Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-16
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The Coloniars Opcning-The new
| season under the new regime opened
AT the Colonial this week While II
was sort OF preliminary TO the main
event. IL gave a pleasant foretaste OF
! what the patrons of the house may
| expect under the new order OF things
! The new scale Of prices, 81 So was I'm
| vogue for the first time. and while all
| the seats were not hled. the audi
| Cnces thus far have been above the aver
| age, and with the charming impress
sion the first offering scored, there Is
| little doubt that tho two remaining
performances this afternoon and eve
ming. will build up a handsome total
The attraction f. The Lottery Man"
a comedy by Mrs. Young, who wrote
Brown Of Harvard" and II is pre-
scented IN salt Lake by a strong New
York company. with William Resell
I'm the part created by cyril Scott, and
Viva ogden In the role written for
Helen Lowell. the well remembered Mis-
Hay Of Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch" The part OF Lizzie in the
present play is an exact copy Of Hay.
and IN Miss Lowell got any more out
Of II than Miss ogden did last night.
she must have satisfied the authoress IS
thoroughly as she did the audience.
While the part verges on the gro
tesque at times, IL il impossible not 10
is a breezy. bright, and taking comedi-
an. and ne brought all the possibilities
out Of the part ~ the young man. who
puts himself up as a prize IN lottery.
The ahsurdities 81 the piece. whose
plot is almost that ~ a comic opera,
we're well brought out by the support
ing company. the principal members
OF whom are Lucia Moore. who played
the "chummy" mother with excellent
sweetness and taste. Miss Sadie Harris.
who made an altogether charming hero
inc. and Miss Florence Robertson. who
pictured the worldly mother 81 the day
with faithfuiness. The piece was eN-
cellently staged and Eowncd, and while
there were no great outhursts ~ on
thusiasm. the audience kept up in p
constant ripple Of merriment through
out the evening
The engagement closes tonight. after
which tho house viii remain dark, un-
III the big opening occurs. with VIII
ton Lackaye in "The Battle
The orchestra was efficiently CON
Quoted last night by Prof Groneman,
squire Coop, who has taken hur-
ried vacation across the. water
orpheum--While there IL nothing ~
startling merit above the ordinary
weekly productions In the orpheum
program TINS Wceks no single act Nn-
less ~ be the living statuary posing Of
the ive olympiers. being entitled 20
rank as headliner, there Is good
variety IN the entertainment with now
and then hearty laugh producer
thrown in. There are three men and
two women in the olympiers company
and they are all built like models.
Their posing IL excellent, and their
subjects striking some ~ the more
prominent subpects presented were
Fighting Brothers" THE Race" and
Liberty" Annabelie Whitford had an
aeroplane specially which was both
novel and pleasing. As model Of the
Rrinkiev girl In several poses she
rivalled tho original pictures, both a.
20 shapeliness OF form and paucity of
costume. her voice being acceptable
and her "sesrchlight' and flirting"
specialties wining the crowd with
Hans Hanke al the piano. with his
famous left handed execution ~ the
SSxtet from Lucia. Miss Whtford
has an act that pleases
Pope ana Uno. the European nov
city" consists of an exceedingly well
trained little black and tan dog, and