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The one best play of jhe year to date will be
here on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next
week) when Rose Stahlwill be seen at the Salt
Lake theater in "The Ghorus Lady."
' In the long period of her success in this play
that' kept her in the large cities in the east and
prevented the west from seeing her, so much has
been written regarding the production, that it is
with a feeling of the keenest anticipation that
Salt Lakers await the arrival of this star,
j - In a season in which novelties have been so
few and far between, and wherein most of the at
tractions have been repeaters, it is small won--rt
der that the announcement of this engagement
has created unusual interest. It will be an au
dience crowded with fashionables that will greet
Miss Stahl on Thursday evening, and her stay
here promises to be one of the most notable
events of the entire theatrical year.
James Forbes' "The
Chorus Lady" t has
A JMiiPIKg ::--"'' gle night she overcame
"" " 'my ploy of Dan Mallory,
Patricia's lover. Mallo
Rose Stahl rys pavtner is D. Craw
ford, a striking example of the idle rich class.
Patricia has a younger sister, Nora, who possesses
a good-looking face and a light-weighted head.
The plot revolves about those characters. Craw
f ford seeks to ingratiate himsbi into the affections
of Nora for evil purposes, and Patricia's knowl
edge of the world inspires her to save her sister
from the man's advances. Ill so doing she sacri
ft fices not only her own good name, but the respect
of hor parents and the love of Dan Mallory.
The second act is a big stage novelty. It Bhows
the chorus dressing room of a metropolitan thea
ter, with a dozen young women making tp for an
evening performance. In point of treatment it is
unique, and it portrays one of the truest pictures
of life behind the scenes that has ever been staged.
The third act is one of great dramatic strength.
It takes place in the apartments of Dick 'Craw
ford. Patricia has gone there in search of her
sister, and is followed by her mother and Mal
lory. Patricia finds Nora secreted in a roonX and
to save the girl's good name she assumes the
odium of the situation, and is cast off by her fam
ily and her lover. The fourth act is devoted! to an
adjustment of the private affairs of the O'Brien
family.
Mr. Forbes, who, by the way, is the author of
the greatest comedy success this season in New
York, "The Traveling Salesman," has been highly
praised for the telling pictures of stage life he
-presents in "The Chorus Lady," and its little plot
will interest every class of playgoers.
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"Parsifal" will be seen at the Salt Lake Thea
ter Monday evening.
' The Pianophiends at the Orpheum next week. (t
ORPHEUM.
Charmion, billed as the headliner at the
'Orpheum this week, has been called the perfect
lady, or perfect woman, or something like that,
and while we are not prepared to give expert tes- jf
timony, it is very apparent that she is the one
best performer on the trapeze that anybody knows
anything about, and preceding her acrobatic work H
her disrobing act is both interesting and instruc- SH
tive. In this act she proves conclusively that IH
every little bit taken from what she's got makes jf
just a littlo bit less. The act is Frenchy enough H
to star 'e the most blase first nighter, even if the H
lady herself, as she admits, is not of that nativity. H
The act is a wonder, but its effectiveness would j H
be much greater if she would dispense with the I H
conversation and the game of "Button, button, H
who'se got the button?" with which she concludes H
her, performance. H
Locally at least, no cleverer sketch than "Su- il
perstition" has ever been seen at the Orpheum. ll
Mr. Chas. W. Bowser, as big Jim Kingston, the :
politician, Is the particular star in the cast of ' H
three, but Miss Hinkle, as Floteau, is perfection M
itself in the role of the Hindoo Hoodoo, and Mr H
Frederick Duff, as Tredelowe, the reporter, fills H
the position exceptionally well, without bur- H
lesquing the part a part that is so often ruined H
by the average player. Oliver "White, who wrote H
GRAND OPENING OF THE I
Colonial Theatre I
Wednesday Night, November i8th M
SEAT SALE OPENS AT THE BOX OFFICE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 10 A. M. H
SCALE OK PRICES: Jl
LOWER FLOOR: First Six Rows (Divans) $5.00; Next Nine Rows, $4.00; H
Next Six Rows, $3.00. ' jR
BALCONY: First Six Rows, $3.00; Next Ten Rows, $2.50. ill
GALLERY: First Six Rows, Reserved, $1.50; Balance, Unreserved, $i.co. U