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Show I AMUSEMENTS ! IN SALT LAKE THEATERS. .j. 'I- Concert. v SAVJ' J-AKU THIiATJSrt Miss ! JVIary Kimball, Miss Sybclla Clay- y ton and Professor Willard Wolho. I v Bcncllt of orphans' home. Even- -I-ing. S:1D. l-.J. l-.J. .f. Comedy. COLONIAr. THJ'JATJ-2U "Mary .rano'.s Pu." AVI Hi Max Flginun. I- Evening. 8:15.' ! . I Drama. v GAIlltlCK TH liA.TISU "Tlir. Iron--I master" with William Ingersoll -I h and company. I5venlnc, S:lo. - v Musical Comedy. SIIUB13P.T TMlSATUIt "Tim Giti ! and the Prince." ICvenlng. 7:0 and 0:15. . ; .j. v Vaudeville. v ORPHKIJM. THICATKR Advanced 4- vaudeville. Matinee, 2:15. ISvcn- ing, b'.-lo. .? I- CASINO THIi'ATJSK Fisher vaudo- I vlllc. Mntinees daily. Continuous performance. K v .Motion Pictures. ! EMTIO. LUNA AND Ib'IH THE A-Y A-Y TEKti Continuous performance. ! r All the week. Malincos dally. MISSION THEATER Matinee and J evening. Continuous perform- I- ancc. All week. Matinees dally. j A goo laugh a minute, where laughs aro in order, was the consensus of opinion of an audience IFrnt may bo classed as tho largest and most enthusiastic or tho season at tho Colonial Sunday night. Ma:; Fignian, that clean, crisp, utterly human comedian, was tho provocation. "Mary Jane's Pa" has been presented In Salt Lake before, having made a record for patronage at tho Colonial last season, sea-son, but captivated again tho fancy and spirits of those who saw the play Sunday Sun-day nighl. The story of Mary Jane's Pa really begins eleven years previous lo the opening open-ing o( the play. Hiram Perkins, talented, talent-ed, educated, but endowed with the spirit of wanderlust, yields to the call of tho world' to "live." leaving his young wife, to battle single bunded for Uio necessities necessi-ties of life for herself and her two babes. Eleven years pass, at the end of which time i.s tho time of the. opening of the first act of the play. Tho wife is shown' in her homo environment, a charming matron, living quietly but Industriously with her two children in the littlo home that sho had succeeded in getting together to-gether and maintaining through the successful suc-cessful conduct of a small print shop in Gosport, Indiana. The evening meal Is over, tho children In bed, the mother Is making ready lo retire. A man entciv the house, thief-like. thief-like. It Is Hiram Perkins returned. Tho wife' Is surprised for a moment, then angry. She olfers hlni a position as general gen-eral housekeeper, cook and . roustabout. To her surprise he accepts. 1 lis presence, unexplained save by his occupation, arouses the gossips of the village. "A man hired girl" doesn't appeal to the moral souses of the rural Inhabitants. Through the wife's influence, as the editor of a newspaper, alio arouses the wrath of one of the influential citizens, who is an aspirant, as-pirant, for political honors, but whom the editor opposes in the colums of her paper. As thij result of her paper's policy her print shop is broken down and the plant destroyed. This mob marches to her home, with tho idea of tar and feathering feath-ering the "man hired girl." The wife makes known the fact that tho "man hired girl" is none else than her husband, hus-band, which serves not only to disperse the mob quietly, but livings husband and wife together in a most effective manner. man-ner. Max Flgman is not a strong man; he is not big; neither Is he reserved, but his acting is' so line, so compelling his personality, per-sonality, so luscious and refined ills comedy, com-edy, that he imparts the impression of being all these, effacing the stage Illusion Il-lusion and seemingly building definite realities. Mr. Plgman, as Mary Jane's Pa. at times Inspires In (ho minds of his audience tho most supreme contempt because be-cause nf tho shiftless, no-account character char-acter ho Impersonates. This feeling is immediately swept away by an utterance, utter-ance, or an action which invariably brings forth a smllo or a laugh, holding to himsHf tho sympathy of his audience. The man who can provoke a laugh, and create a c:h.iracler Mr. Pigman is unquestionably un-questionably master of the former, and the character cannot lie Imagined placed In more competent hands must know all the requisite sensations before he can exploit an appreciable brand of it. lie does and feola these things AV'ilh no less credit the character of Portia Perkins. a.s impersonated by Hel-ene Hel-ene Lackaye. is given. She does her part with fine regard for the details which ro-sults ro-sults In a most pleasing, finished portrayal. por-trayal. Dorothy McKay as the lovable sweet, winsome Mary Jane, wins the hearts of her audience with her first utterance ut-terance She is a beautiful child, her acting is not" stoical, nor in the least stagy juvenile; she i.s just, what she endeavors en-deavors to be a kid. The cast Is a large one; there is not a mlstlt in any Instanc'. Many of the faces aro familiar, famil-iar, having been seen in the same placo here; before "Mary Jane's Pa" will play the week, with the tiKual matinees. The train bringing the players to this city was late, consequently tho curtain was about Iwentv minutes late In rising, and the piece 'it sol' being a lit tic longer Hum tho average play, brought the performance to a close after 11 o'clock. But no one left his seal, which is indication sufficient suf-ficient to stamp the play as being one of the best that has ever appeared at the Colonial. You must see "Mary Jane's Pa." j The prestige of the William Ingorsoll company was still further enhanced Sunday Sun-day evening at the. Curricle by the splendidly splen-didly rendered "The Ironmaster, with which this excellent stork company began be-gan Us eighth successful week in Salt Lake Cltv. "The Ironmaster" affords many opportunities for acting of a high character. It Is by no means an easy matter to take a tangle of a disappointed, disap-pointed, disgusted wife loving ono other than her husband: an equally disappointed disappoint-ed and disgusted husband who, after securing the realization of the dream nearest his heart, finds that his wife is not his own after all. bringing throughout through-out four acts that peace and devotion which makes lil'o worth while aiu-r all. In the first act. Alarqulse de Beaulleii. a proud and aristocratic woman, tlnds her fortunes forfeited by the loss of a lawsuit. 1-Ior daughter Claire is engaged en-gaged lo her cousin Gaston, the Due do Bligny. Gaston Is reduced to dire financial finan-cial ncd hv virtue of vulnous gambling ventures, and sells his honor and soul to Monsieur Moulinel. Athenals herself brings the news of hor engagement lo Claire- At tills point. Philippe Derblay, the ironmaster, appears opportunely on the scene, a worshiping yet distant suitor, and Claire, to hide her bitterness bitter-ness and the fact that .the Due had deserted hor after' the loss of her own and her mother's fortune, accepts tho ironmaster. They were married. The Ironmaster llnds. however, that his wife still loves the Due ami the Due determines to possess her, although she Is the wife of another, A quarrel ensues, en-sues, a dul Is fought and the. Ironmaster Iron-master la waved by the act of his wife receiving the Due's bullet, throwing herself her-self before her husband at the lime of firing. The wife had discovered she loved the man she married, and the final curtain falls 011 a happy reconciliation. Mr. Ingersoll as Philippe, as usual, came up to all expectations. Miss Nell-uon' Nell-uon' as Clalro carried a difficult part with charm and skill. The members of the company, one. and all, nre artists and salV-ly established as favorites of Salt Lake theatergoers. "The Ironmaster" Ironmas-ter" goes all week with the usual matinees mati-nees Judging from the appreciation of the large audience last evening tho Gar-rick Gar-rick will have a record run this week. And it deserves It. Great caro Is taken In the stage arrangements, the settings being genuinely artistic and pleasing to the eye. Them will bo matinees Wednesday Wednes-day and Saturday, Again ilnus tho Ornheuni bill Tail to-come to-come up lo expectations. Tho bills are not up to alaadard ami Uiem ai: Leo inaiiv- a ls returned hero to be rehashed over." Not but what some of these acts bear repetition, but playgoers who attend at-tend vaudeville demand something new. There are now acts and plenty of them in this country. Tbev am Jinncaring In vaudeville houses in the oast and on the coast. Possibly tho booking office of the Orphouni started off loo brisk this year, but. whether or no, tho bills which came earlier in the season wero exceptional ones, and playgoers possibly have their expectations of the season built up too high. Regardless of tills, however, the bills must be bettered or the gold mine will fail lo pan as In tho past. On tho bill at the Orphouni thhi week are two acts that have been hero before be-fore and they aro Just as good now as on their first appearance. One is "Jack, the Giant igilcr," In which George Auger, who is eight feet two Indies in height, and his company. Including two nildgcls, appear. Their act Is a strenuous one. and it includes a real giant aid a-giant killer In the person of JOrncst rtommcl. The act Is handsomely staged and appeals ap-peals to old and young alike. That It was appreciated was shown by the curtain cur-tain calls. & The sketch, love finds the way, in "Sweethearts," as presented by Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Connelly. Is Just as pretty. Just as well acted. Just. as. handsomely staged a.s when II was presented hero two vears ago. There are two scones in the sketch, and the story told la a simple one. but always a sweet story. J it the Krags trio are aeon phenomenal phenome-nal gymnasts. There aro two men and a woman, perfect physical specimens of men and women, and in their act there are fcabi which require great physical endurance. , ... Arthur Bowcii, a cartoonist, adds to Ills work of being a clever artist that of a singer and his act is the onj now one on tho bill. , "Lem Put," a singing, clown, gives some clever voice Impersonations and imitations of animals and musical instruments. in-struments. The remainder of Ihc bill is fair. It will run the week with daily matinees. Two performances nightly and each crowded to the limit, tells Its own story as to the popularity of tho Allen Curtis Cur-tis company, now playing Its latest offering, of-fering, "The Girl and the Prince," at the Shubert. Sunday night: several hundred hun-dred people stood In line during the first iK-rformaucc In order to get seats for the second. "The Girl and the Prlneo" is a well written musical comedy. come-dy. Interspersed wilh catchy songs, pleasing pleas-ing specialties and an under current of seriousness that go lo make up a well balanced entertainment- "The Girl and the Prince" continues tjuoughout the week with niatlncc Wednesday. The seat sale for the magnificent con-cert con-cert lo bo given at the Salt Lake theater thea-ter will open Ibis morning at the box office, but the sale will bo a mere formality. for-mality. Tho seats have all been disposed dis-posed of except a mere handful, by the ladies of the orphans' home board, ami the house will show an audience such as Iho best musical event seldom brings out. The three artists who have worked so hard to make of Hie affair a. great artistic as well as a financial success are all in splendid trim for the evening, and everything goes to show that the concert will be one .of the musical events to which Salt Lake will look back with pride. The artists arc Miss Mary Kimball. Kim-ball. Miss Sybclla Clayton and Professor Willard Wclhc. "The Fortune Hunter," heralded as America's best comedy. Is announced for a live nigh Is' engagement, beginning Tuesday evening, October -", with matinees mati-nees Wednesday and Saturday, at the Salt Lake theater, with Fred Nlblo In the title role, supported by the same original company which presented this famous comedy In Chicago for a year's engagement, and Includes Alma. Belwin, Allyn Marshall, Lento Fulwell. Kcglnla Connelly. Frank Bacon. Shelly Hull. Phil Bishop. Frank Boumon. Kdwnrd Gibbs, Avon Breyor, Edward Saxon and James Spclvin. For two years tills iie-v llghtlul play filled the capacity of the theater In New York, and in Chicago the same stale of affairs existed for a season of one year, und was praisod by the press, the public and the clergy alilce. Tho comedy is the. delight of those who support a clean stagy upon which honesty of purpose Is combined with brilliancy of execution. Dr. Parkhurst, the Itcv. Madison C Peters, ihc 'Uev. Dr. Akod. Professor Felix Adler, the Uev. Dr. Sllccr have urged their congregations congre-gations to visit "The Fortune .Hunter" from the pulpit, and the leading newspapers news-papers of Ncv York have editorially championed Ihc comedy as one that every reader, young and old. should sec. This is becauso the piece is such a wonderfully interesting play and so coin-plotply coin-plotply and vitally American. |