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Show M- ' i i j jj j ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK. . 'jij? SALT LAKE THEATER " Tho f 'i j Sign of tho Cross." j In . ORPHEUM Vaudeville, fljy , GRAND THEATER "The Parish k ; Priest" and "The Little Homestead." kit 1 LYRIC THEATER "The Stovra-way." Stovra-way." , . aj j j The stirring religious druuia, "The ij j j Sign of the Cross,' comes to the Salt Lj A Lake Theater tomorrow night, for four performances includiug a Wednesday! tt ;f matinee. 1 The story" of "The Sigu of the Iwfjl Cross'- is woven around the love of B ft? iii' Marcus Superbus. a Romun prefect, for Sjjni Mereia, a beautiful Christion maiden. iyn Although Marcus Superbus has been luw! commanded bv the inhuman Emporor nf, Nero to exterminate the Christians and nyir to spare none men, women nor ehil- Tl'Jl drcn he succeeded in saving her life fii!'l when it was iu danger, and when she IjjHf'! resolved to suffer a martyr's death , rather fhau renounce her faith, Marcus, jBfcj convinced at lat of the truth of her : ) r ' religion, went hand in hand with her to ! : f ' the horrible death in the Roman arena. , ' H It is such a sublime climax as this Ifi'ii that, has brought the "Sign of the U - Cross" to the wide support of the '; n clergy. Tliousands of letters have been received b.y the inanagomcnt from di-vines di-vines upholding with high praise the , VL ennobling influence of Uiis plav. The :' t't Rev. Geo. Van de Maier of St. Andrews i fjt ,1 P. E. church, New York, says: "I :Yi, verily believe you arc making at least f ;i six thousand p'coplo a wcok hotter for l I j their attendance at Mr. Barrett's rc- l ",! markable piny." It; jh Archbishop John Iroland, writing to (wl ne management, says: "T cannot but '6:l(flr applaud your ideas of putting on the ' r, boards a" plav. the trend of which is II' f purifying and uplifting. " I U' Although "Tlic Sign of the Cross" I Ufi has a peculiar hold upon church people, I'HL its dramatic force, stirring climaxes, ; l and sumptuous spectacular representa- .' U iion has made it a favorite play with : j regular theater-goers. i" ,. A bouquet of good things will be I t handed over the Orphcuni footlights on 1 1 Monday evening. The centerpiece will i, be Vasco, "the mad musician." who I , lays claim to being the only man in the 1 1 ' world who plays 27 musical instru- f I incuts in 15 minutes and what is J l more, he plays them, too. Vasco is j. from Lo'jdnn. via Australia and San jf- J" Francisco where ho joined the Orphcum J. J' ' circuit. The second attraction will be j ; the Two Wilsons, German warblers and 1 i 1 fun-manufacturer3. This team hits I' l'i both floors with their good voices and V their buffoonery. Their turn consists it in a French areial stunt which bears f fj the title of "After the Ball," and af- JJ jj fords plenty of leeway for daring feats t I; and handsome costuming. "Austin 1 , i Walsh presents something new in I! ; vaudeville iu the form of a ride on the I L "rubber-neck" car in Gotham. Thi.i I turn consists of a burlesque sight-see- 1 I ing lecture. A knockabout comedy act E ; L' is presented by Kates brothers, a pair v. ' h of eccentric acrobats. Dero a"nd Wil- 5 '!' son, comedy pantoinimists. will be on j i' the list. Their act is beautifully staged I )' and they engage in .Tapaneso manipu- c lations and barrel-jumping. The kiuo-. kiuo-. ' drome will be there also with "My Mothor-in-Law" for those who have a i ; weakness for comedy, and "Scenes on Lake Geneva" for those in search of serious entertainment.. John Wolfe, who presented "Tho : Moonshiners" at the Grand last season, returns with his excellent company for jl a four nights' engagement and We'dnes- I day matinee at the Grand today, pre- Jl , senting Daniel Sully's pastoral "drama, m . The Parish Priest." The plot is an (" : interesting one, giving tho true ring of V ! a good drama. Tn the cast arc these k-il I I plavers: J. F. Wolfe.. Herbert Dobbins, ij F. Ashton Magraue, Frank Rich, Robert nA t- i , Johnson, W. E. Dawes, Grace Huff, Jljl I : Nellie Long, Lizzie Johnson and Hazel If j 1! Tunper. The stage settings are effectivo fk J K and the costuming correct. Kfi "The Little Homestead" will be tho KlJ7; i attraction at the Grand theater tho Hj i Ij , last half of the week. The depths to Vmi 'r which an unscrupulous man will sink 111 5 ,n a desire for revenge is shown in the mJjlJ character of the villain in "The Littlo MSB;. Homestead." He seeks to wreak his mil ' revenge for an -imaginary wrong upon Efig his former college chum, through strik- W f j f j mg at tho sanctity of his home, npd in I' 5 ' a moment of weakness tho wife sue- I. rt ' ciimbs to the wiles and assists in wrock- i" I ' me her own home and happiness. Tho L-ji : - bitterness of her life thereafter is pun-lsjiment pun-lsjiment indeed. Rotribution befalls tho D II villain as' he is planning even moro n"I wickedness. Tho unfortunate womnn ' . creeps back to her little homestead to W'im Y atone as best she can to the man she K!jn '1 has wronged. In pity the husband I'.'mI opens the door to her, folds her in his i'n arms and brings tho smile of peace to - R I 3''nK Jnco i'1 I"8 words of for- tffi giveneas for tho repentant one. This BftWji interesting story cnlls for some fine bits fiKf of acting by the company, headed by 1kI William Macauley. t' J j I The Lyric Stock compan3' has secured B.l l for this week "The Stowaway," a play B$ A ' that has been presented with great suc- L it coes.throughout the countr3'. It appeals to all classes of thenter-gours, combiuing Hi l l4 EL;1 d a clean comedy and heart interest. The pla' is in five acts, with exciting scenes. In the east will appear all the favorites of the stock company. The fourth act, showing the deck of a yacht in mid-ocean, mid-ocean, will be produced with attention to detail. Channing Pollock's dramatization, of Miss Miriam Michclson's story of "Tn the Bishop's Carriage" will bo prc-pented prc-pented at the Salt Lake Theater on 1 . AT THE ORPHEUM One of the Kates Brothers, Eccentric AcrobaW Monday, December 17, with Miss Jessie Busle late of Charles Froliman's forces, in the star role. The book has dramatic possibilities and characters new to the stage, and 7rr. Pollock has woven them into a piny of undoubted strength, which was not altogether unexpected un-expected when it is recalled that it was ho who made the successful dramatization dramatiza-tion of Frank Xorris's graphic story of "The Pit " The play is strong, vivid and of absorbing interest. Its analysis of the girl thief is graphic, and the "life such a woman might lead is described skillfully and in such a way as to retain tho sympathy of the audience r Miss Maude Fealy, who is this season starring in Martha Morton's new comedy, com-edy, "The Illusion of Beatrice," tells a story reminiscent of the late Sir Henry Jrving, during her experience as leading lady for Sir Henry at the famous fa-mous Drury Lane theater, London, England. Eng-land. The story is, perhaps, best told in Miss Pcaly's own words: "The first week passed "most beautifully: I played all my roles, but the second week had an accidpnt which camo near being serious. I thought the list of plays each week would bo played in rotation as they were tho first, and as I did not appear in one of the plays, the one which was played the corresponding day of the week previous. I sat slowly finishing fin-ishing my dinner and asking my mother where we would spend tho evening, when the call-boy rushed into the room, saying: 'Miss Fcaly, the prologue ot "Bccket" is over and the overture of your act is on.' To this day L don't recall my sensations. I believe 1 was deaf, dumb and blind. Finally tho words, 'It is raining,' caught my ears, and I said 'Get a cab,' and rushed upstairs for 1113' hat. 1 never got the hat but came down clutching two hatpins., and when wo arrived the hatpins were still in mv 'possession. Fortunately T lived near the theater, so in a few minutes we arrived. I fell out of the cab, across the stage, stumbled stum-bled and ran inio Sir Henry. No ono had told him of my non-appearance, and the call-boy, who was my friend, wished me to avoid meeting Sir Homy; but fate decreed otherwise, so after picking myself up I fell upstairs, and Sir Henry's words reached 111c, 'Never mind, America was never left yet. ' And, thank goodness, she wasn't in that case. With the assistance of two maids I was ready before the overture had ceased. How it was managed! will never know." With the eight performances of "Madam Butterfly" last week at the Garden theater, New York, this grand opera broke the record for consecutive performances of any serious opera previously pre-viously given in this country. The longest long-est previous record of a grand opera is also hold by a Puccini work, his "La Bohemc" having twontveight consecu-tivo consecu-tivo performances in 18lS in Snn Francisco. Fran-cisco. The reoord in Europe is said to be held by Verdi's "Ernani," which had a run of nineteen performances at tho Paris Grand Opera. During the past four weeks the Garden Gar-den theater has been crowded nightly with music lovers and the advance sale would indicate that "Madam Butterfly" Butter-fly" might remain in New York all winter except for tho fact that Manager Savage has booked a cross-continent tour for the company. The entire com-pnnj'. com-pnnj'. with its orchestra of sixty, will bo-taken direct to Cincinnati Christmas week, and thence to Cleveland for Now Year's week, after which it goes to Indianapolis, St. Louis aud Chicago before be-fore starting on its tour to the Pacific coast. An itinerary of 14,000 miles has been laid out, including engagements in sixty cities. To accommodate his organization, or-ganization, Mr. Savage will charter a special train, with sleepers, day coaches and a dining car in addition to 'four baggage bag-gage cars for the scenic production. The company of one hundred and twenty-five people will be in charge of Ralph Edmunds as manager. It will appear in Salt Lake. In . its criticism of the revival of "Captain Jinks" at Philadelphia last Monday night., with Ethel Barrymore as Mme.' Trentoni. the character in which she won her first success, tho Leader . says of the playing of Mrs. Adams: "Annie Adams was a very impress! vo Mrp; Jiuks nnd commanded profound attention at-tention in tho few minutes sho was on tho Btage." Digby Bell is to end his long run in "The Education of Mr. Pipp" this month and early in January will be seen in a new comedy which Augustus Thomas has written for him. . Now that Blanche Walsh has surprised sur-prised all her friends b' becoming tho wife of W. M. Travers, an actor of small roles in her company, it begins to look as if no unmarried leading actor or actrcHses will be left on the stage. Earlier in the season Mrs. Carter had j become Mrs. Carter-Payne, much to the disgust of her manager, David Belasco. who does not believe in the efficacy of married stars. Also had Bijou Fernandez Fernan-dez married an actor and become knowji us Mrs. Fernandez-Abingdon. Other j marriages have occurred to make this season moro notable than most for tho number of matrimonial engagements among dramatic stars, and now Blanche Walsh, who two years ago divorced Alfred Hickman, has married again. Chicago Tribune. Mabel Hito is soon to try it alone in vaudeville again. I Charles Klein has bought an estate at Rownyton, Conn., and has named it Shirley. Manor.- So much for "The Lion and tho "M onso. ' ' William Winter gives E. H. Sothcrn one of his keen-edged ones iu the-columns of the New York Tribune. Says Mr. Winter: '-'It is made known that when E. H. Sothcrn presents 'Hamlet' in Chicago he will present it without scenery. He has long been accustomed to present it without llamlet." Lulu Glascr is eoing over to straight comedy and will soon be seen 111 Sydney Syd-ney Rosenfeld's new comedy, lho Aero Club." The piece is a satire on the ?.razo for ballooning. In some respects the church and stage are not so far apart. "The Actors Church alliance, an organization . to which manv actors and church people belong, holds regular weekly nioetings in cities throughout the country, aud at these meetings tho players nnd -many church people are brought together. Iho organization h:is : regular clergyman in almost every city of any size, in the country, and ho is glad at any time to be of assistance to traveling players. . The Playgoers' club of ivew ork. which numbers in its membership both actors and theatergoers, has several clerical members, and they take yarl with the others in the discussion ot current cur-rent plays. Manv dramas have clergymen as characters. char-acters. "andClydeFi tch has written few scones as striking as that "of the interrupted inter-rupted church wedding in "The Moth and the Flame." Chicago Tribune. Josoph Sheehan, who formerly sang in a local church choir, is now becoming becom-ing truly famous as a tenor. He has added so greatly to his name bv his singing in " Madame Butterfly" tliat a new style of pajamas has been named after him. Springfield Republican. Clvdo Fitch at a dinner in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, praised the originality of certain cer-tain French playwrights. " Originality, '"' he said, "is what above all things the drama needs. Too many of the writers of the stago arc like a Western friend of mine. , "A young lady said to mv friend: " 'Isn't it awfully awfully difficult to find new ideas for plays?' " 'I don't know.' he answered. 'I have never tried it.' " n Nat C. Goodwin, the actor, must appear ap-pear before the grand jury at the cali of District Attorney Jerome to explain when, where and how he succeeded in winning between $30,000 and $40,000 in gambling in this town, says a New York dispatch. The only thing that will prevent, tho actor's appearance before tho grand inry will bo his absence from the city. If he's in town one of Mr. Jerome's subpoena servers will get him with a summons from the ' grand jury room. It was reported several days ago that Goodwin had' sat in a little game which lasted for hours and that when the game ended .he was anywhere from $30,000 to; $40,000 to the good. Mr. Jerome knows the press agent tale when he sees it but. he concluded' there wau truth in the story about Goodwin's. winnings. The District At- i it ' ' tornoy is particularly anxious to know whore such games arc permitted and other details concerning thorn that Nat Goodwin can probably supply if urged to do so before tho graud jury. . Edwin Markham, the famous author of "The Man With the Hoe," is a bitter opponent of child labor. Discussing Dis-cussing the effort that he is making toward the reform of the child labor laws, Mr. Markham said rcccnth. "1 would abolish, too. the contemptibly contempti-bly unjust system of fines. What right has an employer to fine a hand an hour's pav for fito minutes' lateness? What right has he because the hand has (1 uhingcd some goods 2 cents' worth, to line him a dime?" Mr. Markham, after a moment's pause smiled. "I wish to goodness," he said, "that ever' victim of the despicable fine s3srom had tho same- story to tell as an actor 1 heard of 3'estorda-. 'Thi9 actor worked under a manager who was a great liner. For a bad mako:up, for lateness, for noise in the wings, for a hundred things tho pla3'.-ers pla3'.-ers were bilked from a quarter to two dollars Tho worst of all tho tines was one of ten cents for failure to return 'properties,' for this was a duly. that every one continually forgot. "In a financial drama one night tho supply of stage mono ran out, and the manager loaned an actor eight or nine dollars in real bills to use in the next scene. "The mnnager said stonily to the actor tho following fen.turda3 ".'B- tho wa3, Booth, 3011 haven't roturncd that. nine dollars! gave 3011 in act 111 Monday night.' " 'Novor mind' said tho actor, 'Just fine me a dime' " LOCOMOTIVES ON STAGE. Some Plays Which Demand an Engine for Tlioir Chief Effect. To that ecccntricitv in human nature that makes a man vny a dollar and a half to see on the stage that which he would not give a nickel 1o sec in real life, tho theatrical managers owe hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars. Manv of these dollars have enme to them i through their mimic exhibitions of rail-! rail-! ronding, ami this season sees the "real' locomotive on the stages of some theaters to which it had never penetrated before. In ''Tho Lovo Route," for inst'ince, whieh is an attraction at-traction of tho highest class, there is a locomotive that in a full cousin to the locomotives that have rushed across tho melodramatic st.nges for eurs. indeed, the engine in "The Love Route" comes prrijouply close to, being the main attraction at-traction in the play, a 'id this notwithstanding notwith-standing the fact "that. Guy Standing, as.. .black a singe villain us over bit his finger nails, iu "The Love Route" phiys heroic young man iu a whits soft shirt. Tho prevailing crnzc for dramatizing the cowcatcher and the engine-cab lias affected oven William Gillette-. In "Clarice." his play of this year, he lias left wars and detectives behind him, and the closest he comes to effecting a big scenic or mechanical illusion is to introduce a railroad train off stage. George M. Cohan, who believes that one might as well be dead as out of fashion, fash-ion, lias a railroad train in "Forty-five "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway." This train is both seen and heard twice. 0n.ee it carries the young hero to the Ik. SMtMmM t-Wfe MISS GRETCHEN SHERMAN In "The Little Homestead, " Grand Theatre, three nights, starting Thursday Evening, December 13. city, and again it transports the villain, mother aud her darling daughter. George Ade. who has not hesitated to dramatize a football game and an election elec-tion night, sidestepped the railroad. True, there is a railroad train in "Tho Count3- Chairman," but it is off stage. This is the train upon which Jim Hack-ler. Hack-ler. the count3 chairman, comes back to his home town after having nominated nom-inated his 3'oung law partner for Congress Con-gress against, the father of that law partner's fiancee. The Ado train, liko all others that run off the stage, is composed of a couple of stage hands and a noise machine. Lincoln J. Carter, to whom the stage owes so man effects, reached his ultimate ulti-mate locomotive triumph in "Bedford's Hope." This is the phn in which he has a locomotive race an automobile. Ono actress at least owes her pleasant place in the theatrical business to a papier machc and canvas rnilroad train. This engaging j'oung person is Florence Bindle3. who is better known to somo sections' of her public as "tho girl with the diamond dress." She derives this sobriquet from the fact that she woars a dress that is covered with 'jets that look like diamonds if tho looker is far enough from the dress at the time ho looks. She used to star in a thriller called "The Pay Train." As the train rolled out of the way station nnd all seemed lost, Miss Bindle3. not to be foiled, used to jump on the rear platform plat-form of the last car nnd be whirled away to glory. Florence Bindle3rnnd "The Pa3 Train" attained much fame throughout the country for a long time. Also "The Midnight Fhcr" could not got along without the canvas-backed flyer. It flies in three separate companies com-panies throughout tho United States. Possibly the funniest dramatization of the railroad that ever was attempted' was the old piece called "Fun in a Pullman Car," that the famous Mcstaj'-cr Mcstaj'-cr family plaved inan3 yen re ago. They plaved "wo," Us & Co.," too, but their Pullman sketch was what the present-day present-day vaudeville performer would denominate denom-inate as a "scream." In "The Ninety and Nine,'' which was written by a Chicago man. a locomotive dashed mad-1 mad-1 through a burning forest. In other plnys other engines nave dashod more or less madly through gang3 of train-wreckers, train-wreckers, irain-robbers and other dangerous dan-gerous Liontrv, but always have emerged with distinction. Malingers p.i3 that a railroad train in motion, with steam and smoke pouring from the locomotive, with the bell ringing and the whistle screaming, is a moro reliable manufacturer manufac-turer of fictitious enthusiasm than aii3 device that it is possible to put on tho stage. Springfield Republican. Mixed ou His Dates. ' Some daj somo poet of sufficient caliber cali-ber of greatness will writo the epic of the "one-night stand." Meanwhile that poem is recited by all great hearts Ii-s Anita Allen, as Steuhcnus, and Harry Mcrton, aa the Patrician, in tho "Si or. ok' The Cross. " who have to travel that route in order to fill in between tbe longer dates. Vet if v. tiling lias its hardships, it has. too. its humorous bid?, ' although it comes onlv too rareh to Oie surface. During Mi's Shannon's co-starring tour with Herbert Keicey in "Sherlock Holme.-," tliC3 nip-do a tour of tho Pacific Pa-cific coast, playing ti great number of one-night stands with flattering finan-ciiil finan-ciiil return, althoujili with considerable wear and tear upon their nerves. So man3 places werii visited that even those members of the eompain who had re'.cn ' e memories became confused con-fused as to tiio precise 0113" iu which the3 wore playing. Mr. Kc.lecjv who was scoring a great success in the part made Vamous b3 Mv. Gillette, was one of tho most forgetful, for-getful, and after a time be- e quite 'befuddled, though ho tried n best to figure it out. One night h'.- ri. railed upon to make a speech at th v.ielu-'sion v.ielu-'sion of the third act. He -...o forward, for-ward, full of confidrnco. and V made his speech, a grateful little spec!,. He alluded to tho cordial reception which ho had just receivcid, and he expressed .the pleasure which he always experienced expe-rienced in visiting Fresno. Nay, more, he paid a glowing tribute to the oity of Fresno, to the enterprise of the citizens of Fresno, the ch;:rni of tho buildings of Fresno, the gL-catucss of tho resources re-sources of Fresno, Mc. To his ania:.cmcit his speech was received re-ceived in utter silence. When the curtain cur-tain went down he turned to Miss Shannon, Shan-non, who was trying to control her laughtor. " Why, 'what's the matter?" he said. "Oh, nothing," she replied, "except that this is Sacramento " The Bohemian. |