The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

When the curtain was rung down at
the Salt Lake theater on Saturday night
it marked the close OF the season l9OS-9
at this famous old playhouse. The the
ater will be dark until July 5. when the
season of 190910 will open. Polly of
the Circus will be the first attraction.
This will be followed by ''The Servant
in the House, which will be here for
a week Then will come 1.-THE Merry
Widow and from that time on there
will be no dark night at this theater.
At the Grand, the falling of the cur
tain Thursday night closed this play
house until September. when Mary
Manne'ing comes for Il week S engage
ment and from that date this play
house will be open. the Schubert attrac-
tions occupying the stage there. Mean
while the Grand viii be renovated.
There Will be number of changes made
in the interior II will be redecorated,
the orchestra pit will be enlarged, as
also the stage, and when II IS opened
in September, resplendeut in every way,
it will prove moro popular than ever.
Over at the Orpheum painters and
decorators, carpenters and masons, are
there On July %. There viii be a num-
Der of changes. the greatest of which
will be the new smoking room, which
viii occupy the entire front under tss
promenade. Other changes viii be .nSds
and the old vaudeville playhouse VIII
astonish It's patrons on the opening
night.
The Colonial will probably not clog
its doors this summer, Willard Maah
and his players holding .he boards sasrs
in stock. Manager Grant. after a Coz
florence with Mr. Mack and his pay
sician. DR.. Mayo, decided that upoa
Sunday evening, June 20, Mr.. hacE |
., . H. =, al
a summer engagement, lasting as long,
rs the public would patronize the at
traction. Mr.. Mack, having just recov-
cred from most severe illness of nine
weeks duratioD, is now feeling strong
enough TO return to his work. although
having lost forty pounds in weight, his
physician says that he may safely en-
lopial. provided he does not overdo Ssrn
self The opening bill for Mr., N eek = .
temperance viii be Haddon Cnam-
bers 5 great story, ''Captain Swift. -
The Bungalow will be dark as the
other thcaters after tonight, Ralph
pcaring there this evening, after which |
the doors Will close for the season.
At Saltair Hippodrome there will be |
an attraction in the way of the Fly |
ing Ballet, which opened Saturday night |
and which Will run the summer season.
The Empire will present vaudeville |
NJ popular prices during the heated
term, and the moving picture houses
will continue open.
The chorus for the "Sphinx,', the
local opera which is being prepared for
production during the 6. a. X. week, has
been called for the first rehearsal next
made that the chorus viii contain the
handsomest lot of girls ever seen in
local production. The chorus is to be |
featured as the "Salt Lake Beauty
Chorus and twenty of the most beau |
tiful girls IN the city have been secured |
There will be forty people in the chorus,
and twelve principal characters. The
east will be announced some time during
The week. and the principals will prob
ably be called together to hear the first |
reading of the opera at the same time
the chorus meets. The contract for
painting the scenery has been placed.
and the plans call for three very elabo.
opera is on the River Nile in Egypt,
which offers exceptional opportunities
for beautiful stage work. The costumes
will all be made new for the production,
and more than 100 different suits will
be required. The music for the opera
Will be under the personal direction of
the composer, Professor j. J. Mcclellan,
and MT, Briant s, Young, the author of
the lbretto, will conduct the stage
The engagement will open on Friday.
August 6. and will run for nine nights,
as we'll as the usual matinces.
An old-time favorite, Don Caesar de
Bazan, will tread the boards OF the Go.
lonial during the coming week Ralph
Stuart has chosen this role in HThe
Master alarms as the last in which
he will be seen for the present season,
as he closes his engagement with the
Mack Stock company at the end Of the
leadership the next week. There is no
question Of Mr., Stuart's popularity in
Salt Lake. He has been here but six
weeks, but his work has been such as
TO win him many admirers, and he has
made warm personal friends as well.
some, and he is recognized here as a
forceful actor: There will be very
many who will be glad to see Ralph
Stuart back again some day. "Tho
Master-at-Arms," in which Mr.. Stuart
will open at the Colonial Monday even
ing for his closing week, is peculiarly
bright and interesting play, Of the same
romantic school Of which he has pre-
sented several. Don Caesar is a fas-
cinating character Of romance. Many
Of his adventures have been portrayed
on the operatic stage, and others have
a hero Of whom the public has never
tired. His insouciance, his daredevil
courage, his readiness to fight when pro.
voked and his winning audacity have
endearcd him TO thousands. The role
in which Mr., Stuart will be seen during
the coming week will not be the least
Of his presentatione. This evening at
the Bungalow "The Courier of For
tune by Arthur w. Marchmont, which
has been running all week, will be re-
peated.
The Empire will hold Brown g. Cliff.
ton over Sunday, as they are making
such tremendous hit in their
''Glimpses Behind the Footlights.' ;;
Miss Inez Baird, leading woman from
"The Mills Of the Gods" which was
recently at tho Colonial, will be seen