The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
Musical Comedy

The Salt Lake theater season fo
io10-11, it can be said, has opened. Th
Orphcum and the Shubert are running
The former in vaudeville and the latter
musical comedy and tkey will co
musical comedy, and they will so con
linue for the season.
On Sunday, August %. the Colonia
will open for the season, when Wilton
Jackaye will present "Tho Battle. y
This will be the opening gun Of theatri.
cal war that is to be waged in this city
the coming season between the Cort
crowd, the Independents and klaw and
Erlangcr, who control the Salt Lake the
nter, in so far as the bookings are con-
eerned. 1t will likewise mean an ad-
vance in prices at the Colonial over
what they have been heretofore. Mr..
Cort. who has the Independent organi-
gation, promises the best that is to be
had IN the theatrical world and in view
that u number of the producers Of plays
have Joined forces with him, the Colo
plnl will be a greater factor than ever
In the Salt Lake theatrical world.
The season at the Salt Lake theater
will open September 5th, Labor day,
when Henrietta CrosSman, an old time
Salt Lake favorite, wall appear in new
play and from that date on it is said
that tho Salt Lake theater will have
no dark nights during the winter, Klaw
and Erlanger will have on the road
thirty-eigbt of the biggest productions,
cd outside Of New York Boston, Phila-
delphia and Chicago, 1t is said that
all of Klaw and Erlaneer's big pro-
ductions will come to Salt Lake, and
every one of their productions will have
week in Utah The Ogden Orpheum
will take care of them two nights of
each week and the Orpheum show on
those nights will be sent to tho Logan
opera house. But the best shows that
Klaw and Erlanger have and this in
cludes all the Frohman stars, viii be
seen in Zion.
With the opening of these theaters
there will then he seven playhouses run
ming in Salt Lake City exclusive of the |
motion picture shows. so that Salt Lake |
play-goers can have their pick. 1t is a |
question whether this number of thea
ters can be sustained as it is one thea
ter for every $4,000 inhabitants.
With the announcement that the
Grand. theater is being remodeled and
changed in many ways and that it is to
be an up to date playhouse in which a
stock company headed by William
lngersoll Is to present the best PLAYS
md which Will be run as stock house
I might be we'll to recall some facts
lbout the old Grand theater. In this
il should be said that sew
'ral of the stars of the first magnitude
which now scintillate in the theatrical
vorld made their advent on the boards
# the old Grand,
The Grand thcater was opened on
christmas night. 1894, when ">Moths,' - !
N adaptation from the novel OF the
anne name, was presented. The COM !
AMY was splendid one. 1t was under
ow the advance representative of Mrs c
'iske, The company was made MP of r
Hiss Jane Remark. Miss Blanche 8
sates, Miss Madge Carr Cook, Miss G
can Coy, T. D, Frawley, Howard Kyle. ]
!. w. King, Harry Corson Clarke and
l. ID. Blakemore, the latter joining the /
ompany after the first week. This |
onlpany held the boards until the b
pring of 1895. when break occurred, n
row being stirred up by Harry Cor. +
On Clarke. A new company was formed \
eaded by Wight Huntington. Howard n
-yle, Victory Bateman. Lisle Leigh, S
.ecil livingstone. Hugh Warde, Florida b
,ingsley and others. n
In the fall OF the same year, Septem- a
eaded by William 1ngersoll, who will f
cad the. new stock company at the
rand this year, opened in HRosedaIe. -
ther members of the company were &
annie McIntyr, Walter Edwards and o
ebecca Warren. the two latter now a
J stock in Toledo; the elder Mr.. Eide B
IN, who died in Philadelphia several Il
ears ago; Mr.. and Mrs. Chester. vii. p
am Tooker, Hugh Wnrde, Miss Pollock. f
jerome, who married a busi.
ess mon IN Salt Lake, and Harry Hath. m
way Mr.. Hathaway married the n
anghtcr of Byron Groo of this city e,
nd afterwards left the stage and en- ii
red the ministry. He has been in o.
large OF an Episcopal church in the Il
,st for several years. A few weeks
ter the lrgersoll company opened the m
rand Miss Ada Dwyer and Mr.. Rich u
an opened at the old Lyceum. pl
Following these ventures the life of ii
oek IN Salt Lake City has not been tl
bed of roses all the time. Among te
, recalled Wallace Munroe who "a
,ened the Wonderland with his com ;s
any. the only company. by the way. in
'at ever played continuous perform
ice of ''Uncle Tom IS Cabin, J: which n,
le members did here running the play y,
ghteen hours In order to care for fh, M
'eht throng who wanted 70 see the cr
ay. This was at Wonderland. Mr., SO
unroe afterwards exploited the late m
ouis James and is now managing Olga V
cthersole 80 p
Others who followed were Charlotte r
Ittei, the Californian, Edith Chapman, ",
ayes and Emily Lytton. the last two Is
ylng really splendid performance of
David Garrick;' the McGarvcy com. =
my. winch was short lived. and later 50