The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-02
ADJUSTMENTS

Shittiess, CHEEKY Mrs. Wigs came again
TO the Salt Lake theatre last evening
Mrs: Wigs of the Cabbage Patch a
play has become familiar to local theatre
goers-in fact. the light attendance las:
evening might be taken to signify that
IT had come here too often. Yet 1t is de-
lghtful in its vein as ever, and Blanche
Chapman even though she is thrown into
comparison with so experienced and ca
pabie an actress as Madge Carr Cooke,
makes a highly creditable Mrs. Wigs.
The supporting company contributed to
the success of the performance, although
Helen Raymond makes caricature out Of
Mrs. EichOrn, the suspicious and bitter
tongued slat, and Helen Lowell plays
Miss Hay almost as broadly. Lottie AL
ter would be highly pleasing as Lovey
Mary if she would learn to direct better
the infections of her voice. Though she
Is Sood looking and attractive, she has a
way OF shouting out a word every now
and then in the course of a speech as If
she were firing off gun, and her voice
at such times takes on a harshness. The
children were splendid and the rest of
the company generally worthy of praise.
The dramatization, with its melOdramat-
&c interpretations and treatment, is hard
~ SO pleasing from a purely literary
standpoint as the series of sketches in
the original form. but nevertheless much
of the original optimistic philosophy is re-
tanned, and play has resulted different
from the ordinary run, and affording re-
freshinS change from the regular theatre
cal bill of fare.
Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"
will close Wednesday evening.
The sale of seats for The Right of
Way which comes to the Salt Lake the
atre the last half of the week, opens to =
day.
With the legislature in session. Edwin
Hollis The Mayor and the Manicure is
particularly timely. It is a clever playlet
and is admirably presented by good
company. Fred Rays players have Il
travesty which is very funny, and the
acrobatic line. Salt Lake City's own sing
ers, the Imperial Male quartette, who are
just starting. out on their vaudeville tour,
have number which is popular. There
are also other good acts on the bill,
The beautiful and gifted Ester Ferran-
blni, who viii be remembered very pleas
antly from her visit three seasons ago
with the Leoncavalio orchestra at the tab
ernaCle, is this season with the Lambardi
Grand opera company, which is to APP
pear this week, starting Wednesday, at
the Colonial theatre, in a repertoire "f
grand opera
The Bungalow, which Willard Mack has
raised to the. first rank of popular stock
theatres, will be dark for a season at
the close of the present run of Because
She Loved Him So" Mr.. Mack will take
his company to the Colonial, where he
VIII pItuuCS Tue great DSldSCD uIdIitd
dealing with old California days, The
Rose of the Rancho For this play all
sorts OF new scenery has been ordered.
In the meantime the Bungalow will re-
ceive thorough overhauling.
That the Lyric is making good with rs
independent pictures is being proved be
yond doubt this week There are MANY
features in the excellent bill, and it is
extremely hard to determine just which
picture is the headliner However, The
Watchmakers Secret is one that posi-
bly, is a little better than the others. II
is a wonderful picture. The bill runs all
week, with matinees daily.
Thirteen members of the senate and
their wives, thirty-three members of the
house and their wives, officers of the SER
ate and the house and their wives. and
the Pythian Sisters formed part of an
audience that filled every available foot
Of space at the Grand last night. Afte-
the performance last night the Pythian
Sisters gave delightful luncheon to Mr..
II Even and Manager IpnCpu nf the