Show 4 S J Of the week just gone there remains but little to be said Wesfs Minstrels lam to the Salt Lake theatre over a road made easy by excellent advance vrk The advance agents and press ri sentatives were thoroughly convincing vine ing In their protestations and suc ce > < if > d in raising the expectations of the public to the highest pitch In d > ed it is possible that the disappointment disappoint-ment experienced by some people was traceible to this very fact But box office receipts go a long way tnard relieving any qualms of con snenei a manager might hae over awakening undue interest West Minstrel Jubilee while in no respect an extraordinary performance was a good entertainment There were srno e ellent voices among the soloists solo-ists aid the comedians were funny Sine i bjt > < Uoi w < re heard in regard to the introdu toii f Cuaherra Rm tjiuna To my miDd th objection lies lather in the m nur of its performance I ance While it k j i tTu > that many would lie preferred a < > rg and dance in its pli e a fair i irnon ff the audience 1 > r like to have hoard the beautiful I lU t lty rndeid in F i miethuig like ar tst c style Fort from beginning to rnd vithout a mf lulaton can earce I I ly gin one a good idea of Mascagms inspir tiun I > ut if it is that we can ccrP no more and that it must bed I be-d ir > in mmsiril fashion let us all n r < > ith tilt unmusical and have a s HT md dan t instead The best j I tis Mr West car d < > with that or I th b to dss > of it to the first i c r > v he meet and begin again with j n v one The engagement was at I V ry piofitable Pile financially < V ro 4 I The Grand was open all week but tl e i Yx office furnished no record retaking figures for either attraction The credit of any success Shaft No L tti ¼ 1 Ben Hendricks in You Yonson 2 n < i v have belongs to the electrician 1 x reinaikal Hlbtc thunder I S r 18 his en < ninc ttI < i > TV cud of tils ect saw a nonde s t it each 1oUe with the choice j 1 t of the Theui1 It is pia1 iiv I nt that thc lad furnish all of I rk of anuei nt that the to isn r i ar jiih about thC pr s that I 1 I i lie w4JviB to pay for it SoS i So-S t 1evi1C f arc t or w hatel you 1 1 i mind u call it has come to si ± iJjjt out of place at the L k 1ieate and perhaps Mr Py i xi II fril ft t > his iiJantaat to ref re-f r i tilirations for bookings of this I t 111s r < ihbor 01 on Second S jtl suet Tit Theatre i ill > la closed until the 1 h n Lewis M iris > on in Faust C = i twt > night1 j Mi MUTISO 1 i become identified u the part 01 M Iphlto and has I J it fur f i = o n inj years that this N of p < i ui ir interest bcrawe 1 be his last in the character t year hi will star in The Sor r of Satan a hfI noiwith tmding t t Jre s a astr different si > rt of a r > Xv I > Grand ciIl h1l1d the lied alone i t v f ok with yPo Yonson the orig I c the Sp181 1 dramas which was i 3 amuus by tl > late Gus Ilfege 1 i JYld Vaf tle sc > le It is a play I Iingevif I > s a great point in its 4 I and it v I S last seen in Salt I > J v ei ix years dg The scen < s are I in the luiiibrr regions of theft 1 the-ft art A thribbg situation is the l 1 < ng of a hg5azi which furnishes i S n n c scene Mr th principai chart o char-t rp The ti L i 1 is piiyed Jy 1 Mr ti iicrdricicy wh Ii said to hav T a great su 1 in the parr Yn > n will run all week with int I L J Wednesday and Saturda A New Ue KovenSmith Opera V r > Ve > mic ° PTlV llltJ The Three i I < is by tIe composer and lit j i li-t 7 st of the overshadowing success jm Hood wis produced at the i radway the < trf New York last I ti nday night It ray sound odd butt certainly seems that firt success has t I bpPT J stumbling block in the path ofT I r of-T Kvpn 1 Smith The metropolitan i critics did not trouble to resort to faint praise as a means of discouraging this latest effort but one and all plainly and unmistakably denounced de-nounced it and furthermore exposed the many points of antiquity which are to be found in The Three Dragoons Dra-goons By far the most remarkable teature of the affair was that the pa ners agreed so thoroughly on the merits mer-its and absence thereof in the opera jur bmith plot WhICh according to the insinuations of some hardhearted I person he did not understand himself I deals with three dragoons an Engish I man a Scotchman and an Irishman who are all in love with a Portuguese I heiress Another prominent character is that of the cook of the king of Portugal I Por-tugal which is played by Jerome Sykes a very capable funmaker The other I comedians in the cast are Joseph I Mara and Richard Carroll AVe are Informed that a cake walk I notwithstanding the incongruity was I the most taking part of the performance perform-ance And it is said that Librettist Smith went into the dim and distant I past for his jokes and gags and that Mr De Kovens music is reminiscent of his own and other successful works Can it be possible I Someone wants to know if Reginald and Harry B think that everybody who saw Itoain Hood Is dead This Is a I case of where they began at the top of the ladder and fell down for they j have yet to even approacn the success i made by that first opera But they are I persevering at least and failure does not serve to discourage them so We I may still expect another lasting success I suc-cess from the collaboration of Reginald si Z dc ftlieglnald I De Koven and Harry B Smith Grand Opera and Sandwiches I New York society seems to have found a new way of tolerating Wagner I for Vdgner must be tolerated by force or favor Recently the management of the Metropolitan opera house decided to give some of the greater works of Wagner Wag-ner without cuts just as they are presented pre-sented at Beyreuth The Niebelungen cycle uncut sounds like rather a ponderous artair and when the performances were announced an-nounced to begin at C or 630 What about dinner was the first question Accordingly Drivate hampers were prepared and sent and ilaillard was rushed to death serving sandwiches and chocolate During intermissions Not at all During the progress of the o > era if you please It is true that five hours of even the most superb vocal art in the world couldnt be expected ex-pected to suppress natural pangs of hunger but the gorgeous opera house must have presented an interesting sight as a picnic ground Great is the power of New York society which can make such a bourgeois proceeding seem swell Another ridiculous blending of patrician patric-ian art and plebeian human nature is seen at the Dramatic Breakfast at the WaldorfAstoria There is always a large audience which laughs and talks but does not listen during the performance and the while eagerly anticipates an-ticIPates the breakfast to follow Talk about the improvement of art And jet those women for the breakfast audiences are composed altogether of omen sacrifice some hours of needed sleep to attend these fimofirmo fltmlt impressed that they arel benefiting the divine cause receiving drama a la any i thing and food a la something at 5 a plate as a compensation At a song rpcital given in New York 1 last week 1y Victor Maurel a signifi I cant incident occurred Mr Rhetahuld J Herman the accompanist was down for a couple of piano solos During the rendition of the second number the i conversation among a portion of the auditnee became so audible that Mr 1 Herman stopped short saying I beg jour pardon but I cannot play to con ersation anl left the stage Here in Salt Lake there is frequent provoca I i ITr ct1 1 tion for a similar action on the part of I a performer and it has many times I seemed advisable to call the attention of a few disturbers to what is very like only thoughtlessness on their part I I There is scarcely a concert given in Salt Lake when the whispering annoy anee does not assert itself at some time during the evening People should remember re-member that they not only disturb ohe s seated about them but also the performers who are keenly sensitive to anything of the kind Whether it is Jck of interest in the performance or enthusiasm over it which prompts this ail too common breach of etiquette it vud be well to remomber that there b j = tine after the concert when it can be clretused more foely and more appropriately ap-propriately Salt Lake audiences showed themselves to be good natured and con ssderute by their prompt compliance wHh the hat lawlet them show still further jtirtesy to perfonne as well as Minn spertators and remember this little hint In regard to the whispering roTES OF THE STAGE A revival of Metamora Js conteon plated by the WardeJamesKldder company I Sarah Trua c is leading woman at the Bastable theatre Syracuse I Alice Neilson will have a new opera by Victor Herbert next season Colonel Robert G Irigeisoll has anew a-new lecture entitled The Devil Miss Alice Neilson will go to London with The Fortune Teller this spring Sarah Bernhardt will tour this country coun-try next year in a version of Hamlet Salvini has just celebrated his 70th birthday He has been on the stage over fifty year Viola PrattGillett and R C Easton sang at a musicale given by Madame Severn last week I Charles Hoyts new play The Dog in the Manger has met with success in Washington D C I Trelawney of the Wells is an immense im-mense success at the Lyceum theatre New York and will soon reach its I 100th performance Howard Kyle has returned to New York after a successful four weeks engagement en-gagement with Mrs Boucicault on the Keith circuit in Proper Impropriety MJss Katherine E Oliver a celebrated Interpreter of Scottish character whose tour is under the direction of Major Pond will be heard in this city on March 2 The name of Clydei > Fitchs new play for Nat Goodwin was changed from Teddy to The Cowboy and the I Lady for fear the public would think a reference was intended to Governor Roosevelt A company to play in California next summer will be headed by Henry Mil Ie = and Edward J Morgan Julius Caesar will be given with Mr Miller as Mark Anton and Mr Morgan as Cas sius I The startling news comes to us that Paderewski has decide to retire permanently per-manently from public life He will live I on a farm in Poland and will devote his days to his crippled son who is 17 years old I Katherine Bloadgood who will api ttr here with the Orpheus club on the 16th I has been nicknamed the Return Engagement En-gagement Contralto because she is so I often reengaged to appear in the same place In addition to her fame as a singer she enjoys the reputation ofbe I ing one of the handsomest and best dressed women on the concert stage A very interesting affair will be the concest at the Ladies Literary clubhouse club-house on Thursday Feb 9 under the auspices at the tourist section of the club The programme will be devoted to Italian music and will include vocal selections by favorite singers also some harp solos It will be the first public I appearance of the Chaminade chorus which will be heard in some Italian folksongs I |