Show 11 ir that glorious period when smarting under the pricking r ck ing 0 ol 01 f 0 conscience ce the ordinary inai individual v idu al retires to his bac back k ad room and makes good resolutions for the coming year is just past this tills met method I 1 iod of balancing boo books ke and wiping out past a 8 t errors is is popular but not profitable bitable ogden has started out on oil the year on a different track just to try her luck instead of contrition and resolves she is going to substitute good straightforward performance it is hit square from the tile shoulder from now on with mth other bright outlooks has como come a prospect in the tile theatrical line boasting the largest cos iest prettiest theater in utah ogden has not during the past ye year ar done for the grand opera house noi nor has the grand opera house done for ogden what each owed the other it has been too much like a capital young fellow making love to a pretty young girl r somehow s OIn Chow he is awkward aal and says a wrong word while she is too much embarrassed embar assed to put him on the right track much as they love each other they cant just get together ether as they would like so while egden ogden has been hungering for prime amusement and lo 10 lots ts of good goa companies wanted to see the faces of the ogden cople some way or able to hitch to ea ca I 1 other heres the way the new management of tile grand proposes to bring the lovers together first they know ogden ogdon is a coy maid and it is necessary to win her confidence then the tl theatrical beat fellow is not well enough acquainted with the girl and must be made to appreciate pre preci clate ate what an attractive looking damsel she is after you come to know her the tile first thing is to make quarters snug and warm for the two au courting in a cold room is mighty poor enjoyment the grand has been too otte often n cold actors and actresses in their thinly clad costumes have caught severe 81 sickness ness and at best a man cant act let with the cold air climb climbing in in blue 11 streaks freaks up up the inside walls of hia his trousers then an audience that h lias as to clinch its teeth to keep them from chattering prepared to apar appreciate drama As an entering wedge there fore the new management intends to have the opera house houke warm in every nook and corner it in every dressing room on the stage through rough the auditorium and in the tile lobby even ifft takes the combined coal output of rock springs pleasant valley and coalville Co alville to do it the starter then the fellow follow likes cheerful surroundings roun dings to soften his way to the girl Cn consequently all the stage of the grand with its dressing rooms and stairs and property quarters are to be renovated cleaned repaired and re fitted so that theatrical people will ecel good as till they go before their auditors thy the second wise step third the girl naturally likes to know what sort of suitor is comi coming to pay his addresses it is therefore important to tell the people in as plain and truthful a way as words will permit the sort of attractions that will a appear at the house some folks R like aar light ight I 1 hilarious nonsensical fun that which will make one laugh forget his troubles and rest hia brain others ke substantial instructive soul stirring drama plays that leave a strong impress 1 M and hold high rank in stage literature actors that have scholarly attainments and artistic merit it will bo tho tile aim of the management to announce without puffing or misrepresentation sen tation the exact style and quality of entertainment they will present then every man will know what he lie ia is going to see and not attend a it grand opera in the idea that it is a rollicking comedy r fourth it is necessary that the young oung gallant should keep his promises t be 0 courteous and act like a man too often companies have come to O ogden oden den and finding small houses have cut an and 1 guyed their performance or substituted some ordinary actress for the tile star who thong thou glit lit the place unworthy her efforts that stopped short on dec 31 1892 notice is served on all companies visit ing ogden that wo we must have their best no cutting no substitution no guying in this way through gli the good offices of the now management ries it ia reposed to put fat the lovers w ogden and per her visiting t theatrical attractions in perfect accord in other words the grand opera house of ogden is going liere after ter to to 13 be 0 run on straightforward business principles the first occupant of the grand under this new regime will be blithe katie putnam her piece will be an unclaimed express package kaga of katie putnam it is scarcely necessary ry to say anything to oden readers rc adera ith whom she hag has been for years an all admired favorite full of life dash lit or miss fun there are mighty few little women of the stage who go as straight to the hearts of a popular crowd asslie as she up at butte where this piece was given the tile miners miner 8 shied allied dollars at her as a token of their fondness the tile writer of this remembers tile time while whilo living in kansas city when katie putnam opened ened the ninth street theater at that time biallo emerson was with her and the two turned hundreds away who were unable to pet get seats the unclaimed express package ge was first produced about a year ago and took with houses every everywhere re to such an extent that our katie ratio ia is now using it exclusively except where the tile engagement ia is long and it is necessary to change playa plays occasionally katie putnam ila haa never biven given this play in ogden but I 1 heard it during a trip cast a number of months ago and I 1 consider it easily the best medium she lias has to disport her abilities when any young actor of shakespearian a ift I 1 roles gives great ea t ilia his arle mends n ds predict that VE he is boing going to be a second edwin booth IV when I 1 ien any abir ing actress attracts favor favorably ablo attention ill in legitimate parts she is likewise a coming mary anderson when ahe any woman of the stage makes her audience forget itself in her fiery emotion throwing j people eople into laugh laughter tir or tears at her wi will 1 it is said she will be another clara morris in other words edwin booth mary anderson and clara morris have reached that hi highest hest place when they set the pace for ji all others of their respective schools echo ola mary anderson lias has married and quit the 10 11 stage edwin booth ia is in in precarious precarious 1 1 t h no co longer acts and will not long fret ilia his brief hour flour of alie three san idues clara morrie morris alone pursues pursue sher her career in ilia the falness of her powers ae As clara morris cornea comes to the grand on thursday evening and aa as it will be the occasion for the tile gathering of all those who appreciate 0 hotl gr greatness ness a few words about her may not be amiss well ellas as eho she is known probably ba lefew few 0 f readers know ow of her carl earlier ier life at t t the lie time she slie first attracted attention I 1 elio lie was acting in cleveland A now york manager who saw and was struck b by y her work wired for her but before t the 1 I 1 telegram readied reached her ber she slie had accepted a position in cincinnati it was finally in in 1870 that sir daly who baade has developed more great actresses than any other man in this country asked her to join his new york company she only waa was to have an all insignificant role but at the last moment agues agnes ethel dalya dalys leading lady backed out and clara morris took her place that on one 0 night made her famous her lier first appearance ppe aranco made her tile idol of naw nsw NL w york she speedily rose to the position of the tile greatest emotional actress america had produced she is americas sarah bernhardt though lier her work is really harder than bernhardtz Bern hardts in france after one act a full half hour is is given the actress to recover er fr from om ohp the fatigue of the previous act hero our intervals are short and miss morris lias has to dress immediately and reappear on the tile stage her iler plays are almost identical with those of bernhardt miss morris having the addan advantage tago of giving her plays in english Engli sli I 1 have lioard heard her in ill all her plays and consider camille the tle greatest as it is also with bernhardt but both I 1 I 1 camille and renee de slora which miss morris gave in ogden two months since have too little relief in the way wa y of humor for this reason odette which she gives next thursday night is the best nest liked of her plays one scene welle is as productive of laughter as anscom any comedy dv one can hear here is tile plot of t the play as well as I 1 remember it odette wa was s ill alio e d daughter a ahter of a very gay society woman an and d lulad had herself leon been of free disposition is i position she marries and is living a true life when the tile play opens one old lover in the absence of her husband secures a key to her bedchamber and tells her of his anten intention tion to call surreptitiously she commands him at his peril to desist Thebus the husband band returns home shortly before the lover 1 enters the two meet the husband believes ins his wife a paramour sends their child away then summons summons odette and forces lier her into the street disgraced friendless there is but one road open to the wile she takes it her beauty and talents make her the mistress of grand dukes and highest nobility little by little s she 11 0 goes down the awful road till she we becomes OMOS the companion of a blackleg black leg quack at this period her babo babe has grown to womanhood and is engaged but the young man who is to marry her refuses unless lier her disgraced mother agrees to leave the country friends call to r secure e acquiescence I 1 find her surrounded by the queerest kind of adaven jurists and society off fall here occurs the humorous part pait of the plaid play portra portraying in the quack and his run rundown down awn 0 off f cafor cobor society defuso odette refuses to leave unless she can see her child whom she lias not beheld since a babo babe the daughter not knowing anything of her mothers history the father peremptorily to r 1 1 I refuses odette then threatens to br break e al the engagement and the father belu reluctantly consents to the meeting the meeting between mother and child is one of the lie strongest pieces of emotional acting act ing ever seen on n any stage in this scene the t tears cars roll in streams from clara morriss eyes and the audience weeps with lier her odetto does not reveal to lier her dauab daughter ter who she is and the two se separate arato forever fo rover A member of company who used to be with clara morris recently told me lie had bad seen lier her entire company bathed in tears in the scene of parting with her child so natural and realistic was her interpretation no woman on the stage equals lier ber though perhaps emily is nearest to it A pretty scene in the play is the carnival scene at nice during carnival time in rome florence and nice every kind of abandon license and disorder ia is permitted fine ladies will mask and attired in costumes of shocking ng brevity will attend the carnival balls the tile streets are lined with a howling mob of I 1 all ages and conditions all masked and an d a sort of flour nour paste something thi n like putty called confetti con fett i 11 lad ladies 1 es pelt passersby passers by 7 with this or with flowers boys go through the street hitting b bystanders standers with blown up tip bladders arse horse racing is a popular recreation one of sheso carnival scenes su supposed posed to be at nice is pictured i in ottto odette e miss morris is an actress and odette a play that every intelligent theatergoer oer in ogden should see this is her fast last trip to the coast and as its she is a wealthy woman it is a question whether it be not bet he last year on the stage her ifer dresses are something moreover to make the ladies open wide their eyes |