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Show AMUSEMENTS. "The Umpire," which comes to the Salt Lake theatre on .Thursday. Friday and Saturday next, is'jf the new school of musical comedy, which is to say-that say-that instead of the usual bibulous old king of a mythical island played by the usual dialect comedian, its principal person is a highly human baseball umpire, um-pire, and its story is a modern recital of the humorous adventures that might befall him. The authors have succeeded succeed-ed in blending a dramatic plot with a rich mixture of fun and music and girls, so that on" may bo interested in the outcome of the tale while being diverted with pretty tunes, pretty women wo-men and comedy. The play, it will be recalled, broke all the Chicago amusement amuse-ment r cor Is. having boon presented there nearly a year, or to be exact. :;:0 times. The cast which Manager Askin ! will submit here includes Fred Mace, j Harry Hanlon. Edith Yorrington, Guel-ma Guel-ma Baker, Helene Salinger. Bradlee ! Martin. Katherine Bunn. George Dam-! erol and a dozen others, to sav nothing i of a piizc-beauty chorus of sixtv. I In cities where the opera has aheadv I been sung, society seems more deeply! impressed with tl fascinating music! and story of Puccini's exquisite "Mad- j am Butterfly" than with any opera or drama that lias come to them for manv I moons. There is Hie fragrance of th-1 flowers . about the little Butterfly that j gives pretty thrills to the gossip in all clubdom and social circles. The coming of this beautiful work promises to contribute a daintv hit of eclat in various ways. In addition to the Butterfly teas and dinner parties that are being planned, the art publishers pub-lishers are springing "Butterfly" novelties nov-elties as souvenirs. One of the latest graceful tribute;-; to the little Japanese lady who sits under the wistaria and sweet-scented cherry blossoms, gazing so wistfully out over the ocmi for the husband that is never to return to her, lis an ornamental butterfly made in' Japanese gold and filigree silver. Other! beautiful conceits arc buttorllv hat1 I pins and a '-Butterfly" handkerchief j made of the filmiest Japanese crepe I that finds plenty of -use drying the tears j the pathetic story of the ooera evokes! from the eyes. The east is already ad- I vertising butterfly ties and waists audi gloves and perfumes from the enter-! prising shopmen who are idp e to the value which the sensational suecess of the oK-ra always gives to novelties of this kind. |