Show r ooooooooooooooo lc cr7 AWI e I I 11Mr 1 Mr Eliason who is earning for himself him-self a reputation second only to Hermann Her-mann and Kellars as magician and necromancer will Rive a series of Sunday Sun-day evening entertainments at the Grand otera house commencing to nijrht Some of his latest illusions in which his wife will assist him are Escaped from SincSinfr After the Ball The Gallows Cheater The Mahaiama MIracles The OrIental Barrel Mystery and The Bungalow Th regular Grand opera house prIces will prevail for these performances and 11Mr 1 Mr Eliason who is earning for himself him-self a reputation second only to Hermann Her-mann and Kellars as magician and necromancer will Rive a series of Sunday Sun-day evening entertainments at the Grand otera house commencing to nijrht Some of his latest illusions in which his wife will assist him are Escaped from SincSinfr After the Ball The Gallows Cheater The Mahaiama MIracles The OrIental Barrel Mystery and The Bungalow Th regular Grand opera house prIces will prevail for these performances and I 1 Ithe O ELIASOX the box office will be open all day for the sale of seats A good many years ago Mr Phil Margretts the veteran comedian who has been playing during the past week at the Grand opera house was making a brief professional tour through the settlements of Utah county His old friend and fellow comedian John C Graham was publishing the Enquirer at Provo and Phil sent word to him Just as the paper was going to press asking him to kindly make mention of the attraction in the next issue John was crowded for space but very I willingly gave Phil a few lines by way 01 a friendly lift We happened to be in the Enquirer office a few days later when Phil entered in something of a rage John says he what do you mean by if What have I ever done to you that yon should put a thing like jtat in the paper about me Why in1 whats the matter Phil says John I wrote you a good notice Didnt it suit you Suit me roared Phil as he drew from his pocket the offensive newspaper I news-paper and slapped it with his fist Do you suppose Im suited with a notice like that Phil Margetts the doughy comedian is playing a brief engage I ment throughout the county Who says Im doughy Do I look doughy Do I act doughy John What do you mean by it sir Why Phil says John it doesnt say doughy It says doughty Dont you see Phil doughty Well doughty then cries Phil as mad as ever Same thing doughyor I doughty same thing John Its too I oaa too Dad an old friend like me I I John No no says John It isnt the I I same thing I wouldnt say doughy about you Phil I said doughty You know what that means Strong lusty vigorous dont you know Its a word that Shakespeare used to usebeen in use hundreds of years Why its a fine word Phil You ought to be proud ofit I Margetts was evidently mollified al though still quite mystified Finally I he held out his hand to Graham and said Well John Ill forgive you this time It wasnt quite as bad as I thought it was but John was it necessary neces-sary to go back three hundred years to Una a word to use on an old friend like me Wonderland has an entire change of programme for the coming week The romantic play of Little Nugget will be given in the theatorium whilst new specialties are in preparation for the curio hall One of the attractions upstairs will be the Mirror of Utah a collection of paintings illustrating scenes in early Utah history Foster Henderson and Little Jim will still remain re-main as their popularity increases with every performance I April 15 is the evening reserved for I the appearance of the eminent Hungarian Hun-garian violinist Edouard Remenyi at thf First Congregational church under the auspicies of the Y M C A Mr Remenyi will be assisted in concert by Miss Pauline Stein a soprano singer of some note and Mr Henry Eames whose abilities asa I as-a pianist have been favorably criti cised wherever he has performed j I Pauti in her Recollections speaks I of this violin virtuoso as ithe late Remenyi which arose through a report I re-port being circulated of his death occuring through drowning during his passage from India to South Africa i By this means Remenyi was accorded ac-corded the privilege of reading his j I own obituary and of learning the I exaot amount of esteem in which he was held by his fellow men a curious I and unusual incident in the lives of most of us But we are assured ithat it is the live and not the late Remenyi who is shortly to appear in our city and that he is still in full possession of all his old fire and brilliancy In this case the enthusiastic I enthusi-astic reception tendered him on his last visit is likely to suffer a repe > tion The dramatic editor of a modern newspaper Is not long permitted to forget that if his path is to run through quiet and peaceful fields I he must refrain from exercising the very office that he is Supppsed to ful fil and never indulge in free and can did criticism So long as he is con tent to act as the reviewer of a dramatic dra-matic performance and simply report re-port what he sees and hears without comment or criticism he gives en tire satisfaction to everybody except I the public which is depending upon him for opinions as well as facts If the dramatic editor goes a little further and adds a few laudations to his statement of facts he secures a little more praise and a good deal more cigars and sodawater He can continue this course for an in definite period and his pathway will run smmoth while he will be the pet of the dramatic fraternity from the leading man down to the call boy and from the manager in chief down to the tolllposter for these will be close and regular readers of every thing he writes and will look upon him as one of the nicest gentlemen that ever breathed In the meantime mean-time all the rest of the readers of the paper will skip the dramatic column to avoid boredom and the dramatic editor will find that he has lost all interest power or Influence About this time he is usually asked to resign But the dramatic I critic who is imbued with the spirit cf his calling is not content with such a brief and profitless career When he sees a performance he is keen and sharp to note whatever is worthy of praise or blame When the curtain rises he will have put himself into a passionless condition forgotten all his friends or foes his loves and his hates and stands prepared to deal strict justice jus-tice to all without partiality As I nearly every entertainment contains something to praise and scarcely any is i I above criticism he is able to applaud the good and decry the bad that he I finds in each separate performance This he does without fear or favor I and then the thorns commence to ap pear in his pathway He may give a I bucketful of praise to a thimbleful of I censure and reap maledictions for his reward Those who receive his praise will take it as their honest due and those whom he ventures to censure will accuse him of ignorance and malice For instance a critic may say of an i I actress that she is superlatively j beautiful has dark and lustrous eyes that she is the soul of grace a per fect reader a lady of winning personality per-sonality but she has fits Whit I I would be the result She would en tirely ignore the critics praises and resent the little word referring to her infirmity This will illustrate our meaning Take Professor Warmana case as another instance Last Sun day we said a dozen or so of per fectly lovely things about him such as his agreeable presence fine Intelligent Intelli-gent melodious voice and other ap i I purtenances with additional statements I I t state-ments of praise scarcely borne out I by the facts but because we ventured I I the opinion that his nrnrmnMTMnn was open to criticism her could hardly wait till prayers were over to have a whack at The Herald critic T F OMalleys presentation of The Streets of New York at the theatre last night met with a fair sized audience which was chiefly confined to the galleries The play I although old and somewhat weather beaten seemed to find some ardent admirers < in ithe audience as was testified by the bursts of applause on several occasions Mr OMalleys company was composed of local tal ent entirely most of whom had appeared ap-peared on the previous evenings in Reunited The usual first nIght hitches and forgetfulness of lines were all threre but in somewhat severer form than usual M W S lfoore in particular nnnpnHnrr in blissful ignorunce his cue on several sev-eral occasions The small part of Dan Puffy was made the most of by Mr T F OMalley while next to this the Tom Badger of B S Young was the best sustained character in the whole performance The uncertainty which seemed to pervade most of the company will probably have disappeared disap-peared by Monday when The Streets of New York will be presented again The Grand Opera house stock company com-pany will present next week the farcical farci-cal comedv in three acts adapted from the French of Alfred Hennquin and entitled Pink Dominoes The merry skit was originally produced by Madame Mad-ame Rejane Who is now playing Madame Sans Gene Sardous Napoleonic Napole-onic play in New York at the Vaudeville Vaude-ville in Paris Charles Wyndham had it adapted into English and produced it it the Criterion Ih London simultaneously j simultane-ously with this A M Palmer produced pro-duced it at the Union Square theatre New York with Stoddard Charlie Thorne James ONeil Walden Ram I say F F Mackay Sara Jewett Ida Vernon Maude Harrison and Madame I Pouisi in the cast and on their first summer tour produced it here in the Salt Lake theatre where It wan received I re-ceived with great applause The theme upon which it is founded is that of a too confiding country wife having hec eyes opened by her gay city friend The characters are all real just tho sort of people one meets in a large city The action takes place at Sir Percy Wagstaffs house in London and at the celebrated Cremoine during dur-ing a balmasque Harry Corson Clarke will play Joskin Tubbs the old Londoner who is looking for A good time Wright Huntington his nephew Charlie Wagstaff from Manchester Howard Kyle the gay Sir Percy Wag staff Cecil Kingstone the head waiter I at the Cremoine Brisket Florida Kingsley the too confiding wife Sophie j Greythorne Lisle Leigh the worldly I lady Maggie Wagstaff Madge Carr j Cook Mrs Joskin Hugh Ward her young nephew Henry who is Studying Ito I-to be a doctor and Victory Batman the modest serving maid Rebecca the cause of all the trouble During the action of the second musical dancing and vaudeville specialties will be Intro i duced i I it is tram this act ana this piece i that Hoyt got his main ideas for the I I Trip to Chinatown The comedy will I be a new departure for this excellent company who will then have been seen I in every kind of work known to the I stage society drama high comedy and farcical comedy Following Pink f Dominoes Minnie Maddern Fiskes I idyllic play Caprice will be presented pre-sented with Victory Bateman in the I role of Mercy Baxter a part she has won her greatest success in A revival of the old English comedy David Garrick and an elaborate presentation I presenta-tion of The HurlyBurly or 7208 The management also are considering Henry Hamiltons new play Harvest Har-vest a piece on the same lines as I Sowing the Wind or Lady Winde I meres Fan for an early production Mr Hamilton is best known as the adaptor of Moths Our Regiment and The Danicheffa Harvest Is his first original play I I Falstaff claimed that he was not only witty himself but was the caus of wit in others but this is not true of all humorists There are many comedians come-dians who make other people laugh and yet are by no means keen In their I own discernment of humor Some of I the funniest people we meet are quite I unconscious of their own absurdities Other comical fellows are as appreciative I appre-ciative of their own wits as they are of the wits of others I I It is said that Victory Bateman is j I I coslderlng an offer rjm Charles Froh I man for his production of The Racing Rac-ing Duohess for Mext season I Fred C Whitney intends sanding his successful ccnrflc s opera Rob Roy I out west some time during the coming I summer I An exchange says that William I Brady chews twentyseven toothpicks j a day In thatfcase ithe question is how many cords of < wood does Mr Brady masticat4n a season I And now it ds said that Marie Burroughs Bur-roughs is not suJsg Luis Massen for a divorce at all but that the whole thing was only an advertising dodge In quoting one of the clever lines of Oscar Wildes Ideal Husband an exchange ex-change = has it A lot of damp nobodies talking about nothing As the definition defini-tion applies to London society it maybe may-be literally correct but Mr Wilde did not write it that way I Somebody in Boston suggests that when Trilbys foot Is sketched on the I studio wall some artist of merit been be-en aged to draw it The first night of the line Theres not another foot like it in Paris occasfoned a groan ending with the audible remark I should hope not |