The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-29

The Press club burlesque this year will
take the form OF rural problem play,
with local trimmings cut on the bias.
The play which is to be on the Way
Down East-Shore Acres style OF Offering.
Is to bear the eupbonIous title of The
Old Bedstead." 10 distinguish II from
the "Old Homestead" This Offering will
be presented to the public at the Salt
Lake theater on the night OF Thursday,
September s, with all It's spcclalties, To-
cal hits and array of talent Race
Whitney and Waldemar Young are now
busily engaged upon the book and what
promises to be the best yet Is confidently
expected. OF necessity the cast calls for
the wronged girl driven out into the
binding snowstorm, the adventures, the
soubTette so dear to the average melo-
drama patron. and all the other accesso-
ries. not forgetting the heavy villain, all
OF which will be interpreted by the bud
ding histrionio talent among the mem
bers OF the Press club.
The vaudeville season will commence
In Salt Lake Monday, August 13. when
the Orpheum will open its doors for
run OF ten months. During that period
Salt Lake will have some OF tho best
offerings OF the combined Keith Orpheum
circuit. including the great Road Show"
Resident Manager Jules f. Bistes will
not be on hand to greet patrons, but Mr
Reiter. manager Mt Omaha, will be here
until Mr.. Bistes returns from st. Paul.
whore he is getting the new Orpheum
there ready for the first week In Sep
tember.
The Salt Lake house is now being
beautifully decorated. Starting from the
State street entrance the various color
schemes Will be: Vestibule. rich green's
and worries In oil: long lobby, red walls
"a tor hn lori niIa
XVI style; foyer. ivory, cream and olive
green's. The auditorium Is being finished
In the modern Renaissance and Louis XVI
style The boxes balcony and proscen-
um arch are decorated with plaster cast
designs with Ivory. white and gold ef-
fects- On the sounding board n Utah
sky effect Ia tints and floral frescoes pre-
vail In the theater proper tho color
| scheme Is cream, Ivory and old rose.
| This work is being done by Chicago
| thenter decorators. Charles G., Halbach,
! who has charge of the work here, says
| that when II is finished Salt Lake will
have the daintiest and prettiest theater
| OF Its size OF any west Of New York.
Last night closed the second week Of
the Cassidy Musical company at Casino
park. Tonight this company Will pro-
sent new bill. a nautical operate ono
| In two acts, entitled THE Belle of Vera
| CruZs ana IL is SAID TO De one OF the
| best In the company's list OF successes
| Twenty musical numbers will interrupt
| the dialogue. and they range from grand
! opera TO ragtime, also introducing new
| dances. Tho same pretty girls. funny
| comedians and excellent principals will
| be seen to advantage, all being eXcep-
tionally we'll cast in this comedy.
Eldredge, Meakin & Co. Will star Miss
| Ruth Eldredge, formerly of Salt Lake, in
! q new romantic drama. The MasQue Of
| the White Rose" by James Macarthur
| Of Harper Bros, who also dramatized
| '''rhe Bonnie Briar Bush and now has
dramatization of Pilgrims Progress" to
be produced in October. Miss Eldredge.
| has gained an excellent reputation on.
| the road, playing such characters as
| Rosalind Portla, Thelma etc. Miss Ell
| founded on the life OF Mirabeau. which
Eldredge. Meakin & Co. will present In
| New York early In December.
| 1t now appears that the reason why
! Nat Goodwin Is not to appear In the new
| Cohan play. Popularity" is because Mr..
| Goodwin wished TO edit the piece. This
Mr. Cohan Indignantly refused TO allow
| him TO do.
| Every ambitious playwright has a
| drama with tho money motive on the
| stocks. In the forthcoming theatrical
| season, and probably for several seasons
| ahead, the era OF exposure In American
| finance, business and politics will be re-
nocted In the offerings at the playhouBes.