Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-16

| the benefit OF patrons. A local furni-
| ture house has secured the contract
| Tor thlS carpet with 10 yards
| or French plush, which will be utilized
| for the draperles. AS far as possible
| everything Is being purchased
in Salt Lake. From electric light FIX
lures down TO the printing for the
house local firms have been given the
| preference. The only case IN which this
state OF affairs does not prevail Is Ia
that OF the drop curtain and the seem
cry. An effort was made to have this
work turned out here but II WAS found
impossible in the short space Of time re-
CURED. These are now on their way
here from Chicago and are expected to
arrive at any time.
The same policy holds good when IL
comes to the stan Of the theater that
has been engaged Every man,
with the exception of Jules
+. Bistes, the manager, being a resi-
dent of this city, Mr., Bistes represents
General Manager Martin Beck OF the
Orpheum Circuit company at Chicago.
otherwise the Salt Lake Orpheum is in
the hands Of local people, from the COM
pany which erected the theater in the
first place down TO the sceneshifters.
The fact that Salt Lake Is the small
est city on the Orpheum Circuit by
perhaps 10000 inhabitants. speaks vol
umes for the confidence the promoters
have I'm the drawing capabilities OF the
shows presented ana in the city OF
Opportunities"
In Denver. san Francisco and Los
Angeles, the three nearest cities TO Salt
Lake the $. r. O, sign Is displayed
nightly and it Is believed that as soon
rs the general public in salt Lake sense
nh III. 4
there will be a big demand for seats.
SO as TO obvlate as much AS possible
any chance Of regular patrons being
disappointed, Manager Bstes an
nounces that there will be a register |
kept In the box Office wherein the names |
of those desiring seats at least once a |
week will be recorded, with |
the number Of the seats selected The |
tickets for these will be held subject to |
call up TO o'clock on the night re-
quired, II not called for 10y that hour |
they Will be sold.
The contractors are pushing work |
with a force OF 100 men, and there is
every indication that the house VIII be
turned over 90 the management by TIM
end of next week complete and ready /
for the 1900 or more lirst-nighters on
Dec 25
The Orpheum STAFF will be as fol-
lows! Jules +. Bistes, manager; Wes-
ley J. Wilson, treasurer: willard
Welhe, conductor Of orchestra; Pack
ham, superintendent Of auditorium;
II. y, Aldous. superintendent Of stage
II. 5. Mills. electrician; 4. 4. Thomas,
program, w. c. Ballcnger. officer
Patrons OF the Grand Theater are
promised a novelty when Her Mar
riage Vow" melodrama OF exception
al merit presented by Charles A. Tay.
lor's New York company. comes to this
city for four nights next week
The play donls with railroad life. The
hero Is railway telegraph operator.
and the heroine an engineers daughter.
The villain is the son Of the superip.
tendent Of the road, and the wicked wo.
man is the presidents daughter The !
number OF thrilling situations are many |
aud wei placed. Al the end Of III,
third net the william assaults and binds
The hero, who II supposed To switch
local train into the siding 80 that tho
limited may rass in the other direction.
The villain throws the switch-a col
ison Is imminent. when the soubrette
breaks from a room I'm which she has
been locked and releases the hero. who
'mashcs a window IN the switch house,
Jumps through, and after a hand TO
hand fight with the villain and his ac- ;
'omplices turns the switch In time TO
avert the catastrophe
"Yon Yonson." written nv the late
ius Heege. who was also the frs, nc. !
or seen In the clever character part {
'omes again to the Grand on Thursday I