The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-03

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!; CHTTRCH-Concert by Miss Olive i
= Gray Monday evening
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!. Maggie Tout, famous soprano, on
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Following the Mcintyre and Heath
show at the Salt Lake theater comes
Chicago's great musical comedy - a
Stubborn Cinderella written by
Hough, Adams and Howard produced
by Mort II. Singer and with Homer
b. Mason featured. This will be the
first appearance In Salt Lake City OF
this musical comedy, which during the
past two seasons has gained a most
enviabe reputation from coast to coast
as one of the brightest and most thor.
oughly enjoyable musical comedies OF
the past decade. The musical comedy
will be at the Salt Lake theatre the
first half of the week beginning Mon"
day night, with Wednesday matinee.
IA Stubborn Cinderella holds the
long run record in the city of Chicago,
All consecutive performances. 1t was
presented for sixteen weeks at the
Broadway theater, New York, year
ago last summer. continuing On ITS
merry way long after the torrid wealth
er had compelled the closing of the
doors of every other thea:er in Greater
New York. Last summer it played
twelve weeks each in Philadelphia and
Boston.
The original production and the en-
tire original cast Will be seen il Salt
Lake City. Besides Mr.. Mason, the
company contains such well known
players as Don Mcmillan, Marguerite
Keeler, Bessie Merrill, Frank Carter,
Charles Wilson and Tessie McAdams.
is Miss CAROLYN Lila, whose reputation
is firmly established wherever this at
traction has appeared. The costumes
are exceedingly beautiful end elabo-
rate, ard the song numbers in How
ards best strain, are sixteen in num-
Der, the principal ones bong Glove
Me Just Because, "What's the
am s Rib Alone" f'Don't Be Any
body's Moon but Mine" and "When
You First Kiss the Last Girl You
Love-
The famous Princess theater chorus,
acknowledged to be the greatest sing"
ing and dancing chorus in America, is
a feature of the performance.
Nothing is so easy to obtain as a
"good" play A manager of the brief
est experience will tell you that. Great
plays are not so plentiful. BY great
play is meant one whose appeal, like
that Of great poem, or a great novel,
is not limited 10 one cline or to one
tongue, but which captures the minds |
and the hearts of the most diversified |
and different of persons. Nor can you
o. IL II
interest one class OF theatergoers alone |
The great play must reach all classes |
1t is this uDiversalitv of appeal which |
has gained a sensational success for |
Henry Bernstein drama, fThe
Thief" which Charles Frohman is TO |
present at the Salt Lake theater be- |
ginning Thursday night next
Here is play. written by the most |
Partisan of Parisians. vet which, in
about six weeks after its premier at
the Renaissance theater In Paris. was
in process of translation into FIVE alien
ngucs-English, German, Russian
Spanish and SwedIsh-and in each of |
these subsequently eagerly patronized |
by all classes. To witness single per.
formaDce of 'FThe Thief is to see
at once the reason of its special sue
cess Tho, most dramatic Sof themes,
the most fundamental facts in all ma.
ture, are there treated with truth
fulness and ingenuity. mastery of |
technique, that is without parallel in
contemporary dramatic construction.
Carrying great moral lesson, ''The
Thief is yet no preachment-its au-
thor is too fine an artist for that-but |
the human soul IS plumbed and its
depths sounded in the most startling
Dlaygoer finds the eternal truths which |
Bernstein has so thoroughly grasped |
woven into his consciousness with
direction and an emphasis that tons of |
tracts could never evoke. 'fThe Thief
has been called play for husbands.
1t, IS more than that. 1t is play for
waves, sons and daughters. 1t is a |
play that holds a salutary lesson for
every member of the human race.
These qualities in "'The Thief, ~ have
made Bernstein, still in his thirties, the
NEST conspicuous figure among the dra-
natlsts OF the world and have made
the productions of this masterpiece by
Charles Frohman the most brilliant |
stroke of his extraordinary career. Mr..
fTohman has gathered together a spe.
eIai companv Of PLAYERS, headed by
Herbert Kelley and EfGe Shannon, and
which lncludrg Eleanor Jennings. Ed.
ward Mawson. Arthur Lawrence, Leon
ard !He and Edward Elsner. A matt
nee IS announced for Saturday.
Tho Right Of Way" dramatized in
five acts, from Sir Gilbert Parker:s
romance, returns to Salt Lake. wber"
lneatcr tor rr. week. With the usaa
"Wednesday AID Saturday matinees,
commencing tonight AS drama. .sTho
Right of Way" has proved magnifi.