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I 1 AMUSEMENTS
Hl Salt Lake Theatre dark.
Hi Orphcum Alabama, matinee to-
Hm! day; performance tonight.
Hjjj Lyric High class vaudeville.
Hi coming attractions.
Hft Salt Lake Theatre dark.
HU Orphcum. "Cumberland, 61."
HHJ Lyric Vaudeville.
Hj I A noticeable characteristic of the
H I Orphcum Stock Company is the fact
H that, each member of the company is
H I given a chance at the star parts, and
H ; so far there has been no short-com-
Hl ings apparent. This week Zlslby
II Roach and Miss Florence arc dclight
H: j ing patrons of this excellent comp
Hj( i any by their presentation of the
Hjj I Characters of Squire Tucker and Car
Hl cy Preston in "Alabama." Not that '
III they arc the whole show, by any
means, but they have the star parts
this week and arc making admirers.
r Roach's presentation or the lazy but
i lovable Squire Tucker, is a creation
,,Ji intensely Roachcsquire, as it were,
Hf and is one of the best things he has
Hni done on the Orphcum stage thissca-
Hjf1 son, while Miss Florence seems pc-
H culiarly fitted for the part of the lov-
H. I ' able southern girl, airl has made m?-
H ny new converts to the belief in her
HI ability to become one of our future
III stars.. Neither Mr. Phillips or Miss
H Moore have a very heavy part this
H week, but their work is up to their us
I t ual high standard. Joseph O'Mcara
H makes an ideal lover, and Mr.
If Greene's interpretation of the old
HI- ' rebel and Yankee-hater, Col. Pfcs
Hjji ton, is a rare bit of acting that is a
II. credit to this capable young man,
Hit The play is well staged in fact few
HI, traveling companies present better
Hifjl stage sittings (the third net being one
HJ f I of the best efforts in stage effects prc
Hlj scntcd this scacsou at the Orphcum
H ' To a Southerner, it is simply like a
H I leaf from the memory of by-gone
H : days a picture of home in the
H dreamy south-land that can not fail
H to bring a lump in the throat and a
H ' tear to the eye, and starts one dream
H ' ing of the old days at home.
H ,' "Alabama" is a play that must be
H well presented to prove effective, and
H the one who is not pleased with the
I presentation by the Orphcum Stock
! Company is indeed blase and world-
U worn to an alarming degree.
I
r One of the best bills of the season
is being presented this week at the
Lyric, the only house in town where
the wants of the lovers of vaudeville
1 may now be satisfied, and one must
j be hard to please who is not satisfied
this week. Each act is a "star" one,
and it is hard to pick the real head
liner, although we believe "Solomon,
j: the second" in his mathematical
I ' stunt has the lead for first honors,
I i with Levine and Leonard's auto bur-
El
lesque coming in a close second
Viola and Engle's "Bumi-di-Bunips"
comedy is all to the good, as is the
act of Belle Stone, with her myster
ious globe, and George H. Carr and
Marjoric Jordan, who both have
pleasing voices. A new singer of il
lustrated songs, Mr. Morcn Lang, is
a pleasing acquisition, while the com
ic moving pictures bring joy to the
hearts of the little folks. Manager
Donncllau is to be congratulated up
on the first class character of vaude
ville acts he is now presenting for
the approval of the Salt Lake public.
The second performance of "The
Toymakcr's Drearm," given at the
Salt Lake theatre on Mionday night,
by a charming company of youthful
actors of Salt Lake, was well attend
ed and everything done by the little
ones was well received by the au
dience. The chorus numbers and as
semblies were given in a finished
fashion and showed that the little
actors had engaged in much hard
work in order to attain such proficien
cy. Don Carlos Wood and Elsie
Bamberger were the stars of the
evening. On Wednesday evening the
little actor folks appeared in Ogdcn
and made a distinct hit with the Junc
tion City people.
The Theatrical trust has won out.
The idictment found against Klaw &
Erlangcr, charging them with con
spiring with other theatrical owners
and managers to maintain a inouoply
so as to exclude Lee Shubcrt and Da
vid Bclasco from booking plays in
certain theatres, has been dismissed
by JudgeRosalski. The court found
that plays arc not articles of trade
in common use and that Klaw &
Erlangcr therefore did not restrain
trade, as was alleged. The court al
so declared that Bclasco and Shu
bcrt had not been prevented from car
rying on their business.
o
Chicago is noted for other things
besides her stock yards. Among the
players who have had their genesis in
Chicago arc Lillian Russell Eddie
Foy, Bert Leslie, Doris Kcauc, Edna
Goodrich, Rose Sfahl, Joseph Touhy
and Robert Gaylor. There arc many
others, but this handful of names will
show the diversity of stage work that
is represented by the products of
Cook county.
By an arrangement entered into
between Klaw & Erlangcr and Geo
YV. Haulori of the famous Hanlon
Brothers, all the future inventions and
productions of the latter will be uti
lized exclusively in "advanced vaude
ville." Miss Billie Burke has been select
ed by Charles Frohman as John
Drew's leading woman.
Ethel Barrymorc lias started out
on a tour of oncniglit stands that is
to continue until the middle of Au
gust. She is to begin acting again
early in September. Maude Adams
will not stop acting this year until the
end of July, and will begin again in
September. By and by the theatrical
folk wont get any vacation at all.
Salary: $11,2(58,000 a year, ?8jo,
ooo a month, $252,000 a week, $30,000
a clay, $1566 an hour, $25 a minute,
and 4t 6-to cents a second. That is
the rate at which Elsie Janis is being
paid for her mimicry and imitations
in "advanced vaudeville," says Whit
ing Allen in the Philadelphia North
American.
Frank Daniels is trying to buy the
John Howard Payne cottage at Long
Island, where "Home, Sweet Hoime"
was written. The prince of come
dians has evidently been saving up
his rocks of late.
John Drew will appear next season
in the English version of "Josctte
Ma Fcmmc," entitled "His Wife."
Billie Burke will play the leading wo
man's role, that of Josctte.
The coming season will be the
twelfth of " 'Way Down East," which
has had more performances to date
than any other play or rural life yet
produced.
Two New York theaters expect to
keep their doors open all summer, and
as one of them succeeded in doing it
last year, they may carry out their
plans.
Cecilia Loftus and Mr. D'Orsay
will star together in a play which
Henry Miller describes as a modern
Military Comedy from the German.
"The Port of Missing Men," a no
vel by Meredith Nicholson, is Jo be
dramatized, and it is said Ernest
Shipman has secured the rights.
There is a crusade in London
against the numerous living statuary
acts .at the different music haljs
Beastly shocking, you know!
A new opera, dealing with certain
incidents in the life of Marie Antoi
nette, is being written by Puccini.
They can't let Mary rest.
R. D. Emmick, the new manager
of the Grand theatre, is laid up with
a broken leg as the result of falling
from a Lagoon train.
The net receipts of the recent Ac
tors' Fund fair was $67,000, the ex
penses being $21,000.
George Adc has written a new play
for William H. Crane. Wic will get
it next season.
George II. Primrose, he of mins
trel fame, is to do a vaudeville stunt
this summer.
NEXT WEEK AT THE OR- I
PHEUM. I
Following the success Of "Alaba I
ma" which closes at the Orpheilm tO I
night, the popular stock I'Umpaiiy i J
will be seen ill the great war dranla ' J
"Cumberland 'OV1 by Frailkiiii Fyles
and a mOrC appropriate play coiild iidt I
have b2cil chosen for the Fourth of
July week. The story of the play
tells of an old Kentucky vendetta
existing betwwen the Graynes and
Ainsley's. It has lasted many years
and many lives had been sacrificed on
both sides. At the opening of the
play Ainslcy, an old Kentucky
mountaineer, and Gordon Grayncr a
West Point cadet about to graduate
arc the only ones left to carry on 4f
the feud. Gordon falls in love with
Ainsley's daughter Altec, but she
is betrothed to Col. Murdoch, who
having .educated her, has her father's
promise that she will become ills'
wife. Twenty years bdfor.e Mur
doch married ait Indian Princess and
had a son who was also about to
graduate at West Point, This soil is
thought to be a iiegro atld kijowiilg
Murdoch was his father tries to nlake
himi acknowledge him, thus proving
him an Indian. Murdoch refuses to
do so. About this time Ainslcy comes
up from Kentucky and tries to make
his daughter marry M.urdoch, and
learning that she loves Gordon
Grayne, renews the feud between the
two families. The second act takes
place in an old ruined church in the
Cumberland mountains where Alice
and Murdoch arc being married.
Gordon arrives from a Union Camp
near by and tries to prevent the mar
riage, is captured by a squad of Con
federates and branded as a spy as
is the young Indian who had accom
panied him. The third act shows the
exterior or Ainsley's home, where
Gordon and the Young Indian are
confined. Before their court martial
however, both escape. Their way
leads them to an old bridge over a
chasnji that divides the union forces
from the Confederates, there they
find old Ainslcy guarding the bridge
only too glad for an opportunity to
kill Gordon. Seeing that Gordon is
unarmed, Ainslcy throws down his
gun and gives him a fair fight. Dur
ing the fight, the Indian sets fire to
the bridge. Gordon overcomes the Jis
old man and dashes across the bridge
to make his escape, when Alice ap
pears at the other end and begs him
to save her father who has been over
come and is in danger of being burn
ed to death. Gordon dashes back
and saves Ainslcy uist as the bridge
crashes into the gorge. In the last
act Murdoch claims Alice and is tak
ing her away when Gordon appears
and saves her. WJliilc fighting, Mur
doch is shot by his son, the Indian,
who takes from the dead body papers
that prove him Murdoch's son. Fol-
lowing this there is a reconciliation
between Alice and Gordon. The
comedy in the play, is furnished by
a Missouri widow, Mrs. Victor, her
daughter, Pink, John Lenox, a New
Yorker and his son Adolphus Lenox,
