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Show RU and a concerning a chorus girlinforma-Hon barter snake. The exclusive however, was carried rather far We were given Jn its exclusiveness. the girl was excluA understand that in her peculiar pensively exclusive The writer snake. chant for a garter referred to the "coiled beauty as a limbless pet, thus awakening the soeculative curiosity of the uninitiat-J- j how can this crawling bit of c be a limbless clammy pet if Miss Maybel has it perform the poetic function of a garter snake? The matter requires further The point, however, is explanation. We can not elsewhere. but not here, to the point of stretch our credulity believing that the fair Maybel is alone the exclusive possessor of such an By all the exclusive knee bracelet. garter snakes in snakedom, there are "The others! "The Slipper girls, all and the really Runaway girls, owners of are the happy girly girls, unmentionables. toilet mysterious When that bunch of Broadway carnations the Weberfield boquet was in bric-a-bra- Frisco, the eyes of Mason street youths were dazzled with a display of The lingering hosiery supporters. of Poodle Dog the supper parlors were a favorite after theatre rendezvous for those merry maids. When the chandeliers were dizzy, the human lobsters fat and red, and the marine pictures began to ebb and flow with the champagne tide, then the Weberfield girls woftild begin some amphibious dances in which garter snakes were very much in evidence. 2 Tomorrow evening at the Salt Lake theatre, Mr. Homer Davenport, the well known cartoonist, will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the Press club. Mr. Davenport has drawn the follies of the world in charcoal and everybody in laughed with him. miss. world has He is too good to the Charles H. Tales spectacular production, Devils Auction, will appear at the Salt Lake theatre. It is said this season to be bigger and- better than ever. Monday night - V. Following the Devils Auction, beginning Tuesday evening and running through the week that ever popular Mans as Old as He Feels. W. George Wilson, the actor who is of Caspar Moulton in the role playing A Captain Barrington, was for twenty-fiv- e years character actor of the Boston Museum Stock Company.' He Joined that organization at an early age, and, as he has usually played old mens parts, he is popularly supposed to be much older than he is. A few weeks ago Mr. Wilson, who is a high degree Mason, went to pay a social visit to Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild of Massachusetts. It was Mr. Wilsons birthday, and he informed Governor Guild that he was celebrating his natal day. So this is your birthday, said the Governor. Well, well, how time passes! By the way, George, how old are you? Give a guess, suggested Mr. Wilson. Well, I should say you were 66, returned the Governor. Youre just twelve years out of the way, Curtis, replied Wilson, amiably. Good Lord, George, sputtered mean to tell me dont Guild, you youre 78! Whoever would have believed it? And now it is recorded that Mr. Wilson, who is a bit sensitive as to his age, doesnt ask his friends to guess, but tells them it is 54, and takes no fifty-fourt- h chances. that I can take merit unaccompanied by fame and do the same thing. Mme. David will open under iny manage- ment at Carnegie Hall in October, when I expect that she will create a sensation. 1 am also very busy making arrangements fur the concert tour LYON & CO. of Mme. Calve. Charles Frohmans Versatility. It was during a twelve-hou- r rehearsal of Notre Dame that Charles Frohman proved that he was just as able to give instruction in acting as he was to manage theaters successfully. Miss Hilda Spong was playing the role of Esmeralda, and had recited the Little Napoleons approval until a thrilling point in her denunciation of the archdeacon was reached. Here the English actress did not quite satisfy him. Clambering upon the d the stage short, rotund, little manager went through the part in a manner that astonished the company. Miss Spong nodded her head and on resuming the role proved she had caught the inspiration of her tutor. bald-heade- Greenroom Gossip. Anna Held is to shelve Mamselle Napoleon, it is reported, and revive Papas Wife. Daniel Sully is reported to be enjoying, a notable success in his new play, The Chief Justice. . Fay Templeton has taken a cottage In SL Augustine, Fla., for the balance When Ote Was a Boy Again. of the season at that resort. It is You can return to the scenes of probable that she will not appear on your childhood, but you cant go back the stage again until next September. to your youth, truthfully sang a poet Creston Clarke, the nephew of Edsome years ago. And now Otis Skin- win Booth, son of John Sleeper and ner believes it. Asia Booth Clarke, grandson of JuOne day last summer the actor vis- nius Brutus Booth, has been engaged ited his old home town, Hartford, to play a part in Amelia Binghams Conn., and there he met a friend of Olympe. his school days, Charles G. Hunting-ton- . son, GilHenry Millers an bert Miller, has become actor, Busy just now? asked Skinner. against his fathers wishes, it is said. No, said Huntington; what shall He has adopted Gilbert Heron as a we do? stage name and is playing a small Let's go swimming same old part in Olympe. swimming hole in the Farmington The production of The Raven by river. C. Hazelton, Jr., formerly a All right, said Huntington; shall George in this has been post we drive out or walk as we used to? lawyeruntil next city, September. Frederick poned Well walk, said Skinner. Lewis will assume the role of Edgar So they tramped the three miles to Allan Poe in the drama. the old swimming hole, which neither Wagenhals and Kemper have purof them had seen in a score of years, chased the American rights ,to Sto and plunged in. They walked back. bizers comedy, LIselott, from HeinSkinner was so lame he couldnt walk rich Conried. Some prominent drastraight for a week, and Huntington matist will adapt the comedy to the operatic organization, the Bostonians, will appear in a repertoire of new and old successes. The Bostonians have always been popular with Salt Lakers, because, in advance, we can always count on seeing operatic productions, charmingly rendered and splendidly mounted. This season, we are told, the Bostonians have gone has been periodically rheumatic ever to an extra heavy expense in provid- since. ing new costumes and scenery. The been company has, in addition, equipped with new voices among the Grau Finds Pattis Successor. principals and the chorus greatly enRobert Grau, who has been directlarged. ing the farewell tour of Adelina Patti, HARRY LE GRANDE. and who announces that the tour will yield at least $400,000 to the diva, and Clear Creek and Castle Gate coal $100,000 to the management, has disthrow out more heat and last longer covered a young woman in the person of Mme. Vera David, who he thinks is than any coal on the market the legitimate successor of Patti. He has signed a contract with her for 250 concerts to be given within tho space of two years in all parts of the world. UNIQUE This latest find of the impresario is 3aid to possess the greatest vocal ADMI88ION 10 CENTS. MATINEE DAILY 3 AND 4 P. M. range that has ever come from the human throat In speaking of the CHILDREN 5 CENTS. Patti tour Mr. Grau said: It was not Reserved seats for ladies free of extra to be expected that I would make a charge. fortune out of the Patti tour. The fact that I could guarantee her $5,000 tho eccentric juggler SEE O. W. Ccurteny. a night and half of the gross receipts over $7,500, and not go to an asylum the ordeal was over, has shown Great Punch & Judy Show after what I can do, for I have successfully executed the most difficult contract SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ever made. Next year I shall show THEATRE 13 I 1 William Winters Criticism. William Winter voiced his opinion of present theatrical conditions tho other day in strong terms. There has not been a time in fifty years, ho said, when the theater was at so low a level as it has reached when tho impulse is vanity, the motive is greed, the method is sordid engrossment, the aim Is exclusively business, and the result is a barren traffic and an arid waste. The present state of things will endure until the number of theaters is greatly reduced, tlie hydra of monopoly strangled and destroyed, a horde of incompetent performers driven into other pursuits for which they are fitted, the veterans tucked up in their played-ou- t little beds, and the arena made dear for the men and women who can realDramatic Mirror. ly act. to-da- y ld SCENE IN "DEVILS AUCTION. stage. Why We Grow Old. Maxine Elliott, by invitation of Mrs. In answer to the question, Why do Roosevelt, supped at the White House we old? a medical writer gives after the performance of Her Own thesegrow reasons: three We do not get Miss Way at tho National theater. physical exercise in the open Elliott was escorted to the White enough are poisoned by microbes we air, House by Major McCawley. wnich the scientists have not succeedA Japanese Nightingale, in which ed in destroying, and we are deMiss Margaret lllington (Mrs. Daniel pressed by fear of death. o Frohmhn) is appearing, is to be reafis will it and Boxes Snuff for Museum. written hoped, then, ford the young lady from BloomingThirteen snuffboxes in agate and ton, 111., an opportunity to twinkle suc- jasper, ornamented with gold and preEastern critics who saw cious stones, and formerly the propcessfully. the play in its original form are said erty of Frederick the Great, have been presented by the kaiser to the to share this managerial hope. o Hohenzollern museum. 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