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Show ...AMUSEMENTS... TONIGHT at the Salt Palaco. Held's band will give a concert from S:30 to f):30, after which a sacred concert con-cert will be given in the theater. The Vaudeville bill for the coming week includes good talent Dorcnda find Green" In a laughable comedy-juggling turn, John Morrison, the Irish singer, JolnrJ. Welch, the eccentric dancer, DoKotn, the Australian wizard, the Alhon-WilBon-Clarke company In their latest farce-comedy, "The Suspicion of - Hawkins"; Albert Cosad in Illustrated songs and a new scries of moving pictures. pic-tures. The new management has put Into effect a new scale of prices which will win popularity among the Palace patrons. pa-trons. Beginning tonight, the 10 cents admission charged to enter the grounds also admits the purchaser to a scat In the theater free of charge. Those desiring de-siring front seats may have them at the nominal price of 10 cents extra. 0 Manager Pyper of the Salt Lake Theater The-ater is going East to purchase an asbestos as-bestos curtain and other appliances with which to afford additional protection protec-tion to patrons of the house. The theater will be closed until Ethel" Barry-more Barry-more comes In August. September at tractions will be "The Wizard of Oz," Frank Daniels in "The Ofllce Boy," and Maxlne Elliott. Florence Roberts will be here during conference week In October. Oc-tober. . . ' t From Blnghamton, N. Y.. Mrs. Fiske telegraphs asking the Tribune to "deny the absurd report that I lectured an audience au-dience In Ann Arbor." Any one acquainted ac-quainted with Mrs. Fiske. and her retiring re-tiring methods both In her professional and her private life needed not this denial de-nial to convince them that there was no truth in the report. There are certain players who are fond of lending the widest possible publicity to their opinions opin-ions both by talking and writing, but Mrs. Fiske Is not of these. Chicago Tribune. M America is to see the play "Saturday to Monday," which is crowding the St. James, London's most fashionable theater. the-ater. The piece has a curious history. At the start the'crltrcs,' with one voice, condemned It,-and. the public wondered what it was all about. There was excuse ex-cuse for that. "Saturday to Mondaj'" haxl only just gone Into rehearsal at the time George Alexander put on the Ill-fated "Rosenmontag," which ran for only four nights. To fill in, "Saturday to Monday" was announced hastily. The part of Lady Diana was given to an Inexperienced actress, who, on the llrst night, forgot her lines. In the first act she left out two whole pages of explanation of the why and wherefore of the play. This appalling gap In the story not only paralyzed the unfortunate unfortu-nate actress, but every one else. None of the auditors dreamed the play was supposed to be farclal. But when the actors started on the second uct they went to the other extreme and rollicked through the play for all they were worth. The audience became more and more puzzled and left the theater In a resentful mood. But Alexander continued con-tinued the play and It seems to be in for a long run. It is announced that next season the Manhattan theater, Now York City, Is to be the home of a permanent organization organi-zation of players headed by Mrs, Fiske. The venture is the result of the recent dissolution of the Independent theatrical theatri-cal combination, which will release the theater from the demands heretofore made by the members of that organization. organi-zation. Announcement has been made by Harrison Gray Fiske that the plans lor such a company had so far progressed pro-gressed that a number of" well-known English and American actors have been engaged and a partial list of the plays to be given arranged. In addition to revivals of several of the plays in which Mrs. Fiske Is well known, a number num-ber of Ibsen and Maeterlinck plays will he produced. It is also planned to give a subscription series of Interesting clasrflcs. |