Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-15

4 a round of. the four tleaters last
| 3evening disclosed the usual result re-
corded Monday night the 'off night"
OF the week since Sunday theatricals
came into vogue. The several houses
| which We're open Sunday played to fair
or Indifferent business, the attendance
| at the Grand and the Colonial being
/ specially small AT the Orpheum il
was somewhat larger. but there was
nor the usual crowd III evidence, The
! tlleater held a soodsized turnout.
At the Grand the inevitable has ar
rived in the announcement made that
| next week the house will go to popular
vaudeville With three daily perform
ances. With the advent OF the new
for popular-priced melo-drana at the
old home of that form of entertain
| nent.
HEATER" Brcwsters Millions"
| which no one who beheld it last
| season can have forgotten, again
| PLAYED to a hilarious audience
last night As everyone knows
| who has read the successful
| book, 1t is dramati2ation of the
| impossible story of a man who had to
| spend million in one year in order
| to secure an Inheritance of seven times
! the sum. How he set to work to ac-
complisl it. without giving the money
away, how the afates conspired to BATTLE
| him. and how at last he triumphed and
won the girl OF his heart, are all fam
! ilinr incidents. Tile company is much
| the same as before, MI Robert Oher
| having the part of Brewster and rei
| dering 1T inahiS usual taking fashion
He played the role in the usual rapid
fire Willie Collier like style, and got
| every laugh possible, being also effec-
| tive i'll the occasional parts that called
| for Il touch of the sincere. Miss June
| Mathis. a daughter of Salt Lake had
q handsome floral Offering, and did hel,
work with good taste throughout. s!lar-
| ing several of the curtain calls with
the leading man. She was either suf-
| fering from a cold, however. or lel,
| voice has lost some of its od-timc
| sweetness. rs her dialogue was hardly
| rendered as effectively as before. but
| her ease OF manner and her appearance
were all that could be desired
All the other characters Were in
/ equally capable hands, the support to
the leading figure being rendered il
| hearty aud artistic fashion throughout.
| The really big effect OF the production
! remains the storm scene on the yacht,
| the light effects. the passing clouds.
| and the panorama i'll the rear. being
wonderfully effective. Still one can-
not avoid criticism Of the fact that
| some effort was not made to haul in
the sails: their remaining in place
in such rigid fashion iii the face OF
such Il bowling tempest, is the one In
congruous effect of an otherwise mag
niticent picture.
The same bill goes tonight. tomor-
row afternoon aud evening, to be fol-
/ lowed by George AIDES Just Out of
College" Thursday night.
! ORPHEuA1-This weeks bill at the
Orpheum is hardly TO the standard
but there IS enough merit in some of
the acts to help one 10 forget some Of
the others. Last night the program
was rendered without hitch. save in
the act of Miss Hope Booth. which was
| delayed until after the motion pictures
because of her indlsposition. THE Lit
| tie Blonde Lady" and the English ma
| sician vie with each other for headline
| honors and they are the two really
| bright spots on the bill
| Alexis and Schall In twists turns and
| steps furnish 10 minutes of lively en-
tertainment. but the act would be i'm
| proved If they would eliminate their al
legged funny" stuff. Leo Donnely, a