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Show I 1 AMUSEMENTS iSalt Lake theatre. Dark. Orphcutn. High class Vaudeville, matinee today, pcrfoiniancc tonight. Lyric. "The Counterfeiters," mati- 1 ncc today, performance tonight. Hit Coming Attractions. Bl Salt Lake theatre. "The Tcnder- Ni foot," March 15th. K George Primrose is older this year H than he was last season, lint, unlike H the rest of us, his feet arc just as H nimble as they were a year ago. lic- H low the knee-line Primrose has im- H merscd himself in the youthful waters H of the mystic Lethe. F -, no matter H how much the gray hands of time H may run their fingers through his I, hair, they have not yet succeeded in H untieing the merry shoe-strings of H the dancing minstrel. It is a matter H 1 of historical record, that, when Scott, H many years ago, wrote his "Lay of H the Last Minstrel," he had no refcr- H ence to George Primrose. Although li yeaers may come, and years may go, H still I hope the dancing feet of this H genial minstrel will be forever making H merry on the Primrose path. M H Scratch a tenor and you scratch a H Tartar is the proper paraphrase" in H operatic circles. Already or rather, H for some time Bonce, the diminutive H tenor, and Caruso, the monkey-house It tenor, have been making ugly noises Hjl in the cars of their managers. Indeed H the threats have been uttered in such H high C's that both' Hammerstein and H Coiiricd are still swimming in the vo- H cal flood. Each singer insists upon H more canary-seed and more money. H At present Bonce gets a mere thou- H sand for a performance. Caruso rc- H ccives a beggarly .fifteen hundred for H a night's work. They certainly are H not paid according to the union scale H ' of wages. If silence is golden it is H ' folly for these fellows to crack their H ' throats in operatic wailing. But will H Hammcrstcin and Conried come H through with additional Canary Seed? H Each, in guttcral accounts, has said H no, and yet again they both cry No. H In the meantime New York and Salt H- Lake will watch the merry war. Gcr- H many against Italy sounds like an H international clash. Long live the H; "pretzel" and the "npa bananl" H H It is a Laugh program at the Or-H, Or-H, pheum this week. And while no pars' par-s' ticular number gleams like the north H star, the program, as a whole is a sure H chaser for the blues. You may not H always know just what you arc H laughing at, still your hilarity finds H vigorous expression. Take for in-H in-H stance the stunt of Maddox and Mlcl-H Mlcl-H vin in "The Messenger Boy and the Actress." There is actual method in H the madness of this roaring pair. The H lady in her glorious green dress is like the flag of Ireland in a March H wind, and the boy in his messenger H regimentals is a walking delegite of the A. D. T. Before Maddox and H Melvin quit the stage, the house is H in an uproar of applausive good hit-H hit-H in or. H Fred Hallcn and Molly Fuller make H good in "Her Sunday School Boy" H that is, Hallcn does. But the robust H , ly impresses through her avoirdu- H pois rather than her art. However, H Hallcn as the Chinaman ii the real H chop-suey and lookc like he had been H chased into the Orphcum from Plum H alley. Lavinia De Witt, tl vocalist and lady cornctist makes a pleasing impression. im-pression. But why docs she attempt Mclba and Jules Levy in one evening? A bibulous high-ball entitled, "Tom and Jerry," shows how two college students can drown Virgil in the flowing howl. It is a hilarious little sketch, with just enough sentimental fringe at the end to mingle your laughter with tears. The trio of acrobat.- do some wonderful won-derful things on the Roman rings. Prof. Wcihc and his famous orchestra orches-tra are, as usual, keeping up to their high-water mark of aitistic performance. perform-ance. The orchestral feature of the Orphcum is something- to boast of, even in musical Salt Lake. "The Counterfeiters" at the Lyric arc making money; -not the "phoney" kind but real box office money. Nearly every night the little hou.se on Main street has received splendid patronage. And, without exception, every night, there is enough applause to make every member of the company com-pany feel that he is winning laurels. If you like thrills like to sec a heroic hero and a villainous villian if you' love exciting melodrama, then its "The Counterfeiters" for you. I regret very much my inability to review the work of the University Dramatic club in their production of Friday night. As Truth goes to press just before the performance readers of the paper will understand the absence ab-sence of a review in this issue. However, How-ever, my heart is wrapped up in this bunch of precocious student actors and actresses, so, in advance, I fling over the foot-lights a boquct of those fair mountain flowers Sego lilies. HARRY LE GRANDE. |
