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Show THE MORNING EXAMINER Part Two in iv-- no. OGDEN CITY. UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL Pages 9 to 16 907. 21, PRICE FIVE CENTS THE WEEK A THE GRAND Wednesday Night, Charles B. Hanford the play Is done with artistic excel- is shortly to appear In London, Is enlence not before approached. The col- titled "Tbe Gay Widow." It U adaptRoland Travers, the magician, head or srhi-iuefor the diuVreni scenes ed from the French by her husband, the bill at the I'tahna theater thla are conceived with a sure artistic Cosmo Gordon Lennox. week. The new show opened yestersense; no harsh contrasts, hut everyI'oger, author of The Lemd matinee thing done In the mellow tints which onade Huy," which Arnold Daly proday afternoon to a audience. At an Illusionist, Travers are a delight to the ee. Wbat with duced before his breach with the has written a play with Richard takes a back aeat to no one, and his flowers glowing mytw rlmtslv when act Is immense. He has an enviable Puck" touches them, owls- with blinkBrinsley gheridan as it hero. Arthur reputation in England, and la fist ing electrical eyes anil fairies who Bouchler expect to produce It in Iu-do- n a soon as The Murals of Maracquiring one In thU country. Travers seem to have solved ihe problem of does i lie trunk act that bas mystified aerial flight, the perfect of stage ef- cus" has ceased to draw. Irene Vanbrugh and Henry Alnley audiences for a number of years, but fects bas been reached in this producwill support John Hare in "La Belle be does it a little better than any of tion. A unique feature I the wonderful Marseillaise" when that play la pro the magicians of the present day. Re la sealed la a sack and placed Id a ballet of fairies. A radical departure duccd In London this spring. Das Friedenateat, one of the earlitrunk, and In less than eight seconds baa been made bere, for Instead Of the appears in the center of the theater. conventional gause . dressed fairies, est of Hauptmann's plays, was revived The trunk in which he was imprisoned these are browns and greens the fai- recently tn Berlin. It is described as is then unlocked and shown to be emp- ries of Shakespeare'S ten. Instead of "one of the most realistic and uncomty. He also has a number of new the fairies f the stage. Their appear- fortable plays that ever delighted a tricks ance, some swarming over walls, some German audience. p An Theater League has Miss Dean Edsell and Arthur Forbes scrambling through trees, others makbeen started In Brooklyn with the obare presenting an amusing comedy ing great flight over the country-aide- , The Two Rubies," have an electrical effect upon the audi- ject of driving out the sketch, entitled that la going te be a winner In Ogden ence and call forth unbounded enthu- vaudeville housea, which are said to exercise a demoralising Influence on this week. The couple are real enter- siasm. Miss Russell's engagement In thla the children by prompting them to tainers and their piece la one of the steal money to pay for ad miss Ion. cleverest on .he vaudeville stage. Man- city will be at the Grand Thursday. ager Grant states that It had a run of seventeen weeks at Procter's thePLAYS AND PLAYERS. GREAT SPEECHES. ater In New York city. That certainHow David Belaaco must have aged ly should be guarantee enougo espeHarper's Weekly: The New York cially to those who know the class since he was in Boston A short Unis Times, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Rochof pieces usually put on at Proctor's. ago! The Morning Telegram describes ester Democrat and Chronicle, and The messenger boy trio do some him as a white-haire- d old man who other papers of high standing bars very clever dancing and furnish la already beginning to live In the been discussing that enough amusement to satisfy anybody. past. It is difficult to sea wbat purby which Koacoe CockTelr stunt is original and pleasing.un pose is served by bending out such ling, In national convention la 1880, trash. Jerome, Fremont and Jeroma put proposed Grant' for a third term. It a spectacular acrobatic act entitled the generosity of (he members of was a powerful speech and everybody "Dolly in Frogland." The act la abort, the London Playgoers club no fewer who read It at the time will ha apt to but they do the work while they have than 20,1)00 poor children are given the remember sufficient about It, and the stag. pleasure of a visit to a pantomime, at about tbe man who delivered It and Morey' IiOng Is singing "If the Man one of the other of the theaters in the tbe circumstances which called It In the Moon Were a Coon." Fur an il- English capital. forth, to kaow that It wae an address out some la of Here are little blllllant one a the lustrated aong this which will live ia the annala of tha ef the ordinary, but it la going to make lines" from the "Belle of London age. An Interesting fact connected hit. Mr. Long Is winning many Town:" "Belinda 'will ee that he with the 'subject and one which no friends among those who are getting keeps' In order." Getting married paper mentioned, 1s that tha historile like going to Are: We all run cally. great addresses in the national the Ltahna habit. The rtahnascnpe la showing the there and then walk back." "The conventions of the Mg parties have best set of moving pictures that has more waist the less speed. Stout girls won no prises for the men In whose been in the house. The Hooligans out are hasty to woo. favor they were made. Charlet Frohuian acquired on hla rewest. a sort of a wild west scene in In eloquence and point no other new to rent audience Henri visit Paris the early days, pleased the playe by speech In the Whig convention In Balof Cavedan, author of "The Duel," and timore In 1852 even remotely aptoday and will furnish Its share Pierre Wolf, who wrote "The Secret of proached tli a one which Rufus Choate amusement during the wook.' 1 A matinee every afternoon except Pollchlnelle." made for Webster but Webster was le to produce never a serious factor In the K. James two perHeckett followed la evening by Sunday balloting. e formances oe ginning at 7:10. Spe- "The Girl In White, by Ramsay Mor- In every one of the ballots on of Nine. ladles author and for mattuees "The ris; souvenir Ninety Fillmore and Scott had several times cial new Viola to add a matinees Allen for is tg play as marly votes as Webstar, and Scott Wednesdays and candy" her repertoire By pHtfuctag su adapts carried oft. tko candidacy. Robert 0. children pa Saturdays. tlon of a French play by Mlrheau. Ingsrsi ill's "plume-knightspeech la Brewster's Mllllou"i and Gillette's which be .said, I Jka aa armed CHARLES HANFORD WEDNESDAY. warone-ac- t thriller, "The Red Owl," are rior, Ilka a plumed knight, James G. A little more than decade ago tha both to be produced In London this Blaise marched dawn the halls of the American congress and threw hla shinadvent of Charles B. Hanford as a spring. Tbe new play which Henry Arthur ing lance full and fair against the Mtar In the legitimate drama waa hail-b- y the preaa of the entire country as Jones la writing for Klaw A Erlanger brasen forehead of every detainer of his of country and maligner of Its honor," In an event of great artistic consequence. la said to be a melodrama somewhat . - tbe Cincinnati convention of 1875, Mr. Hanford had purchased from tha The Silver King" type. Gabrielle d'Annunsio, ihe Italian gave Blaine n sobriquet which he carestate of the late Lawrence Barrett the scenery, cesium pi and parts which playwright, will come to New York Ip ried to tbe end of his life, and It made had bean used tn tha celebrated pro- March to attend at the Lyric theater IngereoU famous. But llayea and not duction of Julius Caanar" by the tbe opening performance of his play, Blaine won the nomination. Conk-ling- s Booth-Barre- tt combination. Of this "The Daughter of Jitrio." When Mr. Appomattox speech is the Chiorganisation Mr. Hanford had become Botheru and Julia Marlowe decided to cago conventlan of 1880 in favor of a conspicuous member, owing to his postpone the .play's production from Grant captivated the country at the delineation of the role of "Marc An- the fourth to the seventh week of their mornant and "swept the convention off ill feet" (except the delegates). Gartony." It was his great miecess in engagement they cabled an Invitation this part which dec Id rd him in hla am- to the author. His acceptance wa re- field's In favor of Sherman In the name bition to be a star and since that time ceived recently. convention waa scarcely Inferior to There is a possibility that when Omkllng's in point of power. Neither each season has witnessed a steady and substantial Increase in bla popu- George Alexander produces his English Grant nor Sherman received the canlarity. until at present he rank with version of Le Voleur" at the St. James didacy, Garfield's speech for Sherman the moHt prosperous players of the theater, London, Mma. La Rargy will helped Garfield to get the nomination ! play the part she created In Paris with for hltuself, in the deadlock, although day. Each year Mr. Hanford has of-fered a special production and in se-- . such success. Cosmo Gordon Lennox neither he nor anybody else at the locttng "Julius Ceasar" for that pur- is 'at work on the adaptation. opening of the convention had thought The Cherub and the Houseboat Is of him as' a possibility. When Bryan pose now, he Intentionally prewents a play which will command bis utmost the title of a new comedy which will made hla "cross of gold" speech which resources both as te Its mounting and soon see the light In London. Reginald: stamped 'the Chicago convention In as to selection of the cast for ita in-- 1 Cox Is the author, and all the scenes 189C he was not, ostensibly,' talking for to Mias bow various parts of a Thames househimself, nor did anybody in the conterpretatlon. la addition Marie Drofnah, who has so brilliantly boat. vention think of him In connection Identified herself ulth Hanford perGeorge Alexander la soon to produce with the candidacy at tha time fas got will In London, Alfred Sutro'i new comedy, up there to speak. He entered that formances heretofore, and who Mr. I "John Glaydes Honor," said to be the convention an a member of a contestbe seen In the role of Portia comHanford has brought together a best thing this industrious playwright ing delegation and waa unknown to the country at the time, though he pany of players who may he depended has yet accomplished, on to give adequate pictures not only j Grace Livingston Furness, who bad the presidential bee In his bonnet of the noble "Brutus" and the crafty dramatised "The Man on the Box, is and was working for his own nomina"Cassius, hut fcf the minor character writing a new comedy for Henry E. tion nil the time that he was In the well. The American mind ia In- Dlkey. convention. tensely Interested la polities and "Juli- ; Marie Tempest's ptey In which she Champ Clark's speech proppslng of all polius Caesar, the greatest Cockrell In the 8L Louis convention tical dramas, has been meeting with of 1904 was the most breesy and eloa degree of recognition that la not quent which was delivered there, only a compliment to the star and passing Martin W. Littletons in favor hla company, but a credit to tbe artisof Parker. But Cockrell waa far down In the list in the voting, and Parker tic taste of the various cities in which he has appeared. "Julius Caesar" will got the candidacy. he seen at the Grand Oepra house on In choosing president the people d orators are and not the Wednesday. dominant in the conventions as well ' ANNIE RUSSELL THURSDAY. aa at the polls. GOOD BILL AT UTAHNA. ! x UV'.t ' ' , . Thursday Night of s G!'i good-cite- Shu-bert- Anil-Chea- low-price- d Appomattox-ap-ple-lreoepeec- Annie Russell, h . at the' Grand Thursday. At the Grand Opera House Wednesday. ; I , J . fifty-thre- -- : to Great Roland Travers & Co., at the Utahna this Week. ' 1 Miss Marie Dro'riih. with Charles Chas. 6. Haniord. Hanford, at tha Grand Wednesday. B. I ns silver-tongue- The dramatic event of the current season will be the special limited engagement of Annie Russell, who la to appear at the Grand Thursday night, April 25, as "Puck" In Whgeabals and Kempers magnificent production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The entire production, one of tbe handsomest ever rewealed on Broadway and company, numbering one hundred and tweety-aeve- n people, will be brought from New York, where It won the aps who proval not only of tbe crowded the Aator theater to the doora at every performance, but also of the metropolitan critics. All were unanimous In tbe opinion that never in the memory of the present generation of s ha thpne been a production of Shakes pea rea best comedy on such a vast scale and with such a royal disregard for expen --e. Never before, say the critics, has there been a production so respectful of tbe text, so artistic from n scenic standpoint, so capable In the acting. Of Miss Russel's acting. It baa been the universal verdict that never before has Puck been Impersonated with such taste,' spirit and Imaglnatelve feeling. By the same token, never has the poetic temperament of Miss Rue-sel- l been so charmingly In evidence. Her giest triumph In this character. Ilea in the manner in which ehe denotes the light masculine groteaquery of the spirit, at once friendly and Imp' ish. For the protection, not only la there mechnlcal perfection, hut the' staging AN AUDACIOUS FOOL The function ,of the king's fool In medieval times was In n measure an Important one, and he who filled the post bad often very great Influence with hla sovereign. Perhaps tbe brightest and moat astute of fools was the favorite Jester of Francis I. It was reported that hte majesty, who was of very generous nature, had acceded to n request of Cotries V, emperor of Germany, that he might pass through France on bis way to the Netherlands. Putting nulde all recollection of wbat be had Buffered al tha In emperor's bands while a captive reSpain, Francis was preparing to ceive Charles with much ceremony and splendor. Observing one morning that Trlbonlet was scribbling industriously upon n bit. of paper, Francis Inquired what he waa Ao ig. ' "I have Just added the name of Emlist peror Charles of Germany to ray sovof fools," answered the Jester. ereign who Is committing the incredible folly of Intrusting himself to "yon by puslng through your kingdom Folly T. How If 1 should et him pass safely?" "Then I shall substitute your name for his. was the audacious retort of the fobl. Tri-boul- t play-goer- play-goer- p- - a,'es Hanford, at the Grand Wednesday. . Tit-Bit- Roland Travers. Magician, at the Utahna this Week. "Bmersente. your Introspective susceptibility Is Inchoately pragmatic, aa it were." "That's It, Waldo! Talk baoy talk to me!" r Annie .Russell, at the Grand Thursday. |