The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-04
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If the Orpheum management is wise it
Will consult the realities a little more
before announcing The Road Show" Salt
Lake has never before had the joy of
witnessing q road show, and as a con
sequence OF Ignorance, no doubt the pa
irons looked forward to something far
more preteGuouS than has been seen be-
fore The show opening last evening was
not.
There are some good numbers on the
bill, however: in fact, the greater part
are good George AIDES pla.let "Marse
CoVington. is a pathetic little sketch
showing the saddest type of southern
gentleman" the last of the noble family
gone TO the depths. The allegiance of
pretty well acted The wild-eyed creature
who has blown his all on the wheel and
lost is hardly needed i'm the play, and
the proprietor of the gambling den is a
little stronger and less suaVe than such
men are supposed to be-
Kelly and Kent are here again, and
those who saw them last year won't need
to be urged to go to see them again.
pounds avoirdupois, and looking every
ounce of it, is just as great as ever. and
she does the same clever stunts.
Next to these come the dogs, and a
finer little bunch was never seen any
where. They do everything but write a
book, and one comes away with d strong
suspicion that the little fellows could do
that better than some folks. There are
host of them and some are so tiny
they have to run across tbs stage twice
to be seen,
Coram is a fine ventriloquist. and his
witticisms at second hand coming from
the mouth of the dummy" were all OF
them worth hearing. La Gardenia, in her
Spanish dances, is another good number.
The two first numbers are d singing and
acrobatic act by Keno and Estelle
D'Arvine and d unique musical act by
the Tom Jack trio. Neither of them is
a great success. The music is excellent
Al a hOnSP
well filled despite counter attractions.
Naturally enough. there is unusual in
teTest being manifested towards the forth
coming visit of Herbert Kelley and Effie
Shannon in d new play. Those two dra-
matte artists, who have so long held to-
gether a business partnership. which for
public pleasure, as well as for financial
profit. finds no comparison on the stage,
will appear at the Salt Lake theater next
Thursday and Friday nights, in The
natural purpose, strongly punctuated with
unique features
Much has been said of Paderewski's wit
into which there enters occasionally fine
and wholesome malice. A story told of
him when he was II years old VIII illus
trate this characteristic He was taken
by a piano manufacturer Of Warsaw 10
the house of a professor of music. While
there was delay, the curious boy found
in a neighbOring room new polonaise IN
manuscript by the professor lie learned
il at sight and soon was asked into the
parlor to play something. Paderewsh
played several pieces from memory, among
them a brilliant polOnaise. who wrote
that?" asked the professor. 1t is an
old polonaise of Oginski's period an
sWered the boy. which / learned in Pc
dalia." on the way home the manu-
facturer asked. How did you like the
professor" "Oh, he's a blockhead," an
swered the boy. with a peculiar laugh.
why, he didn't know his own polonaise
because 1 put in two or three varia-
tons"
"a Wicked Woman" as presented by
Miss Josephine Deffry at the Grand the
alter this week: is a delightfully."- pleasing
play. and is doing a good business. There
will be a matinee of this play WedneS
dav afternoon Coming to the Grand next
night is the late eastern melo-
dramatic novelty, What Women Will
n