Show Many Pleased By Opera by hy the tho Sonora Italian Gran Grand Opera company at the Orpheum rose ros per cent in the au audiences audience's aPP appreciation 0 elation yesterday afternoon when Eduardo Eduardo Eduardo Ed Ed- ma made e his appearance a as hunch hacked Tonic TonIO In Tonto was was a human being apart a monstrous spirit of ot evil ll s genIns gen gen- genius n. n Ius Ins yet et likable Iossi Possible It was WaR voice which exalted him In spite of hl his deeds for Cor it ii wa was conver conversational as well Weil as musical I To an audience which understands understand little of or Italian In which the opera 1 Is written words were wern understandable under under- b by his Ills Impassioned delivery ry Yet there was no idiotic mummery mummer o or mimicry pantomime or Interpretation Tim Tho tt-nU- tt truly 1 great front artist t. t sans sang as thou though h ii from m h his soul In to i a tone cUso so clear BO so I natural that the audience cau caught h hi his meaning and wa way was with him throughout Alfredo Graziani also made his au catch his spirit though ho re resorted resorted re- re sorted to the accustomed practices o or of foreign grand opera stars But Gra Gra- was truly wonderful and so was wa Beatrix Beatriz who was Nedda in and San tuza In Ca Caval lerla Nedda as made her be became he- he came a n living loving lovinS' pitiable object The wife of ot the strolling player in her sad plight ht as ns discovered by he her husband through the prying machinations machina- machina of or Ton Tonto 10 won honest heartfelt sympathy Wh When n she met death by her husbands husband's sword d In what Is unanimously moush declared d the saddest operatic tra tragedy ed handkerchiefs were dabbing to moist eyes yes everywhere The afternoons afternoon's Orpheum opera opened with Cn Tt GrazianI was Turiddu and Soto Mayor May May- or was AUlo Alfio who kills passionate Ed Edgar nl Shorts Short's regular ular Orpheum or orchestra or- or chestra augmented b by the addition of or extra ectra strings and In this Instance presided pre pro sided over by Operatic Conductor Ignacio Ig- Ig nacio Del Castillo director of or the company company com com- pany handled the difficult scores with an nn ease aso and grace graco which again attested to that or organizations organization's skill and experience Better Detter patronage patrona p. p resulted last Jast night when Lucia LucJa DI In Its four Cour great rent acts was given Iven with a a. completeness completeness com com- s which defied comparison made de a stirring Henry and andIn andin andin In appearance was a strange contrast to his buffoonery of or th the afternoons afternoon s Consuelo Medina was wag Lucia and was w-as a most agreeable one J. J. J S. S In the difficult character J. Western estern Drama at Broad 1 Broadway Y Pleases Neal Xeal Hart in a virile western estern drama The Element of or Might n ht and Charles Rn flax and R Resale T M ln In Th P Hick luck provided pro patrons of ot tho Broadway Broad way yesterday with a a. double allotment of or film amusement Both pictures will continuo continue until tomorrow Neal al Hart as usual won the tho hearts of ot his hiM audiences by his portrayal ofa ofa of ofa a westerner Charles Charlca Ita Ray Itay popular screen player r whoso whose lotto fotto is II the portra portrayal of youthful youth youth- ful Cui characters vies for honors with In lu The Hick |