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Show I. ' ..'III w f ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK. ? SALT L.AICE THEATER "Polly 'h of the Circus," nrst half of 4 woek, beginning Monday even- I lng, with Wednesday innllnco. I GRAND THEATER "In Mlzzou- ri." wltli Wlllard Mack and -j-4 Blancho Douglas. All the week, beginning tonight. Matlneoa n r Wednesday and Saturday. r 4 EMPIRE THEATER Popular- 4-- price vaudeville. All the week. ! . Matinees dally. , , Tho theatrical season of 1909-10 will open Monday evening i" Salt Lake, when Polly of tho Circus begins an engagement of four performances, three nights and a matinee. During tho summer sum-mer vacation there have boon several changes made in tho interior for the comfort of patrons, tho aisles have been widened, and to bring tins about eighteen eigh-teen scats in tho parquet and fourteen four-teen in I ho dress circle have been taken out. The footlights have .been lowered, so that persons who aro jusr, behind tho orchestra and in the front-row of seats can have an unobstructed view of tho stage". The two posts in the stalls, which have obstructed the view somewhat some-what from theso seats, will in all probability prob-ability be removed within a week or two. "There has also been a chance in the entrance, so that, tho crush about the box office at ench performance will be obviated in the future. The management had intended during the summer vacation to otherwiso change the interior by putting in a lobby, but theatrical people were fearful that such a elm ago would destroy tho acoustics of the playhouse, which are said to he tho mosV perfect of any theater in the country, and this idea was abandoned. aban-doned. Next 3'ear it js the intention to build a lobby upon the east; side of - the theater, and also a portico in front, but the balcony proper will not bo disturbed. dis-turbed. Manager Pypcr has booked all now plays, with three exceptions, for tho coming season. These throe repeals are Tho Man of the Hour, In Old Kentucky and Paid In Full. Among tho pla3's booked for iho Salt Lake theater are: Tho Servant in tho House, Tho Merry Widow. Dustin Farnum, Blanche Bates in The Fighting Hopo, Billy Burke, Honeymoon Trail, Tho Third Pegree, Leslie Garter, The Gentleman Gen-tleman from Mississippi, Chauncey 01-cott. 01-cott. The Soul Kiss. Gcorgo M. Cohan t in The Yankee Prince, in Old Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Victor Moore, Top of the World, , Tho Traveling Salesman, Fritzi Schcff, Louis .Tames 111 Henrv XIII, Tho Parisian Par-isian Model, Primrose "Minstrels, Wright Lorimer in The Shepherd King. Bobert Mantell in Shakespeare, William H. Crano in Father and the Boys, Savago's English Grand Opera compaii-, Robert .Fdeson. Tho Bound Up, Blanche Walsh, Tho Climax, ,osoph Weber, C. B. Han .ford, A Stubborn Cinderella. William H. Gillette, Maude Adams. I Tho Colonial will open the season on I . Sunday. August 1, with the Boston I Grand Opera compairy. which company j will bo hore for a week. This was to : have beon followed bv the now opera. Tho Sphinx, tho work of two well known Salt Lakers, Briant S. Young, who wrote the opera, and Professor John J. McClellan, who arranged the music, but tho presentation of this opera has 1 been postponed and it will likely not bo presented before October. Tho com-I com-I pairy had been partly organized and chorus rehearsals had been .begun, when it was learned that the Colonial orches-1 orches-1 tra, as well as some other musicians who were counted upon, had been engaged en-gaged for tho summer season at Salt-air, Salt-air, and could not be obtained for this production. It was therefore found necessary to abandon the nttempt. The I company will now be fully organized j and will be ready to begin work as soon I MISS BLANCHE DOUGLAS, As Kate Vernon "In Mizzoura." as the hot weather is over. Those who havo heard tho music of tho opera are enthusiastic over it and aro anxious to hear the complete work. The libretto is full of interest and action from beginning be-ginning to end, and it is expected that when it is presented it will score a big hit. Among the other good things which will come to the Colonial during the season, and which have been booked .by Manager Grant, arc the following: fol-lowing: The Bed Mill. Tho Bight of V!l': Florence Gear, King Dodo, The Virginian. Max Figman, Tho Girl from Hector's, Texas. Too Many Wivos, The Girl at the Helm, Paul Gilmore. Com mencement Days. Fifty Miles from Boston, Bos-ton, Carter the Magician. Balph Stuart, Ferris Hartman. A Knight For a Day. Cat and the Fiddle, In Wyoming; Tho Time, the Place and the Girl, Sunny Side of Broadway. Sweet Innisfallen, Tho Girl Question. Lion and tho Mouse. hi Dreamland. Sis Hopkins, Land of ISod, David Higgins, As tho Sun Went Down. The season at tho Grand opens this evening, when Willard Mack and Miss Blanche Douglas and the reorganized company of . Mr. Mack's pJavcrs will present "Tn Mizzouri." The stock company will hold the hoards until ny 111 August, when tho Sclmbcrls will present their plays. Tliev have entered en-tered into a contract with the Denver I lip.'itrical syndicate, who control tho ('i-and. to present their plays in Salt Uil;o at this theater. A lust of (ho bH111ho.it. .attractions was only recently printed in The Tribune. - Stock will ill the- Bungalow during the coining season. This playhouse will open September 5. The following players play-ers havo boon engaged for the nev Buh-gaow Buh-gaow Stock company: Lending man. .I0I111 luce, jr., starred last ' season in Henry Miller's "Great Divide;" heavy man, V. T. Henderson. Jirst season in this country; light comedian, Harold Kennedy, with Wilton Lackayc last season; sea-son; character, 10. .1. Carroll, 'last season with "The County Chairman leading woman, Bertha Creighton. two seasons ;i Frisco, two seasons in Kansas City, three seasons in Philadelphia; second woman, Miss Francis Grant, leading woman part of season with Tim Mur-phv; Mur-phv; juvenile, Thomas Pawlev. three seasons Woodward stock, Kansas City; Waller Craig, Woodward stoclc, Kansas season, two seasoas. Florence Craig. Tho Orphcum will open Sunday evening. even-ing. July 25, with tho best bill ever according ac-cording to Manager Winch. During tho vacation at this popular theater, and 0110 of the best in the vaudeville circuit, the management has had the interior rodocoratod throughout. Everv modern convenience for the comfort o'f patrons has been installed. Tho decorations will add beauty to the house, and as tho tints aro in light shades, the auditorium audi-torium will be much lighter than heretofore. here-tofore. Everything about tho Orphcum wi.ll be like new. Martin Beck, who controls the Orphcum circuit, has as-' surod tho local management that thoj cla6s of shows which will come to the I Orphcum this year will not only be 11? ' to the high standard of tho past, but will bo better, for the best vaudeville talent that could bo secured, not only in this country, but in the old world, has been engaged. Tho coming of the "Polly of the Circus'' company direct from Now i ork to Salt Lake next Monday for an engagement of three nights and a matinee at the Salt Lake heater brings to mind tho famous journev of the Augustin Daly coinpanv, of about fifteen fif-teen years ago, when Mr. Dalv personally person-ally piloted his famous stock "com pan v from San Francisco across the continent conti-nent to New York, and there immediately immedi-ately embarked by steamer for Lei.don. Eugland. This journey still holds tho records for a long distance in theatrical history. Numerous tales have boon re-latod re-latod by press agents an 1 boas: f til managers man-agers nbout the Jong journeys that their organizations have undergone in order to favor theater-goers 111 certain sneci-liod sneci-liod towns, but when these stories have been traced to basic source it is found that the journeys were frequently made in the minds and imagination of the promoters. In tho present instance, namely, the "jump" of Frederick Thompson's "Polly of tho Circus" company, from Jscw York to Salt Lake, there is no question. Frederic Thompson has done many big things aside from building the New York llippodroino and creating Luna Park at Coney Island the most famous open air amusement resort in tho world. Last season ho brought his throe companies from New York to Chicago Chi-cago by special train, which became famously known as the " Pollv Special," Spe-cial," and last winter he brought his sensational melodrama, "Via Wireless," Wire-less," from Nt-w York to Chicago on a train equipped with wireless telegraphy; telegra-phy; (he first record of wireless telegraphy telegra-phy ever employed on moving trains. When Manager George D. Pvper of the Sail Lake theater was in New York a few weeks ago, he called on Frederic Thompson's booking agent with a view WILLARD MACK, Presenting "In Mizzoiira" at the Grand Theater All This Week. to securing SOnie of Mr. Thoir.yson "s famous fa-mous theatrical productions for a Salt Lake season. Mr. Pvper 'a attention was drawn to tho fact that "Polly of the Circus" was booked for a special engagement in Los Angeles during the Elks' carnival week of July 12; whereupon, where-upon, he immediately requested Mr. Ihompson to break tlie long jump from ew York to Los Angeles bv playing three nights at the Salt Lake theater, and tho contracts were forthwith signed and thus the regular season of the Salt Lake theater will be installed .Monday mght with "Polly of the Circus." Tlie company will arrive here bv special spe-cial train on Sunday night. Tlie 0--ganizalion consists of thirtv-fivo people, peo-ple, embracing many names well-known on the mimic stage. Tho vast scenic equipment and circus features require three cars in their transportation. Among the circus acts, which niako up the great third act's circus ccue, are Peter Barlow's Equine Paradox, the famous St. Leon family of equestriennes, equestrien-nes, and a number of"' clowns, acrobats acro-bats and lofty tumblers. In addition to ihese are three thoroughbred Arabian horses, and several trained ponies. The circus act in "Polly of the Circus" occupies less than ten minutes in its action, but represents a weekly salary list of over liiOO. "Pollv of 'the Circus" Cir-cus" is a wonderfully written story, wherein strongly contrasting characters meet, mingle and mako a tale full of human interest. Tt is a pla3' for wives, children, sisters, sweethearts and mothers. A- special feature of tho engagement en-gagement here will bo the ladies' and childrens' matinee on Wednesday afternoon. af-ternoon. Polly of the Circus is n play bv Margaret Mayo, and tells the story of a little circus rider, with the iuhorn love of life in the sn wdust ring, and the yearning of a little equestrienne to return to her own people after she had been injured by a fall from her horso's back. Polly is a truo daughter of the circus; she knows no life beyond that of the. tent. Her accident brings her to tho homo of a clergyman. She does not understand her new surroundings, while her unsophisticated worldliness appeals to the minister from tho first moment, he sits by the side of Iho injured in-jured girl. Sho becomes interested in tho hi tale shown her by an old "mammy" "mam-my" and asks tho clergyman to tell her what the pictures mean. He reads to her a passago from the Book of Ruth. Tho play, from that moment, is worked out albiij? thoroughly simple and legitimate lines. Polly' wins the heart of the minister and learns to love li i in. She has no desire to return to her former life. Gossiping neighbors, however, tell her that her continued presence in the clergyman's house will cost him his pastorate. She goes back to tho tent and sawdust ring, where the minister later finds her and the difficulties dif-ficulties are explained away. Tho third act of Polly introduces the dressing room and the big tent of the circus, with all the glamor and imposing im-posing realism of its attendant features. fea-tures. The last tableau shows the reunited re-united lovers standing on the deserted site of the circus grounds, watching the wagons disappearing across the hill. The scenic production, particularly tho cir-ctistableau cir-ctistableau in the third aet.'is on the proverbial vast and massiic Thomp-sonian Thomp-sonian scale. Notwithstanding the evidence of plainly significant episodes in The Servant in. the Mouse, man' people continue 10 discuss the question whether or not Charles Rami Kenned- intends Manson to represent Christ on the stage. A single line in the published version of the play is a convincing answer to those who grasp its subtle meaning. When Mary says to Manson: Man-son: "Who are you?" ho replies. "I am ;" and pauses for a moment be- fdVe continuing. "I am the servant in this house." Even those who do not know that in the Hebrew language the word which signifies God also means "I" am," should recall Byron's famous liucs: "The I-lobrew word which means "I am." The English always use lo novern D " Willard Mack opens his season of siimnicr stock in the Grand theater this Sunday evening with "Tu Mizzoura " a great, play of American life bv Augustus Au-gustus Thomas. He has with hun as his leading lady Blanche Douglas, whoso popularity on her former engagement engage-ment was unquestioned, and a reorganized reorgan-ized company, thoroughly devoted to his interests. The play, which will run 1 1 10 -?vcr?k' wilh matinees Wednesday Wednes-day and Saturday, is the first of a series of successes which will be fully equal to those he producod before his illness. Some improvements have beon made 111 tho Grand to add to tho coin-fort coin-fort of the patrons. Largo electric fans will onsurc a cool houso and no effort 1 , THE MEERS GIRLS, A (J British Bareback Riders, with Sells-Flo to Circus, Salt Lake, Monday: Julv n. will be spared toi'mako the surround H ings ploasant. . B "In Mizzoura " deals with scene and happenings in Pike county, Mjq.lBi souri, not far from Lexington. j:m tBl Ilndburn, tho county sheriff, is in L, fP with Kate Vernon, daughter of the vil IP lage blacksmith, who has been re-irei" amidst humble surroundings, but njnfia fiP for an education. Unknown to her Radburn supplies the money for her ill W go to school. When she returns U $9 with a mind weaned from her friends vff whose homeliness of life and thought is V distasteful to her. A well dressed tR stranger appears on the scene, aiid'higjB polish, being in strong contrast to the'Bl rough manners of her associates, KatcS norniils his attentions and finally SB imagines herself in love, with him IS Mm Radburn 's love counts for iinucht" B though he continues to do everything IM ho can for her. An M K. Si T. train sB is held up by a lone bandit and Rail- Tm burn working on the f-aso brings it 9 home to T ravers, the flashy si ranger Hfl who has supplanted him in Kate's af. foctions. The express messenger from frX the robbed train finally recognizes Travors as the bandit. With the law JR at his heels, Tra vers flees to Kate's ffll homo and she. thinking she loves him Sfl makes everv effort' to save him. She 99 appeals to Radburn, who has followed H him, and he. to save her a broken 1 heart, allows the man to go. The devo- E tion and sacrifices of the sheriff finally j touch her and she sees her mistake, in m I he end rewarding him with Iter love, .w Mr. Mack will play the sheriff anil Miss m Douglas, Kate Vornon. Both nro toIor 'M to bring out strength of acting. The R rest of the company are well cast. Tlie .K play abounds in funny sayings and sit- B nations, but the story is strong and B with a thoroughly sustained love inter- est. There will bo matinees on Wedncs-day Wedncs-day and Saturday. ml |