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Show BEN HUR. I Usually one approaches a play made on a H really powerful novel with misgivings, but with m "Ben Hur" this is different and herein lies one of H its greatest charms. In this wonderful produc- H tion, when they essay to show you the inside or a galley with a Prince of Hur at one of the oars, H it is a stage picture that suggests the every en- H vlronment and takes on the semblance of reality. The same goes with all the other pictures, from I the allegorical one in the prologue, showing the H Wise Men discovering the Star of Bethlehem; und I onward through those stirring scenes of Jeru- I salem, preceding Hur's arrest and sentence to the galley, the rescue and the Grove of Dapline, which B is a picture of Oriental splendor and pleasure com- I bined, as beautiful as has been set for the gaze of B theatre-goers in many a day. Then comes the B great chariot race, the acme of stage mechanism, B and the great scenic triumph of the piece. It goes B off with a whirl and picturing the Circus of An- B tioch, with the struggle between Messala and Ben B Hur that fires the interest of the spectator to the B highest pich. B "Ben Hur" will be staged at the Salt Lake B theatre for five nights commencing Oct. 26. B |