| Show Rip Van V an Winkle WI kl to to B p Played at the Utah Theatre I iI i BILLIE BURKE BIKE TO 0 PLAY IN P PAJAMAS JAMAS V Miss nu Billie Burke Burka played last sprIng in Ir riding breeches This spring she ie will wUl bo be een in blue pajamas Last spring she I Iwas was at the EmpIre theatre New NSW York In InThe InThe The Tho This spring she tho will be beat beat beat at the Lyric In a now new comedy comeay called caUca JerIT Jerry Jer Jet f ry IT by Mrs Catherine author of ot Kitty MacKay The c comedy med Is In three ac act with all the z B scenes en enes s laid In th suburbs of t Philadel phia Most lost of or the scenes are ara out of ot doors and the time la le in the spring o of at the year car gl giving giring abundant opportunities to l Miss s Burke n not i only r for r comedy but al also o for fors for's a 8 display y of at the tho newest forms torms of at feminine apparel including the pajamas pajama A single reading of ot Jerry Jerr so BO pleased Charles Frohman that he In Instantly took It for or Miss Burke oven o at the cost of postponing her projected season in tn Call CaU until next Aug August t. t Miss Burke began the rehearsals of ot Terry Jerry Torry directly after her ber recent engagement en en- in tn Boston Tim The pla play was produced In the Lyceum on Thursday MM March h. h 26 5 The company compan Includes Include Shelly Hull Allan Pollock tums tums- den Hare Thomas R Reynolds and William WIlHam Thornton Miss Gladys Glad Hanson and Miss Alice John Jolia I The Tho bl biggest est st and best production yet ct i staged at the Utah theatre is promised I Ifor for tho the week be beginning tomorrow night when the new will present Jo Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- Van seph Jeffersons Jefferson's masterpiece Rip Winkle with George Barnum In tho ho title role cole ol supported by all the tho Utah favorites ta It II is 18 without doubt the tho bi biggest gelt undertaking undertaking under under- taking of or the season at tho the Utah but hul under tinder the direction of ot Mr Barnum the tho management em nt promises without fear of causing dl disappointment that Utah patrons patrons pa pa- 1 will be sa satisfied During the last three thieo vc weeks ks Mr lr Bar Bar- num nurn Mr the scenic artist an and n assistants have t been beca working day and anci and J night in preparation for this offering Electrical appliances that will cause the tho audience to sit up and take notice have c been installed to create creato wonderful effects In the scenes tC nes where Rip Rio Is II driven n from front his home during a A. terrific electrical storm and on the tho rocky rock passes In the Catskill mountains h re he meets a a. score or more of weird little men who give gh him hima a R. seductive drink which really furnishes tho the foundation for the fhe absorbing Tim ThA stage settings painted b by Mr It 1 and built V b by Mr Ir Darker Barker wilt will willlie lie tic on a scale scalo limited l In by tim tho Capacity ca- ca of or the stage state The mountain seen will bo be as realistic as alS It l Is po possible for forthe forthe the tho skilled hands of c 1 artists tt to depict VI When en the Utah management jana to put on Rip Van Yan Winkle the score core of ot opera Rip Van Yan tt Winkle InKIe was secured from New York and from it Prof Willard Weihe has hae arranged a R. musical m Special costumes have ha been secured from San an Francisco while a a. property list calculated to drive the property man Insane is included d among the thousand and on one things noces necessary ar 1 to the completeness of this great show how Critics whose Iho c opinions are aro the lat last word In nutter histrionic have o unhesitatingly unhesitatingly accor accorded ed Mr Barnum great praise In n the delineation atlon of ot the tho lovable lo character r of ot Rl Rip It is Is' Isa a part he has hits played many times and always alwa's with Unbounded unbounded unbounded un un- bounded success an and he has thrown his I whole heart eart and soul into luto next weeks eek's eek prod production V Nearly everyone eryon kno knows 8 th the story eton of 0 Rip of at the lucky luck fel fellow tellow tel tel- Van Winkle 10 low who ho lives with his shrewish wife If Gretchen and their two ho children In th the village of or F Falling Waters of ot how Rip is driven from his home borne by his angry aMr spouse e of hl his experience with the gnomes momes In the Catskill mountains his sleep of twenty years rears th the awakening and iid his hiI re return return re re- turn to his old home where her V all h Is chan changed cd and where whre he finds that I Gr Gretchen thinking him dead has mar mar- p ned d. d Included In the cast att will be Lillian Kemble Thompson Howard Scott who ho has baa sufficiently recovered from his recent to a again aln gr greet et ethi hi his many man friend friends b before torl the Richard Vivian Fanchon Everhart rt Dab Baby Moore who made mad V such tre tremendous hits In n Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin and The Thc Silver King MAter ter Held and tind a score of others V There will bo ho a throng of or rollicking and vii vii- 11 joyous loyous boisterous youngsters A lagers lager who have been rehearsed day after day bY bv Mr Ir So that everything every ceo thing connected with tho the performance should combine to give it tho the necessary atmosphere |
