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land that Rex Beach was on the
ground at Nome. He saw the entire
series Of events from beginning Of the
great conspiracy to the final arrest and
trial of the arch cOnspirators.
Beach preserved for all times by this
wonderful fascinating story OF The
Spoilers" the record of these events.
Everybody in the great west has read
''The Spoilers" and nearly every one
who has read this great book viii want
to see the play and be delighted with
the fact that THE Spoilers" will soon
pay this city a visit.
The action of the play opens on deck
Of a steamship just as IL is in the tolls
Of the eastern combination organized
to loot the gold fields. Next is seen the
law Office, where the plot further un-
folds and MacNamara, the arch con-
spirator finds that Glenister is de-
termined to fight. The third act IS the
great dance hall scene, g typical repro
duction Of a resort that was famous in
the old days Of Nome. Here takes
place the fight between Glenister and
MacNamara. The last act shows the
Midas mine in midwinter, where Gteu-
lister finally wins and MacNamara IL
taken away by the United States
troops to face trial and Imprisonment.
The press throughout the west pro-
nOunces THE Spoilers as being ore
Of the best plays to invade the west
this season.
The engagement IN this city VII be
for one week, commencing tonight, at
the Colonial
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BUNGALOW THEATRE.

The third week Of Pantagez yaude-
vile at the Bungalow has started on
with capacity audiences, and the man
agement, true TO their word, have given
the Salt Lake theatre-goers a very good
vaudeville show at prices below what
they have ever had to pay heretofore.
That the standard Is to be kept up Is
evident by the list OF acts that are ap-
pearing this week, which includes such
we'll known people as Milton and Dolly
Mobiles and the three Kuhns. Milton
and Dolly Mobiles are known to the old
er people Of this city as appearing in
the famous stock company Of years ago,
and also as the author Of the plays,
THE Phoenix" and From Sire to Son."
To him must also be given credit for
the expression 1.-THE villain still pur-
sues her" which has been used contin-
ually since by melOdramas. For their
engagement in this city. which closes
WeSaesday night, they will offer Mr..
NoI1es' One-act comedy success, why
Walker Reformed"
The three white Kuhns are three well
known lreaD brothers, who have long
been identified with refined vaudeville,
and have made famous such songs as
"Hiawatha," and lately they have made
a big hit with Ted Snyder's latest COM
position, Next to your mother, who
do you love best?' One Of the best
teams of equilibrists seen here in some
time is that of Cordeca and Maud, who
perform some remarkable stunts on a
double wire.
Buford, Bennett and BufOrd, the Ma
pies trio; Jack Oliver and the Pantage-
scope conclude this good bill, which
runs until next Wednesday evening,
with a matinee daily, excepting Mon
day, at 2:30 There will be a matinee
TO-DAY.
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inertia Of New Production.

1 have spoken Of the faults exposed
on the first night OF Antony and Cleo
patra" rather than reiterated the merits
of the production. Tn, scenery was
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ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK
SALT LAKE THEATRE,

No theatrical event announced for
salt Lake in recent seasons has aroused
more genuine interest than that of the
coming to the Salt Lake theatre next
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
Americas favOrite author, actor, COM
poser, playwright, George NJ Conan
who will appear in this city for the
first time in seven years, and will pre-
sent his sensational musical comedy
success, THE Yanke Prince" surround
ed not only by his royal family, but
with the hundred other players Of the
original cast, who were of such mate
rial assistance to George NJ. Conan dur
ing the past two years that ''The Yam
kee Prince" has been shown.
Especially effective is the work of
Tom Lewis, to whose lot has fallen the
originating of another of those UNIQUE
stage roles that only Cohan knows how
to create. AS Steve Daley, a trainer
of prizehghters, who is on a visit 10
England with a letter of Introduction
to King Edward VII, Lewis portrays
one of the funniest stage roles that has
been seen in a decade.
No play from Mr.. Cohans pen would
be complete without music and in THE
Yankee Prince" there is said to be a
riot Of it. in fact, the musical numbers
and ensembles follow each other in
such Kaleidoscope fashion, inters persed
with flashes of witty lines and bright
repartee, that the average auditor is
lost in amazement in contemplating the
fact that the entire performance. in
lines, lyrics and dialogue, all emanated
from young Mr.. Cohan's gifted pen.
Local theatregoers have been waiting
the coming of this attraction with
pleasurable anticipation for months,
and now that the engagement is at
hand and we are assured that the only.
original, simon-pure. dyed-in- the-wool
George NJ. Cohan himself is to head the
big original cast, which has been 10
small factor in it's success in New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia and elsewhere.
playgoers are eorrespondingIy jubilant.
Among the important principals in
'"rhe Yankee Prince cast are his
father mother and sister, Jerry T..
Helen T. and Lila Rhodes, Tom Lewis,
Paul Pratt, Sam J. Ryan. Frank Hol-
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centrifugal. fun in THE Belle of Brit
tany."
On the first night of that show, 1 al
most-not quite-let Daniels fool me
with an old trick played with new au-
dacity. He and bright soubrette. Ell
sic Ryan. started a dialogue pertinent
to the plays plot. He at once depressed
into jests and anecdotes with the man
ner Of gagging and guying; that is to
say, impromptu talking; and Elsie pre-
tended to be upset by his Interpolation
of unrehearsed lines and omission of
cues. She did some giggles behind her
hands, tried in vain to repress her mer-
riment, and finally fed from the scene
in confusion. 1t was done cleverly. But
there came into my memory, from thir-
ty years ago, the common practice of
Birch, Bernard and Backus, the middle
and end men Of the now forgotten Sen
Francisco minstrels. They would be-
have as though tickled half to death by
jokes among themselves, and the guilt
BILE audiences laughed without knowing
why. Recently, in the already by-gone
Weber-F'ields shows, Lillian Russell
and De Wolf Hopper worked that same
game to the delight of the FOUNDERS,
who fancied that they were on the in
side of the joeOsity.
belle of Brittany"
1.-THE Belle of Brittany is one more
of those musical farces that are made
in London by a collaborating half dozen
humorists, rhymesters, melodists and
stagecraftsrs In a nicer, heater, potter
manner than that of the corresponding
American product. 1t hasn't a petit
coat that doesn't reach down, when I'M
Topped, to the wearer's ankles. It's
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ORPHEUM THEATRE.

What is described as one of the most
pleasing bills of the season is scheduled
for the Orpheum, beginning tonight.
All forms of dramatic entertainment are
represented on it, and every act, it is
promised, is at the top of its class.
Edna Aug, who is being featured as
the principal offering, has been seen
and much admired at the Salt Lake
Orpheum. She comes in an act termed
Types" the name indicating the series
of roles she assumes during the twenty
minutes she occupies the stage. Miss
Aug long since made a merited reputa-
ton as a Coincidence, which she is in
creasing by her later work. In Types"
she impersOnates a number of chaTac-
tiers, including several well known aC-
tresses who are shown in their dressing
rooms, as we'll as before the foOtlights.
Society girls of New York, Chicago and
San Francisco also are depicted. Miss
Aug's delineations are not all humor-
Gus. Some have a seriousness, though
the general effect is either amusing or
satirical.
The Big City Quartet, who sang their
way into the hearts of music-loving
Salt Lakers a year ago. will be on the
bill also. Its members are Fred G. Ro-
yer, first tenor; Charles Bates, second
Gis Reed, basso. With new selections
this quartet are expected to duplicate
the delightful entertainment they gave
last year and to prove as popular.
Henry Give, assisted by Miss Mai
Sturgis Walker, has an act that can
only be described as burlesque magic.
He gives a travesty on second sight and
thought transmission that has proven
exceedingly funny wherever Mr.. Give
has appeared.
"A Baby Grand" is the name of a
lively one-aet comedy, in which Walter
Lewis is featured. In the cast are also
Florence Burnsmore and NJ. H. Harri-
man. The plot of the playlet deals with
the troubles of a couple of young lovers,
who ultimately find all their woes ended
through the medium of "A Baby
Grand"
The Carmen Troupe, billed in "a
daring wire athletic" performance, live
up to their promise, judging by the re-
ports of their act in cities where it has
been seen. In the troupe are two men,
two women and a boy who singly and
in groups perform feats that border on
the marvellous.
Terrell Brothers are comedy cyclists
who do unusual things in an unusual
way. Their double riding act, with
which they conclude their turn, is said
TO be sensational in the extreme.
Les Myosotis are premiere or solo
dancers, brought from Munich by Mr..
Beck for the Orpheum circuit, on which
they are making their first appearance
in this country. The young women have
beauty and grace, besides being highly
trained in the dances of the royal opera
Special music by the orchestra and
new kinodrome pictures complete the
hill
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massive, Imaginative and beautiful, yet
always kept in proper subordinatiOn to
the drama. The costuming was beauti-
full in cOloring and generally effective
in design. The groupings were often
eloquent with meaning and always ad-
mirable for clear-cut simplicity. The
cast-containing many So-called stars
in roles of the briefest-was probably as
good as could be gathered for Shakes
pearian tragedy. There remain Miss
Marlowe and Mr.. Sothern to be consid-
cred. Presumably they are to blame
for the insufferable slOwness of the per-
Torrance. Somewhere in the text An
tony says he feels full of lead" and
certainly Sothern acted as though he
might be. The role is not a good one.
but an actor of heroic method might
make it effective. Sothern seemed al
most as utterly swamped beneath it
as he was by the theatre; though in the
scenes with Eros he offered a commend
able substitute for fire and authority.
Miss Marlowe did far better in a part
far better. Her rich, poetic beauty; her
grace and variety of gesture; her glo-
rious voice; all exercised their Gus
tomary spell. Yet she has not the
personality for Cleopatra. Her passion
was a Juliet's, her langour an Olivia's,
and her tempest perilously like the pet
ty fury of the Shrew. But withal Miss
Marlowe has never failed to invest a
role with qualities of unquestionable
greatness, and she did not fail then.
Most Americans, including some of
the brainy, desire to lose headaches at
the theatre by a cessation of thought,
not to get them by problematical think
ing; and that is good for Frank Dan
iels. Also for other stage foolers. 1
name the dumpty-doodle comedian be-
cause he comes out now in a new ex-
travaganza. Isn't it queer that so many
starred comedians in song and dance
plays can't sing or dance? Yet they
contrive to amuse, and that's enough.
Born drollery is their endowment Dan
iels is funny at sight, with his big head
on pumpkin body and short sticks for
legs. He is devoid of mimetic ability
No matter for that. He is the pivot of
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NEW sHURERT THEATRE.

Commencing with next Wednesday
night, the New Shubert theatre. for
meTly the LyTis. will open its season
with the presentation of Julian Ed
wards brilliant comic opera success,
THE Gay Musician" rendered by John
P. SlOcum's New York company. 'The
Gay Musician" comes here for the first
time, as it is now en- route to the Pa
cific coast, where it will play the prin-
cipal cities onlyl The comic opera is
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COLONIAL THEATRE.

No expression in the English Ian
guage so well describes the condition OF
affairs that existed at Cape Nome in
the summer of 1900, when the gang of
eastern swindlers attempted TO rob the
honest miners of their hard-earned dis
coveries on the rich pay streak. 1t was
fortunate for the history of the north
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Inns, Robert Emmett Lennon, J. Jicquel
Lance, William Leyle, Lola Hoffman
and Mildred Elaine. The chorus is COM
posed of over three score attractive
girls, who can really sing and dance.
while the orchestra which will interpret
the score numbers twenty-six pieces.
Seats for Cohan will be placed on sale
TUESDAY,
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PROGRAM FOR WEEK.


Salt Lake Theatre.-George
NJ. Cohan in THE Yankee
Prince" Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights, and
Saturday matinee.
The Tabernacle.-John Phil
ip Sousa and his great band.
with three soloists, Tuesday
afternoon, g., o'clock, and
Tuesday night, s:15.
Orpheum Theatre.-Vaude-
vile all the week, beginning
tonight, with matinees daily
except Sunday.
Colonial Theatre. - Rex
Beach's great play, 1.-THE
Spoilers, all the week, be-
ginning tonight, with matt
nees Wednesday and Satur-
day. -
DullSdiOW AuCdtIC. 4 oiA-
tages vaudeville all the week,
with matinees daily, except
Thursday, but including Sun
day. Change of bill Thursday
night. -
New Shubert Theatre.-Miss
Texas Guinan in THE Gay
Musician" Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday
nights and Saturday matinee.
Grand Theatre. - Walter
Mccullough, Miss Blanche
Douglas and the stock conf
pany in Henry Miller's play
1.-The Great Divide" begin
ming tonight and running the
week, with -matinees Wednes-
day and Saturday.
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NOTABLE PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN 1902
seriousness that a new mode of travel
is here and that the dream Of the ages

sc1ousness that a new mode Of travel
is here and that the dream Of the ages
has come true.
Indeed, this makes two dreams that
have come true, for the hope Of reach
ing the earth's farthest north had also
been before mems sleeping and waking
vision for centuries, and now third
Cream is on the way to fulfillment-
that of wedding the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans. True, the Panama canal
had it's inception before 1909 and will
reach its completion after 1909, yet 1t
was during this year that President
Elect Taft visited the isthmus and
formally opened the Pacific end Of the
big ditch, and it was during this year
that some of the most gratifying prog
ress was made ON the work and a
definite date was fixed when 1t would
be finished and thrown open to naviga-
ton.
These constitute trinity of great &C.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of the greatest
in the scientific and industrial field. 1t
is cause not for Boosting, but, rather,
for gratitude, that they were all done
by Americans. The north pole was
discovered by an American, the aero
plane was invented by Americans, and
| the Panama canal is being built by
J Americans.
1 Scarcely less remarkable as engineer
ing feats were the trolley and railroad
tunnels opened under the Hudson river
! at New York and the Gunnison irriga-
ton tunnel opened by President Taft TAFT.
Politically the year has been mo.
mentous in some foreign countries and
at least notable Mt home. The chief
event was the dethronement Of Abdul
Hamid IL. in Turkey and the triumph
of democratic ideals and constitutional
government. Scarcely less important
from the standpoint of progress is the
British budget fight, which may speed
fly result in revenue reforms, home
rule for Ireland and the practical aboli-
ton of the house OF lords. In France
the anti-clerical movement has gone
on, even though It's former leader
Premier Clemenceau, has been deposed
from power. Other foreign events OF
more than passing note were the avert
ing Of threatened war in the Balkans
the assassination of Prince Ito, the
Japanese representative in Korea; the
Qualification of Joan Of Arc. the death
Of King Leopold OF Belgium, rulel
who had gained almost as unsavory
a reputation as Abdul Hamid, and tn,
execution Of Professor francesca Fer
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year, rushed forth and electrified all
civilized lands by the statement that
he had attained the pole on April 81.
1908. Skepticism appeared in certain
quarters from the first, but the general
public accepted Cooks word. Peary,
whose announcement Of his own at
tainment of the ninetieth degree was
never questioned, added to the doubt
as to Cook by cabling that his rival was
an impostor who had handed the public
a gold brick" Nevertheless Cook had
his supporters, received university de-
grees and honors from king and people
in Denmark, the first land ut which he
touched, had an enthusiastic reception
IN his return to New York and was
greeted by large and profitable houses
on q lecture tour which he immedi-
ately made of most of the large cities
of the United States. In the meantime
Peary and his companions published
their detailed charges against Cook,
the chief point q which was that
Cooks own Eskimos had repudiated
him and said that he went but little
way north and was "never out of sight
of land" Shortly afterward Edward
N. Barrill, Cooks sole companion in a
previous ascent of Mount Mckinley,
said in sworn affidavit that neither
of them had been nearer than fourteen
miles to the top Of that mountain. Still
later sea pilot and an insurance bro
ker in New York swore that they had
assisted the doctor and fabricated as
Economical observations covering hts
polar trip at the time he was preparing
his records to send to the Copenhagen
university. At this time Cook had for
warded his papers to the Danish sci
entists and mysteriously disappeared.
H Settling the Controversy.
Meanwhile the National Geographic
society had examined Commander
Peary's records and had voted him q
medal as having reached" the pole,
thus leaving the question Of Cooks al.
legged priority still to be decided. After
the publication Of the pilots and bro
ker's aftidavits discrediting DR.. Cool
the society prepared to change its yer
dict and to proclaim Peary as the dis
coverer'' Of the pole. To cap all wa.
the decision of the University Of Co
penhagen that Cook presented no proc
that he had been to the pole.
The one regrettable feature Of tn,
affair is that SO great an achievement
should have been clouded by contro
versy. This is all the more unfortu
! nate since Peerx. the. read hero Of tn!
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REVIEW OF 1909, TIE WONDER YEAR.
Discovery of the North Pole.
Usherins In of the Flying
Age g. Progress Made on the
Panama Canal. :: :: ::

situation, Ifs Cooks claims fall. was
drawn into the dispute and aroused
criticism for a time by what were re-
garded as unchivalrous attacks on his
rival. From the polar fog surrounding
the affair emerge two figures, each SUI
preme in its own field--one the verita-
BILE discoverer of the north pole, the
other the most astounding and monu-
mental faker in history.
As for Peary. his fame is secure In
any event. His is romantic and in
spring -twentythree years OF
effort toward one goal, during which
he made eight successive voyages and
faced untold hardships and dangers.
finally to be crowned by complete sue
cess. The achievement and the quail
tiles it revealed not only dignity the
name of American, but that Of man.
| Nor Is this the only polar achieve
ment of the year. On Feb. 10 Lieuteu-
ant Il. H. Shackleton of the British
navy reached point only Ill miles
from the south pole. which was much
nearer than either apex Of the earth
had been approached before that time.
Peary's discovery occurred one month
and half later.
Other Scientific Triumphs.
The year also ushered in the flying
age. The flight Of Louis Bleriot across
the English channel; the Rheims air
ship meet, in which the chief prize
was taken by Glenn FL. Curtiss. ar
American; the exploits of the Wright
brothers, Wilbur circling the statue
of Liberty and Grants tomb at New
York and Orville ascending to heigh
of 1900 feet In Germany. and the cross
country trips of Count Zeppelin in hi!
immense dirigible, carrying as many a!
twenty seven passengers, to say moth
ing of numerous feats almost as re
markable by these and other aviators
haye awakened mankind to the COP
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Comprehensive and Brief De.
scription Of Its Most lmpor.
tant Events as. Renowned For
Its Great Accomplishments. :: ::
Ely JAMES A. EDGERToN.


NF writing histories there is DO
end. Everybody writes history
W these days except the historians
They write military campaigns
and court gossip. When the profess
sional historians forget the kings and
warriors and remember mankind they
may begin writing history also.
For the newspaper man to write his
tory, however, is like changing from
the fresh bread that mother used to
bake to the stale variety we sometimes
buy out of the bakeries. To him
everything is ancient history" that
happened day before yesterday. 1t is
leaving the living for the dead. But
to write Il review of such a wonder
year as 1900 is sufficiently alive, even
if it is the telling of an old story.
In one aspect 1909 was itself me-
mortal, a reminder of things that We're.
1t was a cluster of centenaries, an
echo of 1909, 1.-The year of genius Yet
as events turned out 1909 was more
celebrated in it's own right than in
what it recalled. In discovery, in
aeronautics and in political progress it
made it's deep and lasting mark.
Peary Reaches the Goal.
The year 1909 will be remembered
through all the ages as that on which
a human being first reached the north
pole. This had been the goal of eX-
plorers for centuries. On April 6 Com
mander Robert E. Peary, accompanied
] by Matt Henson and several Eskimos,
nailed the stars and stripes to the apex
Of the world, and the last great terra
incognita, or, rather, aqua incognita,
| for the pole is in the midst of frozen
sea, was reached. A few days before
Peary emerged with his momentous
news DR.. Frederick A. Cook, another
American explorer who had been in
the arctic regions for more than q
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