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Show TR PURELY PERSONAL. U Amusements. of the Manager George T. Odell Machine and Consolidated Implement company returned the early part of the week from an extended trip in the north. H. Kirkpatrick is back from a j. to Ohio. trip M. J. Gray of St. Anthony, Ida., was in the city Tuesday. L. W. Shurtleff was down from Ogden Tuesday on business. to Judge E. F.D. Colborn has gone to be C., expecting Washington, on busigone for a considerable time of the sale the with connected ness invention in which he, F. J. .Cannon and others are interested. Bert Twelves of Provo was in the Salt Lake Theater Thomas Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle, today and tonight. Grand Theater The Wilbur-Kirwi- n Opera company in Jack and the Beanstalk, today and tonight; Helds Military band, tomorrow evening. Coming Attractions: Salt Lake Theater Devils Auction, January 6th; Rupert of Hentzau, January 7th and 8th; Testimonial Concert to Emma Lucy Gates, January 9th; Girl from Maxims, January 10th and 11th. Grand Theater Romance of Coon Hollow, January 6th to 8th; Helds band, January 12th. T H. ity upon the shelf. The argus eyes of the drama are exploring, as never before, the dark corners of the library. Irvings Rip Van Winkle is known to comparatively few, but Jeffersons footlight edition is familiar to the multitude the one is embalmed in pages, the other lives and breathes. Joseph Jefferson is, of course, the ideal Rip Van Winkle. The many years he has been identified with the character exceeds, in point of duration, any other actor's interpretation of any other role. For this reason alone it would be unfair to compare the work of Joseph Jefferson, the father, with the work of Thomas Jefferson, the son. A comparison for the sole purpose of showing relative strength and weakness would be valueless, because unjust. The son makes no pretension of equaling his gifted father; he is content to follow a pathway made clear by forty years of endeavor. In this his dramatic ambition is guided by sense and discretion, out of which has grown present success and a splendid promise. It was an accident which gave Thomas Jefferson the role made famous by his father; it is his stepping-ston- e to a great dramatic achievement. From the first the success of Thomas Jefferson was beyond even the vanity of his own expectation. That the young actor is careful, conscientious and convincing will be acknowledged by all who saw his effort last night. There are some critics who do not think the interpretation of Rip Van Winkle calls for any particular genius. But there are lights and shades of dramatic requirement in the proper interpretay tion of the vagabond which require and call for as much 3 Thomas Jefferson appears prosper. again today and tonight. The longest and most successful season of light opera ever given in Salt Lake was presented by the Wilbur-Kirwi- n company last summer. Week in and week out the crowrds rushed to the Salt Palace and rallied in goodly numbers about the operaJtic banner which Miss Kirwin carried up and down the stage. Miss Kirwin at that time scored a success rot only artistic, but personal. That the ladys following is as large now as it was then has been demonstrated the past two nights at the Grand. The Auditorium has been filled with Salt . Lakers eager to welcome the return' of an organization which is almost a Salt .Lake institution. "Merry War and Carmen have been given with a delightful whirl city Monday. and dash, and the catchy music with When Washington Irving wrote his which the operas abound fairly sparkles Dr. Donaher was in Salt Lake from delightful sketches of Sleepy Hollow with tuneful melody. Miss Kirwin is Park City Tuesday. and gave us the legend of Rip Van the same pleasing, captivating personMiss Florence Groesbeck left for Winkle he had no idea that his ality vocally sweet and charmingly New York the early part of the week. graceful. The chorus has been envagabond would be given a a made Pierce Frank larged since we last saw it. Much detrip Attorney of dramatic niche the in Walhalla on the chorus to make an opera Dusiness. on pends legal to Tooele Monday As Van fame. successful. a The Wilbur-Kirwi- n chorus Rip product literary Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Armstrong dehave been well drilled in girls as a stage Winkle interested but has many, from Park City were Salt Lake visensembles and the velopment; groupstage creation it has delighted more. itors Monday and Tuesday. ings are poetical in animation and reWinkle Van the While in the Northwest somepose. M. Indeed, footlight Rip E. Rev. G. H. Feese of the Iliff must have been sent out to gather to on body never is visit a to hundreds known who on have church left Tnursday rosebuds for the chorus bouquet. The so even or of who know heard in Irving Oregon. frienas Wilbur-Kirwi- n be of girls form a flower garlittle him would his that identity den of facial and shapely beauty. ToFred M. Michelsen, manager of the confounded with Sir Henry Irving, the has been English actor. The case in Salt Lake clearing-hous- e day and tonight the beautiful extravapoint illusconfined to his home by sickness for trates how much wTe owe to the stage stagecraft and dramatic art as the ganza, Jack and the Beanstalk, will several days. given. This opera is new to us and as an educator of the masses. In this highest demands of tragedy. When the be has been made the special feature of in additional the student Mrs. takes and mantle H. shall from at W. fall the last Bagby pleasure Rev. Bagby great the companys innorepertoire. Jefferson it will fall, by right of inlett on Thursday, ior Denver, where what can no longer be termed an to route en while the it herited a of brief vation, shoulders make the great will stay upon majority genius, they works a positive benefit. If It were not his promising son. to their old home at Waco, Tex. Rip Van Winkle for the will dramatized as continue novel, now, to delight many then, literary The Mod jeska- - James engagement n L. H. Beeson, formerly a in dusty obscur thousands, and may. he live long and repose products might Ogpro ed the greatest duramatic treat we newspaper man of Salt Lake. and visis now of Mont., Anaconda, have had this season. Shakespeare has den, iting old friends here in company with been so rarely seen here of late that Mrs. Beeson. Mr. Beeson has charge the town made the best of its .opportuof the Anaconda office of the Butte Intermountain. nity. In the plays presented Modjeska made her individual triumph as Lady William K. Ames, Jr., of Redrock, a iew the in is Mont., Macbetlj and Mr. James was seen to city spending weeks with Mrs. Mamie Pniuips and his best advantage in The Merchant other friends in the city. of Venice. Henry VIII., however, Former Deputy Clerk of the Supreme created more interest by affording Court Shipp, who has been a resident aqual opportunity to both stars and alof ban Francisco for four years, was lowing them better advantages for in the city for seveial days this week work; besides, the drama being joint so rarely seen here, was an additional calling on old friends and relatives. feature in its favor with the public. In J. A. Erwin is in Los Angeles on reviewing the interesting repertoire business. compresented by the Modjeska-Jame- s J. P. Miller and Miss Miller of Moab pany, while all admired the exceedingare spending a few days in the city. ly diversified dramas and the versatility required in their rendition, perhaps the of Funston. Episcopal Bishop the' test impreis.on was made in Hendiocese of Idaho is visiting friends in VIII. ry Salt Lake. It is easy to understand why Wagen-hal- s & Kemper have made this particWill T. Dinwoodey, who has. been ular drama the principal feature of the sick for several weeks at the home of his father in this city, left for his own repertoire. Scenically, Henry VIII. home in San Francisco on Wednesday, requires lavish display and pageantry bugle calls, waving banners and goraccompanied by his physician. He is somewhat better, but still far from geous processionals; dramatically it is full of literary beauty, dignified diawell. logue and divides its honors between two characters equally interesting. . A lady who spent a summer vacation The et:ry cf the tuns w.th equal interest around jl.y camping out in the Colorado mountains, Katherine, theti-- intells this story: jured queen, and Wolsey, the amb We were only ten cardinal. OP HENTZAU. RUPERT IN HARRY LAYTON, miles from a range camp, and the As Lady Macbeth, Modjeska won our ranchmen weekly took in their produce admiration for the actress in the highand bought necessary articles for of tragedy as Kathest requirements themselves. This led to a very amusing erine she won both admiration and GEO. D. PYPER incident when the camp was broken up sympathy in the portrayal of queenly and when we were all in town again. dignity and womanly sweetness. In Mrs. Smith, one of the farmeresses, both conception and Interpretation of came to call. We found her gazing the unfortunate Katherine, Modjeska very curiously around and on seeing most happily blends naturalness with 1902. JANUARY OF WEEK 6f us, she exclaimed: My! you folks hev her histrionic impulses the woman a got lovely house. We was all sorry actress are blended in her the and for you befo, cause we thought you EVERLASTING YALES The great trial scene splendid Night, genius. Monday must be terrible poor to hev to live in in which Katherine pleads before the that air way up by us. Denver Field King and court is something one finds and Farm. only in Shakespeare a .world of pathetic eloquence delivered by an inSt. Petersburg, Russia, will spend jured woman In language sweet and and Anthony Hopes Romance, Wednesday, Tuesday fragrant as flowers of. love. It was next year only 21 kopecks (about 10 here that Modjeska put. a new tenderness in womans supplication and addcents) per capita for educational pur- ed a new charm to womans queenly posea Yet, in addition to the enormous drain caused by the Siberian dignity the words, the: thoughts were Thursday, but their painting in vocal anothers, railway, $56,000,000 Is to be spent on and shades belonged to the acnew strategic lights to the Prussian railways tress. and Austrian frontiers, railways that The Cardinal Wolsey of Mr. James have only a military purpose and aim. was a masterly interpretation of ambiOn ordinary land roads, on the good tion intoxicated with its own success, 'Friday and Saturday, quality of which the- success of the working out its own ruin and Anally Russian farmer largely depends, only aOO.OOO will becoming beautiful in its resignation be spent, and an equal of earthly honors. It is a peculiar fact um on repairs and maintenance of that while we admire Wolsey in his land roads. New York World. ex-Sena- tor oil-savi- ng good-natur- ed happy-go-luck- well-know- us Salt bake Theatre DEVlIiS AUCTION. . HUPERT OF HENTZAU. Emmfl IiUCY GATES. - the from mflXims -- |