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Show TONIGHTS AMUSEMENTS; SALT LAKE !'Mld8vunmer Night's Dream." OKPHEUM Vaudeville. GRAND "Butternut Jones." LYRIC Vaudeville. AUDITORIUM Roller Skating. CHAMBER OP COMMERCE Free. Not now the sweet, demure, girlish character to which the public was accustomed, accus-tomed, but the frolicsome, romptnh, elfish Puck of "Midsummer Night s Dream." Mlns Annie Russell still bids fair to continue con-tinue her popularity. If a little tall, for the childish- Imp she represents, she an-, an-, ewers all other requirements perhaps - more perfectly than any other person who has assumed the part. Wsgenhals A Kemper's production of the Shakespearean comedy Is a beautiful ;. - . . ; , ; - . ...-5. .,'. -... : ; - . - y ... - s-'" -' v...:"-- v...:"-- '- s :V ." V V .tk.y '" ' B )' ' ' '"j:' - r f: .-.. , , ,, .!.; P',1.1 . ''VI, ) ' " 1"' ' ' ' - ' "'J ence. . the merry, witty and far-famed farce In which she has made her latest big hit. In New York they like Miss Crosman Immensely Im-mensely In "AU-of-a-Sudden-Peggy," and her run at the Bijou theater was notable. She is coming wlh the entire New York company, one of whose members ts John Marble, for many years associated with the late Charles II. Hoyt. Marble was the first stage manager Mr. Hoyt ever had for his farces, and he continued with him up to the time of his production of "A Milk White Flag." . Laughing-, like the measles. Is catching. People will laugh at things said on the street, who ordinarily. In the theater, could not be made to laugh If tickled with a feather. They go on the theory that they have paid for their amusement, and If they are not ainu6el, they are only too willing to show It. All this by way of saylnft that the : show at the Orpheum this week Is a laughing show. Every number on the bill, with the possible exception ex-ception of the last. Is a laughing number. num-ber. Flnlay, of the team of Fmlay and Burke, in "Stageland Satire," Is a natural, nat-ural, a born comedian. His long, cadaverous, cada-verous, wooden face is enough to make a hltchlng-post go Into convulsions. There have been and are men today pos. lug os comedians In high class comic oj.eras who are totally eclipsed bv Flnlay. Fln-lay. In his songs, parodies, even "in his legs, he Is funny. And he does not de-rend de-rend upon make-up to cause laughter. When he, with Mts Lottie Hurke act a scene In a trolley-car and when the two act as part of an audience at the "Black Crook," they Teach, the climax of comicality. comi-cality. Depending more upon make-up but fully as funny as Flnlay and Burke are Matthews and Ashley In "A, Smashup In Chinatown." There was a well-founded suspii'lan last nijrht that the letter two were "doubling In brass." and that thev are the Sharp brothers, Southern dancers and singers. Matthews In his "hop-head" stunt and Ashley as- the sightseeing Hebrew, brought down the house. Nothing funnier nor quainter hss been heard here than the "pipe-dream" songs of the two. "Who are you?"' asks one. "I'm Tom Kearns," answers the others, puffing at his "pill." "And who are you?"' "I'm Martin Mul-vey." Mul-vey." Ashley makes his appearance with a wagon-wheel around ills neck, and sings parodies on "My Wife's Bathing Suit" and other topics that keep the houpe In a continual uproar. Perhars the greatest laugh-maker Is Mattle Keene, who with an able company, com-pany, gives a sketrh written bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "Her First Divorce Case." Miss Keene Is another May Irwin, in form, feature and laugh. She bounces around the stage, laughs, bounces some more, laughs and then . laughs and bounces again. And the house laughs and almost bounces with her. "La Poloma" and "The Toreador" as sung by the Dtiraml Trio were never be-, be-, fore sung so aweetly and feelingly. The men appear In Spanish costume, and render Spanish songs in a manner that fires the blood and kindles the eye.' Sharp brothers, the two "Dixie boys," flake their feet and sing coon songs In true Southern style. Both work hard and win the audience. Mile. Toona, In an original ori-ginal and entertaining Illustrated lecture, gives an mslght Into the natural wonders of the United States, seldom accorded In public. . A m J ANNIE RUSSELL, ' Tfce spritely, elfish Puck in "Midsum- mer Nlfht's Dream." thlnif. The flvinir ballet, which Puck liftHd.t, iM j;re;(tly to the realism, or- mr.re rorrou ly- -emphasize the mystery if fairyland. Tlie Mair sottlnKS are all works of ail.. Tho niuaie and dances ave Ntliaetlve. P.ottom, th weaver. Is a very funny fellow as John Bunny Interprets the char- scter. Quince, Snug. Flute. Snout and . Marvlings are taken respective! v bv Thomas Coffin Cooke. . oiiinorc. Richard Lee, W.iliner Dante ami Hubert Osborne. Tlieir' "PyrnmuK and Thlsbe" Is a certain cure for the Mues. The company Is In stood hands through-Stm. through-Stm. There are children for goblins and i Vflves and pretty girls for nrnnt. of the ojRomen characters. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Is tflvcn again tonight, tomorrow night and Wednesday matinee. ... Anybody could have told that Henrietta . Crosman would have a cordial welcome at the Salt Lake Theater next Thursday night and for the rest of the week, when she will be seen in the rollicking modern farce, "AU-of-aSudden-PeKgy." It was , a sure thing that Salt Lake City playgoers play-goers would turn out in force to see this talented player, and If doutts exict in any quarter as to the Interest her visit has aroused, they would have been dis- 'celled by, the line of purchasers at the' box office today, the first of the seat sale. The sale opened In a lively fashion this morning, proving beyond question that the public wishes to see Miss Crosman In "This Is a hell of a world, and the squarest man generally gets the toughest desl" Butternut Jones. Hundreds read these words on a card In the window of the Daynes jewelry store yesterdsy. The Irony of the lines was all too plain, for Inside the members of the firm patiently answered the questions ques-tions of their customers whose valuables were lost Saturday night In the looting of the store. The pasting up of the "Butternut Jones" card In the window of his store by Daynes is just an Incident that goes to prove that the logic of the plains and hills of the great Southwest will apply anywhere, and in fact seems to fit in snugly to some situations. vButtemut Jones" is the new play written by Harry Lelghton. and which Is now being presented pre-sented by that actor at the Grand theater for the first time on any stage. A week ago Lelghton had a number of the striking strik-ing lines from the play printed on post cards and mailed to his friends about the downtown clubs and business houses. Daynes received one of the cards reading, "This is a hell of a world, and the squarest squar-est man generally gets the toughest deal." and yesterday morning when he went down to his store with Its broken and rifled safe, the card lay face upward on his desk. Smiling grimly he walked to the window, through which a score of passersby were gaping, and pasted It up, face outwards. ... "I guess he ran appreciate those few lines. ,T said lelghton In his dressing-room dressing-room at the Grand last night when told of what Mr. Daynes had done with the postcard.- "I remember the day I wrote them. I stopped when I finished the words and sat looking out of the window of my study In one of the great busy skyscrapers of New York upon the thousands thou-sands of people passing, in the street below, be-low, and I thought then. that they would go horn, to more than one man and woman wo-man across the length and breadth of this continent before .'Butternut Jones' was forgotten." Meanwhile Lelghton is scoring a splendid splen-did success In his new vehicle, the latest effort from his versatile pen. Last night was society .night at the Grand, and a fashionable audience placed Its stamp of approval on "Butternut Jones" in an unmistakable un-mistakable manner. |