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Show The Drama and Music SPEAKING of eating, here we have William Marron deploring the lamentable fact that his part in The Country Boy requires him to stow away a real meal at each performance. Give heed to Mr. Marron's plaint: "I have really to eat the entire time I am on in the second act," saya he. "I can't fake, because the audience gets wise. As we play eight performance's perform-ance's a week, I eat eight extra meals, making twenty-nine meals a week." Why would it not be feasible to elim. lnate one or two regular 'meals to make way for the stage diet? There are hosts of people who wouldn't rebel very strenuously against Mr. Marron's a3Bignment. Besides, ho might wax so averse to eating that eventually the stomach would never yearn for nutrition nutri-tion and this should prove to be a great blessing. Several players who, to my knowledge, possessed normally excellent appetites, had to eat roast turkey with cranberry sauce eight times a week in Shore Acres and got so tired of these delectable dainties after two long seasons that the mere mention of such has made them deathly death-ly sick ever since. No opportunity has appeared for me to become similarly similar-ly satiated, but I am game. Maclyn Arbucklo In Klaw and Er-langer's Er-langer's massive production of Edmund Ed-mund Day's American drama, "The Round-Up" will be presented at the I Salt Lake theatre five nights begin- I ning Tuesday next. "The Round-Up" is the great American play of tho hour. Every character and scene in the piece breathes the life of the great southwest. The enthusiastic Interest displayed by overy audience is tho most flattering endorsement this real-ly real-ly great production can receive. The battle scene in the third act is a stupendous stage effect, the like of which has never been seen before. The appearance of twenty mounted Indians riding along a ledge of rock far above the stage level Is a thrill indeed, but it is far surpassed in the great incident at tho end of the third act, when "Slim" Hoover, the sheriff, and a troop of cavalrymen are shown In an actual hand-to-hand fight with a band of Apache Indian marauders escaped from their reservation. In the last act a group of cowboys are shown riding bucking bronchos. The cast includes Maclyn Arbuckle, Elmer Grandin, Ogden Crane, William Conk-Hn, Conk-Hn, Gus Christie, Robert Vaughan, Harry Cowan, George Harcourt, Jas-ques Jas-ques Martin, Vernon Wallace James ABburn,. Edward F. Settle, Texas Cooper, Charles Aldridge, Grace Ben-ham, Ben-ham, Ethel von Waldron, and Mattle Edwards. There will be an auxiliary organization of 150 people, including soldiers, "cow-punchers," Mexican vaquoros, Arizona girls, Apache Indians In-dians and 20 horses. All Bigns point to there being another an-other winning bill at tho Orpheum for tho week commencing Sunday afternoon. aft-ernoon. Topping tho aggregation of entertainers are an extremely popular team of society people who are prime favorities in London wnere tne names of Burr and Hope have a big following. follow-ing. These two combine splendid singing with good clean comedy. Chick Sale, tho clever protean entertainer, is listed second on the new bill. He offers a decidedly novel conception in "A Country School Entertainment." A clever comedy, well and briskly presented pre-sented is "A Chip of the Old Block," played by William H. St. James and his players. It is a story of a son who follows in his father's footsteps. Tho human form divine will be featured in Vision d'Art, Jesse Lasky's most recent novelty in which Fleurette assumes as-sumes various classic poses. Martin Johnson's Wonderful South Sea Islands Is-lands Travelogue is intensely interesting inter-esting and instructive. The blase vaudeville patron who deems juggling passe will sit up and take notice when Kathi Gultini takes the stage. One of the most daring of trapeze performers perform-ers is La Vier whose aerial feats border bord-er on the sensational. His routine is quick and snappy but at the same time neat, and accomplished with apparent ap-parent ease. The above bill coupled with some interesting pictures of current cur-rent events, and some new music by the concert orchestra, should be a winner. m The Mack-Rambeau " players at the Colonial will present next week "The Man From Home," which is by long odds the happiest of American comedies come-dies and a play that will be particularly particu-larly suited to this excellent company!. com-pany!. The story is refreshing, to say the leaBt. It shows in a powerful way the true character of continental society and the real worth of foreign titles. Mr. Mack will take the part created and made famous by William Hodge and Miss Rambeau will assume the role of the captivating American girl, while the other Important parts will be divided among the favorites of the company. ,The story, by Booth Tarkington, deals with an Indiana lawyer who goes abroad to find his ward whom he has not seen for years and to settle an estate with her. He finds her quite hopelessly snobbish, surrounded by her European acquaintances, and it is after a great deal of difficulty that ho prevents her from marrying a title. How he does it and then marrieB her himself, makes a very in-tereBting in-tereBting story. The usual matinees will be given throughout the week. It has been many weeks since the Empress offered a more attractive array ar-ray of beauty and talent on its stage than this week graces the footlights at that house. From the time Voroni Verdi tops the musical end of the bill with her violin playing and Jean De Lisle and Sarah Vernon sing and caper ca-per to some new and pretty tunes, the program is filled with musical hits and comedy successes. Miss Verdi and her brother are splendid musicians musi-cians and De Lisle and Vernon make the biggest sort of a hit. Hugo Lut-gens, Lut-gens, the Swedish dialect comedian, has a monologue that is one long Bcream and John White's comedy circus, cir-cus, introducing his trained dogs and ponies and greyhounds form a treat for both big and little folks. Constance Con-stance Windon and company have an interesting playlet entitled "An Up-to-date Invention," and the headliner for the week, the three Travllla brothers broth-ers and their trained seal, close the bill. Coming up next Wednesday is the great pantomime farce, "La Petite Pe-tite Gosse," presented by a company of fourteen French pantomime artists. The program also includes Curry and Riley in songs pnd piano selections; Leona Guerney, the Siberian song bird; Sutherland and Bartling in a new sketch; the Sombreros in a juggling jug-gling act and Billy Rogers in a talking talk-ing stunt. William Seymour has contributed a letter to the New York Times giving an interesting letter quoting an article in the New York Mirror of Feb. 2, 1828, which remarked: "Wo believe it i3 now pretty generally conceded that New York cannot adequately support sup-port four theatres." Richard Carle is now interpolating songs of his own in The Girl from Mentmartre. |