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Show THE EMPRESS OPENS. Wednesday evening of next week the new J Empress theatre on upper Main street, which has been in course of construction, for six months, will be formally opened by the Sullivan-Considine i company, propriators of the house. r The Empress is the finest and most modern theatre in Salt Lake and next to the largest. The seating capacity is seventeen hundred and a number of features new to playhouses throughout fl the intermountain west are incorporated in the seating ararngements. The great balcony has twelve boxes In horseshoe shape along its front, in addition to the six boxes on either side of the l auditorium. In finish, interior beauty and general elegance the house is a beauty. Money has been freely spent in combining the latest ideas of thea- j tro construction with artistic effects and the re- V suit is one of the prettiest playhouses between Chicago and the coast. The house has cost upwards up-wards of $250,000 and breaks into a section of j Main street that heretofore has had no amuse- ment enterprise, though one has been sorely needed. At this writing carpets, draperies and the J other furnishings of the Empress are being in- t stalled and they are extremely handsome. Plans for the opening include an address by former Governor Wells and one or two informal talks t by local men who have been instrumental in se- V curing the new Empress for Salt Lake. Dan McCoy, one of the big men of the Sulli-van-Cqnsidine company, came on from Kansas 1 City ten days ago to open tho Empress, and he j will probably remain as manager for a year. The Empress will give three shows daily, one in the afternoon, two in the evening and prices are ten, ) twenty and thirty cents, boxes fifty cents. The j house advertises a thousand good seats for every afternoon's performance at ten cents each. The programs will change every Wednesday 1 and the bills consist entirely of vaudeville, eight J acts being given at each performance. Tho Sullivan-Considine people are probably the biggest factor of the country today in the lower priced j vaudeville field, tho Empress here being one of 1 a chain of some hundred and fifty houses they own or control. The theatre enters a field here scarcely cov- j ered at present by any other theatre in town and if the success of Sullivan-Considine houses elsewhero may be taken as a criterion of what i may be expected of the Empress hero, that thea- fl ter will play to between seven and nine hundred thousand people a y$ar, the house being open tho year round. Rice and Gady, late stars of Weber and Field's "Hip, Hip, Hooray," and other New York shows, have been picked to head the opening bill in their laughable Teutonic Tales and Tangled Linguistic Travesties. Others on the program are John Terry and Lambert Mabel, presenting "English Types as Seen Through American Byes"; Willard Hutchinson Hutchin-son and Co., formerly of "Piff-Paff-Pouff," in a clever society comedy entitled "A Leap Year Leap," Mr. Willard Hutchinson playing Geo. Paxton and Rosamond Harrison Daisy Thurlow. John Gei-ger Gei-ger and Nellie Walters will be seen in a musical specialty, "The Streets of Italy' The La Vine-Cimaron Vine-Cimaron Trio, in a travesty on physical culture, entitled "Imagination," Gerard direct from the Trivoll Theatre London and the photoplay, will finish the program. |