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Show IIUTAH THEATRE "STOCK CO. II juawmmaBRaKffiolvifP aB 9 JF S&E&y Tv'-'-.i$il "JflWfe ImaaamV HHP Hi 4HHI amaamlaABT:Pili' I I 11 ROBERT M'KTJL Who will ha aaan all thii ween in tha famous QUI alto rela of stwattocfc Heiatea. THE New Orpheum kit ill stride last sight. It presented a real vaudeville vaude-ville ahow: Th headlioe art, Jaaa L. Lavaky' musical play, "Tha Trained Nurses, " was a big hit despite tha curses. It ta an elaborate offering and has a numbar of song hit and some bright comedy. Tha scene It tha sun parlor of a private hospital and training school for nursea. 8am my Sloan la a patient because ha 1 la love with the naw nurse. The head nana la in love with tha doctor and there la a lot of good fun la th piece. Hanry Bergman, as the patient, and Gladys Clark, as th naw nurse, furnish moat of the entertainment. Their "Bnooky Ookums'' song la a tremendous tremen-dous kit. Miss Clark it aa alluring little lit-tle creature and baa a moat bewitching manner, Mr. Bergman it a real comedian come-dian bmide being a good tinger. Th "You Made Me l.ovc Von" eoag of Miaa Ma Bronte and Lieorgr W. I a'la nan, the head nurse and the doctor, was alto wall received. Th act clones with a dancing wedding that it well doae. Altogether it it a big art, good enough to headline a niidseaaon thow, muck more a program during the dog days. It it aeldom that oue vaudeville bill hat to many cunning and winsome women wo-men aa this on ka. Rita Roland, wko was an entertainer in one of Bait Lake's popular cafea for several weeks, it singing BHlie Burke, she appears witk Val Harris and I. on Holt in an act called "Tkrea in One," writtan and produced by the vary popular muaV cal comedy atar. Elsie Janis. Mitt Bo-land Bo-land kaa a lot of charm and cute little waya about her and made an instantaneous instan-taneous hit lent night. Eddie Fitrpat lick, th orekeatra leader qualied as a regular actor in kia byplay witk her, having an koneet to goodness speaking part. Mr. Harris and Mr. Holt?, tang well and got some clever comedy across tha font lights. McTntvre and Harty, "the sugar plum gtflie and the mariamallow boy" are hack again and welcome. Mitt Mc Intyre 1 on of tie wintome and charming little women referred to shine. Her song about tha German girl waa a big favorite with the Bun-day Bun-day night audience. It it neediest to tay Harty wat enjoyed. He waa remembered remem-bered at once bv thoae who had been so royally entertained by bim last season and got away witk as many naw honors s- the did on her erst appearance her. M. Meyerfeld, president of the Or pheum circuit, announced torn time ago that soma sensational European actt had been booked for the Orpkeum chain of house. The L Oroha, who closed laat night 't show, made hit abatement abate-ment sound perfectly reasonable. At contortionists they are positively Baton ishing. The act closes with daring anrl dangerous atunt the girl and one of tha men hanging with their teeth to th ends of n brats rod whirled around on the feat of on of the men lying on nit back. The act It wall staged and it a big novelty in every respect. The gentlemanly publicity man inform nt that thlt it a geuuine family affair (and no hot air about it, either). The gray haired man who actt aa the helper Is "Pa" T,e Groh, ami others are his two aunt and daughter. "Ma" Groh aud tome of the other children are making the Buropeana tit up and take notice. Europe cuuldn t spare all of them at once. And we don't blame Europe for being a little stingy at that, if the other Le Groh nre half to startling in their act as these are. Arenera, billed at "Spain's noted dancer," assisted by. Big. Victor, won much applause with her very Aery Spanish dancing. Swain and Oatmau trio open the thow with torn livelv and comical knockabout knock-about work, nod they are followed by Cecil Beretford, an Englith comedienne. come-dienne. e SHERLOCK HOLMES, Dr. A. Conan Doyle's peerless leader of Action detectivea, it mott carefully and accurately imitated by Robert MrKim of the Utah Btoek company. Mr. MeKim la admirably suite.! for the part and laat night he accomplished the best work he hat done since joining the Btate street ttock company. lore, feeling and natural execution of a dilH cult characterization went into bit work. Hit opponent, for Holmee always bat an opponent, is Professor Monarity, kiug of crime, a lest familiar pcrton. but scarcely lets running at hit business than Mr. Holmes it at hit. The role of Professor loriarity it acted with strength and vigor by .1. Prank Burke. To run down this demon de-mon of crime, who it the brains of a at Sidney Prince, a eoeknev criminal, and Richard Vivian at a typical Eag-lish Eag-lish house servant. Patrons of tke Utah more than welcomed wel-comed Prof. Wlllard Weike back ta tke leadership of the orekeatra laat nigkt. Mr. VVethe responded by offering a splendid program of music, he himself rendering several violin solo in hi best ttyle. Hit orchestra', rendition of Chopin' exquisite fifth nocturne waa unusually good. see The following theetre notice an marked "advertisement" In order to comply with e etrlct Interpretation of the new federal newapeper lew. In no sens are they paid advertisement They ere Item furnished by th pre agents of th various theatre SALT LA Ka John Meson I a greet admirer of Augustus Thomas, th author of "Aa a Man Thinks. " In which Mason Is being starred by th Messrs. Shubert by arrangement with Charles Frohman but the ector thinks Thomas I Inclined to be rather harsh with him. "jtr, Thom- has a habit," said Mason the other day. "of giving all the explanatlone and story tailing and uninteresting word to th character he thinks will prove the moat Intonating to the eudlence. 'Why not?" he asks 'If th explanations must be made thay should be llatened to and th audience will be more likely to llaten If tha moot Interesting character Is talking talk-ing that If the explenetlons an mad by minor charactere.' "1 agree with hlin. but It' bard en th actor juet th earn. "In another respect Mr. Thomas refuses re-fuses to follow the ordinary rulee for play writing. He doesn't west any time to give th let.- pert of the audience e chance to get In end be eeeted. He begins be-gins his story linmdletel upon th rise of th curtain The lat comers, aa a conaeouence, flounder about for e while trying to pick up the thread. "I wouldn't have Mr. Tbomea change his method. 1 think the better way would be for everyone to be seated before th pley beglnt." ... r.Mi'nnss- One of th snapptoal and most enjovsble cycle acta In vaudv III I al th Empress this week, presented by th Booth trio of trick cycllat. While a number of the exploit are on th sensational sen-sational order a liberal amount of comedy Is Indulged In. Ill i, Pert and Kennedy, two burnt cork artists, entertain with a line of songs end patter that la pleasing Another bright feature of the present week's hill Is aeries of Impersonations and songs bv Fred Plaeno and Katharine Tflniiham Plsano appears aa an Italian fruit vendor, while Miss Bingham appears In an Irish character. Morris and Bess-let Bess-let offer s number of catchy song slid artistic dsnclng. while Kmma franct. the oriental danseuse. and her Arabian whirlwinds spin about th suae with llghlnlnrllke rapldltv. All are costumed In Arabian attire, which makes the offering of-fering all th more unique end acceptable accept-able Porter J White end company, presenting pre-senting "Scendal." le the headline attraction. wonderful machine o.eratin,7 aainat justice, Holmes needs rail into play all of his miraculous deductive nower. When Holmes takes the rise which pits him with Moriaritv in a t.Rht to the ttninh, ha recognize he hat before bim one of the most difficult tasks of his eventful career. Moriaritv vowi to ' '(Tet" Holmes and the latter is lust as confident that he will land his man at the end of the hanguian s rope. The case which opposes the cleverest criminal crim-inal alive against the veritable thinking, think-ing, machine involves sorro niualil'' papers and letters which Moriaritv undertakes un-dertakes to secure, bv hook or crook, from Alice I'aulkncr . Miss Regtna t on nellO. Holmes carries on hi tight practically single hsodod, rxrept for some valuable assistance given him from time to time bv his servant, BirTy t Richard Vivian). John Foreman, a reformed re-formed crook i Krank Jonasson), his intimate in-timate associate, Dr. Watson fOavin Young), and Miss Faulkner herself. The papers and letters are much desired by s r Kdward Leighton, who employ Holmes to get them. Holmes is in a position to have the papers delivcrc-l to ir Leighton lonu before he dbn. but he p(ro)oDfM the end iu order to gt Moriaritv and his gang where be wauts them. Monarity is aided by a number of cutthroats, a safe cracker, yeggmen and others, who come near putting an end to Mr. Holmes and several of In friends on several occasions. His foremost fore-most assistants are Sidney Prince (Arthur (Ar-thur Morse Moon), safe cracker, .lames, Larabee (Ronald Bradbury), Madge J.arahee (Miss Alice Kleminir), " flight foot" McTague (Harmon Weight) aud Mrs. Smeedjv (Miss Alice (Jonrad). The plav is presented in four acts, the seeond having; two scenes. An interesting in-teresting feature is the observations of Holmee. By merely glancing at whoever who-ever is before bim he is able to tell where that person has been and what be has been doing. IVeedless to say, his reaaonlag is always logical and it is all simple enough after Holmes explains ex-plains how he Knew. Every ijlayer in the cast doe creditably. Miss naming nam-ing as the beautiful, young adventures.) is natural and therefore convincing. Considerable comedy is afforded by the ' uimeutatiiuu id eiU-Uw -Ua JIuon |
