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Show K.MPHKSS THKATKK Orr new theatrical enterprise has been launched in Salt Lake and has met with unlimited success. It is the Ernest Wilkes Stock Company, playing at the Empress Theatre Main Street. The Empress forms a second house in a circuit of stock theatres, Mr. Wilkes is establishing. He has brought to Salt Lake an exceptionally stroug company assem bled from all over the country ami is presenting only the big American successes. suc-cesses. Many of the plays scheduled for an early presentation will l,e shown for the first time in Salt Lake City at popular prices. This is C'e case with the Butterfly on the Wheel, which will be the attraction at the Empress, State Fair Week. The stock company has thus far appeared in but two plays. Within tin-Law tin-Law in which it opened ami broke ;:i house records for attendance and the Yellow Ticket which is nightly pla-Ins pla-Ins to rapacity this week. Prices within eerhody's reach were established estab-lished and that such a policy with high class plays presented was nppre- j dated is manifested by the returns i i't the box otlii-e. Mr. Wilkes is plan- I ning to open at least one other stork house in the Intel-mountain country at an early date. |