Show AMUSEMENTS TONIGHTS CONCERT One of the rarest musical entertainments Salt Lake has listened to for many seasons I will be that at the tabernacle this evening when the Mendelssohn amateur club from Boston and the tabernacle choir furnish the programme As the admission is placed at 50 cents all over the house There should be a great turnout MR POTTER OF TEXAS A largo and representative audience assembled as-sembled at tho theatre last evening attracted at-tracted by three things first curiosity to see what sort of a play had been made out of the popular novel Mr Potter of Texas secondto see Jeffrey Lewis again and third to welcome the wellknown actor Mr Tnaenh Whefilnnk All these desires were gratified and yet we doubt whether the evening can be set down as having been one of entire success Potter of Texas is not the novel Barnos of New York is and as a play Barnes is as far ahead of Potter as Shenandoah is of Yon Yonson The trouble with Potter Pot-ter is that it is all strained and artificial there is no heart interest and though there are some thrilling episodes there is little or nothing to excite sympathy and without i with-out sympathy what play can be a success I I Many of tho best scenes in the book too are loft out of the play which was not the case with Barnes The main part of the cast is in good hands but even the characters aro overdrawn over-drawn and Jeffrey Lewis who was uurivalled in all the world as Forget Me Not has little to do but rant and tear and the spectacle was not an agreeable one her voice too is not pleasant to listen to particularly when it is pitched in the high key necessary in the part of Sarah Annerly The sterling actor Wheelock did perhaps all he could with Potter but the results could not be called great The character is overdrawn and it has no particularly par-ticularly clever lines or situations we cannot resist the the conviction knowing Mr Wheelocks reputation that he is out of his line as for his character Well Hoyts Texas Steer has several better types of Texans than Mr Gunters Potter Pot-ter Aikers is always good and he was good as usual last night The youthful heroes were all too much of the lahdedab stickofcandy order to excite mnch interest inter-est in their quarrels and woes and Miss Lamars Ida Potter was not at all the Ida Potter of the novel Mr Jackson was a fair Lubbins and Mr Kingstono a good detective Tho show goes again this evening even-ing MRS CRAWFORDS MUSICALE Mme Joannotte W Crawford the pianist pian-ist of Boston gave an initial recital preceded pre-ceded by a short address on the subject of music at tho Metropolitan parlors last evening A most interested company of musicloving folk was present and enjoyed a raro treat Tho announcement for the evening was tho rendition of the Beethoven piano sonatas and tho numbers given wero Op 46 Pol Op 29 Improm Op 47 Bal Op 42 Pol To criticize each number would be superfluous su-perfluous The lady gave every Indication of being a most thorough artist and it is to bo regretted that sho did not have a piano that could be made to perfectly reproduce her exquisite interpretations For such master creations only a ConcertGrand of the finest pattern can be made to express all the soul within them The fourth numberop 42 Pol gave Mme Crawford the best opportunity to display her technical skill Before a cosmopolitan cos-mopolitan audience she would probably not meet with undivided approval but the true musician cannot fail to thoroughly appreciate ap-preciate her work As Mme Crawford remarked atthe close of her performance these recitals are not given with the more view of entertaining enter-taining they are more adapted to please + TiArn trVis rloaiTn tn Vto Inatiiiitnf3 QVia fa I an enthusiast i in the study t Beethoven and believes that tho sonatas cannot be fully understood when nothing but the intellectual and technical is recognized Sho introduces as well the ethical for the soul nature exists in the mind of tbe truly great pianist When she can be heard upon her own instrument made especially for her own use further criticism may be permitted During March she promises to give all of Beethovens sonatas CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCHOOL Yesterday afternoon tho Sunday schoolchildren children of St Marys church were made happy by a most pleasant entertainment given at Cliffs Academy hall under the auspices of tho Young Ladies Christian Doctrine society The exercises consisted of vocal and instrumental music followed by a distribution distribu-tion of presents The tree was most beautifully decorated and 150 children were made the happy recipients of kind remembrances The prizes consisting of two gold and one silver medal were awarded to Miss Bubhaltz Gerald Byrne and Kate Ward for excellence in catechism work The affair was unaor the immediato superintendence tendence of Father Fitzgerald and Bishop Scanlan distributed the prizes IK THE EVENING the older folks of the congregation and their many friends enjoyed a treat in tho I form of a literary musical and social pro gramme followed by dancing aqd refreshments refresh-ments The exercises were as follows Chorus Come Over the Silvery Waves Y L C D choir Dialect recitation Death of the Old Squire J C MoNally Song Mr McCarthy u Dr Bill Recitation Inez de Castro Miss Fanny Judge Song They Never Come BackPatrick Patrick Gleason Patrck Recitation Eugene Arims Dream Reciaton Arms DreamWilliam William Ford Song Her Bright Smile Haunts Me word Song Miss Harley u u u lIss Harey Reading The Irish Avatar D W Stafford Star Spangled Banner By the choir Tho floor was then cleared and to the enlivening strains of Cliffs orchestra tho evening was soon danced away A very nice supper was served in tho adjoining rooms tho largo crowd participating partici-pating in a most enjoyable manner The greatest credit is due the committee of management consisting of Misses Judge Gleason Ducuet Harley Wall Harding Grice and Kein aided by Mesdames Mes-dames Simpkins Bill and Viglini for the success of tbe entertainment |