Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-28

about the vaudeville outlook IN Salt
Lake said: THAT'S all right; | wish
they would put up the house across
the street. right opposite ! have no
complaint to make regarding business,
but II Is my firm conviction that Salt
Lake could not stand for two tirst-class
vaudeville houses. Unless the house
Is connected with a big circuit ! cannot
see how II Is going TO make good. All
that can be promised acts Is at the
most two weeks engagement, aud
YOU will find that transportation OF
people animal acts, etc, viii eat up the
biggest Independent house going.
"Outside of the Orpheum there Is no
other nrst-class vaudeville circuit OPP
Grating In the west. There is no class
of entertainment more expensive than
vaudeville. High salaries have TO be
paid TO actors TO tempt them 10 desert
the legitimate stage European acts
must be guaranteed so many weeks
work and 50 much cash before they Will
move, Take Jesse Bartlett Davis, for
instance, our circuit paid her $1,000 a
week. while the $500 acts are too nu-
merous to mention. 1t Is impossible to
handle these attractions unless there
Ia a big chain of houses to take care
OF them. We have TO pay big salaries
to get the people. When Lewis Nor
rison was here few weeks ago he said
to me that he had a tempting offer 10
go into vaudeville with a condensed
version Of Faust" and he was in all
probability going 10 take it next sea-
son. Hermann the Great IS an
other who has deserted the
legitimate for The vaudeville stage and
50 / might go on indefinitely
SAYS HE CAN'T GUESS.
where this new venture IS going to
get high class vaudeville from | am
at loss to guess. The vaudeville
business Of the country is practically
IL, the hands Of two organizations, the
Eastern Vaudeville Managers assOcia-
ton and the Western Vaudeville Man
ayers association, both Of which work
in harmony--and you understand what
that means. There are wheels within
wheels. The Orpheum circuit has
three booking offices which control the
leading houses west N Cincinnati, one
IN San Francisco, another In Chicago
and the third In New York which
works IN With the foreign agencies
which are represented there. General
Manager Martin Beck Of the circuit
If now on his annual trip TO Europe
where he is booking acts for next sea-
son These acts viii appear in our
houses TO get the business good acts
have to be presented and novelties
staged. These high priced people only
book with chain Of theaters to IN
sure long enga gements II they book
with independent theaters they don't
get tho long engagements, and that Is
the situation in q nutshell
MEN BEHIND THE MAJESTIC
The board of directors Of the Ma
iestic Theater company is to consist
of n. Lichtenstein, president; VI. b.
Lichtcnsten. vice President, NJ. Lien e
tenstein, treasurer; Il. Lichtcnstein,
secretary, and f. Lichtensten
| who Is now in San Francis
CO in the interest Of the new
| company. This corporation 1t Is
! Understood, Will be similar in organiza-
! ton TO the Orpheus Vaudeville com
/ pany which Incorporated here and se-
| cured a long lease on the Orpheum
| theatcr and i'm turn closed a contract
| with the circuit to put on the weekly
| shows. With whom the Majestic Will
| sign contracts to furnish the weekly
! bill remains TO be seen.