The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-06-24

company, In series of farewell per
formances at the West End theater.
For the first week he appeared g
Shylock In THE Merchant Of Venice"
on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday
nights and Wednesday matinee, On
Thursday and Friday nights and at
the Saturday matinee he presented his
own play, The Stranger Tonight he
appears I'm King Lear"
+. II. Sothern and julia Marlowe
have been going through the last week
Of the Shakespearean season at the
Academy OF Music. For Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday nights and
Wednesday matinee Twelfth Night"
was presented with Mr.. Sothern as
Malvollo and Miss Marlowe as Viola
On Thursday and Friday nights and
this afternoon and evening the play
was Hamlet" with Mr.. Sothern as
the Melancholy Dane and Miss Mar
lowe as OphelIs,
At the Alhambra theater In Harlem
the second week OF the Alhambra Opera
company witnessed the revival of Au-
ber's splendid romantic opera, Fra Dl-
aYolo." on scale of excellence such
as this splendid old opera has not Wit
messed in twenty years. A new pro-
duction OF scenery has been constructed
for the presentation Of Fra Dlavolo,'
over the circuit with which the Al
! hambra is being operated this summer.
ne engagement VI J1tliy lDlNey
in THE Man on the Box, at the Lyric
theater. continues TO be marked with
appreciatiye audiences. This smart
comedy apparently has as strong a hold
on the fancy of the theater-goer dur
Ing this supplemental season as IT did
when 1t was first produced early In
the season.
Miss Bates continues to defy the heat
| at the Belasco and a Fourth of July
matinee of THE Lion and the Mouse"
ts announced at the Lyceum. Edmund
Brcese. Marguerite st. John, Richard
| Bennett and Walter Allen. who were
| In tho original production OF THE Lion
| and the Mouse" have returned to the
cast, the piece having been withdrawn
| In London.
OF the musical plays, both His Hon
| or the Mayor" at the New York, and
1.-The Social Whlrl," at the Casino, con-
tinue to draw fine patronage with no
| end Of their engagement in sight.
Carlotta Nillson will appear next sea-
| son under the management of Walter
| n. Lawrence In Rachel Crothcr's new
| four-act comedy. The Three OF Us"
| The scenes are laid in the West. Miss
Nillson Is spending the summer in
| Paris. but will return to New York
In August.
"The Raln-Denrs." Ned Waybprn's
| most recent vaudeville spectacle, was
the chief novelty of the week in Wis
| taria grove. on the New York theater
| where IL was given as the closing
| number Of the programme. 1t was In
| terpreted by Neva Aymer, remembered
as a soubrette In the companies of The
| Rogers Brothers and Joseph Cawthorn,
and eight singing and dancing girls. 1t
| tells q little story, a variant of the fable
! of the gTasshopper and the ant. which
| holds together five scenic pictures One
setting shows the Polar regions chang
| 0SI1
summers day. In this setting. the last
| of the five, n counterfeit of a rain
| storm, is shown
George Cohan In The Governors 8
Son." continues the attraction in tho
pretty roof theater above the New
Amsterdam theater
A modern play has been secured for
Creston Clarke next season to take the
| place OF Monsieur BeauCaire." in
which he appeared with such success
| all over the country last season. and
The Ragged Messenger" by George
Pastor, Mr.. Clarke's new vehicle, is
said to be another such story as The
| Christian"
Tonight witnessed the initial perform
ance Of Pains fireworks. THE Erup-
| ton Of Vesuvius" at Manhattan Beach.
The opening shows the banks OF the
Bay OF Naples with Vesuvius in the
center and Naples to the left.
Thompson & Dundy's Luna park con-
tinues to be the mecca for the Coney
Island throngs. No previous season has
been so prosperous and never before
has the great playground been so at
| tractive.
At Dreamland this week the free
| vaudeville has been headed by the
Corinda Opera company OF twelve peo-
pie. The fall of San Francisco, which
is now open to the public. equals eX-
pectations and Is drawing thousands
] daily