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Show I mm with the First-Nighters mmi iMBSMm I It will be something like a Chinese New Year, HE I'pMMffi the opening of the theaters for the coming soa- ffi IIShB There will be a few firecrackers to announce H ' 'lHB ; the beginning of festivities about Monday of next mm ' i JBBn ' week, and these will increase in quantity and mm !' "I8Hw sound until the arrival of the first week in Septem- 'fHnf : ber' when the din of the 8reen room tom-toms will ''4iH5h ' make a noise like real business. Mm 'mmmi i The Orpheum is booked till another summer HH , vVSjNHMl rolls around and the management invites you to H vffllHf inspect the first bill next Monday evening. Bh jljHH , The Grand will bo ready for business the same HHj 7 -fHH 1 night, and down l the Salt Palace the popular mm :m9H opera company will place "The Telephone Girl" mm fHBBS I at the tllsPosal o the critical public. Bfll ; ! iKBwil ; At the Casino, the only outdoor theater in the mfm ' 'l-aflnRi ! . city, there will be a welcome change the coming flm 49flfi week, for Zinn's clever people have been persuaded Monologue Comedian, who Appears at the Orpheum Bn! JHH I to return for an. indefinite engagement to the great K - wXBmWi I delight of everyone who saw them when they were HH (jBhH r here before. This company has made a tremen- mm ' tPHP dous lllt everywhere, and will no doubt play to Bj 'I'IH Judging from the class of attractions for which HH illIB Mr Cassidy lms been sponsor the past week or Hff 'agHI' two, Manager Guiney should bo hailed as a hero KS iiliSHl' for being able to keep the Park open with the mm jffimBl The Lyric will open the first of September mm ' TOffljflH wItl1 Mr- Mayall and Miss Elsmero and company IB ',, i' jjflHf n "The Bondman." This stock company will play Bn jrfiHl 'i an In(leflnIte engagement, to the great credit of Bra 8b wnoever ma-&Q the necessary arrangements to se- H ImHS! Beyond the first bookings made public by Man- HHk ager Pyper of the Salt Lake theater, there is no Hi IIIhHhI .further good news regarding the September at- Eli .HhI tractions at that theater, but it will be ready as WKa ''WmWafi soon as George returns from Brighton. Mm mIJBhI 0f courSR tlie WS show to open the house will Hf 'Smmw be "The 01d Bedstead," which will be elaborately Ha SiWBmm I staged by the boys of the Press Club. The first mm ' -1IHH i act iB wel1 under way an(1 without disclosing any Hi 'iflBf professional secrets, it is one grand, scream. mm -' "Wmmm 1 If tIle rost of the performance goes like the mml . jiJSHB f beginning, which was read for the approval of the mm ' jJHHK .j board of managers, the other ovening, it will be the Hi CflH 1 funniest thing ever seen on any stage. HI "IotHH ' Already, with the drama a month away, re quests have been made for favorite seats, but the management insists that no favoritism shall be shown, and people must do the best they can. The cast will be announced in another week, and that in itself should start a file of messenger boys to the doors of the theater in anticipation of the mad rush. There's one line in the first act, which alone will be worth the money. When Frank L. Kramer and Iver Lawson fight it out on the Salt Palace track on the fourteenth, seventeenth and twenty-first inst., respectively, it will probably be the greatest exribition of pedal pushing the fans hereabouts have ever beea treated to. Just what kind of races the different heats will be have not been made public before, and it is published pub-lished here for the first time. On next Tuesday night the heat will be a mile, French style. On the seventeenth, the race will bo two miles, with a pacemaker for one mile, the final mile to be French style. t On the twenty-first, the night of the final heat, the race will be three miles, with pacemakers for two miles, and the final mile French style. This date will be almost the finish of one of the finest seasons of the sport in this city where it is more popular than in almost any other place in America. The strenuous efforts of one Johnnie Chapman in gathering such a collection of speedy boys has met with the hearty support of the public, and in this big race, the fans will see something so far out of the--ordinary bike event that every meet will furnish new and thrilling sensations. fcC The playgoing public is scarcely cognizant of the fact that a lot of good music is being missed by those who have not heard the Olympia Opera company at the Salt Palace. "Wang" was well staged and well sung, and in "The Telephone Girl" which will be the attraction at that house the coming week, it is said that the company is seen to even better advantage. Robert Pitkin, Myrtle Vane, and Bessie Tanna-hill, Tanna-hill, are all people on the top round in light opera work, and the present company is the best indoor attraction the Palace has had in years. & & e "The-Up-Side-Down Dance" which occurs during dur-ing the spooning song in "A Courtship in Japan" with which the Zinn people open is said to be a scream. If there's anything in a name, the best thing we can all do is to see it. "Waltz Me Around Again, Willie" the big eastern east-ern song hit, yet to be heard here will be a feature of the second week of Zinn's company at Casino Park. je Ut Jules F. Bistes, heretofore resident manager of the Orpheum, has been promoted and is now at work getting the St. Paul Orpheum into shape for an early opening under his management. In his stead., W. L. Jennings comes from New Orleans, where he was assistant manager, treasurer and press agent of the Orpheum. Mr. Jennings is a young man, but the fashion in which he has gathered gath-ered up the reins over on State street demonstrates demon-strates that he knows something about both the back and the front of a vaudeville house. He is approachable and can be found from 10 a. m. until un-til certain hours after dark around the Orpheum, and he really seems "glad to meet with strangers and expatiate upon what is coming along this way this season. |