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Show I HALT LAKE TTl BAT RR Season opeiic with "Pomander WaBt" next Friday evening. Matinee and evening even-ing performance Saturday! ORPHEOM T 1 J MAT B n A dvan oci vaudeville. Performances every afternoon and evening. COLONIAL THHJATBR Wlllard Mack. MarjDiic Rambaau and associate as-sociate play era in "The Spoilers." Curtain at S : 15 p m. Matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2:16. EMPRESS T" 1 EATER Sulllvan-Con-fMInc vaudeville. Matinee dally at " 80. Two evening performances, 7 30 and 0 :lo Bill clianges Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. WTNfr to its remoteness and so-II so-II elusion, the Walk is the ref-w ref-w of highly genteel com pany. It has its own public opinion; its own standard of respectability, respecta-bility, and it is rightly exclusive. It looks upon intruders with suspicion, and a harmless old gentleman, taking the air in tlio afternoon and losing himself m its precincts, has been known to be warned off as a trespasser. " This passage is from tho introduction of Louis N. Parker's scenario to his latest play. "Pomander Walk," -which is to bo given for two nights and Sat urdav matinee at the Salt Lake theater, beginning Friday evening ue.rt. The character" of "Pomander Walk" is so widely different from the every-dav every-dav drama 'that its novelty has proved interesting and refreshing. There are no loud climaxes, no scandals, no attempted at-tempted murders, no social or munic.i pal rottenness to expose, not even a very exciting incident, but the little s-torv runs alone as quietly as does tho pretty rher upon whose bank the five little cottages composing the Walk are huilt. And it is due as much to the flue and experienced abilities of the well seasoned English cast of players that, present the play as to the skill and quaint conception of the author that such universal success has been achieved; It has been noticeable that the people who most enjoy "Pomander Walk" ITS the ones -who arc students and admirers of Dickens's and Thack-ery's Thack-ery's works. Naturally people of culture cul-ture and refinement admire most a play in which these characters are uppcr- Im most. With an eye to having the play pre- fT eented m the most perfect manner pos- 11 sible, the Leibler company has secured B a east of English playeTS. The delicate t English flavor that permeates every ff Bcene and act of the delightful little comedv eoold not be properly portrayed I by other than a thoroughly English I cast. Substantially the same cast of t English players that appeared in "Po- mandrr Wn'lk " tor a whole season in New York will be seen in the comedy here. . A matinee will be plaved on Saturday. Satur-day. This engagement will open the third peason of ihe company, which journeys all the wav from New York to accomplish accom-plish it. arid also tho regular season of the theater. The company is on the way to tlie Pacific coasi. ""1 OMETHTNG new all the time" is the slogan at the Orpheum, i j but for the coming week there "" is a decided novelty in vaudeville vaude-ville which will appeal to the regulars and those who have not the vauJevillo habit alike The famous Mountain Ash choir of Wales will be the headliner. This announcement in itself should be enough to insure capacity houses ut every performance. These wonderful singers were heard in Rait Lake a year ago when their faultless blending ot voices, coalescence of tones and ro-- ro-- inarkable ensemble work and shading i, were- a veritable revelation in chorus I singing. Each voice is like an individ I nal pipe in an organ or instrument in h an orchestra. ThiB is particularly re It markable because each of tho eighteen fi j members of the male chorus is a solo- H iBt- uil The choir which is under the efficient The Celebrated Mountain Ash Choir of Wales, Headliner at the Orpheum This Week, leadership of T. GlyndwT Richards will render popular selections. Monday night will be Welsh night when the local Cambrians Cam-brians arc planning to give the visitors a rousing welcome and the chorus is prepared to respond with a number of Welsh part songs. There are three soloists so-loists with the chorus, two excellent tonors and Godfrey Trice, a basso, who is a. sensation. May Tully conies second on the bill with her clever company presenting a satire on Reno divorces" entitled "The Battle Crv of Freedom." Miss Tullv is well and enthusiastically reme.mberotl here for her work as the stranded actress act-ress in "Stop, Look and Listen," which was the headliner at, the Orpheum about three years ago. The playlet; is said to be one long scream throughout. Pretty and vivacious arc among the adjectives applied to the O'Meer sisters, a trio ot girls who sing and perform on a wire with grace and abandon. Their act is different from the regular run of wire acts and is said t be a winner all along the line. A good comedy singing and patter act. is promised in the appearance of Bobbe and Dale, two- young men "who have learned the value of humorous dialogue dia-logue and original songs. One portrays a German and the other appears "straight." "The Chambermaid and the Bell Hop" is one of those singing and dancing danc-ing turns that are designed to extract laughter from a chronic grouch. This gingery, stiappv little offering is presented pre-sented by Tommy Kelly and Mamie Laf-ferty. Laf-ferty. Audiences are advised to watch the "shadows and the capers cut by the dancer. This remarkable demonstration soon proves to be the shadow of n different dif-ferent dance entirely to the one being indulged in. Barry Atkinson billed as "The Australian Aus-tralian Orpheus" possesses the pecu liar faculty of imitating string, reed aud brass instruments. So realistic is the music he produces tha it is difficult to believe that it is not the real article. The French gymnasts pew to America are Honors and Le Prince. Aside from their feats they are splendid panto miinists aud add much to the hilarity of their act by their deft comedy touches. The new motion picture service, "The Animated Weekly," showing news stor- , I m t IftffflliWmaHBaTi aHpHWBaBCTaT-' faM sk -'- f ' ' 'vSHBKBBF' aW? ' :' ' Bt- ' I KABBY HAYWABD, FRANCIS STATFORD AND ALMA BRADLEY, Who Are Presenting the Sketch, "The Firefly," at the Empress This Week. ies and selections by the concert orchestra, or-chestra, combine to round out. what promises to be another winning bill. WITjjLa successful run in New York as a guarantee of its entertaining qualities, "The Spoilers," the most intense, the most human, the most absorbing of dramas put upon the stage in years, will bo presented by the WDlard Mack ami Marjorie Karabeau players at the Colonial ' theater, commencing today. Rex Beach, who is just now the vogue among all American writer.-', has been made famolis the world over by writing this most exciting of all dramas, "The Spoilers." The plav was first produced in New York, where it created nothing short of a sensation; then it went to Chicago, Chi-cago, where it had another long successful suc-cessful run. The success of "The Spoilers" has been remarkable. The world-wide interest in-terest shown in this plav is due to tho boldness of its story aud its fascinating fascinat-ing characteristics to people, who live in the glorious west. Men liko the play because it is real, manly, and depicts the unconquerable spirit of the typb-al American. Women like it because the principal feminine characters in the play Bhow what the. real American woman can do when she is put to the test. One oannot fail to like. "The Spoilers," and theal cr-goery of this city have a treat in store. The story of the play is simple, but compelling in interest and wonderfully human. What intensifies and interests the play goer is the ingenuity with which Beach has told the r-tory. dust when he is thought to have reached the climax he veers off, and attains still another climax, and another, uutil his resourcefulness seems without end. The story is that of two minora, Roy G-lenuter and Joe Daxtoy. who own the Midaa, one of the richest mines in Alaska. They took passage on board the steamer Sautn Maria, bound for the rich diggings. On board Roy Glenister, the hero, meets Helen Chester, Ches-ter, the niece of Judge Stillman. She has in ber possession a letter of great importance, from thn eastern swindlers, who have created a gigantic plot to rob the miners of their hard-earned hard-earned wealth. When Glenister arrives In Dawson jie meets MacNamara, the arch conspirator, who also iH infatuated with Helen. McNaniara realizes that Glenister means a fight to a finish, and the. famous danco hall scene in the third act depicts one of the fiercest and most intensely interesting battles fought on the English-speaking stage. The next is tho road house scene, where Helen has fierce encounter with B lawyer, Struve, who is killed bv her brother. The last act shows the Midas in midwinter, mid-winter, where Glenister retains his rights to the mine, and all ends well. Mr. Mack has the role of Glenister while Miss Rauibcau plays the interesting role of Helen Chester. Stnne will be portrayed por-trayed by Mr. Vivian while Mr. Taylor win plav the brother of Helen Chester. Cherry Malotte will be in the hands of Rosa Roma and MacNamara will bo plaved bv Mr. Burke. Regular matinees will be given on Thursday and Saturday. Satur-day. Commencing Sunday. September I. Mv. Mack will present for the first time on any stage his latest play. "Scandal Alley," a ttorv of modern social conditions. condi-tions. OUT of I galaxy of six such meritorious acts as grace the Empress stage this week, it is difficult to pick a beadlmor that will stand as such with those who have already seen the bill and those who will before the engagement is up Tuesday evening. From the time Mio Crags trio start the festivities with their strong-arm and trapeze work until Harry Hay ward, Frances Stafford and Alma Bradley finish after thirty minutex of laughable slang aud fun in "The Firefly," there is hardly a moment on the bill tnat is not. tilled with EOmetbing worth while. Mr. Hayward and his company offer one of tho best slang sketches of the year in their story of the little railroad rail-road station, two girls stranded and the night operator, who is a flagman, station agent, baggage man, restaurant cook and night watchman rolled into one. The brunt of tho work falls ou Mr. Hayward, and he keeps up a run ning fire of repartee that is ww nil the way through and delightfully humorous. Tho Kraga are among tho best gymnasts gym-nasts of ll'e season, and ln-uc and Bobbie Smiih have captivated every audience that has st-en and hoard them. Their songs are new and the two girls arc verj il;cr. The finale of tier trude Dean EVwrd's farce comedy sketch "The Two Rubies," is the feature fea-ture of I hat playlet which Allen Dinehart and Anna Heritage play in a way that is most effective. Herbert Brooks aud his trunk mystery, together with his card manipulation, furnishes a myfltery feature that is all the man agement claimed tor i(. Mr. Brooks is a man five feet, seven inches tall, and after being laced into strait-lackef strait-lackef ibat covers him entirely, he is squeezed into a small -sized trunk, strapped and locked in, and almost, before be-fore curtaius can be drawn m front Of the trunk ho is out, sitting on top of it. It is one of those stage illusions illu-sions that has never yet been explained so well but that the next trick of the kind proves a bigger card than its predecessor. pre-decessor. John T. Murray is the sixth performer per-former on the bill, and ho is just as funny as he Is eccentric. The announcement comes from the Sulllvan-Considine agents that Billie Kurke, famous as John Drewr's leading woman and a a Broadwav star these last few Hearons. has joined the ranks of vaudeville sketch producer?. Tier latest sketch is to headline the bill that open at the Empress next Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon, Tho playlet is entitled" en-titled" "The New Scholar," and f'larenee Wilbur and a big company of girl and comedians are to present it. On the new programme will be, in addition, ad-dition, a Bpecial engagement, of Victor NTiblo and bi talking birds. Cuckoo and Laura. it is claimed for these birds that they speak in English, French and German. Elizabeth Ken-n'edy Ken-n'edy and Anna Black Belein will offer the artistic eoniedy success, "Darbv and Joan," and Princeton and Vale will be heSrd in "!"mx Hundred Miles From New York " The Linden sisters are ,i ringing and dancing team from England, and Bert Cutler, a bil-liardist, bil-liardist, will finish up the bill. TIIF new bill which opens at the R-v today is headed by a strong attraction which comes in the form of a new Eclair release of a three-reel film called "Robin "Rob-in Hood," As the ti'le would indicate, the story deals with a chapter in the life of the famous bandit ban-dit who with his merry band made Ins headquarters in Sherwood forest in England Eng-land f'"- days of Richard the Lion Heart and robbed every wealthy traveler trav-eler he came u ross and divided the proceeds pro-ceeds of the holdup among the poor peasantry of the district. To those who have seen the opera by the same name "Robin Hood'" will be a double treat. Those who have not will be -well entertained nevertheless. |
