Show IIUSIC AND ruRAMA01 I Atlraotlona at th ° Theaters Thoso Billed for Next Weak successful Opening of the Combination Season at I the Now Grand Footllght Flashed Inn irc Mcnarvic of the New I upponrs to have taken a new 1 u Ci 1 Ja t on life theatrically nt leant I line the oiielilnr performance of the I I mart of Chime at Ilia house on Thursday night of the result week and looks no though Ilia lays of regret of the Mock com iihy or the lost comllIy re to bo very few Indeed The th srin felt nan worn off an the site c lOr the new venture becomes more and more apikirunt If the house con bo kIt open ana the prospects are that It cuiltheip will doubtless be roor money for the management in Ir tin it combinations than could HV been realized with a stock torn I pan c en of a high standard iom Ih best attractions on tin road are I I of I i i Ml I played lit the popular priced I hu anti the Western circuit bids I fair lo cnptuie ft generous share of the rubllo patronage even though playing fb direct competition With I the big nt111 managers who have hitherto controlled pretty mud everjlhlng In T On UaMHne allow line A play like The Heart of Chicago In I not put on to I lit lay the dramatic ahlllty ot a select cor pany of nctors but la Intended to plli n IBO pleas the people unj ama I a-ma rlty ft them like Just that noil nf I I a play Iho problem lays i are toni j ton-i dep for many uf them Recognizing this und being upon the ground Lin cln J Caller nnel a few others have clniel money while I the I higher I I class ft nttrucllons piny In a great many Instances In-stances to losing buslneba The opening of the Lost Strayed for it St I n engagement at the Theale 0 lastllfgllt brought out its fine I1n auJI i nee as has been en at that house I Cot a long tlmee1 I seat on the lower llr Kin occupied and til galleries exptionally well filled Lost Strayed o or SWIM hns been charneterlo asa as-a mUI leal Comedy and It proved to he amutical IIroatt sense or the term II I a concoction or nonns ex pri8sed In words anti mule fill eery 0 thing Imaginable introduced for fun Jr3klnl IInd Interpreted as It IS I 01 of It high atandrild dt11t for 4 I 1 he most part hugely I enjoyed It In 1 1 not N hilt could be called an Intellectual treat in any wylbut 110 net hIng cal I tr to elrlvo dull care own and cO r1 Ihe mind The stage Hetllncs were beautiful anally 1 lery ana-lly arranged and the char atvrs In the com > Jy appeared toW to-W rod with the surroundings The II ml Included such wU known people peo-ple as Harry Clay Illarcj Iuclus NI OrgnrT r I IP11bnon1I Charles Dlck on Harry All n Annlo Keefe Orluki Worn o IMF 1nt anti others A intitimit I ak ghen this allerllooll find the elm d Ing p I rformance will bo given tonight i Imagine some vf the nnellsli farces f of half n century a otho curtuln 0 ralurs I hat were so popular with old the iterigoers Take any ono or the c lerest carry aJl logically thiough three lots Instead of four bring It up to date In slang dcold < of coirsenesq I place the Prone In I New York and you have a fair Idea if tile suessful 1 farce Comedy called I 1J rl Its author II A dil I Souchtt My rrl nd I > om India It Is I far and away the funniest thing that has been OPln In a thematic way In New York for many seasonf The aUthor aU-thor Is I new to the puMIc Indeed throughout his pla them Is I plenty of evidence or Inexperlenrei but this same quality adds to the Work find rcsulu In a series of absurdly novel situations refreshing to those famllllr ulth the conventionalities of stagecraft I The plot In simple Cud legitimately I absurd Krnstus Underholt Is I a retired porkpaeker from Kansas City With I his son and two diiUEhtfrn he box come to New York where ho has taken a houo ant made = c hut ineffectual efforts to get Into society Ills son I Charles however has plunged i3 lively social set suit has exasperated its rather hI frequent escapridei ne IIenton has rome with the aching heM hilt the offenses tire repeated un III the parent announces that the next 1111 I will result In the boym dismissal I front ho house When the curtain rf up the din covery 10 modo that Charles has been I UIIUI1I1 rUe the night before and ho brouht homo wIth him 11 mail I 10 whom he Is I nn utter trange What 10 10 NOW him or how to explain ex-plain his prelencr lie does not know lie wakes him UI and locations him to Bud he IN a hbr yClih a leaning towards theosotihv He had picked him up in the corridor of a hotel An Idea striken Iho hid lie garbs the man In u Yellow silk clresln own nn1 Intro < lue him to his rather nq tho Ilev James Twei die Just arrived flora 1uropthe I14me he hall oh tallied fiom the jurfmKn list In the mornln Ir a paper Th old bay Is I aI pensed for he sees In this theosophist a fad that wilt Interest society nnd so draw people 16 his house Against his will nnd to tho horror of Charles the barber Is kept a prisoner In the houtte hecolnlng at once the object 01 I Charles loathing and despair and the admiration or the women on neeount ot his incomprehensible theories A policeman on the bent frustrates his efforts to escape Absurd things hopI hop-I > en that tend to strengthen thu pork packers belief In his supernatural powers and < confusion Is mulllplied Hints slyly and adrollly dropped to lepurtTS tire worked out Into newspaper news-paper articles until the demands to Nee the new fad home exteriolive Hut reading these notices the real James wee < lle comes to the house to know what 11 all menna 8lmultano only with his visit Charles and a friend Tom Valentine determine to dlsgulso meles as the minister In older 1 to get the barbe away Each conrel from the other Ilia 1lot II IN I needless to add that wJ1In Uw three meet there In I an exulolon Mean while the situation becomes appalling and to get out of the difficulty the entire en-tire crowd conspire against the pork packer to convince title he Is Inloxl entl This Is done successfully Although he ban taken but 11 single l glass of whisky he Is I made to believe himself drunk The theosophist freea him fiom the spell Ile ties to shoulder the hortcolng or every one It being Inlte that everything took place when ho wait under tho Influence or liquor anti so tile play ends happily for all The trouble with RO i many farces of the present day In I that the hypothesis to I stupid the event following not Log Lo-g logical In Jlv Friend from I dta granting the assumption of the barbets prootneetnd we must ahvoB grant imethliwi for dramatic needsthe eQunce i is perfectlj comprehensible I com-prehensible Theater My friend for and front two In India Willits Us vni appeourn commencing explicable at the I Tuesday November 2nd Mr Oscar Mason the great and irmwing IllurlonletcoUnIntiolyC4110 I the Mormon linlil has with Ills wire returned to halt Lake for a brief stay and while hem will appear at the Theater for 10 nlghl an1 matinee commencing rriday Nov nil at whlrt lime his friends and neighbors will have the opportunity ot vlewlnr the onlrul littiree or perfection lie has attained Ia the magical art mine leavIng leav-Ing homo something over a year age For the purpose I 01 > simplifying his naine and for rorlol1al ron b has assumed the stage cognomen hI VItn and 11H now so known Lind spoken of Since last belo he han Covered a distance of S 000 mother tlllns among m-other places 1lCo aM CUM He describes an interesting time he had In the city of Mexlc with a Hlndou Fakir aho Upon learnlug lilii 1001 eti Won told him or the Inany Innrvellous things < lone by his poople In Il1dl the Land or Mytrl lie told him or the suake churnipip the wizard doctor Ill submit to Ihyleal torture claimIng claim-Ing to reel no pain nnd the glass enters ent-ers who erunth glass It cen their teelh much as the society girl does t 9 y 1 M B CURTIS AS SUIL 01 rOSiN m aramel Then he told of th lenrIN 1 ftCle Ministers or Mahntma ilhO live oil the foot i hills of the HlhialnjM Bit I practice magic to Impel the people to their rglellou 1IU Amolll tho lUll doo rut or magic uplalnIw the groOlng or the mango trees M the Invisible rope ladder and the burial allv proc e ps The rope ladder trick explained < lan allan all-an optical Illusion the trickster thleiw Ing a rope Into Iho air mid apparent scraml ling up It After having spent the day with his Interesting visitor flat nte Invited him to attend his performance per-formance In the evening at the Teatro Jaclonal Tho Invitation was nccept ed and after the performance he lold Dante that his was as mystifying n niliill i i YT hut r i It either In JniUn or el hro Irtleularly the Illusion cill a the MariHous lllcyellst vhlih IB per onned by Mile idmundn Mrs llln nll1 In his perfornin hr next ueel Dante will preAellt I his Illusion for the first tin and In ldIUon Karriloq another of Ilia bfmt ricks tOgther with everything One he i hall done that brought him famt In this and other lands A nuttin will hr given on Saturday afternoon Nuicm loot Cth Jit popular prices lh Inlcr Hot felt P I this young Utah artist who las mjrtjiej the world Is I sulllilent to assure hln a warmi i elcome > next week I M H Curtis the one alid Only Raml 01 Ioen comes tn the Nw Grand lora lor-a week beglnnlt Ion < lnl night November 1t or courpe gain or 10n will be his main bill though The Promoter a i play I 1 by the auihor or The Polit I clan llolantt I Heeds succcm hetwen the nil ami third anx t to e plain the > urlornie In dut ill Whol l I Curti returns next fall I hi will mi ai 1 III 11 new play called Ih aml 0 r Posen if Hlollke Prof W n Vulhe director of the Felt lako Opera citml my is I confl dent that their forlhionilng production lent Chinion of rvxmandy will lie evfm more uiei > Knful thii eltner The Mascot or luth Ice The chorus of 40 olces Is I stronger lhan b fere and the members hair been rnrfully selected from the foremost mUsleal forces Qf the city Ine nw rlllea III be wen amonlt Sune principal Miss Halilc J V ir a Salt Lake girl who has Just h 3 trnod < rrlII n yttirn tudy In Paris buying one of tin lending M 1 > IH I AllR savago appmrs with tho company tin do 010 air Spencer > Ir Ooildard nd I Mr Campli11 It Is also expected I that I 26 1yper the I popular I teno 5 I M A 510 s in s As f IMN f I 6 ed ell f Ow 7e Mow 4 DANTE TIIR Y uso WIZZARD fuj play will bo given Friday and Bat1 uiday nights with Saturday matlr Curtis will take flflecn of his peophl nnd sail from Seattle on April 21nd 98 for the Klondike though the eipedl tlou will not lie confined entirely to Ion atrlrals this however being tho main feature of the trip A ship builder ot Vancouver II Coo Is I now engaged Inputting In-putting together a portable theater and If the Ihenlllral I art of the trip proves 0ntlnt or a success well on1 good It nut then the company will engage In Ihe hotel I business mln Ing or merchandise sharing equally In the profits A number of plomlnnt men or the Found country tire Intelet ed In the venture and will send alonit a cargo of merchandise wlilch will bo disposed ot by Mr Curtis at Dawson or one or the othec camp Dr Chas J Mullen of Seattle one of the successful suc-cessful Klondike jimspectors better known as Sunflower lllll is I looking after the business I ehd of the cnturo and will eh her uejU 12 nppearlns j Uill return front the rt In time to slug the charming tenor role The pres lent aim Is lo bring the opera out Oil Thnnksrlitng Day and ns before the company will play to Ihe same scale uf prices as that charge at the Grand I olIxh Maude Atlanta In I tenttuur years 01110 mote no lose Joseph Jefferson Is playing through New nqlanol with his oldll visor David arnohl has retired front the cast Ir The Belle or New York wid l has Bonn to San Francisco for a rt W A Brady in I BOld tn have arranged tn rond 1 Nature on the road It he does he will make money with It John Drew and his company will play Ihe second net of Rosemary nt the aliening of the new Astoria hotel New York on Nov 1 IY Henry n Uliej I slgna iMt Tccl to tour a n nVeRtldlcltatfur I fnH < r rd H 1 one uUmagInent 11Ing the paraphernalia of tin lat Frederick lancroft I The Chicago Orecn Boom club ol which Itbliuril Mansfield Is I an honorary honor-ary blernbiij i gave lost I Week n banquet In honor of his su1es In The Devils Disciple I 4 Mr Iisllo Carter will retire from = 051 The Ilenit of Maryland at the < nd if I thin anon1 nxt season will IIIVer In a hranol nw tollor mad play by D101 HlnHio One or tho nw features of the Ban I Ions 10 Iwnlllclhlch Is now renly for production walling only for n pm I I Ill Ion opmlng IK I u series 01 cartoon I from manipolllati dallle Idenllzed l and rculo d l In lifelike positions nod actions Th IIInleno promise much I that SUIJPrha Is I novel In this seRBon peclaclo Jessie Bartlett Davin It Is I said 1 will star next Neilson In an operatic vr toil i 01 lie ot the Sarlu plays probAbly prob-Ably Olnloll although the ngo tintlonu ale not let closed Tin Corn poser Ilan hn engaged and the en tiro Faulty Davenport utnt will proh amy 100 uI 11 UIollI Is I not stlecttd It may bo Cleopatra or La Joea Mrs R A Hiker who In I CO years old and Nsho last m casoll colhld the tlxtlelh trlnhry ul her first aI pool 1 lice oq the stage Is I Uh Thoma W JCeene again this Pennon Alro Hiker plays only One rartthe Duchess eif YUlk In lllchard III She ties been a member of Mr Keene com pony for Hxtecn rears having hOn away front him only one season fit that lime timing whlel rhe NNILM Idally engaged to ploy the uelo ot > ork to tho Itlchnrd III 01 1lwln Booth One of tho unlrjuo methods resorted to hi Uelnaia W Dunn lo announce Ihe first Boston engagement of John J XleNnlDs farclal comedy Courted 1 Into Court wo tin ItlCaCt raelmlle or a uhnna therein It was set forth that people of Boston State ot Massachusetts and county of Suffoll were required to nppoar before the lion Jeremiah Oeogheean Usa Justice Jus-tice of Holds street Thentei Curt there lo give eildence ofvwhat the In luting tonn action or lIorce tn iwhant and tried before DotlleDlm pie Wlrth llnrlc Dressier Plaintiff und Worthington Wirth Jr John C Itlco defendant |