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Show 1 AMUSEMENTS I tSalt Lake Theatre Miss Lansing Ro-wan Ro-wan In "Camlllo," matinee today, performance tonight. S Grand Theatre "Sweet Clover," matinee mat-inee today, performance tonight. Lyric Theatre May Howard company, weok heglnlng with matinee today. I - Coming Attractions. Salt Lako Theatre "Duster Brown," Oct. 30-31; Nov. 1. "Prince of Pll-' Pll-' sen," Nov. 2-4. ' i ', It has heen a long time since Salt Lakers have seen Dumas' "Gamlllo." Every emotional actress has a longing to play "Lady Macbeth" or the weep-' weep-' - 111 lng lady of the Camllllas. Tho woman JU with tho daggers seems to have gone 1 into dramatic retirement and loft tho 1 field open to her competitor. Tonight 111 at tho Salt Lako Thoatre, Miss Lans- . a lng Rowan will ho seen In tho difficult h if role of "Camllle" her friends and ad mirers say that she Is quite competent I to play tho part. Miss Rowan's lead ing man is Harry Fahrnoy, whllo Jack Connelly is said to make an Ideal ' Count do Varvlllo a stago interpreta tion which requires flno touches of 1 1 characterization. Mr. Connelly, wo i are assured, has played tho part with Olga Nothersolo and Virginia Harnod. After such a flood of musical comedy and more to follow "Camlllo" should ho a wolcomo diversion. Miss Rowan will appear at tho matinee today and performance tonight. Popular prices j prevail at hoth performances. Mr. John S. Lindsay, tho veteran actor, playwright and dramatic stu-I stu-I (lent, has written an Interesting hls- ' tory of tho stago In Utah, under the title of "Tho Mormons and tho Thoa-i! Thoa-i! tre." It shows a careful study of tho , subject and a search through old and , forgotten theatric loro. Beginning " away hack In tho year 1850 three 1 years after tho advent of tho pioneers I Mr. Lindsay interestingly traces tho I current of theatrical events embraced within tho past fifty years. Mr. Llnd-say Llnd-say writes In a graceful, happy vein and handles his subject matter so en- tertalnlngly as to enlist the reader's 'M attention from first to last. Himself an actor of long standing T nnd experience, his criticism and estl- 1 mate of footllght celebrities, who from tlmo to time appeared upon tho local 4 stage, are valuablo and Instructive. Mr. Lindsay Is to bo congratulated for if having taken up tho scattered threads of an entertaining subject and woven them Into a bright historical pattern. To tho student of tho drama, to thoso ( who would peep behind tho scenes of r long ago, Mr. Lindsay has rendered a ', C gracious service. Every theatre-goer I T in the State should get a copy of "The - If 1 Mormons and the Thoatre." V.vlB Mr. John S. Lindsay, in his history r of tho Utah stago, makes tho follow ing H lng declaration: "Salt Lako has tho Br I enviable distinction of being tho best show town of Its population In tho f United States, and when wo say that wo may as well say In tho whole world." Now, at first blush, that may appear extravagant, hut anybody who ( takes tho trouble to examine Into tho matter will find that Mr. Lindsay Is not wldo of tho truth. San Francisco, with flvo times our population, has less than threo times as many theatres; thea-tres; Denver, with twice our population, popula-tion, has only a third moro theatres, while Omaha, with double our population, popula-tion, has no moro theatres than wo have. Building operations are being hurtled, hur-tled, oh. "tho .Orphoum. Rush orders have been given and everywhere one sees an air of activity and hustlo. But just when tho now houso will bo thrown open Is not known, oven to tho contractor. A theatre like tho Orphoum Or-phoum In Salt Lako is pretty good evidence evi-dence of tho theatrical Importance of tho town in fact, Salt Lako will bo the smallest city to have a theatre llko tho Orphoum. Tho people behind the venture did somo careful, conservative figuring before they put their money Into tho house. They reached tho conclusion con-clusion that Salt Lako was a big, ripe apple, waiting to bo plucked. "Tho Girl from Kay's" was an exhibition exhi-bition of show girls In gowns. Just where all tho costumes came from is a dressmaker's secret, nor may tho milliner betray her trust and tell us whence came tho skypleces. They were all there In bewildering quantity. Sometimes I think that Johnny, the Oil King must bo behind somo of these shows, paying tho fiddler, whllo tho dressy finery Is dancing. Such shows however, appeal only to tho circus-minded circus-minded and thoso to whom nature has given heads as empty as toy balloons. In so far as tho Girl was anything but diverting, she might just as well have been tho Girl from Kays-vllle. But why quarrel with musical comedy? Docs It not jingleth tho coin Into the box-office, and bulgeth with enlargement enlarge-ment tho pocket of the manager? Re-tiro, Re-tiro, then, ye. caustic critics, into the gloom of your own despondency! With Ophelia, get you to a nunnery or any other old placo. Llttlo "Buster Brown" and his dog, "Tlge," are next week's attraction at tho Salt Lako Theatre. "Buster," a living picture production of tho cartoons car-toons which mado Outcault famous, is a musical comedy with snap, ginger and all manner of live-wire situations 'tis said. Tho comedy, which abounds in now nnd catchy songs and Buster endeavoring to got his mother into awkward situations, affords an Inducement Induce-ment to laughter to get busy. The usual quantity of show girl in fetching fetch-ing costumes, together with the funniest fun-niest make-beliovo of a dog Tlge aro only a few of the many things promised in "Buster Brown." Following "Buster Brown," tho "Prlnco of Pllsen" holds his royal court for three nights, November 2-4. Surely next week Is one of lilt and lightness at tho Salt Lako Theatre. Mrs. Martha Roylo King gave tho first of her musicales since returning from New York last Thursday evening. Thoso who were fortunate enough to receive Invitations were given a rare treat. Madame Le Mar. better known here as Bcnlta Sabin Somers-Cocks, has become famous in England as an oratorio ora-torio singer. Sho Is now in this country coun-try to fill a Now York engagement to sing in oratorio, covering most of tho winter. Beforo beginning this work sho will pay a visit of a fow days to her former homo in Salt Lake, and has been persuaded to glvo a recital whllo hero. During tho years of her resldonco hero, Mrs. Somers-Cocks mado many warm friends nnd countless count-less admirers of her beautiful voice, all of whom will bo delighted at tho opportunity of hearing her sing again. Her clear enunciation and sympathetic rendering of all her solos have charmed Mrs. Somers-Cocks' audiences audi-ences on hoth sides of tho Atlantic. Sho will bo heard In tho First Congregational Con-gregational church Thursday night, November 2. HARRY LE GRANDE. |
