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Show The Drama and Music MR, PYPER, of the Salt Lake, Mr. Garrett, of the Orpheum, Mr. McCoy, of the Empress, and Messrs. Ketchu'm and Sutton of the Colonial -will now devote their attention to a new season of theatrical theatri-cal work, syndicating their individual sterngth and pooling their interests againBt the play-going public for the purpose of coaxing therefrom the shekels that escape the coal man or the gas man or those that otherwise drift away from the box office. For 1 the season of the theatre 1b about to open in full blast and Salt Lake will f see this winter a play procession , that will tax the amusement popula tion and drain the appropriation set aside for the usual two on the als.le. The Colonial and Salt Lake will not be in competition as they were last season and some seasons before. At the Colonial Mack and company bid fair -to play to good houses all through the season, while Mr. Cort has joined interests with the owners of the Salt Lake and will send most of his road companies to that house instead of to the Colonial, his own. It is likely that later in the season the cheaper traveling shows will appear ap-pear at the old Orpheum or the Gar-rick. Gar-rick. Again, Mr. Garrett may turn the old Orpheum into a stock house, thereby competing with Mr. Mack and his company. The new Orpheum .will be opened during the winter and the Beck entertainers will be seen over there. At the Empress, Mr. McCoy Mc-Coy will continue to dispsense all the year round the best there Is on the Sullivan and Considine circuit. The arrangement at the Salt Lake theatre will be welcomed by the playgoing public and it wi.l profit the bouse, no doubt, by reason of the fact that a killing competition has been dispensed with in the interest ol both. Starting next week some of i the best shows on the road will be ' seen here. Plays that have been the talk of little old Now York for a i couple of seasons will And their way to the house that B. Young built. I A remarkable change has come over the theatre situation in the last five years, a change that has completely com-pletely altered the amusement map i and enlarged it. New theatres have - been built, now booking arrangements made and with the springing-up of the many 'motion picture houses there is always a moment when the vistlor or the home guard has a long list of attractions of the highest order to ohooso from. Vaudeville in the winter win-ter has been lengthened into an all-year all-year season, and with only one high-class high-class house playing the regular season sea-son starts earlier and lasts longer. Martin Beck's latest acquisition to the ranks of advanced vaudeville will top next week's bill at the Orpheum. This astute manager heard the famous fam-ous Mountain Ash Choir of Wales, Groat Britain, sing in San Francisco recently and then he gathered them 1 in. These eighteen soloists, winners of first prizes in several National Eisteddfods, are now touring the circuit cir-cuit and are creating a furore wherever wher-ever they appear. The program they render is a popular one that shows to advantage the wonderful work they do under the direction of their leaaer, T. Glyndwr Richards. Three soloists solo-ists are also on tho program, Gwilym Taff and Harry Lewis, tenors, ana Godfrey Price, basso. By request ot the local Welsh organizations, Monday Mon-day night will be Welsh night when the Cambrians propose to attend in a body and give their fellow countrymen country-men tho "glad hand." Listed second (first elsewhere on the circuit) comes clever May Tully and her company, presenting "The Battle Cry of Freedom," a satire on Reno divorces. Three chic, pretty and shapely girls are the O'Meer Sisters Sis-ters who sing and cavort on a wire. Bobbe and Dale present one of those comedy singing and patter acts which invariably bring down the house. In "The Chambermaid and The Bell Bell Hop," Tommy Kelly and Mamie Lafferty have a catchy vehicle carrying carry-ing new songs, a line of clever rapid fire patter and a real dancing novelty. Harry Atkinson,- "The Australian Orpheus," imitates reed, string and brass instruments and is a veritable human orchestra. Honors and Le Prince, a tc?am pf French acrobats, are new to America. Many of the feats they perform are exceptional. The Animated Weekly, and some new music by the concert orchestra round out the bill. With" a successful run in New York, ai3 a guarantee of its entertaining qualities, qual-ities, "The Spoilers," the most intense, in-tense, the most human, the most absorbing ab-sorbing of dramas put upon the stage in years, will be presented by the WI1-lard WI1-lard Mack-Marjorie Rambeau play ers at the Colonial theatre commencing commenc-ing Sunday. The success of "The Spoilers" has been remarkable. The world-wide Interest shown, in this play is due to the boldness of its story and its fascinating characteristics. The story of the play Is simple enough in story, but compelling in Interest and wonderfully human. The story is that of two miners, Roy Glentoster and Joe Daxton, who own the Midas, one of the richest mines In Alaska. They took passage on board the steamer Santa Maria, bound for the rich diggings. dig-gings. On board Glenister, tne Hero, meets Helen Chester, the niece of Judge Stlllman. She has in her possession pos-session a letter of great importance, from eastern swindlers, who created a gigantic plot to rob the miners of their hard-earned diggings. When Glenister Glenis-ter arrives In Dawson, he meets Mac-Namara, Mac-Namara, the aroh conspirator, wno is infatuated with Helen. MacNamara realizes' that ( lenlster means a fight to a finish, ana the famous dance hall scene In (the third act depicts a fierce and intensely interesting battle. The last act shows the Midas in mid-winter, where Glenister retains his rights to the mine, and all ends well. Mr. Mack has the role of Glenister while l '1IHWJ ..l"ilJ"" W 'M I'll K "1 Miss Ramboau plays the Interesting role of Helen Chester. Struvo will be portrayed by Mr. Vivian, while Mr. Taylor will play the brother to Helen Chester. Cherry Malletto will bo in the hands of Rosa Boma, and MacNamara will be played by Mr. Burke. Regular Regu-lar matinees will be given on Thursday Thurs-day and Saturday. A bill thp is filled to its brim with the good tl 'igs of vaudeville is not an unusual event by any means at the Empress. But this week the program at the Sullivan-Consldino house is rich with a line of variety offerings that is certain to please every class of playgoers. play-goers. The Krags trio of European gymnasts are among the best performers perform-ers ever seen here; Irene and Bobbie Smith prove to be two clever and pretty girls whose singing and dancing danc-ing is worked out along new lines; Allen Dinehart and Anna Heritage have the cleverest sort of a sketch in Gertrude Dean Ford's playlet, "The Two Rubles;" Herbert Brooks Is well worthy of his title of "The Problematist Problema-tist Supreme," and Jiis trunk mystery and card tricks are very clever. John T. Murry Is a delightfully funny comedian com-edian and Harry Hayward and company com-pany In "The Firefly" have a laughable laugh-able sketch. For the bill that opens Wednesday afternoon of next week at the Empress, Manager McCoy announces an-nounces Billle Burke's new sketch, "The New Scholar" as the headllner, followed by Victor Nlblo and his talking talk-ing birds; Elizabeth Kennedy and Anna M. Berlein in "Darby and Joan;" Princeton and Yale in a study in slang; the Linden sisters, singers and dances, and Bert Cutler, tho Yankee Yan-kee billiardist. Arthur Bourchier intends to send out two touring companies in England to play Find the Woman, the British adaptation of The Third Degree. He will offer The Havoc at special matinees mati-nees at his London theatre beginning in September. Donald Brian's second season In The Siren will open next month, Julia Sanderson again appearing as his leading woman. In December Mr. Brian will be seen in a new musical comedy, The Marriage Market, while Miss Sanderson will make her stellar how in Tho Sunshine Girl. Mrs. Christian Hemmick, of Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, will stage her pantomime panto-mime and dance. The Enchanted Stream, in the grove of the Building of Arts, Bar Harbor, Me., on August 19, the parts being allotted to members mem-bers of the Summer colony at the resort. |