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Show K 147tfz ?e First Nighters K If the opinion of jaded New York and Boston Hr counts for anything and advance reports may bo H) credited an exceptionally worthy attraction is B promised tho patrons of Salt Lake theatre on 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday when 'My Best B Girl" an American made musical comedy, with B' Victor Morloy tho ominont comedian in tho prin- B cipal role, plays 'what pr- -nises to be a notable B' engagement and at dollar prices. Bl Mr. Morloy is so well and favorably known B that it is hardly to be believed that ho would be B seen with anything but a fine attraction, and B his supporting company includes many well Bh known players all of whom have been identified B with only tho best. B; Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf wrote B tho book and lyrics of 'My Best Girl" and Clif- J ton Crawford and Augustus Barratt composed the Bt music. Tho work is a military farce with a mu- B slcal setting. The second act of "My Best Girl" K. is a pleasing travesty on army lifo and is said to M develop into one long laugh. The piece, in fact B has been constructed for this purpose despite the B fact that a pretty little three-cornered love story B runs throughout tho work. Br There are twenty musical numbers in the B piece. It is thought "My Best Girl" with Victor 1 Morley may be relied upon as one of the most m important musical comedy booking of tho season. H FORBES-ROBERTSON'S FAREWELL B' We are soon to lose one of the foremost B and one of tho most justly famous actors of the Br; English stage. Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson, Kf who makes his farewell appearance in Salt ike v City at the Salt Lake theatre the three nights H commencing Thursday, December 3, with a mat- M ineo Saturday afternoon, does not intend to come B back to the boards. lie is, if you count years, H almost sixty-two and he has been on the stage B forty of them. He would rather leave us hungry K than satiated; hear us grumbling at his retire- m ment than regretting his lost powers. And, though m he still keeps the austere, noble beauty of his Hj face, though his figure is as slim, erect and grace- fl ful as ever, and his voice still able to touch H chords which no other voice can touch, he has, B no doubt, had enough of the racket of the stage. H During his Salt Lake engagement, Forbes-Rob- M ertson will be seen in three distinctly different B plays. "Tha Light that Failed" will be played M for the first time in Salt Lake on Thursday and H Friday nights. This is a dramatization of Rud- H yard Kipling's novel of the same title and is said VfB to be one of Forbes-Robertson's most powerful PAH roles, "Hamlet," in which Sir Johnston has won H universal fame as the greatest Hamlet since the H time of Edwin Booth, will be presented at the H matinee Saturday afternoon, commencing at 2 vB o'clock sharp. "Passing of the Third Floor Back," yjyZj in which the famous actor was last seen in Salt Jyj Lake, will be played on Saturday night. Support- H ing Forbes-Robertson Is his entire London com- VfBj pany of fifty players including Miss Laura Cowie, VfBj who is reputed of being one of the most beautiful PJB and most talented actresses on the English stage. BBI Forbes-Robertson carries his complete produc- BB tions "which require six cars. ftfl M ORPHEUM. BB s A fairly good bill is being presented at the H Qrpheum which includes some exceptionally good H acts and one at least which should have no place M ( on any vaudeville bill. Tho latter is "Made Good," H described as Mr. Hall's protean oddity and played by Billy "Swede" Hall and Jennie Col-born. Col-born. It is not entertaining, it is vulgar and coarso, as a protean performer Hall is an object of pity, and how tho two of them ever convinced a booking agent that they could act is one of those mysteries that too frequently occur in vaudeville. vau-deville. In "Wives of the Rich'' 'Mr. Gillingwater has used "The Mummy and the Hummingbird" stufE in a new setting, this time acting a dream he has had while his neglected wife is at the opera with artistic friends, and finishing with a form ot comedy that destroys what might otherwise have been one of tho most intensely interesting and thri ling little episodes staged in vaudeville. Lou Lockett and Jack Waldron open tho bill with some soft shoo dancing and other unique Terp-sichorean Terp-sichorean stunts in eccentric make-up. They are followed by Bert Kalmar and Jessie Brown whose dances are better than their songs, though they do not compare with many dancers seen here this season. Mr. Kalmar's rework however how-ever Is of a very high order. Joe ana Lew Cooper are making a great hit at every performance with their popular songs, as is Al Canfield with his parodies assisted by Herbert Ashley. The five Metzettis complete the performai ce with a thrilling thril-ling exhibition, the feature of which is the remarkable re-markable work of Sylvester Metzetti, whose som-orsau'ts som-orsau'ts In midair are most sensational. EMPRESS Kitty Francis and her seventeen New York show girls head a rotten bill at the Empress this week. Besides Kitty Francis and her company in "Mrs. O'Malley's Reception," the other acts on the present program are Billy Montrose and Blossom Blos-som Sardell, in songs, dances, bicycle riding, and acrobatic feats; Calte brothers in their vaudeville singing and dancing novelty; Wilson and Wilson, colored comedians, who present the musical sketch entitled "The Bandman and His Band;" Jessie Morris and Jack Beasley in "The Manicure Shop," and Odonne, the accordionist. |