The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-03
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

! Salt Ilake.-Monday, tuesday Y
! and Tuesday matinee. George y
! Primrose's minstrels; Friday, Uni y
; versity Dramatic club in Mr.. =
\ Bob" preceded by "a Match for :
: Magistrate"
Orpheum.-An week, beginning =
= Monday. with matinee daily ex- y
\ cept Monday, vaudeville
Grand.-First half of week, be- y
= ginning tonight, matinee Monday. y
4 The Belle of JAPAN" last half of y
: of week, matinee Saturday, Jerry y
= from Kerry" +
4 Lyrie-AH week, beginning to- =
4 night, matinees Wednesday and y
Z Saturday, THE COuHterfeiters."
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While Warren and Blanchard, the
comedians at the Orpheum last week,
were playing London, Canada, recent
", Mr.. Warren called on the custom
house officials 10 have their trunks
bonded through to New York, and made
an appointment to meet the custom
house officer before leaving at the
Grand Trunk station. Warren was
there on time, and while waiting for
his man he had the following conversa-
ton with the baggagemaster:
Baggag emaster-Sit down me little
man. your man will be here in a little
while,
Warren-Thank you.
B. M-Isn't it strange the people in
your profession get cid the same as they
DO n ours?
Warren-Yes, the longer we live the
older We get
z. N-There's very few of the old
timers left know them all.
Warren--Oh. you do?
B M.-Oh. yes. There's Joe Murphy
he's alive. and Nat Goodwin, he's alive;
and Oliver Doud Byron, he's alive.
Warren-Yes. they are all living.
b. M-But East Lynn. she's dead
WaTTen.-I understand Frank Burt of
Toledo, o., has dug her up again.
M.-Wel. he oughtn't to have done
That because she was a mighty good
woman
Inc story of Madam Butterfly"
which Henry ". Savage is bringing to
mis- city. is one that has touched the
hearts OF opera-goers since it first ap-
pearec as the little one-act piaylet in
which Puecini found the Inspiration for
MS beautiful three-act opera. An
80 90 Rtft@El WHO
himself immune from the charms of
japanese maidens. succumbed TO the
Iaseination Of Butterfly, the geisha girl.
Walie his ship was stationed at Maya
SsA, He married her with all the cere-
monies dictated by Japanese custom
aha tcOk her to little villa set amid
eAe purple Wistaria and fragrant cher
y blossoms There he passed the time
VI ms Through, amused and distract
81 oy the pretty airs and graces of his
N-.soHe girf-wife. Butterfly was de-
so'eo ana planned her life to please his
10y Whim- She sent away her friends
S s hniolk, renowned the religion of
nj fathers, secluded herself from ali
~ssociStes, and sacrificed her right of
h.o.ecucn from her family. But her
..s,,pshess was brief. Her hero gaily
s~eo away at the expiration of his
III I'm With an idle promise to return
@leh the robins nest again."
assertion constitutes divorce in ia
Pm and the officer considered himself
Irs.sised from his wedding contract. But
L,s.terny, sitting day by day in her
psss.uresque little home, laughed and
s..-,u with her maid and lovingly
S sa1iled his return. Then came the
80 Ssau.iei little boy, whose blue ewes
shc..- sunny hair reminded Butterfly a
isssaho times a day Of her absent
e.. As the nesting time of robins
W. ~..'e ana passed, poor little Butterfly
e, ~s ,assailed with doubts, but bravely
b v them down. Three years went
s- sno she became more. sad and de-
sert ,'o 'I with no news from the a0- !
sc So one Disowned by her family.
ten51su Dy her former associates. at !
r rs,,ssa ny her maid Suzuki. who alone
,s .l.sai.ed faithful, she watched ana
tha until the fatal morning when
hro,-aal herlcan consul inadvertently |
A-snt her face to face with the new /
bros..aHean vile Of the lieutenant. Heart I
DON - -,s,l she slowly made her way to the
re -,,.iAe house on the heights and pre- I
lanS S lor the end. Tenderly kissing the
nles child, she offered I'D a wild /
Ian forgiveness 10 the gods of her
swo- ,,ess ancestors. and then, with the /
49,. o. her samuai father, ended her
seo and blighted life.
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eaiio.. eiIoat OF a minstrel singer Is as
oners .sly sensitive as those of grand /
, -, rs. : artists But George Primrose has
,shinse OF his own that works aston
bailsS,ln.o use. George" a siIver-voiced /
hon- ~ VIII huslxily whisper half an /
thros,s-S AoFe the curtain goes I'D. my
as raw as blue point on the