Show Cloninger to Manage Own Company at lh the Hippodrome HippodromeS M S s tt C t. t Ralph Cloninger popular leading man who closes successful season at the Salt Lake theatre Friday and will open at head of his own company at atthe the th Hippodrome March 2 ALPH CLONINGER will conclude R RALPH his stock tock son season at the tare Salt Lab Lahr theatre next Friday evening J Ing tag a highly successful and pleat ant engagement with his costar Mis- Mis Alden Sunday evening March 2 M M. Cloninger will open a spring and sum summer summer I mer stock season at the Hippodrome theatre the atre under his own management with an entire new organization selected from celebrated Eastern stork con panics Tie Tle leading lad lady Miss Gertrude B Bondhill comes direct from Keiths Keith's theatre Bos Bos- ton The opening bill will be he Pauline Fredericks Frederick's famous New York Yerk success I Innocent by George Geore Br Broadhurst a. a hurst InIn Innocent Innocent In calls for stage I and no expense will be spared on the five big sets necessary ry for this production In an Interview Mr Cloninger said It has always been my desire to have my own n company to be my own manager g ou mr nu lo that I might ml-ht l produce ro plays under r rown my mym myown own direction and according to m my Ideas as to what they should be This I teal reel is m my opportunity to put before the tune people people peo peo- pie of this thU city whose confidence Ence I feel I h h gained l to some extent a R. class of stock production somewhat new to t Lie te ie patrons ns of the i i t I many letters during tha past year ear adIng adding add ad ing why I did not organize a company of my own My only answer is the opportunity opportunity op op- op- op did not present itself until now The termination of our stock season at atthe the Salt Lake theatre due to previous bookings of New York attractions prevented pre pre- vented JIl my continuing under the management management management manage manage- ment of Mr 11 Glass The opportunity came to secure le ure the Hippodrome and start n my i v man managerial career in my home city The die is cast as the saying gO goes I. I and it will be my one ambition in lift life to give to my many friends the best that can be ob obtained ined in plays ana and productions pro pro- My Mv 1 company n hrs has been carefully se selected se- se le a and are en n route t ef to this city t from Eastern points ts Rehearsals will begin Sunday and and- we will open the following Sunday Sunda night March 1 1 2 2 with George Broadhurst's play lay of or the the Far East liv II a story in a prologue four acts acis and an epilogue |