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Show I I I AMUSEMENTS I- I Salt Lake Theatre Ottis Skinner l in " The Duel." I , I Orphcum High class vaudeville, I . Ir matinee and evening. I 1 I Lyric Continuous vaudeville af- H i I tcrnoon and evenings. 1 If I ( ! COMING ATTRACTIONS. ?, i ' I ; " Salt Lake Theatre Friday and H' , Saturday and Saturday matinee, May ' 24th and 25th,. "Tlic Magic-Mqlody" H in which Mr. Walker Wihitcsidcs ap-H ap-H pears. 1 H 1 Lew Dockstadcr the King of Min- H strcls was the attraction at the Salt H Lake theatre for two nights of this H week. The theatre was packed each H night and never was there a prettier H j how presented in the form of a min- H strel -performance; H Reese Prosscr's rendition of "It's H a Lpng Ways Hack to Dear Old H Mother's Knee" was encored once H and again, as was " Keep on the Sun- H ny Side," hy Joe Nattus, and " Sho- H velin' Coal," by John King. H As the editor of "The Corker" H Lew Dockstadcr was a corker. His H paper was replete with humor anil H the local hits through messages hy tc- H lcphonc captured the audience. The skit of " The Hot Air Subway" H and the burlesque " Rapid Transit Up H to Date " convulsed all with laughter H and the conductor who ran the car H exclusively- for himself, Neil O'Brien, H nude a decided hit. Tlic cntcrtain-H cntcrtain-H incuts-concluded with " Moon Love,' H a pretty picture of Alabama life. H M The sale of seats is now on for the H appearance of Otis Skinner in the H celebrated French play, "The Duel," H at the Salt Lake theatre. The know- M ledge that this play created a sen- H sation when originally produced H abroad and the further fact that dur- M ing its lengthy run in New York it M was hailed as the play of the year B ' adds an interest to the work and the H desire to see it is strong. The pro- M duction is made by Charles Frohman. M The play treats of a noble theme in M a big, broad spirit. The opposing H forces arc science and atheism on one H side and the influence of religion on H the other, wtth love as symbolized H 13' woman between them. M If you missed going to the Orph- H cum this week you missed a part ot iyour life. For a good all round vaudeville performance it had few equals in this or any other old town. Dc Coc, the man with the tables and Chairs, was alone worth more than the price of admittance. Another , smart number whs that presented by the charming singer and comedienne 1 Dorothy Drew. The Les Kincrs Moulin the European Euro-pean Balancers were perhaps not so m fcj... good as some that have been seen I M BJjJL r-- -.. but the audience appreciated their efforts ef-forts which were quite clever. Another Anoth-er very good thing was the James Brockman Co. in "The Count of no Account," Mr. James Brockman is a sweet singer and his support in " The Count of no Account ' was very good. Ferguson & Mack arc always entertaining. en-tertaining. The best thing in it's line in' the whole performance, however, was the Bcllong Brothers, acrobats and cyclists. They certainly perform per-form wonders. The young actor, Walkc White-sides, White-sides, who will make his appearance at the Salt Lake Theatre next Friday Fri-day and Saturday with an excellent company in the new play, "The Map-ic Map-ic Melody" is one of the most interesting inter-esting figures on the American stage today. Beginning his theatrical career car-eer at an age when most young men arc still in pursuit of their scholastic duties, Mr. Whitcsides organized a company of bis own, .placed himself at the head of it, and proceeded to New York, where he managed to effect an engagement at the old Union Un-ion Square Theatre in that city. His initial metropolitan effort was " Hamlet," Ham-let," and while the critics were at first inclined to look askance at the portrayal of the Melancholy Dane by -a mere youth, they soon discovered that it was a real actor with wonderful wonder-ful depth, of feeling who was portraying por-traying the Prince of Denmark. The opening night of the engagement found but $103 in the house, but by the end of the week the young man had proved his worth, and was creating creat-ing a sensation with the result that the theatre was crowded to the doors by the ciid of the engagement. From that moment M'r. Whitcsides may be aid to have arrived, and he went forth into the country, playing a round of Shakespearian characters, for as he said, he believed that the best ground-work an actor could lay was a firm knowledge of the immortal immor-tal Bard of Avon. During several seasons M,r. Whiteside played the classic drama, and then he turned his energies to the romantic work as exemplified ex-emplified by such plays as " Robert of Sicily." "When We Arc King" and such plays. This present season Mr. Whiteside has passed under the managerial wing of Licblcr & Co. and will confine his cnergic's to modern drama, the first of which is the present pre-sent vehicle. By those who arc supposed sup-posed to be competent to express an unbiased opinion, Mr. Whitcsides has found a vehicle that presents remarkable remark-able possibilities, and gives him opportunities op-portunities that fall to thtc lot of few plavers. The story is said to happily combine the interest of the commercial world with the artistic atmosphere of the musical life. jgpaaaaMBM aMiwi 1 www The Lyric presented a wonderful show for the money' this week. The little theatre was well patronized at each performance. High class vaudeville vau-deville at the price is rare and the public appreciate it. Viola Allen, who is known throughout through-out the length and breadth of the land as one of the most gifted and beautiful beauti-ful of theatrical stars, comes to the Salt Lake theatre soon appearing in her massive production of Shakespeare's Shake-speare's delightful comedy, "Twelfth Night." This is by far the most beautiful beau-tiful of Miss Allen's notable Shakespearean Shake-spearean productions, and her Viola is pronounced the best work she has ever done. Miss Allen, after making for herself a name as one of the very bc.st leading women of the day, appearing appear-ing in the support of several of the most famous actors, went to Charles Frohman's Empire Theatre Company that school for stars that has graduated grad-uated a dozen or more players now at the head of their own companies. After five years with this celebrated organization she stepped into the position po-sition that is the goal toward which every ambitious actress looks with envy; and, with a dramatization of Hall Cainc's "The Christian" as a vehicle, made her bow as a star. Her first appearance was a triumph that only indicated the state of affairs that has attained subsequent ventures vent-ures in a variety of roles ranging from comedy to classic drama. w The Orphcum is due to close its vaudeville season next week and the manager has cause for congratulation congratula-tion on account of the splendid business, busi-ness, good shows and the class of people it has so successfully catered to. By way of a fitting wind up a splendid bill will be the offering Monday Mon-day night and every turn on it, be it a playlet, an acrobatic stunt, comedy or miusical offering, will represent two and more people of recognized merit in the vaudeville world. " After the Honeymoon " is the hcadliner which is presented by Julia Kingslcy and Nelson Lewis. It is a hilarious playlet dealing with the matrimonial mat-rimonial troubles of Mr. and Mrs Twitters. Mrs. Twitters was formerly form-erly a widow who buried the last husband supposed to have died from the effects of salad and mince pie, made by the buxom widow. Mr Twitters is a dyspeptic and has a great fear of death, when his friends write him letters congratulating him on his wedding, but telling him to beware be-ware of his mince pics. The farce is well staged and well played and promises pro-mises to be an enemy for hc anti-fat trust. Catherine Hayes and Sabcl Johnson arc down for an odd act under the caption of " A Dream of Baby Days." The two look well, sing well and incidentally in-cidentally call into requisition some motion pictures to add charm and novelty to their act. There will be a deep and abiding joy with the advent of The Bootblack Boot-black Quartette. There arc a number of Bootblack quartettes in vaudeville, but the one which comes next week is the Simon pure, blown-in-thc-bot- tlc aggregation of singers, dancers and comedians that has had so many imitators. They are in Omaha this lJ week bringing down the plaster at every appearance. The Fredericks family is comprised of some lusty Germans who perform marvellous feats of strength with some comedy interjected to relieve the strain. All the memorable beauty and charming naturalness of " Shore A'ces " will be given over again with the presentation of " Government Bonds " by Mr. and Mrs. Gottlob and company. The principles arc a love- m M able couple after the Alfred Kclcy type and present a playlet replete with artistic simplicity. For those who admine dexterity and artistic finish the act of "Emerson "Emer-son and Baldwin will be bound to please. As modern novelty entertainers enter-tainers they arc refreshing. And then there will be the Kino-drome Kino-drome and the famous all-solo orchestra or-chestra to round out what is anticipated antici-pated to be a strong bill. The management of the Orphcum has generously tendered the use of the theatre to the Lcighton pl.iycrs for Sunday night when the Prisoner of Zenda will be presented for the benefit performance. The next day the- company will break up and scatter. scat-ter. Judging from the advance sale there will be a banner house to bid the popular players farewell. The entire en-tire proceeds, aside from the cost of I the lights, it is understood, will go to Mr. Lcighton and his associate players. |