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Show Bleosed " Virgin! , Forgive me! ' Forgive' me!' . , . . , - - Lillian RiiiselI--the "airy fairy" ti here 1 with her bewitching beauty, her fascinating form, her fetching mannerisms, manner-isms, her. gorgeous gowns, her divine hate. .. She has with her a caplt.il com- ' pany, anj she appears In a clever modern mod-ern drama in three acts which Kellett Chambers wrote for her.' She Is not the comic opera queen now, but one of the greatest of comediennes. Salt Lake City thought her beautiful when she last appeared ap-peared here fourteen years ago,- hut there was as much raving over her last night as when she was younger and was , Inuring instead of acting. Mies Russell already has achieved a great success as an actress. "The But-1 terfly" U most refreshing comedy, and other persons who can act. A woman of uch striking ability need not depend for ner own success on contrasts with lesser light. So she has brought together an evenly excellent company, every member of which is thoroughly satisfying in his Impersonation of his role. ' Eugene Ormonde Is particularly happy as Jat per Mellody, the man who wins the love of his own wife. An admirable bit of acting Is done by Fred L. Tllden, the Karl, who. the audience Is left to Inter, wins ."the millions he seeks, though the bride isn't the woman on whom he first set his heart. John Flood gives Teddy Bacon an easy presence and an effective naturalness. Miss Isabel Richard la sort of feminine breese as Mrs- O Leanra daughter Madam Abalonl. If you please, except for the brief moment when she plunges back to the Irish dialect. All tha Dodd. Lyster Chambers has been given the excellent role of Michael Petroff. Governor of the province of Moscow. The other members of the Lelghton players, have been well cast in the other roles of tha play. . LYIUC TnEATER. The new bill i which opened at the Lyrio. vaudeville house this afternoon has for a. head-liner Roland T ravers, the Illusionist, Il-lusionist, who has a very original and most mystifying act. He has himself securely se-curely sealed in bag and locked in a trunk. Hardly has the key been turned to fasten him. when Travers appears In the center aisle of the. theater. He goes Immediately to the stage and unlocks an empty turnk. Edsell and Forbes are seen in a comedy sketch entitled The Two Rubles." Bessie Nelson plays the violin In a way that fascinates. Fremont and Jerome have an acrobatic act that Is full of Interest. The Messenger Boy Trio are seen In a singing and dancing specialty that is entertaining. Leon Le Chartlers, tenor, has made a hit with the Lyric patrons and by special request will remain this week and Introduce a couple of new illustrated songs. . A scene In tha wild West in the early stagecoach days will be thrown' upon the screen by the Lyrlcscope. MUSIC FESTIVAL ' Every muslo-lover in Salt Lake City will be delighted to know that the first annual mulls festival given thla week was as successful financially as everybody every-body knows It to have been artistically. For the artistic triumph. Evan Stephens, John J. McCIellan and many others were flven well-deserved credit. In the dls-rlbutlon dls-rlbutlon of praise a good measure is due to Fred C. Graham, who sustained his already established reputation as a manager. man-ager. Graham spent' many sleepless nights In aranging details for this festival, which was In a sense an experiment; and now that it Is all over and the festival festi-val chorus Is' "ahead of the game," he la entitled to both the praise and the thanks of the public. ' The gross receipts were In the neighborhood neigh-borhood of J3t00. The expenses were heavy, but for all that, the profits were considerable. As evidence of the success suc-cess of the affair. It already has been decided de-cided that the festival shall be an annual feature, and the chorus Is to begin rehearsing re-hearsing for next year's production In a short time. . . Next year, aa this, there will be two night and a matinee performance. The opening night's program will contain four or five miscellaneous numbers, vocal and Instrumental, and probably "The Wedding Feast." the first part of "Hiawatha," "Hia-watha," will be sung. Probably the second sec-ond part. "The Death of Minnehaha," which was sung this week, also will be given. The mattnee program will contain con-tain miscellaneous features. "Elijah," "The Creation." Sulllvan'a "Golden Legend," or "Alda," will be sung the second night. Graham believes I the first 'named, in many respects the greatest oratorio ever composed, probably prob-ably will be selected. It haa not yet been decided what orchestra or-chestra will be secured for next year, but It Is likely that the Chicago Symphony will be brought here again. In that case the orchestra will be Increased from its present strength of fojty-flve pieces to sixty-five. The management promises also that soloists of even greater reputation repu-tation than those who were here this week will be secured. " , , , V ; . ' 1 - i ' , ' ' .-.-v.--.. :. ... - i y ... . V ' . 1 s' ' V . : r : v - k v - , ; . ' , ..V '. :u v v . - - ' ' ' ' . 1 . l; - i ' ' , ' ' . v" . - s ' - ' : - ' V - " lis . v . . ' - ' : .i.i.Joj.i..j1i!iij TONIGIIT'SjAIIUSEIIE!iTS. SALT LAKE Lillian Eassell la "The J'.ntterfly.". . . , . OTipirEUM VandeviUe. . ' , (' iAND "Incog." . LYRIOVaudevillo. . , AUDITORIUM Roller Ska-ting.' ' jCIIAMEEK OP COMMEKCS-rreo. SALT LAKE THEATER. The most beautiful subject for a blo-paphlcal blo-paphlcal sketch is the beautiful life of a beautiful woman. 'Ml,8 Alice Nielsen was the daughter of a Lanlsh singer and painter who came to America to make his fortune. The fortune never realized except ex-cept In dreams, but he had eight, children, one of whom has become famous on both sides of the Atlantic. Miss Nielsen was ; born In Nashville, Tenh.. and even in her childhood daya ' possessed a remarkably . ; strong throat end a correct, qui ok, musl-; musl-; cal ear. At 6 years of age, she was play- lng 1n a Juvenll company In Gilbert , Sullivan's "Mikado." Her first distlnrt success rss' at 15, I when she made her debut as a prima I donna, sinking the part of Yum Yum in I the "Mikado." Then came a year of hard jwork and traveling in a atock company, iwhloh Anally filled an engigament In San i Francisco. In that city, tVie manager of j the fine old English Opera companv, the Bostnnians, heaYd her sing, ond engaged her at-once for a tour with him. Not very long after that, she won starring in operas composed by Victor Herbirt, who la the Amerlcan-Arrhilr Ftillivan. and "Who ' writes charmlwg and de'.tehtul music, j some of his best operas being VThe Sere-.rwde." Sere-.rwde." "The Fortune Teller,' and 'The : Slnaing-'Glrl.r . ' . . Mlse Nielsen's success in America was fihenomenal. audiences and press vy-, vy-, ng with .each' other In 'giving 'her praise and ericouraigement, out the wished above all thing to have the opinion' of the wld world, knowing that it would be more v critical: and It warf a nervous moment w-hen she made her first appearance In loridon." fiut all- went wen. Many of the critics. Indeed, suggested that she should go. Into grand opera, and there sugges-v sugges-v tions she cherished, for they divined, and voiced' .her real ambition. ' It was the dream of her life, but only a. vaprue dream. un(U Henry Russell, the distinguished distin-guished Impresario, assured her tht her voice and her youth would justify her in adoption of the more arduous career. It was the thing for which ehe hnd lonned elnce childhood, rnd she decided to grtve up that branch of dramatic art In which she had attained success, popularity and inoney. , V She put aside, all these things without one pang.- to try to attain her ideal, for, .as she fays, "Itallnn grand .opera 4s 'the mother of all opera;" ' . ' Mtss Nielsen, spent - sufficient time In .Italy, not only to acquire the language and to perfect her voice, hut to absorb-the temperament of the people. 'In speaking of her life there, she says: "I love Italy. From the first moment I put my foot In Naples, I was so happy there. In the beginning. be-ginning. I found Italian opera very difficult, dif-ficult, and was painfully nervous when I ft r,t appeared In it. The truth is. I was simply -paralyzed, lam timid a charming charm-ing qualltv. no doubt.' In moderation." ' In the fall of 1904, Russell directed a season nt opera at Coven t Gardrn, Ixmdon. Miss NrMsen at that time took the part that bad ben considered Melhrt'g own. " She sang Mini!' to Caruso's Rodolfo in Puccini's Puc-cini's "La Bohemo," rind Oilda to Mau-riel Mau-riel s Rigoletto. In May of the following follow-ing year, Russell instituted a season of opera at the -magnlrlrertt New Waldorf theater, and Miss Nielsen and Mme. Calve alternated in opera with Signoria Imse' hi drama. Miss Nielsen has established es-tablished the unprecedented record for an American girl of havlnx sung about fourteen operas In foreign languages. Shy will be heard here with the San Cralo- Opera company. Tuesday evening even-ing In "La Boheme." under the direction of idnrv Russell, and It is expected that tho muHid-lovIng public will gjve her an oration. Wednesday evening, "Faust," with Mme. Nordlca,- will be given. ' . - Blanche Walh will be seen at the Salt Jike Theater next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with Saturday matinee. In Clyde Fitch's newest play, -"The Straight 'Road.". . Miss Walsh . and her company 'rome direct from New York after a phenomenally phe-nomenally aueceasful run at hr home .plavhouse, the Astor theater. Some remarkable re-markable criticisms have been written on "The Straight Road," among them one which has Just . appeared, by Father ' 'Adolph Suess. a writer whose literary ef- Florencio Constantino at Salt Lake Theater, Monday night. others are very human and very clever. Thev are: Fied Taylor, Orant Mitchell, Charles Iaml, Roland H. Hill, Miss Rosalie Rosa-lie De Vaux and Miaa Kate Griffith. It has been a long time since as-thor- oughly eatlnfying an evening's entertainment entertain-ment had been given .here. The play Is airy, like Its prlncipal'character, without any heavy situations to make a fun -loving audience think too dot-ply, hut with a continuous series of nmusinK situations. The scenes are laid in New York and Saratoga when "the fefmon" is at its height, giving - an excellent .opportunity for the display of hose hats and gowns which make every woman spectator gasp with vOhs-' and "Ahs." Mis. Betsy Kil-llKrew Kil-llKrew is the young widow cf an older than "who, grabbed a great many millions by stealing railroads and.-lnvested In salvation sal-vation by glvlns a few thousiiuJd to churches." as -her good friend. Teddy Bacon, observes. Her ambition is to acquire, ac-quire, a title, and. she- is about to succeed suc-ceed when a second will, made by htr husband shortly before his death, la discovered- Under Its provisions. the widow Is to lose the entire fortune if she takes as her second husband any but-a native, born American. But Mrs. Betsy Kllllgrcw Is resonrceful. tiuc'iind a man who is willing to marry her and then agree to an almost immediate divorce. di-vorce. After that she will be free to pur-chase pur-chase the title. The will stipulated no 0RFHEUM THEATER. I Next week's bill at the Orpheum makes J a noise like a winner all right when I the vaudeville menu is duly scanned. As the piece de resistance May Tully and i company are offered in a heart-interest sketch, "Stop, Look and Listen," that Is I heralded as the most talked-about act in vaudeville. Miss Tully Is an actress of ' charm and experience and recently was leading woman at Madison Square Theater The-ater and later at Daly's, New York. The Haylet- was wriltn by-Matthew White, formerly of Salt Lake City, now editor of the Argosy and dramatic editor of Munsey's magazine. It deals with a country coun-try maiden, tired with the ambition to go to New York and become a great actress, meeting at a rural station a stranded actress ac-tress who persuades her to change - her plans and return to her rustic lover. The detailing of the sunshine and the shadows of life on the stage and the railroad ties gives Miss Tully a chance for exhibiting her talent in eomedv. emotional work and. r .. - ' rm y fii1! . - t: ; - i ' 1 f $ f - i 'V' ' "IN,- I'M T s" - i if "SS ' 'j 5t ; j ' - V :b-N;- ':. ' :!' "w. , N . f - ," ' --.,, i . (1 , ." . ' "! -""" mimicry. It is usserted that the Ollvottl Troubadours Trouba-dours will be nnothr pronounced hit. This duo garbed as the conventional wandering wan-dering minstrels of the stage discourse high cla.ss music on the violin and harp-guitar. harp-guitar. This is a Kuropean act that is a prime favorite in oil the noted music halls acress the pond. Lillian Shaw, talented and popular comedienne, is a .clever dialect dia-lect vocalist. Her coming gives promise of .being a revelation to those who have never tscfn this iniersonator of the Yiddish, Yid-dish, Italian and Coster girl. types. Johnny. Jones, "the little man In black," is another versatile entertainer whose mippiun in life in to extract laughs painlessly pain-lessly by meutis of the gag and parody process. Mark Sullivan Is a handsome inlmli- mcnnloguist. Then there is Norton, Nor-ton, a clever magician, and the klno-drome klno-drome with a thousand -odd feet of good motion pictures. GRAND THEATER. Tlisro i? perhaps no other country today to-day over whose political affairs the world at lursc speculates so freely as over the turmoil that rends Russia from one borderland bor-derland to the ollnr. It Is from Russian life of the truest type that "Zorah" is written. This Is the piny which Harry I-lghton and Ms company will present at the tlrund next week, the engagement opening Monday evening and continuing through the following Sunday evening with matinees at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday aiid Saturday uftcrnoon. "Zorah" Is one of the greatest plays dealing with Rut-slan life, politics and govei nmeiit ever writjen and It has scored iercated hits in New York and Chicago. In the latter city It ran for ten weeks r.t McVleker's theater to audiences audi-ences that filled thut playhouse at every pei forr.:ani-e. Eastern playgoers put their stamp of approval on the play. Its author Is Edwin Arden. one of the best playwrights of the American stage. In "Zorah" lie has given the stage a play that Is at once as originnl 'In theme and treatment ks in the development of its story. It esiKpes the melodrama by a wide margin, but brings to light a great, throbbing story, of love, suffering, persecution, perse-cution, devotion and its reward that tingles tin-gles with tension und human interest. In its powerful scenes Is depicted the great struggle of the Jews in RtMisla for the right to live in peace and plenty and the sufferings that befall those of their rave tinfoi tunate enough to fall Into the traps ct for them by spies of the Russian Rus-sian Government. The scenes that abound throughout the action of the play call for sumptuous . set tir, vs and Lcighton announces an-nounces that "Zorah" will be produced ne.t wetli with especially constructed scenery, an anguuiented cas; and costumed cos-tumed as but fv.- other plays seenv here in I he last few seasons have been costumed. cos-tumed. The first two acts are laid In Moscow, the second of these in the palace of the province, and it Is in this act that Lelghton finds an excellent opportunity for effective stage settings. The last two acts are laid la one of the famous quii ksllver mines of Siberia, where Russia's Rus-sia's political eonvkts are driven at the point of guns until they drop from the ranks to be shot to death. The fourth act brings the t-tory to Its climax. Israel Francos, the leading role of the play, will be taken by Lelghton. Hq believes be-lieves the part will afford him the best opportunity he hus had since his engagement engage-ment opened at the Grand of presenting to local playgoers a characterization that is the strongest of the scores successfully attempted by him. It Is a character of great dramatic strength and one In which Lelehton should score even a greater success suc-cess tnan he has the past two weeks In bis opening attractions. Zornh, the girl for whose love Israel Francos gives up his freedom and nearly hit) life, v.lll be played by Mies Emily Scene from "The Straight Road" with Blanche Walsh as star. Salt Lake . .. Theater last half of next week. farts are well known throughout the country. Among other things, he says: '"The German faying, inadequately Kugliyhcd. 'Grxp human life where'er VW nmv, and vou will Und It interesting." win vividly brought to mind a fow even-Insn.pHHt even-Insn.pHHt when I witnessed the initial performance of Clyde Fitch's drama. 'Ttie Stialpht Rond.' as Interpreted by ait ' excellent company, with Uianche Wnl'ti In the part of Moll O'Uara. . "The strength of character ihc really fine metal that the woman of the elums. Moll. Is made of, finds expression In the final scene when the Angel of Light has triumphed over the Demon of I'arkness,-and I'arkness,-and the penitent woman falls prostrate below the rh'ture of the Blevsed Virgin end sobs: 'I iilve me! Oh. Blessed ir-gln! ir-gln! Mother ol us . all, forgive mej. 1 . don't mean it! You,' w"ho have saved so many poor Rlrls, hu!r mil!. 4a,ve me! Take even me Into your loving, arm. Holy Wother of borrows, and' 1ifld m0 tlgtlt! i conditions with regard to the third .husband. .hus-band. The gnme would have Rone through to .perfection but for the interfering .-fact that he fulls In love with husband No. 2. I Her affection is reciprocated, and the unhappy un-happy Earl of PextninMcr is forced to dispatc h a special delivery letter to I'itts- I buiK in search of unother woman with I money-bags. Ho "owes It to his family. not to mention his creditors," ho asserts. I The possibilities for fun In' the dc- 1 velopment of such a plot are obvious. Of course, Miss Hiisr!l Is the' Butterfly widow It la not difficult to seo that, the part was created for Jier. and it Is Im-posidbln Im-posidbln to conceive of erty woman playing play-ing it to better advantage. The actress was given a continuous ovation last night, and after the- second act she acknowledged ac-knowledged the more hearty greeting by sinking two solof. Mixs Russell has further added to her "popularity l$- surrounding herself with . . A. . ' ' ' |