The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-11
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

> SALT LAKE THEATRE 4
3 Monday. Tuesday and Wednes- =
= day matinee. THE Sleeping =
= Beauty and the Beast" Thurs y
= day, Friday and Saturday even =
= ings and Saturday matinee, =
y Madame Modjeska in Macbeth" =
= and Mary Stuart" y
= GRAND-This evening and y
= through Wednesday evening, =
= matinees Tuesday and Wednes-%
> day, My Wife's Family" Thurs =
= day. Friday and Saturday even =
= ings. Saturday matinee, Ten =
= Nights in a BarrOOm." y
= LYRIC-This evening and =
= through Friday evening, matinee =
= Tuesday and Wednesday, Wat =
sons "Orientals." =
ORPHEUM-Vaude Matt =
= nees Tuesday, Thursday, Satur- =
= day. =
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Most of the patrons of the Orpheum
have noticed that frequently the or
chestra and the people on the stage do
not work we'll together. This is special
ly true in the dancing. There has been
consequently a great deal Of criticism
of Director Weihe, a great deal of I'M
necessary criticism from the stage.
One trouble lies. perhaps, in a lack
not all belong on Mr.. Weihe's
shoulders. He is a musician of the
highest class, an orchestra conductor
of ability and experience. He plays
music as it is written. as it is given
TO him, and not according to the
whims of a ten-dollar-a-week clog
dancer. It is rather disgusting to see
men who don't know any more about
music than a pig knows about Greek,
whistle to the conductor and look at
the audience with a dOn't-yOu-feel-
soTry-fOT-me expression, when the
fault is entirely theirs,
What IS to be done about the chill
A-Jren Of the stage? At the Grand last
Week three girls, the eldest of whom
was hardly more than IA, and the
youngest not more than 70, danced and
sang for the entertainment of the
crowds. Those girls VIII grow 10 WO-
manhood without an hour of real home
life. The pleasures, the recreatiOns
that the ordinary girl enjoys will not
be for them. Theirs is a life of work
hard, exacting, unremitting toll. The
bloom has not faded from their cheeks
yet; there is no need for them to re-
sort to the tricks Of the makeup box;
but the bloom will fade before long,
the girls viii be old before their time.
And what would you? Those girls
would probably view with scorn
proposition to leave the stage. They
think they are doing the best possible
thing for themselves. Nevertheless it
is impossible for thinking people to
view their performance with any
thing but sadness, 1t is impossible not
to wish that the stage would let the
cradle alone
A New York dispatch tells of
point won by James s. Metcafe i'm his
fight agaist the New York managers
trust. Mr.. Metcalfe was excluded
from forty-seven New York theatres
because he wrote some decidedly I'M
pleasant things about them
test case was made against
Charles Burnham, manager Of Wal
lacks theatre who secured a writ of
habeas corpus This writ TODAY was
dismissed by Suprme Court Justice
Fitzgerald, who remanded Durham
Tor further proceedings, and said:
The managers statement may or
may not be well founded, but that Is
immateriaL It cannot be held that
dramatic criticism is Of itself un-
lawful, and, while it may be that crit
les in some instances transcend legal
bounds, go law in such cases affords
ample remedies against writer's and
publishers.
1T is true that a theatrical manager
owes no duty TO the public to give per
formances. He may even refuse to sell
tickets to some applicants, while free
~ dlsposing of them to others, pro-
Vided such discrimination is not on
account Of race, color. etc. but. con-
ceding him these rights, they cannot
De held TO excuse agreements between
number Of managers TO the nreiu-
dice of an individual or a class of in /
dividuals."
With the object In view Of securing
the best attractions on the European !
vaudeville stage, General Manager
Martin Beck Of the Orpheum circuit /
sailed from New York vesterl7o- for
Liverpool He will visit the LEADING /
cities ere returning in April with /
number Of contracts. The Salt Lake |
Orpheum will be played by these head |
liners.