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Show AMUSEMENTS. Salt Lake Theatre. In these days of expensive productions produc-tions and extravagances in stage dressing, dress-ing, it will be a delight to Salt Lakers to see "The Royal Chef," which comes to the Salt Lake theatre Monday night, is said to be the costliest made by any manager this season, and cost the management over $25,000, and when it is seen here these figures will not be doubted. This management is noted for its expensive productions, never sparing a dollar In dress and settings. In "The Royal Chef" there are twenty-four twenty-four different sets of costumes which are used by the chorus. These are all made of real silks and velvets. The society dresses which the show girls wear were imported from Paris,. while the dresses of the principals are all models of the latest gowns by Paquin. The court costumes in the production are copies of robes worn by royalty. "The Royal Chef" will run half the week. -f Louis James will offer the following repertoire at the Salt Lake theatre next week: Thursday evening, . "The Merry Wives of Windsor;" Friday and Saturday Sat-urday night, "The Comedy of Errors:" Saturday matinee, "The Merchant of Venice." As "the best prophet of the future is a glimpse of the past." the mere announcement an-nouncement that Louis James is heralded her-alded as one of the early attractions here assures theatre-goers of a genuine dramatic treat, for upon all occasions Mr. James' name has been coupled with only the very best contributions gleaned from the harvest of the world's greatest dramatists. This season Mr; James will devote his entire repertoire to Shakesperian comedy, presenting "The Comedy of Errors," in which he will impersonate for the first time upon the stage the dual role of "The Two Dromios." He will also appear as Fal-staff Fal-staff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Wind-sor," a character that was proclaimed last season as one worthy to be associated asso-ciated with the - Hamlet of Edwin Booth or the Rip Van Winkle of Joseph Jo-seph Jefferson. He also states that upon special occasions he will play Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice." His supporting company is said to be especially capable, including as it does such clever players as Frederick Paulding, Paul-ding, Aphie James, J. Arthur Young, W. Chrystie Millar, W. C. Andrews, Frank Peters, Horace Lyndon, C. D. Burt, Kraft Walton, Anna Schaefer, Eugenia Webb. Ida Werner, Effie Weston, Wes-ton, etc. The productions will be up to the usual standard of Mr. James' former for-mer efforts, an assurance that nothing will be lacking in that particular. 9k It Isn't every night that you can pack yourself into a theatre and draw a deep, long breath of the big outdoors. out-doors. But such an experience awaits those who -will go to see "Salomy Jane" at the Salt Lake theatre soon. The play is as big and free as the breezes that sweep through the great California redwoods, where the action transpires. The players have been selected se-lected because of their western associations, asso-ciations, as can be seen from scanning the names of Jessie Izett, A. S. Lip-man. Lip-man. Daniel Gilfeather, King Baggott, Spottsford Aiken, H. S. Salter, William C. Nugent, Burr Caruth, T. C. Hamilton, Hamil-ton, Queenie Phillips, Gordon Morrison and Viola Savoy. |