Show DIRECTORS TO ASSIST Officers of Auxiliary for Reading Beading Room for Blind Will Aid Com Corn Coming Corning ing Entertainment I The of the auxiliary for the Reading Room for the Blind met at the public library yesterday esterday and perfected arrangements for the recital of Edward Abner Thompson dramatic reader and singer to be given at Barratt hall hail Fri Fr Friday Friday day evening next Mrs Irs W V S McCornick presided at the meeting and all the di directors directors directors rectors were enthusiastic over oer the com corn coming comIng corning ing event They promised their aid to toward toward toward ward the success of the time entertainment Fred C Graham will handle the business part of th the affair for the ladles ladies and will have charge chare of all tickets The pub public public lic Iii is asked to assist in this worthy worth cause Subscriptions may he be sent to Mr Gra Cra Graham Grahams hams ham s office or to Mi Ihs lIss s Minnette Baer Bacr secretary of the association Rs Fifty cents will be charged for tickets and all the blind of or the city will be admitted free of charge Mr Ir Thompson though blind is rapidly coming to the front as one of the most charming artists of the country His au audiences audiences are charmed and delighted by b his masterful handling of his themes and anti j I astounded at the marvelous instinct that guides him about the stage He takes them through the whole gamut of the feelings felIngs from the sublimity of a Shakes Shakespearean Shakespearean Shakespearean pearean reading through the pathos of a 11 Dickens deathbed sc scene ne to the rollicking and sidesplitting comedy corned of a page from froni Holman Day with nev never ner r a suspicion that the glare of the footlights gives him only the faintest most flickering knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of the limits of the platform On th the afternoon of Friday Mr Thomp Thompson son will give a recital for the student students of St Marys academy at that tha Institution Institution institution tion On Wednesday afternoon of this Ulle week ho he will appear before the students of the Sacred Heart a m at Ogden The blind singer is coming to t Salt LaKe Lale after an au extended tour of th northwest Ilor Spencer lawson Clawson Claw on ir jr Salt Lakes Lake s abl abb abband and accomplished pianist has lias donated his services as accompanist to Mr Thomp Thompson son jon and the of the auxiliary of the reading room for the blind are de delighted delighted delighted lighted with Mr generous act |