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Show I Gossip About the Playhouso, Both Here and If At TFfell t JC O H A T ' H What Salt Lakers Will Have Presented tfe- Wm rasF 1 In tiie Flay nouses ot halt JLake 1 Thcm Th t way ATTRACTIONS FOR WEEK. ORPHEUM THEATER Advanced I- vaudeville all the weolc with daily BH matinees. '1 J Musical Comedy. ! SHUBErtT THEATER ".My Wife's Family." With the Allen Curtis j company. All tho week, matinees I Wednesday and Saturday. Motion Pictures. -I- LUNA AND ISIS THEATERS Motion pictures all the week -r Continuous performance. Mnnnger Sutton of the Orphoum, H promises an admirable bill for the week tliat opens with this afternoon's mati-nun. mati-nun. This program is headed by "The Mermaids," a really spectacular act that has been n sensation olflowhoro. A charming exhibition is that of tho Misses Maud and Glad3's Finmvy, two young womon who arc veritable "mer- Hj maid listers,'' and whoso exhibition of .swimming nnd diving and of difficult Hl feats under water aro as eduuutional as they aro spectacular. To youth and beauty of face and form is added a natural grucc of manner (hat pleases PHI all classes of patrons. Peter Donald and Mcta Carson will JHI present a short; comedy sketch which just now. when Scotch comedians and PH plavs with thistJo humor are so popular, is most timely. Jt is called "Alex Mc-Tjean Mc-Tjean 's 'Dream" and is described as a "Scotch singing and dancing comedy of plaids and highland humor." Mr. Don-aid Don-aid is a genuine Scotch comedian who PH iMijoys a wide popularity abroad and ( Mass (.'arson is described as a " boimie PH lassie'' who sings well and dances prot- PH til v. Tlie offering abounds in Scotch s-oiigs, Scotch, dances and Scotch wit JHI Tho impersonation of Alex McLean suf-1 ' i'ering from iho effects of "too much celebration at. the Scotch ball" is very , funny. He is introduced (o tho audi- Hj I'lico escorting a lamp post home from the Caledonian ball. Becoming tired he tiits down beside tho post to rest and JH falls asleep, dreaming of his old swect- heart, K0"ie Stewart. Together ihoy sing and talk until a policeman comes along and awakes McLean. Clown Zertho 's canino comedians will make their lirst Salt Lako appearance f on this bill. This troup of performing dogs was imported for tho Orphcum circuit. The dogs arc an assorted lot of PH , poodles, terriers and a slate colored gravhound. fifteen iin all. They belong to Zertho, who has trained them to do all sorts of fancy stunts. After tho dogs have been put through their paces r tho act is concluded with an cxeccding- lv clever performance in which the dogs ' arrange themselves in a symmetrically diminishing line behind Zertho, on whose back the No. 1 black poodle places his forcpaws while tho tiniest i dog in tho collection docilely brings up , , (he rear of a clamorous procession. Merry entertainment is provided by ' Lewis McCord and company in Fred J. Boamnn's farcical sketch, "Winning on pHI , Wind.", Tho comedian assumes the role PHI . of an impecunious youth engaged to wed the daughter of well to do parents. Because of his poverty, which ho has conccuJod from his fiancee, who believes he has plenty of roonoy, he invites his bride to be to come to his homo to be married. This homo is an apartment , obligingly loaaiod to him for three months by a friend and its luxurious-Hj luxurious-Hj ncsB dmprcBsofl his swoothcaTt and hor old. fashioned father nnd mother. He is put to all sorts of shifts to keep the truth from thorn when tho deception is likely to be exposed by tho necessity of ( providing meaJg for Iuh guests and by tho unexpected arrival of his friend. Associated with Mr. McCord in the i production aro Margaret Armstrong, ! Bertha St. Cladr, .loseph W. Fox, Ed- . ' ward. Lo Due and RichaTd Ball. ' Phantographa invented by Miss Grace ; ' Braham aro spcclacnlar novelties that ; have never heen. displayed outside of Hj , expositions and large amusement parks Hj ' and to transport this stupendous pro- j Auction each week requires wonderful : mechanical ingenuity. The Brabams I displaj' tho phantographs in four scenes. I Tho hafctlo of tlio Monitor and tho Mor- . rimar. is shown with Btartling realism. , I Another splendid scene is Brooklyn , ' bridge at night. H.: I Miss Mildred Morton, is an operatic i singer who has been received . overy- ' 1 where with great cordiality hy tho critics. She wings three numbers for fl each of which she is gowned -beautifully and appropriately. 5 Wentworth, Vesta and Toddy is the very unsnal name of a very unusual ; offering, which introduces a champion ': , acrobatic dog, which has probably j caused more comment than any other canino actor ever seen on tho stage. 1 New motion pictures and a fino orches- : tral program complete tho bill. ; With tho presentation of a musical i Bhow of exceptional worth, entitled, i "My Wife's Family" this week, tho I Curtis company enters on tho eighth M week of its engagement at tho Shubert a theater eight weeks that have broken all attendance records in tho history of ,'J that popular theater, and that have a firmly established the Curtis company, and ft;s show in tho affections of Salt ' Lake theater-goers. . Musical tabloids requiring one and ' i one-half hours for their presentation, ; I and with two shows given nightly at 1 popular pricoH are :.s much a part of : Salt Lake's theatrical menu as vaudo- Hb ville or tho high priced attractions np- : pciriiig at the larger houses. Not that ' the Curtis shows at the Shubert cheater appeal to a clientele that can afford . only tho medium priced attractions, for ; this is very far from the truth. The patrons of the clever musical plays Mr. Curtis has presented, cmbraco 'every class H, of theater-goers about the town, and Hj the idea is one so new and at the same H'' time so novel that it,appcals irrcsisti- Hf- bly to those who enjoy a medley of H:' tuneful songs, pretty girl, charming H: gowns, clever comedians, and an inter- H1': csting story running through it all. ' Tn selecting and maiutnining his com- ' panv at the Shubert, Allen Curtis has Hi used uvcrv endeavor to sec that the H; members of both the principals and the H; chorus arc especially adapted to the HV -1"10 of p;i."j required of them to play. H: I Mnyb9llc Baker, the talented and hau'd- H'j sonio actress whose work as the prima H: donna of tho company, has earned for her the enthusiastic praise of all who H': have witnessed hor work and heard her H'-, voice for the past two months, is a B graduate of the school of experience in matters theatrical. She started as a H!; chorus girl and won her way Btcadily to the front through various seasons of H-; musical comedy and character parts. In Hr the various Curtis plays in which Miss Hj Baker has appeared as prima donna H' at the Shubert, she has scored a decided H; and emphatic, personal hit, and her Hn gowns aro the envy of half the women ! about town who have seen them. Hl Wliat is true of Miss Baker is no less H; I rue of Lillian Sutherland, the vivacioua H, soubrette of tho Curtis company, H though in a different line of work. Mius Sutherland is a soubrette, worthy of the Piuuant. dainty and uoHHtiKHnd of an excellent voice and the ability to use it tho right way at tho right timo. Miss Sutherland is ii charming girl and the manner in which sho hay handled the soubrette roles of tho Curtis plays has won her instant recognition. The othor members of tho Curtis company, com-pany, among tho principals includo Charlie- ItoilV, .Tack Curtis, Ilomy1 Auerbach, BTarry Ford and Jack Collins, Col-lins, all of whom arc experienced artists, ar-tists, who were secured for tho Curtis companj after their own personal success suc-cess was a matter of general reputation. reputa-tion. This week's show at the Shubert, "My Wife's Family" will bo found well off the beaton path of musical shows and filled with more novelties than Mr. Curtis Ikih yet provided for the Shubert clientele. It is a play with more of a plot than has been the caso with the other Curtis shows and it ably portrays the machination of one of those gabbing, meddlesome, motlier-in-lawB so popular with the humorists and unpopular with everybody clso. its various roles will givo the members of the company tho best opportunity they have ever had for good work. Big things are in store for the Shu-bort Shu-bort patrons in the near future. Friday .T. C. Wolf, who has chargo of the various productions under Gonoral Manager Max Floronce. loft for New York whero for . the next four wooks ho will spond his time in securing for tho Shubert and tho Curtis company, the biggest successes in tho musical comedy world of the east, now electrical electri-cal effects, new scenery nnd several new members of tho company. This will Tovidc for a season of high claaa musical shows for the Shubert. For the new program .of motion pictures pic-tures at tho Luna theater, which oe-gau oe-gau Saturday afternoon, thero is a do-hghful do-hghful bill presontod of comedy drama and acrobatic pictures thnt marks tho program as ono of tho best of tho summer. sum-mer. Tho subjects aro "Under Both Flags," an American drama, and an acrobatic picture entitled "Tho Bar-rol Bar-rol Jumper." "Tier Father's Pride," dramatic, and tho riot running comedy entitled "Tho Wooing O't." Two new subjects, one a comody on-liitlcd on-liitlcd "Botty as an Errand Girl," and the othor educational, ontitlod "Hunting "Hunt-ing Bats in Sumatra," head tho new motion picture program which is on at tho Jsis theater. Tho bill includes a splondid new drama entitled "An At-cadian At-cadian Maid" and a strong now subject sub-ject entitled "An Unfair Game." As lias been customary in tho Isis and Luna theaters the last sovoral weeks, the pictures formerly comprising the bill at the Elito theater, which is closed for repairs, has been divided botwoon tho former two houses, and for that reason a program of unusual length and containing tho very newest and best pictures will be seen nt tho Luna and Isis this week, in addition to the new illustrated songs. The proposed Julian Eltingo road show, booked to play the John Cort legitimate le-gitimate houses in the west, was declared de-clared off by Mr. Eltinge last Saturday, Satur-day, according to Variety'. On that day. continues that paper, he informod his former managers, "Rogers, Lcouhardt & Curtis, that, having scoured sc-oured eight weeks from the United Booking offices, commencing August ,15, he would be unable lo proceed with 'the plans made for ham. Tho tour was lo have opened July 31 at tlio Cort, Chicago. Chi-cago. Several of tho acts engaged for tho road show arc in that city, ltogers, Loouhnrdt & Ctrrtis claim that thoir profits of the trip would havo amounted amount-ed to about $25,000, figuring that thoir share of tho gross receipts during tho eight weeks routed would have reached approximately $50,000. In addition to this thero has been an outlay of about $15500 by tho firm, thoy say, for "paper" and incidentals. A settlement settle-ment from Eltingo has been asked for by the managers, who lately organized. Tho Eltinge show was the most important im-portant matter so far handled by' them. The "blacklist" of tho United Book-in" Book-in" offices contains tho name of Mr. Eltinge, who pla3red in tho William Morns houses last season. No confirmation con-firmation could bo secured at the agcucy of Mr. Eltinge 's routing, though that the United has engaged him was reported re-ported within tho past few weeks. What used to bo tho old Grand theater the-ater is now rapidly being, transformed to tho modern up-to-dato show house; to accomplish this in time for tho opening open-ing which will occur on Scptcmbor 5, an army of decorators and painters aro working overtime on ceiling and walls obliterating every trace of tho old colors col-ors of rod and j'ollow that adorned the wallnfor tho past years. T.n place of thoso light orange, green and gold arc boing used nnd which promises to mako tho old Grand ono of tho prettiest the-tors the-tors in the city. Tho draperies of a light shado of grocn plush to match the other decorations will be put in place at a cost of $1000. Brass railings are being be-ing used to support the draperies and every detail of that department is being be-ing looked after by an expert, who has had special chargo of tho draping of some of the largest theaters in Chicago. The isles aro being widened and every precaution is taken for "iiblie safety. Considerable money is being expended to add comfort to those that aro behind tho footlights. To that end running water is being installed in all dressing rooms and tho rooms arc being thoroughly thor-oughly romodeled lo suit all modern requirements. re-quirements. A scene dock for the storing stor-ing of scenery not in use is boing built which will bo of great assistanco and aid materially in enlarging tho stage room. Tho last shadow of doubt as to the standard of each and every member of tlio company, was dispelled this moniinjr when James J. L'ogers. prosi- MAUD FINNEY, I Who Appears at tho Orphcum Beginning This Afternoon, lu "Tho Mornialds." dent and general manager of tho Salt Lake Amusement association owning and controlling tho Grnnd, received a telegram from William Ingcrsoll, who heads the company, stating that hp had at last succeeded in obtaining tho signatures sig-natures of all members of tho company which ho and Mr. Jlogcrs had selected for tho Salt Lake ong.igemont and thai; they would arrive in the city about the 23rd inst. The best royalt3' pla3s procurable pro-curable have been secured and will be brought on by Mr. Ingorsoll, who also secured the exclusive rights to produce them in Salt Lake. Theatergoers aro eagerly looking forward to the opening of what promises prom-ises to bo one of the best stock- organizations organi-zations ever in the city. With the old Grand no more, having been transformed trans-formed in a manner pleasing to the eye, tho playhouse will doubtless .become very popular. To bring this about over 0500O will have been oxpendod before the opening on Soptombor 5. After its kmg run at tho Bijou tho-ator. tho-ator. New York, liida Johnson Young's comody, "Tho Lottery Man," will bo scon at tho Colonial theater next Sun-day Sun-day for three nighta and a matdnoo. Members of the Old Grand Stock Company, 1895 mmmm ipi m' -a ' Photograph by Johnson. Top Bow, Left to Bight Hathaway, Tooker, Edcson, Chester. Second Bow Mrs. Chester, Ingorsoll, Fanny Mclntyro, Edwards, Rebecca Warren. Third Eow Miss Pollock, Hugh Wade, Katherino Jerome. Tho company, which is represented by Willis Maxwell Goodlino, as advance representative, jumps straight from New York here. Tho New. York press was unanimous in pronouncing the comedy com-edy one of the most delightful entertainments enter-tainments of the season. Though tormed a comedy, it is more in tho nature na-ture of a farce," containing all of those comical situations and amusing incidents inci-dents characteristic of farces which prove their worth by their popularity. And tho popularity of "Tho Lottery Man" is unquestioned, and " Lizzie, ? Bl who contributes so much l.o tho humon of tho play, has been one of tho most- ISKk talked-of characters extant among fll Broadwa3" attractions. wE Lizzie, by the way. is tho thin and ,3W elderly spinster who plays tho part of jH a companion, and to whom eventually -31 falls tho "lottery prize" in tho shapo' of a real, live, prospective husband. The liM latter, however, when he llnds the toils of into closing around him in tho form of Lizzie determined and relentless in jUt1 hor purpose to many him begins to B! realize the enormity of his offense ia iR offering himself as tho human prize in AM? a matrimonial lottery. To mako mat- gMf tcrfl worse, he has fallen in love with . ml a beautiful girl who spurns him when. s!io fiuallj- learns that ho has actually jgVfe beon the originator of tho scheme. lie v. SSfe fails to make her see. at first that ho had a good motive, which was to real- izo a sum of money in order That ho '8m might better provido for his little 3jM mother and "pal," as ho calls her. ZMt After providing endless fun for tho .a" audience, tho difficulty is straightened fflMfc. without resorting to imy kind of trag- jK There arc no quakes and chills in Jilt "The Lottery Man." The author and tho excellent company which portrays tho pieco provide a wholesomo and cf- SM! fectual cure for mental ills, for you will jwi laugh in a perfectly good, old-fash-. JaW, ioncd way when 3'ou see "Tho Lottery yM Man." whose humor is pure and spon- UVl tanoous and freo from anj' undesirable nll03". Tho cast includes William 3io-sell. 3io-sell. Vivian Ogdon. Lucia Moore, Fior- yUMM. enen TCobcrtson, May Donahue and A positive feature of next week's bill at the Casino, beginning tomorrow, f v.-ill bo a complete reproduction of tho immortal "Uncle Tours Cabin" in pic- turc. In reviewing the picture tho Now .1 York Tolograph saj-s: "Tho greatest 1 film production of the week was that of a MJnclo Tom's Cabin' by the Yilagraph . v p'-ople. Tt took thrco reel3 to tell thej Hlory, but it. was well worth it. This vj film will undoubtedly be used for years i and 3'cars, as it is a masterpiece produc- liou and the producers oxertcd rauclJ ' cavo and attention to mako it a film C subject worthy of tho Vitagraph 'Life? $ Portrayals.' Details in a production ofi . thi3 kind is ono of tho most essential! featnrcs. How well they havo carried this out can bost bo appreciated by see- Vi. ing tho film. Tho scene showing Eliza crossing the stream on largo floating -t pieces of ico i3 great. It could not Jbsj : hotter. In fact, many producers would) ' hardly attempt it. Everything was dono on an. elaborate scale as befits tha sto-3. Tho acting of all those takings '( part is excollont. and tho photograph ) could not bo improved upon." According to tho record shown b- af ' Ecdomotcr, which she has carried about or whonover sho has bcoa on tho stagoi during tho ast two years, Miss Julia Mills, ono of Fredoric Thompson 'W , "Girlies" compan3', has dauced 123tr i miles dn that time. Miss Mills declared J that there is no nioro healthful es- j Grciao than dancing and that solo dancj ing ospocially is beneficial, being ai ,i suro cure for nervous troublos. Among the many acts tho Orpheun people havo engaged for this season," aro Ada Beeves and Cissie Loftus, both) English, Miss Rooves' salary is rot ported at $2200 weokly. Sho has been dickering for several seasons with Amorican managers, but neither could nrrivo at a mutually agreeable pricej J Othor large priced f oroign acts engaged; Jm aro Alice Lloyd (return), Vesta Victo-. vR ria (now playing). Canullo Obnr, Gab ' Dolya, Bamoses, Tortajada and Alberfl Whclan. In the liBt of Americans appear ap-pear Annotto Kollormann (now playing), play-ing), Book and Fulton, William Farniun; , and company, Georgo Boban and com-t pany, "Ballet of Light" (now playing-, Lionel Banwmoro nnd company Elbert Hubbard and Elita Proctor Olds, among others. |