Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-21
THE ROUND OF THE THEATERS

THEATER-Thc sale opens today for
the next big attraction to be presented
at the Salt Lake theater. THE Travel
ing Salesman" which opens Thursday
night and will run through the week
with the usual matinee.
ORPHEUM-The bill at the Or
pbeum this week is good. very good,
in spots; otherwise it is an average
Christmas week Offering. Last night $
audience also was a Christmas week
audience. the house being somewhat
simmer than that of the average Mon
day night.
The headlners "rhe Drums of
DOOM" with Minnie Seligman ana
William Bramwell in the leading roles.
Is a decidedly heavy playlet that is
classy, splendidly presented but withal
rather gruesome for vaudeville. 1t
leaves a taste that the harmony and
buffoonery of the Bootblack quartet
which follows fail to effectually re-
move.
The "Three Bounding Gordons" are
about the best trio of acrobats seen
this season. They are distinctly youth
full. volatile and full of snap, the
work of one in particular was award
ed repeated hands"
Scotch comedians, like caviar. arc an
acquired taste. Jock Mckay is es-
sentially Scotch and brings with him
from across the water the English
music hall idea that in order to be
really funny he must skate on thin
Ice" He has so many good stories
that it Is a pity he should deem 1t
necessary to Introduce some question:
able ones.
But where the blue pencil is really
needed is in the inane domestic
farce" (to quote the program), which
Is given by Edwin Barry and COM
pany 1t is slaPstick mediocrity from
start to finish, and the management
certainly ought to sense the ne faet RGbnn 5hat
street" was offensive to large num-
ber of the regular patrons of the
house last night.
The Swiss quartet did not appear
last night, their turn being taken by
Emil H. Johnson of the Thirty-frst
ward of this city While Mr.. johnson
may lack the front of the finished
vaudevillian he has nothing 10 rear
when It comes to picking the strings
OF banjo, his work being the peer
of the majority of similar turns seen
at the Orpheum. Carletta, that
human dragon" who has been seen
here before, tied himself into the Gus
tomary knots and demonstrated that
tho business. The kinodrome offering,
tho Land of tho Midnight Sun" was
both interesting and educational. which
can hardly be said OF the French
comic which followed. Weihe's or
chestra. as usual, charmed the lovers
OF music.
cOIONIAL-Sure, and it's Bernard
| DAILY will sing the heart out of your
| breast IL you go to the Colonial TINS
| ,veek TO sec Sweet Innisfallen," the
NAV Is a good vehicle for Daly's rich
| tenor. and the applause shows how he
| takes advantage of his vocal opportuni-
| ties. when he sings "Swcet Rose of Kill
| Ia,-nov, Hide and Seek" wearing
| Of the Green" Sweet Innisfallen.
"rhe Cali OF the Wind" Sweet Eyes
Of Irish Blue" and other beautiful Irish
| songs of which he, himself. Is the au
| thor.
The play Is an Irish romance. sont
parts OF which are prettily done. Tho
nIot involves 81 long chase of the vii
min. Squire Carlton. played by Norbcr
a. Miles. and Larry OConnell, the nero
as played by Daily. does the work o.
retrlbutIon. II appears in the beg n
| ming that Carlton had married gii
| under an assumed name in Dublin, an,
deserted her after she had daughter
The wrongcd girl died. and her brothe
sot out to avenge himself on the ricl
scoundrcl. who turns out to be Carl
ton. In the end. the hero reveals MIN
self as a man OF the quality" and live
bappiIy ever after with Nora Shannon
as excellently played by Carrie Lamon:
Tho comedy scenes between Bernar,
Daly and Carrie Lamont are fine. On
of the Ioveliest pictures of childhood o'
the stage is that of DAILY singing, Hid