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Show foyers! Li t-1 Lj i. j "Francesca da Rimini" will be repeated at the Salt Lake Theater again tonight "The Tempest," which was to have been played will remain Quietly in a couple of freight cars. The reason for the change of bill. Is that "Francesca" has prospects of doing better business. The performance perform-ance of the powerful tragedy last night was witnessed by another large audience. The matinee will begin at Z o'clock this afternoon. Miss June Mathls, the star of "Whose Baby Are You?" at the Grand, has almost al-most fully recovered from the cold which detracted so much from her performance on the opening night. The breezy farce will continue throughout the week. The house last evening was fully as large as the opening and the audience was enthusiastic. enthu-siastic. Some persons are under the Impression that it is necessary to understand tha Swedish language In order to enjoy the performance of "Yon Yonson." Such is not the case. The dialect which "Yon Yonson" uses has enough English in Its make-up to be entirely Intelligible to all American theater-goers. The comedy was written for the American public, and as It has lived successfully during the last ten years It certainly must have pleased. "Yon Yonson" will be produced at the Grand beginning next Monday. - 9 m A new programme will be given at La Petite theater tonight. The attendance at yesterday's performances was large. "Corianton" will open at the Salt Lake Theater tomorrow night and play during the remainder of the week. VIolette Craig, Ida Due and Helen Boyer, three local girls, will be seen in leading parts. The play was produced in .Provo last night, and the management Is contemplating a trip Into southern Utah, The new curtain for the Salt Lake Theater Is completed, and will be put In place as soon as there is sufficient time "between engagements. The curtain presents pre-sents a scene from "Ben Hur." Director Shepard of the Symphony orchestra. or-chestra. Is busily engaged In preparing his programme for the next concert to be given a week from Saturday night m The University Dramatic club has decided de-cided upon Friday, January 16th, as the date for the representation of "The Amazons" at the Salt Lake Theater. An attraction for week after next at the Salt I-ake Theater, and one In which considerable interest is already manifest mani-fest In Florence Roberts in a repertoire of plays, of which "Zaza" l one. Miss Roberts Is a San Francisco favorite and "Zaza" Is one of her best productions. Aubrey Bouctcault has apparently not scored a big hit with his adaptation of "Alt Heidelberg," which was recently put on In New York. The reviews of it are not encouraging, and In this Instance, at least. Mr. Bouctcault has not scored the success that was expected of him. In transferring "Alt Heidelberg" to the English En-glish stage it seems that the charm of the piece, . namely its atmosphere, has been lost entirely and It becomes theatric and stagey. Perhaps one of the best reasons for this is the double drawback of authors au-thors and audience not being acquainted with the life the play pictures. Several German students when the play was originally brought Out here by our local German company said that a great many of the audience did not catch the spirit of It and lost the delicate charm of the performance. If the original could not catch the popular fancy It looks like a safe bet that an American adaptation of It would certainly shoot as wide of the mark as possible. . Percy Wallace Mackaye, a son of the late Steele Mackaye, has completed a play that E. H. Sothern has accepted with a view of bringing it out as soon as oosslble. "A Little Unfalry Princess." a children's child-ren's play by Frances Hodgson Burnett, was recently brought out in London and made a hit. There is some talk of bringing bring-ing the piece over to this country In the spring. Effle Fay is going into vaudeville. She will do her familiar stunts and wind up with her Sousa Girl Impersonation. Miss Fay will be assisted in her act by six pretty girls from the chorus of "Fads and Folly," which closed the past week with the end of the Mrs. Osborne theater In Gotham. |