| Show AMUSEMENTS j fairsized audience at the Theatre < last night made up in enthusiasm what it lacked in numbers The ntxe pro I gramme vas Interspersed and sometimes some-times even interrupted with applause Mme De Vere won Immediate favor Vere by her gracious manner which goes such a long way toward the popularity of the singer A programme of selected operatic scenes is one which usually does not do full justice to 3 company neIther does i often satisfy an audience But it i seems that grand opera usual comes to us in this shape a though we must utilize these rare visits by having a many samples of what we are missing as possible However we are not paying 55 a eat I and we are many thousand miles from where the millionaire keeps the mat tntion of grand opera alive so we cannot t can-not be too exacting Mme De Veres voice Is one of pleasIng pleas-Ing sympathetic quality In the middle and lower registers but her upper notes are not brilliant On this account her Lucia is a disappointment after hearing hear-ing Melba However she possesses I warmth and passion in her singing which is more satisfying after all than I all the vocal gymnastics in the world Mr George Mitchell the tenor has a I decidedly baritone quality of voice full and vibrant and is very dramatic He may be short of breath for he shows I a tendency to chop off some of his words in a peculiar fashion Miss Broadfoot has a deep contralto voice but in most of the music given she seemed to pay more attention to the production of good tones rather than to expression Mr Goff the basso is a young man with 3 splendid voice and a not always clear enunciation aways enuncaton The song cycle In A Persian Garden was tte only novelty on the programme and it was anticipated eagerly by music mu-sic lovers The style of composition proved to be one which Is new to Salt Lake The noem selected from the Rubaiyat is wonderfully strong The muSIc by Liza Lehman while always pleasing and in some parts beautiful never amounts to an Inspiration Some of the solos are appealing and thrill ing and sometimes the music approaches ap-proaches close to the words but not always The descriptive character of the cycle would probably render I tiresome tire-some to the average audience One involuntarily in-voluntarily expects a climax and there seems to be something missing without it Mme De Vere and her company made a splend quartette The best received number on the pro gramme was the prison scene from I Trovatore which was given in splendid splen-did style by the members of the quartette quar-tette with principal honors due Mme De Vere and Mr Mitchell a z r The management of the Grand announces I nounces that tonight will be the last I opportunity Salt Lakers will have to see I I Harry Corson Clarke in What Happened I < Hap-pened to Jones a the piece will be discarded after this season 000 I The box office for Puddnhead wu son opens today |
