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Show 1 . ' - aoff. The play is a thriller from start to finish, with plenty of excitement In every set. Among the members of the cast who dwserve mention- are David Rives, John. McCabe and Gertrude Perrie. The company as a whole In well balanced and gives a better presentation of the play than when it was offered in this city be fore. "Michael Strogon" finishes the week at the Grand, with the usual Saturday Sat-urday matinee. 1 Miss Georgia Harper, a new star to this city, comes to the Grand theat.' Sunday night for a two weeks' engagement, engage-ment, opening in Sudermann's great problem play, "Materia." Miss Harper's Magda Is said by competent critloa to compare very favorably with some of the best Mag-das of today. Magda Is a peculiar pecu-liar .character a woman who thanks the man who made her an outcast, because through her sin she became great in her art, yet when she is face to face with the suffering and disgrace she haa brought upon her family she makea a distinct appeal ap-peal for sympathy. She is not quite strong enough to pay the price of het years of liberty and conquest. In Miss Harper's support we have Joseph DetricW ae the pastor and J. G. Harper as Col. 8wartt. The production as a whole. It is promised, will be up to the standard. "Magda" will be given for four nights, commencing next Sunday evening, with usual Wednesday matinee. ' The Bohemian Burlesquers" wtll be the attraction at the Lyric for the week, beprlnnlng with the Saturday matinee. "The Bohemians" claim to be the newest, new-est, freshest, most artistic and thoroughly thor-oughly equipped organisation of its kind. They back their claim by presenting the following list of well-known performers: Andy Gardner and Ida Nlcolal, in their well-known characters, "Patsey" and "Roxle": the Orpheum trio, extraordinary extraordi-nary singing and dancing act; All. Hunter & All. eccentric comedy acrobatic and boxing act; the successful German comedian. com-edian. Will H. Ward, and Charles King and Grace Tremont. the "little people with the big voices." The chorus numbers num-bers twenty ladies, red. blonde and brunette bru-nette types of American girls, tralneo. after the manner of the rollicking Broadway Broad-way "enow" girls. The twenty-two rau. slcal numbers they do, while the leading ladles and comedians are weaving tha cloth for the musical comedy and the vaudeville programme, are big features, remarkable for execution and finish. feHEBTERS 1 4rhur Shepherd, leader of the Sait Lake Theater orchestra. ,who has been In &rWa !thi."t "U wek" rang1ng tS JiS u P'ormanee of his over-nrSa over-nrSa ' !?&r?n 4.h6 Plerewsk! heM tlVfKthw't.u, Mr. Shep- mI?; bw 5,vtn Jn arnegle hall on th? 5.1LiMa'"tu A118""' will direct renrf.H"i, fympnony orchestra In Its J22..fwth composition. Mr. Shep-Su"" Shep-Su"" New York re in 2?i0,thL" composition he will give It ir .hi Ju'- .i1 hf 8 not y arranged for the publication of the overture. That will cqme after the rendition. - in Orpheum yesterday all previous Mlf wer broken for the two per-V, per-V, ,1 mnrd b, went standing "Ti.on,J- Lat vc"1" J- A. Murph? introduced a new definition In "The Phrenologist," which apparently made a nit. In place of his famous definition ot ii.r?vin'w tor with the word "sklW JU. Mh,2.n h5 created deep and abid-ln"ij0.y' abid-ln"ij0.y' Tonla-ht will be society night, nd already there Is a heavy advance ale. T1f Rosclanv Opera company made a decidedly good Impression at the Salt . iThe"!'r yeterday afternoon' and l?Mii'!.'ch.V In the. old ,but ever-popuiar Mikado. As a singing organisation the Rosclans are not esjeclaly strong but the Gilbert and 8ulllvan production was given with a vim and rush and with pleasing etage settings, and two fairly large audiences voted the company a success. Claude Amsden well sustains the comedy role of the Lord High Executioner, Exe-cutioner, while Hasel Davenport would be hard to Improve upon at Katisha. Lucy Nola Is petite and pretty and does well as Yum-fum. Hllliard Campbell as y?nah: Fw- Walters as Nankl-Poo nd Charles .E. Hungtington as the Mi- $a,5o..",u?uln the,r Part we"- The tune-JL tune-JL Jul "Bohemian Girl" will be given to-Tnight to-Tnight ''ElCapltan" ' tomorrow matinee, ' and "Fra Dlavolo" tomorrow night. . '"Americans" close their engagement engage-ment at the Lyric theater, tonight. J,'hCh'i, 8t.r?,off''f w,th Theodore Oxrch in the title role, opened a three I fi".-ensf !menJE. oofore well-pleased audience at the Grand last night. Mr. IfUn.i ,to yell known in Salt Lake to reea an Introduction. It may be said of parts better than thst of Michael Stro- |