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Show I With the First Nighters sVI j "THE STRONGER SEX." i j, ! By T. G. I Suited to her capacity to the fraction of an I i atom, "The Stronger Sex" is a delightful comedy, j and as the pivotal luminary in the brightness I ' with which the play abounds, Miss Fealy is thor- oughly charming. For ten minutes at the oponing of the play, it I is terribly talky, hut from the moment that the little hrlde discovers her hushand of an hour I making love td the affinity of his puppy days, un-I un-I til she finally subdues her fortune hunter, makes a man of him and then win his real love, there f is interest, if not probability, and a running fire of drawing room and latter-day domestic repartee j that is awfully good to listen to. ; In the complexity of misconceptions piling on top of one another, this man who admits he mar- rled for money, and this woman who pretends ; she married for his name, apparently working in i diverse directions, suddenly arrive at a point whore both have boon softonod by their expert-i expert-i onces, and find out that they love eaoh other. In the beginning he is surly and domineering, ' inclined more and more to revert to the atavistic performances of his ancestors as he frots under the lash of the little woman from the far west, under whose blithenoss of visage there Is a heart courageous and an indomitable will, and under whose hat there are brains. His taming is accomplished ac-complished In beautiful order, without recourse to the cheap absurdities that usually mark the scenes in an unhappy menage as portrayed on the stage. At least the play Is the result of a new Idea, and the working of it is as smooth as the timepieces time-pieces stamped with "Made in Switzerland." Mary Bertrand as Joan Forsythe is greatly to be admired for her naturalness. She gives one the impression of having no little strength in re-servo, re-servo, and it is to be hoped she will have more of an opportunity another time. Florence Roberts, who is no stranger to local audiences, made a great hit as the widow Van Qarkerken. Of the men, Brandon Hurst had a very clear idea of what is required in the part of Warren Barrlngton, the husband, and followed It cleverly, while Thurlow Bergen as Oliver Thorpe was not to bad as he might have boon. & & & ORPHEUM. ' B. It is the novelty of the thing, the riot of gor- geous coloring more than anything else, the blond-ing blond-ing of light and color which seems to bo magnified a hundred times in its startling effect, together with the suggestion of scenes that are roal these are the things that make "The Geisha's Droam," a& produced by O liana San and company, a real head liner. To those with a well developed sense of the beautiful, the scenes are lovely, and if the sense is latent in others it w'll sit up and take particular notice when the colors are flashed. And while on the subject of fine pictures, old Irian tl Klnodrame calls for a liberal hand tls week, for the Irish scenes and type as displayed by the moving picture machine are the best over shown at the Orpheum. They are not of the as-Inine as-Inine ridiculous order they do not have the ap- fl pearance of being posed, but are natural and ex- ceedlngly Interesting. B The Ruppelts make a noise suspiciously like defiance to the laws of gravitation with a dozen new turns that are a lot better than clever. Jt is surprising to note the number of fine equilibrists that have closed the vaudeville bills this season particularly as eaoh team has introduced new specialties in acts so similar in their general characteristics char-acteristics as to glvs one the impression that the limit has been reached. , Ferry Convey s a musical clown, who is good with his musio but bad with his business about as funny, in fact, as a couple of chapters of Black-stone. Black-stone. Daisy Pumont looks rather pretty, even if she can't sing, and her follow-up, Pete Baker, was kind to the cbmlng generation and resurrected some twenty-year old favorites to tell the jokes like father used to hear. The Cowboy Quartette sang well enough for a couple of encores. That will be about all. . & j: "THE YANKEE REGENT." "The Yankee Regent" got in wrong rong, ruw and racy as it was t might ha,ve played two hundred and fifty nights in Chicago in the va-cinity va-cinity of Ike 'Bloom's for instance, but to cast It four times as bait for Salt Lake theatro patrons showed an abnormal bump of unadulterated trail Merry Wives of Windsor," a comedy which he. retrains re-trains this season in his repertoire. In addition .to this he will present an elaborate revival of , "The Comedy of Errors," essaying, for the .flrat time in the history of the drama, 'The Two Dromi-os,' Dromi-os,' a dual impersonation that brings into play all the versatility that is at the disposal o'f the player, for in the delineation of these two men, while they possess a most marked resemblance to each other, yet the line of demarcation must )ie so delicately drawn that while the auditor is cognizant cog-nizant of the duality, the characters in contact with the Dromios must necessarily be kept in ignorance ig-norance of the same. , . His repertory is as follows: Thursday evening, "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Wind-sor." Friday evening, "The Comedy of Errors." Saturday matinee, "The Morchant of Venice." j & & . "THE ROYAL CHEF." The musical comedy, "The Royal Cho" comeB to the Salt Lake theatre the first hal of mixt J3 mm GWKTO, WHO WEARS A PRETTY GOWN AND ATTEMPTS TO SING. on the part of the fisherman, even if his lobe of discretion was far below normal. At that there is some music in the thing, but whatever was worth while was so quickly tainted uy what followed, that the remaining impression was one of disgust. But in spite of the brunette taste with which you left it, there lingered the remembrance of that clover little pony in brown distinctive in the outfit, out-fit, and the poetry of the regent which was really funny as funny to tell the truth, as the recent serious efforts of Edwin Markham LOUIS JAMES. "Words are like loaves, they availeth most where they least abound," therefore the mere mention that Louis James is coming here next week in a big revival of Shakespearian comedy, is sufficient to guarantee local play-goers something some-thing worth seeing. Mr. James this season has confined his efforts solely to comedy, this was prompted by his phenomenal phe-nomenal success last season as "Falstaff" in "The week. The "Chef" was originally staged in Chicago Chi-cago and was a great success. It was given its " New York premier at tho Lyric theatre and was one of the first to win actual recognition for a Chicago musical production, with the supercritical Q) press and public of the metropolis. The music, by Bon Jerome, is said to be fine, and the book by Goo. Stoddard, built on original linos, unfolding unfold-ing a coherent story, laughable irt its- handling and theme. The music has had immense popularity. popular-ity. The famous "Broilers" were first seen' with the "Royal Chef," and most of the original members mem-bers with one or two exceptions, are with the company. Wm. J. McCarthy will bo seen as the "chef." & & "WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME." At the Grand theatre all week of October 20th, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees, will be presented the drama of domestic life dealing with the question of why girls leave home, and setting forth one standpoint at least as the answer. The play is a dramatization by Fred Summerfield of a story dealing with the friction of domestic environment, en-vironment, characteristic of ao many home's, and' the effect upon the sonsitive nature of the sister and daughter of the household. The presenting company is claimed to be good, and the scenic investiture in keeping. (ft tfr.U... . |