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Show amusements Maltese and Orlob and the Peasant," nrato. today, performance tonight. Military Band, THKATBE.-He- lds HAKD evening. COMING ATTRACTIONS. -- Williams and Walk-pt- 8 salt Lake Theatre. May Big Colored Vaudeville, Military Band. THEATRB.-He- lds GBASD Theatre. lt lake in "The Prince 16-17- th. Held's Military Band Festival in the Tabern- acle, May 20th. of The The initial performance was given last prince and the Peasant audita Friday night before congested . and orium. At Saturdays matinee the tally sheets at night performances continued ovathe hox office showed a felt contion. Mr. Maltese must have Orlab couldnt vulsively happy, Mr. each have been less so individually felt a personal triumph, which in the delirium of success, was big enough for both combined. The opinion of the town is still divided as to the merits of evithe production. To some it is an dence of precocious genius, to others it But between these two horizons are the who see both in opinions of the many the libretto and the music of The Prince and the Peasant a promise of better things the talent is there, all it requires is encouragement and proper direction. The town has certainly given Messrs. Maltese and Orlob all the encouragement they could ask the press has been most generous in its treatment. The absolute necessity in light opera is simplicity of theme and plot, is only precociously interesting. rapidity of movement, events leading to and growing from each other with reference to the proprieties of time and of the There music. machinery lies in the are many popular light operas today whose theme and plot is but little better than the first and third acts of The but the music, Prince and Peasant all through, falls in such a shower of golden rain that one finds himself deluged into captivity. Act one of The place the remaining nine-tenth- s matic hiatus one may conjecture, but never guess. As a pantomime of beautiful revelations coming to Karl as he sleeps in the ruined castle of his forefathers, Mr. Maltese certainly advanced a novel idea full of poetic possibilities. The idea was brilliantly conceived and could have formed the groundwork for a most charming interlude of poetic action and divergent features, incidentally rather than necessarily a part of the opera. The conception was good and Mr. Maltese is entitled to credit for the intended innovation, but the manner in which he worked it out was most unfortunate and crudely melodramatic. During Act a of number features are two, however, introduced which to a large extent remove the yellow taste in the mouth. The ballet dancing led by Miss Humphrey was charmingly graceful and received merited applause. Little Sarah Parsons solo ' dance was a poem of sprightly activity.. Act three takes up the thread of the opera and, on the whole, carries it to a satisfactory dramatic conclusion. As to the individual work of the performers, it was surprisingly good. Mrs. Anderson as Jeanette was easy and graceful and at all times impressed me with the dramatic intelligence she displayed in her interpretation of ;the part. Her voice is a positive charm and its notes so clear and limpid as to reflect, without a blemish, the words and meaning of every song. Mrs. Bradford made a vivacious and sprightly Fanchette and won admiration from all sides. Mr. Alfred Best, Jr., surprised me with his almost professional stage bearing and action he moves in an atmosphere of charming unrestraint. There were of vocal fire and in Elenty wrork, which won expression deserved applause. Mr. Squires charmed us all with his splendid solo in the first act. The comedy roles Zoo Zoo and Blink-i- e Blinkie, in the hands of Mr. Haddock and Mr. Hooper, though well rendered, lacked snap and ginger. Mr. Foster, Miss Butler, Miss Johnston, Mr. Salvatore Maltese and Mr. Pomeroy, who filled the minor roles, were equal to expectations... The chorus was aud surprisingly large and effective well drilled for.-slarge a body of singers. I had almost forgotten the double sextette. The sextette idea is of course not musically new, but the six little maids from the ladies seminary and their flirtatious beaux made a pretty spectacle the words and music of the soug caught the audience and several encores were demanded. Altogether, Messrs. Maltese and Orlob have every reason to be proud of their first attempt, and with the whole town patting them o is consertive Prince and Peasant enough in conventional requirements, even if the theme and plot are cloudy at times and some of the individual solos are so long as to mar the required g hurried movement and action. The g general arrangement of the act is good, iff while the weaknesses I have pointed out, are more the results of inexperience than a hopeless inability to do better. g Bunning through act one are solos, V duetts and chorus work, which both in g words and music were surprisingly $ on the backs they should be encouraged to renewed efforts. In response to a wide request The Prince and the Peasant will be repeated today and tonight. The objectionable second act will be revised and a number of pleasing features introduced, which were not seen at the other productions. ft ft Lincoln J. Carters Two Little Waifs which appeared early at the Grande, was characteristic of the melodramatic genius of the prolific writer who has already given us The Fast Mail, Heart of Chicago, Under the Dome and many other dramatic editions of triumphant virtue and baffled villainy. There is, I presume, such a thing as the conventional, even in the elastic uncertainty of melodrama, but Mr. Carter has such a contempt for its petty requirements, that he wins by sheer force of adaucity and stagecraft. Lincoln J. Carter has ridden into popularity. not by clever dialogue, but by thrilling climaxes and scenery. In every act of a Carter play there is either a zenith or dramatic situation, or what is equally effective, a grouping of scenic effects which culminates in stage realism. When trains run, you not only hear the bell ringing, but see the wheels turn and the sparks fly; when a ferry boats moves out into the stream, you uot only see the painted funnels and the pilot box, but you hear the swash of the waves and feel the current of the stream realism carried to the .limit. Realism is the hobby horse on which Lincoln J. Carter has ridden to favor and fortune. So it was in his latest effort, Two Little Waifs Ecenic realism all through. The plot of the play is common place, the climaxes expectedly thrilling, while the scenic culminations startled us with the unexpected. That magnificent stage picture, the home overlooking the Hudson and the almost imperceptible change from daylight to sunset, from sunset to twilight and darkness, with the rising moon and the faint gleaming lights across the river on the Jersey shore, were eminently Carterian with scenic conviction and realistic stnge art it was altogether one of the finest groupings of mimic elements, seen upon the stage of the Grand. Two Little Waifs is indeed a gallery of scenic pictures which Mr. Carter so artfully hangs upon hi3 dramatic walls that the play could not help being a success. . good. The inkeepers song, though a trifle long, is really a pretty conception and was well rendered by Mr. Squires. "If I were a Fairy, is a dainty lyric butterfly that flutters over a musical garden fairly bursting with flowery sweetness. Every time Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Best sang it, the audience became stormy with encores. The finale of act one is a clever blending of chorus and ensemble work. The pleasing and agreeable impression made by act one is almost the so called destroyed dream of act two. by is It so devoid of dramatic propriety as to dangerously uisturb the pleasing impressions produced by while act three sufactone, fers immeasurably because of the unexpected disturbance. Just why Mr. Maltese has introduced this melodra g g g g g a Salt LaKe Theatre 'Repetition Manager . of The Prince - AND The Peasant In Responce to Numerous Requests. 1 g g & a& g g Matinee Today and Performance Tonight, Popular Prices, 25, 35, 50 and 75c. The Trelany of the Wells production, as rendered by the University Dramatic club, proved to be not only the most ambitious offering, but the most artistic rendition yet given by the students. In view of past success we had a right to expect much, though, unprepared for the agreeable surprise which greeted us. All the local alumni as well as the students of the university who saw Pinero's charming comedy last night, felt carried away on an alma mater wave of enthusiasm. Everything was propitious for a charming production the incentives of past success, the determination to surpass expectation, and, above, all, an ambition to widen tne friendship between alumnus and student in a mutual admiration for anything of merit from the university. The theme and spirit of the play was such as to bring to the surface all the latent fire of the actor students. Its brightness and sparkle danced in the eyes of the youthful players. If anybody saw any amateur awkardness lingering about the footlights at the opening of the play, he was soon relieved by the graceful burst of unrestraint which followed. No doubt the play was, in a measure, responsible for this robust activity its simplicity and clear cut dialogue are most charmingly conducive to dramatic vigor both in word and action. It is filled to overflowing with an invitation which appeal to every member of the cast to regard himself as a necessary dramatic unit the most insignificent part in the play has been rounded out by Pinero as being of symmetrical importance. The play writer shows with most exquisite touches of action and suggestion, a play within a play upon the stage glimpses of a stage-lan- d itself. A dramatic mingling of. the conventional and unconventional. A delightful contrasting of tinsel and showy finery, floating like soap bubbles through the oppressively heavy atmosphere, which novers like a pall of respectability over Cavendish Square. Miss Holbrook, as Rose Trelawny, acted all through with a dramatic instinct and conception which almost disguised the amateur, while, at times, she actually did get over into the professional garden and gathered some of its easy, graceful flowers. Her enunciation was charmingly clear and the varying moods into which the part carried her were most artfully reflected both in voice and action, which, she intelligently blended into dramatic sincerity. Tom Wrench, in the hands. of Ned Goff, showed that he was fully aware of the requirements of a difficult $ his acting impressed me with its part, sinand Hark-ercandor. evident s Miss cerity w Avonia Bunn was a clear, cut and effective piece of work. Indeed the various roles were cleverly . . i sus-toine- d. s club Altogether the University place Trelawny $ WellsmayamoDg the archives - I $ of the as i - distinct dramatic success. The untiring care and labor of Professor Maud May Babcock were reflected all through the play. ft ft The attendance at Helds Military n Band concerts still keeps up surpris- The auditorium of the ingly well. Grand last Sunday, though not crowded, still contained an audience most flattera ing as to numbers and thoroughly appreciative. Nearly, all the numbers on were of the light and airy the a& kindprogram of musio which took immensely. The familiar. Honeysuckle and the Bee was charmingly rendered and w liberally applauded. In the delightful Strauss waltzes, Tales of Vienna Woods. there was such a musical, flut- - |