The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-03
|MACK'S SKETCH IS
SUCCESS IN DENVER
"Vindication" to Be Played
ON Orpheum Circuit by
Frank keenan,.
COLONIAL VAUDEVILLE
"Pantages" to Be New Name
of Popular Broadway
Playhouse.
COLONIAL VAUDEVILLE

"Ovation and speech this afternoon
for Vindication, - read portion Of
telegram received yesterday by
Willard Mack, head Of the Utah Thea
ter Stock company. The telegram was
signed by Frank keenan,, the we'll
known dramatic star who opened an
enga cement at the Orpheum thcater in
Denver Monday afternoon, playing a
sketch called "yindication, and
which was written by Mr.. Mack.
E:The wire was particularly crafty
ing to me- said Mr. Mack last night,
because it meant recognition by, a
western audience Of my work Mr..
Keenan, will continue over the Or.
pheum circuit with the sketch, and
Lake with it, and | trust that this may
be while 7 am with the company at the
Utah,
Description of Sketch.
vindication is said to be a dra.
matte sketch of more than usual in
tensity. The story deals with the plea
of a father for the life Of his boy,
who has been convicted of murder and
who has been sentenced to be hanged
for his crime. The scene Of the playlet
is the executive office of the governor
of northern state at the present time.
The father and the son are both ma
tives of the south, the father an ex-
Confederate soldier. Throughout the
boy IS life he has been taught to. vene-
rate the name of General Lee, and 1T
was because "northerner had spat
upon a picture of the general that the
youth had shot and killed. During the
plea of the father it develops that
he and the governor had both fought
in the battle of Antietam, and had had
hand-to"hand encounter on the field,
both at the time being privates in the
armies of the north and south
Vindication' was originally writ
ten by Mr.. Mack for magazine story,
and was named "Second Childhood. -
Mr.. Mack, after writing it, put it in
his trunk and it was forgotten until
Mr.. Keenan, asked if the Utah star had
any more of his work, after the Mack
sketch, Kick In made it's hit in
New York city, Mr.. Keenan, played in
Salt Lake two years ago on the Or
Changes Announced.
A number of changes are scheduled
in the local theatrical world accord
ing to announcements made yesterday.
The chief of these was that the Co.
lonial theater is to be renamed, and
will hereafter be called "Pantages, "
taking the name of the vaudeville cir
cult Of which il becomes n part. Pan
tages vaudeville will be played in the
house, beginning next Wednesday.
Pantages vaudeville is one of the big
institutions in the theatrical world, and
the decision TO enter Salt Lake with
a house of the prestige and facilities
of the Colonial should start the ball
rolling for them here to the tune Of
heavy patronage.
Manager Newman, who will have
charge of the Pantages, is already ar
ranging the necessary details looking
to the change in the name of the house.
Workmen are changing the electric
sign in front of the theater and new
tickets have been wired for, while the
necessary programme changes and
printed matter alterations will be made
at once.
The first Pantages bill opens week
from today, Wednesday, September 10,
and Manager Newman received word
yesterday from J. ]. Cluxton, general
manager of the entire Pantages circuit,
that he will arrive in Salt Lake today for
final conference over the opening Of the
house.