The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-13

like q good burnt cork comedian IN
Jimmy Wall Jimmy has long been a
favorite on the vaudeville stage. The
Mission orchestra will furnish a num-
Der of new selections and new moving
pictures Will help TO make up what IS
promised as the best bill that the pop
ular Third South street house, the the
ater different, has yet offered.
In these DAYS Of expensive produc-
tious and eXtravaganzas in stage dress
ing. it will be delight to see what is
said to be the handsomest production
of the season, "Babes in Toyland, -
which comes to the Colonial for one
week starting February 90. "Babes in
TOyland' is said 10 be the most costly
production ever made by any manager,
and when it is seen here this assertion
will not be doubted in the least. There
are twenty-four different sets of cos
tunes which are used by the chorus:
these are all made of real silks and
velvet, the society dresses which the
show girls wear being imported from
Paris, by Julian Mitchell; tho dresses
of the principals are all models of the
latest gowns of paquim and the court
costumes worn in the production are
expensive copies Of robes worn by roy
atty.
produced ut the Grand the past few
weeks, none are OF such absorbing heart
interest as the one which viii be pre-
sentcd all this week. beginning with a
matinee today. "For Her Sake is the
title of this greatest of all Russian
dramas. This play has been presented
with unbouuded success in the cast and
the west and has always proved a very
popular play. II tells of darkest Rus
har
barism. The scenes of this great play
are laid on the banks of the river
Neva, Just outside of the city of Mos
cow. General Gruffs headquarters are
shown in act one; act two, Evan s home
on the banks of the river: act 3, the re.
ception room of Gregor s palace in st.
Petersburg; act four. the sulphur mines
deals with the young Prince Alexander
Natalia, who falls deeply in love with
poor girl by the name of Olga Cap
tain Gregor is also IN love with the
serf girl Olga, but she spurns him at
every opportunity. He swears revenge
and Immediately goes to tho princes
mother, and through false accusations
against the lovers, he is taken into her
confidence, The prince s mother tries
to break the growing love between her
son and the serf girl, but her efforts
prove tuOle. She demonstrates with her
son, trying to show him that he would
forever disgrace the family if he were
TO persist In his attentions; that the
serf girl was not in high social stand
ing. and TO marry her would prove dis
astrous- When her attempts to sepa
rate the lovers prove futile she has
them both taken 10 Kara, where they
are compelled to work in the sulphur
mines, eXiled from each other and their
people. After two years OF exile the
lovers by mere chance meet for the
hrst time. The reuniting of the lovers
after these years Of separation can bet
ter be imagined than described The
car learns of the false accusations and
treachery of Gregorvitch. the lovers are
pardoned and Gregorvitch sent to the
sulphur mines to spend the balance of
his days in exile. There will be regu-
lar matinees Sunday, Wednesday and
Saturday.
Josie Sadler. who ESSAYS the role OF
Ldly kraus in the Shubert Fields pro.
ductlon of ''The Jolly Bachelors" is
called upon to portray n person suffer
ing from seaslckness. and il comes nat
ural to her, since she knows too we'll
the agony Of mal-de mer.
Every time Miss Sadlcr goes abroad
she is terribly seasiek. When she came
over from Germany last summer she
was so sick THAI she made up her mind
never 10 leave American soil again. On
the opening night of 1.-The Jolly Bach.