The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-14
BELASCO PLAYS
FQR NEXT YEAR
Strong List sf Attractions Is
Promised SaIt-Lake Thea
ter-Goers.
STOCK COMPANY OF MERIT
To SHOW AT COLONIAL
Advance Man Talks Interesting
Iy of the Coming Theatri
cal Season.

Ernest Shipman, who is Il visitor 10
Salt Lake city in the interests of Fred
eric Bcascos 'St. Elmo" company
which comes TO the Colonial May % for
one week. WAS Il visitor Friday at tho
editorial rooms OF The Tribune and re-
lated many interesting things concerning
the theatric situation for next season.
Amongst the excellent attractions which
Will visit the city Is such world renowned
success as THE Girl of the Golden West.
The Heart OF Maryland" The Squaw
Man Rose Of the Rancho" and others
of equal merit. under the management of
Frederic Belasco. who has done equally
big things In the producing way In the
past. with such successes as The Dairy
Farm The First Born. Florence
Roberts" and others,
Some of these plays have been wit
messed in stock. and even IN the hands
lightful. and when staged with all the
full accessories. and presented by a
picked company of players, in which each
member is chosen for the one character
Interpreted, these plays become the most
enjoyable treats upon the stage.
The stock situation, too will he catered
to In mastery manner. and company
on par with the ones now running at
the famous Alcazar theater of San Fran
cisco and the Burbank theater OF Los
Angeles will be presented here with the
Morcsco Is Salt Lake Boy.
/, will be interesting to know. that
Oliver Morosco, the proprietor of the
Burbank theater Los Angeles, and the
partner of Mr.. Bclasco and George Baker
in this million dollar stock merger. Is
Salt Lake boy, and his success Is recos-
nized In all branches of theatrlcals.
Together. he and Mr., Belasco witnessed
the New York performances of st. Ell
mo" and decided upon paying the top
of theaters In the west. and, in addition
MIR. Bcasco contracted TO give $4,000 Tor
the road rights for season OF twenty
weeks. Since that date he has paid out
almost $4,000 suppressing pirate and
unscrupulous persons from trading on the
name
No one in the west has seen the true
play OF "St. Elmo" as ii has been i'm
possible TO secure copy Of the version
purchased by Mr.. Belasco, and which
made the New York success. but various
concoctions have been fosted off on the
public under the alluring title OF ST
Elmo" and those versions never dld,
and never will. see the lght oil Ne"
York production. and In most cases are
n burlesquc upon one of the most de-
lightful stories ever witnessed upon the
stage.
telling a delightful story to orcrflowing
audiences nightly. but it Is blazing the
trail for other offerings under The same
MANAGEMENT for next season. and In this
double capacity Is doubly interesting,
Good Plays for West.
1.-THE Girl of the Goden West which
comes first next season. is being played
In five different languages, besides tour
ing in Australia, with Title Bruno in the
role OF Tho Girl" and in England. and
Africa making in all nine companies OF
this play OF great western life to be Wit
messed at one time upon the five con-
tnentS
The west Is growing TO a state wherein
&c can command and pay for the biggest
and best In thoatricals, and rs New York
is far cry. plans are under way Tor a
monster producing plant 10 be erected at
San Francisco, where the productions Tor
all these successes Will be made under
the eye OF the most skilled mechanics OF
the east and I'm August next five Pull
man coaches will leave New York lor
San Francisco. conveying moro than 500
OF the most noted thcspians 10 the west
ern metropolis.
This train will be the "Belasco Special, -
and already most Of the professionals "a.
have been signed for, as result OF inc
recent visit of Mr.. Bclasco to New York.
In various ways. a great many advan-
tages are promised TO the thcatcrgoers
Of next season In Salt Lake City.