The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-14

Inc Empress opened It's twentieth wcel
yesterday afternoon. Since the opening
OF the house last fall an aggregate OF
between l25 and 130 acts OF the usual
vaudeville variety have been presented
on The Express stage. OF this number
the proportion OF acrobatic and symnastic
acts has been about thirty-Cya If rho
e'imacteric feats OF each of these acts
were executed by group of Gymnasts
chosen from the most dextrons perform
ers who have appeared OH the Empress
stage, the act so made would fall far
short OF equality with the act OF the Met
zetu Troupe Of eish, acrobats
| or this troupe the programme saws:
! 'Ihey present amazing and Incredible
feats of marvellous achievements, flash
1 ing like meteors in the heavens" This is
a circus sp'eler's way of describing the
act. yet the high sounding composition
scarcely does the remarkable feats of
these performers justice. Their act is
the most amazing OF its kind seen in local
vaudeville.
Individual opinion will classify the
other acts on the new Empress bill to
suit itself Marin and Iona open the
programme with exhibition Of Juggling
and balancing that is equal TO the best
that has reached Salt Lake via the C.
& s. route
Maria Lavarre is scheduled as the sec
ond entertainer on the bill. She is a
comedienne Of the fetching type, dainty
and graceful. with a good voice, in the
using Of which she resorts TO little tricks
OF expression that give originality to her
mode Of singing.
James Grady 6; Co. present a comedy
sketch which Is a gem in the character
ization. The story IS that OF an old.
hard -shelled toll bridge keeper who had
driven his only son across the bridge"
twenty years before. The pIaylet shows
how his heart becomes softened when
the little daughter OF the banished son,
after the latter died. crosses the bridge"
in search Of her grandfather, Mr., Grady
appears as the old bridge keeper. and his
portrayal of the peppery old man is as
clever a bit OF character work as is sell
dom To he enjoyed In vaudeville. Made
line Clark and Ben j.. Peer are both capa-
BILE players and compose Mr.. Grady's sup
port
ing, singing and synnastic dancing I'm
their act which is fast. clean and enjoy
able all the way through
Fred Eckhoff and Anna Gordon pre-
which a number OF instruments arc en-
listed in an unique manner in the fun
making. Eckhoff Is a versatile musician
on brass and reed Instruments. Miss Cor
don finds an opportunity to insert sew
eral pleasing songs and also plays the
trombone In accompaniment TO her part
per's instrumental efforts,
The photoplay is an interesting comedy.
'The Deep Purple which Leibler &
Co.. the producing managers. proclaim
as another play with punch opens |
? three 6ays' engagement at the Colonial |
theater tonight. The word punch in |
its dramatic connection, probably has NOT |
vet found its way into any book OF dra-
matte technique. but It means a big clI- |
max or a thrill that has something of |
dramatic value behind it, In advertising |
The Deep Purple AS another play with |
a punch, the producers obviously alIude |
to another of Paul Armstrong; success.
Alias Jimmy Valentine" In the pre- |
sentlng cast OF The Deep Purple" there |
Is Walter Edwards. a former stock lead |
Ing man of the old Grand thcater. and