The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09

Bird - will be the bill The play will,
| OF course, be given at a loss, but the
| founders of the theater are pleased to
try the experiment. The directors be-
heve that they have found way to
keep these lowpriced tickets out of the
VIII be occupied by worthy persons who
cannot afford to pay the rates usually
asked for hlgh-class entertainment.
Fourteen distributing stations have
been established on the east side and
the house has already been sold out
for the first performance. In fact, ten
applications were received where one
ticket could be issued. The move has
-csulted In much favorable comment,
and if it is as successful AS it is be.
lieved 1t will be, the theater next sea-
son Will undoubtedly enlarge the scope
OF this educational enterprise II is
possible that later on series of lee.
lures may be added and that the
scheme viii broaden out in other ways.
Puccini's New Opera.
According to cables from Rome, Puc-
clnI, the noted composer, is consider
ably nervous over his forthcoming visit
to New York, at which time his new
opera. based on "The Girl of the Gold
en- West is TO be produced. 1t has
been learned that Nine. Destinn, Caruso
roles when the opera is presented.
A Laughing Tornado.
A laughing hit of the very first or
der was scored at Nazimova Thirty
ninth street theater by Henry w. Saw
age S new production in the field of
Terrymaking, "Con. 6 Coz Advance
reports from Washington and Baltimore
had led the New York playgolng public
to expect something quite out of the
ordlnary-and they were by no means
disappointed. For in this "cheeky
comedy Oliver Herford has written
the merriest. the most novel and tie
Smartest farce within recollection. Nor
has Mr. Savage fallen behind in the
matter of company or production: A
cast made up of such expert fun-mak-
ers as Maude OdeIl Nelly Roland
Grace Franklyn, Suzette Gordon, Will
liam Burress, Harry Stone, Ben Hend-
ricks, Gustav Hartzhcim, Tom Walsh,
Gilbert Douglas and Charles +. McCar.
thy 5espeaks performance Of sterling
worth-and such it has proven to be,
under the acid test of metropolitan oh
servation.
1.-The Woman of Today
Madame Bertha KaIich-now under
the direction of the Messrs Shubert-
opened her season at the Hyperion the
ater, New Haven, Conn, on Thursday
night In new play by Samuel Ship
man, entitled "The Woman of Today
The occasion marked her return to the
stage after an absence of a year with
the exception of her appearance last
spring at the New theater in "The
Witch The theme of her new We
hicle. ''Tbe Woman of Today" is. as
the title indicates, modern. The story
deals with u woman of exceptional
business ability who is responsible for
her husband s commercial success. He
deserted her for another and without
his wife s guiding counsel his business
rs plunged into the bankruptcy courts.
The man fees. How the abandoned
wife assumes charge of his affairs and
restores the business to solid CONNER.
clal basis forms one of the many in.
teresting features of the story The
play is admirably cast and staged and
the acting OF Madame Kalich made
profound impression. The supporting
includes Walter Hale, Frances
Noordstrom, Juliet Shelby. Emily
Wakeman. Alfred Fisher. John Emer.
son. Charles S, Able. Frank LYMAN.
Walter b Downing, J. K. Hutchinson,
Joseph p. Winter, Frank Dawson and
Charlotte Shelby