Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-27

New York and the other large cities Of
the United states,
| But It will not be until the afternoon
| Of Labor day that the whole machinery
| Of the amusement structure VIII md
| itself in motion. although there are still
| some openings between the present
writing and the period in question.
Last Thursday night Arthur Byron be-
gan his career as star under james
X. Hackett's management In a three
act farce called Jacks Little Sur
prise, at the Princess Theater A week
hence the Lyric will be thrown open
with THE Royal Chef" which has at
tracted favorable attention IN Chi
cago. The company will in
clude Sam Collins, Joseph Miron.
John Park Amelia Stone, Stella Tracy
Gertrude Wilmington and an ensemble
described I'm the advertisements as
THE stunning squads on saturday
evening of this week Williams
Walker win begin their season and That
of the Grand Opera House which has
been extensively remodelled during the
summer ON Saturday night of next
week Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" with Madge Carr Cooke IN the
title role will enter upon its New YORK
career at the Savoy theater ON Mon
day next. the Criterion will see re-
vival of THE Dictator" with William
Collier I'm his original part, on Sep
TENDER |, Days theater VIII begin
operations with Edna May as the star
OF "The School Girl" and on the same
evening "The County Chairman viii
be revived at Wallack's. on September
s John Drew will produce THE Duke OF
Killicrankie" at the Empire; Denman
Thompson Will he observed i'm an en-
tirely new production of THE Old
Homestead" at the New York; the
Rogers Brothers will reopen the New
Amsterdam in THE Rogers Brothers in
Paris" "A Little Of Everything" with
Fay Templeton, Peter F, Daley and the
remainder of the company viii he
transferred to the Broadway theater
for brief season, and "The Spellbind-
err" with Charles Dickson, Ralph
Delmore and others IN the leading
parts, will take possession Of the Her
aid Square following "The Girl from
Kay's" which proceeds to Boston. This
list OF attractions will be quite extern
sive enough to hold the attention OF
Broadway for the moment.
Denman Thompson, who has been n
hard and steady worker all his life,
has made UP his mind to reduce his la
bors for the future He said last night:
II shall play but l6 weeks in any year
hereafter In fact, IL | had consulted
my own lnclinatons | should not have
appeared az all In public during the
coming season, But Klaw & Erlanger
expressed a strong desire that ] inaug-
uratc the season at the New York
theater and while | was at II / con-
cuded that l might as well I'LL eight
weeks Of additional time In two other
cities at the conclusion of the run here.
am in the seventies, and l don't
feel like exerting myself as | did IN
my younger days, Still, for man who
has tried simultaneously to write plays
and play in them and to play the stock
market and the race tracks, I don't
think I've done so badly. ] have
dropped stocks and the horses for good
and all and am satisfied TO 90 ahead
with my profession exclusively from
nov en-
Elmer s. Dundy OF the firm OF
Thompson a. Dundy, started New
York the other morning with the calmly