The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-10-16
BRILLIANT LIST
OF ATTRACTIONS
Marc Klaw Promises Many
Great Productions to Local
TheatregoerS.
SYNDICATE BRANCHES OUT
Theatres Being Built and Acquired in
Portland. Seattle, Spokane, Van
couVer and other Cities

Declaring that salt Lake and the
northwest win see its most brilliant
theatrical season next year. as a re-
suit of contracts just closed in Port
land, Seattle, Spokane, Butte. Van
couver ana Victoria. Mare Klaw, sen
Tor member Of the famous theatrical
syndicate OF Klaw & Erlinger. arrived
In this city yesterday afternoon, and
viii leave this morning for Denver,
and thence back 10 New York by way
OF Kansas City.
~Of course promises are cheap in
my business" said Mr.. Klaw at the
KnutsfOrd hotel last night, but never
theless, L am in a position TO assure
the theatrical public OF salt Lake
that il VIII see the most brilliant list
OF attractions ever shown in this city
next season. We have twenty big sue
cesses in our own houses and those or
our allies in New York CITY. In fact,
there are so many excellent attractions
being shown in New York that We are
not able 10 handle all OF our own plays
only last week we had 70 give RE
4 becea or sunny Brook Farm" 70 Da-
Vid BelascO.
Many New Theatres.
During the few weeks have spent
in the northwest, 1 have closed deals
FOR beautiful theatres in all Of the
prominent cities our attractions Will
continue 90 be shown AT the salt Lake
theatre here In Portland a new thea
& tire. 10 be called the Columbia viii be
erected Immediately on the corner OF
Q Thirteenth and Morrison streets; in
J Spokane a deal viii be closed for
new theatre in less than three weeks,
with Nose Oppenheimer; in Seattle
magnificent new building, 70 be called
the Metropolitan, and located at
Fourth avenue and University place.
B viii be started in the near future; in
! Vancouver q new house viii be built
{ on Georgia street; I'm Victoria We have
r closed deal FOR the Victoria theatre.
and IN Butte we VIII use the OrDheum
theatre on Broadway and Montana
streets"
That the career Of John Cort. who
has lately been SO strenuously fighting
certain theatrical interests. viii hence
forth be short lived, was the declara-
ton of Mr.. Klaw.
Pays Respects 10 COrt.
"Just 10 show you what kind of a
man Cort is. this man who has been
bucking the trusts" said Mr.. klaw,
ne mas nrEl pay lalE us AAlE pantry sum
OF $3.50 for our attractions To be shown
IN his one-night towns. and he has
been demanding 8 per cent Of the
gross for himself from all local man
ayers. Its preposterOus. and where
the local managers get off after Civ
Ing him 8 per cent OF the gross and
paving their expenses. TO say nothing
of the percentage demanded by some
of the actors. I don't know.
I'm New York John COrt is a joke.
Everybody remembers how he wildly
announced that he was going to New
York 10 hold a conference with Daniel
Frohman, and FrOhman wouldn't talk
10 Cort through a telephone. We
didn't hive any intention of coming
into the northwest until we began to
find out from COrt what a splendid
field this part Of the country is, but
/ want 20 tell you that Mr.. Cort IS go
ing 10 be done up. and il isn't going TO
take long before he realizes IT,"
Coming Attractions.
Mr.. Klaw announced that all OF the
newly planned theatres will be COM
pleted by next August or September
at the latest, and that practically all
Of the new successes IN New York will
be seen here next year. Among these
attractions are;
0N- men ~ eL---i5 III u az t1iiisNll2Cu
by George NJ. COhan from the story in
the Saturday Evening Post, THE Con-
cert" by Belasco: Lillian Russell in I'm
Search OF = Sinner: THE Slim Prin-
cess" THE Girl on the Train" AL
ma, Where Do You Liver" 1.-The
Country Boy" Madame Sherry" John
Drew in smith; Marie DOrO in viii
liam Gillette's Electricity; Billie
Burke IN Mrs. Dot; Maude Adams in
"Chantecler": Love Among the
Lions" The Girl IN Waiting" Rich
ara Carrie IN Jumping Jupiter Nat
Goodwin IN The Captain" and several
other big hits, which, according 10
Mr. Kiaw, have caused the New York
critics 10 busy themselves more than
ever since the production OF Ben