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Show THE BEE. them that one hardly recovers from one fit of laughter before one is plunged into another. Miss Ford, the leading lady, is a pleasing actress and a beautiful woman. The play goes again tonight and this afternoon. At the initial performance of the Opera Said Pasha, Mr. Harry Shear-magave the following verse in response to an encore : J list listen nul I'll tell you about our crood friemi Prut t. He wants to bo Chief of Police and let it go at that, Sheurman's ATTRACTIONS AT SALT LARK THEATER. Our Flat, this ufternoon anti evening'. Salt Lake Drarnatio Company ia Harvest, Fennell .ud Broken Ties, Friday and Saturday evenings, March uh and 5th. NEW GRAND THEATRE. !' World, Keller & Mack in "Town Topics, all week. v 'enings 8:15. Mattinee, Saturday afternoon 2:15. ALT LAKES devotion to comic opera has been fully tested. This is the fourth week at the Grand since comic opera began its reign there. Every performance has gone to crowded houses and been enjoyed by a hilarious audience. The Said Pasha performances at the Salt Lake theatre have been to houses. Four times the old theatre was jammed f rom pit to dome and the local favorites applauded and cheered. The city seems to have gone opera mad and the germ seems to be increasing instead of over-flowin- g Every Salt Laker should feel some thrill of pride when he sees our home Opera company. Certainly there are few cities in the Union of States that can boast such a splendid organization, composed of local talent and nearly all to the manor born. Any of the principals in Said Pasha in a professional company could win laurels on their own merits. Their voices are sweet and fresh and pure and j what they lack in art is made up greatly in natural talent. Both Miss Fisher and Miss Savage have a winsome way in their singing and acting rarely seen in professionals. Miss Savage is evidently studying, as her improvement in voice Her duet with Mr. and manner is marked Goddard, Kiss Me was a gem. This is my first opportunity of seeing Miss Fisher on the lyric stage. She has a voice that is worthy of careful cultivation and a personality which is pleasing and natural. She sings with charming effect and her voice has a sympathetic tone that few voices possess. Mr. Goddard as Hassan Bey never appeared to better advantage as to acting and while his singing part, in my opinion, was too low to show his full power and scope, yet he made an artistic success both in acting and singing. His phrasing is especially good which shows that his study is bringing him results. Mr. Pyper repeated his old time successes as the Mexican, Terano. His makeup and costume were perfect and his duet with Miss Fisher an interpolation from El Capitan was heartily encored. Mr. Spencer as usual was the whole cheese in the fun making, ably assisted byB. S. Young. Mr. Spencer carries a part with professional eclat that is absent in most amateurs. He . kept the house in a merry mood and aided in Mr. Shearman is given making the opera go. to stage sprinting and should study repose. Yet for all that in the title role he made a decided hit far and away ahead of anything he has yet attempted. Mr. Sheid is well evidently Mr. Sheid believes in splitting the ears of the groundlings and spitting everybody in sight with his Oriental sword, or chasing them off the stage. The stage management was a vast improvement orer past efforts and the musicianship while lacking spirit at times, was good. The costuming was handsome and all done in this city by the Salt Lake Costume house. The beauty and freshness of the chorus in voices and faces was a distinguishing feature. Vive la Opera company. Mr. McGarvie played a lucky stroke when he induced the Grau company to Grands Success. remain another week. While he took some chances on the result, the action only served to stimulate an interest in opera. Certainly neither the home company nor the Grau company have suffered but on the other hand have profited The Grau company have presented some of their last weeks successes, notably, Olivette and Mascot. Olivette in public II estimation is theii most decided success. Travatore was well received, and last nights bill, Cavalera Rusticana, went successfully to a big house. Tonight the company conclude their season with Fatinitza, an opera that is tuneful and interesting. This afternoon the beautiful opera Martha, the rendition of which by this company has been so highly praised will be given. Mr. Graus company will always find a hearty welcome awaiting it in Salt Lake. thereby. Our Flat as given by Cooks Comedians at the Salt Lake theatre last evening is one of the uproarously funny farces, which, while almost plotless, have so many ludicrous situations in Beginning IRevv But the Mayor an City Council do not ugree a bit ; The Mayor says Pratt must be the Chief, and the Council they say nit And thus they fight and thus they s,crup It really Is too bad The people don't want Pratt for Chief And, you bet, ure getting mad. Now Mr. Mayor take my adv ice and leave friend Pratt alone Or the people w ill rise up in wrath and kick you oil the 1 throne. But I don't believe it's all Clark's fault, he has more sense than that. But think if all the truth were known, the string is pulled by Pat. es! Major crat. must be afraid of the Tribune auto- The lines were received with cheers and laughter by the audience and Mr. Shearman was recalled. Next morning the Tribune through Glen Millers under study railed at Shearman and Bud Whitney, the manager, and called upon either Whitney or the theatre management to suppress the song. Then the News, the great came out in a leaded edioctogenarian reformer, torial headed A Contemptible Occurrence and followed the very bad leadership of the Tribune, as is its wont, and said some very unpleasant things. Now there is nothing in Mr. Shearmans verse to call for all the display of indignation and wrath. True, Mr Pratt should be above criticism, so should Mr. Clark and Mr. John Q. and Mr. P. Henry Lannan and one or two others who connubiate now so peacefully. They are our great and good patron saints and and can do no wrong. But are we to be debarred from having a little fun with them? Are they always to turn the spit and roast us on both sides without a chance for us to throw one little funny spit ball? It seems so. Mr. Whitney, who is nothing if not brave (?) gave gracefully in and forbade the awful song. Mr. Shearman had the alternative of leaving the company or ceasing to sing his song. All on account of Pratt Pratt the crusher of policy shops, the sand ridge warrior, the enemy of bad women, the court politi- Can-Canno- . . . F. jMHHYlE, dark MONDAY, 3ranb Ubeatre 8. n WORLD, KELLER Lessee and Manager. ... IN THE RECORD-BREAKE- R FOR FUN . FB. 28. . . . THE COHED1ANS. & MACK . . FUNNIEST FARCE EVER CONCEIVED. 5 20 3 NOT A DULL flOMENT BIG COMEDIANS 5 PEOPLE-- 20 ALL STAR HOURS OF LAUGHTER 3 EVERYTHING NEW THIS YEAR Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c, n |