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Show ' . ' ii'-7-'' y. V' a , f - -v v r, y'- . i , . . . . , h---.v,v.;-. c'; . . , - ,--1,4",n- -'v , THEBTERSj Judging from the advance sale the Or- pheurn Stock company will play to good bualnees. . Salt Lake la about ripe for just such an organisation. Given good royalty roy-alty plays Interpreted by good people and the -combination - presented at popular prices, the answer la dollars and cents for the promoters and profitable enter-. enter-. talnment for the patrons. Rehearsals are now being pushed with - vigor. The last tot the company la due to arrive here today, to-day, but despite the brief time before the opening night on Tuesday. Manager P. G. MacLe&n promises that all will be dead-letter dead-letter . perfect by the . tlma the curtain goee up on the initial performance. "The principals." he said today, "have one and all appeared in The Girl I Left Behind Me' before,' and it. Is to the minor roles that we are giving our attention." - Certainly the aggregation of talent gathered here from the ashes of . San Francisco should be a drawing card. There is handsome Herechall May hall, who was leading man at the Alcasar theater the-ater and who lost everything in the way of baggage- In the flame. He is one of the favorite actors on the coast and for twy- eeons was leading man for Flor-nloe Flor-nloe Roberts. Then there la P. G. Mac-Lf-an, the Moses of the venture, who went ' it Into the wilderness, arrived at Salt .Jliaka and -then wired the rest of the bitch to come on aa he had found a theater. the-ater. Mac Lean cornea from a family of actors, one nd all Inoculated with the germ ef owning their own companies. Aside from being an actor he has been a ' newspaper correspondent, a soldier, xall-at xall-at sno note clerk. at various periods of - his checkered career. Then there la Robert Barrett, one of the best character actors In the country, who has been tor the past twenty-five years ruraced In the hazardous career of a stock actor. Walter Law la another; he was with Blanche Walsh as her leading man Mr"Salambo": Belby Roach, comedian, come-dian, la an old favorite with Alcasar patrons. pa-trons. Harry Taylor is a good actor, whii T.uke Cosgrove Is well-known In ' MISS JULIA STUART, - ' Leading Lady Orphenm Stock Company, Who Appears In "The Girl I Left Behind Me," Next Week. one of the old. old plays that make tears flow from the eyes, 4jnly to be followed by some bright comedy. It is "The Pearl of Savoy," and aa the name suggest, it is a play of France. It is of a beautiful Savoyard Sa-voyard girl who leaves home to escape persecution and goes to Paris and there meets a Wealthy man who falls in love with her. -This love is not returned, and she is rescued from the lover by the one she loves, who Is at last forced to desert her on account of his family connections. The girl becomes Insane, and Is finally brought to her right mind again by, her lover. The play Is well costumed, and new scenery makes It one of beauty. LYRIC THEATER. ; Commencing with this afternoon's performance, per-formance, "The California Girls" will occupy oc-cupy the boards at Hhe Lyric during the coming week. There are a whole lot 1 of things that are quite out of the ordinary Fromised with this new candidate for pubic pub-ic approval, not the least of which is a living bouquet of feminine beauty and loveliness which, it In claimed, makes all enchantresses look like soiled deuces In a seven-up deck. Then there is said to be a chorus of cultivated female voices that blend In delightful harmony; comedy creations cre-ations which are productive of the most hearty laughter. Despite the fact the show Is of great magnitude and contains numberless features, the programme Is arranged ar-ranged so that the acts follow each other In such rapid succession that not an Idle second of time occurs from the first rise until the finsl fall of the curtain. Prominent Promi-nent in the lint of principal entertainers with 'The California Girls" are "The Four Thoroughbreds. Helston and Hood. Ross and Vack, Miss Russell. De Forest sisters." sis-ters." A chorus of thirty beautiful maidens maid-ens In the latest musical novelties. Matinees Mati-nees on Monday,- Wednesday and -Saturday. ' . i ' , '- ' NEW CASINO PARK, eBBseasBsaeBBBB ' It Is to. be John Cort who will, fire the first gun of the summer amusement sea- - - , son In Salt Lake City,, and the first volley promises a host ,cf . noveltiee and surprises. sur-prises. For the past-three weeks a' large force of workmen. Including scene-painters, carpenters,- electricians and decorators, deco-rators, have been busy -at work on the old Ltahna theater, and when the curtain -rises for the first time on next Wednesday Wednes-day night, a complete change will have taken place,' new- wealing arrangements having been Installed, making now a seating seat-ing capacity of over 1500 people. The front of the house will be laid out In loges. each seating six persons,-, where those desiring exclusiveness will surely be satisfied. No expense has been spared In the securing of a company to occupy the stage of this popular little theater, -and Mr. Cort was fortunate enough to secure the services of A. M. Zlnn and his big operatic company to occupy the boards. Mr. Zlnn is one of the most widely known producers of musical mu-sical comedies and operas in - the United States, and his name alone Is a guarantee guaran-tee that every performance will be of a strictly high-class order, and of a' positively posi-tively refined order. During the course of the summer several of the standard comlo operas will be presented, and will Include In-clude such well-known pieces as - "Fra Dlavolo," "Mascot." "Grand Duchess," "Olivette," etc., and to vary the programme pro-gramme occasionally there will be a week of the Weber-Field type of productions. It Is one of these that will be presented the first week, snd - Is entitled,- "Teesy-Weesy. "Teesy-Weesy. or A Trip to the Trail." A feature of Zlnn's productions will be his sixteen dancing girls, and for beauty and grace they will be a hard lot to beat. Frances Grey Is the cBarmlng soubrette who lesds the beauty chorus in many of the songs and dances. The opera will be changed each week, with special scenery and calcium- effects for each production. - Salt Lake is especially fortunate in having hav-ing a park right In the heart of the city, where in a short walk you reach an open-air open-air theater, and thus-avoid the customary crowded cars In order to ride many miles out to see some -of the tawdry vaudeville performances the usual country park generally gen-erally affords.' The prices have been made especially low.'and a very prosper ous season la looked f orr . , I-tah. Mies Julia Stuart, who will play Kate Kennlon In "The Girl I Left Behind Me waa leading lady with Frederick Wards for two seasons; Blanch Alexander? Alexan-der? la -another clever woman who Jiaa rn.nT -ood in stock work. She was last m gedwlth The- Columbia Stock com-paiy com-paiy ef Brooklyn. N- T. Inea Jamee s Ke daughter of Louis James the well-JSowit well-JSowit tragedian, and Mabel Florence and IJme Conway also have -stage reputations reputa-tions Mr. MkcLean. however, is not yet wUVsfled. and is now in communication with some people and promisee soms big ZirorhNH? for announcement next week. Tkenall In all there is a promise of a SeatrlcaJ treat In store at the prpheum iait Sreek. and for the five following WksWThe prices will remain the same M prevailed during the vaudevjlleseason end there will be three matinees, each .week.- .- -:- ... .' '' '' Ada Dwyer Russell, the celebrated ac-treVs? ac-treVs? aVriVed In Salt Lake J"" She will rpend the summer In this city wkh her family. - , NEW GRAND THEATER. . The beautiful" melodrama, "Knobs o' Tennessee,' ' which cornea to the New 'Jrand theater' for a run of four nigbta '.a Wednesday souvenir matinee commencing com-mencing Sunday, May JO, Is a play writ-bi writ-bi Vmao of the people and for the ieople' the author being ftal Reld. It la xme of his most successful melodramas, a ptoy showing the mountain moonshiner in his home life hi the Cumberland hilte, of his "yalty to-his -neighbor against the hated revenue officers searching for their stHh and 1 of! his trials and tribulations. Happy houw . to those who witness this Idrf of the Tennessee foothills. New specialties spe-cialties and illustrated t songs between ecu together with the latest moving plo-f,. plo-f,. make th a ,how worth seeing. fiSnlrs are given away at the matinees Sd as usual fadles are free Monday and Friday nlgbU. , m : :; , v;- . A- beautiful drama comes to the New Grand theater the last half of the week, ' ' ' .' |