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Show I With the Plays, Players and the' j BH I tali Theatre. H "Arizona," tho famous piny in four H uc ts by the celebrated playwright, H Augustus Thomas, the vehicle thnt H carried tho. ioinnntlc actor, Dustfn H r'arnum, to Fame, and which Is now H being revived ljy William A. Bnidy H In New York.-with Mr. Farnuni In the H 1 ading role, is the splendid nttrae- BH Hon offered to Utah theatre player BBJ! al next week There are few indeed BJI who do not Know ur have not heard Hj something about "Arizona" and the Hj announcement thnt it will be prescnt- H ed by the ITtah Stock company will HB lie welcomed by local playgoers. Hfl It is doubtful if any play has been Hj written of the west with more grip- BBl ping power than the Thomns drama. BBJ From the moment of Its production. H through season after season in the BBJ larger cities of tho country and on BH the road It spelled success with a BBJ capital "S," and upon being re- BBJ leased for stock the same good for- Hl tune remained witii it because it is i HH story of irresistible appealing qunlit. BHj Tt will be presented next week under H the direction of ctavin Young, and H will be cast and staged on a scale 9 akin to perfection. m Many new faces will bo seen among H the Utah players next -week. Robert BHj MeKim, the' now lending man, will BJBfl make his first appearance ' with the HH Utah players :ln .the role" of Lteuten- H ant Denton.' the part made famous by Hj Air. Fnrnum. Among other new H ' members of the company are Miss M Neltu Quinn, Uonald Itradbury and BBB vi'ie.sfott Erlekson. B The story of "Arizona" is an unusu- BPJ ally fascinating one. There is not a mM dull line nor an uninteresting sltu- HHj aiiou throughout the play and it will Hj lit HiirpriBing if the record for ai- HBJ tendance at the ITtah is not broken. H Although this powerful play has been M seen liere before, it may be well to give B a brief outline of the story: Bfl Colonel Bonhnm, of tho Eleventh HBJ cavalry, has married Etsrellu, a BBB daughter of Henry Can by, owner of BBB the Aravaipa ranch. Bonita Canby, BBB another daughter, is lu love with Lleu- Hj tenant Denton. Captain Hodgman, BBB who has already betrayed Lena, the BBB beautiful daughter of Sergeant Kel- jBflj lr, partly wins the love of Mrs. Bon- H ham and persuades her to elope with BBS him. A letter from Hodgman to Airs. HfJ Bonham arranging details of their BBB proposed flight is found by Lena and H he gives It to her father. Sergeant HH Kellair in liirn gives the letter to Llcu- B tenant Denton, acquainting him with BBH " the whole miserable plot. Hj As Captain Hodgman is about to VflV flee with Mrs. Bonham, atfer getting H possession of hei jewels, Denton In- M tcrcepts them and threatens to shoot HH Hodgman. This scene takes place in BH the Bonham apartments and Colonel BBH P.onhnm appears outside the locked BBBJ door. Mrs. Bonham pleaus with B9 Denton to sae her and he hides. BBBjt Den-ton Is discoered by Bonham and H .!( used of wrong doing. To save the BBH woman Denton confesses to stealing BBH ' tiie jewels and returns them to the llUTAH THEATRE STOCK GO, II NJMBBapi , fflBBMBBEBoSiflPg J FRXk BVRkl-The BVRkl-The talented character actor who will he een next week as Canby, in "Arizona. ' colonel. Bonham demands the resignation resig-nation of Denton and the latter makes tho sacrifice to protect the wife of his commander. Denton leaves the post and becomes tho manager of Aravalpa ranch and is betrothed to Bonita. Tho regiment regi-ment passes the ranch on Its way to the Spanish war and there Is a mooting moot-ing of Donton and Hodgman and also Kollar, Nona's father. Donton strikes Hodgman to induce him to fight and as they reach for their "six-guns," "six-guns," Tony, A Mexican in love with Lena and who has learned tho truth, slips quietly but quickly Into tho room and shoots Hodgman down. Denton has drawn his weapon and involuntarily fired a shot He is accused ac-cused of tho murder, tried but acquitted ac-quitted when Tony confesses that It was he who shot the scoundrel Hodgman. Hodg-man. Tony escapes. Mrs. Bonham confesses the proposed pro-posed elopmont to Bonita and to her husband. She Is forgiven, Denton is reinstated, and all ends well. Frank Jonassen has been cast for the part of Colonel Bonh&m, a part he has played before. J. Frank Burke Will play the part of the rancher. Henry Canby. Ronald Bradbury has been given the role of Captain Hodgman. Hodg-man. Richard Vivian has another character part, that of Tony, and It goes without saying he will be at his best. Arthur Morse Moon will be seen in the part of Dr. Fenlon. with the cavalry. Sergeant Kellar will be played by Prescott Erlckson, while . Lieutonant Young will bo la the hands of Gavin Young. Sam Wong, a Chinese Chi-nese cook will be portrayed by-Harmon "Weight and Billy Duane. .and,., Claude Howe will play Lieutonant Hallock and Major Cochran respect-t Ivoly. The charming character- of- BonKa- will be in the capable hand sof.Reglnn Connolli. Ida Due will play Estrelln, -Fanehon Everhart the part of Mrs. Canby, Miss Quinn the rolo of Lena, Alice Conrad tho part of tho school teacher. Miss MacCuIlagh. There wjll be the usual Thursday and Saturday matinees. . s . ISnJo.uiu'nt at the ISinprcss. " In tho hot midsummer you want to laugh as much as you ciin. . It is an excellent tonic. And that's one thing you get at the Empress this week especially. The bill Is clean fun from beginning to end, and the tired "man and the worried woman come out renewed In strength, and restored In happiness.- r ,t- - -- - ' - -So that you don't care much whether it is "a man . or a monkey that Is billed In the Nathan trio; nor how Hal Stevens "makes up" for all his famous characters; nor whether the trained mule Pete came from Mis souri or Ogden. You just forget the heat and the work and tho worry ! and feel you ought to stop at tho box j office going out and pay them again. f It is worth more than double the money. jl "Broomstick" Elliott is good by ron- son of his remarkable ability to drag ! music from an instrument Consisting il of only a piece of wire, a'broomstlck I and a cigar box. I ' Sid Vincent and Irene Lome take well with a line of clover talk and a song or two of the comical sort. Vincent's Vin-cent's impersonations of English eha'racfter is better than most. ' i That isn't the whole bill, by any 1 means nor all of tho merit at the , Empress. It is just a suggestion of some of the gloom dispeliers, the joy bringors. Kvelyu Comes Back. Active negotiations are In progress by cable between William Ilnmmer-8teln Ilnmmer-8teln and Evelyn Nesblt Thaw, now appearing in London In "Hullo, Rag time," at the London Hippodrome, for the early appearance of the latter oil the roof at "the cbrner." Miss Ne'blt has contracted -for six weeks at the Hippodrome, with "an option for music mu-sic halls in Vienna, St. Petersburg, i Moscow and Copenhagen, nnd Mr. Hamrherstoin Is seeking to postpone her European dates so that she may return to her native land and play the temple of uplift and art before the roof season has progressed too far. . The cables are -stil ticking- affile details of Evelyn Nesblt's London de but when Mr.TTamhieFstefn"flnshdu"'a"n offer to the young woman. During the last couple of days the exchange of cables has been of the rapid fire order, and a definite announcement as to her appearanco may bo expected at any moment now from the Hammer-. Hammer-. stein press bureau. That Miss Nesblt Is In a receptive mood was revealed in a cabled interview yestbrday, in which she was asked about the possl- bllity of a Now York appearanco, she was quoted as saying: "New York , suroly when I feel that I've put It over, but not until thon." Even though Miss Nesblt herself may. not be wholly convinced of her success, the English pross and public- , seem to have no apprehensions on ' - that score. Absolutely unheralded, Miss Nesblt and her dancing partnar, Jack Clifford, wont on at a matinee performance at the Hippodrome after a week's rehearsal at the Irish club; and performed a turkey trot that matje tho English audience sit up and take notice without recourse to tea stlmu.- lant. The management proved Its appreciation ap-preciation by promptly signing Mlsa Nesblt for a six yooks engagement. Tho last time Evelyn Nesblt was seen on tho stage of a New Ybrlr-.--- theatre was in 1904, when she ap-. ap-. peared in "The Wild Rose." With a return to the theatre Miss Nesblt has Improved her art Immensely, according accord-ing to the London verdict, and It would not surprise some of her close friends Playhouses All of Next Week II If some day she will make good the I declaration made by District Attorney ' Jerome during one of the famous mur- 'der trials that there were four great actresses Sarnh Bernhardt,- Blcanora JDusoMrs.iFisko and Evelyn Nesblt ThaW To her intimates Evelyn, Nes-T)lt Nes-T)lt mis frequently confided " her am-'bltlon am-'bltlon to do some dny -something" really worth while oh the 'age. A Sight tho Audience MIsmmI. 1 There was on Incident In the ward-'robo ward-'robo room of the Brighton Be"ach Music.- Kail last Thursdn. mornln? Kvhloh gave "Doc" Breed, the manager, man-ager, a shock that nearly resulted In nervous prostration. For seeral seasons sea-sons Che' muSlc hall has' employed young girls as ushora, and last season sea-son tlidse girls" averaged Tibout"5 'feet 2 1 Inches 'In height. They weto" fitted witli dainty sailor suits of riavy blue, with white trimming At' the con-clusloh con-clusloh of the season It was found that these suits were in perfectly good order or-der and worth using again this summer. sum-mer. Aboiit'T.wo weeks ago .the head usher engaged her assistants. It so happened that the .girls were a41"f the statuesque" type, 'and when they ctVme f6"" Cry on the 'suits of Inst ytfaf, .which wore put in immaculate oondltion oy a skinful viilblr "the shocking' discovery was' made IhTat the hems of the skirls reached ' ba'rely below the shortest girl's knees. The head usher summoned sum-moned Manager Breed to inspect her new brigade.""" "' "Doc 'entered the wardrobe room, all unsuspecting. "" "Here is our force of usheis, Mr Breed," said the captain. One look was enough. "What the ?" gapped -the. affable monager. He looked as "though about to' suffer an apoplectic stroke. "Ts this a Joke?"" Suffering eatsfYou don't moan to parade those girls before be-fore the patrons of the music hall in such costumes as these, do you?" ' "Thai's up to you, Mi. Breed. They're oiir Inst yoar's suits. Un-fortunatoly Un-fortunatoly the girls we engaged this year are"- blggWjjlrlsnnd "the skirts werent' long enough for them. What are you going to do about It?" "What nin I going to' do. "Syhot as I going to do? Why. I am jJQjng to ha,,e you take the whgpbhjpm- . lug bunch down to the tailor's and have proper clothes made .foryiom. You don't suppose that I'm going, to ig!o a, burlesque show put In the auditorium, audi-torium, do you?" |