The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-21

ciated by all Orpheumites.
i The Dennis pair are fine athlete:
f, who present difficult and sensational
! novelty on n revolving ladder Th,
idea is new and cleverly worked out
with finish in which they hang by
their feet while the ladder revolves rap
/ idly. There Will be new moving pic
lures and Il new programme by the or
chestra.
Yet another departure in musical com
edy awaits Salt Lakers at the Shu.
bert thcater this week Mr. Curtis has
evolved a rather startling innovation
Of western play interspersed with so
much good music and new songs as to
form delightful combination of the
two, the theme of seriousness running
through the play combined with the
melody and lighter features to such a
degree as TO make the whole splendid
little show and so entirely different
from anything that has been seen here
in It's line that it cannot help but prove
one of the strongest drawing cards of
the week theatrical among the local
houses.
The new Curtis show is entitled HThe
Cowboy Girl" and its author has drawn
his inspiration for the story from the
immortal writings of Bret Harte, whose
romances Of the western mountains and
plains will live for all time, All the
vlvidness, stirring scenes and truthful
portrayal of those types of men and
days of 40 and 80 and whose loves
and hates and fun made life worth hv-
ing then despite its roughuess, has Bret
Harte S wonder brain put into print,
and they have been retained in the writ
ing of "The Cowboy Girl,' and in
addition its author has given to his
story simple directness of purpose and
action that brings to every line and sit
uation and every character of the story
days thereof that are so rapidly fading
before the advance of modernism. Gone
are the cowboys and their fellows from
the western ranges and with them have
passed the scenes in which they lived
the fleeting years that brought them
nearer the time when they should pass
with the other institutions that made
the old west beloved by all who knew it.
And with such incidents the story Of
"The Cowboy Girl" deals. The girl
hns been left an orphan and with lot
of character and bravery has inherited
from her father a typical western sa-
loon and gambling house called the
Ranchmen g Rest, where the cowboys,
the Indians. Mcxicans, Chinese and the
horde of other western characters are
wont to gather for their gambling ca,
rousals, the pleasures of the dance hall
and the refreshments which find their
midst of the rough life about her the
"Girl," however, keeps herself aloof
from the sordidness of her surround
ings and one quickly realizes that under
the rough exterior there is a world of
good in the little woman who has as
sumed the responsibilities and manage
ment of an institution that would tax
the courage, nerve and capabilities OF
the strongest man about her. The story
is unconventional in the extreme and
with its characters forms a remarkably
cIear-cut and dramatic story. The in
tensely dramatic situations follow each
other with rapid succession and inter
spersed with them is a vein of humor
typically western in its character which
carries the story along in tumbling
fashion and relieves the somberness
of its seriousness.
And into the original story Mr.. Cur,
tis has introduced the novelty of catchy
songs, chorus dances and musical spe-
ciaities that will make "The Cowboy
Girln one of the cleverest shows of the
season.
With the return of J. c. Wolfe, spe-
cial representative for Max Florence,
general manager of the Shubert and
other Florence theaters, from New York
yesterday, plans were consummated for
the winter season of the Curtis com
pany at the Shubert. Mr. Wolfe brought
back from the east with him the play
ing rights of twenty and more of the
very latest musical successes sung on
the New York and Partisan stage. and
in addition has secured several new ar
fists for the company who will be seen
in the cast Immediately after the first
of the month The new shows that Will
be put on then will be bigger and bet
ter than anything yet attempted by the
Curtis organization.
For the second attraction OF the
regular season, the management Of the
Colonial theater announce what they
consider one of the very strongest of
ferings the Independent managers have
to present, in the person of America S
favorite actor of roles requiring phys
ical power and forceful personality,
Mr.. Lackaye, who will be seen here for
three nights and Wednesday matinee,
commencing Monday evening, August
90, in Cleveland Moffett's powerful
play, "The Battle" For one entire
season Mr.. Lackaye presented "The
Bnttle'' at the Savoy theater, New
York, with such success that last year
he moved his scene of operation to- the
massive Academy Of Music, where
UThe Battle'' had a second and even
more successful engagement, his man
ayers, Liebler s. Co., stating that the
Lackaye engagement brought greater
receipts to the historic academy than
anv other attraction with the single ex-
ception of David Warfeld. AS every,
body familiar with things theatrical
knows, "The Battle' treats of the
old, old question of classes VS.: the tn e
masses, but from a new and decidedly
interesting standpoint, and Mr., Mott
ett's deductions as to the ultlmate
outcome of the struggle are certainly
novel to say the least. Mr: LaeKaSe