Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23

and will occur In Providence instead
OF Boston where the premiere was TO
have taken place next Monday evening
Woodland" Is the newest OF the Pixley
the Luders comic operas. and I'LL
the characters IN II are birds.
There isn't a human cerature or q
suggestion OF human life anywhere In
Il. The scenes are laid In the primeval
forest, where the eagle is king, the
owl IL chief justice, the raven court
physician, the peacock a society leader
the dove an ingenue, the nightingale
the heroine, and so forth and so on
There IL certainly plentitude OF mover.
~ In the idea aud Its treatment ana
Mr.. Luders music IL said to be poth
typical and beautiful.
Under the cold. raw and generally
unpleasant weather conditions when
still prevail, II isn't easy 10 realize mat
inside q month the completely metamor-
phosed Coney Island viii be going IN
full blast. Persons who haven't VISIT
ed this resort during the past year VIII
be amazed when they see the changes
which have occurred there, ana Tor
which Thompson & Dundy, the projec-
tors Of Luna Park, are directly respon-
sible. The park, which last year was
regarded as the most stupendouS
Amusement enterprise In the world
has been very nearly doubled In area
during the winter, and great number
of new features have been added. III Is
now III 10 be classed with any OF the
great exposltions, involving an outlay
running into the millions, ana haVms
the backing Of the Rockefeller inter-
ests. II IL a part OF the thompson "
Dundy plan to tear down the enIhe IN
stitution every fall and rebuild upon an
Increased scale Last year Luna PARK
drew a class OF people 20 Coney lslahu
who would never have thought OF go
ing there under previous conditions
II was no uncommon thing to see thirty
or FORTY OF the most expensive automo-
bilea I'm town ranged up outside the en-
franco and there was less and less OF
The old Coney Island rabble as the sea-
son advanced. other enterprises ue-
signed TO rival Luna PARK have sprung
up. and It is clearly apparent that WIN
IN A very short time the old element oil
roydyism and cheap shows VIII nave
been wiped out altogether.
w. II. Crane has been doing a land
Office business at the academy with his
revival Of David Harum. me pls
theater has been packed almost 70 'he
doors at every performance, ana IL IL
eyiden, that II the management 80 W.
sired, this attraction might remain uh-
III well into the summrr
Aueustus Thomas cleverest and most
successful comedy. "The other Hhfi
Is 10 remain for another week az the
Empire Theater. Then Julia Mariowe
will come back TO Broadway for snort
term In when Knighthood was IN
Flower
Charles Hawtrey's engagement In
"saucy Sally at the Lyceum theater
hasn't been profitable. The actor,
whose popularity was et first very
great, seems to have played hlmsen
out with rapidly so great Us u
cause establishment.
Denman Thompson Is to be the MS,
attraction OF next season at lhe rev
York theater, with an elaborate ana
costly revival of "The Old Home
stead" There will be real cattle, arm
horses. hay wagons and other bueolle
impedmenta upon the stage, ana every
effort will be made to give a tone OF
realism to the play
The Barnum- Bailey circus IL bring
ing to a close It's engagement at Madi-
son Square Garden, where the crowds
are greater than ever before. The cir
Gus itself is altogether the biggest and
best of all the Barnum- Bailey shows.
'The County Chairman" at Wal
lacks, and The Girl from Rays, at
the Herald Square, have been In town
longer than any other entertainment
still running, and both continue to at
tract great audiences. The last men
toned piece has been here longest, but
the one first named has had the great
er number Of performances for the rea-
son that II Is played on Wednesday az
ternoons, while at the Herald Square
Saturday matinees only are given.
UEANDER RICHARDSON.