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Show TONIGHT'S AMUSEMENTS. SALT LAKE "Forty Five Minutes from Broadway." ORPHEUM Vaudeville. GRAND "My Wife's Family." LJc-iCJ "Among the Bushranger." Cf MBEE OF COMMERCE Free. STREET WORK Y The violin virtuoso. Karl Rlede'sherger of New York, who Is to play at Mrs Ka'e Bridewell-Anderson's concert In 'he V. M C A. audltoi ium, Wednesday evening, is well known in musical circles in the East He has heen concert master of the Chicago Symphony orchestra, which will visit this Vity for the April festival and also playel first violin wl'h Theodore Thomas. . Georg-e M Cohan, undouh'el'y the mor nnnnlar writer nf rda s of the ne . rlod. who frankly states that he intends to write and produce three plays each year for the next five years, has done much In the : wer.ty-elght years of his i life to amuse and entertain this big ! American colony of playgoers, hut he lit- l tie dreamed when he wrote "Fortv-Flve j Minutes from Broadwav ' that he had conceived and written- a plav tha' will I doubtless outlive in popularltv any o'her comedy produced In re- en' vears P-- In-stantanous In-stantanous and substantial was i-s success last season that a tour booked for ! was I Immediately canceled and it remained a' : one thea'er in New York for twenty weeks, and at another theater in Chicago j for thir'y weeks to record-breaking re- celpts It Is now on tour with a magnlfi- cent companv under the direction r.f Klaw i & Erlanger. a maragerlal presr.gA that . places it in the very first rank of touring ; t tractions The cast is composed only of the mo- t prominent people, headed by the univer sal favorite. Porinne. while the scni" production is rrade on a most e'aborl'e scale. leojuirirg two of the largest hag -gage cars for r 'ransportatiop A characteristic char-acteristic Cohanesone ensemb'e of pre-;-. , g'.rls is promised. "The plays the thing' was evldentlv Cohan's conviction when he ( wrote "Forty-Five Minutes from. Brad- wa ." for he has only given us half the ' usual musical numbers Every number has ptoved a big hi', however, more than two million copies of one song alone hav- ; ing been disposed of "So Long. Mary" Is j now the most popular melody or. ' wo co-.- tinents. i "Fortv-Flve Minutes from Broadway opens at the Salt Lake Tha'r tor.igh' I' will b here or.lv 'wo nights, wi'h a special matir.ee tomorrow I ... J real coileg" plav has a las- been ff Vd, and will be thown r.ere shortly the management of Jus Murry TWe star. Paul C.ijrr.ore. appears m the j plav which is ca'led "At Yale " All of the' scenes are rarcfj' studies of rniii i life at New Haven, und smack of in'l- j mate knowledge '.f ;;. -oms and 'radl- i tions Everything, fron. the college songs j to the boat ra. e. is infused with the spirit of vouth. and whether they ar hnhnlng" their Oreek. t pra. tiring or flirting on the cam.fus is ra! college ( tovii tha' are seer. "A- Ya'.e will be ; a' the Sal: Lake Tr.'a'" i.e W'ednesdav ; and Tnursday. with a sre.-ial Thursday ; matinee. . , j The "dead ones ' wil. f-:: ard take no- tlce when Emille Rose, a ha: ds-.m and shapelv Germ-sn dair.se!. oome on the ! stage at the Orphum tonight Her hand balancing, foot juggling and . -r gvm-nastic gvm-nastic melange are said to he arr.or.g the best ever given by a woman S.-.e adds further Interest and var'.e-v -o her act bv the Introduction of two perfectly trained dogs The head!irer ul!l be "The Bachelor's Dream" presented bv May Edouln an.l Fred Edwards, .m exceptionally exception-ally clever couple Miss Edoum is a daughter of Alice Atherton. a con,;. cpra star by whom all old-time San r:ar, ;s. o residents swear. , . "My Wife's Family." a clever m-:s!'a! farce-comedv. returned to the iJrand Ins-evening Ins-evening after a year's absence, wit:, pira tically the game company a.s presented tn dIrv last season, and the revival of -he plav brings back one of the best musical farces ever staged at the f.rar.d The same two comedians. App'.eton and Perrv head the company, and one laugns a- tneir 1okes and the many funr.y situations In the piece Just as heartily as before it u ' there are not more attractions like "Mv Wife's Family." for the comedy throughout is gr.d. clean and wholesome and of the kind that does one good to see and hear. The engagemer.' is for four nights, with a Wednesday matir.ee. "Among the Bushrangers.'" a sensational sensa-tional comedy-drama in a prologue and three acta, was presented at the Lyric las' night to a packed iioi.se jammed C.ear to the doors. Tne stock company has a hold on the patrons of the Lyric and the applause which greeted the members last night was generous and hearty. The play begins in -England In the prologue and the three acts are In Australia. The play gor-s the week, with matinees Wednesday ox! Saturday. ... Andelln-Clark ticket sale for the blfcVeatlval to be given at the Tabernacle on Thursday evening next commenced tol day at the leading music stores, the Smith Drug company and the Deseret News Book store. |