The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-04

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When the curtain goes UP at the Salt
| Lake theater on Thursday evening, the
opening performances OF Maude Adams.
the famous Salt Lake actress will face
the greatest audience that has ever
greeted her in this. the city whore she
was born. Her homecoming will be
| royal welcome and the famous old play
house upon whose boards both herself
times before, Will be packed to the doors.
| Never before has there been such a
demand for seats to see play In salt
Lake as there has been for her engage
ment. The box office for the sale OF
! seats opened Tuesday morning AT 10
| o'clock, At that hour the line OF peo-
| pie anxious to purchase tickets extend
ed from the box office around on State
| street 10 Brigham street, and when et
| 6 o'clock Tuesday evening the window
! In the box office closed the receipts
\ showed record sale exceeding the open
| ing day for the first production OF Ben
dur.' when the seat sale was $500.
The first person to secure a seat was
Sid Reynolds, who had been sitting in
| front OF the box office from o'clock
Monday afternoon, He represented f. l..
Pratt of the Alta club and the four
| tickets purchased were for w. S. McCor-
| nick and Charles w. Whitley.
The greatest demand was for the open
| ing night and the house was practically
sold out for that performance. For the
other performances there are many good
seats left.
During the day number OF men who
had been hired to stand in line and buy
tickets for their employer sold out their
places TO others. The management at
the thcater adhered to the rule laid down
that only four tickets would be sold to
away, thus putting all on an equality.
Miss Adams Will arrive on Thurs
d5 day ,an and I,s she viii S be taken TO the home
lsadden. 9O9 South Ninth East street
I'm afraid" said Mrs. Kiskadden last
evening, that none OF us will he able to
see much OF Maude during. her stay here.
give five performances during her three
days stay here, you know, and II will
keep her very busy and prove extremely
meet all OF the hosts of people here who
are anxious TO see her personally, but
I'm afraid 1t will be impossible"
Miss Adams's last appearance in this
city was in June, 1907, when She played
Peter Pan at the Salt Lake theater.
Salt Lake lodge, No. 80. OF the Inter
national Alliance OF Theatrical Stage EN-
ployees OF the United States and Canada.
met Tuesday morning and unanimously
elected Carl /. Hailstrom q delegate TO
attend the eighteenth annual convention,
which will be held at Washington, D. c..
July il 10 is. Mr.. Hallstrom is very
popular. the local has elected him on
TWO occasions previous to represent them,
once at Boston and later at Springfield.
o. Mr.. Hallstrom has oeen a trusted
employee al the Grand theater for the
past fourteen years, acting IN the ca
pacity OF stage manager. Mrs HALL
strom, who has accompanied Mr. Hall
stronl on his previous trips. will go with
him; and together they will visit many
OF the larger cities OF the United States
he fore returning.
Glenn Fl. Curtiss. who established the
speed records at Rheims. France, last
year made them with Herring -Curtss
oiplane. replica OF which is being shown
at the Orpheum this week, In this ma
chine he has travelled at the rate OF fifty
Live miles an hour Innumerable Salt
have examined the Orpheum machine this
week and for those who are construct
Ing aeroplanes the measurements Of this
machine Will be interesting They are
General dimensions-Gross weight. 500
pounds, width of wings, front 10 rear
80 feet: length OF wings. from side TO
al, IS feet; height from ground TO top
Of wings. "a feet: height between wings.
% feet: depth OF biplane in front. "A
inches length 18th, Of bplane in front. feet;
The engine-..Weight. 200 pounds; horse
power. so. cylinders. S (When in the air
the peroplane moves at the rate OF about
fifty miles per hour. Propeller makes
1900 revolutions a minuteD Gasoline tank
above engine. capacity, gallons; oil
tank below engine; water cooler between
the engine and the seat.
The machine is steered to the right or
left by the wheel In front OF the seat
1t ascends or descends by the moving up
and down of the biplane in front The
brake, speed lever and the oil tank are
manipulated by the aviator's feet The
flexible tips OF the biplane are elevated
and the rudder guided by the front wheel
and the seat on which the aviator sits.
The steering wires go through the BAN
boo poles OF the tail and connect with
the rudder. It Will rise In the air with
in distance of seventy-fire feet. With
the present equipment Of tanks for gaso-
line and OIL. the machine can stay UP In
the air under favorable conditions for
six hours.
The splendid bill which has been of
fered at the Mission during the last week
Will come 10 q close with a matinee this
afternoon and two performances tonight.
During the week every act on the bill
has made a hit with the Mission patrons:
this being especially true OF the remark
and the singing OF Mr.. Prosser and Miss
Reed.
There will he a matinee at the Colonial
this afternoon, when Widow Jones' win
be presented. with Dorothy Morton as the
widow. The play will run the week.
The excellent bill at the Shubert this
week continues TO draw the crowds
Tuesday evenings business was much
better than that OF any other since the
class Of entertainment In this popular
theater has been changed. Five excellent
vaudeville acts are included in the pres
ent bill, consisting Of several excellent
sketches and some, specialties which
while not being new TO the city are han
died so we'll that last nights audience
greeted each number with much applause
Manager Florence. through his film ex-
change. has given the Shubert some ex-
ceent notion picture subjects, none OF
them ever having been shown here be-
fore.
At the Casino capacity audiences have
greeted this weeks bills at every per-
formance. The vaudeville features are OF
the best. and the reels OF moving pictures
as good as any ever shown In Salt Lake