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Show very high degree of perfection. Captain Kneas3 has had charge of the soldiers' drill, Mrs. Belle Salmon Ross the dancing, and Mr. J. D. Spencer, a leading authority on opera productions, has been responsible respon-sible for the staging. The costumes arc elaborate and very beautiful. Every possible effort has been made to present a finished production equal to professional profes-sional companies, and there is no doubt, with the excellent cast, that it has been taken entirely out of the realm of amateurs. Our loyalty should go out to this home company for three reasons: First, the cause is a worthy one, for it is given solely for the benefit of the high school library; second, wc should feel a pride In the encouragement encourage-ment and development of music and dramatic art; third, the production pro-duction will be a meritorious one and deserves the patronage of any community. Lot not these young progressive people feel that the citizens of Ogden will not measure up to the responsibility of filling the Ogden theater at each of the three performances. THE OPERA "ERMINIE." The presentation of the tuneful opera, "Erminie," tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening should arouse the interest and patriotism of every citizen of Ogden. The seventy leading musicians and singers who compose the home company have been devoting themselves almost nightly for five weeks in the preparation of this beautiful opera. The several departments of the work have been in the hands of specialists. Professor Joseph Ballantyne is the musical director and has trained the chorus and enlarged orchestra to a i I |