Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-10-01
ADJUSTMENTS.

Thcutor-Reports from all the
places Of amusements DO the city last
night indicate that the fair and COM
ference season has opened with rush.
The thoater had a big turnout. though
rot a crowded one. to witness the adj
vent OF 1.-THE Vanderbilt cup II Is
perhaps fortunate that there win be
such "a big floating population TO draw
Oh this week, because if THE Wander
bit cup" depended on city patronage
alone. it would very likely pull ont
with an unsatisfactory box office re-
port. The company furnishes one more
instance of au attraction organized for
the road on the strength OF a metro
I0litau reputation. 10 is very evident
chat 90 was Elsie Jannis who made the
iame of "The Vanderbilt cup iu New
York. It's story is meaningless. It's
music trivial and there is "a general ABB
sguce Of brains BOO the entire compost
ton that makes It's progress painful To
thc average theatcr goer. The dancing
of the three girls and the brief male
qUartets form almost the only instances
of anything out OF the ordinary. The
moving pictures have been SO much
better done here that they fell rather
HAT last night The best work OF the
evening was done by that cute and hard
working little girl. Miss Victoria, who
mad Elsie Janis role. and who Is said
to have been her New York under
study. Her limitations were amusing,
that Of George Cohan being the best
The others Ia the cast rank along tue
fair TO Indifferent line.
Next weeks attraction al the thea
ter will be the new comic opera, The
Alaskan" a production which was
staged by Max figman in New York
The seat sale for Madam Gadsh next
Monday evening opens at the Clayton
Music Companys store tomorrow morn
ing.
Orpheum--Au unusually large audi
ence greeted the performers at the
)rpheum last evening. The "frst
lighters" had the somewhat usual
Monday night experience OF seeing the
lcts rushed on To the stage as fast a.
he actors could be hurried from depots
where they arrived very late The adj
.crtised head-liner. Julie Herne and
.ompanv iu Between the Acts was
ne last act, coming after miles OF NOV
lg picture films had been run 70 enter
aim the waiting crowd, u was nearly
o'clock when the frst act Thomas
lreN. bauj0ist came ON, but the bill
.gs worth waiting FOR Lew Hawkins
hp Chesterfield OF Minstrelsy' came
.ut u white face and made good.
ar. Hawkins is one of the best takers
md singers yet heard az the Orpheum
"a was min and tuck among several
.rts as to which really deserves the
Tile off "head-liner' Leoua Thurber
..th her four pickauinunies has an act
hat won moro applause last night IMAM
.Iv brought here this season. one lit-
d. .aHoW brought the hOuFs down
sinh mis- troubles with his wigs and
Iotrp- and one of the little girls more
ham delighted with her antics. dancing
md general "cutcncss.
Miss Hcrues little playlct showing
har There is something else in Wo-
uan's desire besides glory and glamor.
g. clover. and with the authOrcss as an
actress and supported by IAir COM
amy. Do is C.CVcrly played. scott ana
Wilson has "a turn that VIII delight this
.,pk's audiences. Their introduction
Cd their spectators is novel and their
.pmaly acrobatiC work above the stan
ard The Balzors have O. lcapiug turn
hat proved % surprise and treat The
.modroua win show "A Man Hat ON
cocktail" "Cupid's Franks ON the
Gardner" and "a foreign coE-road during
he weok The enlarged orchestra un-
Iar Prof Weihe has Two pretty things
fn "Tnuesfalleu." collection OF irish
-,nrs ana a selection from carmen.
s, many This weeks bin is conceded to
1e be- best m many moons.
Crand-Tho selection ri "1ho Hol'
cIv" ar conference week attraction
no tho Grand Was "a happy thought ol
tha part of tne management and Jldg-