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Show EZRA KENDALL, V " Tire greatest riches that can be- 1 fall a man is the ability to make oth- H crs happy," has said a philosopher. 11 Accepting this, Ezra Kendall, who is M coming to the Salt Lake Theatre y July )6 and 17th in "Swell Elegant I Jones" under the management of the H Harry Askiu Co.,, makes John D I Rockefeller look cheap, for certainly 1 it has been no other man's happy mission mis-sion to make more people laugh than Mr. Kendall. It has been but few who have had that creative humor to stand alone before an audience and provide the most satisfying and enjoyable entertainment. enter-tainment. Mr. Kendall as a monolog- rp ist, lias won a high place in the measure meas-ure of men who have given the world a laugh'. His has been a consistent con-sistent record, and now he comes in what should prove an ideal vehicle a comedy, crisp, bright and full of keen wit written around a monologue. Speeches in certain plays have made a success, but in "Swell Elegant I Jones" there is a continual fire of I those lines, which in other produc- I tions migh be abstracted as the particular par-ticular bright saying. Mr. Kendall has proved most gracious grac-ious in his new play, for the audiences in practically every city have demanded demand-ed by -repealed curtain calls that he give at leat.1 a part of a monologue He has responded and the result has been most evident reluctance to allow al-low him to withdraw. When" Swell Elegant Jones" was written by the author of the previous success, "The Vinegar Buyer," the main point was to provide Mr. Kendall Ken-dall with the best obtinablc vehicle for his peculiar qualities as a fun-maker. fun-maker. The result has been a quaint, coherent and altogether charming comedy woven (about a character that brings Mr. Kendall to his best. There is a rural and fetching "atmosphere" "at-mosphere" about "Swell Elegant Jones" that finds direct appeal and the staging has been carefully observed ob-served to render the best effects. A competent cast surrounds Mr. Kendall, Ken-dall, the characters for the most part being of that sort which has made "human interest" plays so successful. Blanche Bates, who at one time was . a member of a stock company play- T' ing in Salt Lake, has just brought to a close in New York City the most prosperous season of her brilliant career. ca-reer. Miss Bates is to have a new play, written by Mr. Bclasco, for the season of 1908-9, but will appear again next year in "The Girl of the Golden West." Sarah Bernhardt and Olga Ncthersole, who it appears have not spoken as they passed by for the past three years, have kiss'ed and made up. The cause of the quarrel is not announced, but the great "sis- .. tcr actresses" ane again fast friends. Will J. Davis, whose first wife was Jcss'-v" Barllett Davis, the justly popular popu-lar prima donna of the celebrated Bostonians, has married Miss Helen O'Hagan, who for many years has been Mr. Davis' private secretary. |