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Show I r. ' IZnuie trickson, a Utah 'boy, made h!a errtarar.ee as a star Et the Salt 'Lake Theater Ust evening In "The Man From Sweden," and the reception given him V 3 a 1 irty en J cr.roid.1 one. He is at t: o he-ij of a remarkably pood popular-prlced popular-prlced attraction, and the audience that Fathered last night thoroughly appreciated appre-ciated the production. Near the end of the second ret a bouquet and a pold-rnourted pold-rnourted cane went over the foctllfrhts to Mr. E.-ickson fcs tokens of esteem from a number cf his fcalt Lake friends. X.nute Erickson is a Swedish-American, is else Erickson. who was at the Grand during th first part of the week, is Swedish through and through. While vastly different as Swedish character actors, ac-tors, they axe both artists in their line, , . end which Is the better will not ba said. If Mr. Erickson, Knute, wishes to Rhine v uroong.the Swedish stars, however, he must needs leave "The Man From Swed-n" Swed-n" and secure a more acceptable, play. ' Of his support Miss Lillian Maynard end iiLss Sophie Howell were good among the- iadics and Hector Dion and Charles Malles among the gentlemen. Little Ltea- trice in the part of the little boy. Jim, is one of the cleverest children seen on the stage. The engagement was for one lilshc Verily It Is a conglomeration; is "Weary Willie Walker,", a jolly mingling of incon-" incon-" gruous things, m which the fun seems to increase proportionately with ' the lncon-gruity. lncon-gruity. At 1-jast, that appeared to be the I Scase at the Grantl theater last night, r -where "Weary Willie" opened his en-"V en-"V ' gasement. .W The performance opens with a song, and . closes with a prize fight, wrth the strains of "Mr. Dooley-ooley-ooley-ooly-oo" ) floating In from the background. . Boxed in between these extremes was a ' little of anything and everything known to the world of farce, with more or less tragedy thrown in. One Rube Welch serves as "Weary W'illie Walker"; Oscar Lewis is Carl Carlson, the Swede, and Kitty Francis is Mrs. Rafferty. the Irish loidy. These three characters serve as a framework, ciround which is woven soubrettes, music, chorus, book agents, . etc. The play is divided into three sections. It is interesting interest-ing and entertaining; well worth seeing. The engagement is for the remainder of the week. . - e The University Dramatic club in 'The i Amasons,". one of Pinero's farcical plays, . will be the attraction at the Bait Lake Theater tonight. The club has been under un-der the direction of Prof. Maud May Bab-1 Bab-1 cock, and should give an artistic produc tion. The players follow: Barrlngton, Viscount Utterly , Mr. Stanley D. Jonasson Galfred, Earl of Tweenways ' v Mr. Elbert D. Thomas Andre, Count de Grlval ' Mr. Harold Goft Rev. Roger Minchln .' Mr. Walter Evans Orts (a poacher) Mr. Jay E. Johnson Fitton (a gamekeeper) . , Mr. Will Mifflin Youatt (a servant) Mr. Sam Pixton Miriam, Marchioness of Castlejorden.. . Miss Laura Chrlstensen Lady Noeline Belturbet . Ulna Ardella Bitner Lady Wilhelmina BeltuTbet . Miss'Ellen Tibbetta Lady Tomasin Belturbet Miss Edna Harker (Her Daughters.) Sergeant "Shuter" ........ Miss Lylia Knudson - The seat sale for the engagement of the ""'. Gordon-Shay Opera company began at Y the Salt Lake Theater today. The reper-tolre reper-tolre of the eompany follows: Monday i . evening, "Carmen"; Tuesday . evening. j xiusucana : - w eanesaay matinee, - ll r.Trovatore"; Wednesday venlng, "Faust." . , Robert Edeson has duplicated In Chicago Chi-cago the fine impression he made in Gotham Goth-am in "Soldiers of Fortune." t Next season Miss Grace Freeman, the J prima donna of "The Country Girl" com-.' com-.' pany, is to be "featured" in a new musl- cal comedy which will have its first pro-i pro-i duotlon In New York. - 71 . News from Maurice Barrymore, who is In an asylum on Long island, is to the , effect that while his mind does not lm- prove his physical condition is as good as it ever was in his life. ' Frank McKee has added Edwin Arden . to bts list of stars, which next season promises to include Mary Mannering, Maciyn Arbuckle and Arthur Byron. Mr. Arden's contract with Mr. McKee is for ' a period of five years. He will most like- ' ly continue with -"The Ninety and Nine" next season and star subsequently. "Lovers' Lane," after two years of great popularity in the Eastern and Mid die States, is about to make its first invasion in-vasion of the South and far West, the' tour covering the entire Pacific Coast cir cuit and extending into June. |