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Show " t irvwMiiririii 1 1 mm awaaHi"i w j .1 CSBSm3E3BsCC3SSsV i AT THE GEAKD THTA.TL3. A' I "Hazel Kirke."' "8J2 KIrke Paul Pllkington Aaron Rodney Frank Parry Arthur Carringford (Lord Travers) .... THtil i John Tyrrel r'rEST Wlllard Foster Methuselah Mlggins (called Met.) G. Knickerbocker ml if Grant Churchill E2liaLmiL,er Hirry C. Barton IwlvTI' - MlM Anna'Roberts T?iwyTMrke VI8 Leila E. Davis ?lun Ml8s Mary Holmes i-mlly Carringford (Lady Travers) r-.1V" Miss Leila E. Davis , , ' maid MiM Mary Holmes A large crowd at the Grand last night laughed, wept and applauded over the amusing, pathetic and thrilling situations situa-tions in the time-worn but ever-ver-oant scenes of Steele Mackaye's com-dy. com-dy. "Hazel Klrke." The Warde company com-pany presented, without alteration or amendment, the version made famous by ESle Ellsler. The curtain was a Ut-v Ut-v tie late in going up on the opening performance, per-formance, hut the crowd waited pa-Itiently pa-Itiently and was amply rewarded by a (jpost pleasing rendition of the favorite ld play. The several characters were Kell portrayed. Miss Roberts making a Inost fetching Hazel and Mr. Tyrrel a capable Lord Travers. The performance opened the fifth week of the Warde company's engagement. engage-ment. The last two weeks have witnessed wit-nessed full houses' and the remaining two weeks will undoubtedly show the full appreciation the company has won. "Hazel Kirke" will run all the week, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. Satur-day. ' William A. Brady, the theatrical manager, who was reported to have dropped 121,000 to Charlie Evans in a poker game, says that it "ain't so." Aubrey Bouclcault, .who sat in the game, bears Brady out. "It I saw a bale of money that big pass hands the shock would kill me," declares Bouclcault. Boucl-cault. George Broadhurst, the playwright, play-wright, also held a hand in the game, and he says it was a penny-ante affair. He guesses that Brady dropped 1100. Anyhow, Brady has made enough with "Pretty Peggy," and Grace George to make a $21,000 losing a small affair. It is settled that there will be another invasion of Mascagni next- season. But he will confine his attentions almost solely to California. It is said by some of his friends that he may settle down there and ' that Mrs. Leland Stanford will offer him a professorship in the Stanford university. Undoubtedly he would accept it, - Marie Tempest is to revive "Caste" in London for the final week of her engagement en-gagement there, assuming the role of Polly Eccles. After her English season clones Miss Tempest will take a well- fned vacation and then come over to s country, which she has not visited re she deserted comic opera for le-ciate le-ciate work. Joseph Haworth is to star next season in a play by Theodore Burt Sayre, called "The King's Highway." Manager Marc Klaw Is in Europe for his annual vacation, but is said to be looking over the European field with a view of securing some of the latest successes suc-cesses abroad for future use in this country. ' ' . AT THE SALT LAKE THEATER. "Bichard. IIL" An Interpretative reading of Shakespeare's Shakes-peare's bloody", historical tragediv "Richard III.," was given before ap appreciative audience at the Salt Lake Theater last night by Dr. Henry Lawrence Law-rence Southwick, dean of the faculty of Emerson college. Boston. At the beginning be-ginning Dr. Southwick stated that iconoclasts icon-oclasts had delved into history and had taken away much of the horror that attaches at-taches to the name of the bloody King depicted by the bard of Avon, but that Shakespeare's Richard would ever continue con-tinue the popular conception. In his reading he developed the cunning and cruelty of the ambitious Plantagenet most strikingly, and the concluding act. the dream scene and the battle with Richmond, ending in the death of Richard, Rich-ard, was rendered with such dramatic fire as to hold the breathless attention of the audience. . , Dean Southwlck's lecture tonight will be an interpretation of Bulwer Lytton's sublime play. "Richelieu," a story that will undoubtedly prove more popular than the Shakespearean recital. The lectures are under the auspices of the Young People's Union. THEATRICAL NOTES. Edwin Lemare's mastery of the pipe organ was made manifest to an audience audi-ence that nearly filled the auditorium of the First Congregational church last night. The programme was a varied one and entirely pleasing to his admirers. admir-ers. The Salt . Lake Opera company is planning the production of a popular up-to-date opera In the early fall. The "Tom Show" of the Press club next Tuesday night at the Salt Lake Theater is promised to be the funniest thing on ice. The ice will be the real thing, or as nearly so as possible. The vaudeville show at Calder's is already a popular drawing card at that resort. The Cinematograph Is still busy. The Salt Palace will open for dancing danc-ing tomorrow night. There was another large crowd at Saltair last night. The lake resort has lost none of its popularity. There is plenty of amusement at Lagoon La-goon to suit all classes. "Little Christopher," the opening production pro-duction of which i will be felven at the Salt Palace on June 22nd, received Its first rehearsal and the advance preparations prepara-tions necessary for a big display of elegant ele-gant costumes last evening. The costume: cos-tume: plates arrived from New York and were at once put Into the hands of the Salt (Lake Costume house, with instructions instruc-tions to spare no expense in duplicating them exactly from the originals made by Dazln. The local amusement patrons will be offered a big novelty In this production. pro-duction. Together with a long list of local favorites that will appear In the cast, there will be a chorus of. forty voices with a large orchestra under the direction of one of the local favorites. The production will be for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. building fund. |