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Show Q . . - . . 5 Comedies, even farce, aTe always considered best for stock compairy pre-? pre-? ' sentation. Especially is this true of stock organizations playing in the heat- . ' ed summer months. Most persons want i.; pure and simple amusements during the summer. They do not care to burden themselves with too much brain work. Jf .They want something that will cause I i them to forget their worries and cares, t 1 And that's just what the Orpheum man- ', I agement has decided to present, as tho fi- I third attraction of the special summer , jv .engagement, Henry Guy Carlefcon's fa- Pft H mous corned, "Butterflies." No play ' could be bettor suited to summer stock K work. It is full of laughs and comical . It situations, and possesses as well many iji ' dramatic situations which hold one's . j I , attention from first to last curtain. t: Butterflies " is the play which gave v I 'Maude Adams her first "great chance il I , as an actress, and placed John Drew :(, i securely in the firmament of stars, tj . where he has remained ever siiko his first advent into that realm. The cast 'I j which presented "Butterflies'' for the fei i ' first time nt Palmer's theater, New J York, was a most notable one, .judging a" from developments since that time. T ! Most every member of the cast, is now i I' l high up in the profession. And it is said that '' Butterflies" being so clover I ' a. comedy, is responsible for bringing I . to the notice of the big managers the members of that first cast. ".Butter- I i flics" is the story of present-day so- I , ciety. It shows the nothingness of the P-1 mnd chase for social position. It holds r up before one's 03-03 the newly rich, k' the spendthrift, the worshiper of caste and family, and above all, it shows $ that, no matter how obsessed a man U ' may become by thoughts of a gay so li cial life, there is always tho uuderly- j iug .virility in every man. Hiram ' Green, a man possessed of a great for- I tune, but lacking culture and education, . is possessed of a son and a daughter. tho former a churlish cad and the lat-i lat-i ter one of those sweet, raro flowers t that .cannot be spoiled by money. He also is possessed of sevcrjil hangers-ou, who toady to him for tho sake of his .wealth. Mrs. Beverly Stuart-Dodge It , has but one claim to social recogui- f- tion her family, She has a most beau- rrl tiful daughter, whom she is willing to ; sell to the highest b'ddrr to gain a R 1 firm social pos'tion, Frederick Ossiiu a is tho hero of the play. Ho saved Msa E ' Mir'ani Stuart-Dodge's life, but the R I mother scorns any advances mado b K " tho 3-oung man because of his impov- K erished condition. Mrs. Stuart-Dodge B J desires io make a match between" her daughter and Green's son. Burrington. Ei, To snve Miriam any embarrassment. K Oss'.-r1 pavs some dressmaking bills of i tho Stuan-Dodgo family, unknown to oitlicr mother or daughter. Ossian. who If has always been a wild young fellow, .1 1 is brought to his senses by the elder I ' Green. Ossian accents a Dosilion in a : J ' banking house in New York, goes to j work aud improves his opportunities so !' well that at the end of a y?ur ho earns j jjjfi a. big promotion and an interest in the yj ; firm. BarringLou Grcpn makes himself j so obnoxious to everv one that his rath- ! JJi . er decides the 3-oung man must go to sea. Barrington is forced into enlisting f in the United States navy. Tin's leaves . the field open for Ossian. He finally ; wins the girl and receives the mother's ! I blessing. Suzanne Green is wooed and r nvon by a wealthy young Englishman, j tho elder.Green takes' Ossian 's mother' ' as his wife. Barrington Green loses 1 out entirely because of his oaddisbuess, as does also Mrs. Stuart-Dodge because of her snobbishness. ' Tho action of the play, which is in 1 three acts, is at the Green summer , I homo in San Augustine, Pla., during ! hi the first two acts, and at tho Green ! winter homo at Lennox, Mass., during ! 5 the third act. The time is the present. ! V Following is the' cast: ' ; I Frederick Ossian Earlc R. "Williams ' I Andrew Strong Lee Baker Hiram- Green Joseph Greeno Barrington. his son John Gorman j Nathaniel Bllscr. a tailor. . .Harry Bewloy Coddle, butler to Green Roy Clements t Mrs. .OsaJan Miss Hc-laine Hartley. . Suzanne Ellse, daughter to Green ' K I Miss Lola May 6 ' Mrs. Beverly Stuart-Dodpe tt 7" Miss Margaret SnyerH K ' Miriam, her daughter. .Miss Edith Evelyn f VButl-0fli?3,, will open Monday r. -i night and will continue the entire week, -1 with popiar-priced matinees Wednes- f I laj' and Saturday. i f . u L The Lyric was packed yesterda3' aft- ffj. ernoon and last night b3T patrons who pronounced tho new programme the best entertainment of its kind thc3r had . 1 oyer seen. The plain truth is that the programme is a decided improvement , over some that have preceded it. Ouo ' absolute novelty is the number called j "Tlje Streets of New York." Tho I central figure is an itinerant" Italian, 1 H 1 171 a street piano. He pushes his in- 1 strumeut upon tho stage and then, in a J wonderfully melodious tenor voice, sings a song about his sweetheart in old j Italy. . Then he begins to grind out rv ' music on tho piano, and everybody who v ' lias heard a street piano will recoguizo foj ' it at once. Children jn the bower3" B como on and dance. An Irish laborer i fn lus way to work stops as he recog- R , mzes the notes of a lilting Irish mel- ' 003". Ho drops his spade and dances a I lively jig. . A lot of humorous reparteo I is interspersed through the number. An- J 1 other big feature is the singing of Wal- 1 1 .ter Hvde in the Vilia number from 1 ''The Merry Widow.'' )J ; '- A' . ss Ha.el Joslyn. who hns been sing- 5 in with DeWolf Hopper in 'Happy- . ' iBndi in v'"h.icU shc Sfinff the part taken I by Marguentd Glark, with whom she R ' was understudy, is visiting her mother 1 Br, in Salt Lake City and will remain fori two weeks. She will leave for New . York July 13 and will likely be in Do- Wolf Hopper's company in "What Hap- f nToI,er,e'." ""ff the season of; 190S-1D0S, although she has a flattering 1 ' ofrer with one of Charles Frohman's1 - companies in "Fluffy Ruffles." In j S either case she will be understudy to tho I i Icittliiipr lady. Miss Joslyn has a host of (l friends hero who will be glad to know! how she is advancing. She will leave as-said on July 13, that day having no terror for her, aB her greatest success come 011 the 13th day of the month, I wkeu "er dressing, room in tho theater 1 . i ' 1 where she sanpj was numbered 13, as ; l4 as th, room ln thc hotel where shc V stopped. f K. - Over at tho Empire theater, on- Stato P1 " ' " 1 J p' Mi t' s'C MISS HDYTTTE EVELYN, Leading Lady of Orpheum Stock Company, in "The Butterflies." This Wook. street is seen the first moving picture ever taken in the streets of Salt Lake. This picture shows the parado of tho i United Commercial Travelers, in which so many Utahns took part. The work is well done and reflects much credit upon tho artists who took it. One has no difficulty in recognizing most of J thoso who participated in 'the parade. The picture will go all of the week, with daily matinees. - - The New York newspapers aro devoting devot-ing much favorable mention to a comparatively com-paratively new musical comedy, entitled en-titled "The Three Twins." The critics j sa3' that in the matter of libretto and music tho pieco is of a high order of merit. An interesting featuro to Salt LakerH in theso announcements is the fact that the lj-rical numbers were written writ-ten by Mr. Otto Hauerbach, son of Mr. Adolph Hauorbach of this city. Otto was a graduate of the Salt Lake Col-legiato Col-legiato Institute, and for the past several sev-eral years has been holding responsible positions in New York and. Washington. Washing-ton. Not long ago lie set himself to writing for the stage and to composition ' of scenes. In this line he has achieved I several successes, and word from him is to the effect that ho has under waj-1 several productions which competent j critics declare to be of exceptional value. With respect to "The Three Twins," the New York papers record the fact that tho musical comedy is achieving ji most signal success, fining ! the theaters at successive performances. Tho New York Herald, New York Mail i and the New York Telegraph cacli speak of the piece and its production in nigh terms of praise, and it is a source of gratification to learn that another of Salt Lake's sons is coming to the foro "of achievement. a it "The Servant in the House.'" acted by the famous Henry Miller Associate Players at tho Savoy theater, New York, has passed its ono hundredth metropolitan perforraauco and announces an-nounces a matinee for Jul3' 4th. The success of this extraordinary play has been the admiration and amazement of New York managers and critics. Ash-ton Ash-ton Stevens, the celebrated reviewer of the Evening Journal, sums this up in a paragraph u a recent article upon hot weather successes. Mr. Stevens, after commenting on the other plays now current in New York, said: "But most remarkable of all is the 'summer run of that mystical masterpiece at tho Savoy, 'The Servant in tho House,' Ppople aro paying two dollars a seat to sense the spirit of Christianity, to see tho sug-: gestcd presence! And in the watermelon 1 fieason! Is this, after all. such a ma-1 tcrial age? Has science killed the beau- I tiful legend'? Is tho human desire fori immortality dead because persons differ and creeds war? 'Tho Servant in the' House' answers these questions with a: great 'No!' ' That this drama marks' an epoch alike in modern drama, as such, aid in the attitude of mind of American pla3'gocrs cannot bo doubted. It is the one great big originality; of the present da v. . u it Adela Torno, who will bo the newest and one of the most interesting personalities person-alities in music in this country next season, sea-son, is possiblv tho only truc'artlst who ever played tho' piano in Alaska. Last season, before creating her San Francisco Fran-cisco sensation, to indulge her lovo' of visiting out-of-the-way places, Miss Verne toured the curious town of west-tern west-tern Canada, such as far-famous Medicine Medi-cine Hat, and then proceeded to tho Klondike. Miss Verne's first4 stoD in tho frigid country was at Skagwaj. In 1 this center of ice und art, pianofortes arc a rarity. In fact there 15 only one in the place a littlo upright in the town hall, which was bad before it left Seattle. With a pair of pincers Miss Verne's manager attempted to tune the instrument, but with scant result. Nevertheless, Miss Vorne's recital was a great success. To this day it is con- 1 sidered one of tho social and artistic 1 evonts of Skagway. The next one-night , stand was at White Horse. Tho Chinese laundrymen, throngs, some freak, owned the only piano in tno camp. He would not lend it until a committee, composed of the best citizens of tho community, 1 formally waited on him with Colt's 44's and a halter, whoreupon ho condescended condescend-ed contritely. Tho piano was moved c far to the chief dance hall of the camp. Miss Vorne's triumph that night was attested In lungs, the power or. which 1 was liovor heard at a Caruso night at tho Metropolitan. Bcforo departing on his annual summer sum-mer pilgrimage to Europe George IT. Brenuau re-engaged practically the en- I tire original company of "The Clans- I man" for that famous play's tour of the Pacific slopo next autumn. The organization or-ganization has been held together in- tact for three -years, or ever since the 1 first production, and it is known as tho No- 1 company. George H. Brcnnan personalh interviewed and tested tho ' abilities ,of not less than fifteen huu- dred actors before makiug tho final se-; lections. Instead of tho usual hap- , hazard bunch, he secured a group of : players thoroughly able to interpret tho life of Dixieland after the war and tern- I peramentally fitted to their rospoctivo , parts. Besides a large number of super- t numcrarics there are fort3T-fivo principal actors, including such favorites of' "Clansman" audiences as Frankio ' Ritchie, who takes the title part of Bon 1 Cameron; Eugenie Harden, Maude Du- j rand, Barr3' Maxwell, Ituth Hart, Violet Nersercau, M. J. Jordau, Murry Woods, I Guv B. Hoffman, George A. Linderman. J. Jj. Sweeney, John J. Flanagan Earl Lee, Edna Davis and Mortimer Hilchic. Tho newest combination talked of in 1 theatrical circles is ono between Julia Marlowe and John Drew, For the accomplishment ac-complishment of this it would be ncces- 1 sury for Miss Marlowe to leave tho ' Shuberts and pass under the management manage-ment of Charles Frohman. A short time ago it was said she was planning to go to England, France. Germany and Ital3; , but this idea appears to have been aba'n- , doned. She is now resting at her country coun-try home in seclusion. According to the story, Miss Marlowe and Mr. Drew aro to appear in .two Shakesoeareau plav-s possibly more than two but two as their chief attractions: "Tho Taming Tam-ing of tho Shrew" and "Much Ado About Nothing." There might also bo a revival of "As You Like It." Mr. Drew, years ago, plaved Petruchio and . Benedick with Ada Eohan. 4. v "It Happened in Nordland," the musical mu-sical pieco by Victor Herbert and Glen Macdonough, that served Lew Fields to good purpose the season following his separation from Joe Weber, is to take to the woods of the Northwest next fall. John Cort has purchased tho road rights and will send tho play on a long tour of territory that Fields did not visit. I David Warfield will open next sea- ! eon in San Francisco, appearing for five weeks, in three of his well known pla-s, and then working east b3' wa3T nP 'Prtvsi. ' "Mr. Wwrfiolil haa nnh jin- E eared in that section for years, and is reception will doubtless be a warm one. Ho sailed for Europe last woek and will remain abroad until next September. Sep-tember. t The avorago American who goes to London makes it a rule to see all of tho plays that he or she thinks are to bo soon later in New York, for it sounds qui t o ahead of tho rabble of first nightors to say to your next scat neighbor at a Broadway premiere, "Oh, yes, I saw this in London, but want to "sec how thoy will do it here." t u Next season, with Miss Maude Adams, David Warfield, Miss Grace George, Miss Anuio Eusscll and a score of other American stars appearing in tho leading theaters of London, a nice bright afternoon in Hydo park will assume as-sume very much tho aspect of Contra! park when tho stars aro enjoying their afternoon drive. H Tho change of title in Milton Eoylo's drama of tho West now running at the L-ric in London fools many Americans I who, seeing a plav bv an American I author under the title of 'A White I Man," naturally go to see it, only to ' learn within a second or two that they aro looking at their old friend, "Tho Squaw Man," which ran for an entire season at Wallack's theater in New York. Elfie Fay, tho vaudeville entertainer, it is said, will soon be married, to Lieut. D. Piettri of tho navy. Eddie Foy is now playing Hamlet. Ho is giving imitations of people well known in life, one of tho biggest hits being an imitation of Governor Hughes of iSew York. |