Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-12-30
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inee today, performance tonight.
Orpheum-Classic vaudeville, mat
inee today, performance tonight.
Grand-"At Cripple Creek" matinee
today, performance tonight.
ELECTROMAGNETIC Girls" matt
nee today; performance tonight.
Coming Attractions.
Salt Lake Theatre-Effie Ellsler in
Hazel Kirke," late in January.
ben Hur," after an absence of two
years, is just as ECONOMICALLY popular
now as when he first drove his chariot
on the stage of the Salt Lake theatre.
To see the big audience which greeted
the Lew Wallace hero, nobody would
have suspected, that, a few doors
away, new theatre had just opened
and was also turning away the insist
ent mob. Money. money everywhere
oceans of it-and not drop of tick
cts to be had.
You who have doubted the wild
yearning Of the Zion appetite for
amusement-stand aside and watch
the crowds surge through the doors!
More than one poor fellow fought his
way through the surging tide, on
Christmas night, and came away
empty-handed from the ticketless box
offices of more than one Salt Lake
theatre. or course the time was ex
eptional-Christma night-but thai
merely proves the fact that we are a
town which dotes upon the playhouse.
And If other proof were necessary
here come Klaw and Erlanger, the
shrewdest managers in America, and
give us their highest priced and most
elaborate production for an entire
week. What more proof do you want?
1t costs money to see Ben Hur,"
but / have yet to hear a complaint on
that score. The show is advertised as
an elaborate production" 1t is that
and more-its scenic and costume
size are mastodian. All its proper
tions are colossal. There isn't small
detail anywhere. There is so much of
everything, that if the evident intent
is not to bewilder the effect produced
is just the same as If it were. Those |
of us who have fingered delightfully."- |
over the modest volume written by
Gen. Wallace, surely never dreamed
that a stage version of the popular
book could be turned into hundred
Carnegie libraries with all the pages |
turned before the eyes in one night. |
There are many people crowding the
Salt Lake theater this week, whose
faces are seldom seen in the play
house. The high moral tone of the
play, its elevating tendency, its reli-
gious atmosphere-any one of its
many uplifting elements would be
sufficient excuse for their presence, |
but when united as they all are in |
play of such wonderful proportions, |
they themselves would be the losers |
If they failed to see the play. This, |
no doubt, accounts for the record |
breaking week Ben Hur" is having. |
Those of us who take a peculiar inter
est in Salt Lake and follow the careers |
of her sons and daughters find in the
work of Mr. Either, as Ben Hur,"
something more than passively inter-
esting
Outside of the fact that Klaw and |
Erlanger have themselves sufficiently
recognized the merits of this young
actor, his own ability is enough to
commend himself not only 20 his man.
ayers but to audiences less interested |
in his career than we are. Mr.. Either
is still a victim to the faults of enun-
citation which formerly marred his de-
livery, but these are so transitory as to
fade away entirely in his growing eX-