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Show T1TlMBmm'' " ' il , HH H With the First Nighters I Madame Nazlmova's present tour of the west, which will include this city, has. been limited to twenty of the largest cities. There are so many demands for her appearance that the Messrs. Shu-bert Shu-bert found it possible to arrange for her appear-' appear-' s ance only in the most important places. Nazi- mova will remain on the cOast till late in June. Among the members of Madame Nazimova's company are several players who are well known in Salt Lake. The company is a large one, when it is considered that the casts of the Ibsen plays are short, and the organization also includes a stage force of five mechanics. Among the best known players in Madame Nazimova's support are: Messrs. Brandon Tynan, Dodson Mitchell, Cyril Young, Francis Powell, Percy Lyndal, Robert Rob-ert Coleman, Miss Florence Fisher, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Miss Evelyn Weidling, Miss Alice Seymour, Sey-mour, and the little Misses Dale and Hill. Nazi-mova Nazi-mova will play a special engagement in this city covering the entire conference week, at the Salt Lake Theatre. tX fc5 ( That "The Rose of the Rancho" has been able to draw crowded houses at the Colonial for two consecutive weeks is a source of surprise to those who have held that only the very best first-class attractions could run even a full week. Willard Mack's success with the play is due to tns real merit of the performances. Returning to the Bungalow Sunday, Mr. Mack I! will present "Heartsease," a play written espe- I cially for Henry Miller, and considered one of his I chief successes. The scenes are laid in those days R ' of gallantry when the Georges ruled old England, j and gives opportunities for splendid effects. Mr. Mack is preparing to offer Mary Hall in "La Tosca," a role which she regards as her favorite. fa-vorite. This sterling actress has .made a decided hit in Salt Lake, and her coming to Mr. Mack's company has decidedly strengthened the organization. organi-zation. There will be another additiSh to the working force of the company in "Heartsease," when Miss Anna Cleveland will make her first appearance in Salt Lake. Miss Cleveland is a niece of the late Giover Cleveland, and what is more to the purpose, pur-pose, is an actress of ability. Miss Helen Hunter is another, newcomer to the company, and playing in "The Rose of the Rancho" this week, and George Bellew Baldwin, succeeding Fred Allen as the Padre; Arling Alclne taking the place of Fred Tomasso and Lee Millar, who replaces Samuel Simpson as Ortega. The Bungalow's interior has had much added to make its patrons more comfortable. Loges have been placed along the sides of the balcony. Down stall's are five additional rows of the leather coveied divans and the ventilation has been bettered. bet-tered. & 0& & For the first time in the history of music, or the drama, a complete Symphony orchestra and a large dra'matic company are united to give, throug-out throug-out the United States, a musical and stage performance per-formance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the occasion being the centenary of the birth of Mendelssohn, Men-delssohn, whose exquisite music has so enhanced the Shakespeare text of this delicious comedy, that having once heard it, the two become inseparable. insep-arable. A complete theatrical performance is given, the orchestra being placed below the stage, as in operatic oper-atic productions. So great has been the success of this com bination that the tour of the Russian Symphony orchestra and the Ben Greet players has grown to enormous proportions. After a performance at Carnegie Hall, New York, on February 11th, a tour I extending across the entire country to the Pacific coast, was commenced. The charm of the performance which such a combination of two distinct organisations, each of which is famous for its individual performances, will offer, with the wonderful material at their command, may easily be imagined. Wherever given these performances have proven the most Important dramatic and musical events of the year and have invariably drawn enormous audiences. au-diences. One hundred persons are concerned in the presentation. The Russian Symphony orchestra numbers fifty' men. In addition to the complete H Ben Gi aet company, enlarged especially for this tour, there is a group of children for the fairy H dances. They will dance to the accompaniment M of the Spring Song, which is interpolated, and to H the Nocturne. M This great fairy play shows its beauty to the best advantage given with a great musical set- ting, in harmony with the fantastic imagery of the story. The comedy will not be given in the Elizabethan manner, but Mr. Greet's aim is to M reproduce the effect of his famous open air per- M formances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as M HH given for the past twenty years at the leading HK universities of England and America, and at the HB most famous ancestral estates of England. Mr. fl Greet has also given his open air plays at the Ij9 i "White House, Washington, Royal Botanical Gar- Ill dens, London, and Tuxedo Park, Bar Harhor. Hw tfr tv W IRi . As pretty and successful a local concert as we ww have had this season was that given for the bene- jjn fit of St. Anne's orphanage, Wednesday evening at WWki the Salt Lake theater, three hundred children, lin ing' der the direction of Miss Nora Gleason and the Hi Misses Hyde and Locke, and Messrs. M. J. Brines HI and Fred Smith, assisting. Tableaux, specialties, HI - and individual acts were splendidly given, and the Hlj little folks acquitted themselves excellently. Miss VI Gleason had evolved and arranged a number of Vl qry novel features, and the evolutions and dances Ij v were almost perfectly performed. The work of I th;Q children was better than it has ever been and B I Miss Gleason had worked wonders with them. En- B . tire credit for the success of the concert is due B Miss Gleason, as in this concert and in those she H 1 has arranged previously, their success is due to B her genius in managing the children participating. The Colonial will offer another week of "Babes in,' Toyland," beginning tomorrow night. The entertaining en-tertaining Glen MacDonaugh-Victor Herbert musical mu-sical comedy is handsomely mounted and cos-B cos-B ' turned, and is being presented by a capable com- B pany this season. The show enjoyed a week's B run at the Colonial a month or so ago, and as it B 1 is' the only musical show the coming week in town, B " should enjoy a profitable return engagement. B & & & BE ' Willard Mack, has had two weeks of big busl- Iness at the Colonial in "The Rose of the Rancho." Hp closes tonight and reopens Sunday evening at the Bungalow for the spring and summer season. . je & & H Pretentiously staged, and numbering some H very entertaining and original situations, "The H 1 Elk's Tooth," as presented at the Theater Mon- l day and Tuesday evenings by a company com- H posed of the members of the local lodge, their H wives and friends, was distinctly one of the best H Elks' shows that we have had in several sea- H sons. W The musical play was written by H. L. Brown; Hj , the music, lyrics and books were excellent. The m j principal parts were in the hands of Mrs. A. J. H Davis, as the soubrette; W. H. Leary, as Captain H Blowhard; E. C. Penrose, as Weiner Wurst; Earl M Dyer as Easy Time; Mrs. Lizzie Thomas Edward, H as' Carrie High Note; W. R. Sllbey, as One Nyte H Stand, and Harry Brown, as Cook of the Sea H Queen. The parts were nicely handled, particu- B larly so in the cases of Mrs. Davis, Mr. Brown, m ' Mr. Penrose and Mr. Sibley. The production was B t handsomely staged and costumed. The work of m the chorus was excellent, and the entire perform- M ance ran unusually smooth. H v V l Bj ' ' After two or three checkered months of at- M tractions, the Grand will open what is intended H fi to- be a regular season of stock musical shows, B Sunday evening, March 2Sth. The Arrington Itep- B ertolre Company will on that date take the house Hj I for a two weeks' engagement, and following them M a musical comedy company will have the house H fop the -spring season. H & & H . The hill that has been running at the Orpheum ) since Sunday is about as bad as any offered by H " the house since its opening. For those who care H . for slack wire work, the act of the Harvey Fam- H ily is rather novel and worth while. In fact, it Hi is about on a par with the work of the Millman B I Trio, seen here earlier in the season. The only B j other part of the program worthy of any atten- H tlpn Is the color photography, exhibited by Mc- H Glnnis ftiid.QliCton,, The worth n.nd novejty ofjho pictures is demonstrated more by the fact that they command attention in spite of the "lecture" delivered by the owners of tho act, than anything else. Their talk would kill any ordinary turn. The Astaeries, Fred Grey, Nellie Graham, Jeanette Taylor and her "Picks;" and Andy Rice complete the bill. Their acts are all fierce. The bill that opens tomorrow night will be headed by John and James Russell, assisted by Flcra Bonfanti Russell, the ballet dancer, in the jolly comedietta, "Our Servant Girls." The remainder re-mainder of the bill includes Johnny McVeigh and his college girls; the sketch, "The Dude Detective," Detec-tive," with Frank Byron and Loviise Langdon; tho first American appeai-ance of Seldom's plastic statuaiy; the Countess Rossi and Paulo, tne ra. mous duotists, the Delmore Sisters, in vocal and instrumental selections, and Edward Barnes, rag time pianist. tJ? t The Shuberts have obtained the Amerioan rights to "The King of Caledonia," a musical comedy, and "The Tiuants," a drama that has been produced by Lena Ashwell in London. v v Arrangements have jusjt been made by Frederick Fred-erick Thompson, whereby the next play for Mabel Talaferro, who is at present appearing at the Illinois Theater, Chicago, in "Polly of the Circus," Cir-cus," will be written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, the authors of "The Man from Home." The title of the play is "The Return Re-turn of a Soul," and the scenaria, as submitted by the joint authors, meets with the approval of both Mr. Thompson and the little star, who will interpret the principal role. w t The Salome dance is causing as much discussion discus-sion in Mexico as it is in this country. Some Mexicans think it is awful and some don't The city council of Oaxaca witnessed the dance in a body and by a majority of one voted it all right. vtf v t Henry Miller will give "The Family' its first production, in Chicago, March 28th. j H & It is reported that Olga Nethersole is about to produce a drama in which she plays the role of a good woman. J i Devil's canyon, a wild and rocky gorge in southern California, has been conquered by the automobile. H. M. W Hard, T. B. Patterson and Wilson S. Smith of San Diego claim the honor of taking tho first motor car through the canyon. |