interfere with the decision of his manager and another actress has been engaocd to till the place vacated by Miss George Any manager can recall many similar simi-lar cases In which a whim or what from a managerial standpoint looks like an utterly unreasonable demand has led to the giving up of a prolltnble engagement by a capricious actor That seems to be the way they are built Chicago Tribune Here is a list of the salaries which a number of wellknown actors and actresses ac-tresses arc said to draw At the headstands head-stands Mrs Carter who will get 1500 a week thlo season because from a box office standpoint she Is easily worth It Mary Mannerlng 250 Maude Adams 5500 Ethel Bar more S150 Mrs Gil bert 100 Madge Carr Cooke 75 Henry DIxey 200 Wilton Lackayo 200 Margaret Anglln 100 W J Ferguson Fer-guson 200 Because she Is her own manager and because she has been lucky In selecting profitable plays Miss Julia Mailowe is said to clear about 1000 a week An average dramtic company of llritcla quality will cost something like 1500 a week while the weekly pay roll of Weber Fields rarely runs below 5000 S A musical comedy that will he warm ly greeted In Salt Lake the coming week IB Tho Liberty Belle which comes to the Salt Lake Theater on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week Harry 13 Smith who wrote The Strollers seen lost week Is also the author of this The piece Is In three acts The scenes represent a dormitory 1n a young woman seminary a cook ng school and a hotel In Florida In the dormitory scene there arc represented repre-sented twenty young girls cutting up ilghJInks at a midnight supper All are In their night robes one wearing Ti1 suit of pink pajamas The young womin are said to be noted singe beauties There Is no chorus In IhlH comedy all the girls filling Individual roles Ills a decidedly brink lively sort of show with the Frank DrinkIs Idea ot handsome dashing girls In mart costumes A great variety oC musical numbers written by a half dozen different differ-ent composers are Introduced Altogether Alto-gether the show Is ono to draw on there the-re ene force of theatergoers The reportu from Corianton good and bad summarized read about as follows The show has kept even In Homo places run behind at others and gone rocky In others A sort of pan icky feeling has struck the management manage-ment and they now realize that professional profes-sional business direction as well as rofc yonal actor ar < i required After ho Kansas City engagement the next week there will be a till > leap cast In order to give the 1 piece an Eoniern flavor 11 Is a snd confession that the play has not gone In the I West brcauac It Is a Western production That Is a slam at the Weal If it Is true then the West Is ay crude and riaas fts it baa sometimes been represented It shows that IL Is the tall to tho kite But It 16 to be questioned that such IB the real reason JL Is too much a reflect ion on our own kind of people for alnly no fooling is entertained In the East J against Corlanton because It emanates from the Went Why then should the West discourage one or its own products It Is barely possible that in the Wcst as In tho Euat there may be some prejudice against > the work because of lLt Mormon theme That would be un just but should not be charged to the West Everybody Gentiles and Mor mom jillke In Salt Lake wish well for this great undertaking and It is to be hoped that Corlmlon will yet sweep tho theatrical seas ay Ben Hur has done But let us not assign wrong reasons rea-sons If It does go to the bottom STAGE CHOWCHOW George Thatcher says too many of tho Corlanton people have been writing writ-ing letters they shouldnt particularly Lewis Note Always spell Crosman correctly cor-rectly with only one s Is the admonition admon-ition her press agent gives In sending out notices We will Crosman It The Tlvoll Opera company from tho I home theater San Francisco IH about lo lake tho road in The Toy Makers The Idols Eye and The Serenade The last Tivoll Opera company Salt Lake had was the one that Krehllng sent here in Said Pasha which stranded at then old Walker Opera house o Mrs Patrick Campbell Is rehearsing her company on the stage of the Garden Gar-den theater New York In the new DodoBenGon play Aunt Jennie to be presented September 16th She Is her own stage manager In the vigor with which she enters on this sort of work she resembles Sarah Bernhardt A Blanche Walsh does not begin her ntarrlng lour under Wagenhals Kem per till October This Is William H Cranes last season sea-son In David Harum Jeannette Sncll Easton who has been with her husband Bob Easton the operatic singer In New York for five years past Is now home In Salt Lake a Walter Edwards lo cutting a wide swath down at Nashville The papers all laud his work In the new clock company com-pany Marie Corcllls novel Thelma will soon bo heard In Ha dramatized format form-at tho Grand Everelt R Reynolds hns arranged the cast for the forthcoming production of Mr PleUwIrk with DC Wolf Hopper Hop-per as n star with Hopper as Pickwick Dlgby = Bell as Sam Wellcr Henry Norman Nor-man an Tony Weller Grant Stewart as Jingle Louis Payne as Winkle George Chapman as Snodgrass Louis Gunning ns Arabplln Laura Joyp Bell nn Mrs Bardell Marguerite Clark an Polly and Grace Fisher as Miss Wardlc On Monday tomorrow night Mrs Bruno will produce her new play Un orma for the first time as tho Academy Acad-emy of Music Norfolk Va It Is a drama dra-ma t Iza Uln nf Marion Crawfords Tho Witch of PrainiP V In the spring Henrietta Crosman and her company will make JL tour to the Pacific coast Slip will use hor present siT s s The Sword of the King Mistress Nell and As You Like It She will probably spend two weeks in Denver and three weeks l in San Francisco Fran-cisco Salt Lake will be one of the places visited a The Mnrcagni opera will certainly boone bo-one of lime I great events of thc year for Sail Lake Harry Corson Clarke since the death of Roland Reed Is second only to William Wil-liam Collier as an accenlrlc comedian Rogers Brothers in Harvard appear ap-pear to have taken New York This pair of comedians have made Klaw Erlanger more money than any single attraction Tho following note from Harry S Alward shows that he is a long ways from his theatrical beat Shanghai Aug 6 10021 I Dramatic Editor Tribune Even If I Goodfrlend did forget to call on you In Salt Lake It need not prevent me from writing and saying Hello from Shanghai where T am laklng a llllle recreation I co In advance of Bertha Galland whoso lour IE I to be managed by Daniel l Frohman this season Miss Galland Is to open In Brooklyn September Septem-ber 22nd and her company will Include Frank Losee as leading man Frank C Bangs William F Owen Wallace Worslcy George W Barnler and others oth-ers The play Tvlll be Notre Dame dramallsed by Paul M Potter I wish you would run a little paragraph in The Tribune covering these facts |