Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-08
THE ROUND OF THE THEATERS

LORCH ONCE MORE-Theodoro
ter goers for his work in stock for
Il number OF years. on Monday pur
chased O. half interest in the Grand
theater from Richard Sutton. and
will open week after next for a con-
tinuous engagement with his COM
pany The present character of pro-
ductions at the Grand win be aban
doned and the house vii return to its
former line of high class drama.
There Is to be a return to the reser-
walton of seats and the house gen.
orally will revert to It's former style.
The management Will still be vested
in A. b. Jensen, who has stood by 1t
through thick and thin. MI Lorch
and Mr.. Sutton Will also organize a
separate company which will play the
towns of Utah in the same produc-
tions that Will be presented at the
Grand.
Mr. Lorch will have a capable COM
pany. Mrs. Lorch, known TO the
stage as Miss Cecil Fay. will be the
. leading lady, and such we'll known
stock actors as William Dawes, Percy
Morris. and Fitz Boone will show be-
fore the Grand footlights. THE Cow
boy and the lady" "Raff1es,' I'm Old
Heidelberg" and plays of similar char
acter will be produced.
THEATER-Thea advance sale for the
Crane engagement which opens Thurs
day night in Father and the Boys"
began at the Theater box office this
morning. Without doubt the popular
comedian Will have a rayol greeting.
THE LAMBARDI CO.-Impresario
Mario Lombardi, who sends out his
big company TO the west again this
year, says that 1t is stronger than
any organization he ever brought to
America 1t is strictly on a line with
the Savage company as 1t has 81
Instruments In the orchestra and a
chorus OF 60, to say nothing of the Long
list of principals. Music lovers re-
member the big hit this company
made last year. and the splendid rep
crtoiro 1t announces for Salt Lake
ought to insure 1t undoubted SUCCESS.
ORPHEUM-One hitherto hos as
ISOLATED the Orpheum Road Shows with
a galaxy of new acts culled from the
headliners OF vaudeville. Consequent
ly when the man with the variety
habit, sees three turns that have been
in Salt Lake before, some more than
once, and Ida ODay, who. IL We mis-
take not, used to play the banjo In
the old days, as features on Martin
Beck's perfection in vaudeville bill.
he may be forgiven II he expresses
made up Of repeatcrs why not give US
Augusta Close. Edwin Stevens.
Hyams and MacIntyre and q few more
of the classier ones?
But, nevertheless. the bill is good
one. and 1t had hearty greeting OF
those we have seen before Knight
brothers and Sawtelle Conc sister, not
two): Hyman Meyer. none cleverer
at the piano. and Melville and Higgins.
tinctly their own, get just as enthu-
siastic hands" as they did on their
initial appearance here.
Ida O'Day, with the same old wealth
OF blonde hair and tho big Irish eyes,
is featured strongly on the program.
as being under the special wing of
Martin Beck. She presents a playlet
Chelsea" which is admirably staged.
She also has capable support The
theme Is an artists studio and a
flower girl; the plot somewhat breath
taking. II there wcre any Londoncrs
present in the audience last night they
Will undoubtedly affirm that Miss
O'Day was little too dainty and
sweet for the type she undertook TO
portray and her Cockney dialect was
not the Simon pure article.
The headltner Is La Titcomb. "the
singer on horseback" Il shepely wom-
an astride q beautiful white horse:
she might have como direct from q
Paris music hall. What La Titcomt
lacks in costume is made up In gor-
geous calcium effects and the act
throughout is the best OF It's class seer
at the local house. Another European