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Show I With the First Nighters Hj ! A theatrical season, which gave every promise H. of finishing in a blaze of glory with "The Lion and the Mouse," "Babes in Toyland," "Blanch Walsh," "Man arid Superman," Sothern and Marlowe, and N. C. Goodwin, will end in gloom after the engage-ment engage-ment of "The Lion and the Mouse" which comes to Salt Lake theatre for seven performances week after next. This is but another of the far reaching effects of the San. Francisco disaster, after which the cancellation, of engagements came thick and fast until all that remain's is "The Lion and the Mouse" which happened to be in Los Angeles' headed east-Hj east-Hj ward. And though for the present theatre-goers are too much absorbed in the dreadful calamity to give much thought to the possible future effects in theatricals, it is pretty safe to say that this play to be seen here week. after next will be the last production of any importance to reach hero for many months. There are no more playhouses in San Francisco, the city that was always depended upon for a long run after the trip across the continent, and until managers and routing agents can gather their wits, nothing definite can be published regarding the engagements of 190G-07. Fortunately Salt Lake is the pivotal point with one road going to Los Angeles, and the other to Butte, Portland and Seattle, so it is possible that companies will play Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, and Salt Lake, going north or south from here, and returning east by way of the Northern Pacific to St Paul and Minneapolis, or going across the country from Los Angeles. In any light, it is a distressing situation, and those who want to see the last good performance of the season must go to the "Lion and the Mouse," for no one knows when we will be favored with another. H "The Cherry Blossoms" start to bloom at the H' Lyric today, for an engagement of one week, and reports from other cities quote it as being one of H the best attractions that the Lyric will have this season. This company appears in a three-act mu-slcal mu-slcal comedy entitled "The Maid and the Mule," with the usual introduction of clever vaudeville. |