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Show AMUSEMENTS. "The Vanderbilt Cup." Sandwiched in between earlier forms of speech, comes the newestand latest form of human expression, the gasoline language, and in these days and times to acknowledge an unfamiliarity with it is to argue oneself woefully behind and non-progressive. "The Vanderbilt Cup." the great, automobile au-tomobile musical comedy, which comes ' to the Salt Luke theatre all next week, is said to be a liberal education in "motorism." I is a play built entire- : ly upon motor cars and the "swell mob" who at present almost live in their magnificent touring cars. The plot hinges upon the great race on Long Island for the cup presented by W. K. Vanderbilt, jr.. and brings in many delightful resorts in and about New York. One scene takes place in the famous women's hotel, the Mar-jorie Mar-jorie Wellington, where, save for the clerk, none but women are admitted or employed. j The stage settings are said to be magnificent, and the dancing very novel. Among the new song hits are I "My Houseboat Beau," "My Little j Chauffeur," "Somewhere in the f World" and "The Light That Lies in S Girlish Eyes." I The great sensation the cup race I is the most talked of effect in the the- atrical world. Two ninety-horse power racing cars are driven at high speed r across the stage, to the accompaniment of detonations, smashing exhausts, and all the dust and noise and excitement which marks a real race. The same munificence of scenic equipment which marked the New York and Chicago runs is promised for the presentation here. The cast numbers seventy-five peo- ', pie, nearly all of whom were in the p original production. . While in St. Paul, Madame Gadski, who is to be heard here Monday, Oct. 7, performed a gracious act which gives a glimpse of the true woman be- j hind the artist. Chancing to hear of ., the sisters of St. Agatha, who, under vows of perpetual poverty, devote jj their lives to the interests of music, she announced her intention of going )t to sing for them. Instead of ordering r a carriage, the prima donna set forth J on foot, taking her little daughter Lot- ta and her own accompanist. In glo- . rious form, she rendered the prayer of Wagner's sainted Elizabeth, a selec- P tion in itself a compliment to her au- r dlence, whose sympathies it immediate- P ly touched. It was music that the sis- E ters could appreciate even more fully L; than the singer herself. Two other songs Gadski gave them, and then a 3 warm good-by the prima donna to re- f. turn to the world, the nuns to their duty, each happier for the few mo- p ments in which their lives had inter- mingled. Gadski's local welcome will be a r- warm one. Her fame as one of the E foremost sopranos touring America in L) concert makes her coming an event of t far more than ordinary significance. 5 Her tour, under Loudon Charlton's di- f: rection, is proving an unprecedented g success. K |