The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-19
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Sail Lakes play houses will present a
most attractive appearance. both as to
scenery ard auditoriurns, when the cur
tains are rung up for the season of
10000. At the Grand special atten-
ton has been paid to the stage In the
first place, Manager Mulvey has order
ed new curtain.
1t will be q handsome affair of satin
effect, with representation of the War
of Roses painted on it. When hung the
curtain viii have cost in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000. Nor is this all. For
weeks James S. Anderson has been
doing" scenery. He has painted sew
eral new stock sets.
one which was on exhibition Yester-
day will be used in palace and parlor
settings. 1t is in cardinal and gold.
with grill work galore, and contains
thirty-twO pieces. Ali of the old sets
have been retOuched until as Mr.. An
derson says, they are thoroughly in
keeping with the high-grade attractions
Manager Mulvey has booked for the
edificatiOn of his patrons
The rigging lofts and fly galleries are
being enlarged to accommodate special
scenery which some of the coming at
fractions will carry. When this work
is done the Grand will be able to ac-
commodate anything in the scenic or
spectacular line now on the road.
In the Auditorium fresh paint will be
put on wherever 1t is needed and the
whole house is to be made as fresh and
attractive as possible. All of the work
is under the direction of Mr.. Anderson,
who has won a high reputation in his
profession.
The Grand season will open about the
middle of September
Manager Piper of the Theater said
yesterday afternoon that there would
not be many changes about his house.
a change has been made in the box
office window, which, it is believed, will
be of great advantage to theater-gOers.
This is in the placing of the diagram
of seats.
Last season the diagram was on the
window itself Now il has been put on
a ledge outside the window The OBJ
lection to the old plan was that in an
uncertain light it was impossible to see
the seating arrangement. Now the dia-
gram will be where it will get the adj
vantage of all possible light, and the
man who gets a bad seat will pick il out
through no fault of the management.
Another change is in the arrange
ment of the orchestra. The stage front
has been arranged so that it can be
lifted bodily. When it is desired to use
the space ordinarily occupied by the or
chestra the musicians will be pushed
under the stage and chairs put there
FOR patrons of the drama. BY this ar
rangement the music will not be shut
off at all and the effect will be the
same as if they were part of the au-
dience, except that the poor musicians
viii have no chance to see what is
going on on the stage
Although the Theater has always
been considered perfectly safe as a fire
hazard, Manager Piper is taking addi-
tiOnal precautions this season. He has
put in more water tanks and more hose.
and has increased his fire-fighting ia
cliltieS generally. The corps of Ushers
will be enlarged and uniformed so that
there viii be no trouble in finding a
young man to show one 70 a seat.
There are places in the auditorium
which viii be freshened up with paint
but no attempt will be made at elabo-
rate redecoratiUn. The house is to be
renovated from tor to bottom, and will
be thoroughly fresL and clean.
Mr.. Pyper doesn't count next Mon
day, when the Mathews < Bulger COM
pany and Dunno & RiIe's all-star cast
appears, as the opening of his season.
The season proper will not open until
late in September.
Salt Lakers will be interested in
knowing that Clay Clement is to ap-
pear at the Theater in NO Thorough
fare during fair week, September Is.