The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-22

? monday, tuesday and W6dues- ?
= day evenings, Maude Adams in ?
. The Little Minister: Thurs =
= day, Friday and Saturday even ,
. ings, dark Electrically.
GRAND.-Dark.
= = 2 ? = = = = = = = = , 2 =
THE three greatest audiences that
have assembled in the salt Lake
theatre this season viii dU that
play house ou Monday Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings of this week,
when Maude Adams plays 1.-THE Little
Minister only once before this sea-
son have great audiences filled the
Theatre ON successive nights That
was I'm the beginning when the much
clfcuSed, gaily advertised and wcefuIly
disappointing Ben Hur" visited Salt
Lake, No legitimate dramatic attrac-
ton has drawn more than one good,
big house since the curtain went UD Ou
the opening production i'm September
IL has come TO be a saving around
the Salt Lake theatre that Successive
'0- II. o. business is a dream of the
distant past. Manager PypCr. Treas
urer Derr and the other attaches have
builded their hopes high 0n the en-
Eagement of Miss Adams. They have
said that IL she did not draw the ca
pacity of the old play house they would
CODceue the correctness of Dick Mans
fields contention that salt Lake City is
q one-night stand IL is pleasant to
be bic 20 say with truth that Manager
Piper and his associates VIII be
obliged TO reiract nothing.
When the Theatre box Office was
closed late yesterday afternoon but
very few desirable seats for amy of the
Adams performances were left. NO
seats whatever. that the average iHdi-
"a
Boo pairs. Here and there about the
house for the second and third per-
formauCes are single seats. To is per-
feCtIy safe U1 say. therefore. that every
seat. from the flute TO the frescoes, win
loo occupied at every performance.
More, people viii DE found standing on
every Noor and there viii be as many
of them as the management win sell
tickets TO-
Miss Adams viii break all dramatic
records I'm Salt Lake. And well may
she break ala records. for she IS COM
ing 10 us this week for the first time
since she attained the lofty altitude of
stard0m. salt Lake win welcome her
as never player was welcomed in salt
Lake.
A delightful musical event OF last
week. from the standpoint of artistic
merit as well as from that OF appre-
citation by a large audience, was the
recital iu the congregational church by
pupils OF Mrs. a. ID. Melvin and
George IL. SHELTON. All of the sixteen
numbers except the last, quaTtette
selection. "The Lost chord by Mrs.
Melvin. Mrs. Kelsey Mrs Andrews ana
Mrs. Cook were by pupils. .Ihe work
Of each participant was exceptionally
fine Mr. Shelton. through MS pupils,
showed himself master ban the art of
violin instruction and MIS-. Melvin
uuDTs did her great credit. among
those who took part were; Nloilns-
Misses Lena BTOaddus. Jane WlJllcN.
Helen Hartley Marjorie Brooks ana
Romauia Hyde, and Clarence 81. Bur
ton and Edward FitzDatrick, vocal
numbers were given by Misses jean
cite Luman. Fl0ssie Holmes, Isabel
johnson. Lucy Lewis, kathryn IIddel-
TfnDie Rutt and Edwin EllerbeCk The
srrompauists were Mrs. L. O. Burton
and Miss Hettie Wishard.
The oDeniue attraction at the SAN
Palace. the evening Of May So, To con
tiuue for some time, IS the A ttaSn- " ti-
sOu-Elarke company In FaudefilF- the
organization has received the most
cummeudatory press notices III many
parts OF the country, and the ADVANCE
rrureSeutatiEe is authority TOT the
statement that salt Lake is to nave lAe
best vaudeville entertainment Dr. +-e-7
ever been privileged 10 witness the
company has two skits that are said
TO be very amusing. What Happenesl
TO Brown and "The Furniture Man
Both win be seen here during TINS en-
EagemeuL
Commenting ON what the th0ughuess
are inclined TO call the decadeuce of the
drama, Peter Robertson the great
critic Of the Pacific coast-aud we are
not forgetting Ashton Stevens, either
says.
II suppose one can always find weak
nesses and faults serious defects, boa
everything. Religion has them; science
has them, literature has them, ant has
them. But the curious feature OF an
discuss ons of the drama IS that every
ching that is played upon stage with
u curtain and fOOtlighls is called the
drama. we do not mix up great poe
try and limericks. philosophical books
with the trivial trash of fiction. sound
literature of thought ana study with
the mere ephemeral lTinE leaves %
comment vet when $50 arEue about
the stage We bunch tosetner The mos,