The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27

THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

= THE THEATRES
? SALT LAKE THEATRE
? Monday night, Marie Vain ,
= wright in Twelfth Night;, =
. Tuesday and Wednesday nights, =
= Lulu Chaser in dolly Varden;'' \
> Thursday and Friday matinee, =
= Happy Hooigan." y
GRAND. - Monday, Tuesday =
= and Wednesday nights and =
= Wednesday matinee, 1.-TWO Sis =
> ters;" Thursday, Friday and >
2 Saturday nights, dark.
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IL New Years editions it is possible
TO present epitomes Of the year in
nearly every line Of human en-
deavor. In the few exceptions to this
rule the theatrical business stands out
prominently The theatrical year is
still but a Hedging. It cannot be said
TO have opened until oct. /, and it viii
close along about the 1st Of June. AS
far as we have gone the year has not
been all that patrons Of the theatre
could desire
True, we have had a proportion Of
really first-class attractions. but the
average has not been very high. The
outlook for the end of the season is
more 1attering. At the Salt Lake the
etre we are TO have Mansfield. SOthern
and a number of other real stars. At
the Grand Mrs. FisSe, James X. Hack
EFT and two or three more actors and
actresses who are known from one end
of the land to the other viii present
attractions.
Surprise has been expressed from
time to time that we don't have more
stars here at the beginning Of the sea-
son; or rather that the stars are not
more evenly distributed. This is ac-
counted for by the fact that in the
opening of the dramatic year the big
guns are all occupied in the larger
eastern cities. New York, Philadelphia
Boston Chicago. Cincinnati. St Louis
and other metrOpolises hold them for
long engagements. A long enga cement
IS Infinitely preferable for obvious rea-
sons, TO a tour which must Of neces-
sity- comprise many one and twO-night
stands
Therefore. the stars stay away from
us az long as the en6a gements Of weeks
and months prove profitable. In the
come and so they must journey into
the provinces, as player folk are
pleased 20 term the country outside OF
New York City Another thing. The
legitimate dramatic season closes from
month to six weeks earlier in the east
than in the west. Some New York
houses close by the LIST Of April and
many others by the LIST of May.
In the west, on the other hand. the
season never really comes to an end.
in San Francisco the theatres are open
the year round. and at the Salt Lake
theatre there wasn't a month this year
in which the house was continuously
dark. Even in the dog days Henry
Miller and Margaret Auglin were here.
a matter that viii make FOR the bright
ening of the late spring and early sum-
mer here. Electrically, is the fact that
a great many hrst-class productions
are making no money now i'm New
York. To get even on the season they
viii just have TO tOur the provinces,
much as they dislike the idea.
salt Lakers viii be interested and
glad 10 know that Edwin Milton Royle's
play, the stone which such builders as
William Collier. May Irwin and others
rejected. has become the chief of Nat
:
that Shakespeare. for him, spells ruin:
that is 20 say, after a disastrous at
tempt to win fame as Bottom in Mid
summer Nights Dream Mr.. Goodwin
has begun starring in the R0yle play,
MY Wife's Husbands" a criticism in
the Philadelphia North American says.
Comedian Nat c.. Goodwin has
thrown Shakespearean comedy to the
winds. and last night trod the Chest
nut street opera house stage IN farce
COmedy-his designed and appointed
dramatic habitat. My Wife's Hus-
bands by Edwin Milton ROyIe. is
tenuous trihe from an ultra critical
viewpoint; but 81 viii do, while Good
win is I'm the cast. An absurd or utter
ly ludicrous situation every minute,
and a roar Of laughter from the audi
ence every few seconds-what is this
but SUGGEST
"The pIaywright-the piece Is made,
rather than written-has drawn liberal
IS upon French farce-comedy for his
situations. keeping bis audience in
formed and players In the dark iu the
good old whimsical fashion. The slen-
der thread of plot winds around a
triplicate divorcee-admirabl played
by Chrystal Herne-tO whom Ralph
Kirtley Goodwin makes furious love
at "a Florida winter resort hotel, marry
ing her off-hand amid jubilant acclaim
from the assembled guests.
cor course, the three ex-husbands
are there. at first darkly limited at.
then appearing ia proper person.
senator, a Mormon bishop and Cousin
Willie DrinkWater. who was divorced
last Of an. Ralph is the chief propOn-
ent of q proposed and-divorce law. and
his much-divorced cOnsort IS concerned
in concealing from him the existence Of
the triumvirate which preceded him.
how this is partly accomplished after
the delightful fashion of the farceur-
wen. go see the play, laugh and grow
fat
"For a first offense.' as Caddy has
t. the action moved swiftly and