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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29

Adams Sawyer" ''Toyland," Buster
Brown" and many others of the same
good quality.
The secret of Max Figman's wonder
full success in the delightful comedy,
1.-The Man on the Box" is said to lie
in his absolute sincerity and the great
heaTt-interest of the story. Mr.. Fig
man never Sights a performance in
the least degree, and is an artist to his
finger tips. He has a keen apprecia-
ton of comedy, and has the happy fac
ulty of understanding not to OVerstep
the bounds. The play, while a comedy,
reveals a pretty little romance, and
while the laughter is frequent, there is
always something hack of it that
makes the auditor feel satisfied he has
given vent to his appreciation of ii.
Genuine comedies are scarce now, and
Mr.. Figman has a long-lived jewel in
THE Man on the Box" He will be
supported by an exceptionally strong
and provided with a COM
plete production by his manager, John
COrt, who also directs the American
tour of Madame Calve and of Miss
Maud Fealy, Miss Sarah Truax and The
comic opera success, The Alaskan"
Because the manager of a little cOun-
try theatre in Massachusetts failed TO
secure a performance of Mrs. Patrick
Campbell and her London company, in
1.-THE Second Mrs. Tanqueray." he put
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into practice the ancient fable Of the
sour grapes" and proclaimed from
the housetops that the play would not
be permitted by the authorities. The
London correspondent in New York
magnified the Massachusetts hamlet
into New York City, and for two days
Mrs. Campbell was bothered with Eng
lish correspondents. who wanted to
know if THE Second Mrs. TanQueray'
had really been stopped.
All this goes to show what an extra
ordinary conception our British cousins
have of our common sense. 1t is need
less to add that THE Second Mrs. Tan
queray." The greatest of modern Eng
fish plays, viii be played by Mrs.
Campbell from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific.
After one has seen Puccinis latest
grand opera, Madam Butterfly" soon
to be given in this city by Henry w.
Savage's English grand opera cOmpa-
ny, he is in doubt as to who is en-
titled to the greatest credit for the
production of this inspiring master
piece. Whether it belongs to the man
who conceived the story or to the COM
poser who wrote the music, or to the
produced, who took the whole and
made of it a grand opera of splendor
and magnificence, is the perpleXing
question.
Burns Mantle, the well-known critic
Of the Chicago Inter-Ocedn, in a recent
review gives the greatest honor for
Madam Butterfly to Henry w Saw
age Among other things, Mr.. Mantle
said; Credit for the success of Ma
dam Butterfly may be cut in three
slices and passed to John Luther Long,
for the story; to Giacomo Puccini, for
the music, and to Henry w Savage
for the production.
"To which of the three forces respOn-
sible belongs the greatest credit con-
sidering Madam Butterfly purely as
an opera. it might be hard for an
Open-minded person to determine. Per-
sOnally l should award ii to Mr.. Saw
age. Certainly he has gone to unusual
pains in staging the work. The pro
duction proper is a beautiful example
of what can be accomplished by scene
builders and stage directors. The de-
tail is faultlessly worked out, and the
pictures shown within the japanese
frame substituted for the regular drop
curtain, are strikingly beautiful and
finely atmospheric.
There is a solidity. a sense of COM
pleteness, in the setting that kills sug-
gestiOn of theatrical makeshifts This
tone pictures and the careful drilling
of the singers. It is a rarely complete
entertainment"
In all the daintiness of niceness of
her Marrying Mary" by Edwin Mil
ton ROyle of Salt Lake, clever Marie
-Cahill has scored a signal triumph and
will be seen here at the Salt Lakesthe-
atre Jan. s. They who have called for
more story and more plot in musical
plays have been INDICATED in this
most interesting effort of E. NJ. Royle.
and the music by Silvio Helm and ly-
ries by Benjamin Hapgood Burt, have
proved d most fitting decoration to the
book
Marrying Mary is really a great
musical play for it marks the creation
of a new class of entertainment. The
English musical comedies have al
ready been characterized as nice, but
then they have invariably been too
dull for Americans. But here we have
a comedy free from horseplay and vul-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
PROMISE OF THE THEATRES
"under Southern Skies"

Lottie Blair Parker. the author of
Under Southern Skies" and Way
Down East" might be called a revival
list" playwright, inasmuch as the sue
cess of both these dramas has been fol-
lowed by a large crop of plays from the
pens of other writer's dealing with rur-
al New England and southern life The
field of rustic New England drama was
popularity supposed TO have been ex-
hausted, as far as financial returns were
concerned, by "Shore Acres" and THE
Old Homestead" and interest in plays
of southern life was considered worn
threadbare by Alabama" Held by
the Enemy" Shenandoah" and Sc
cret Service" To the surprise of every
one, Way Down East" leaped at once
into a popularity that has not been ex-
ceeded by either The Old Homestead
or Shore Acres" No sooner was the
success of "Way Down East assured
than a score of playwrights rushed to
the front with plays of New England
rural life Many of them were received
with favOr-One notable instance was
revival of a New England play which
had been produced with fine cast and
had met with failure before the produc-
ton OF Way Down East" afterwards
meeting with success on the revival.
II would seem almost as if Way Down
East recreated public interest in New
England rural drama. The same thing
seems to be repeating itself in regard TO
Under Southern Skies" For some
years the south had been almost aban-
doned as a field for drama, when Mrs
Parker launched Under Southern
Skies" a play of southern life so orig
inal in treatment and so intensely inter
esting that II was at once accepted by
the press and public of New York City
and has been pronounced the most di-
verting and unhaekneyed play of south
ern life ever written. The play has
now entered its seventh successful sea-
son and promises to live as long and
as prosperously as Way Down East"
AS in the case of the latter play, "Un-l
der Southern Skies has caused a re-
vival of southern plays. No less than
four plays dealing with southern sub |
1ects have been produced within the |
past year and announcements are made |
of others still 10 follow. None, how |
ever, up 10 the present writing APP |
proach in charm or popularity their !
forerunner, Under Southern Skies |
This wonderfully successful play will |
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opens a weeks engagement at the
Grand theatre tonight. AS the title in
dicates, the story of the play is woven
around western life, but is trifie above
the average so-called western drama, as
it is not of the Observation-Disclosures type
Just good, wholesome representation
of life in the far west at the time when
the buffalo roamed the foothills and the
plains, Indian campfiTes burned where
the main streets of cities now are, and
the COW puncher could ride for days at a
stretch without seeing a fence or a
building.
Bess Crabtree,. a young university
girl from the east, is the central figure
in the drama, and her expert
ences with the bad man. of the west
and the careless, free-foot cowboy, are
interesting to say the least. Briefly the
story is this: Bess is the heiress 10 a
large English legacy with the proviso
that she marry her cousin, Arthur Har-
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now being presented for the first time
i'm the smaller cities, but with the same
splendid production, many of the orig
inal cast and the same Cohanesque cho-
rus which has made it one of America S
most popular musical shows of many
seasons. The music, like all Conan mu-
sic, is lively, bright and jingles all the
time. It's the kind that starts our feet
a-mOving and our threats a-whistling.
Mr.. Conan has never composed music
more enhancing than that to be found
in George Washington, jr." Several
of the numbers have gained immense
popularity. particularly You're a
Grand Old Flag" Virginia, He Was
a Wonderful Man" IN Be There With
Bells On" and The Wedding of the
Blue and the Gray" The cast is a
lengthy one, and includes many names
prominently identified with musical
Carter De Haven will be seen
in the title role, while other members
of the cast include Willis P Sweat
nam, Jack Rafael. John A. Boone. Ed
ward Lester, Frank McNish, jr., Joseph
Leslie John Kaufman, Lee Myers,
Flora Parker, Leona Anderson and
Lola Hoffman. Like all Conan cho-
ruses, it is composed of pretty girls who
can both sing and dance
1.-THE Girl and the Stampede"
The Girl and the Stampede, Victor
E. Lambert's great comedy drama,
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"eeorae Washington, Jr.''

The announcement of the coming of a
George NJ. COhan play to this city al
ways conveys with il a world of pleas
urable anticipation for our theatre-gO-
ers; therefore, much interest is being
manifested in the approaching engage
ment of the Cohan & Harris comedians
at the Salt Lake theatre for four nights
and two, matinees, beginning New
Years day, when this famous organiza-
ton will be seen in Mr.. Cohan's popu-
lar success, George Washington, jr."
For the past two seasons this play has
been presented in only the very largest
cities. 1t played an engagement of
many weeks at the Herald Square the
atre in New York and four months at
the Colonial theatre in Chicago. 1t is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-29
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

+ Salt Lake Theatre-Monday and =
= Tuesday evenings and Tuesday =
y matinee. Under Southern Skies: y
= Wednesday matinee and through 7
= the balance of the week. matinee y
= Saturday, George Washington, =
y jr." y
= Grand-This evening and all y
y week, matinees Wednesday and y
= Saturday, THE Girl and the STAN y
= pede." y
Orpheum-TOmorrOw evening and y
= all week. matinees every day eX- =
= cept Monday, vaudeville.
Lyric-This evening and through 4
~ Friday evening, matinee Wednes- y
y day, "A Cowboys Honor"
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band. When Morley appears they all
believe him to be a ghost, but after
some explanation his innocence is east
ly proven, and in the end he marries
the girl he loves and lives happy ever
afterward, as they say In all fairy. ste-
rieS,
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Halliday Drug Co.
AeeRAVATING MAR.
GEO. D. PIPER,
Manager.

Catholic Standard and Times)
Il don't see how you can have any
fault to find with him.
why not?"
Because he appears TO be man
who is absolutely without faults of any
sort"
That's Just It. That's his worst
fault
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garity. and yet more lively and enter
tanning. Comedy of the mind and
not of the hands and feet" someone
has said, and it seems fit provided the
phrase is not so interpreted as to ex-
clude the graceful dancing of the
'Iong-skirted' chorus.
A secret of Miss Cahill's success lies
in the remarkable and strong cast she
has gathered together. 1t is probably
the highest priced and most finished
aggregation of players now appearing
in a musical comedy. Eugene COw:es
alone must command a salary which
would stagger any manager.
HAUERBACH'S ORCHESTRA.
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be seen here at the Salt Lake theatre
next Monday and Tuesday evenings and
special Tuesday matinee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

from the Chicago News.J
What most towns need is a curfew
for married men.
An empty stomach provides man
with food for thought
Even girls who are not superstitious
believe in ice-cream signs.
Operating a lawn mower never
makes man wish for more lawn.
Every time some men do a eood
act they manage to get caught at 1T.
An accomplished liar is one WIN
can successfully bluff a bill collector.
No, Cordelia, it isn't necessarily a.
case Of matter over mind when a wo-
man has on new hat
Give the average man a chance tn
make money out of the misfortunes
of others and he will make It.
After girl makes up her mind tn
marry a certain man all the advice
is wasted.
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sleepy voice from the low French win
dow. I'm good boy, only am bad
sometimes" he explained as he pat
tered out upon the piazza and climbed
upon Ruth's lap II was bad today,
he added. Il got tar in Mr.. Carman's
boots and 1 got spanked because he
couldn't come over and ask you to
marry him. Won't you please marry
him, SO I won't be spanked?" he add
ed. II was spanked three times to-
day"
Wont you?" asked Carman softly.
Kiss me, too" he pleaded. And Mrs.
seemed that l had lost my opportunity
I was nearly crazy. 1t was fate that
brought you over. am not a good
pleader. Won't you let D. D. D. plead
for me?"
Miss Emory's eyes grew softly
bright. She, too, had been afraid that
perhaps the word that would mean so
much to them both would never be
spoken.
81 am a member of the children S
Aid society" she said with low
laugh. "Perhaps-for the sake OF ID.
D. d. had better say yes
In moment Carman's ar We're
about her and he knelt beside her
chair. Mrs Dudley's first hint that all
was well was gained as she rounded
the porch from D. D. DIS sleepy voice;
Kiss me, too" he pleaded Ana
Dudley smiled and went softly to the
back door lest she disturb them.-
copyrighted, 1907, by NJ M. cum
ningham.)
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFrom the Phila de1phia Record.1
Treats all hands-the manicure.
Uppish people deserve to be called
down.
A man wears gloves just to keep his
hand in.
No laughing matter-many a farce
comedy.
Many a man has got cold feet from
waiting for dead mems shoes.
No, Maude dear; we have never
heard that the fayorite desert Of the
cannibal was lady fingers.
Fat Lady-"There's nothing stuck
up about the Armless Wonder Liv-
ing SkeIeton-"No; he has such an
off-hand way about him"
It is almost as hard to dodge a bill
collector as to dodge an automobile,
but when the bill collector comes in a
motor car It is impossible.
Blobbs-"He's rather a promising
young man. isn't he?" Slobbs-
promising? should say he was; no
less than five girls are suing him for
breach of promise
"One-half the world doesn't know
how the other half lives" quotes the
Wise Guy. 81 didn't know there were
so many people who attended to their
own business" added the Simple
Mug.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The biggest joke this department
ever heard of was when the LIQUOR
interests supported John Schenck for
county attorney.
4
Money is undeniably scarce saws
Henry Clews of Wall street. 1t must
be just previous to pay day with
Henry.
For some reason or other an off
year is passing without the enemies
OF Cy Leland celebrating his political
funeral. This is the first time within
the memory of modern politicians
that Mr.. Leland has not been killed
off politically in the off year.
y
There is reason to believe that the
railroad system in Kansas is a lady
At least it assumes woman's preroga-
tive of changing its mind several
times on a proposition.
X X
If fashion really DEGREES that wo-
mans curves must go, it will be tough
on the female baseball clubs. What
woman would throw a curve when
fashion has abolished all curves for
her?
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bank statement is that Kansas has
loaned fifteen million dollars to out
side commercial interests-eastern
manufacturers and merchants-yet it
still has a reserve of IL per cent. in its
state banks and 81 per cent. in its ma
tional banks. The reserve is the
actual cash or sight exchange on
hand This is more than double the
amount required by law Kansas
state banks are required to keep 20
per cent. of their deposits on hand,
and national banks are required to
keep 15 per cent.
In other words. Kansas banks could
still loan the east IS millions more, or
a total OF so million dollars, and still
maintain their legal reserve. OF
course they will not do it, but they
could should they so desire.
No, notwithstanding the gloom and
hard times in Wall street, the coun-
try is not going broke just yet.
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One hundred and sixty-five million
dollars on deposit in Kansas banks,
and over $64,OOO.OO0 of it on hand in
actual cash or sight exchanges!
Wonder what Wall street thinks of
that!
Country going broke? Well. not If
Kansas knows anything about it. Why,
the actual increase in the bank de-
posts of Sunfowerdom during the past
year-just the spare change which the
farmers put in the banks after making
improvements, buying automobiles
taking trips over the country, and
spending all they wanted in other ways
was almost as much as the total de-
posts in all banks only eleven years
ago.
That was a remarkably fine state
ment that was made public by Bank
Commissioner Royce yesterday. In the
first place, it shows that SO new banks
were started during the past year,
making a total of 939. In another year
the number will go over a thousand.
Two or three years ago some conserva-
tives were predicting that the banking
business was being overdone, but there
is no abatement in the establishment of
new banks. and they are all doing web.
Then there are the deposits. In two
years Kansas has piled up almost $4S,-
100000 in her banks. yet as late as
1896 the whole state could not draw Il
check for more than $32.00O,00o The
total deposits on August % amounted
to nearly 100000. and they are
climbing up at the rate of over two
millions a month.
Up to 1897 the entire population Of
Kansas had less than $4O,OOO,o0O on
deposit in the banks. In 1899 the fifty
million mark was passed, and then the
advance was more rapid. The state
was paying of millions of dollars OF
eastern mortgages, but late in 1903 the
bank deposits reached 100000. 600.
and two and half years later another
SO millions had been added to them.
Now they are increasing at the rate of
hundred millions in four years. It is
quite likely that they will be close to
200 millions only a year hence.
But the astonishing thing is that. in
addition to sending untold millions
east to pay off mortgages, in addition
to the millions that have been snent
in the last ten years for new houses
and barns, for new machinery and
modern improvements. for education
and more farms, for comforts and
luxuries, Kansas has four times as
much money in it's banks as it had
only ten years ago.
The third important item about this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-28
A Good RetOFt.

1.-THE late Robert Pinkerton. of the
great detective agency said a Chicago
detective, was a religious man, and
he liked nothing better than to listen
to a good, liberal. intelligent sermon.
He was once talking to me about the
change for the better that has come
over American sermons in the past 10
or 20 years. He said sermons were
gentler than they used to be. They no
longer reeked of fire and birthstone.
''Once. he said, he heard famous
evangelist preach in San Francisco The
evangelist shocked the congregation a
good deal. He told them that his
grandmother had been a good and
moral woman, but she had never pro-
fessed religion, and therefore he was
confident that at that moment the aged
lady was suffering eternal torment.
"a young man rose at this, and with
a look of disgust started for the door.
The evangelist pointed an accusing
finger at him.
There is young man. he cried,
who is also on the downward path
1.-THE young man turned. His face
was very red. But he smiled pleasant
ly, and said, in loud, pleasant voice:
us there any message 1 can take to
your grandmother, sir?''
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AS the Adriatic plowed her way
through soft, blue summer seas, a
group of tourists in the smoking room
talked of the horrors of fire on ship
board.
Fire in a theater is a bad thing,
too" said Clyde Fitch, the dramatist;
yet it sometimes has its funny side.
1 remember an incident that happened
in Concord. The villain in a Concord
melodrama, as he lighted his cigarette,
set a newspaper ablaze, and great fire
scare arose. Amidst this scare, as the
panic-stricken audience struggled and
howled and fought, a fat man galloped
up to the box office and shouted in an
angry and accusing voice:
'Theater's afire. Gimme me money
ha ck' -
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glob,


Jealousy is convincing but unsatis-
factory evidence of affection.
Every time the fire whistle blows.
We think we can smell burning pine.
Our idea of nerve is a loafer who
explains the cause of the labor short
age.
We often hear wife say of her
husband: He is the easiest man
fooled!'
This is nearly always said of wild
over: He isn't the same since his
wife died.
Don't try to beat another's game;
the mule can outkick you every jump
in the road.
Even the winner in a game of
good judgment.
You may think you live in good
country. but the real estate agent is
the true optimist
Some men who make good as
candidates, cant keep up the pace
when they become officials.
Dress reform note from a magazine
poem: my love is clad in sunbeams,
with a rainbow round her brow"
When you are discussing millinery
is a poor time to convince a woman
that Mhere is nothing new under the
sun.
You know how worthless are the
given out by others are equally value
less.
Another interesting race is that be-
tween the loaded motor car and the
unloaded gun in the matter of piling
up casualties.
Among other enjoyable features of
this beautiful fall weather is the way
it seems to aggregate the rheumatism
of the house fly. .
The person who always wants his
Gown way" finds a fairly satisfactory
substitute in preventing other people
from having theirs.
Some men could make life easier
for themselves and others by putting
in less overtime telling they are hold
ing the hardest job in town.
There isn't much excuse for the
liar who stands around and remarks:
How natural he looks!" when a
corpse is the center of attraction.
There is cause for qualification that
the other unwritten law isn't violated
as frequently as the one governing the
corraling of straw hats in the fall.
There has always been a quarrel be-
tween the man who keeps his pie, and
the man who eats it. and it will al
ways continue. And the man who has
eaten his pie will always contend that
he hasn't had any.
We enjoy fall more than any other
season. In the fall we can confident
~ IOOk IOTWdFU 10 dig CROPS next
year.
Old story making another round: A
man walked down town, carefully
holding his hands in front of him. as
If measuring something. Meeting an
acquaintance, the acquaintance grab
bed one of the mans hands, and
shook hands with him. DOG on you"
said the man, angrily, st had the
measure of a pane of glass, and you
have ruined it,
A certain Atchison man has a
worthless spell working on him, and
tonight will engage in a watermelon
stealing expedition. He intends to
creep through a deep ravine, through
a brush patch and then across
plowed field, to a watermelon patch |
he knows of. The owner of the patch |
has often invited him to come out |
and help himself. but the man wants |
to steal them. If the owner of the
patch will set the dogs on him, or |
shoot at him with a shotgun. the man |
will more rapidly recover from his |
worthless spell. The man hopes to be
all right again within a day or two.