Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-11

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ment OF the Carreno recital, which oc-
| ours at the Shubert next Monday even
Ing, report a strong inquiry for tickets.
| Madame Carreno's work in the cities
| she is visiting. en- route to the coast
/ is winning most enthusiastic comment
| from the critics. and on her recent ap-
pcarance in Carnegie hall. New York.
she swept her audience OFF Its feet.
The advance sale Is now going on.
both at the Shubert theater and the
| Carstensen-Anson Music Co.
ORPHEUM-A tremendous audience
last night saw the new bill at this
popular play house. While the
list of numbers Is not up to
its predecessor of last week (in-
deed. it will be hard for the manage
ment to duplicate that week In general
attractiveness). still the offerings. es-
peclally the first half of them, drew
hearty and continued applause from
the audience.
Monroe Hopkins and Miss Lola Axtell
have an artistic Offering in music and
dancing AS q dancer Mr.. Hopkins Is
unusually clever. Trolley Troubles
is part of their sketch. full of laughs.
Vittoria &c Giorgetta have hand bal
ancing stunt that is hard to beat They
dance with clogs on their hands. with
feet in the air. and one pulls a loaded
pony cart while walking on his hands
a dainty offering, greatly applauded
was that given by the Misses Natalie
and Aurie Dagwell. which represents
historical cycle OF songs beginning with
the Revolutionary days and ending
with modern times.
Miss Ida May Chadwick. 1.-THE Hee
Haw Girl" Is back again with real
isis" Hopkins stunt. in the sketch For
Ga1G-lViuprinC % ft,o
sophisticated country girl she produces
many laugh, The others who take
part in the sketch are her father and
mother but it must be said she is ''the
whole show"
The gentleman burglar has been the
subject of many q sketch this year
but Donald Bowles puts a new side to
1t in his playlet Guilty" Mr. Bowles
Is the real feature OF the sketch. but
he has some able assistants. especially
in the judge of Mr.. Bradbury.
With some new Jokes. the same old
face, the same old style and the inim-
liable way of presenting Italian and
Hebrew characterizations. Ben Welch
has returned. This is the third time
Mr.. Welch has appeared here, but each
time he appears to get a warmer re-
ception than before.
One does not hesitate in saying tina:
Washington Irving would feel sorely
disappointed at a sketch bearing the
same name as one he wrote. but very,
very different. THE Devil and Tom
Walker" is ingenious but crude, jokes
with grlsly subject and sometimes
gets dangerously near the line of dull
ness. 1t went hugely. however. with
the galleries. The orchestral numbers,
especially tho "Tannhauser' selection,
were greatly appreciated.
COLONIAL-"The Virginian." that
stirring tale of the west of yesterday,
long ago made popular by Farnum
and Campeau, is the weeks bill now
being presented at the Colonial by a
capable company headed by William
l.. Gibson. 1t is the first presentation
in Salt Lake OF the famous play out
side of the Salt Lake theater.
AS a book '"rhe Virginian" won in
slant favor. and bids fair to go down
in literature side by side with the best
of Cooper and Irving. The scene laid
in the Wyoming cattle country of a
decade ago. brlms over with situations
terming with intensity while the dry
humor of the leading character re-
deems the whole from luridness.
AS a play "Thc Virginian" created
a furore and was tho forerunner of
a long succession of similar produc-
tlons, 1.-THE Squaw Man." "The Great
Divide" and the like. 1.-THE Virginian"
is in its seventh year and its popularl-
ty does not decrease one whit. 1t Is
clean from start to finish and the
rough situations of the Little Big
Horn country when it was tough" are
handled with the touch of a past grand
master.
Mr.. Gibson, conception and interpre-
tation of the loving and fearlessman
from the Old Dominion shows acumen
and power The heavy situations are
carried off without overriding and
there is a drawlingly light vein In the
comedy which Is delightfully."- smooth.
Molly Wood, the guiding star of the
life OF 1.-THE Virginian," at the crucial
time when his character was being
moulded. has not the dramatic pos
sibilities in the play that were pro-
missed in the book. Mabel Wright OBJ
tains the best of results from her
lines and juStifies her strong reputa-
ton.
The 'rrrampas'' OF Marshall Farnum,
a brother of the original Virginian
was. an excellent portrayal of the VIII
lians part, perhaps not thoroughly ap-
preciated because of its peculiar
character John c. Hickey as Honey
Wiegln" left little to be desired. The
one great part WHICH appears sihiioSt
as much as the title role Is that OF
steve the one-time pal of 1.-The
VirgInian," the man who finally went
to the bad and had the nerve to take
his fatal medicine without a whimper.
w. L. Knibloe's "Steve" is fine
piece of work, very deserving of the
reception accorded 1t.
The play is well staged and has a
large and excellent company Of 2S. 1t
Is on for the week with the usual
matinees.
BJJNGALOW-It Is a far cry from
the soft and nasal accent OF the good
old southern ante. ,bellum days to the
languid drawl of the English aristro-
crat but the transition was success
sufullv made from last week to the
present by the company at the Bunga-
low headed by Maude Leone and Will
lard Mack. The offering is Lord and
Lady Algy," and tells the story of an
apparently mismated couple of the
equality, and incidentally another
story OF q misguided young wife and
badly infatuated young man. Tho
complications into which the charac-
ters are plunged during the course of
| three we'll filed acts are as amusing
! as they are numerous. with the happy
| outcome characteristic of all English
| comedies. The differences between the
| two leading characters of the play,
| Lord Algy. portrayed by Willard Mack.
| and Lady Algy, by Maude Loone, were
| principally matters of varied tastes in
| races and cigarettes, and these
| threatened to lead Into serious diff
| nculties while the differences between