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Show v l:-::t - ... , .... , coiniro iTTr.Aci:c:.. The corning weekSvin afford the patrons pa-trons of both local theaters a Ehort breathing1 spell. After several weeks with, performances every night each, house will remain dark two nights. The Salt Lake Theater will open the " week with "The Tyranny of Tears" for one night only. Then the . Symphony orchestra will make its second appearance appear-ance on Wednesday night, and following follow-ing this comes Anna Held in "The Little Lit-tle Duchess" for the performances. At the Grand "For Her Sake" will fill the first, half of the week, after whichl that busy little playhouse will be dark! for two nights. On Saturday . night, "The Peddler's Claim", will open .anj engagement of six performances. , plays for tonight. "The. Princess Chic" pleased immensely im-mensely at the Salt Lake Theater again last night. No - more meritorious organization or-ganization has been seen here in comlo opera this season . than "The Princess Chic" company. The audience last night was somewhat smaller than on the opening, due entirely to the unusual fdraln that the patrons have undergone . , during the past three weeks. A matinee this afternoon and a performance to- night will close the engagement. Manager J. P. Slocum, who has a. ten-year ten-year . contract with Miss Vera Miche-lena, Miche-lena, the Princess . Chic, " Is having a new opera written in which she will be the star next season. . t ' "A Runaway Match" at the Grand! ' last . night entertained a good-sized audience, and this worthy attraction promises to close the week to capacity business. A matinee wlll .be given this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The seat sale of "For Her Sake", is now on at the Grand ' " . AT THE SALT LAKE THEATER. strong supporting company unusual opportunities. op-portunities. As Moses Levi. Mr. Morrid is said to give one of the best Jewish character sketches ever seen on the popular-priced stage. The seat sale for the entire engagement will open at the Grand box-offlce next Wednesday. AT THE TABERNACLE. The Western Musician says: "The Kilties' band (Gordon Highlanders of Canada), under the leadership of Mr. William F. Robinson, has. during its extended tour of the United States, ta- ... . Toe attraction at the Salt Lake Theater, The-ater, Thursday and Friday nights with Friday matinee will be Anna Held in Florenz Ziegf eW, Jr.'s, lavish production' of the whimsical musical play "The "Little Duchess." Anna Held, .with her - eongs, her dances, her . costumes, her shrugs," hen capers, and her oscular flirtation, will have the assistance of 'Joseph W. Herbert. George Marion, Knox Wilson, Edouard Durand, Hubert Hu-bert Wllke, Franz Ebert, Louise Royce, Anne St. Tel, Billy Norton, Katherine Bell, and Adelaide Orton. Welcome the chorus too the pick of fair feminity, of shapely curves, a mass of joyoud and Jocund womankind, pirouetting and carojling in all the most ' ingenuously novel creations of dress and undress fabrics. r , Mr. Florenz Zlegfeld, Jr., the manager, man-ager, : has certainly spared no expense to give Anna Held a highly decorative background: Through the scenes and I acts. of "The Little Duchess." Anna Held moves and sings and dances as though Harry B. Smith, the librettist, had never devised a plot or Reginald . I ; de Koven, the composer, had never 1 created a score. The play has the hap- 1 py-sa-: lucky. air that breathes through. J Ostend and -Paris. It has their clan. It has their Insouciance. It has their gayety, , ... The promoters of the Salt Lake Symphony Sym-phony orchestra do not propose to let! the - organization, die if it can be avoided. Mr. Shepherd has been hard at work with his men ever since the first concert and is now ready with another an-other ideal programme for the second appearance which will take place on Wednesday next at the Salt Lake Theater. The-ater. The following is the prpgramme: Symphony No. 2 (1st movement).... t Beethoven Concerto g minor (for violin v ...Max Bruch Slavonic dance. No. .1..... Dvorak "Carmen" selection Bizet For strings alone from "Peer Gynt Suite" , Grieg a. A sea Death. . b. Anitra's Dance. - . c. Andante Cantabile from Quar-- . tette Op. 11 Tschaikowsky Overture to "Oberon? ..Weber Mr. Welhe, who has been engaged as soloist and will be assisted by the full orchestra in accompaniment will play Bruch's . concerto In G minor. Those who have heard the rehearsals, say the orchestra is more enthusiastic than ever and that their work is much Improved Im-proved ' since the last concert. Salt Lakers who miss this second opportunity opportu-nity of patronizing the Salt Lake Symphony Sym-phony orchestra . will be doing them- ken a foremost place among the great musical organizations of this continent. The novelty of the Kilties' entertainment entertain-ment (which consists of band music, vocal vo-cal choruses, Highland dancing, bag-piping, bag-piping, vocal soloists, giant drum major, ma-jor, boy dancer,' .buglers, drummers, etc., coupled with the extremely picturesque pic-turesque kilted costume, have given' the Kilties', a unique position . among amusement organizations. The' organization organ-ization is hot directly associated with any Canadian regiment, but its members mem-bers are all British or Canadian-born, and are practically all graduates of Scottish-Canadian regiments." Their appearance here in the Tabernacle next Friday and Saturday nights will be one of the most interesting musical events of the season. The seat sale will open Wednesday at Daynes' music store. NOTES OF THE . THEATER. . f Helena Collier, a sister of Willie Collier, Col-lier, with whose company she has been playing for the past two seasons in "On the Quiet," is now meeting with marked success as Lisa in Bartley- Campbell's "The White Slave." which comes to the Grand theater soon. V - Julia Marlowe's original 320,000 production pro-duction of "'When Knighthood Was in Flower" will be seen at the Salt Lake Theater soon. Mi H. Austed, the New York music publisher, has placed the Press club of this city on his regular subscription list. The club has already received the first numbers from the Austed house. Daniel Sully will fill an engagement here soon in his new play, "The Old Mill Stream." The University Dramatic club will repeat re-peat "The Amazons" at the Salt Lake Theater, the proceeds to go toward relieving re-lieving the famine In Sweden. Phil Margetts. supported by the Preston Pres-ton Dramatic club, will make a tour of northern Utah and part of Idaho dur-' lng the remainder of, this season. , Paul Gilmore, the clever young society, so-ciety, actor, will appear here in Haddon Chambers' famous comedy of temperament tempera-ment at the Salt Lake Theater, Mon- Jlay night. There are few actors better '"qualified by nature to enact roles requiring re-quiring the display of the gentler and ' nobler phases of the human mind and ' ' heart. In such manly characters as William Prescott in "Men and Women," Wo-men," the husband in "The Wife." John Van Buren, in "The Charity Ball." Paul Gilmore has made a name for. himself. The character of Clement Parbury in Haddon Chambers' delightful delight-ful comedy enables him to appear- to the best advantage and the supporting company is said to be an unusually strong one. . ' . AT THE GRAND THEATER. Considering the equipment of the piece and the reputed merit of the play ; as a dramatic offering, the presentation of the new Russo-Siberian play, "For Her Sake," at popular prices, ought to meet with general favor from the pa-trons pa-trons of the Grand theater where the 9 play is to be seen the evening of Monday, Mon-day, Tuesday and Wednesday, with matinee .Wednesday. There are said to , be some intensely dramatic scenes in v this play, one of them being a flogging scene, illustrative of the dally course of v events in the convict mines of Siberia. The victim of the knout is a serf maiden mai-den upon whom a, Russian prince of the blood has centered his affections. anJ who has Involved himself and her in al conspiracy, which has Its termination and final happy conclusion in one of the Czar's penal colonies. The company Is a very large one. and is said to be unusually competent for 'the work it has in hand. By special arrangement Managers Jones and Hammer of the Grand theater the-ater have secured "The "Peddler's Claim," in which Sam Morris as Moses Levi is the star to fill part of the time left open by the disbanding of "Peck's Bad Boy' The company will give six performances opening with a matinee ' I next Saturday, and continuing through , j the first half of the following week. J "The Peddler's Claim" is a strong melo- drama dealing with Western life, -and is e aid to afford Mr. Morris and his i |