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Show TRUTH CHRISTMAS GIVING. Amusements. the gift or the donor? Whether is nobler, the Pine Tree; said me to Come I am the giver of honor. seaChristmas is here once again the we hear son of giving. Now and then who but of complaint, a little murmur among us all would forego the pure Joy we of giving. Our cross is never that that must give so much, but always we can give so little. I want to tell will help you you a secret; perhaps it in your Christmas buying this year. The necessities of life are not the only food, necessary things. I havent much the fire, for coals I many have neither or a load of but dont send me flour shall manage kindling; somehow I will of A box Huylers those things. of lace bit a feed me better, and dainty will keep me warmer. A set of undera wear? No, a love of a bonnet or or ticket A theater fluffy neck wrap. a new book is better than a receipted the rent and grocery bill. We manage some way, but we the coal and the flour the candy, extra book, starve for the ' of bit finery. the Talk about the "improvidence of the poor why, its these things that keep them sane. It is a kind of craving, if it isnt gratified, that grows out of all becomes abnormal and proportion, sometimes even kills. Now is the blessed season of giving. Give freely of the trinkets of life. What a fine art this art of giving! Someone gave me last Christmas a bound dainty little chamois bag, allover this round with pink satin ribbon; was a white linen hemstitched cover, the cover embroidered in pale pink and green. It was a Jewel bag to wear round my neck when I go off on a journey. I havent a jewel to put in it and I havent a single prospect of a journey. Yet that little bag is the delight of my heart. I look at it and revel in Its possession, and I wouldnt exchange it for a winters supply of coal or a whole years house rent. I knew of a young woman once who was working for her board and going to school, studying at odd minutes when the work could spare her. Her clothes were none too good, her hands were rough and chapped, her cloak and shoes were of the poorest. Yet she worked on, never complaining, until one day oh, day of blessed memory! the postman brought a letter from an uncle in I know you are California, saying: to to school hard this winter, go trying and so I send you a check. Perhaps I can do something more for you later. It looked to me like a veritable Godsend, and I said to her, "What are you She didnt going to do with it, Lily? hesitate one second: Buy a pink silk party dress, came the quick response. And thats what the money went into. I was dumbfounded then. I know better now. It warmed her, it fed her; she studied better; she thought better; she worked better, and she wore her pink silk party dress to the University balls (she was a University normal student), and the whole world looked different to her. And so it is, from some such experiences as these, that I have evolved the rules which I give you. To the poor, even to those lacking the veriest necessities of life, give some luxury. But to the rich, to him who seems to lack nothing, give to him that which he really lacks something simple, something that is absolutely free from the money tain- A. B. - 'u The association of Dr. E. S. Wrigl r- Keogh in what formerly wi Keogh-McKen- na Salt Lake Theater, Primrose and Dockstader minstrels tonight. New Grand, Haverlys Mastodon minstrels matinee today performance tonight. Helds Military Band tomorrow evening. . Coming Attractions: Salt Lake Theater, Yon Yonson, December Mary Mannering In Janice Meret. dith, December New Grand, A Lions Heart, December 16th-lStSilver King, Det; cember Helds Band, December 22nd. 16th-17t- h; 20th-21s- h; 19th-21s- . When Primrose and Dockstader joined forces they displayed business acumen and artistic sense. While individually neither could fail, unitedly it would be Impossible not to ' succeed. Popular George Primrose was not always happy in his partnerships in the early Barlow, Wilson, Primrose and West aggregation his identity was uncertain; under the Primrlse and West banner, his name was first and his influence second. But in his latest adventure with Dockstader he has walked paths as flowery as his name. . s?ent Dock-stader- ht farce-come- dy Dockstader are following the popular idea in this matter and are giving us a burnt cork performance that follows both tradition-anpresent demand. One of these days Billy West will discard his povanity and gracefully submit to thecontency of burnt cork. Artistically sidered, Primrose and Dockstaker have surrounded themselves with one of the very best companies ever seen in Salt Lake. The vocalists are possessed of good voices; the dancers are capable and the specialties introduced are in the hands of most capable people. All the jokes are newly coined from the mints of humor a chestnut would create as much consternation in this show as a Yankee bomb in a Filipino camp. George- Primrose is always up to da te in everything he says and does and never fails to Impress the auditorium. Lew Dockstader can tell a joke in a way that would shake all the coffins in an undertakers parlors. When Dockstader gets down to his quick easy monologue work and throws on you there is no escape his the hopes are cut and your fingers are sore clinging to the seat. It is worth any mans money to hear Dockstader for five minutes. Tonights your last chance. d ' - goo-go- os cork. The black flag of minstrelsy should Over at the Grand filling the house to be carried only by the black hands of the coon, by the imitator of suffocation is that justly famous agthe coon, for the genuine Sambo makes gregation, Haverlys Mastodon minthe poorest minstrel in the world. It strels. While other minstrel shows is pleasing to record that Primrose and have wandered after strange gods and loaded up with vaudeville freaks and comic opera absurdities, this company or-rathe- has preserved all the best traditions of the past and carried minstrelsy along the lines best suited for the burnt cork artist and his ways. The Haverly minstrels of today are worthy of the great name they bear and worthy of their splendid past. When the curtain rises it is upon a first part showing minbe and strelsy as it was, as it should to conas it must be, if minstrelsy is tinue with success. To see the rows of shining faces all black rising tier above tier and looking over the footlights behind a wilderness of black, carried me back to the good old days when Col. Jack himself was directing the destinies of the best minstrel organization that ever gazed in ebony grandeur across the across the footlights.- The work, the incentive, the directing genius that was has passed to other hands whose ambition it is to maintain the prestige of the past. Sparing neither money. nor expense, insisting on the best, Mr. Nankeville has under his banner a minstrel organization worthy to perpetuate the name of Haverly. It is a refreshing relief to see the white face discarded entirely In a min-- : - strel show. . . . To me there was never anything more out of place ithan a man, on the stage, singing coon melodies, when the only thing about him suggestive of the minstrel was the negro accent on his lips. That Mr. Nankeville will not tolerate such absurdity is most refreshing. George Wilson the onliest only is the great star of the Haverly aggregation. Wilson can pack a vanload of fun into a satchel he compresses it somehow and the moment he takes his hands off it fills the whole house. If George Wilson would only walk acros the foot-- ; lights without saying a word, the movement of his feet would make everybody laugh. Compared to Dockstader, he ? but I wont compare them. They are playing at opposition houses. Wilson will make them all roar at the Grand tonight and so will Dockstader at the Theater. The crowds which have greeted. Haverlys minstrels at the Grand are all of one opinion the organization is a string of black pearls worn on the neck of popularity. . siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiig i Salt hake Theatre bi GEIi,!;5ER NEXT WEEK ht Jvc-nna- It would be difficult to find men pursuing more divergent means and uniting them in common ends than these two minstrel premieres. T remember well when Lew Dockstader ran his own theater on Broadway as a distinct home of minstrelsy ran it longer and better than any similar house was run before or since in Gotham. At that time, however, vaudeville, musical skits and comic opera were carrying everything before them. s, The Bijou, almost next door to was boiling over with musical absurdity, anatomical femininity and foot-ligcloudbursts of female symmetry. Dockstader thought that he could with advantage add a few comic opera frills to his performances. This innovation, however, proved his undoing. New York resented this strange mingling of bones and tambos with Amazonian marches and pink tights. The judgment which New York then formed in a capricious moment, has now become a settled conviction minstrelsy, to be successful, should have the ace of spades on top of the pack. Neither rhyme nor reason will ever sanction the effort to have comic opera and clasp hand and masquerade itself under a veneer of burnt 1 which henceforth will be hospital, known as tl Keogh-Wrig- hospital, insures tl continued usefulness and prosperity the institution. Dr. Wright takes tl Place of the late lamented Dr. P. J. Mi Dr. Wright is an able, coi scientious and painstaking physlcia lie has practiced his profession in Sa iake for over ten years, and justly hi om.f to be regarded as one of tl in the city. He wj !Sr5g Physicians of the Salt Lake Medici society and is now president of tl oard f Medical Examiner i g 8 a graduate of the University and has had large .e: notT perience in the hospitals of this coui Europe. In the spring tl r:eh- right hospital will be enlargi double its present capacit ,ahht IU he equipped with the newe na most approved appliances. 3 I Aonhy I It was really too bad that I Tuesday, YON Y0N50N . Wednesday, (HRS. i Thursday, University Pruoktic Co. &d4 Saturday SiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiimimiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiimiiiiiimmiimiimir? Fraw-le- y had so much to contend with bad weather and the Italian band. His popularity in Balt Lake is as great to-day as it ever was,-bu- t the biggest popin world cannot the ularity fight a combination of blizzards and music which takes one riding through the stars. Taking these Into consideration and he must consider them Frawley showed how really strong he is, as a dramatic incentive, by playing before houses that were never 'below ordinary. The plays presented by the Frawley company gave. ; scope for individual work which pleased the personal following of Miss. Van Buren and Miss Douglas and enabled Mr. Frawley him- self tQ charm us with his versatility. ? BOOTH-TUCKE- R Friday and Mr. , . |
