Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-25

THEATET2-I'here is unusual interest
in the forthcoming engagement of Miss
Ethel Barrymore at the Salt Lake thea
ter, Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
and the advance request for seat res
erVations is exceptionally heavy. Seats
will be placed on sale at the theater to-
morrow morning. Miss Barrymore has
the most successful play of her career
IN Lady Frederick, the brilliant COM
edy in three acts by w. Somerset
Vaughan. the author of Tack Straw
and other plays. 1t ran for many
months at the Hudson theater and Miss
Barrymore will be seen here with the
entire New York company and original
production. The scenes of the new play
are laid at Monte Carlo and Miss Bar
rynnore erlacts the role OF an attractive
Irish widow, who despite her poverty
is greatly sought after.
orlPHEI;M--Better bills have been
seen at the Orpheuln theater, but it is
seldom that rs varied a program.
reaches here as thatswhich is being pro-
duced this week. There arc a number
of bright sketches, some good acrobatic
and flumor.
Wells and Sells as comedy acrobats
are passingly fair, which is due to their
physical efforts and not their attempts.
Ito be funny.
For cleverness, Miss Dorothy Drcw is
not a model. she Isl the real thing. She
Is n conledienne alright and she comes
with {. wealth Of good, catchy songs and
a familiarity With the stage that.
catches Der audience
Ss With almost" as the vehicle to show.
their ability, Whittier Harries Com
8pany do We'll, that is all. The piece
lis one that has good possibilities but II
+ fails to move q vaudeville audience
(which is always looking for the quick
and snappy product. The story is
based on the finding out OF a mans
record at the last minute
Z One of the brightest things in the
show, is the work of JarroR, IL unique
#trickster and humorist With his.
sleight of hand work he gets close to
his audience and with glib tongue and
q ready wit he keeps things moving at
his pleasure.
Marriage IN a Motor Car is the
name OF the skit in which s. Miller.
Kent. Miss Claudia Colonna and Miss
Dorothy Kcene appear. 1t is clever
from beginning to end. Mr.. Kent is
an excellent actor and in the few min
,ites that 1t takes for the sketch there
is much to enliven affairs.
One of the prettiest pieces of scenery
seen st the Orpheum in many a day
81 Is the moonlight scene. SuOWil Ill lie
act conducted by Jolly SVioletta. the cele-l
j'brated Par.sian beauty assisted by
Sir. Armand. a Brazilian dancer. Miss
Nioletta talks French, which nearly
everyone in the audience does not un-
3derstand. but the two can do French
and Brazilian dances in a way that is
highly entertaining.
e There is not the slightest doubt that
Madame SandWinas is conceded to be
the most wonderful woman physically
that has ever appeared In foreign music
halls. She Is large enough and then
some. Her strength is in keeping with
her size and slia handles her compan-
ion, who is q good sized man, with as
little effort as a man would pick up
suit case. With one hand she can
hold a man weighing in the neighbor-
hood of 1850 pounds or more above her
head and do many other stunts showing
equal if not greater strength.
CoLoNIA lllo faneiful legend
that where the end of the rainbow
dips into the ground IS to be found
the fabulous hidden mine: the OAR
ing. intrepid, courageous spirit of the
boyhood days here Kit Carson; In
dams, startltngly realistic in their
Inakc-up and behavior. scenes depict
Ing the land of the nesa with a wealth
OF color and realism that takes one 4