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Show iji S" "t 3ALT LAKEr" I - B VjCT 1 SALT 'LAKE THEATER anxrick ! 'A X payers will present ".Salvation j Nell" all week, with matinees 1 Thursday and Saturday, beginning 1 Monday night, April 7. I COLONIAL T11EATKR "Graua- 1 tark," last performance this even- I Ing; curtain. 8:15. Beginning Mon- 6g day night, for three nights and a matinee. William Hodge will appear f In "The Mun From Homo." cltl ORPHEUM THEATER Advanced . J vaudeville. Bill changes this nrter- rm noon. Matinee dally at 2.15. Even- ' l"J lng performance, S; 15. off EMPRESS THEATER Sulllvan- 3 Consldlne vaudeville. Matinee dally ol, at 2:30. Two evening perform- ti ances. 7:30 and 0:15. Bill changes 1. 1 c; Wednesday afternoon. u MAJESTIC THEATER Tabloid mu- ' t' steal comedy by the Majestic com- n pany. Afternoon and evening. i h r VTl OMORROW night William Hodge Ji I comes to tho Colonial for three VI I days' engagemont in Booth j Tarkington " and Harry Leon j ' Wilson's comedy, "The Man From Home." As this play is ono of tho bost that has been prcseutcd on the ? local stage for a decade, tho engage- ment should prove another ovation for j Mr. Hodge and his associate players. Tho curtain rises upon a scene in I Sorrento, where Horace Granger-Simp- sou and his sister Ethel, of Kokonio, ind., aro staying with a number of English Eng-lish acquaintances who are united in a , plot to capture the Granger-Simpson i millions by marrying the two guileless young Anclomaiiin.cs. The future Earl of Hawcastle is to marry Miss Grander II Simpson and get a settlement of $7o0,- S 000, and the somewhat shady Comtosc B do Champigny, a close friend of tho B insolvent Earl of Hawcastle, is to R marry her brother, and get the rest of B the fortune. S Daniel Voorhees Pike, the role played bv Mr. Hodge, is an Indianant who sug gests the George Adc types. Pike leaves Kokomo and sets sail for Sorreuto to savo his ward from marriage with the son of the English adventurer. After his arrival, his conviction that the In- diana innocents are veing victimized crows into a certainty. There devolves upon him the duty of exposing the adventurers ad-venturers to his wards, both of whom aro willing to sacrifice their last penny to marry into aristocratic families. A Russian fugitive happens to make j the hotel at which Pike and the others i aro staying a haven of refuge, and Pike agrees to shelter him, calling tn I his aid a "Russian Grand Duke, who is traveling incognito. The Earl of Haw castle discovers the presence of the j "Russian and in an effort to force Pike s to make the settlement, threatens the I American with exposure and imprison- ment. Bv chance the Indiana lawyer J learns that the Comtesse de Champigny Kj was the faithless wife of the fugithe Hj and that Hawcastle was her eonfeder- Hj ate in the robbery that resulted in his Hit being sent to Siberia. The former con- Ivict is brought into the hotel and is recognized bv his wife and Hawcastle in the presence of Miss Granger-Simp son and her brother. Tlie girl hcroical lv declares that the sins of the father were not those of the man she has promised io marry and that it is her duty to carry out her promise. In the final act Miss Granger-Simp-sou maintains her position and her guardian finally consents to the mar-j riage, but at last she realizes her mistake mis-take and the final curtain falls upon the intimation that she has begun to look kindly upon Pike. William Hodge, in the toIo of Daniel Voorhees Pike, attornc' at law, from Kokomo, Ind., gives au impersonation that approaches a stage classic. It is a bit of llosh and blood acting that endears en-dears itself with all classes, and it is within the understanding of everybody. "The Man From Homo" opens Mon day night. iif RA I' ST ARK" Tv-ill be seen at 1 the Colonial for the last time JJ tonight. The week's engagement engage-ment has been highly successful success-ful and the management has decided to extend the engagement for one uicbt. "GraustaTU" or "A Love Be-hind Be-hind a Throne," is an interesting play. Jt is a dramatization of George Barr McCutchcon 's famous novel of the same - BATES AND BRUCE M'RAE In "Nobody's Widow" at the Salt Lake Theater April 18, 19 .and 20. namo and is equally as interesting in the dramatic form as in the novel. The cast i3 capablo and tho production adequate. WITH the close of "Alias Jimmy Valentine" at the Salt Lake Lake theater Saturday night, there ended at that house one of the most successful engagements of Luke theater for just two weeks, the first of which closed yesterday. For the week which begins Monday evening, even-ing, the Garrick company will offer the first production over given in Salt Lake by anv company of Mrs. Fisko's grcat starring vehicle. "Salvation Is: ell," since the star herself, supported by Holbrook Blinn and a score of others equally as famous, presented the re- t CLEET BEEZAO'S COMEDY CIRCUS AT THE EMPB-J THIS WEEK. i One of the biggest features of tho season at that house. j HHr"",,,",Xn had rIoir,,y brtHcompVetnuntynext jmr- - announced tor Friday gsgSgjitatKttgKSl tain of the Russian masters, has the life of the great underworld been pre sonted on the stage with anything like tho force accuracy and truth that; pro-vails pro-vails in "Salvation Nell." The stage settings of the play aro extremeb' realistic. The tenement street scene of the last act is said to excel any slmot scene ever portrayed upon the stage. Tho first act discloses a barroom modeled nfter a typical saloon sa-loon in Now York's oast side. Tho second sec-ond not setting, a living room in a tenement house of tho more comfortablo sort, is simpler, but nouo the loss praiseworthy praise-worthy as regards the fidelity in furnishing fur-nishing and detail. Nell Sanders is a scrlibwoman in a saloon of the Hell's Kitchen district in Now York. Nell loves Jim Piatt with a dogged, pathetic affection. Tt is Christmas eve, and the denizens of low resorts gather to pass the evening after their own brutal fashion. Nearby a disorderly house is raided, and one of the inmates. Myrtle Odoll, escapes into the bar. Her language is at once frank and extremely amusing. One other woman appears, "Hallelujah Maggie," a worker of the Salvation Army who is royally welcomed by the hangers-on of the barroom. Tn a fight that arises over Nell, .lim knocks a man sonsoless. The police arrive, ar-rive, take Jim away, close the place and tho infuriated barkeeper orders Nell out into tho night. Then Myrtle, in a well meaning way, offers to take Nell with her back into a life of sdiamo. Noll wavers hopelessly, till Hallelujah Maggie offers her a better life. Tho second act transpires eight years later, in Nell's flat. There is a little boy Jim now. Nnll herself has become a humble worker in tho Sulvation Army. Her boy's father comes back after eight ears spent in Sing Sing, vt the old love between them still exists, although for Noll in a nobler way. He tells her of a robbery he is planning for that ovening to take them all to Denver. In vain she tries to dissuade him from the crime. In the third act, one week later, the scene shifts to the streets, with the huddled tenement houses rearing on all sides. Children frolic in the cool of the evening: women gossip across area-wa3rs area-wa3rs from bedding-laden fire escapes. Jim, who has been kept from the robbery rob-bery through some dimly felt instinct, seeks out Noll. They have a fanciful love scene, poetic in spite of the coarse vernacular in which it is couched- 3n the Salvation Army street meeting that follows, Jim's brute nature yields before be-fore the eloquence of Nell's inspired ad-dress. ad-dress. He asks her to help him, and tho Ono of the Most Dramatic Scenes in Edward Sheldon's Greatest Play, "Salvation Nell," "Which Will bo the Offor- ing of tho Garrick Players at the Salt Lako Theater AU Week, Commencing Monday Night. the present ncason. Jt was tho first time a stock company had ever attempted at-tempted a production locally on the scale n which tho Armstrong drama was given at popular prices. The move was so successful, however, that it has been more than justified. The Garrick players went to the Salt markablc Sheldon drama at the old Grand over threo years ago. ! "Salvation Noll" is from the pen of Edward Sheldon, and enlists the scr-! yices of over fifty actors. Many attempts at-tempts have been made to picture "upon i tho stage the multifarious life of the slums, but never before, savo bv cor-, curtain descends to the blare of tho Salvation baud playing a hymn. A BILL calculated to hit the popular popu-lar ff.ncy is that scheduled at the Orpheum this week with tho initial performance this afternoon. after-noon. Topping the array of vaudeville talent comes Pouchot's riving Ballot. Mile. Yonne Baunilcr. premier aerial-ist, aerial-ist, with four dainty assistants, apparently ap-parently floats through the air executing most entrancing figures. The ballet, which is really a series of beautiful pictures, includes the "Butterfly Ballet," Bal-let," the "Ballet of the Doves," and a sensational finale wherein Mile. , Buumlcr floats out over the audience and scatters flowers into the laps of those below her. j Julius Tannen, that ever welcome I monologist who has been umed "the chatterbox,' is on the new bill. Thoro is an old proverb about ttlk being cheap but in Mr. Tannen 's case it comes high, for he is considered to be one of the best in his line in vaudeville. vau-deville. Ida O'Day. that pretty little comedienne, come-dienne, has a charming ehicle in which to display her talents. Tt is fi prptty comedy entitled "Betty's I3?t," written writ-ten by Maud Tarltr.n Winchcctcr. Tn the title role Miss O'Dnv delightfully portrays a swot young aocictj bud who is working in a law office on a bot. Tho lawyer by whom she has been engaged has throwgh circumstances found himself pitted sgpinst this pretty pret-ty girl, and on the last day of the wfiok the struggle between them becomes be-comes most interesting. Harry Beresford has beon known to theatergoers in the west for the past ten years as an eccentric comedian of merit, who has headed his own companies. com-panies. Ho is coming back in vaudeville vaude-ville this time in a tabloid comedy, "Tn Old Now York," by Tom Barry, v.-hich is said to be a most artlatic little plfcy. In tho piece Mr. Beresford shows the court of an. cast side tene- POUCHOT'S FLYING BALLET 9 The Headliner at the Orpheum All This Week. This Act Has Earned tho Title of "Tho Act Beautiful." fHjie ment in New York. It is a reminder of tho Harrigan days, and the characters char-acters of the little play, six in all, are typical Harrigan characters. Tho De Fayo Sisters, billed as tho Brinklcy Banjo Girls, are destined to make a hit with Orpheum audiences. The two girls play negro melodies and grand opera arias with equal cleverness. clever-ness. They aro also entertaining dancers. To Englishmen the name of John Maculcy conjures up a character actor who is endowed with a splendid voice. Mr. Maculcy is now making his first American tour over the Orpheum circuit. cir-cuit. He portrays types which he makes up to represent, and plays them with the care of a real artist, and into the brief study of each introduces appropriate appro-priate songs. His representation of an old veteran is a particularly fine and touching bit of acting. A daring " and sensational trapeze act is promised with the appearance of Do Rcnzo and La Due, who perform per-form some thrilling stunts while swinging swing-ing river the heads of tho audience. The motion pictures, too, nre well m line with news features from Mexico, Mex-ico, Spain, Prance, England, "Russia and points in the United States. Some lively and new music will be offered by the concert orchestra. FOB a thirty-minutc lautrh it would bo pretty hard for Manager Mc-'ov Mc-'ov of the Empress to have stuged a better feature than Cliff Ber.ac's comedy circus, which this week headlines the bill being given at that house. Berzac, with two beautifully trained ponies and a trick mule, has ovolvcd. a comcdv feature that for j'oars was the sensation of several of the largest circus cir-cus organizations in the country. Ho is now in vaudeville for the first time, and outside the clever tricks done by the two ponies, the 1 rained mule is one of tho biggest laugh-makers the Empress Em-press has yet housed. Sydney Grant is the second big feature feat-ure of the bill and the celebrated story toller is apparently at his best after several months in musical comedy in Chicago and New York. His yarns are new and their humor is jipontanooiiF. Albert Donnellv. an expert hand shadowist, opons the bill with hi shadow pictures. He is followed by Kitty Ross, a southern girl, whose songs and repartee are new and whose voice ip peculiarly musical. Richard Cummins, Jr.. known to be one of the host juvenile actors on t li -stage, in the dramati" tabloid "Lit'l? Steve." offers one of the best sketch? of the season, at tho Empress. Princess Luba Miroff U a strikingly good-look ing Russian woman whose foreign sing ing and dancing novelty hns become a great favorite on thr- bill. The photo plav pictures nre excellent. For the wrel; to mmo evcr H.ilt Laker who a few ?eaons a wo was fortunate fort-unate enough to witness Edward Davis and conipanv in that actor-producer's dramatic masterpiece, " The Picture of Dorian Grav." will be interested in Cip announcement that the Davis dramatization dramatiz-ation of Oscar Wilde's famou. novel nnd the original all-star cat that made it one of the famous sketches in vaudeville, vau-deville, is to headline the Empress bill, j On the same programme will be found Ruth Francis who is making her initial vaudeville tour supported by Thomas Kcogh and a metropolitan cast in on elaborately mounted sketch, "A Touch of Hich Life." Tho Three Heltons Hel-tons arc a trio of Americans who made a name for themBOlves abroad, and the act introduces Miss Gladys Kolton, America's foremost ladv xylophone artist. art-ist. Brady and Mahonoy aro character comedians who style their act "The Firomnn nnd tho Foreman,'' and they aro followed by variety's newest melody mel-ody novelty, Gertnido Holmes and Robert Rob-ert Buohanan in "The Girl of 1847." Cadieux i3 billed as tho man who somersaults som-ersaults on the tight wire. LA WAYNE & FITZGERALD, managers of tho Majestic theater, the-ater, have signed a contract with Miss Flo Swinnerton, formorly of the Orpheum circuit and more recently re-cently prima donna of tho Allen Curtis Cur-tis musical comedy company, whereby Miss Swinnertou .becomes the prima donna of the Majestic musical comedy company. The now bill at the Majestic, beginning begin-ning tonight, is a tabloid musical comedy com-edy entitled "A Night in a Shinto," from the pen of Claude Elliott, a local playwright. Tho situations are said to be unique and tell a story of two sailors who blunder into a Japanese temple. This contrast of character and surroundings would seem to bo productive pro-ductive or many humorous complexities. complexi-ties. The Majestic management is sparing spar-ing no expense in the staging of the second week's bill sinco tho house was reopened; and judging from tho manner in which last week's bill was received by regular Majestic patrons &nd hundreds of those who aro visitors visit-ors in tho city, "A Night in a Shinto Shin-to '' will bo witnessed 13' a capneity audience at oach of the four daily I I ' performances during tho ensuing weeks fe. - The production of the comedy is un4 der tho direction of Major Wright andrE',' Ruth Albright, nnd tho combined of-;, B:. forts of this pair of entertainers Hr' should make tho new bill one of the";.' best over given at popular pricos in" mr, Salt Lako's smaller amusement houses.i ft'.' WHENEVER the namo of Davidf Belasco precedes an attrac.- tion it is a beacon of .sssur-lj V mice that the presentation is1 as perfect as brains, energy and cnpital? j" t can make it. This has been ovidencedi yje fc upon every occasion when a Belascoy frtn : star has conic to Salt LkIco. and anoth- fetor or exposition of his wonderful tcch- ij desi nique is assured April IS, 10 and 20, aeript when Blancho Bates will appear in her.i Hind successful comedy, "Nobody's Yids fti, v ow," a delicionsly clever composition S eet that t.mi for eight months in NowJ nth a York city last season. t ijli Miss Bates has always been admiredfc for her consummate art and earnest, jfcg ness in anythiug she undertakes, f.ndrf (1 her success as the "widow" has hean jjjg attained solely bv her wonderful per- jt sonal charm, intellectuality and histri-M ' onic abiltv. Her supporting company! y . is tho same that aided her so succesa-jj (Continued on Following Page.) j Jj$f ' ., Who Comes to the Colonial Tomorrow Night in "The Man From Home, . ab for Throe Nights and a Wednesday Matinee. Mr. Hodge Will PW iao aSithe Eole Mado Famous by Him, That of Daniel Voorhees Pike. alteA Plays and Players (Continued Prom Prccoding Pago.) fully in New York during tho eight months' run there, and includes Bruce McRae, Adelaide Prince, Kennuth Hunter, Hun-ter, Edith Campbell, Alico Claire Elliott, El-liott, Minor S. Watson, Arthur Hyman and others. t ANYONE who would have predicted pre-dicted a few years ago that moving pictures would bo exhibited ex-hibited at a Broadway theater in New York at tho ono dollar and a half scale of prices and draw capacity audiences, would have been looked upon as a dreamer. Yot this is now happening at tho New York theater whoro tho Kinomacolor pictures of the gorgeous Durbar coronation in India aro now being shown. Iu viewing the Kinomacolor pictures of the Durbar, ono is iiuprossed with not only the fidelity of motion and action, ac-tion, but chiefs by the fidelity with which tho colors nre reproduced. Tho climate of India lends itself in marked degree to photography aud tho Durbar pictures, havo been acclaimed as a triumph tri-umph of cinematographic art, Liko scones from the Arabian Nights, the gorgeous spectacle of tho Durbar is presented, with its hosts of distinguished distin-guished personages, king and emperor, queen and empress, princes and rajahs of India, chieftains and officials, thousands of British and Indian soldiers and hundreds of thousands of the people, peo-ple, all attired in glowing colors of kaleidoscopic hues. Horses elephants, sacred camels aud oxen, all gorgeously attired, fill the scones, while overhead is the turquoise bluo sky. Tho ontiro series of tho Durbar in kinomacolor, exactly as shown in Now York, will be tho attraction at the Col oaial from April IS to 27. .T"y AY DREAMS, Visions of I I Bliss," as fang by littlo j J Mizzi Hajos, in "Tho Spring ilaid" in many applauding citlos of the country, has mado a. circle of tune that grew and widened; that spread beyond tho hearing of the audience, audi-ence, beyond the eounda of tho violin, beyond the confines of the theaters. 7Tho Spring Maid" has been praised with unusual lavishaots of phrasa in many cities since it was heard in tba west. It will bo the first timo that a gTcat nnd expcnslvo comic opera, has made tho long trip aoross tba country twice in a single season, bnt the insistent in-sistent call will bring back Pr&ulcla Mizzi Hajos, and the organization of singers and all tho elaborate scnIo production pro-duction to the Salt Lako theater on April 25, 26 and 27. MARGARET TOUT BROWNING and Ucbor M. Wolla will head tho bill of vaudovillo arranged for "Whitney hall next Tuesday and Wednosdar ovenings. Assisting them will be John D. Spencer, Mlay Alder, Al-der, Eva Crawford, Williant E. Baesott and Hazel Edwards, while Sybella Clayton Clay-ton Bassott will aot as accompanist tho first evening and. will play a solo tho second. Tho ontortainmont is one being be-ing arranged for tho ward charity fund, and is the second ono to be. produced under tho namo of tho Eighteenth Ward "Road Show." IN that vaguo geographical bolt denoted de-noted by "Arms aud the Man," "Tho Prisoner of Zenda" and other neo-politicnl romances lies Balaria. tho kingdom of "Tho Balkan Princess," whoso woes nnd embarrassments embarrass-ments coma to tho stago of tho Colonial soon. Miss Louise Gunning will assnmo tho task of explaining tho piques and re-j lentings of tho Princess Stcphanlo, j whom a scheming prima minister has adjudged too weak to rule alono. j Miss Gunning, easily tho first light j opora singor of tho day, is, of course, the first intCTost in tho play, and she quite regally rules her domain and trills her troubles and triumphs. Under Un-der all conditions sho is. a charming prima donna, endowed with an abun-danco abun-danco of porsonal attraction, but especially espe-cially favored with an exceptional voice. Aside from a largo chorus, Miss Gunning'B supporting cast of principals includes no less than four comedians who havo themselves been tho feature of starring tours. Tho locale and environment in which the opera is enst lends opportunity for coHtuming and scenic effects that results re-sults in a riot of color and harmony. The book was writton by Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon; tho lyric3 wcro written by Arthur "Wimporis. while the music was composed by Paul A. Rubens, and tho wholo moves with a spirit of comedy that 1b not entirely crushed by its exceptional music. TIIE BURIAL of the famous battleship bat-tleship "Maine" nnd the impressive im-pressive ceremony attendiug tho occasion was photographed in motion pictures which will bo shown at the Liberty for threo days commencing with tomorrow's matinee. Tho film shows viowri of tho "Maine" as she laid in tho cofferdam in which she was raised at an expense of .';f)00,000 to tho government, thot fu-nornl fu-nornl cortogo of tho recovered victims, the naval procession escorting tho old battleship to hor burial plnco, and the slow sinking and final plungo of the famous hulk into COO fathoms of water. wa-ter. Tho picturo was taken under official auspices of the United States navy department de-partment and the photography is almost al-most perfect. Witnessing the picture impresses ono almost as greatly as actually having been present at the ceremony, and a spirit of true patriotism patriot-ism cannot help manifesting itself. Another fcaturo on Monday's program pro-gram is "Charlie's Reform," a dramatic dra-matic subject based on tho "social con-tor" con-tor" mov'omout of tho Russell Sago Foundation of Now York. While this movement has not yot been started iu this city, tho film shows what has been dono in other cities and it may provo to havo a great educational value to all who aro interested in the elevation of tho morals of the community. Three other reols, ono dramatic and two high-class comedies, with an excellent excel-lent musical program by the orchestra and pipe organ, completo tho bill. |