The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-28
THIS WEEK AT
THE THEATRES

HE lHEA RES
:: Salt Lake - Thursday, Friday :.
- and Saturday and Saturday mat =
= inee, The Prince Chap =
Director John J. Mcclellan has Sc
cured his chorus for the Salt Lake
Opera comp7ny's production of Robin
Hood" to be given in September. He
is enthusiastic over the singers, and
predicts one Of the greatest successes
Of the popular local company. The
voices. lie says, are we'll balanced, the
tone pure and bright and altogether
charming. The rehearsals last week
PRODUCED great enthusiasm among the
singers. who enjoyed DeKovens beau
tiful music to the limit Every note of
the music is delightful when heard by
the pdblic, and when studied closely
by the singers the score reveals hidden
beauties rot dreamed Of. The follow
ing is a full list of the members of the
chorus:
sopranos-May Alder Ivy Evans,
Miss Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Fred c. Ora
ham, Katie Gabtott, Lillian Hudson,
Irene Kelly, Gertrude Kelly.
AitOs-LeO Davis, Claudia Holt, Mrs.
Minnie Kingdom, Amy Osborn, Anna
Rogers. Mamie Summerhays, Alice
Webley.
Tenors-John Bowers, Abbie Brain,
William Cooke, John Hand, James H.
Nelson Joseph Poll, J. Sheldon.
Bassos-A. L. Brady, Ivor Brind, J.
s. Cornwall Alex Crawford, Alvin
Keddinston, r. Ness, John D. owen,
Fred Sanford.
There is no form Of amusement that
has grown so rapidly into popular IA
vor as the moving picture exhibits
furnished at theatres. No up-tO-date
vaudeville theatre would consider its
performances complete without some
amusing or stirring picture.
As rapidly as the demand for this
class of entertainment has grown, the
manufacturers Of these pictures have
kept pace with it. and the amount Of
money expended in securing the films
in surprising. One Chicago concern
alone spent last year over S450,0 600 in
salaries to various actors and ac-
tresses and in travelling expenses for
its army of expert photographers.
No large public demonstration in any
accessible part of the world escapes
their notice. Every parade of national
Importance, the unwilling of every
statue of any national or international
character, is attended by the moving
picture artist, and the result Of his
efforts is shown before interested spec-
tators all over the country in a marvel
ously short space of time. And il must
be understood that this class of picture
Is but incidental to the business of
up-tO-Gate and interesting
films. Little comedies are acted in de-
tail by specially trained artists amidst
scenery that might have taken months
to find and to secure permission to use
for the purpose, the various concerns
employing men with no other duties
but to find a fit setting for some par
ticular act approved of by the expert
him for pictures of this kind.
In keeping pace with the public in
teTest, vast changes have been made
in the construction Of the moving pic
ture machines. The eye is no longer
strained by the rapid vibration of the
firm, there is no longer the constant
flicker over the face of the canvas that
left one with strained eyes and aching
head. The pictures shown now are
on the screen without vibra-
ton, and the light is softened so one
can sit through a long performance
with perfect comfort and infinite pleas
ure.
In the matter of securing the neces-
sary talent to pose, the business has
undergone a change equally great At
first, the photographer had a corps of
mediocre actors and actresses who
were paid from 81 to SO for q scene.
Now it is not unusual to see the fea-
lures of well known stage faVorites
taking part in a little drama or COM
edy that is shown the public through
the medium of the moving pictures, |
and the prices paid some of these ar |
lists for two or three little acts lasting /
probably not more than fifteen min !
utes enable not a few of them to nav
their expenses through the long sum- |
mef term of idleness
No other signs would tend more to !
show the growing popularity Of this 1
class of entertainment than the fact |
that New York City alone contains |
over 500 little theatres devoted excIu- /
sively TO the moving picture exhibits.
Chicago is second with about 800: Dali
las. Tex, has fourteen, SSlt Lake City
has at present three of these places of |
amusement, and a syndicate has been
formed 10 open circruit throughout
the intermountain country. This svn-
1icate, known as The Twentieth Cen
Jury Amusement company, has entered
nto an arrangement with Harry
Leighton, who IS we'll known to Salt
.akers, to act as general manager Of
he circuit. and this fact assures the
public that all of the little theatres
will be run in the most up-to-date
fashion, showing the latest pictures
The pictures shown are described as
clean and wholesome, amusing and in
structive.
X X X
Cyril Scott, regarded as one of the
most capable and attractive actors in
bis country. is announced to appear at
he Salt Lake theatre, for three nights
beginning Thursday night, in THE
oIinca Char % q he. - |