Show DRAMATIC AND LYRIC A Busy Week Opens Out Tomorrow To-morrow OPERA DRAMA AND COMEDY Mrs Boydens Exhibition The Festival Booming Boom-ing Lillian Lewis Our Boys Notes The coming week will be a very busy one at the theatreMrs Boyden Lillian Lewis the Logan Opera company and the Homo DramaticMargetts performance Decoration day offer a variety that should be spicy enough to suit all tastes < I Mrs Boyden who is an elocutionist and a disciple of Del Sarte gives her entertainment enter-tainment tomorrow night Besides giving giv-ing several readings herself Mrs Boyden will be assisted by several of her well trained pupils and the programme will contain some fine musical selections vocal and instrumental Tuesday evening Lillian Lewis a lady who has acquired considerable fame in the < south opens a two nights engagement at the theatre She made a big hit in New York not long ago as Cora the Creole in Article 47 and since then she has been starring with success Besides Credit Lorraine her opening piece she doe Langtrys famous As in a Looking Glass taken from the somewhat risky novel of that name Edmund Collier and George Wessells are in the support and Miss Mildred Hall a Denver society lady is also in tho support Y The Three Black Mantles by the amateur ama-teur opera company of Logan which the Union Pacific is taking round the country in special cars is exciting a good deal of curiosity here and tile opening night without with-out doubt will be attended fay a good house Mr Easton and Mrs Sloan the two principals prin-cipals have a host of friends in this city and they would be sure to be a drawing power alone Following is the cast Don Luis Spanish GrandeeR C Easto n Don Jose Spanish Grandee V S LamoreaU Dromez the mlllerJohnllL Wilson 2Cicholo Uncle to Glrola G AnderM Don Phillip KingorSp < un R W Sloa TomaSO I Tailors ormrptitirp LMaStcrBTWale Lucio pallors apprentices f j Master Name s Inez peasant maiduHattie Thatcher Pedrillo peasant girl Jennie Bench Maria I bridesmaids to I uuAlIce Sanders Teresa f Girola J uJcnme Ballill Isabel Queen of SpainMiss Bessie Morehead Girola theSride Mrs R W Sloan George Thatcher jr is the conductor R W Sloan manager and G J Bywater the stage manager of the company it The admirers of the popular old time comedian Phil Margetts and the man friends of tho Home Dramatic club will bout e b-out in force to greet them on the afternoon and evening of Decoration Day when in conjunction they present the famous play of Our Boys A sketch of the life of Phil Margetts would be almost a history of the stage in Utah From that night in 1S30 when in the Old Bowery on the Temple block he and others regaled the pioneers and gave birth to the drama in Utah with their performances of Robert Macalre Mr Margetts has been the foremost figure in local theatricals and his appearance with the Home club is an event to which particular interest will be attached In I Our Boys Mr Margetts will have the part of Perkyn Middlewick the retired butterman one of his very best characters of recent years The fall cast is in excellent ex-cellent hands as the following list of the dramatis personae will show Perkyn Middlewick a retired butterman Mr Margetts Sir Geoffrey Champney BaronetMr Young Talbot Champne s I < Wells Eg sCfJfJ Our Boys Charles Mlddlerrick f < Spencer Poddle Mr Hammer Kempster u u Mr Higgs Mary Melrose the Poor CousinBirdie Birdie Cummings Violet Melrose theHclressIvy Clawson Clarissa Champneys Mabel Young Held Belinda the SlaveyuuuNettie Snell During the first day of Juno tho theatre i will offer a very novel attraction to its patrons I pa-trons in the Liliputians who nave achieved a remarkable reputation during this season This company is composed of ton midget actors said to be very clever who are supported sup-ported by more than hundred full grown artists The Liliputians who are on their way to San Francisco will stay three days in this city Tney have played for weeks in the best houses of New York Chicago Philadelphia and St Louis and everywhere have succeeded in breaking all previous records A dispatch received yesterday states that Emma Thursby leaves New York tomorrow to-morrow for Salt Lake by way of Denver and Leadville and that sne will arrive here June 3d so as to allow two rehearsals re-hearsals in advance of the festival Whitney Whit-ney is expected to arrive on the 4th The public is responding handsomely to the enterprise of the Choral society by purchasing subscription tickets The subscription sub-scription tickets will be withdrawn from tale Saturday evening next as the reserve sale for subscribers only will begin Monday Mon-day June 1st The programme which Professor Stephens has arranged for the occasion and particularly the Lucia sex tetto the duct from Lucia for Easton and Whitney and the first rendition in Utah of Haydens Spring by Thursby Whitney Pyper the Choral the great organ and the 1 Weihe string quartette are exciting deep attention among musicians all over the West and as the directors have done some heavy advertising in the country editions c of the Salt Lake papers and all outoftown journals from Boise to Cheyenne no doubt the festival will be the great success it should be That the people of Utah are musically inclined clined is clearly manifested by the general interest taken in the musical exercises that characterize their various public assemblages assemb-lages religious social or educational This is especially noticeable among the children the singing in Sabbath and day schools attracting at-tracting them probably more than any thing else For the purpose of developing this natural trait and talent in the community com-munity David O Calder being encouraged therein by President Brigham Young established ablished tonic solfa classes in Salt Lake city about forty years ago and was highly successful in bringing many of the young folks to a considerable degree of proficiency profici-ency John S Lewis also conducted some classes on the same system and Prof C J Thomas taught hundreds of the children in our Dixie At a later day Prof A C myth reintroduced the study of the tonic solfa notation and made many good music readers thereby However these efforts to popularize that system were not sufficiently iciently continuous The books of instructions instruc-tions having for the most part to be brought from England or printed here that fact hindered the work and discouraged the teachers About three years ago a Mr McBurney a leading exponent of the tonic solfa nota ion delivered lectures in the assembly hall and Fifteenth ward meeting house which revived interest in this matter and again awoke in a number of our local professors pro-fessors of music the desire to encourage the study and practice of that system The time is certainly more propitious than ever before because it is rapidly being established estab-lished in various parts of the United States and a great abundance of books to the method are now easily obtainable Many of the most eminent musicians of England and America are enthusiastic advocates ad-vocates teaching this method because it simplifies the study and makes proficient music readers much more quickly than is possible under the intricacies of the old notation no-tation As evidence of this there are today to-day about four millions of the people of Great Britain who are more or less familiar with the tonic solfa system while there are only about onetenth of that number num-ber equally conversant with the old notation nota-tion It is fifty years since Rev John Curwen introduced the tonic solfa system in Eng land and the jubilee anniversary of that event will be celebrated this year in the great Crystal Palace London Five thousand thous-and singers who have received certificates of merit will take part in the exercises Regarding this as a favorable time to reorganize re-organize classes in Salt Lake city and encourage en-courage the same in all parts of the territory terri-tory a number of gentlemen have recently met and formed an organization io be called the Salt Luke Tonic Solfa society When it is known that such musicians as Profs George Careless E Beesley C J Thomas and A C Smyth Anton Pedorson also Messrs T C Gripes Thomas Mdntyre J S Lewis Edwin F Parry and G E Harper have already enrolled themselves as favor ing the system and desirous to assist in firmly establishing it in our midst we be lieve a great majority of the people will be induced to give it their countenance and support A normal class will be established immediately under the tuition of Thomas McIntyre who has recently been succass fully teaching the system to classes in the Twentyfirst ward of this city The graduates grad-uates from this class will be qualified to teach others Public lectures will be de livered at which the advantages of the tonic solfa notation will be explained in full and other means will be adopted to popularize its teaching in Utah To attend to the business of the society Mr Henry Gardner hss been appointed president and H J Walk secretary either or whom or any of the other gentlemen named will b e pleased to impart information connected with the society and its purposes |