The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-07

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-The election
Hocted the theatres somewhat unfav
ably this week. but the season prom
~ 70 improve from this time forward
nearly all the society people have
kurned 10 their homes from country
Al foreign resorts. Indeed. most
<illiant winter is anticipated, especial
for the great opera houses. at which
n productions promise to outrival any.
IND ever known in this country-or
|en in Europe for that matter.
|The concert season has started in
lin rush. That favoritc and OK
odingly competent artist. Madame
1dski. had packed house al Car
1rie hall on the occasion of her first
.citnl here on Sunday afternoon, and
rs sang songs by Btahms, Schubert.
|acDowelI and Sidney Homer most
1|iehtfuly. Tho Philharmonic society
hened its concert season under the
.rcction of Mr.. Gustav Mailer on
'hursday evening and Friday after
6on. with fnc prospects of success for
d entire season. Madame Louise lIo-
In was heard in recital at the Ly-
-nm theatre on Monday afternoon.
LIS lilly Kocncn n Mcndclssdhn hall
. TUESDAY afternoon, Miss Yolandc
bro, pianist, at Carnegie hall on
|ednesday evening Miss Janet
pencer, contralto at Mendelssohp hall
4 Thursday afternoon, Miss Giscla
riday evening; Madame Schumann.
|eiuk nj Carnegie hall this afternoon,
ID Mr. Walter Damrosch following
ith the New York Symphony orchestra
a varied programme tomorrow after
Tho New theatre, Central Park West
1d Sixty-second street, was opened
ith q magnificent representation of
hakespeare tragedy, "Antony and
on Monday evening. The
|st selected was headed by Miss Julia
|arlowe, who played Cleopatra. while
II. Sothern was Anthony. Neither
ar had appeared before in these roles. |
ut that they were equal TO them, goes
ithout saying. The New theatre Ger
|inly starts of well.
Roy Horniman IS dramatization of |
Ie story of William j. Locke s |
IDOLS" which made q great success
London, was produced in the Bijou |
|eatre on Monday evening, under the
anagement of Walter n. Lawrence. |
bo story deals with the peril of a
m on trial for his life for murder
ho cannot establish an aGbi-which |
ono can prove his innocence-with-I !
It compromising the woman who is
5 wife, and who will lose q fortune
the relationship between them be-
mes known. AT last he is saved by
& self-sacritice Of woman who owes
"a q debt Of gratitude for the pres
yation of her husband IS life. The
|urt scene, where the woman inter.
mes at the critical moment, is ex-
edingly effective.
Those Interested in the development
an intellectual theatre will rejoice
Nc the production of Stephen Phil
1s's "Herodn at the Lyric theatre
3 been accomplished amid such fat.
ring omens Of success. The produc,
n Of "Herod +" is sufficiently con,
ientious and intelligent to enable
en- the non-literary spectator TO real
D In considerable measure, the mag
ative beauty and dramatic power OF
D piece. II is only just that The lib.
pllty, care and effort expended by
y Faversham in preliminary prepara-
N should meet with prompt and full
cognitlon, and that it has done so is
nnly evident. The setting which he
2 provided is magnificent and appro-
ate, the. stage management is excel
ptsand the general performance bears
p marks of conscientious effort and
Fecting intelligence.
Mile. Adeline Genee, the butterfly,
ne to the New Amsterdam theater in
The Silver STAR with Bickel and
etson, comedians, in the cast. ''The
|yer Star" is by Harry 3. Smith,
"a music by Jerome and Schwartz,
pert Hood Bowers ard William A.
Aon, and is In three acts and four
mes. Mile. Genee appears variously
Ia Christmas fairy, the spirit of
smpagne, queen of the floral fete,
as jolly little sailor The five
{ertissements in which Genee appears
IS varied as they arc charming.
Il Mr., kode of Koal" is the title of =
5m1psical fantasy in which Bert A.
pnsms OF the famous team of Will
ps and Walker made his New York
puf as a star at the Majestic theatcr. :
only scene Of the piece is laid in :,
courtyard Of King Big Smoke, ruler :
5ae mythical Island OF Koal. Chester
ee !Sert Wllliams) is marooned upon .
island He is found by Buttram, {
aer OF band of outlaws. who. by !
euai agreement, is holding Big Smoke
hostage until the latter's subjects {
L reward, which Buttram and Big I
!o4e have agreed TO divide. The :
29laee Is demanding a leader. and !
pupaper, the prime minister, who is !
10 the plot, after conference with {
] outlaw chief, is induced to accent |
<sler Lode in place of the missing /