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Show j SUMMER SHOWS The Directoire gown from Rhyolite and the "Brixton Burglary" have shared honors in point of attraction for the week The finish has been close, both are worth the money, and as the green lights are well on their way toward the desert, tho "Burglary" has the field alone. It is the cleverest and brightest thing the Orpheum stock people have attempted, and wins out hands down. For a laugh producer it is the be3t thing of the summer season. Everybody is splendidly cast, i the farce moves rapidly and smoothly and the j story is interesting enough to carry the piece suc- j cessfully. Margaret Sayres in the role of the cor- I lective and suspicious second wife, starts some- j thing every time she comes on. The character is cleverly handled and is one of the best things the company have done since it opened at the Orpheum. Or-pheum. Mr. Green, Mr. Clements and Mr. Baker have very excellent roles and Mr. Williams is well cast. Miss Evelyn, Miss Hadley and Miss May keep their end of the evening up admirably. The play goes through this afternoon and tonight. It is thoroughly worth while. Prince Karl, a four-act comedy by A. un- ter, will be the next offering by the company. The story concerns a young German prince who has met and fallen in love with a young American girl, but thinking that she is poor, and knowing that the rules of the German army, of which he is an officer, will not permit him to many a poor girl, and having no money of his own, he tries to forget the girl he loves and determines to marry a supposedly rich but ancient an-cient American widow. This widow is the mother-in-law of the prince's love, who has been married in early life. She is now a widow also and has been kept In mourning and subjectioifby tho mother-in-law. On the evening of the announcement of the prince's marriage to the ancient widow, the young widow breaks away from tho control of her mother-in-law, doffs her mourning attire and determines de-termines to attend the dinner given by the prince to celebrate his engagement. The prince and the young widow meet, he finds he loves her still and tries to And some way to break off his engagement en-gagement with the old widow. He hits upon the idea of going mad, and tho first act ends with the apparently crazy prince being taken to an asylum. From then on the fun is past and furious. The company te cast to its full strength, Miss tho younger widow commences to make violent love to the courier, drawn to him, of course, by Shis resemblance to tho prince. i The trying position that the prince is placed in and his efforts to be the courier and to forget that he is a prince, make the complications, and cause the fun. The company is cast to Its full strength, Miss Evelyn playing the same part that she played when Mr. Mansfield had the play in his repertoire. Mr. Williams will play Prince Karl, and tho rest . of the company is well taken care of. & & & The week has been a record -breaker at every , lesort about town. The Fourth seeined to get people into the habit. The bicycle races have drawn Immense crowds and Real Estate Day at Saltair Thursday broke records. The Lagoon had its turn 'Wednesday, when sixty-four machines I motored up with big crowds fro mSalt Lake and Ogdon for the Good Roads meeting. The latter movement deserved the boost it got and there should be no let-up now until something tangible tan-gible Is accomplished. I Two state records were broken on the Salt Palace track Tuesday .night,, when McFarlatid went two miles in 3 : 55 3-5 and Lawrence went a r quarter mile in 1:30 4-5. tev ofr The racing card at Saltair Thursday proved mighty interesting. Clark lowered MacFarland's two mile record of 3:56 3-5 to 3:461-5. & J$ cS Bathing at the beach is ideal and several thousand have been in since Monday. i5 c5 A merry party of mariners, under the guidance of Captain Davis and "Dewey," returned Monday night from a three days' cruise on the lake on the Cambria. The party comprised Mr. George Auerbach, the heads of several departments in the Auei bach's store, and other friends. One case of seasickness was reported, that of Albert Graupe, though Ben Harris had the time of his life for awhile. The only unpleasant thing about this, however, was the fact that Ben had to refrain re-frain from playing the mandolin during this time. Because Will Sibley had seen a canal boat once, he was allowed to run the Cambria, with such disastrous results, however, that he was relieved of his duties by Charley Berry, who ran the launch in beautiful circles. The party celebrated the Fourth one mile to the west of Bird Island. |