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Show for home for- the chain of high-class vaudeville shows embraced in the Or-pheum Or-pheum circuit. Prof. Wlilard Weihe. the well-known talented violinist of this city, has been, engaged as leader of the orchestra or-chestra which will embrace the best Individual In-dividual talent in the lines required in this city. Owing to the cold weather there has been some delay in tbe drying of the plasten work, but with a Judicious use of salamanders it la believed that the main entrance to the 100-foot lobby on ' State street will be ready in time to accommodate ac-commodate the opening crowds. In order that regular patrons may be sure of re-. re-. serving their favorite seats for one or more nights each week. It is proposed to keep a register -In the box office; wherein will be entered tbe names of those so desiring de-siring and their selections will be reserved re-served for them until 8 p. m. on the evening even-ing selected. This proposition undoubtedly undoubt-edly will find favor among the regular theater-goers, ' , - 1 THEATERS 1 The fight pictures at th. Grand theater the-ater continue to draw good crowds. The engagement closes tonight. "Unci. Josh Epruceby" will run the remainder of th. week. , "Way Down East" had a big crowd at the Salt Lake Theater last night- It will be her. all the week. e ."The Parisian Belles" is the best singing sing-ing organization that has been at the Lyric this season. Other features are also good, and full houses are the rule this week. Friday night Manager Moses of the Lyric will give a trial trip to any amateur ama-teur who desires to take the plunge. Already Al-ready a number have signified their intention in-tention of appearing. e R. F. Outcault, the man who In a weak moment perpetrated the "Yellow Kid." "Buster Brown." "Tige" and several other oth-er like grinning atrocitlos upon the "long suffering American public," which sems to .enjoy a whole lot of such suffering, came back to the Knutsford last night and registered with the remark that he had captured "slathers of good stuff" on Ms trip. He left his hearers to Infer whether wheth-er the "stuff" was coin of the Western realm or Just a few of the bright ideas which spring spontaneous from every hillside with which the landscape Is dotted. dot-ted. Anyhow Outcault Is happy and says he has a lot of good ones to use In putting the members of the Pf club and thoir undefended guests to sleep Thursday night. Outcault confesses he is a disseminator dis-seminator of "alleged contemporary humor." hu-mor." for which not even Hutlgura is a balm. He lectures at Ogden tonight and at Barratt Hall In this city Friday night. "Faust." under the direction of Luke Cosgrave, will be given by local talent at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium Thursday and Friday night. - Manager Bistes of the Orphetim theater, just being finished on State street, lr a busy man right now attending to the scores of details connected with the opening open-ing of the house on Monday night, December De-cember 25. He he.s secured his staff, every . man, from doorkeeper to flyman, being a resident of this city, and be is now concentrating his energies In the direction di-rection of getting the house ready for the opening night. Progress being made this week is an eye-opener. All the opera chairs in the balcony are Installed. Attention At-tention Is now being turned to the ground floor. The stag, and dressing-rooms are nearly completed and the scenery, drop curtain and plush seats for th. parquet have arrived. Yesterday the scaffolding in the Interior was removed and some idea of th. beauty of th. house Is exposed. ex-posed. Forces are now putting in the yellow pine natural finish work and the hand-carved woodwork. Th. general color col-or schema for th. Interior will be green and gold French plush hangings for the loges and other drapings will be of rich red plush: Throughout th. house will compare with th. larest theaters erected : ; i |