The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-01

fThe Man Of the Hour win open a
three nights engagement at the Salt
Lake thester tomorrow evening. WITH
g matinee Wednesday, where it effected
a real triumph last January, on Whlch
occasion IT filled the house for the en-
tire week. There is no other play now
before the public exactly like thus; anu
while it's success has given rise 10 the
belief that the theaUcTgoers OF the Iand
arc eager for n discussion of political
and civic matters OF the stage, as mat
ter of sheer fact. Mr.. Broadhurst has
simply humanized an everyday pontl'
cal impasse aud made 1t of general ap-
peal through showing that the men who
fight the battles for control OF oftice
and the spoils thereof are everyday
men. animated by the same emotions AS
men in other walks Of life. II IT were
not SO, then the play would make no
appeal whatever TO the women. But
women are among its strongest sup
porters. The Bradv-Grismer records
tell Of one matinee in Chicago where
the fashionable Illinois theateT was
packed TO the doors, and yet there was
lust nineteen men, IN theater seating
more than 1000 persons. And TINS was
IN mid. SUMNER. half way through run
OF sixteen weeks. The play has some
unknown records 20 ITS credit. mus.
2 second Chicago run was for eighteen
weeks, or thirtv-four weeks IN all, III
q period Of less than year. Phlla-
dclph!a supported the play last season
ior an engagement of twenty-five weeks
and IL returned there on October Ter
-J-clvc weeks 1t ran tiftyfour
straight. uninterrupted weeks IN New
York City, and in Boston for nineteen
weeks II was the second Chicago run
;hat led 20 the taking east of the spe-
cial Pacific Coast company last March,
.tft oil had ET4n lIp
Tor the return Of the play 10 this neigh
borhood. The company 20 be seen in
this city is almost the identical same
rs last season and includes William
Lamp, Felix HaHey, Neil Moran, Louis
Hendricks. Everett Butterfield Arthur
Hull, Ruby Bridges. Evelyn Moore and
Ethel Brandson.
II all the people OF Salt Lake City
were as familiar with the rare beauties
Of ''The Land of Nod - as are those
who witnessed the performance when
il was given here last season, the salt
Lake theater would be iammed 10 It's
utmost capacity Thursday afternoon
and night, when the famous eEtrava.
ganza viii bo presented. II is r show
which contains many good things. The
comedy thc music, the scenery. the
costumes and the company constitute
about as fine IN assemblage OF dis
-lncOVe excellence as has ever oeeu
brought forward on the local stage.
And il is all so different, 50 unlike any
thing else that has ever been conceived
II the mind of author or stage manager,
that surprise goes hand IN hand with
enjoyment throughout the entire per
formance. While the vision is en-
tranced by q succession of superb pic
torial splendors, the risibilities are
tickled by the funniest of comedy and
the ear is filed with melodies Of the
sweetest. catchiest kind. Past grand
masters in the art Of entertainment ell
the stage and give perfect rendition TO
the clever work OF composer and au-
thor. and wizards in their respective
crafts adroitly manipulate brilliant cleo.
trical effects and transf ormation scenes
of radiant beauty. Fatigue, Worry,
listlessness and ''thc care that infests
the day" generally. are completely