Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12
Dramatic =sR Musical
~ UT for few scattering attrae-
x tions the theatrical season, long

d prolonged is now closed. Next
week every theater In town, save
the Colonial, viii be dark. The Colonial
8 will be given over to Ralph Stuart and
his players and will hold UP the repii-
Z tation of Salt Lake in summer stock"
Tonight Miss Marie Doro closes her en-
i gagemcnt AT the theater, where she
y has been scoring n distinct personal and
artistic hit in the role of t,arotta in
The Morals OF Marcus" the same
play she first appeared in as a newly
flelged Froi1man star three years ago.
Itis safe to predict that Miss Doro will
not need any great amount of press
( work 10 assure her big audiences when
Z she next visits Salt Lake
The press agent IS undeniably a great
factor in box office returns. Salt Lake
y was gwen a demonstration of his ahli-
tSaduring the rast week, At the Co
lonial Three Weeks" was responsible
z for a record run aud the sporting of
the s. II o. sign on more than one
occasion. Had the play been produced
under any other title there would have
been distinctly different story to
tell
What n clever press agent can do
Tor play Is shown in the case of The
~ y'Eut' aNipuse, NlIliIl pay Gu " 'iS h'ussi
CESS at the Grand When Manager
Burnham gave out his Interview in New
York last fail. denouncing five plays
then running at the Gotham theaters
y fts being indecent. he named none. But
f theshubert publicity department eager
~ glasped the insinuation that THE
b Islue Mouse" was one Of the five and
proceeded to deny the assertion in such
!. 81 way. as seemed to confirm the allega-
Z finn 1irpptIIy made "A
was sent on the road, and press and
y clergy, city officials and others We're
y neluged with statements to the effect
that in ",The Blue Mouse was nothing
& upon which objection could be lodged 4
on the score of morality. And much of
This talk got into print, and soon a
question was extant as to whether the
play was really wicked. Public curos-
ity once aroused is never to be sat-
lsiied. short of an investigation and SO
5the Shuberts have reaped n golden har-
vest by sending the piece about from
town to town, merely to demonstrate
that the assertions are correct The
play is not wicked and is not really
Immoral. 1t is not indecent; 1t Is mere
~ impossible. and in some ways rul gar.
But its press agent Is a wonder and
those who paid advance prices to sails
4 ~ their5curiosity now. salute his astute
hess.
8, Ralph Stuart will be seen FORTH last
kline this season in The Master at
Arms ~ a romantic play, full of inter-
est. vigorous, and with q good story.
The play will open next week at the
Colonial on Monday. evening and will
continue at that house all the week.
Mr.. Stuart will close with this play
after an engagement Of. six weeks here,
In which he has won a very consider
able following who Will welcome his re-
turn.
Mr.. Stuart was brought here to take
the place of. Willard Mack, who has
been at the hospital The latter has
now recovered and will resume his
place at the head of his company, the
opening play at the Colonial being
ga plain Swift
During Mr.. Stnart's engagement he
has put on a rafting lively class OF
plays Opening with by Right OF
Sword he has put on The Trans
glessors, At the Rtinbow's End a
new play, '.Ines Christian, THE Court
Er of Fortune and now ends the list
with The Master at Arms" a stirring
drama quite as full OF action and as
pleasing as my Of the others. Mr.. Stu
art desires that his last week In Salt
Lake shall be one to be remembered |
and Is making special efforts to make
The play to be given success.