Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-22
Special Correspondence.


A lew YORK. Dec. 1.-THE APP
IN Iproach of Christmas in this city
Ms indicated in the appearance OF
hundred-page newspapers, iir-
trees. and throngs OF shoppers, and In
the disappearance, temporarily, OF the
thing called first nights" We aren't
having any new plays just now, and
nobody pays much attention TO the old
ones. III theatrical managers were
poets, they might paraphase a certain
lifting verse IN this.
Twas the week before Christmas. and
all over town
Receipts and the mercury kept going
down.
The anteholidey season isn't happy
one In the amusement world, and the
25th OF December means less TO the ac-
tor than does election day. Generally,
he is away from home. and always he
celebrates by giving an extra matinee.
I've spent a Christmas or two "on the
road" myself and | know the delights
OF chilly hotel rooms and slices OF tur-
key that look as though they mad been
cut with plane.
The manager gets even In the two
weeks that hold Christmas and New
years day Every season there Is u
greater inclination on the part OF the
public to rejoice by attending places OF
amusement, and few of the successes
In New York will play to less than 500
900 In the fortnight beginning next Mon
day. In the course OF that time we are
promised more than dozen premieres;
some OF them interesting and important.
Last year seven new comedies were
revealed to Broadway on Christmas az
ternoon and evening.
The biggest money-maker along Main
street Just now is Anna Held In "a
Partisan Model" This seems to prove
that Gotham likes a little tobasco on
It's oysters. and l suppose that II the
Reverend Madison Peters learns the
awful truth he will be more than ever
discouraged about our morals II isn't
heartening for the reformer to find "A
parisian Model" packing the theater to
the doors, while up the street a way
THE Light Eternal" is illuminating
serried ranks OF vacant chairs.
There is an extraordinary number OF
successes In town at the present time,
the list being headed. OF course, by
THE Lion and the Mouse" now on It's
second year at the Lyceum. Montgom-
cry and Stone In The Red MILL Mar
garet Anglin and Henry Miller in The
Great Divide" Rose Stahl In "The
Chorus Lady Eleanor Robson In re-
pertoire. Charlotte Nilsson In The
Three OF Us" Sam Bernard In The
Rich Mr.. Hoggenheimer, and Frances
Starr in ''The Rose of the Rancho may
stay out OF the present season. IN
addition, there are such unquallfied
III ID tn, M
Idea,n John Drew In His House in
Order" and "The Hypocrites."
Our two seasons Of grand opera are
keeping us fairly busy, This week the
Metropolitan has produced La Boz
heme," "Lohengrin," Aida" THE
Damnatlon OF Faust and Lucia di
Lammermoor" while the Manhattan
has given US Don Giovanni" Aida,
"Luci de Lammermoor," Faust" and
Carmen The opera last mentioned
was substituted for Aida" at todays
matinee because OF the enormous audi
ence II drew last Saturday. When all Is
said and done, most of our music low
ers like tunes" and Carmen"
Faust "Cavalleria Rusticana' and
other works OF the Italian school VIII
always enjoy large measure Of popu-
lafity IMAM tne heavier anu HloTe CuIi-
plicated products OF the Germans.
Ii has always seemed to me too bad
that burlesque shows remain on the
dead level OF mediocricy, and | have In
sisted that any manager of this kind
of entertainment who tried 10 break
away from tradition would make his
fortune. There has been startling
demonstration of the correctness OF this
prophecy at the Circle Theater, which
books attractions for week engagements
and which has been jogging along L
fair business since the opening Of tht
season. Recently, a burlesque called
wine, Women and Song" opened
there, and proved most superior at
traction of its kind. As result II
! probably will remain IN town through
| out the entire season. having created q
| vertable furore among people who or.
| dinarily do not care for that sort Of
| bill. Alan Dale and other critics have
reviewed the performance. and ever,
night carriages and automobiles lint
the street in front OF the Circle. Seats
are not to be hadexcept four or Nv,
weeks in advance. OF course, this stat,
! ~ affairs has interested managers o.
| legitimate attractions. and Sam s. an(