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Show I i JHKUKES PUTS FH NEXT SEASON ' John Cort Issues Partial List ' I of Attractions at Salt r r ! Lake Theater. 1 J VAUDEVILLE IS COMING , j Theatrical Magnate Says He j Plans Six-city Stock i1 t Circuit. Joint Cort. co-Icfsou with George D. Pypcr of tho Suit Lake theater and aleo , of the Colonial theater, and one of the country's most prominent producers, la In thft cltv Arrnnclns for tile next season I In his two houses here. He la making u tour of the west, visiting his various i houses In all of the principal cities. Last j night he attended the performance of "The Girl From Rector's." by the Wl- j ' ! Ham J. Kelly company nnd wjis well sat-, sat-, j isflcd with the work of that organization. ( He promises to give Salt Lake the host j that stock has to olYer at the Colonial, One of the most Interesting- announce ments he had to make was the partial list of plays to he presented at the Salt Lake during next season. It embraces many of the best now pieces of the cur-i cur-i rent season, which have never been on i tour. Tlie foremost actors and actresses , will bo seen here, as the list indicates. List of Plays. The following have already been sched-, sched-, , ulcd to appear here next fall and winter: John Mason In "As a Man Thinks. Charlotte Walker in "Tho Trail of the Lonesome Pine." "Stop Thief," 'The Bird of Paradise," Sam Bernard, "The Count of Luxembourg." "The Country 1 Boy." "Readv Money." "The Enchan tress," "Bought and Paid For." William ' Favcrsham. Robert Mantcll f whose leading lead-ing woman. Miss Florence Rockwell, is now at the Colonial). Lillian Russell, "The Shepherd of the Hills," "Little ' Women". Gertrude Hoffman, Henry Mii- Vr. "Within the Uaw," "Damaged ( Goods." "Romance," "The Pink Lady." "Conspiracy," McTntyre and Honth. Em-1 Em-1 ma Trentlnl. "Mutt and Jeff." "The Bo-I Bo-I 1 cmlan Girl," "Kismet." "Tho Blue I Bird." 10. IT. Sol hern and Jnlln Marlowe . , In .Shakespearean repertoire. "Fanny's First Play." Anna Held. Chaunccy Ol- i-ott. "The Whip," the Do Kovnn Opera tonipuny. "The Purple Rord." Robert Milliard. Blllle Burke. Maude Adams, ' "Tho Passing Show." "Oh, Oh. Dcl-phlne," Dcl-phlne," and "Officer titi6." Mr. Cort said that other companies, would also plan i western tours, to Include Salt Lake, later In the summer. I' Vaudeville Innovation. One of tho innovations of the coining season Is the invasion of vaudeville Into the llrst-class houses. There are two ' reasons for this. The public has created a demand for vaudeville, the greatest j stars now tako occasional "dips" Into this form of amusement between seasons. whereas they used to consider it beneath i them, and the other reason Is that the cost Is much less to the producers. "It costs $30,000 to produce a musical show," said Mr. Cort. "boforo you got a tent In return. Then you have the royalty to pay all the time you are pre-Hcntlng pre-Hcntlng your attraction. Your scenery I'osts like sixty, so do the costumes and .c thousand other things. In the big vaudeville show the actors furnish the costumes and their scenery and you do not have to pay royalty, cither. Of course. ' the salary payroll will be enormous and for that reason we will have to rush in and rush right out, playing hero perhaps for a matinee and night possibly two nights. But six big stars In a. show should pack cni In for two or three performances. per-formances. "I have organized two vaudeville shows to tour the big theaters." he continued. con-tinued. "Anna Held heads one and Lillian Lil-lian Russell the other. There will be eight acts In each show. Every ono of the sixteen acts for the two shows will contain a star who has played at $2 prices. Four of the sixteen acts will bo Imported. Two of theso acts will go In uch show, leaving in each show six stars, to see whom Individually the public has paid ?2. j "Theso shows will start from the oast October 1. One will go through tho south and to the Pacific coast that way ( and tho other will come over the "north-em "north-em routf Both will play the Esilt Lake theater." Gaby Deslys Coming. The Shuberts havo arranged a big vaudeville show, much on the order of "Hanky Panky," which recently played here, around Gaby Deslys. This, too. will bo sent out over the western clr--ult and will play Salt Lake. In regard to the chain of stock thff atcrs which Mr. Cort plans In the went, he said that such a project was undor i way and that the circuit would Include Salt Lake. Los Angeles. San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Spokane. The operation op-eration of theso six houses Jn unity will bf'gln September 1. Each fOmpany will rlay hi engagement of about six or eight weeks in each city. Th William J. ' IC.'lly organization will be one of the j six. Mr. Cort said that he had not arranged ar-ranged the personnel of the various com-' com-' 1 punles as yet, but denied the report that Maude Leone had been engaged as lcad-', lcad-', ing woman of one of them. |
