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Show I With the Plays, Players and the H Napoloon In comic opera brings to mind all sorts of aueotTmal B every? one of them Is to be jn1l in! B the stnuigo, lto.dge-PQdge, which Is B served up as nh "operatic romance, H inuslc by . HtlnrllcV Reinhardt and B William Frederick Peters, book and BW yrics by Fred do Gresac and William Bb Siry Duncan."." B The Corslcan appears as a figure B orn Jiot.wa.on. love, dlUy. .a .desire to BH e "dramatic,"' and an unholy habit B C bursting forth into raucous and BB romolo song'overy twenty minutes or Bj po. Ho is represented in the time of Bj his Austrian invasion and while mar- BB Mod to Josephineheiwlns the love of BBJ i simple countryjmald, Wanda, who, BBI ,vhen sho, leornsof j his Important BB dentlty, is so owreomo that she Bj -ingsie secprid hctflnnle very bad- BB y. The third act 'discloses a St. BBj -felena .whont-fJelfl,. very well acted H the wheat. ..Peasants sing. An old BB nan philosophizes paiadoxically on H he emptiness of 'earthly glory and H .he greatness of'? Nanoloon. Wanda, H vonderlng. wandersjjn and asks for H fJanoleon. "iUnsTUlinswers the old BBE 'mi, "I fear you come too late." And H ne4F"figmf6r ftU almost eleven m cPfftckVand the aihflonco feels dis- H ripilofitted, tosfly tfie least, when B wtfmto? her tiring outstretched, wan- VAn Aer& off again, -wondering. And ihat. H Opoir'Trny so-iiV Is tlvogls't of the plot H of "l1he Purple Roa(Y," New York's H me'Mng: "plav esfept for a weird BBh paluce tonpiracv engineered against BBB NapoTo'oh by Fbnclu Talleyrand, and BBl hv choi us men who think deeply BBB jNot v'n iota of fuu'reliees the dead- BBB h-rftotftony of the book, e-vcept when H S 4nrnl?liiffeomuaian'falls downstairs BBJ ami latei 'oh somerHAults out of a Bb wITijfji Atnn: NieV one say more'' BBh TherfifflogHiVand lyros of "The Pur- B Pje 'Rea' rcprese'nt the acme of Bh lutthinf-ness .Scenloalh. the pro- B 3?uictf5flmBes'no,,pttlmt.tn make his Of-H Of-H ' ttylUfJtttDicUli' UonJl in the second m f f'V!wletiCt4laii.'unnlcAiJ amends to the B tyo&li't WJtnJt the ojhu does not roceive. H TJlw iaidfltflflC. the Reinhardt-Peters H wortoshiftUitirJsee.iUwife the common- HBh place at any stnge of the proceedings BBflj jnd when It ai rests attention suc- BBB iceds onl in fixing the mind on fclm- BBH KuiUieH of .phrase or Sequence which BBBj suggest better number in otlier comic Vfl operar. BBB Uauison Uiock)ank maks a BBH thoroughly unconxinctng figure of BBB Napoleon and sing without polish or B authority: "Edward Ma-rtlndel plays m three roles and tluke a ts stiffly und BBB vocalizes with bad method. Harold BBB H Forde i a sad comedian and Valli H Ya.Ul shows no justification for her BB Wanda assignment. She possesses a HB cold manner and a xoice that lacks BBB fry, pnthj Ea Fallon, a cumber- BBB home and colorless ingenue, fails to flj i.ed0em -tlrose faults with her singing H nd awkwaid dancing. Han let Burt's BJBB Kemendously serious pas beul is llt- HAV ,tle less than lnughable (n th face of ra tue i-fcal terptiichorean detnoiistrution bBBe BYflffak-JL BBBWBBVBHnBWlBBBM RaMnoiul Hiichcock. Flora Zabelle and tjrace Richmond, coming to the Salt Lake theater next week in "THE RED WIDOW." which Emilie Lea ghef with fetching abandon and remarkable graoe of body and limb. Janet Beecher wears a white gown and expresses pain with her eyebrows. Why William J. Ferguson Fer-guson as Fouche makes himself look like a goat, is a mjsteiy as impenetrable impen-etrable as the plot of "The Purple Koad." The Aisie Seat. . Announcement of a new theatrical pompany was made this week which will Insure fifty-one weeks of stock performances attlje' qlonlal (.thqfr'ter Muring the comffij season, opening about August one. The time will be occupied by three separate companies, which will play the house in rotation, Hugh VftMfrilPfofcfllftVfiJilfiSfiP iVIkf- nThfti companies will be headed by William J. Kelly, who has been at the Colonial Colo-nial dining the season just dosing. Miss Edith L,le will be Mr. Kelly's 1c idlng woman A second "company will have Wlllard Mack and Mnrjorie Rambeau at its head, and a thiid will ha e Sidney Ayers and Maude Leone in the leading roles. The companies will play the Colonial theatre in this city, the Tabor Grand in Denver, Colo.; and the Moore theatre in Seattle. At the end of each seventeen-week prlotl ,,'the' CblonlsT tfompftnj will go tff Don-J vr, tho Sffiltle conf ptny will comd here and the Denver company -will nerve to' Seattle. The final details fotf the general management and the con- 4xao. JauvUuj. .atoms Jma, Ueen,,awn.-1 pleted. Acceptances haw been ro-celved ro-celved fiom all the leading playora for each of the companies. John Cort of Now York, Herman Auerbach of this city, William J. Kelly and E. J. Kelly will be in control of the now organization. or-ganization. - I A contract has been closed wltli Now York managers for a series of stock plays. The Colonial thoatro in. this city will bo closed about July 15 for the purpose of cleaning and renovating reno-vating and will reopen the first woeE in August. Just which of tho three organizations will appear first in this city is as yet undecided. ' "Th s Confession," by James Jlal-IqcJc, Jlal-IqcJc, ReJO, as preseiitqa by William J. PMptetises 'All of Next Week 1 Ivelly and his. company next week nt the, Colonial; 'dares to 'tell He truth, and inf Usj, filing; milurls n. ilramatlc ritory ,pf-pffivyeiv strengflr antl 'literary jne Ital'ieTClohf.e:&lrp vfisesln ' Its 'r the m Vl subJejVPTcst's duty to hid' qhurcht'yersutf his 'duty, to the . .- stale -n'itict, tt'isa story that jruns the gamift "of ovcry 5iumarf emotion, and yln-fivlicdjj?iianujjgrli)t there ., Is po'tva line that would offond the mostSonsltlvij.u.-N'cy in.or.e- 'yo.rblng tragedy. 'h"a5 over he.en, eonvelvd, no . grdator. 'pictuVo'Varid . .esQij .qv.er pre-seij pre-seij ted.,lThV epcH'oH iCfir Isyanity providos'irtaiorlnl &u,allSf ,un",V usual Interest, unllka. aijylng-.else e4r produced.. ".TheVCo'nfesldOni'.will llvl, for Hs theme and purpose Is too grfcat to die Mr.-toeld-isfirmin his belief that a much ajused. public will wejlcopre a play with- real. life. Interest, not depending. ,UpojirthMewtVrtho sen-, , mjionnj .ad thoyuJgr-Xor Its success, suc-cess, but rather.upon'"the. truth, which hofc always beensTrongorthan" fiction. Mr. Kolly will bo seen as the priest and Mr. Burke ami Mr.VVlvlan will, bej in the cast, so Uiat a good performance per-formance Is ussurddJ I " -N 1h ''! f 's The high standardcset by the Or-pheum Or-pheum rrai'riagcStfe'nt InNveokly' attrac-tldnsMvl attrac-tldnsMvl lLrfciadt-iuftde jjrti'tyre Irom the . rujo In the savon acts which will make ip next week's, bill. TJie Fohr.Hunt-ings Fohr.Hunt-ings hVadlffte'rtffe infTT" To' bo nccu-" rate it should" bo sfi?d" there are not four ITuiUingj, .as thy Include Harry Har-ry S.' Fern,. But' the others are Lou, lUollic and John Hu'ntlng. Their act Is called the -"JTrlmnfer Trimmed," and Is tilled with musical numbers, eccentric eccen-tric dancing and laughable situations. Comed-jk unstinted wlll "result In the act to -be .offered, by Bedlnl and Arthur. Ar-thur. ' Jean Bedlnl specializes in juggling jug-gling various breakable articles, while his partnovRox;ArJLl,ur,. in black-face, furnishes the fun in njttonipttng to do the difficult tricks performed by Bedlnl. Be-dlnl. Th6rels ti'uo genius In the work, of David 'Schooler 'and Louise Dickinson. Dickin-son. Master Schooler is known over the circuit .aa-.'-The Boy IPjuloreAVsW." That he is a remarkable pianist cannot can-not bo gainsaid. His technique is perfect per-fect and hlu expression and touch brilliant. bril-liant. Miss: Dickinson is a. charming I little miss with a beautiful--soprano voice, anfl has been termed "the juvenile ju-venile Mary Garden." A clever team of accomplished violin and' harp- aT--tists is that of Guorro and MllOr Carmen, Car-men, who made a triumphant tour of Europe and who have added to their laurels since" coming to this country.' Another funmaker on the bill l8Ired" M. Griffith, "The Tricky Monolo-glst," Monolo-glst," and his nimble fingers and rapid-fir chatter will keep audiences roaring with laughter. - Gracer and skill marlotha work of La Grandall," a pretty- and vivacious young woman, whose work on the wire and her acrobatic acro-batic dances are said to be a rovela--tlon.- Lillian English and May O'Brien will be heard In on. Their reper- Molly Hunting, at the ( irq.lu-uni t Y cck . toiie consist of. real songs, the kind,, that neer fa.ll to appeal, especially to those who care little or' nothing for ragtime and frothy music? The Edl-son Edl-son talking motion pictures will be seen and heard again In a program , thaJ3Y,lH i5. wpr.th. while. .A fine musical mu-sical program by tho Orptieum orchestra or-chestra will also bo among tho featured. i The ending of play Is the novel 'JJhe Ued Widow," which wljl bo re- " ealed at the Salt La ke"' theatre for tlucc night t- and r.-atinee, opening neXt Thursday It is the -work of Reynold Wolf and Clttthnlng Pol- . L lock, who have built forltftymond - Hitchcock out' of- unusual- situations clovjiMly. handled Jlnqs that llngor In ' (Continued on Page 14.) i . H PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Hj (Continued from Pago 9.) H the memory of the fortunate lndivld- B nn Is blessed with a sense of humor, H and Russian scenes and Incidents with H a strong Broadway atmosphere. The M curtain rises on the first act of "Tho H Hod Widow" just as the curtain on m tho stago falls. m Tho audlonce that is paid to ap- H plaud the mimle players faces the au- Hj dienco that has paid to see them, and, H just as the real audience will do three B hours later, :he actor theatre-goers B mingle the V mining and whistling of H the most tuneful air of the play they B aro supposed to have seen, although H they haven't, with ail kinds of opln- H ions of the piece. H That the authors know Broadway H audiences and the motley mixture that B compose them Is shown by the char- H ) acters they have creatod, which really HT are only memories of many Broadway H audiences of which thoy thcmsolves H have been a part. There is tho man Hj who says the piece is tho best he over H saw; his neighbor, who undoubtedly H went in on a pass, and so, of course, H pronounces it "rotten." There is the Hj husband of the star, who modestly fl proclaims himself the best she ever H "had. Tho society debutante, the B manager of the theatre, who tolls tho fl man whose seat wan behind a post to H! "blame the architect." Then "there "i is tho music boy, the carriage an-m an-m , nouncer and the lady ushers, who H . . suggest that they are more familiar H -with life on the other side of the H . footlights. And after all these and H . - many more have said the! rlittle say Hj '"-- and .gone, there comes tho star of tho Hl evening, Raymond Hitchcock. It is - H Hitchcock of old, the drollest fun- H creator of modern times. H ..- ' f .- ,, T ): H i ' The Romany .Grand -Opora company H ' is the headllrfo feature of the big all- H star bill at the Empress. Tho nine H " '""' grand "opera singers comprising, the Hj company prostlht ".La Festa DitMezz's WM Gosto," in whicht classical and.pop"u- Ifl v lar selections are entwined. The sing- H I , era are under ithe leadership of Alex- ! antler Bevan, (basso. - o f William Hulllday and. Robort Carlin, comedianSIH,jnnibviUe for tho first H time-, are seen- in "The Battle of Bay H Rum," as tho extra added attraction. H Rita Redfiold is rf clever and dainty H porformor j)fJuvonMo impersonations, B ! arlven in the most realistic and dollght-H dollght-H , ful mannor. Two girls that have eyo- M ated a furore in vaudeville by reason H of their unusual talents and exquisite M beauty are Alberta Mooro- and Myrtle H Young. These alluring misses aro H among the foremost singing and m I dancing artists in vaudeville. Snda Ht Wander apd George Stone offer a HI protty little sketch called "The Beauty PS I Shop." This captivating boy and girl Hnj have given to vaudeville that much Hh desired and brilliant entertainment Di I demanded by theuter-goers of today. Bi Trick bicycle tiding is a novelty and j : one that neier tires This week the B bill provides two of tho beat to be H i ound In vaudeville in the persons of Hi lltConnoll and Austin. The usual I ' Gaumont animated review is more interesting in-teresting than over before and provides pro-vides a serlos of interesting pictuie studies. |