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Show I " With the First-Nighters H pPHHb "Tho Old Bedstead," the joint work of Race R jfflHH Whitney and Waldemar Young, put on under the H PHK auspices of the Press Club of Salt Lake City at H :i99HHf the Salt Lake theatre Thursday evening, abun- H tiK dantly fulfilled the promise that had been made IB InBhH&I for it. It would be too much to say there were H 'HHIDb 110 wea sPts the production. There were, H xlHK but they were not numerous to say the general B fiflBHB average was bo high that the tremendous au- H ll wSHH dlence went home delighted. That audience is H USHHi yorth mentioning. If there was a place in the B tliBHR theatre that wasn't filled it could not be seen Hi t' BB with the naked eye. And in the throng were fll " InfllHi pretty nearly all the society people and most of Bl JIwIBk Tho big hit of the piece was undoubtedly I f Iflflfii Waldemar Young as Bid Dubbs, the chore boy. I ')4 9BBBv v Wolly looked the part and acted it out with a H ''i':ifjSBHBi U(1Sment antl discretion seen so rarely in ama- fli 'waUBBm eur worIc that one may almost say it is never HR ' - HflHK seen. Mr. Young's "Casey at the Bat" was a de- Hi 'IHHBi licious imitation of De Wolf Hopper that set the Bl jlnH house into roars of laughter and his work through- . tfJgjfBflHi John S. Critchlow as Hezekiah Scrogglns, iilBHi statIon aSent at Jordan's crossing, looked and. vWaBBB acted as if he had been a country station agent '''9HI a11 his life lt ls hard t0 beliQve that at some SjijfBmii time in his diversified career Mr. Critchlow has 2 j ' in9HB' not worn a station agent's uniform as a regular M ''Ipln thing. He knows too much about it for an out- Wm I iHHB David C. Dunbar as Pearsford Sope was the R IBmRBB polished villain of the piece. We have had oc-Bl oc-Bl 1 RBB casion heretofore to speak of Mr. Dunbar's earn ea-rn ' sHBH pacity as an actor. He burst on us, at least on the ffl :RHR younger generation, in that .little play of Ned 9 fSHlR Hoyle's in which he took the part of the old Bl f'HflflEfli major. So his excellent conception of the Pears-IB Pears-IB fiRBH ford Sope cllaracter was not a surprise. It was U :HHH only the expected that happened. There are few IB ' vBBBB professionals who could have improved on Mr. BR 'tiiRfRf Dunbar's work Thursday night. BR ''fffflHflE' Alan L. Lovey as. Arthur Trewellan, "the IB .ii'BflRB brawny blacksmith of Jordhn's crossing," was a Bf '1'aBBBn scream throughout. Eddie Penrose's ' Luke Mc- Luke was a capital bit of character, acting. But all the boys did so well that it is hardly fair to single any of them out for commendation. Certainly Cer-tainly none could be singled out for criticism. Mention is due, however, to the Evelyn Patterson of Carl It. Williams. In makeup and in general work Mr. Williams was one of the decided features fea-tures of the show. Mention is due, too, to Martin Mulvey who, as Sid Stebbins, performed with a deliciously oozy sort of humor that made his audience believe the stage was no novelty to him. The production produc-tion was dotted with clever local hits and the performance was given with a dash and smoothness smooth-ness that showed care and talent in its preparation. prepar-ation. Wilfred Clarke and his clever company have been the drawing card at the Orpheum all week. This does not mean that there is nothing else good there, but his new little playlet ls so thoroughly thor-oughly good that it fills the bill. "No More Trouble" Trou-ble" is, if possible even better than the one given last week. It is just a mite harder to do, . the part played by Miss Carew being really a difficult dif-ficult one, and it is done creditably all the way, though. Little Miss De Mott as the young wife, and Archie Gillies as Guy, the friend, are just about perfect, and the whole thing is kept at a running pace by Clarke from start to finish. There's a little girl on in the , ida O'Day, who is worth a good deal to the management man-agement because she pleases in a clean wholesome whole-some sort of way, rather new in the banjo comedienne. com-edienne. With her impersonations and her music she has been worth hearing all week. The other musical number was good, but not specially so, being on the usual order of startling rather than artist work with xylophones and banjos, ban-jos, done by the two musical Forrests. Vernon, the ventriloquist is as good at his work as they ever are, and better than some of them. He keeps a bunch of dummies "busy all the time" and does a few lines as interlocutor himself between times. The special dancers might have been improved upon, although they doubtless suffered by being contrasted with the excellent things on the bill. Of the three Hickman brothers, alleged entertainers, enter-tainers, nothing heed be said. They got too much consideration when the audlenco stayed through their turn, which was doubtless done in the hope that the kinodrome would take away the bad tastd iit & The patrons of the Grand theatre who have been hungering through a long siege of drama and melodrama for a good laugh, and who have been laughing at everything from a death bed scene to an epigram, have had their fill of laughter this week. With the close of Miss Harper's season Wheeler and Russel, two all 'round comedians have held the boards in "Looking for a Wife," and The Turkish Bath, and they have gotten more fun out of both games than falls to many men who try it. There is a constant scream of merriment on from the time they appear to their various exits, which are short. The chorus of girls which supplies sup-plies the musical part of the farces is a rather good one and some of the singing is better than one hears as a rule in this class of plays. & 5 ' The Lyric openM' on Labor Day with a special bill in honor of the day, "Teezy Weezy, or a Trip to Coney Island," and has had crowded houses all week to see this attraction. The nineteen nine-teen musical stunts by the chorus girls, with their competitive cake walk, has interested all (Continued on page 12) the patrons, but the decision in the cake walk to be made by the audience was too late for publication. publi-cation. The stock season promised opens this afternoon with a dramatization of Hall Caine's "The Bondman." & William Collier, 'in "On the Quiet," is the treat in store for the patrons of the Salt Lake theatre for Monday evening, September 24th. The attraction is under the direction of Charles Frohman and is one of the principal interests controlled by that noted manager. The farce is by August Thomas and thought to be the wittiest that has emanated from the playwright's pen. The piece certainly gave Collier the opportunity of his career, in that it won fame for him in London Lon-don a year ago, and in Australia the past summer, sum-mer, two experiences which resulted in bringing him more prominently to the attention of his own American public that had seen him then in only indifferent plays. Mr. Collier's engagement here is for three nights only, with matinee on Wednesday. i & The Zinn's Travesty company closed a successful suc-cessful engagement at the Lyric last evening. They have made many friends and admirers during their stay here, who wish them unlimited success in their new fields. They are succeeded by a competent stock company that will make their initial appearance this afternoon, presenting present-ing the ever popular play, "The Bondman," a drama of unusual interest, taken from Hall Caine's novel. tC Kempton & Arington's grand scenic revival of "The World," will open at the Grand Theatre Sunday, for a four-night engagement. The play is full of v dramatic situations interspersed with flashes of comedy that add to the show an interest in-terest that Is held from the rise of the curtain cur-tain to its fall. The play as presented by this company is modernized in every particular, and bids fair to play to crowded houses at every performance. per-formance. & ? j The regular season of 1906-7 at the Salt Lake theatre will begin Saturday afternoon next, when the Salt Lake Opera company will present the comic opera, "The Wedding Day," written by the authors of "The Jolly Musketeer." The singers will include a number of new additions and the cast will be one of the strongest offered the Salt Lake public for a local performance. The new acquisitions are Miss Agatha Berkhoel and Mr. H. S. Ensign, both of whom are Salt Lake favorites and who have been heard heretofore hereto-fore only in concert work and oratorio. Miss Emma Lucy Gates, after a year's additional study with Madame Ashforth in New York, will make her second appearance with the company, and those who have hoard her have marked the improvement im-provement she has made in her recent studies. A picked chorus of 30 voices will furnish the ensemble, ensem-ble, and altogether the outlook for a splendid entertainment en-tertainment is good. |