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Show j With the First Nighters I J VAUDEVILLE'S ADIEU. The Orpheum winds up its vaudeville season 4 tonight. ! ' A fairly good season it has been, too, despite ) a bill of the citrus variety now and then. It is I not the easiest thing in the world to supply Salt J 'Lake with the best of vaudeville always, for half f ' a dozen obstacles have persistently hindered the f securing of high-class acts in a good many cases. J ''Not the least of the trouble experienced in get- ' ting performers here is -the distance from the coast houses and from Denver on the east. However, How-ever, no one has any right to complain of the season taken as a whole and prospects are excellent ex-cellent for a record year next season. . The closing bill averages up fairly well. Jean 'Marcel's living reproductions of famous paintings i , and has reliefs are splendidly done and easily 1 head the program. Orth and Fern are scream-j scream-j "jngly funny in "Sign That Book," and Fred Sos-: Sos-: jman has a mighty good stunt in a singing com-!,6dy. com-!,6dy. line: ' I don't believe Wilbur Mack could grow old if he tried. He's back this week in a clever, en-1 en-1 tertaining little musical travesty, "The Girl and tho Pearl." Sounds like a musical comedy and . listens 'steen times better than a big bunch of ' the latter. Nella Walker is with him, a stun- ningly pretty girl with- a pair of eyes that are ! worth the price alone. The music is clever and ' out of the ordinary, just enough so to make the sketch doufyly interesting. i The finest musical treat on the bill, however, j is the Guinness farm stunt Miss Walker of Davis and Walker does with a few sentimen-! sentimen-! tal ballads published shortly after the flood. The ' young lady's voice ought to be strained or combed. Davis is an exceptionally good dancer, and saves the act with his eccentric foot work. Harry Tsuda has a high-class strong-arm act, introducing half a dozen new features worth seeing. see-ing. The kinodrome closes the bill. J With "Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model," the Grand has had a strenuous week of it. Nellie I closes her 'trying ordeal today, however, and if Hortense or whatever it is can save her from being stung tonight by the wicked vilun for one more performance tho success of next week's sizzlers is assured. J x Until Wednesday evening next week the Salt fcake- theatre is dark. On that night, however, .'Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony .orchestra will appear in their world-famous con- I cert. The music loving public about town has -looked forward to the engagement for months, j - ffor surely Damrosch and his musicians are a I .treat. More than this, Mr. Damrosch has given Manager Pyper and Arthur Shepherd positive assurance that the prizo overture composed by tho latter will be played by the orchestra Wednesday Wed-nesday evening. Tho overture is one with which Mr. Shepherd won the Fadreweski prize for the best overture by an American composer, and the fact that Mr. Damrosch has consented to render it gives his engagement an added touch of local interest. We have already printed the program for the concert in these columns. It includes several solos by the more prominent musicians of the orchestra and by Mine. Mary Hissem de Mpss. I Seats have gone very rapidly for the concert, and it promises to bring together the most notable audience of musicians and society people peo-ple of the season at the theatre. - Fol.'ywlng Damrosch for tho last half of the week, tho engagement opening Thursday evening, will come Henry Miller in "The Great Divide." We get it a year late, of course, but it will probably prob-ably be well worth seeing. A great deal has been Avritten about the piece by different reviewers and whatever the different opinions may be, it is unquestionably an absorbing, interesting production. produc-tion. Its scenes represent the contrasted ideals and customs of eastern and western civilization tan village home, with its traditions descended from the Pilgrim fathers Mr. Miller, as the untamed un-tamed son of the west, Stephen Ghent, and Miss Olive, as the daughter of the Puritans, Ruth, fight out between them a struggle of different temperaments and ideals, such as have made our modern complex American character. 5 & fc5 Rather of an innovation will be the appear- i r Henry Miller who appears at the Salt Lake Theatre next week in "The Great Divide." in this country and the love romance between the two chief characters symbolizes to a degree the conflict between the spirit of the west and the spirit of the east. The first act takes place in a cabin on a cactus ranch in southern Arizona. The second act occurs in the American Cordilleras, Cordil-leras, on the roof of the Rockies, amid towering peaks and yawning canyons. Tho third act shifts to staid old New England, to a prim and Purl- ance of Catherine Grey in Clyde Fitch's four-act play, "The Truth," at the Orpheum next week. I The production is one of Martin Beck's expert- t ments and it is hard to foresee what the result t will be. However, there is little question but what the play will be well worth seeing, for Miss Grey is a splendid actress, young, handsome, talented tal-ented and polished. She has appeared in the east tho past few seasons with considerable success. "The Truth" is the latest effort from the pen T of Mr. Fitch. Much is claimed for the piece, which is a society' comedy drama. It has been received very well on the coast and in New York. With Miss Grey is Robert Warwick, as her leading man. Mr. Warwick has been the leading man with Mary Mannerlng, Virginia Harned and Miss Best, and is considered a very capable actor. Harrison Hunter, last seen here with Southern and Marlow, and Maude Adams, is also with tho company. Alfred Hickman, the original little Blllie of "Trilby," is with Miss Grey; and of the ladies of the company, Catherine Emmet and Ina HammeY are the most conspicuous. t7. '"" "",, .. ' TZLmimmm Mme. Mary Hissem de Moss, Soprano with Walter Damrosch. The Orpheum Stock Company arrived this week from New York and have begun rehearsals for their summer season's work. They will produce during their six weeks' engagement en-gagement here a repertoire of standard, modern, high class royalty attractions. The company includes such well known performers per-formers as Mr. Baker, Miss Evelyn, Miss May, Miss Sayers, Miss Hadley, Mi. Green, Mr. Clements, Cle-ments, Mi. Gorman, Mi Williams and others, a number of whom are well known here. They begin be-gin their engagement Monday, June 15th. The management of the Orpheum entertained at the Commercial club Thursday evening for the company, and it was a royal little spread. The new players are charming people. (Continued on Page 13) (Continued from Page 9) llft The Grand makes a dip Into the mysterious gK next week with "The House of Mystery." The ;B piece is said to be founded upon some of the B most startling criminal history o tho city of jH New York, and after a casual glance over the OH program it looks as though the contention might jMf be based on fact. yaRl The play is unquestionably a thriller, and Tjfflt with the Burgess company presenting it, it ought "jm to prove an excellent drawing card for the pop- .R ular Second South street house. L. S. G. jjB |