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Show I 1 amusements ; i Salt Lake Theatre ."The Prince ot H j Pilsm." M'atince today; performance tonight. H . Orpheum Vaudeville. Matinee to- BJ day; preformance tonight. 1 j , Lyric Vaudeville. Matinee today; BJ performance tonight. I. i COMING ATTRACTIONS. H Salt' Lake Theatre. The Salt Lake H Opera Company in "Robin Hood." BH Six performances, beginning Wcdncs- BB day matinee, September 1 1. Bfl Orpheum Vaudeville. BJ Lyric Vaudeville. BJ You'll be cheating yourself out of BJ a most enjoyable evening, unless you BJ go to the Salt Lake Theatre tonight BJ and witnecs the closing production H of "The Prince of Pilscn." Perhaps BJ you have seen the "Prince" before, BJ but no matter; gq again. You'll find BJ it worth your while. Prior to the BJ first performance last night, the an- BJ nouncement was made that the com- BJ pany now presenting the popular com- BJ ic opera, was the only one organized BJ by Mr. Savage for the presentation J of "The Prince of Pilsen," and that BJ he had gathered the most brilliant cast BJ ever selected for its interpretation BJ Be that as it may, the fact remains BJ that the company is good 'enough for BJ the most fastidious and everything BJ about the present production of the BJ "IVincc" seems bctcr to us than BJ ever. Dan Mason, one of the best of BJ German dialect stars, plays Hans BJ Wagner, while Elwood Mora, a gen- BJ tlcman with a fine baritone voice, has J the part of "The Prince." Octavio BJ Broskc is the new Edith, and Rcba BJ Dale, a superb mezzo-soprano, sings J the role of the dashing widow. The BJ chorus is well up to the standard. BJ the girls being good looking and pos- B ' sessing pleasing voices which always BJ adds to the production of a comic op- BJ era. The orchestra has been enlarged BJ for this occasion, the attendance last BJ night was of the kind that makes the BJ management smile, and if you get a BJ scat tonight, you will be mighty BJ lucky. But go, even if you have to BJ buy standing room. Its one of the BJ few comic operas that is worth stand- BJ ing up to sec. HB BJ i '" When the Orpheum threw open its BJ doors to the public for the season of BJ . 1907-8, Manager Jennings made the J'j) promise or prediction that the acts J presented to his patrons this season BJ would be of a higher quality than H those of last season. In our humble BJ judgment he lias so far been justified BJj in that prediction. This week's bill BJn is, possibly, even better than the one BJ . of last week all depending, of course HJ upon the taste of the different patrons. K At least there is not a poor act, and H, two or three of equal favor for the Hj title of "head-liner," some of the Lets BJ ' being encored time and again. Bell- Ba clair Brothers, exponents of physical culture, have an act that may be truly described as marvelous, and is probably the best act of the kind ever put on in Salt Lake City. The acrobatic acro-batic work of Frank Seymour Mid Emma Hill is also of a high order, although al-though of different character from that of the Bellclairs, Seymour doing some "falls" which would cause a novice to break his neck. The five Kinsons arc chocolate colored gentlemen who have a musical act that is a winner. World and Kingston, the dancing comedian and the singing soubrettc. create a whirlwind of amusement and have been favored with curtain calls at every performance. The musical Byrons, Prof. Wise, the crayon artist, art-ist, and the moving pictures com-plctJ com-plctJ the bill. There must be .something .some-thing wrong with the man's digestion if he is not satisfied with the bills being presented at the Orpheum. The promise is made that next week's program will be even better than thos'i of the past. . . w If one may judge of what is to come during the remainder of the season sea-son by the opening bill presented at the Lyric during the past week, there is no question but what that popular playhouse will deliver the goods give its patrons more than their money's mon-ey's worth. The act of Lutz, the armless arm-less wonder, is of the first class order, and would be worth the price even if the other members were of the "punk" order, which they arc not. This young man handles a hammer, saw and nails in a manner that is simply marvelous, and preforms some feats of workmanship that would put Uncle Joe Sharp to shame. One of the most laughable sketches is that of John and May Burke, the impersonation impersona-tion of a messenger boy by Burke being laughable in the 'extreme, ,vhilc the feminine member of the team is by no means slow. Gavin and Flatt, vocalists and comedians have a pleasing pleas-ing act, while the monologue and songs of Tom Gillem are of the pn-lertainiug pn-lertainiug order. "Baby Dorothy" the little girl with 'he sweet voice, has caught the crowd with her illustrated illus-trated song. The patronage at the Lyric, has been good the past week, and deservedly so, and should continue con-tinue so long as Mic weekly bill is of the same quality and quantity. ... The greatest of American actors, Richard Mansfield, is dead, and thousands thous-ands of theatre-goers in every clime will mourn his loss. Mansfield was not an old man, being only fifty years of age, but into that fifty years he had crowded more of work and worry than the average man would have done should he live to be twice or three times fifty. Mansfield's triumphs came after years of hard and unre-munerativc unre-munerativc labor, of constant study of his art, a study which was eon- tinued until his fatal illness. He had his faults and his peculiarities, but to the public in general, these were overlooked in contemplation of his magnificicnt personality and his power pow-er as an entertainer. The name of Mansfield has always slood for the best and highest in the theatrical profession, pro-fession, and he will be sadly missed. ... King Edward's morals must have undergone a radical improvement. The story comes from Maricnbad, that His Highness lc't a theatre in disgust because of the vilcness ot some of the songs. The manager of the theatre and the woman singer of the song that displeased and shocked shock-ed Edward were brought into court, the woman being fined, but the manager mana-ger escaped, it bcinng shown that he was ignorant of the singer's intcntnion to sing such a naughty song. Another former favorite of the footlights joined the great majority last week, when Mrs. Grao J. Both-encr, Both-encr, wife of a theatrical manager, suicided in New York City, by shooting. shoot-ing. Before her marriage she was Grace Vaughn, an actress who was widely known. She sang with many opera companies, and in 1893 she married mar-ried Andrew Jennings of Cleveland. They did not live long together, and Jennings placed her in a retreat in Cleveland. A few months after her, release she was placed in an asylum at Elgin, 111., from which she was later lat-er discharcd as cured. Mrs. Both? ncr's last engagement was with George Adc's "Just Out of College." Margaret Mlayo, an actress and wife of an actor, has written several plays, one of which was composed in record breaking time. Mrs. Young, who is the author of "Brown of Harvard." "Glorious Betsy," "The Boys of Company Com-pany B," and a few other plays. Her husband is a, member of Viola Allen's company. . It is said that Madame Patti -has fallen in love with the insidious harmonies har-monies of Franz Lehar's great musical musi-cal success, "The Merry Widow," and has given a performance for her friends at which she played the title role in her private theatre at Craig-Y- Nos. ... Madame Emma Eamcs Storey, the grand opera singer, has been granted a divorce from Julian Storey, the artist, ar-tist, aiid will be allowed to resume her maiden name and to re-marry. Mr. Storey, however, during the lifetime of Madame Eamcs, must not marry. . . A owl has gone up in San Francisco Fran-cisco over the five and ten cent shows, it being claimed that they delract from the box-office receipts at the first class houses. ... The Linn Musical Travesty company com-pany Jias closed a successful engagement engage-ment in Boise, Idaho, using "Teezy-Weezy" "Teezy-Weezy" as the closing bill. t ' BBBBk' "BBBBBk' I JBBBBKi l -.. ''BbPHI vM''' ' BBHHBBtifBB! I .sBBF flBBBE'' u.l 1 BT'BBBjl?;j 1 lt': ' BBy&LiEk ' ' BkiXBl. '" bessie valdare troupe Bicycle Marvels, At the Orpheum. "The Three of Us" a charming play that was the principal success of the theatrical season last year in Mew York and has been meeting with similar sim-ilar favor en route, will be pnesentcd a week from Monday evening at the - Salt Lake Theatre. ' ... When Henry W. Savage sends "Madam "Ma-dam Butterfly" on is cross-continent tour this season, the Puccini operatic op-eratic masterpiece will be accompanied accompan-ied by a selected orchestra of sixty musicians. ... Ethel Barrymorc is to begin the next season at the end of this month. She has a new play, in three acts, called "Her- Sister." The scenes are I laid in England, the story, however, - I relating to incidents that occurred in 1 America. H ... H Luke Cosgrave is making the peo- 1 pic of Boise, Idaho, sit up and take 1 notice these days, his latest hit being that of "Rip" in "Rip Van Winkle " t |