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Show 1 1 AMUSEMENTS f HM Salt Lake Theatre .Viola Allen in n "Twelfth Night," matinee today, pcr- 't form'ancc tonight. Hj . Orphcum. Stock Drama. L'' Lryic. High . Class Vaudeville, m matinee and evening. T j Coming Attractions. Hj i Salt Lake Theatre. 'Maude Adams H in "Peter Pan," Monday, Tuesday, M Wednesday Thursday and Friday. j June 3, 4, g, 6 and 7; Rose Coughlin j in "Mrs. Warren's Profession," Sat- b urday, June Sth. H The Orphcum Stock company H made its initial bow to a Salt Lake M audience on Monday night under M I most auspicious circumstances which m augur well for its future in the city B I of the Saints. The audience was a j J brilliant one. and .included both state M and civic officialdom, the former ac- M ., companicd by military trappings. The m advent of this stock company wati M looked forward to with feelings of pleasure and great expectations. It M is stating no more than the fact when M it is said that the high expectations M I were fully realized. There never was M I as capable and good all round stock Hi company in Salt Lake as that now at 1 the Orphcum. M A change was due at the Orphcum H High class and meritorious as the H vaudeville presented at this theatre H during the winter undoubtedly was H the public was becoming a little tired t of vaudeville and the change was op- H portunc and came at the psycological H moment. H There are several favorites of Salt H Lakers in the company, and there arc H others who will be if they enact other H roles as well as they do in "The Cow-H Cow-H boy and the Lady." H Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott H made this play famous. They prc-H prc-H scntcd it first. It is one of the bests' best-s' known productions of Qydc Fitch. It H deals yit1i Western life, the period H now, the place Colorado. There arc H typical scenes of cowboy life, there H is the hero in the person of the liars' liar-s' ' vard man who wins the admiration H of all by his prowess in a fight; there H is the real Easterner with his hand-H hand-H some wife; there is the ' tiling in the H course of the love story, in which the H , bad man meets death at the hands of H the halfbreed lover of the propric-H propric-H tress; the trial of the man accused of H the murder, and his vindication after B ' the jury returns a verdict of convic-H convic-H I The company is a splendid one. Miss Lucia Moore and Mr. Al Phillips, Phil-lips, Miss Mabel Florence, Miss Bell ( Theodore and Joseph Green enact H their roles more than well. The com- H pany captured their audience. I , Sir Edward Elgar on his return H home to England is reported as say- H ini; that Londoners arc igo years bc- H hind the age in music. The presentation of Shakespeare's charming comedy "Twelfth Night" at the Salt Lake theatre was one of the greatest treats lovers of Shakespearean Shakes-pearean classics in this city have enjoyed en-joyed for years. Miss Viola Allen is the star sustaining the principal charming little actress carries off the charming liitle acrcss carries og the chief honors, there isn't a weakling in the entire company, in fact they arc all decidedly strong and carry out their parts with the highest conceptions concep-tions of the feelings and emotions of the characters represented. To successfully suc-cessfully do that in a Shakespearean play is a very high measure of praise. No doubt the caste catches some ot their inspiration from Miss Allen who i- among the greatest of Shakespearean Shakespear-ean interpreters of the present day. "Twelfth Night" is probably the lightest light-est of Shakespearean comedies. Its touches of feeling and gleams of soul arc exquisite in their dclicatcncss and yet the comedy has great strength The staging and the scenery were superb. su-perb. The costumes were in exquisite taste and in keeping with the characters. char-acters. Altogether it was a most finished fin-ished production. On the opening night the audience was not large, but it was composed of those play-goers whose thought and intelligence enable en-able them not only to delight in, but to revel in Shakespeare. That the theatre was not crowded to overflowing overflow-ing at every performance speaks not adversely of the play, but rather of the decadence of the taste of the public. pub-lic. The cast was as follows: Orsino Duke of lllyria Mr. Win. K. Ilarcourt Valentine & Curio Gentlemen at- tending on the Duke Mr. Leopold Lane and C. II. Hates Sir Toby Belch Uncle to Olivia Mr. Fuller Mellish Sir Andrew A'gucchcck Mr. Henry J. Hadficld Malvolio Steward to Olivia Mr. Sidney Herbert Fabian Servant to Olivia Mr. Frederick Forrester' Ircstc A Clown Mr. Lionel Hogarth Sebastian Twin Brother to Viola Mr. Royal Tracy Antonio A friend to Sebastian Mr.- C. Leslie Allen A Sea Captain Friend to Viola Mr. Myron Calice A Priest M.r. Wendell Hopkinson First Officer Mr. R. M. Dolliver Second Officer .... Mr. P. C. Hartigan Olivia Miss Alison Ekipworth Maria Gentlewoman to Olivia Miss Zcffic Tilbury Viola Twin Sister to Sebastian Miss Allen The "Musical Harts" with a few old cow bells, gas pipes, cracked vocal vo-cal organs, etc., etc., didn't do much to enlarge the score of the Lyric on "The vaudeville tally-sheet the past week, but in the main the show was good, and nobody lost any money on the enterprise. The audiences severally and collectively got their money's worth. Lc Charticrs kept the "pace" alright, al-right, alright. His offering was "Fare Thee Well My Old Kentucky." Bert W.eslon, "The Medicine Man," after some jockeying with newspaper selections of doubtful date, scored well with "Traveling." Collins & Hawley, "The Boys in Purple, Direct from The Palace Theater, The-ater, Lunnon," were a pair of very entertaining en-tertaining "Cousin Jacks." Ilavcrly & McRac "sprung something" some-thing" in the " Human Xyliphonc" very smooth and effective immitation" by the "Hairlip Boy." Tom Brantford, " The Human Band," made more laughter than any one on the bill. The little "kids" ripped and roared with delight at his antics, and the young ladies in boxes had difficulty to maintain their equilibrium. equil-ibrium. Onctta is certainly a novelty. novel-ty. The whirlwind and contortion dancing that she docs is remarkable. The bill opening at the Lyric tonight to-night is rated "right up." n |