Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-24
A GREAT SHOW TOWN.

SALT Lake is great show town, IL is
done without mental reservation, or
even an inclination to exaggerate BY
show town" is meant a city keen to
appreciate theatrical amusements
and their attendant feature of diver
sion. Unlike many other religious de
nominations, a great portion of Salt
Lakes population, the MOrmons, re-
gard theatre as an institution abso
lutely necessary for their proper di-
version. This condition alone creates
a larger field for theatric amusement
than obtains even in larger cities else
where. Today Salt Lake City has the
aires which cater to first-class attrac-
tons only, others confined exclusively
to vaudeville, and still others in which
melodrama is the principal feature.
There are already four theatres sue
cessfully running and two more will be
opened for the coming fall season. Six
theatres in city of the size of Salt
Lake speak well for the metropolitan
activity of the city and the amuse-
ment craving of it's people. While the
city is situated so far west of the
great populous districts of the east, it
might be thought that first-class com.
panies could not afford to visit here,
If it were a question of population
alone, such might be the case. But
fortunately for Salt Lake, it's position
on the great transcontinental lines of
railway insures visits from all the
leading theatrical companies, either
going to or returning from California
and the Pacific coadt. During the sea-
son just closing, this city has been
visited by such well known profess
SIGNALS as Mrs. Fiske, Kyrle Bellew,
Mrs. Leslie Carter, Ethel Barrymore.
Maude Adams, Willie Collier, John
Drew, e. II. Sothern, and Julia Mar
lowe. In the music world we have had
Sousa's band, Creatore's band, Ysaye,
the violnist, the Conried Metropolitan
Opera company, Melba, the noted
singer, and many other people favor
ably known in the theatrical and musl
cal worlds. Charles Frohman, the
great New York manager, regards
Salt Lake with especial favor, and the
attractions he introduces to Broadway,
he also, during the course of a season,
introduces, to the Utah metropolis.
If it's the cream of theatric amuse-
ment you want, if you desire to see the
great stars who dazzle London and
New York, if you want to see the very
best offerings of the foot-lights, all you
have to do is to become one of Salt
Lakes population-and have the price
of ticket in your pocket. Another
feature which conduces largely to our
ability to supply audiences for our
theatres, is the fact that Salt Lake is
a great stopping place for tourists and
a city where state and other conven-
tons are held. With large floating
these sources, the theatre affords not
only a convenient but a necessary
means of amusement. strangers
within the gates" of city go to our
theatres, often for the good reason
hat they can here see what they are
lenied at home-the best professional
.alent from New York and London. |
Often great operate or extravaganza
jumps from the east to the |
Pacific coast, but rarely indeed do they |
,ass the doors of this city.
Klaw and changers celebrated |
Mother Goose" company is a case in
Joint. In point of numbers and cost
# transportation, this was the most
expensive theatric company ever seen
the west. 1t travelled a thousand
liles before reaching us from the
cast and another thousand after leav-
1g us for the east-two thousand