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Show I,., , ' . '! ' j TTHTS "WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS. . ji'' i j ,Ji GRAND THEATER "A Runaway ' 1 1 I Match," Monday, Tuesday and Wcdnes- ' I J day. i .it . ' j '! Only political affairs, entertaining- or ' 1 Jj otherwise, will be seen at the Salt Lake ; jj Theater until after election. Tho thcat- rlcal attraction next to appear there Is . 1 i "Three Little Maids," which Ib booked M , for November 11 and 12, but Manager i 1 Pyper will have Sousa'a band at tho I Tabernacle on the 10th. i: - ! ' li Tho Grand theater will havo during , I the first half of tho week tho clover comedy, "A Runaway Match," pre- t sentcd by a company -which Is said to be an excellent ono. Tho plot con- , : ' oerns a father and a eon who havo ; , 1 rallen in love with a widow and her "!' daughter. Tho father takes tho daugh- : , ter, nnd the son tho widow, and they '. l simultaneously elope. The fun begins . i when tho quartette arrives at tho same I jj country hotel, and become awaro of I ': j each other's presence there. In order j to avert suspicion and prcservo their I ' sweethearts from being- placed in an 1 I analogous position, they register ns 1 j man and wife, although the marriage n ceremony haa not taken place. In their j H calmer moments, both father and son I j experience a change of heart, and at ' I I the samo tlmo mother and daughter !i fi have come to tho conclusion that they I have not wisely selected their partners. ! . Numerous laughable complications fol- ,1 b low. 1 1 1 , 1 ' "York State Folks" will play a return ' , engagement at the Grand October 31 j1' nnd November 1 and 2. "Across tho ' ;' J Desert" will be tho play for thrco i nights beginning November 3. '11" ... I'lHj Robert B Mantell was onco an- (!' I nounced to play "Richard III." in a ; , I one-night stand. During the afternoon it he went into a barber shop to get his 1' , Hassle face dressed. After he had seat- ! ed himself in the barber's chair, and 1 ' while the dusky tonsorlal artist was ' (' trying to get an edge on his razor, ho ( ; was amused to hoar the folowlng con- 1 j verBatlon between a customer in the 1 -J ! next chair and the colored man who , ' j j- j was patiently scraping off his beard: 1 - f t Barber Did you say you was gwlne ' . ! to de show tonight? ,' j' Customer Ties, I am going to see t j 11 Robert Mantell in "Richard IIT." '(.'! j Barber "Weil, I wouldn't go, 'causo 1 e ain't no good in "Richard III.," ' i 'cause he's lame, an' he's got a 1 ' humped back. H Hj - , John Drew and his charming play, ,!, "The Duke of Killlcrankle," which he I will appear In here next spring, still are 1 the petted favorites of tho New York Hi ( Jj; fashionables, although in tho ninth j j week of an engagement that has been one long triumph In the Empire thc- ' i t f, ; Charles Hawtrey has arranged to pre-sent pre-sent Isabel Irving in "Tho Crisis" In . -;ir' London next April. Mr. Hawtrey's ij tour In "A Message from Mars" will ,'! ! rver tho entire South and all tho West- ,. ' ft in. and Northern Paclflo territory. L The scenic effects -In "The Harvest- ; J cr," In which Otis Skinner appears at I , the Lyric theater, . are somewhat ex-ceptlonal ex-ceptlonal In their beauty. They were I ' painted by Walter Burrldge, who got ; ,: his inspiration for them in Canada the ' j 1 1 past summer, The llrst scene repre- i '' sents a harvest Held, glowing In the 1 I warm red-yellows of the summer sun, , 1 with the fair valley of tho SL Law- 1 '.' rence rolling away In harvest splendors 1 !! j to the river horizon. The second "set" i I , is a typical cottage interior of French- ) ji1"! Canada in the early fifties, with its 1 1!; I great fireplace, shining brasses and jlji low, broad casements, wide-opened to a j ij MtUet-lik;e scene of field and farm be- ( , vond, again glowing In the midday sun. I The third scene shows the interior of 1 1. ii" an an9ient village inn, with the somber 1 , I . srlades of woodland and hill In the 'IJ,!'. brown green tones of the dying day. ,1 The fourth act "set" is a picturesque . , j walled garden. The fifth scene repeats j 111 tne cottage Interior with Christmas eve !'. 1 amplifications. H I , , 1 , !):;! The Savaga English Grand Opera vi ill company, which is UT sing here in il March, inaugurated its ninth season In I '.!!'; Brooklyn with a repertoire of eight j masterpieces. The feature of the week ljj was an elaborate revival of Puccini's 1 ji '' ' beautiful "La Boheme," the operatic H 1 ,M gem that took musical Europe by storm ji ilj after Its first production in Milan. The 1 j jv if opera was another pronounced, triumph I ii ; for the English singing artists who had j' 1 j heen winning fame in such exacting ; ji. It works as Verdi's "Othello," and the 1 U Wagner music dramas. Next week the iijrjjt. big company begins its transcontl- I jlib nental tour with a chartered train of 'I' litl' twelve cars that la required to carry H ifflT 1,10 6lnScrs special orchestra and scen- jjl , lc productions for this year's repertoire. 1 1 1 ill km Writing of Nance O'Nell'a opening j (,' performance of the season, the critic of the Boston Traveler says: "Last even- 'P.l. lug at the Tremont theater the lnter- ; .y 1 rupted paean burst forth again. Again jj.j i) there was a serious play Sudermann's in' il 'Magda,' Again there was the crowded vh theater. Again rose the .applause and v aU lhe crlcs of 'brava-' The cult is still luu '-xtant, the worshipers are still true to lis 'he faith. Nance O'Nelt is not dc-throned. dc-throned. It Is pleasant for the rcvlev- H !(l i; ts to say this, for two reasons. Loyal- :jj ' 'y is a wholesome trait and pluck is H ,.j: honorable. Bo3tonlans have one 'I,',' Nance O'Neil the other. I question 'S i whether It is not the unconscious realization of this pluck In this car- Itj t)tBt-eyed woman that- has won her !,i many of her steadfast friends. It is Bi ; : : gratifying, too, to bo able to note that her environment has improved. A management man-agement of intelligence and zeal hao given her a company that 18 an assistance, assist-ance, not a hindrance. In Miss O'Neil herself It Is pleasing to note distinct gains. ITcr accomplishments arc more definite, more certain than before. Tho stronger scenes lasU night wero played with positive and sure' touch. Tbey convinced. Tho lighter vein of the many-sided Mngda is still only suggested, sug-gested, rather than realized, but the total conception and Its execution appeared ap-peared 011 a far higher plane than when tho character was first played here by this actress." . Edna Wallace Hopper, 30 rumor hath It, will desert tights and tho lyric stago for comedy. "A Country Houso" . Is to bo her vohlclo. "Mrs. WIggs of tho Cabbage Patch" seems to be as permanently domiciled at tho Savoy theater, New York, aa ever 6he was in Louisville. Her stay has already lasted eight weeks, or more, and so far as present indications go she can stay thero for as many months. De Wolf Hopper tells a good story about a precocious little nephow of his, who Is his mother's delight. The youngster had been dressed for school and his mother was kissing him goodbye. good-bye. "Now, Charles, tell uncle what you arc going to learn In school today," said tho proud mother. "If I know that, I wouldn't havo to go to school," was tho prompt reply. Tho success of "Fantana" has brought before the public oyo another member of tho Smith family, and he gives promise as a librettist, Robert B. Smith, who, together with Sam S. Shubcrt, is responsible for tho book of tho new Japanese-American musical' conceit, is a brother of Harry B. Smith, and his first effort as a writer of lyrics and smart dialogue has won hiro many encomiums. Mr. Smith, who Is a graduate from tho newspaper ranks, Is a very hard worker and Is determined to succeed. Raymond Rubbell, who wrote the score for "Fantana," is tho samo who is responsible for tho tuneful airs of ''The Runaways," and his successful suc-cessful efforts In the new Shubert production pro-duction havo won for him a prominent place among contemporaneous comic opera composers. Mme. Schumann-Hclnk Interpolated the drinking song from "Lucrctla Borgia" Bor-gia" her great show piece on tho concert con-cert platform In the performance of "Love's Lottery" last week In New York. It was received with tho expected ex-pected delight, and will be ised during the remainder of tho engagement. Tho consistency of a supposed washerwoman washerwo-man of England In the eighteenth century cen-tury singing an Italian Brlndlsl is open to question, but perhaps It Is a step toward bringing Mme. Schumanu-Ileink Schumanu-Ileink back to concert work. o I Edith Taliaferro, the ten-year-old actress who played Puck In Ben Greet's recent production of "Midsummer Night's Dream," and who was seen hero in the cast of "Mrs, WIggs of the Cab-bago Cab-bago Patch," Is said to have the longest long-est part over written for a child In "Weathcrbeaten Benson." Ezra Kendall's Ken-dall's new play. Tho role Is only second sec-ond in importance to that of Mr. Kendall. Ken-dall. Not the least Important member of the cast of "Glittering Gloria," which will be here next month, Is Bohee, the English bulldog that plays tho part of Garibaldi In tho comedy, the dog "with an antipathy for red neckties." Bohee is a blooded English aristocrat, with a pedigree too long for publication, and whilo the spirit in which he enters Into his part Is such as to cause the stage employees and attaches of the theater to treat him with consideration, ho Is really of a quiet and sociable disposition, disposi-tion, aa is usuallj' the case with high pedigreed dogs of his breed, and he Is a great pet with the members of the company. His inherent bate of an Individual In-dividual with the bad taste to wear red neckties is really the key to the most amusing situations in tho play. w M m Richard Mansfield will Include in his repertoire this season a play from the Italian called in tho original "La Morte Chile," which the elder Salvlnl had used with much success. u Chauncey Olcott Is a good comedian, but he does not know everything; that Is, where old Neptune's sons are con-cc-rned. While cruising In his yacht last summer he met an old salt whom ho hadn't seen since his last trip there. "How are you?" said Mr. Olcott. "Pretty fair but a little deaf in my left car." "Well, you're no longer young, you know, and" "Dlvll a bit It's the age," Interrupted the old sailor; "sure me right ear's as old as the left one, and I can hear foine in that," o James T, Powers, who is playing his original part of "LI," the pilfering Chinaman, In John C. Fisher's big production pro-duction of "San Toy," has been accorded accord-ed an ovation throughout the Northwest, North-west, ne will be seen here In November. Novem-ber. e Master Gabriel, who plays the title role In "Buster Brown." is generally supposed to be a child, and women aro In the habit of raving over him. But Master Gabriel happens to be about 2L years old, though exceedingly small, and he scorns the "babying" to which he is so often subjected. m m The rise of Arnold Daly has been the most surprising Incident of the last twelve months, says the Now York Pres3. No longer Is there any doubt of bis permanence as a'star, as ho Is now on the leading list of the Llcbler company. com-pany. This is a )ong step for an actor who last season played the clown in ".Major Andre" and fiddled through an inconsequential role In "A Girl from Dixie." Charles Frohman must hold tho actor in warm admiration. It is less than ten years sine Daly was an office boy with Mr. Frohman, and one of tho favorite stories of the manager concerns hla amusement one day when lhe raw youth applied to him for a position po-sition on the stage. Naturally, Mr Frohman waa Indifferent to Daly's pretension, pre-tension, but the office boy had the courage to venture and the talent to win. Mr. Daly has progressed In periods per-iods of five years. Ho nursed ambition for five years before ho got a chance to walk the boards, and five years of probation passed before he attracted moro than passing attention- from manager man-ager or playgoer. He postered promoters promo-ters In vain for fivo years to finance him in "Candida," and then ho stogod the play himself. Arid now, with honors hon-ors crowding on him, ho has signed with the Lieblers for fivo years. On the whole, a record that any player might be proud of. Mrs. Brune. who was too artistic for American audiences when she played "Unorna," is making a great hit In Australia. She Is doing "Sunday" there. The ending of "Taps," tho new Kel-cey-Shannon ploy from tho German was too traglo for milk-and-water New York and had to be made happy, instead in-stead of logical. Instead of killing his daughter, the old soldier now shoots her betrayer, and thus destroys tho very import of the play, which deals with the iron bound casto In the Gorman army. The success of David Warflcld in "Tho Music Master" at tho Belasco theater, New York, 1b expected to send Mrs. Leslie Carter to London for a season sea-son in "Du Barry." Mrs. Carter was to follow Warflcld at the Belasco theater the-ater In a now play, but, as Warfield Is llkoly to mako a long New York run of his new piece, Mr. Belasco is considering con-sidering a plan ,of sending Mrs. Carter to Loudon until Warfield completes his run. Clara Wieland, a new "Peggy" for the Savage show of that name, claims qulto a cosmopolitan career. She has sung in London, Paris, Egypt and South Africa, Sho was born in England. Emperor William of Germany has been trying his hand at stage management. manage-ment. He has been attending tho rehearsals re-hearsals of the new ballet, "Coppelia," at tho Berlin Imperial Opera-house. A Slavonlo dance hung fire, and the Emperor, Em-peror, leaving his placo in tho stalls, wont on tho stage and coached tho ballot, bal-lot, showing them the proper movements. move-ments. Ho then instructed tho orchestra orches-tra how the music was' to be played, taking tho baton out of the conductor's hand and directing the band, finally turning to tho company and saying: "Yes, yes, you may look at me, but you know that my interpretation Is correct." cor-rect." Justin Huntly McCarthy has furnished fur-nished a new play, "The Lady of Loyalty Loy-alty House." Tho action passes during the Civil war between Charles I. and the Roundheads In England in 1G 12; the principal character is a woman, the King himself appears in it, and the pivot of the play la a conflict between love for a man and loyalty to the King's cause. De Wolf Hopper, who Is now appearing appear-ing successfully in a revival of "Wang," has been a "star" longer than any other comic opera comedian beforo the public. It Is also truo that he has to his credit as many, or more, successes suc-cesses than any of his contemporaries. Among these may be mentioned "Panjandrum," "Pan-jandrum," "Dr. Syntax," "El Capltan," "The Bride-Elect," "The Charlatan," "Mr. Pickwick" and "Wang." This; last mentioned piece, which was written by J. Cheevcr Goodwin and Woolson Morse, has proved the greatest moneymaker money-maker with which Hopper has been identified. Its original engagement in New York was of little less than a year's duration, while its revival last spring at the Lyric waa equally satisfactory, satis-factory, financially. ... x The children In Clyde Fitch's comedy, "Her Own Way," in which Maxlne Elliott El-liott appears, are very lively youngsters, and as Miss Elliott la very fond of them thoy give her a great deal of trouble. Little Donald Gallaher, who is one of tho best-known Juvenile actors on the stage, In spite- of the fact that he is only 8 years old. Is always anxious to disappear disap-pear Into unknown recesses and dark corners under the stage. In the first act of tho play Donald has to ride a hobby horse and owing to his reckless methods of straddling the animal he has frequently fre-quently been cautioned, by Miss Elliott to bo careful. The other night ho was such a rough, rider that he lost his balance bal-ance and fell off the horse, cutting his forehead slightly. Mies Elliott hurriedly hurried-ly picked him up and wiped his forehead with her handkerchief, when the little fellow struggled to be fres and said: "I am all right. I can fall like that every night." And the audience thought It was part of tho play. Thomas Jefferson, who Is starring In "Rip Van Winkle." has this to say to young persons desiring to enter stage life. "Don't do it, Unless you havo that 'divine spark,' unless you are prepared pre-pared to meet many rebuffs, many discouragements, dis-couragements, and are determined to overcome many obstacles there is no use going on the stage. The profession is overstocked, but many professions aro much the same. But If any young man or woman wants to adopt a stage career I think the best thing for themselves and tho profession In to get It hard at first, and if they stand all the disheartening disheart-ening Incidents of the first year or two and are still eager to go on, thej' may como to something. But as a rule they don't last. The trouble with most young people who attempt acting is that they don't want hard work; and hard, work and lots of It Is essential to an actor's success." Cherldah Simpson, well known in musical mu-sical comedy, has obtained in New York a decree annulling her marriage with Jose Vandenberg, who was the first oboe player of the Metropolitan opera-house. According to counsel for Mies Simpson, the marriage is annulled on tho ground that Vandenberg had another wif6 at the time ho married MIbS Simpsonland had not been divorced. Joseph Hart and Carrie de Mar-havo accepted a musical play entitled -"The Zouaves." by Roland Phillips of Harper's Har-per's Weekly. This comedy or one-called one-called "The Country Club" will be their next production. . ' Colncidently with the auounbement that Mme. Adelaide Herrmann, widow of "Herrmann the Great." will des,ert vaudeville after this aeaivju, came vn offer to her for a tour of eighteen week-? in Great Britain. She received a conA tract from the manugement of the new" Colosseum last week. The contract calls for her full evening's entertainment, entertain-ment, including the new illusion ln- vonted by her husband Juot before? he died, and which she hao, Just completed, together with her fancy 'dances and)th-er and)th-er features with which sho varies her programmes. Charles Hawtrey tells the followlng'of Bernard Shaw. Mr.iHaVwtrey had "You Never Can Tell" under rehearsal once, though he never got it any further, and Shaw dropped Intol the theater one afternoon af-ternoon to overlooklthe preparations, "I've cut some six or eight speeches out of the hist act," 'said Mr. Hawtrey. "They seemed to bo unnecessarily broad." "Umph!" said Shawi gruffly. "But they couldn't be played on the English stage!" the actor protested. "My dear Hawtrey," Shaw exclaimed, "you don't know how, glad Iam to hear you say do!" Lillian Russsll has sftgnedia contract with a New York firm", of theatrical managers, by which she. will bo tho star In "My Lady Teazle," a- comic opera. The book Is by John Kondrlck .Bangs and Rodorlc C. Penflcld. The music is by A. Baldwin Sloane. Tho, opera will be produced about holiday time. It Is said that Miss Russell will bo paid more money than any other comic- opera. singer sing-er has over received. Charles Morton, the "father of inuslo halls," died in London lart. 'wcok. Although Al-though 87 yoara of age, he remained in active management of the Palace theater thea-ter until a few days "bofore hisr death. A farowell matinee, at vwhich all the leading lead-ing artistes were to' appear,! was In course of preparation jfor the veteran's benefit. Tho Majestic theater, New ..York, had a souvenir night recently, when the fiftieth fif-tieth performance of "The Isle of Spice" was celebrated. The souvenir was a raro Japanere perfumo in a Jeweled tube. The perfume lo called Kana Abu-ra. Abu-ra. It Is a volatile incense distilled by the Buddhist priests for devotional purposes, pur-poses, and as a source of revenue to the temples at Kioto, Japan The formula of Hana Abura has never been written, Is always transferred from tho high priest to his successor verbally, and always al-ways jealously guarded. Occasionally the smart city man who endeavors to be witty with the rural-Ites rural-Ites he passes finds that the laugh. Is on himself. A party of New York actors were spending their vacation the last summer at a cottage near Kcnnebunk-port, Kcnnebunk-port, Me. They took up sailing with all the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of tho amateur, and had become be-come sufficiently expert to trust themselves them-selves upon their small sloop without a skipper to guldo them. In this happy state they drifted ip the small river that empties Into the ocean near their cottage under a gentle breeze. One of them caught sight of a bucolic-looking native watchlnir them with Interest from the shore. "Howdy do, Hennery?" tho New York thcsplan sang out. "Feeling purty well?" . "Middlin good," was the reply. "Crops good, I hope?" pursued the Broadway favorite. "How are turnips?" turn-ips?" "Wal, mister," was the discouraging reply, "wo don't plant 'cm wrong sido up, er. you havo got your Jib set." Sunday Magazine. The cast of "Tho Eternal Feminine," with Margaret Anglln as star, Is announced. an-nounced. It Includes Jennie Eustace, Maud Granger, Jean Newcombe, Sara Sumner, Suzanna Rowe. Blanche Stoddard. Stod-dard. Robert Drouet, Thomas A. Wise, Horbe-t Forrest and Robert Freeman. Rehearsals are going on at the Savoy theater. Horatio Parker, professor of music at Yale university, has submitted submit-ted four of the twelve numbers he is to composo for Mr. Perley, tho manager. man-ager. Fay Templeton hates to have her face described as striking-. She recently asked a reporter who used the expression expres-sion In an interview if ho would kindly state where It struck him. Tho scribe replied pertly: "It struck my fancy, that's all." |