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Show stand upon the dramatic pedestals and deliver the colloquial heroics. The females, with the exception of Bonita, move in a colorless atmosphere and Salt Lake Theatre Arizona, mati- breathe an air of sickly complaint. rancher, is nee today, performance tonight. Canby, the Grand The Game Keeper, mati- the character triumph of the play, and, nee today, performance tonight. First in the hands of Mr. Cope, becomes a Regiment band concert tomorrow standard of cowboy dramatic ethics. Lieutenant Denton, though a highly evening. necessary element of the drama, is Coming Attractions. a concession to the matinee girl. also Salt Lake Theatre Devils Auc- During the week Mr. Farnum has been tion, Feb. 23; Boston Lyric Opera the attractive mark for a battery of The Cowboy company, Feb. glasses carefully trained upon his ' Feb. and the Lady, personality by emotional femininity.a Tony, the Mexican vaquero, is The geographic drama has been a dainty bit of color shining in the dusty Mr. Campeaus favorite theme with Augustus Thom, desert of Arizona. as. He wrote Alabama and Mis- - Bmusements. big-hearf- 24-2- eu 6; 27-2- 8. which, by common consent, The Capital were voted successes. and Colorado were, with the same unanimity, regarded as failures. Arizona, from a box office standpoint, is the biggest success of all, and will for a long time bring ready money to its author. It has become the questionable policy among dramatic writers to magnify the importance of local color and realism. Aubustus Thomas has fallen a victim to it, not by accident, but by actual design. As a general proposition, local color and realism souri, are good things in tne abstract. e, max. The climax, too, when reached, is not altogether satisfying it is clouded with an indefinite uncertainty as to just why and to what extent the three principal characters are involved. We know that Lieutenant Denton is innocent of wrongdoing, yet, to all intents, he is guilty; the colonels wife is guilty, we know; yet to all intents she is innocent, while the colonel himself becomes hopelessly involved between a too willing more pronounced. From the first to the last number on the program, been applauded everything was liberally The most ambitious musical offerings by the band were the combined descriptive sketches (a) Evening Chimes In the RareMountains and (b) Salome. renband First the Regiment ly has dered more delightfully musical coloring than the descriptive paintings, the lights and shades, which dance and throb throughout the weirdly beautiful CONCERT, The ladies quartette was a Salome. of the evening. most pleasant feature L. P. Chrijttnjan, This organization, which is a new one, "Bandmajta Sun made its second appearance last day evening, and displayed enough vocal ability to assure a warm recep tion when it appears again. The quar tette consists of Misses I arson, Har ley, Clayton and Anderson. Bandmaster Christensen has been untiring In his efforts to supply solo and other features at the band concerts. He is surprising Salt Lakers by the quantity and quality of the special numbers in INCLUDING traduced, from concert to concert, on the programmes. The First Regiment VOCAL . . . band is making flattering progress, and NUMBERS. by the end of the concert season civilian and every every guardsman will be justly proud 01 the organiza tion. Tomorrow evening another splendid programme has been prepared, and Charles Frohman, Mr. Gillettes man. those who love good band music is the sending entire production should fill the auditorium of the Grand. ager, and deservedly so, too. BAND.. PROGRAMME t here just as it was seen in New York and London, and there are some suThe dates secured by Frank Malrprises in store for those who see the tese for his coming comedy at the & WILLIAM GILLETTE. interpretation of Tony is an absolute dramatic triumph. The Colonel Bonham of Mr. Burke is offensively choleric and officially fussy. Miss Muir, as Bonita, i3 in every way satisfactory. The part of Estrella is poorly cast. The character is an ungracious one, full of fibreless inconsistencies, but Miss Lemmert fails utterly to meet even these vaporous and insipid requirements. Sam Wong, the blossom !rom the Flowery Kingdom, is oriental to satisfy admirers of suf-icient- the almond-eye- ly d. After all said, there is no denying he success of and deArizona, spite its excesses in action and plot, and realism, appeals strongly to the overs of robust dialogue, rapidity of action, and developments continual-- y interesting and absorbing. "Arizona wil close its successful engagement with a matinee today and performance tonight. The First Regiment band rendered a splendid musical programme at last 26-2- 8. A good and - own-bin- An CURTAIN 835 MONDAY NIGHT ONLY. CHAS. H. YALE Presents the Everlasting 0Deoil sr 21 jt Edition. - Suciton NEW SCENIC INVESTURE. X CAVERN OF GRIM FACES GORGEOUS TRANSFORMATION. dramatists. The return engagement Florence illiant emotional actress, Miss wee Roberts, to the theatre the out V bring March 9th, will again many theatregoers who ago . markable acting a few weekscn will repertoire for the weekThe Advents Magda, Camille, of Lady Ursula and Zaza ORAM enjw? HARRY LB Wife of Jiler;th PRICES 25c to $1. ------ THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, NEXT... I Jlliller Kent IN He Cowfiog and me Lang of the br- Jfcr a weapon of the Jailer at Was!ni is beat five desperate prevented1 into their cells and eral jail delivery. Pggs e r.- : 'ft performance, especially in regard to the peculiar electric lighting effects capable company, I am told, is getting which Mr. Gillette has produced in hie down to work, and a fine presentation play, and which are said to be the moit is promised. Mr. Maltese is entitled startling ever seen on any stage. The to receive substantial encouragement, sale of seats will commence Thursday. and no doubt his comedy will play to the happy sign: S. R. 0. I am told A novel and unusual feature has that the air of Salt Lake is full of the been obtained by Charles H. Yale for microbes of budding genius. Frank edition of his famous Maltese is doing his part to demon the twenty-fir- st strate the microbe theory. Everlasting Devils Auction, In Dance to the Moon, a new and The & & Manager Pyper has another solid very elaborate European novelty, week, beginning with Monday, as fol which Manager Yale has procured the exclusive right to present in this coulows : Auction. Devils Monday, ntry. It requires the services of siTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, xteen people, exclusive of the electriBoston Lyric Opera company. cians the light effect Friday and Saturday, The Cowboy and iswho manipulate produced with sumptuous scenic and the Lady. If variety is the spice of life, Mr. and costume effects with special music and Is said Pyper will supply it in liberal doses by Jabowsky of London, and daintiest to be one of the prettiest all of the coming week. conceits yet offered. The attraction & is for one night only, at the Salt Lake A staff of workmen are busily en- theatre. gaged at the Salt Lake theatre makThe Cowboy and the Lady, in ing the necessary changes in the stage to accommodate William Gillettes which S. Miller Kent will be seen at Sherlock production of Holmes. the theatre next Friday, is essentially an American play. Native wit and herhumor, native characters and abundant life and color GEO.D. PYPER. oism, and to make this one of the ben American plays ever produced, MdJ MANAGES. has helped to place Clyde Fitch, author, in the front rank of Amencu Grand are,' March sus-pisi- on and a whirlwind of angry passion. Mr. Thomas, when he wrote Arizona, not only failed to breathe the proper motive into he climax, but also missed a splendid opportunity in' not allowing Estrella to pursure a course at once spirited and honorLieutenant Denton suffeis in able. cur estimation by tamely submitting to cccupy a false position. Estrella, having forfeited our sympathy from the first, sinks further still by confessing to something worse than weakness. Colonel Bonham, who is so jealous of his honor, pursues a course not only questionable, but sympathetically ridiculous. However, the climax, such as Mr. Thomas has written it, works out its dramatic conclusion with vigorous and skillful development. In Arizona the male characters receive every consideration it is they who though the enthusiasm could not have SPECIAL.,,, In the concrete they are being carried beyond the limits of artistic propriety, and promise, in the end, to become offensive. This unseemly desire for effect leaves no opportunities to the imagination and clips, with cold steel, the wings of fancy before they can spread themselves for a joyous flight. Local color and realism in Arizona are carried to the limit there is not a twig on which the imagination can and become enamored swing, bird-liksweet with the song of deception! The dialogue of "Arizona is, throughout, refreshingly crisp and spirited. Situations, however, are so rapidly developed, grow out of and into each other so speedily, as to offensively reveal the Impatience of the author in his desire to reach the cli- concert. It was in every way worthy of a larger, audience, Sundays ir ',Vi f U r . : |