Show AMUSEMENTS E1IMETT AS FRITZ The Grand Opera House held one of the best audiences which ever assembled in it last evening to see Jo Emmett in his play of Fritz All the regular theatergoers were there oldtimers and newtimers from the youth who had heard their fathers tell of Emmetts early grace and sweet voice down to the veterans who were on hand to welcome the actor when he first appeared in Salt Lake twenty years ago Those twenty years hare dealt very kindly with Emmett even from the stage boxes no wrinkles are visible visi-ble in his handsome face and his graceful glide is just as easy and enchanting as ever his voice is still sweet and tuneful too and though his yodel lacks a little freshness in i its Yooplioodledoo movement it was sweet enough to his clever guitar accompaniment accom-paniment to capture the house Emmetts dog Plimlimmon is the great feature of the show ho is almost as large as a heifer and as beautiful to look at in the face as if he were human The dog stands way ahead of anyone in the support No stronger evidence of Emmetts popularity could be afforded than the fact that he can travel with such a tart company and such a tartie play and still draw the crowd he does With one or two exceptions his people peo-ple are the cheapest of the cheap and as for his playwe draw the veil over it But it is Emmett and his song and dances the people want and if they get those they dont seem to be particular about the surroundings The piece goes again tonight XIELSONS SCANDINAVIANS One does not wonder that two Scandinavian Scandina-vian papers can live in our midst when he thinks of the fact that there was a theatre well filled with Swedes Danes and Norwe gians last evening who came to see a company com-pany of their own country folk present three pieces in their native tongue All three nationalities were represented repre-sented on the stage and all three languages were spoken the star Alfred Nielson who well deserves the big typo ha got on the bills speaking occasionally m each so as to give every part of the audience a show and to make it fair and square all around One need not be versed in Scandinavian anguage to know that Niekoa is a true comedian the same may be said of Miss Johanson the leading lady who is altogether charming in face action and voice for an amateur and who was a prime favorite with her audience these with Mr Rydman were the main figures but there were twenty or thirty in all and the audience seemed to find a great deal to laugh about and applaud ap-plaud The music under Prof Pedersen was well rendered and the peasant costumes cos-tumes particularly In the last piece were quite bright and tasteful The benefit doubtless netted a respectable sum to the needy people in whose aid it was given |