Show It W ll1wnc ft lwnC v Dear Hal April 16 Y Under another cover I send you t YJ a roll of newspaper clippings that will 1t tell you In a breath of all the past tea A j days have brought usthe Welsh warblers warb-lers Corson Clarke and Melba Two things will strike you In looking over the clippingsfirst the uniform tale they tell of prosperity in Salt Lake r I evidenced by the money Salt Lakers pour out for their amusements second the startling way in which the newspapers news-papers differ as to the merits of the Cambrian singers The News is almost al-most hysterical its praises the Tribune fi Trib-une indulges in a sort of milk and water eulogium The Herald says bluntly that their concerted work Is i the only part of them deserving commendation ii com-mendation and that as soloists they arc not up to the valley tan standard If you want to know the opinion of r yours truly it Is that the thrifty musicians II mu-sicians from Wales are very shrewd c f financiers to have gotten 1200 out oft of-t the local committee and that they tf were thoroughly well paid for their one nights sojourn > J a double quartette quar-tette they were superb as soloists disappointing dis-appointing but even their charming ft t effects in numbers like Sweet and I J Ify I t 1t t 1 r 4 e t ii bir A4I I 3aUt 41QRISC4 ANNA HELD Low and The Summer one of Stephens old friends taken at a much more rapid and to my mind less effective ef-fective gait than he imparts to it were ruined by the length to which the concert was prolonged Some one is sounding the death knell of tabernacle concerts by these foolish encores and it behooves Mr Stephens to work some radical reforms In that direction What would be easier than to push the > ro gramme along and to refuse to recognize recog-nize plaudits which it is easy to see come from only a small section fof the house Many of the ushers were guilty guil-ty and the choir itself set a bad example ex-ample In recalling people who didnt deserve it Melba is so fully discoursed about by the papers that I shall cut myself short by simply saying she is what she is claimed to be the wearer of Pattis mantle She hasnt Pattis lower register regis-ter its true but when it comes to the pyrotechnics not even Patti can surpass her She did not score anything any-thing like the personal success that Nordica did She is cold and report says her manners are those of the barracks She is great without doubt and may be will te greater but at the risk of being deemed a heretic I wll say that if Xordlca and she were billed for the same night in two opposing houes tomorrow and I had the choice of either I would go to hear the American Amer-ican before the Australian with all her skyrocketty dash and brilliance Melba did not reach down into ones I being that electric throb that Nordica did when she rang out with that electric elec-tric C Harry Clarke has held out wonderfully wonder-fully and as a star may be aid to have stopped his erratic shooting and become fixed Certainly critical Salt l ft Lake with all her fondness for Harry would not have crowded his house for a whole week unless it saw intrinsic in-trinsic there to attract it What Happened Hap-pened to Jones is a rattling good corned corn-ed so good that it was written by a Dakota newspaper man Its construction I construc-tion is almost as clever as that gem of I comedies Confusion Clarke maks a great deal out of it but he can make more like Mr Johnson he wants I turning loose but that will no doubt come next season by which time he I will have learned to limit himself to i the rear of the curtain and not prematurely prema-turely age himself as he is now doing looking after the box office railway I baggage and picture frames May I fame and fortune join hands and come I dancing out to greet you Harry is tn wish of MARGE i i p SThe little party that went t > j i Ogden to bid Melba welcome to our shores came back with the Icicles dripping drip-ping at every pore and It is as hard I now to find one who will admit has I Ing made the trip as It was to locate I the man who wrote the passes for tlir I show I I |