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Show AMUSMENTS GALORE. Dy HARRY LE GRANDE. If there Is a town In the wide, wide world which loves amusement more than does Salt Lake, let the guiltless offender hold up his right hand. One may scan the horizon and see no hand responding to the challenge. As a matter mat-ter cf fact, thero is no other city elsewhere else-where in the world, of equal or even double the population, where so many peoplo clamor for entertainment. A town which has already forged to tho front as tho intermountain metropolis, and, every year becomes more firmly established In tho postition a city which has no rivals within a radius of five hundred miles, north, east, west, or south a city of present opportunities opportuni-ties which the tuturo will widen nnd enlarge a community of diversified llfo nnd activity, demands a plentiful nipply of things which put to night tho cares and burdens of tired, overworked men and women. Salt Lake has these things in generous numbers. Wo havo theatres, auditoriums, parks, resorts a score of places whero tired man may slip off tho "weary harness' and seek any avenue of pleasant recreation suggested sug-gested bv a deslro to drive "away dull care." Throughout tho circle of t"i:e year each season has Us own peculiar form of amusejnent. In tho winter when all tho earth Is wrapped in white forgetfulness and tho green heart of summer lies buried in a graveyard of snow, Salt Lako bursts into tho glow nnd wnrmtli of tho theatrical season. The people of other towns may bo satisfied sat-isfied to gaze out at tho storm through . windows jeweled with frost gems, or watch tho eager sparks leap up tho great chimneys in Now England they j) do this but in Salt Lake wo hear tho call of the theatre like a bugle blast. Go to the box-office of any theatro In Salt Lake, on tho stormiest night in winter, and you will find a clamorous throng spending its money. Tho flor- cer the storm, tho stormier tho fierceness fierce-ness of tho ticket-buying crowd. This is no idle statement, but a fact easily verified by tho affidavit of any theatrical theat-rical manager In Salt Lake. Of course such Is not always the case, still it happens hap-pens more frequently hero than else-where. else-where. Tho reason for it is superficial ft. enough. Eveiy theatro in Salt Lake is a blazo of glory in tho winter time every entrance to every play-house is an Incandescent fairyland and nobody can withstand the alurcmcnts of light, warmth and color. Just as in New England Eng-land the moths fly to the candle, so do we western moths love to bathe our wings in the golden flood of tho footlights. foot-lights. And we are the better for it, too! Immersed as we aro in business, steeped as wo are in the activity of making a greater and grander city, labor la-bor demands Its time for rcposo nnd tired nature must be restored. So wo leave our burdens at the theatro box-office box-office and banish all the wrinkles of care in fits of convulsive laughter, or, according to the program of the evening, even-ing, enter new worlds with Clyde Fitch nnd the almost forgotten Shakespeare. According to population, Salt Lake is the best show town in the world. Kansas City Is double our size, yet Its I theatres are no better patronized than ours. Omaha is almost twice as big as M Salt Lake, yet we here pour as much 9 money into our box-offices. Denver, Queen City of the Plains, with Its hundred hun-dred and fifty thousand people, sup- t ports only ono theatre more than Salt ' Lake with eighty thousand people. Every time you juggle with figures theatre figures Zlon stands up I proudly In the front rank of nrithmetlc. But nmusement-Iovlng Salt Lake leads the procession of western cities when It comes to summer resorts. Tho very approach of summer Is a dream of beauty the gentle April showers, rising ris-ing like vapory sighs turned to gladsome glad-some tears; the brave little Hags of May and the bright bannered flowers of June, marching through the valleys and over the hills everywhere! No wonder tho Salt Laker hears tho call and must away to stream, mountain moun-tain and lake. No wonder there is a rush to the wide open country to tho green temples where tired nature muy worship and bo restored. Surrounding Surround-ing tho city, like a necklace of pearls, nre the canyon resorts too beautiful to t-,l bo idly compared with resorts else- -where. j Who has not heard of tho mountain :es up tho Cottonwood Canyons and J ihe other famed sheets of limpid water J in tho Wasatch mountains? J 1 Who has not heard of tho merry crys- 1 tal streams that hurry over rainbow falls in a joyous haste of flight and foam? All these aro far, far from tho maddening crowd far away whero nature na-ture whispers secrets to its own careless care-less heart. They are a beautiful mys- U'l tery even to tho average Salt Laker. But nearer homo tho Zionlto has his Coney Island, his Asbury park, andLong Branch. To a man living inland tho breath of tho sea is the luxury of life. Our glorious lake, with tho salt breezo i blowing over it, Alls the veins like wine it absolutely Intoxicates with the mad joy of exstence. How Kansas (gf j Clty.Omaha and Denver envy us intho - ' possession of the Great Salt Lako. And well indeed they may! Around tho earth everywhere rolls ( tho wlldorness of tho sea, but thero is i only one great Salt Lako In all tho J ( geography of the world. '' A fitting tribute to the lako itself is tho beautiful Saltalr pavilion. Its. i grand proportions and fascinating ais chitecturo nre a universal f'emo for tourists from all over- the globo, Lagoon, twenty miles north of the. Iclty, Is a resort of charming beauty and restful, tranquil charm. Calder's park, shamefully neglected as It Jias been, will, some day, bo turned Into a M sylvan paradise of trees, lakes and m fountains. In the city Itself the tired Salt Laker ,i- ' has many enticements for tho summer Mm evenings. Tho Salt Palaco and tho famous saucer track offer a rare ovon-II' ovon-II' Ing. There Is not other Salt Palaco In tho world and this distinction Is quite enough. Tho saucer track, with Its bicycle racing, Its rooftless canopy studded with stars, is an especial in-I in-I flp ducement to weak lungs nobody can resist cheering a rider In tho act of breaking a world's record. Lately added 1 to the town's outdoor amusements Is Casino park, in tho heart of tho busi-I busi-I ness district. Hero, through tho mag- nlflcent enterprise of Mr. John Cort, has been established an enticing open W air theatre under trees rustling with I 5 cool breezes that fall llko benedictions upon tho brows of Salt Lakers just es-1 es-1 " caped from tho heat of the streets. 1 Then, to finally banish all thought of tho noisy, sweltering outside world tho I same generous John Cort has estab lished on the stage of tho open air the-atro the-atro a breezy summer opera company an opera company with voices and a chorus girl chorus that has already iA been voted tho blue ribbon by tho ' character members of tho Front Row Club. |